Hank Pym

Michael Douglas
Michael Douglas
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Cinematic and Comics

Modern, Comics: As an Illuminati member he travels across the Multiverse to seek the cause of the incursions and returns eight months later with news of the Beyonders.

Cinematic

Hank Pym is an entomologist and physicist who discovered Pym Particles and built the Ant-Man suit while consulting for S.H.I.E.L.D. After his wife Janet was lost in the Quantum Realm he quit S.H.I.E.L.D., founded Pym Technologies and buried his work, until his protege Darren Cross threatened to weaponize it. He recruited Scott Lang, rescued Janet, was snapped and restored, and later fought Kang in the Quantum Realm.

Comics

Hank Pym is a biochemist who discovered Pym Particles and became the size-changing hero Ant-Man, later Giant-Man, Goliath and Yellowjacket. A founding Avenger and husband of the Wasp, he built Ultron, suffered breakdowns and a disgrace that cost him his team place, and slowly rebuilt his reputation as a mentor and team leader. In 2015 he merged with Ultron on Titan and was only revived years later.

Timeline 25 events

  1. Silver · Comics: Pym discovers Pym Particles, shrinks himself, and debuts as Ant-Man by using a cybernetic helmet to turn ants on KGB agents holding his lab.
  2. Silver · Comics: He and Janet Van Dyne, the Wasp, become founding members of the Avengers.
  3. Silver · Comics: He creates Ultron, then adopts the Yellowjacket persona after a breakdown.
  4. Silver · Comics: He marries Janet while in the Yellowjacket identity, and the Avengers defeat the Circus of Crime at the wedding.
  5. Bronze · Comics: Under stress he strikes the Wasp during a staged robot attack, is expelled from the Avengers and the couple divorces.
  6. Bronze · Comics: Cleared after Egghead's frame-up and Egghead's death, he leaves costumed adventuring for research.
  7. Modern · Comics: As manager of the Avengers Compound he helps the West Coast Avengers return from a trip back in time caused by Kang.
  8. Modern · Comics: He is among the heroes who seem to die stopping Onslaught but are actually shunted to another dimension.
  9. Modern · Comics: A Skrull impostor replaces him at Oxford as part of the Secret Invasion.
  10. Modern · Comics: Back on Earth after the invasion, he takes the Wasp identity in memory of Janet and forms a new Mighty Avengers.
  11. Modern · Comics: He founds the Avengers Academy to train young super-humans rescued from Norman Osborn.
  12. Modern · Comics: He joins the founding Avengers on a trip to the Microverse and finds Janet alive.
  13. Modern · Comics: As an Illuminati member he travels across the Multiverse to seek the cause of the incursions and returns eight months later with news of the Beyonders.
  14. Secret Wars · Comics: On Titan he is forced to merge with Ultron, and the real Pym dies in the fusion.
  15. Fresh Start · Comics: A fragment of his mind separates his body from Ultron and returns him to life, aged and paranoid, and he builds a new Lethal Legion.
  16. 1970 · Cinematic: Pym is stationed at Camp Lehigh with Howard Stark and Peggy Carter, working on his Pym Particles.
  17. 1987 · Cinematic: He shrinks to sneak into East Berlin and stops Hydra scientists from reverse-engineering old Hydra technology.
  18. 1987 · Cinematic: On a mission to stop a Soviet missile, Janet van Dyne shrinks past subatomic size to disable it and is lost in the Quantum Realm.
  19. 1989 · Cinematic: After discovering S.H.I.E.L.D. trying to copy his formula, he resigns, locks away the Ant-Man suit and later founds Pym Technologies.
  20. 2015 · Cinematic: He attends Darren Cross's Yellowjacket presentation and recruits Scott Lang to steal the technology, and Cross is defeated.
  21. 2016 · Cinematic: After Lang breaks the Sokovia Accords, Pym and Hope go on the run.
  22. 2018 · Cinematic: Using a Quantum Tunnel, Pym enters the Quantum Realm and rescues Janet, thirty-one years after she vanished.
  23. 2018 · Cinematic: Pym, Janet and Hope are snapped to dust by Thanos while monitoring Scott Lang's Quantum Realm trip.
  24. 2023 · Cinematic: Restored after the Blip, he attends Tony Stark's funeral about a week later.
  25. 2026 · Cinematic: A Quantum Satellite portal pulls Pym, Janet and Hope into the Quantum Realm, where he helps defeat Kang with an army of evolved ants and meets Darren Cross as M.O.D.O.K.

allied with

Vision, Ant-Man (Scott Lang), Hope van Dyne, Janet van Dyne, Peggy Carter

enemy of

Ultron, Kang the Conqueror, Ghost

travels to

Quantum Realm, Titan

parent of

Ultron

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