As someone who has read a lot of comic books (including plenty of stories), felt quite familiar. Not necessarily in terms of following a certain storyline or through comic-based Easter eggs, though. This sense of familiarness was due to its presentation.
The third movie felt closer to the experience of reading a comic book than most Marvel and DC movies do, as its DNA was as wild, silly, and wonderful as a mid-2000s comic run. Let’s look at how conveyed such a specific feeling.
features a lot of wild and bizarre concepts. Broccoli people, sentient blobs, and the one that seems to be talked about the most, MODOK. The Mechanized Organism Designed Only for Killing is making waves for looking very silly and ugly, and I have to tell you, that’s completely comic-accurate.
Despite encountering the AIM leader in various different mediums, I cannot think of a visually appealing design for MODOK. Whether it’s in his plethora of comic appearances, TV show adaptations, or his numerous video game roles, MODOK just looks dumb and ugly. It’s his whole thing, and I’m glad Marvel Studios didn’t try to make him “cool” beyond the helmet/mask that is even closer to his original comic look. I figured MODOK would never be in a live-action movie because of how cartoonish and unappealing his design is, so I think Marvel made the right call by introducing him in one of their weirdest films.
Outside of MODOK, you have Hank Pym driving a spaceship with sentient sleeves of slime. There’s gross ooze that makes you fluent in all Quantum Realm languages upon ritualistically ingesting (or just drinking it at a bar). It ends with a council of Kangs, all looking completely different from one another, cheering about multiversal conquest like they’re at
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