MODOK began his Marvel Comics life as a formidable foe of the Avengers, but his modern history is full comedy. The character debuts in the MCU in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
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.
