If it wasn’t for Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Age of Ultron would just be another minor blimp in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Despite this, Ultron still looked pretty cool but little do general audiences know, he was not created by Tony Stark in the comics. It was actually created by Hank Pym which was not introduced at the time. Changes in the comics may not sit very well with die hard fans but it seems that Ant-Man & The Wasp initially had plans to pay a little homage to it.
As we all know, Ant-Man’s suit was designed by Hank and it seems like the concept art in The Art of Ant-Man & The Wasp reveals that some of the artists created different designs of Ant-Man’s helmet that was reminiscent of Pym’s design of Ultron in the comics. Concept artist, Andy Park was asked to design various helmets for Ant-Man to wear when he was in the Quantum Realm. He said:
“Peyton [Reed] wanted to explore a helmet that could expose Scott’s face but still be protective… I came up with the idea that the helmet could have two modes: a normal mode with his helmet closed as we know it, and an alternate mode that had a transparent red blast shield come down after the front part of the helmet raised up to expose his face.“
Hank and Tony had pretty different styles of design. Stark was more appearance based (of course it was) and Pym’s designs were more utilitarian. So in other words, Pym’s designs were dorkier. 3-D artist, Adam Ross thought that Scott Lang wouldn’t be too into this approach in design. He explained:
“I imagined what a design meeting between Scott Lang and Hank Pym might look like, and how they’d get into it over what looks cool vs. what is actually functional. I imagined that Scott would bring up how much more advanced-looking Tony’s armor is, and how rad he would think it looked and functioned, pressuring Hank to do the same to a suit redesign. In turn, I imagined Hank pushing back, sarcastically, on Scott, asking if he wanted the helmet to open up like his new flip phone.”
Clearly these homages didn’t make it to the final cut and it is understandable based on how Scott is as a character. In the end, it doesn’t really make much of a difference just like Ant-Man & The Wasp. Just kidding, that mid credits scene was all that really mattered.
