Henry Pym (Earth-1111)

{{Character Template|Title = Ant-Man|CurrentAlias = Ant-Man|RealName = Henry "Hank" Pym|Image = Ant-Man_(Earth-1111).jpg|Identity = Known to Authorities|Alignment = Good|Affiliation = Avengers; S.H.I.E.L.D|Relatives = Brad Pym (father), Doris Pym (mother), Janet Van Dyne (fiancee), Ultron (creation, "son")|Universe = Earth-1111|BaseOfOperations = Triskelion|Gender = Male|Height = 6'0|Weight = 200 lbs|Eyes = Blue|Hair = Blond|Citizenship = American|MaritalStatus = Engaged|Occupation = CEO of Pym Technologies|Education = Ph,D in Biochemistry|Origin = Hank Pym discovered Pym Particles which allowed him to alter his size.|PlaceOfBirth = America|Creators = Awesomekid120|First = Astonishing Avengers #1|HistoryText = ===Early Life=== Hank was born to Brad and Doris Pym, as a child Hank was a science prodigy and enjoyed building fun and wacky inventions. When Hank was ten, he built a helmet that allowed him to communicate with ants.

Education
He attended university where his own professors discouraged Pym's use of his own imagination and inventing things for fun by being told that he would never invent anything that would impact the world. Pym excelled better than any of his fellow classmates, earning his doctorate in biochemistry while his friends were still undergrads.

Pym Technologies
Upon graduating from university, Hank created his own company, Pym Technologies. Pym Technologies would become one of the leading companies in the United States rivaling Stark Industries and Oscorp, Hank would eventually hire the young Janet Van Dyne as one of the companies top scientists. The two would eventually begin a relationship.

Discovering Pym Particles and becoming Ant-Man
In 2013, Pym's assistant recommended that Pym should look into replicating the Super Soldier formula as that's the current arms race between all the mega corporations at this time, Pym agreed with this advice and began researching.

Pym believed the key to unlocking the secrets were at the subatomic level to which Pym and his scientists began researching into subatomic particles which eventually led to Pym discovering a new subatomic particle that allows individuals to manipulate their height at a molecular level. Pym would go on to call this Pym Particles.

Pym tested the reducing serum on himself and discovered it was more powerful than he had expected: it reduced him to the size of an insect. Pym became entrapped in an anthill and was pursued by the ants within. He escaped and restored himself to his normal size with his other serum. Deciding that the serums were too dangerous to exist, Pym destroyed both of them.

However, weeks later he reconsidered his decision and began to recreate the serums, whose existence he then kept secret. Inspired by his experience in the anthill, Pym undertook a study of ants, and theorized that ants communicate through psionic / electrical waves transmitted through their antennae, Pym then remembered of the helmet he had built as a child was designed for communicating with ants. Thinking that someday he might want to use the shrinking potion on himself again, Pym also designed a protective suit for himself.

Fighting Crime
Inspired by his boyhood idol Captain America to use the Pym Particles and help others, Pym used his newly designed suit to go out and fight crime as the Ant-Man. Ant-Man's efforts would be broadcasted over the internet on conspiracy websites as Ant-Man had been fighting crime in secret so he couldn't draw attention to himself like the Fantastic Four and "the Iron Man".

S.H.I.E.L.D. hearing of Ant-Man's efforts online, S.H.I.E.L.D. kept an eye on the Ant-Man and eventually deduced his identity as Hank Pym.

Telling Janet and taking down Cross Technologies
Pym had been hearing rumors of his rival company Cross Technologies had been making illegal deals with terrorist organisations like A.I.M. and Hydra, Pym decided to put a stop to this and so he suited up in his Ant-Man uniform and infiltrated Cross Technologies, taking down many of his guards he eventually got to Cross's office and downloaded his incriminating files.

Pym returned back to Pym Technologies and sent the files anonymously to the police, the next day he found out that Cross was arrested and felt proud of himself for making a difference. He then decided to tell Janet that he was Ant-Man and proposed to her soon after.

Ant-Man and the Wasp
A few weeks later, Janet came to Hank with an idea of being his crime fighting partner, Hank shut this down as he believed it to be too dangerous and didn't want to lose her although Janet claimed this is what she really wanted and it would make her feel at ease being with him in the field rather than watching from the sidelines. Hank then agreed to let her be his partner.

Janet then underwent a biochemical procedure using Pym Particles that would allow her to shrink to insectoid proportions and implanted bio-synthetic wings into a suit. Henry also outfitted her with wrist-mounted devices that allowed her to discharge blasts of compressed air, Janet would later dub these "wasp stings". Janet took on the codename Wasp and she and Hank would go on various adventures together.

Joining the Avengers
In 2014, S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Black Widow would approach Hank and Janet and ask them to join Nick Fury's team composed of enhanced individuals. Janet would convince Hank that it would be fun to join a team of superheroes like the Fantastic Four.

After being recruited, Fury sent the team on their first mission, there had been disturbances in the Atlantic and were sent to investigate.

Being the wild card of the team, Bruce agreed to only transform into the Hulk when absolutely necessary. The Team went to the Atlantic and discovered that an Atlantean named Namor and other Atlanteans had been attacking human archaeologists, the Team battled Namor which led to Bruce having to transform into the Hulk and help out which led to the Hulk smashing a landscape of ice and leading Namor to flee. After Hulk smashed the ice, the Team ended up discovering a frozen Captain America, Iron Man alerted Nick Fury and he immediately told them to bring him back to America in the Quinjet.

It was later announced that Captain America would be leading the team.

Attack of Ultron
After a few months of black ops missions the team had grown comfortable with each other. Hank had came up with the idea of creating an A.I that could alert S.H.I.E.L.D. of incoming and potential alien threats, he asked Tony and Bruce if they wanted to help him in creating this A.I. to which they agreed and named the A.I. Ultron.

After creating Ultron, it went rogue and came to the conclusion that humanity must be destroyed. Ultron travelled through the internet to Latveria and mass produced a robot army and attacked New York. Fury ordered the Team to combat the Ultron Bots despite the risk of going public. The Team stopped Ultron and deactivated it, successfully saving New York. A few days later the Daily Bugle dubbed them the Avengers.|Powers = Size Reduction: Pym possesses the power to reduce himself to the size of an ant, approximately one-half inch in height, by means of the subatomic particles known as the Pym Particles. The nature, source, and mechanics of the Pym Particles remain unrevealed. Originally, when Pym inhaled a gas or drank a potion containing the Pym Particles, the Particles would interact with the electrical impulses of his brain, creating an organism-wide "reducing field." Thus activated, the field reduced his entire body at a uniform rate to the smaller size he desired. Although he usually chose to reduce himself to one half inch in height, he could reduce his size to any size between that and his normal size. Usually, Pym did not compress his mass into his smaller size. Instead his mass was somehow extended into an extra-physical dimension that is opened by the activating of the Pym Particles, from which the mass could later be reclaimed. Strangely, because Pym's mass was extended extra-dimensionally when he was at ant-size, he retained his full human-size strength at that size. To return to normal size, Pym inhaled another gas or drank another potion, either of which contained another type of Pym Particles. These particles interacted with his brain to create an organism-wide "enlarging field," which is energized by mental command. Thus Pym could grow back to his normal height and reclaim all of the mass that was extended extra-dimensionally.|Abilities = Super-Genius Intelligence: Dr. Henry Pym is one of the world's foremost biochemists and also possesses considerable expertise in numerous scientific fields such as subatomic physics, robotics, cybernetics, artificial intelligence, programming, emergency medicine, optics and entomology. He has also referred himself one of the five smartest people on the planet which makes him capable of rivaling others such as Reed Richards and is regarded by the Eternity as the Earth's "Scientist Supreme".

Skilled Combatant: Hank is a skilled hand-to-hand combatant using special styles of unarmed combat depending on his size. If he is small, he takes advantage of the opponent's larger form by assaulting points of his/her body that they would not expect and move to another before they detected him. If he was giant, he would take advantage of his own massive form and use attacks that would either throw them off balance or render them unconscious before they could concoct a better strategy against him. Has had some training in judo, karate and wrestling. He was also trained by Captain America in unarmed combat making him a very formidable fighter. A trained scuba diver. Capable pilot of aircraft ranging from conventional helicopters to high tech vehicles such as the Avengers Quinjets|Strength = Pym has the normal human strength of a man of his age, height, and build who engages in intensive regular exercise. He retains this level of strength even at insect-size.|Equipment = Ant-Man Suit: The suit allows the user to shrink to the size of an ant, approximately one-half inch in height, by means of the subatomic particles known as the Pym Particles. Pym's helmet grants the user the ability to communicate with insects, specifically ants.|Trivia = *Pym was born in 1985.}}