Marvel’s Ant-Man franchise has always been on the receiving end of a creative marketing campaign. Both 2015’s Ant-Man and this summer’s Ant-Man and the Wasp had posters, trailers, ads and television spots that focused on what sets the two films apart from the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe: the titular superheroes’ unique abilities to shrink down to microscopic size.
For that reason, it only makes sense that Ant-Man and the Wasp would receive an award that mirrors the skills of its insect-sized stars. It’s a well-known fact that movie review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes hands out ‘Certified Fresh’ trophies to the movies that receive an outstanding positive review score. To honor Ant-Man and the Wasp‘s 88% ‘Fresh’ rating, Rotten Tomatoes handed the sequel the company’s tiniest ‘Certified Fresh’ trophy ever.
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Big heroes. Tiny award. We gave the smallest #CertifiedFresh trophy ever to #AntManAndTheWasp pic.twitter.com/yawFVEmSX5
— Rotten Tomatoes (@RottenTomatoes) August 21, 2018
As we can see from the picture, the Fresh trophy is much smaller than your standard superhero action figure, and only slightly bigger than Pez candy — which itself is a nod to Ant-Man and the Wasp‘s motorcycle chase scene.
Ant-Man and the Wasp is only the latest Marvel Cinematic Universe film to be certified fresh. All 20 Marvel Studios films have received a fresh rating, from its lowest rated film, Thor: The Dark World at 66% to its highest, Black Panther, which stands at a massive 97%.
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In theaters now, director Peyton Reed’s Ant-Man and The Wasp stars Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Peña, Tip “T.I.” Harris, Judy Greer, David Dastmalchian, Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfeiffer, Laurence Fishburne, Hannah John-Kamen, Randall Park, and Walton Goggins.