Scott Lang was not a thief. He was actually an engineer.
He came from a poor family. Growing up in Hell's Kitchen had been like that; you could not expect children who lived there to be saints.
As soon as he became an adult, he went to prison over a string of charges: car theft, illegal firearm possession, assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest, and more.
Fortunately, he turned over a new leaf. While in prison, he taught himself electrical engineering. After his release, he was given a chance to reform, and a few years later, he married and had a daughter.
The circuit system he designed caught the eye of the wealthy Tony, allowing him to join Stark Industries as a proud employed electrical automation engineer.
Electrician, for short.
Generally speaking, his job was easy. He only needed to sit in his basement office and play on his phone. Whenever someone upstairs called, he would go up to fix a printer or change a light bulb.
He had originally thought his life would pass like that: going to and from work at Stark Industries every day, retiring with honor after his daughter got married, then someday falling terminally ill and being buried underground—the traditional process.
But after that strange White Light Event, he realized his life would probably not go as smoothly as he had imagined.
His wife was a full-time housewife with no income at all. She had always hoped he would get promoted and receive a raise, become chief engineer, turn her into a wealthy, beautiful woman, and carry her to the pinnacle of life.
But even seven or eight years after getting married and having a child, even after Scott had spent nearly a decade at Stark Industries and reached his thirties, that job was still