Darren Agonistes Cross is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is the first enemy of Scott Lang and the cousin of Crossfire. The character is portrayed by Corey Stoll in the film Ant-Man.

Biography

Darren Cross is a millionaire who was responsible for the creation of a successful corporation that rivals its top competitors. However, Darren was diagnosed with a rare heart condition and had to use an experimental nucleorganic pacemaker in order to save his life. Despite being a success, the pacemaker mutated Darren's body and gave him superhuman abilities, although the primary side effect from overuse is the burning out of his heart. Darren went through various heart transplants because of this, leading him to capture heart surgeon Dr. Erica Sondheim to replace his heart, as well as abducting "donors" from the slums. This attracted the attention of the second Ant-Man looking for Sondheim in order to save his own daughter's life. The resulting battle with Ant-Man burned out Darren's heart as Sondheim had given him an old heart prior to Ant-Man crashing the surgery.

However, Darren's body was revealed to have kept in a cryogenic state as his son Augustine Cross, having taken over as their family's company head after his father's apparent death, later became obsessed with bringing Darren back to life and eventually forced Dr. Sondheim to help. Enlisting the aid of Crossfire, Augustine had orchestrated Cassie Lang's capture as the girl's heart is required to withstand the unique conditions when transplanted into Darren. While infiltrating Cross Technological Enterprises to rescue Cassie, Ant-Man came across his restored nemesis. Darren engaged in combat against Ant-Man while Ant-Man buys time for Sondheim to transplant another heart to Cassie. Darren is ultimately forced to flee with his son when the Pym Particles now in his body caused him to shrink down.

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