Ant-Man Star Paul Rudd Is Still Thinking About That Hilarious Ant-Man and Thanos Theory

Hey friends... bash you retrieve that Ant-Man and Thanos theory? You know, the 1 wherever Ant-Man could perchance shrink down capable to enter, ahem, Thanos’ anus and past morph into his “Giant Man” signifier to fundamentally detonate Thanos from the wrong via his gastrointestinal system? How could you forget? Exactly. Well, it appears Paul Rudd himself can’t halt reasoning astir the “Thanus” mentation either.

“I often wonder, though, could helium truly person stopped Thanos successful that way? Because didn’t he, astatine that point, person the Space Stone oregon whatever?” Rudd revealed during an interrogation with ComicBook, co-starring Jenna Ortega, for his upcoming movie Death of a Unicorn.

But Ortega became visibly confused with the topic, truthful Rudd helped capable her in. “Do you cognize what we’re talking about?” helium asked her. “There was a mentation — going against Thanos, wherefore didn’t Ant-Man just... alternatively of Thanos, it was ‘Thanus,’ spell up and past expand.”

From there, a intelligibly bemused Ortega asked, “I thought helium was already big?"

"Ant-Man oregon Thanos?" Rudd wondered.

"... the purple one?” Ortega suggested.

"Thanos," Rudd reminded her: “I get truly small, and past I go...”

"Oh! That's wherefore you're called Ant-Man!"

"Yeah."

"Damn. Wow."

The mentation is 1 of those obscure net relics that doesn’t person an nonstop origin, but it started to summation traction backmost successful 2017 surrounding Avengers: Infinity War. Two years later, it picked up steam again erstwhile Avengers: Endgame released successful 2019. Needless to say, it’s inactive a popular, and wonderfully ridiculous, theory.

Based connected the resurgence, it seems arsenic though immoderate fans are inactive wondering if the legendary warfare maneuver would yet beryllium utilized against some MCU villain eventually, and the adjacent 1 up is Doctor Doom successful Avengers: Doomsday, which doesn't get until May 2026. That said, helium isn’t astir arsenic immense arsenic Thanos physically, truthful it seems arsenic though the Avengers astir apt won’t request to deploy that program this time.

Never accidental never, though. Anything tin happen, adjacent this.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.