Now that I think about it, Ghost debuted on the cover of Iron Man #219 (alright, I didn't "think about it", I looked it up, ok?), so really, Mass Effect kind of gaffled (that's a rad word for stole, if you are wondering) the look from Marvel first. Ghost is going to be one of the two (or three, depending on how greedy the studio gets) main villains in the upcoming Ant-Man sequel, and he's really an Iron-Man villain. To be fair, Yellowjacket was really the only Ant-Man villain I could name, and he already got his in the first flick, so it kind of makes sense that they are mining Iron Man/Avengers adversaries for Ant-Man villains; is there anyone out there who can name 5 Ant-Man villains without googling? Or three? One?
Didn't think so.
That said, Ghost makes sense as a villain; he's a tech-savvy anti-capitalist who is a little scrambled in the head, who rose to infamy by going after his ex-employers, Omnisapient, after they had his girlfriend killed and tried to kill him with a bomb that fused his stealth tech to his body, basically creating their own worst enemy in the process. Good job, Omnisapient. After Iron Man takes him down, Ghost reappeared some years later on the Thunderbolts as kind of a Robin Hood type figure, only he murders people and has the powers of a ghost instead of robbing the rich to give to the poor. I guess he's not all that Robin Hood esque after all.
Give the new trailer a watch below, it looks like it's maintaining the spirit of the first film, which is probably a good thing after the heaviness of the latest Avengers flick.
Ant-Man & The Wasp releases in theaters on July 6th, 2018.
