8 MCU Characters Who Need Their Own Shows On Disney’s Streaming Service

Young Hank Pym And Janet Van Dyne

When promoting Ant-Man and the Wasp, Michael Douglas revealed that he wanted his own prequel movie featuring Hank Pym’s adventures as Ant-Man back in the day. Seeing as this particular franchise isn’t the most lucrative for Marvel, we can’t see this happening on the big screen. But a spinoff TV series, with his wife Janet in the mix, too? Sure, why not?

Hank Pym and Janet Van Dyne are such major parts of the Marvel comics universe – they’re founding members of the Avengers, don’t forget – that it would be a crime if they never helmed their own vehicle in the MCU, and a TV series could be the perfect place to do it. Although, sorry Michael, but de-aging the actor with cutting-edge CGI would probably be too much of a drain on resources and new talent would need to be found.

Still, an Ant-Man and Wasp show – let’s call it Astonishing Ant-Man – set in, say, the 1970s would be a lot of fun. It would allow for another era of the timeline to be fleshed out and it could have a retro buddy cop show feel to it. Essentially, it would be a series in the style of that flashback in the first Ant-Man, with the duo of tiny heroes foiling Cold War threats.