Hank Pym, formerly known as Ant-Man and also known in the comics as Giant Man, Goliath and Yellowjacket and eventually merged with his creation Ultron is a classic character from Marvel Comics who first appeared in Tales to Astonish #35 in the September of 1962. A sanitized version of the character appears in the MCU played by Michael Douglas while his role as the main Ant-Man is replaced by Scott Lang.
History[]
Hank Pym is an inventor, chemist, entomologist and physicist who discovered Pym Particles and is the founder of Pym Tech. In the 1950s, he ran a Pym Tech lab at a Californian work complex run by Howard Stark and Stark Industries. He had a wife named Janet van Dyne who was the superhero Wasp and with whom he had a daughter, Hope van Dyne. Hank himself was the original superhero known as, "Ant-Man".
Hank Pym would stop being Ant-Man by present day, leaving his daughter to take over the family business. Hank assisted Hope become the new Wasp while thief Scott Lang became the new Ant-Man. In 2019, the Stark Industries Complex was turned into Avengers Campus California which Pym Tech was once again active in. At the campus, Pym had Hope keep an eye on Scott and at one point, turned down Scott's request to grow a miniature fairgrounds for ants which he had found.
Appearances and allusions[]
Avengers Campus (DCA)[]
Vintage maps of the campus identify Pym as having run a laboratory on the property from when the land was run by Howard Stark.
PYM Test Kitchen[]
Wasp will sometimes receive texts from Hank, visible to the phone being enlarged to function as a menu. Hank is also identified in the backstory as the scientist who discovered Pym Particles.
Web Slingers: A Spider-Man Adventure[]
Hank Pym's shrunken tank from the films appears in the PYM Labs level.
Marvel Super Hero Academy[]
There are blueprints for an ant-mounted camera made by Hank Pym.[1]
Spider-Man W.E.B. Adventure[]
Pym's Tank appears on art for the Gear Grabber.
Trivia[]
- Hank Pym is a famously hated character in the comics. This is due to his domestic-abuse of his wife Janet, creation and subsequent abandonment of Ultron, nihilistic hatred of humanity, violently fragile ego, murders as an Avengers member which caused him to be fired from the team, scheming to attack the Avengers with robots designed for only himself to defeat, and his eventually merging with Ultron to become a super-villain.
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