Scott Lang’s terrible memoir, Look Out For The Little Guy, is available to pre-order. Yes, it really is an actual book.
Appearing in Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania, the autobiography by Avengers hero Scott Lang is now a real thing, which Marvel has unveiled with a selected excerpt that reminds us why Ant-Man should give up any dreams of being a writer.
“Along the way, you’ll hear about my story — Scott Lang’s story — from where I started to the (ant-) man I’ve become, and am still becoming,” it reads. “Because I’m so incredibly fascinating? No. Because my life — just like yours — loses half its value if we don’t find a way to share its lessons with others.”
“If you take nothing else away from my words — what I want to share is that what makes all of us giants is how much we look out for the little guy,” it continues. “How we help out our fellow humans when they need it most. How our greatest super-power can simply be a listening ear, a concerned eye, or an outstretched hand. How we don the 'hero’s uniform' by simply showing up and doing the unbelievably unlikely job that life has just handed us.”
It's unclear who actually wrote the book, but it’s available to pre-order right now.
Yes, it’s terrible. Yes, it looks ridiculously self-indulgent and a cringe-worthy addition to Avengers lore. But have I already pre-ordered it? Of course, I have. For one thing, it offers up some interesting details about Scott Lang’s backstory, including the infamous VistaCorp hack that landed him in jail.
“As I began to discover over time, my company was not completely on the up-and-up. Under the (mis)guidance of my boss, the company I was working at, VistaCorp, started using its prowess with security to take advantage of customers. Specifically, someone either overlooked or deliberately created a glitch in the payment-processing software, skimming millions of dollars from customer accounts.
"I decided I was not okay with that.
"After multiple attempts to push back against the company, attempts that one might describe as ‘legal’ or ‘reasonable’ or ‘advisable’, I decided to go in a different direction.
"I’d like to start with the positives: I returned five million dollars to our customers and exposed VistaCorp’s nefarious dealings to the public.
"And, on the other side, I also drove an extremely expensive sports car into an extremely expensive pool, and myself into San Quentin Federal Penitentiary for three years.”
Look Out For The Little Guy officially debuts on September 5, 2023.
IGN’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania review gave it 7/10 and said: “The exploration of its central themes, new characters, and the Quantum Realm itself only goes skin deep, leaving it feeling high on spectacle but low on substance. Even so, Quantumania works as a culmination of the Ant-Man series, a way to start things in motion for Phase 5, and a promising roadmap of where the Multiverse Saga is going.”
Want to read more about Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania? Check out how Ant-Man 3 originally had a lot more Bill Murray as well as how scientists explain the Quantum Realm.
Ryan Leston is an entertainment journalist and film critic for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.
