Who is MODOK, Marvel’s big-headed Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania villain?

polygon.com:

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is the first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Phase Five, promising to kick off a three-year arc of adventures centered around the threat of the villainous Kang the Conqueror.

But as Kang overshadows Quantumania, there’s another character in his shade. He’s an evil genius, a grotesque laboratory experiment, and he’s among the best-beloved Marvel supervillains (for being the absolute worst).

He’s MODOK.

Marvel Studios’ trailers for Quantumania have been light on MODOK sightings — we’ve seen him all armored up, whizzing around firing lasers, but aside from blink-or-you’ll-miss-it moments, the full glory of how weird MODOK looks has been kept under wraps. However, it seems likely he’ll be allied with Kang in some way, one of the foes over which Scott Lang will have to triumph.

MODOK is also played by Corey Stoll, which gives us a big hint as to his possible MCU origin. Stoll played Darren Cross, aka Yellowjacket, the main villain of Ant-Man (2015). The last we saw of him, he was violently shrinking away into nothing after Scott Lang damaged his shrinking suit to keep him from killing his daughter, Cassie, and her new stepdad. But now, thanks to Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), we know that if you shrink down far enough you make it to the Quantum Realm, a strange world hidden within the subatomic structures of the universe. It seems possible, even likely, that Stoll is still playing Darren Cross in Quantumania, and whatever’s happened to him in the Quantum Realm since last we saw him, it’s turned him into the MCU’s version of MODOK.

MODOK first appeared in 1967’s Tales of Suspense #94, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. His existence began as a poor human test subject of the