Monday, July 27, 2015

Ant-Man film informatics Part 09: Other characters


JIM PAXTON
Jim Paxton
is a police officer in the San Francisco Police Department. He is the fiancé of Maggie Lang.


MAGGIE LANG
Maggie Lang
is the ex-wife of Scott Lang, the mother of Cassie Lang and the fiancee of Jim Paxton.


CASSIE LANG
Cassandra "Cassie" Lang
is the daughter of Scott Lang.

LUIS
Luis
is the former cellmate of Scott Lang, who assists Lang in stealing the Ant-Man Suit from Hank Pym and participates in Lang's heists at Pym Technologies by posing as a security guard.


DAVE AND KURT
These two are friends and roommates of Luis. Dave is a getaway driver, while Kurt is an expert hacker.


GALE
Gale
is a police officer in the San Francisco Police Department and partner with Jim Paxton.


DALE
Dale
is the boss of Baskin-Robbins who had hired Scott Lang, but soon fired him when he discovered that Lang has served three years in San Quentin State Prison for robbing Vistacorp. However, Dale admitted to Lang that he admired him for the robbery, as VistaCorp has been known to cheat customers of their money. Dale promised to look the other way if Lang stole a smoothie on his way out, which he did.


Mitchell Carson was a former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. In 1989 when Hank Pym discovered that S.H.I.E.L.D. was trying to replicate the Pym Particles from the Ant-Man technology, he confronted Carson, Peggy Carter and Howard Stark. When trying to defend their actions, Carson insults Pym and brings up the incident involving Janet van Dyne leading to Hank punching him in the face and quitting S.H.I.E.L.D. While objective of Pym's actions, Carter and Stark thought Carson deserved that punch.
In the year 2015, Carson made a deal with the new CEO of Pym Technologies, Darren Cross, to obtain the Yellowjacket Suit and shrinking technology that he wanted from Pym decades before. While making the deal with Carson with his HYDRA agents in the same room as Hank and Hope Van Dyne, the new Ant-Man, Scott Lang, arrived and began taking out the HYDRA agents. During the confusion, Carson escaped with the Pym Particles.