Sad dad, Scott Lang
The MCU really has gone from “men with daddy issues” to “dads with issues” so fast, and I’m not sure I’m feeling the nostalgia angle. The more that I watch this trailer, the more it bothers me, because the narrative of missing the child of your memories rather than embracing the child you have now… feels bad. I’m sure Scott will eventually realize the error of wanting what he can’t have, or that this overarching idea in the trailer is some kind of obfuscation about what the movie’s really about, but still. This emotional angle is already frustrating, especially because of Lang’s affable good-guy persona in the MCU.
