Hope van Dyne

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Secret Wars, Comics: After Hank Pym is merged with Ultron and lost to space, Janet holds his funeral and inherits Pym Laboratories.

Cinematic

Hope van Dyne, daughter of Hank Pym and Janet van Dyne, was Pym Technologies chairwoman before she helped stop Darren Cross and trained Scott Lang. She became the Wasp and in 2018 helped rescue her mother from the Quantum Realm. She was lost to the Snap in 2018 and restored in 2023, then ran the Pym van Dyne Foundation. In 2026 she was pulled into the Quantum Realm and helped defeat Kang at Chronopolis.

Comics

Janet Van Dyne is a New Jersey socialite and fashion designer who became the size-changing hero the Wasp after her scientist father was killed by an extradimensional creature. She suggested the name Avengers, served as the team's chairwoman, and was long partnered and married to Hank Pym. Skrulls turned her into a living bomb in the Secret Invasion, leaving her lost in the Microverse until the Avengers rescued her.

Timeline 22 events

  1. Silver · Comics: Her father is killed by a creature from Kosmos that his experiment summoned, and Hank Pym gives Janet wings and size-changing powers so she becomes the Wasp.
  2. Silver · Comics: The Wasp helps stop a Loki scheme with Thor, Iron Man, Ant-Man and the Hulk and proposes the name Avengers for the new team.
  3. Bronze · Comics: As chairwoman she leads the Avengers to the planet Ba-Bani to expose Moondragon's mind-controlling rule.
  4. Bronze · Comics: Summoned to Battleworld by the Beyonder, the Wasp is mortally wounded by the Wrecker, revived by the healer Zsaji, and returned to Earth when the war ends.
  5. Bronze · Comics: Following their kidnapped hostess Sersi, the Wasp and Starfox reach the Eternal city of Olympia, where the Avengers help against Maelstrom.
  6. Modern · Comics: Abducted by Artemis on Zeus's orders, the Wasp is taken to Olympus, where the Avengers stand against the gods until peace is made.
  7. Modern · Comics: The Wasp joins the West Coast Avengers in California, working alongside Hank Pym again.
  8. Modern · Comics: After the Scarlet Witch destroys the Avengers, Janet goes with Hank Pym to Oxford, England, but the arrangement fails and she leaves him.
  9. Modern · Comics: Taken with other heroes by the Stranger, the Wasp is trapped in Limbo, from which Pym helps the group escape back to Earth.
  10. Modern · Comics: The Skrull impersonating Pym activates the Wasp as a growing bio-bomb; Thor scatters her form, and she is believed dead.
  11. Modern · Comics: Lost in the Microverse, the Wasp signals Avengers Tower with her priority card, and the original Avengers rescue her from the tyrant Lord Gouzar.
  12. Modern · Comics: Returned to Earth, she joins the Avengers Unity Division at Avengers Mansion.
  13. Secret Wars · Comics: After Hank Pym is merged with Ultron and lost to space, Janet holds his funeral and inherits Pym Laboratories.
  14. Fresh Start · Comics: Asked by Mayor Luke Cage about murdered villains, Janet visits the Raft and then founds Avengers, Inc. with Victor Shade to investigate costumed deaths.
  15. Fresh Start · Comics: With her stepdaughter Nadia, Janet destroys the Creature from Kosmos and so avenges her father's death.
  16. 2016 · Cinematic: After Scott Lang joined the fight in Germany, Hope broke up with him and she and Hank Pym became FBI fugitives.
  17. 2018 · Cinematic: Hope, Pym and Lang opened the Quantum Realm and brought Janet van Dyne back to Earth, defeating Ghost's attempt to take the energy.
  18. 2018 · Cinematic: Hope, her father and her mother were turned to dust by Thanos' Snap.
  19. 2023 · Cinematic: Restored after five years, Hope fought alongside the Avengers in the Battle of Earth and attended Tony Stark's funeral.
  20. 2023 · Cinematic: Hope took over her father's company and renamed it the Pym van Dyne Foundation.
  21. 2026 · Cinematic: A Quantum Satellite built by Cassie Lang pulled Hope and her family into the Quantum Realm, where she followed Janet to Axia.
  22. 2026 · Cinematic: Hope, Scott Lang, Cassie and Hank Pym defeated Kang at the Battle of Chronopolis and returned to the surface world.

allied with

Vision, Ant-Man (Scott Lang), Hank Pym, Janet van Dyne, Ghost, Namor

enemy of

Kang the Conqueror, Ultron, Ronan the Accuser, Red Skull, Ghost

travels to

Quantum Realm, Limbo, The Raft

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Last checked 22 Oct 2026