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Vision ("grandson");
Krylar (ex-lover)
History
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- — Wasp
- — Wasp
Early Years
Janet van Dyne was the only daughter of respected Caucasian scientist Vernon van Dyne and Minh Lý, also a fellow respected Vietnamese scientist of van Dyne as they often partnered up during a series of secret scientific expeditions in Vietnam in the final years of the war. She was born in the spring of 1972 and was raised in their residence in Cresskill, New Jersey. Growing up having idolized both her parents even after their unfortunate demises in her adolescence, she grew up using their inheritance to honor their memories as she went to college in New York City at its namesake university, with Janet eventually earning double PhDs, one in molecular biology in her adulthood after finishing college right after successfully finishing her doctorate degree. For a time, she would find herself a recurring hobby in the form of fashion, particularly exploring and designing clothes.
The Wasp
Due to her remarkable intellect not just anyone can match with, Janet would later be hired by a mostly clandestine peace-keeping organization deemed to recruit her into making the world a safer and better place with her contribution. Having been unintentionally genetically altered by her lab partner, Dr. Henry "Hank" Pym in an experiment almost gone wrong with the Pym Particles which she was also responsible for, Janet subsequently gained the newfound natural abilities to alter her size, fly at rapid speeds and fire bio-electric energy "stings," and so much more.
However, despite having to genetically gain the following powers after the accident, Janet's unexpected change in status as a mutate started as a rumor that spread by one of her colleagues, specifically Cleo Nefertiti, who bitterly hated her with a growing passion for realizing that she could never be better at her. Because of it, her sprouted lies had caused Janet's most respected friends and fellow colleagues within their workplace to despise her from time to time, similar to the way some people would treat mutants with great prejudice as if they weren't apart of the same race (genus) with humans. In response, Janet broke down in tears and almost succumbed to depression, feeling broken and hopeless that none of her colleagues would want to be with her, while Pym continuously come to regret himself for partly and was non-stop apologetic to her causing what happened on that day.
Pym still blamed himself for what happened, although he never stopped supporting and helping Janet, to which she eventually forgave him for what happened and encourage him move on, causing the two finally find a mutual romantic attraction with one another. Knowing that she'll always have Hank on her side together, Janet grew more and more confident for being a mutate, not even caring whether or not everyone in her workplace would hate her for being one. After willingly going through a lot of extensive training under the agency's guidance and the offer of then-deputy director that was agent Nick Fury, she then called her heroic persona as none other than the Wasp, to which she became Pym's partner in some particular missions and covert operations S.H.I.E.L.D. had exclusively sent them across the globe until the present day of the early to middle days of the 2000s. At some point in time, the two would eventually commit their truest of feelings to one another and decided to get married, as a great leap to their long-lasting relationship which stood strong for several years until today.
The Avengers
Later on, she and her husband became a founding member of the now famous Earth's Mightiest Heroes, the Avengers, which first officially formed during the Chitauri Invasion's unforgettable Battle of New York, in their noble and selfless battle against Loki and the great Chitauri waves summoned by the Tesseract wormhole during the days of modern era. At some point in time later on after the Chitauri Invasion, Janet apparently decided to resign both at S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers due to reasons unspecified by Pym, though in reality, he was already keeping a secret only he and Janet herself knew regarding her true whereabouts.
Quantum Realm
Janet as a member of the Micronauts (summer 2015 until autumn 2025)
Pym then later admitted to his teammates that Janet was still recovering after she suffered from a case of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, the same way Tony Stark did when he almost died during the climactic battle on New York. Along with it, Janet was on her last known mission in 2015 battling the powerful lost creature known as Psyklop, when her regulator was heavily damaged, and the only way to stop it from causing further havoc was to get the cosmic creature and herself out of the city, sacrificing her own life save the lives of millions, unknowingly becoming lost to the mysterious Quantum Realm, the dimension she and Pym had only been studying since the discovery of the Pym Particles.
Despite this devastating incident, the two separated couple eventually found a way to contact each other and became reunited after a decade in late 2025, later revealing that Janet was still alive somewhere in the civilized regions of the Quantum Realm, trying to find her way out of there as fast and as careful as she could, with the help of her newfound accomplices and allies, while also helping them in their cosmic adventures within the mysterious and yet wonderful microversal realm against the likes of Lord Visis, Baron Karza, Psycho-Man, Dark Gods of K'ai, and the multiversal time-travelling conqueror Kang when the latter had been in hiding within the Microverse after his defeat in the 40th Century.
Janet dedicated herself selflessly helping the innocent and helpless inhabitants of the diverse realm from its tyrants and terrorists for what she thought to be five years, not realizing that she had gradually forgotten her home on Earth after multiple failed attempts to get back. After the power-hungry warlord Krylar and his Isle of Assassins sought to travel the prime universe using quantum tech which he obtained via a secret deal with Kang, Janet followed him and was able to send a message to Scott Lang, causing him to notify Hank and his daughter, Nadia. The three would work on a way to retrieve her from the Microverse with while temporarily possessing Lang's body, which proved to be a success as Janet finally returned home in the year 2025 and helped her deal with Krylar & his fleet.
Once Krylar was vanquished and his men were handed over to the custody of her allies in the Quantum Realm, Janet would bid farewell to her fellow freedom fighters, whom she fought alongside with for what was revealed to be a decade in the earthly plane, and rekindled her love with an overjoyed Hank, revealing that he had never truly lost his hope on the fact that Janet has always been alive since they first toyed with the possibility of worlds existing within worlds on a subatomic level. Janet would get to know Nadia, sharing her knowledge and studies in the Microverse to Hank and her allies—including the Fantastic Four and the Langs, who continued to be both Pym-powered heroes since she disappeared—as they would work on a device that eased their travel to the civilized regions of the Quantum Realm without the necessity of shrinking down with their suits.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
Unique Physiology: Due to long-term exposure to Pym Particles similarly to Dr. Hank Pym's experience with the latter, Janet could reduce herself in size, down to the dimensions of the insect from which she takes her name, roughly 1/2 inch in height. She usually chooses not to retain her standard density while at this reduced mass, but can choose to do so at will. The "lost" mass is shunted to a pocket dimension for later retrieval. Additionally, her strength was boosted while she is at reduced size, to the extent that she can bend a one-inch diameter steel bar almost double.
- Size Reduction
- Flight
- Bio-Electrical Blasts
- Wasp's Sting
- Insect Communication and Control
- Size Addition
Abilities
- Genius Intelligence
- Accomplished Scientist
- Molecular Biologist
- Talented Fashion Designer
- Multilingual
- Skilled Combatant
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Strength level
- Class 13+
Weaknesses
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (formerly)
Paraphernalia
Equipment:
- Wasp Suit
- Avengers Identicard
Transportation:
- Flight
Weapons: None known.
Notes
- Having been stranded in the Microverse for a decade from the Earth's "standard" time, the relativity of time in the realm had made Janet feel like she has lived there for five years, notwithstanding her rapid greying of color which made her appear to be someone in her mid-50s the moment she returned to the Earthly realm.
- ↑ Modern Comics: Avengers Vol 1 1
Trivia
- Janet earned hundreds of millions of (U.S.) dollars in her profession as a fashion designer, model, and S.H.I.E.L.D. agent and has spent a good portion of those money to help rebuild damaged or destroyed infrastructure and donate to civilians whose lives were most devastated after Ultimate War.
- Janet and Nadia, Hank's daughter from his late first wife, did not get along well at first due to the latter's insecurities for her past as a criminal and potential supervillain, but they eventually bonded over their interest for fashion being integrated with superheroes.
- Janet was actually the one who gave the Ultimates its name as it formed around late 2014 to fight against Ultron.
- Janet was raised a Protestant, but also grew up being openly faithful to her mother's Vietnamese folk religion which she has always found fascinating since she was a child.
See Also
- Appearances of Janet van Dyne (Earth-61615)
- Character Gallery: Janet van Dyne (Earth-61615)
- Quotations by Janet van Dyne (Earth-61615)
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