Originally Posted by
Drops Of Venus
Yeah, the minute they gave up on Joss Whedon's idea of having Janet and Hank as founding Avengers and decided to go with Scott as their first Ant-Man, they pretty much doomed Wasp to a side role, since Scott never really had a Wasp-like partner. They tried to make up for it with Hope, but you can tell it's still Scott's story for the most part.
(And then the comics made things even messier by creating Nadia as a form of synergy, which led to a completely different character that couldn't fill the role of neither Janet nor Hope within that universe. Now the Wasp identity is just kind of all over the place and the cross promotion with the MCU just doesn't work. Their attempts of giving Scott/Janet and Scott/Nadia books back in 2018 just didn't feel organic at all.)
I feel torn about it 'cause, like I said, I feel bad for the comics Wasp fans, and I totally empathize with their frustration, 'cause I would've felt the same if it was my favorite character. But yeah, getting Scott earlier meant also getting Cassie, which put her in the right age to be with the Young Avengers now... so it wasn't all that bad for us. lol
Which is the whole problem. I think putting her in the movie title as a consolation prize rather than an actual intent to make her be an equal to Ant-Man is a sad way to treat the founding female Avenger, you know? She just got a really unremarkable adaptation, and they got away with it because no one cares about her the same way they care about Black Widow, Captain Marvel or Scarlet Witch.