Janet van Dyne

Janet van Dyne was the wife of Henry Pym and the mother of Hope van Dyne.

Biography

Ant-Man

Janet van Dyne persuaded her husband, Hank Pym, to let her go on his Ant-Man missions with him as his partner. She was given a suit and became known as "The Wasp". During a mission in 1987, Ant-Man and Wasp needed to disable a Soviet missile but Hank couldn't get inside the missile because the space was too small. Janet didn't hesitate and removed her regulator, shrinking to subatomic size so she could fit through the gap and successfully disarmed the missile. However, without her regulator she was unable to regrow to normal size and was lost in the Quantum Realm. Hank told his daughter that her mother died in a plane crash until twenty-five years later, in 2015, when he finally told her the truth. When Scott manage to escape the Quantum Realm, by rewiring the suit's regulator with an enlarging Pym discs, it is now possible if Janet is still alive somewhere within the Quantum Realm and can be saved.

Character traits

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Powers and Abilities

Powers

Size Manipulation: Janet was able to shrink in size with the help of the Pym Particles.
- Superhuman Strength: Janet was able to maintain her human-sized strength when shrunken down in the Wasp suit.

Equipment

Wasp suit: Allowed Janet to shrink in size.

Relationships

Howard Stark - Former S.H.I.E.L.D. superior.
Hank Pym - Husband.
Hope van Dyne - Daughter.

Appearances/Actresses

Marvel Cinematic Universe (2 films)

- Ant-Man (First appearance) - Hayley Lovitt
- Ant-Man and the Wasp - Michelle Pfeiffer

Behind the scenes

Joss Whedon intended to use Wasp in The Avengers as one of the female leads when Scarlett Johansson's involvement was still unconfirmed. However, plans to use both Henry Pym and Janet van Dyne were ultimately scrapped.^[1]
Evangeline Lilly had Michelle Pfeiffer on her wish list to played Janet van Dyne while Michael Douglas had expressed the desire to have his wife Catherine Zeta-Jones play Janet van Dyne.