Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania was supposed to mark the dawn of a new era for the Marvel Cinematic Universe — the first film of Phase 5, a grand attempt to recapture the magic that ended when Robert Downey Jr’s Iron Man signed off by dying rather than carry a dead franchise on his shoulders. And it certainly became an albatross around Marvel’s neck, as the movie that was supposed to set up Kang as the new boss villain of the MCU had to shelve the idea after it turned out Jonathan Majors (the actor playing Kang) was too bad in the real world — and too problematic even for Hollywood. And yet, for all the CGI cities and probability storms, Quantumania got one thing accidentally right: the world is in an age of real quantumania. Only, it’s not happening in a green-screen studio; it

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