Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Writer on Whether or Not *Those* Characters Were Romantic

Warning: The below contains full spoilers for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.

Aside from one landmark scene in last year’s Eternals, Marvel has been notoriously fairly squeamish about the subject of sex in its movies. So when characters in the MCU do discuss the birds and the bees, it’s bound to attract extra attention.

That can be said about one exchange of dialogue in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania that has Janet (Michelle Pfeiffer) and Hank (Michael Douglas) justifying how they satisfied their “needs” while Janet was stuck in the Quantum Realm for years (right in front of their daughter, no less). For Janet, that was seemingly an affair with Bill Murray’s Lord Krylar… but the internet was speculating on the potential of another Quantum Realm hook-up.

Given that Janet and Kang (Jonathan Majors) were together in the Quantum Realm for so long, it’s hard not to wonder if their then-friendship ever went a little further. Speaking to IGN (you can read the full interview here), Quantumania screenwriter Jeff Loveness commented on if there was ever a romantic spark between the two… but naturally, he plays it a little coy.

“I intentionally left it a little vague, but clearly – let’s say they’re very good friends [laughs],” he said. “And I think sometimes we’re in kind of this YouTube reaction video world where everyone wants every little detail explained. And I don’t think I ascribe to that. I think there’s a magic in what is unsaid and what is not explicitly said.”

“I love Jane Austen novels, or English novels are very sexually repressed. I’m sexually repressed,” he went on. “But I think there’s a lot of strength in those types of relationships that could go either way. And maybe it did, maybe it didn’t. Maybe that’s a reason she didn’t want to tell her family about it. That’s part of it. And maybe she didn’t want to tell the family or the Avengers about it, because if they went down there, he would fuckin’ kill them. Or he would get their Pym Particles and get out. It’s like your grandpa talking about what happened to him in the Pacific Theater in 1944. Best not to bring it up. And because if you bring it up, it’s going to hurt a lot more people. “

But in the end, he concedes: “But yeah, maybe they had sex. Who knows?”

Well, there you have it. Janet and Kang “maybe” hooked up.

For more on Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, check out our review, the director’s explanation on why there’s no Luis in the movie, and the division over whether to love or hate M.O.D.O.K.

Alex Stedman is a Senior News Editor with IGN, overseeing entertainment reporting. When she’s not writing or editing, you can find her reading fantasy novels or playing Dungeons & Dragons.