Scott Lang is a former criminal and ex-convict who used to work for Vistacorp. He is recruited by Dr Hank ym to become the second person to ake the mantle of Ant-Man.
Scott Lang was an electrical engineer who worked for Vistacorp, but when he find out that the company was deceiving customers, he hacked into the system and after being caught he was fired. Now, despite the misgivings of his wife Maggie, Scott plans to seek justice by stealing this company and return their funds to the people. However, while he is doing "Justice" he turns out to be distracted, stealing Geoff Zorick's car and getting caught by the police, and then thrown into San Quentin State Prison.
Scott has a young daughter named Cassie who was suffering from a heart condition, that motivated Scott to go into a life of crime to gain the finances to help her. Maggie and Scott divorced following his incarceration, and Maggie eventually became engaged to a police officer named Jim Paxton.
In the present day, Scott is set to be released for good conduct during his entire stay in the prison, having served 3 years out of a 5-year jail term. Before being pardoned, he underwent a "good-bye ritual" wherein he is jabbed in the face by a fellow inmate called 'Peachy'. Afterwards, he is assisted on the way out and is fetched by Luis, Lang's friend and fellow burglar. He takes up a job at Baskin-Robbins but the boss eventually finds out about his criminal records and promptly fires him. With no source of income and burdened by the long period of time until he can visit his daughter again due to lack of child support, Scott turns back to Luis for information about the new place they could break in and agrees to put the plan into motion.
Scott breaks into a wealthy house and cracks a series of safes in the basement, only to find nothing but an old suit which he carries home. He tries on the suit and accidentally presses a button that makes him shrink to the size of an insect. Terrified by the experience despite Pym's attempt to calm him, he returns to the house and replaces the suit, only to be met by police and arrested on his way out. Pym, pretending to be Lang's lawyer, meets Lang in the police station, and offers Lang the option of working for him rather than going back to prison. With the aid of some ants, Pym smuggles the suit into Lang's cell and helps him escape, although Lang loses consciousness during the flight.
Pym reveals that he has been monitoring Lang since the VistaCorp incident, and manipulated him into stealing the suit; he has chosen Lang to become the new Ant-Man in order to steal the Yellowjacket technology from Cross.
Abilities
- Expert Thief: Lang was skilled in theft, specializing in breaking into homes and other places to steal. He is also skilled with utilizing chemistry when opening locked safes and bypassing security systems.
- Expert Engineer: Lang was an electrical engineer, having earned a Masters Degree in the subject.
- Expert Acrobat: Lang is capable of acrobatic maneuvers, leaping across steep divides and climbing difficult structures. He does not just perform these stunts in his shrunken state, but also when breaking into houses while in the process of thievery.
- Computer Programmer: Lang created the security systems for Vistacorp Headquarters and corrected a program that was stealing money from its customers. Christine Everhart referred to Lang as a "cyber-criminal".
