1. Publication history

2. Fictional character biography

3. Powers and abilities

4. In other media
    Film  Television  Video games 

5. References

• Size manipulation
• Flight
• Bio-electric energy blasts and extendable claws on her gloves
• Skilled hand-to-hand combatant

Hope Pym is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The daughter of Hank Pym and Janet van Dyne in the MC2 universe, she is first depicted as the supervillain Red Queen.

A version of the character, Hope van Dyne, is played by Evangeline Lilly in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. She appears in the 2015 film Ant-Man and appears as the superhero Wasp in the 2018 sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp. Lilly will reprise her role in Endgame (2019).

Publication history

The character was created by Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz and first appeared in A-Next #7 (April 1999).

Fictional character biography

After the deaths of their parents, Hope Pym and her twin brother Big Man (Henry Pym Jr.) became outraged when people began referring to A-Next as the "next generation" of Avengers. Using their parents' fortune, the twins put together the supervillain Revengers team and gained access to the Avengers Mansion via their parents' security codes.^[1] When they ambushed A-Next, Hope set about to torture Cassandra Lang, feeling that she's the Avengers' rightful heir. Hope was finally stopped when Henry prevented her from initiating the mansion's self-destruct sequence, which would have killed both A-Next and the Revengers.^[2]

Powers and abilities

As the Red Queen, Hope Pym uses implanted bio-wings to fly. Also, she has bio-electric blasters installed on the gloves on the back of her hands, and extendable claws built into her gloves. However, she apparently does not have the ability to alter her size.{{issue|date=August 2015}}

In other media

Film

• Evangeline Lilly portrays Hope van Dyne / Wasp in the Marvel Cinematic Universe,^[3][4][5] with Madeleine McGraw portraying the character as a child in flashback in Ant-Man and the Wasp.^[6]
  • Hope first appeared in the 2015 film Ant-Man. She is the daughter of Hank Pym and Janet van Dyne, who worked for S.H.I.E.L.D. as Ant-Man and the Wasp. While the pair were on a mission, Janet shrank to a subatomic level in order to get through titanium plating on a missile and deactivate it; unfortunately, this resulted in her continuing to shrink into a "quantum realm". Hope was seven at the time. When her father returned from the mission, all that he told her was that her mother had died. He became very withdrawn and sent her to boarding school, and their relationship became estranged. She eventually gained a position on the board of her father's company, Pym Technologies, where she cast the deciding vote to remove him from it. Some time later, the head of the company, Darren Cross, reveals that he is making significant progress in recreating the Pym Particle technology. Concerned about the technology's potential military applications, Hope reluctantly allies herself with her father to stop him. Hank decides to bring in Scott Lang to become a new Ant-Man. Although at first she is resentful of Scott, calling the cops on him at one point, she gradually warms up to him. She and her father also make amends, and in the mid-credits scene, he shows her an advanced prototype suit that he and Janet had been working on and suggests that they finish it together.
  • The character next appears in the 2018 sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp, where she has adopted the Wasp identity. It is revealed that she and her father have been on the run for the past two years as a result of Scott using their technology when he violated the Sokovia Accords. The two have been attempting to create a bridge to the quantum realm to save Hope's mother, Janet, and abduct Scott when they realize that he and Janet are in a state of quantum entanglement. Their plan to retrieve her is complicated when criminal Sonny Burch and the superpowered Ava Starr each develop an interest in the quantum tunneling technology. Hank eventually retrieves Janet, and Hope and Scott appear to resume a romantic relationship. In the mid-credits scene, she, Hank and Janet are disintegrated as a result of Thanos eliminating half of all life in the universe in Infinity War.
  • Lilly will reprise the role in the 2019 film Endgame.^[7]

Television

• The Hope van Dyne version of Wasp appears in Avengers Assemble, voiced by Kari Wahlgren.^[8][9]
• The Hope van Dyne version of Wasp appears in Disney XD's Ant-Man animated shorts, voiced by Melissa Rauch.^[10]

Video games

• The character appears as a DLC playable character in Lego Marvel's Avengers as Hope van Dyne and the MCU version of Wasp.^[11]
• The MCU version of Wasp is a playable character in Contest of Champions, Marvel Strike Force, Marvel Puzzle Quest and Marvel Avengers Academy.^[12]

References

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