Eric O'Grady (Earth-616)

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Contents 1 History 1.1 Joining the Initiative 1.2 Thunderbolts 2 Powers and Abilities 2.1 Powers 2.2 Abilities 2.3 Strength level 2.4 Weaknesses 3 Paraphernalia 3.1 Equipment 3.2 Transportation 3.3 Weapons 4 Links 4.1 Discover and Discuss 5 Recommended Readings 6 Related Articles 7 External Links 8 References

History

Eric O'Grady was a low level SHIELD agent working in the reconnaissance department of the SHIELD Helicarrier. When Wolverine was brought in^[1], Eric and his friend Chris were tasked with guarding Dr. Henry Pym's lab by a higher ranking agent, Mitch Carson. When Pym went to leave the lab, Eric and Chris panicked and Eric attacked Pym, knocking him unconscious. Inside the lab, they found the most recent version of the Ant-Man suit, which Chris put on and promptly activated, shrinking down. Thinking him gone, Eric panicked again and ran off. Chris promptly got lost in the Helicarrier, stuck at the 1-Inch size. Eric, meanwhile, took this opportunity to make a pass at Chris' girlfriend Veronica, which the miniature Chris saw from an air vent.

Around this time, a group of Hydra employed superhumans attacked the Carrier, and Chris and Eric were caught up in the ensuing chaos. Whilst trying to find a safe place to hide, Chris was killed, and Eric took the Ant-Man suit off his body. Surviving the Helicarrier crash, Eric continued to work for SHIELD, using his evenings to explore the powers of his new suit. Agent Carson, who was amongst the forerunners to become the new Ant-Man, was tasked with hunting down the person who had stolen the suit and given a less advanced prototype to aid him in his search.

Eric and Chris' Girlfriend Veronica headed home for Chris' funeral, and afterwards Eric attempted to "console" an upset Veronica (who by now had been convinced by Eric that Chris was cheating on her). His moves unsuccessful, he instead donned the Ant-Man suit and headed off to potentially fight some crimes. Seeing a man beating his wife, he tried to intervene by shrinking down and beating up the man. His attempt at punching him the neck, however, went badly wrong as Eric's attack seriously injured the man. Returning to Chris' parents home, Eric once again tried his luck with Veronica, this time at the site of Chris' grave, but once again was unsuccessful.

Back on the Helicarrier, Eric discovered the ability of the suit to communicate with Ants, which he used to stage races between the Ants living in the Carrier's ventilation system. At this point, Agent Carson caught up with him, and the two Ant-Men slugged it out. Eric escaped from the fight, and finally managed to get lucky with Veronica. The attraction resulted in the two having sex, leading to Veronica King's pregnancy and Ant Man ultimately abandoning her.^[2]

A few days later, Carson discerned that Eric had stolen the suit and confronted him. Eric managed to stall Carson for long enough to make an escape wearing the suit, but Carson chased after him in his own. They eventually ended up fighting in the SHIELD canteen, (at one point even fighting on the brim of Dum Dum Dugan's hat) with Eric eventually proving the victor. As he tried to leave, Carson grabs his foot, and the Rocket Jets from Eric's suit badly burn Carson's face. Eric manages to take (the still tiny) Carson to the infirmary before finally escaping the Helicarrier, still in possession of the Suit.

In his following adventures, and despite his attempts to seduce Veronica, Ant Man continuously uses his powers of shrinking to stalk women and watch them in various stages of undress, with Ms. Marvel of the Mighty Avengers being a popular target for his ever-increasing voyeurism.

Eric also encounters the thief Black Fox, and steals his possessions. Black Fox later shows up looking for the jewels. O'Grady, however, had already sold them to a pawn shop. The two work together, getting the $150,000 back and splitting the proceeds, with O'Grady keeping 15 percent.^[3]

After saving the life of a child, Ant-Man encounters Damage Control.^[4] This organization offers him a job and, after he obtains a fake ID under the name Derek Sullivan and comes up with a new superhero name (Slaying Mantis), he consents. He meets a woman named Abigail, who he starts dating. He leases an apartment under his new name and with Damage Control's help begins to establish a new identity while continuing to hide from S.H.I.E.L.D. However, as Abigail begins to fall in love with Eric, she reveals to him that she is a single mother with a son. This in turn triggers Eric dumping Abigail over her keeping her son's existence a secret from him while pursuing a romantic relationship with him.^[5]

During a later confrontation with Abigail, she reveals that she possesses the power to read people's emotions telepathically. She promptly then accuses Eric of truly loving her, through use of her powers to scan Eric's mind for his true feelings about her. Before he can answer though, the Hulk attacks Manhattan (See World War Hulk). Eric reluctantly joins the fray by attacking the Hulk from the inside of his body. However, the Hulk's stomach and innards proved to be just as tough and Eric ended up being discharged through one of the nostrils. He awoke in a S.H.I.E.L.D. infirmary, with Mitch Carson standing by his bed, stating that he was under arrest.^[6]

Carson takes Eric to a secret room aboard the Helicarrier, and proceeds to torture him, using the Ant-Man suit to internally wound him. Just as Carson is on the verge of burning Eric's face with the suit's jet boosters, Iron Man arrives and subdues him. Eric decides to pin the whole stolen-suit fiasco on Carson, saying that he was only trying to stop him from using the suit for evil. Iron Man refuses to believe Eric though Iron Man is quickly sidetracked by the arrival of the Black Fox (who had become friends with Eric after their first encounter). Black Fox demands that Eric be released and claims to have placed explosives on the Helicarrier in order to extort his friend's freedom. Eric refutes Fox's claims to protect him from Iron Man, leading to Fox being arrested.

Joining the Initiative

Several weeks pass and while Carson's fate is left unresolved, it is shown that Eric has resumed his post upon Helicarrier, having been offered his own job under unknown circumstances.^[7] Feeling guilty for Black Fox being in jail, Eric helps the elderly thief escape from the Helicarrier, with Eric admitting that he was sorry for putting Black Fox through the ordeal of being arrested. Later on, Eric refuses Veronica's attempt to try and work out an arrangement for raising their child together, in part because of Eric's inner fear that he would be a horrible father due to his utter lack of morals or ethics. Meanwhile, despite their misgivings, Iron Man and Hank Pym reluctantly offer Eric his old Ant Man suit back on the condition of him becoming part of the Initiative, which Eric accepts.

Eric also has one last meeting with Abigail and tells her that he does, indeed, love her. However, he tells Abigail that he will be leaving for a while and wishes to be with her. While doing so, he hopes that he can be a better person. Before leaving, he tells her his real name.

In spite of his vows to Abigail though, Eric continues his lewd and irredeemable ways upon joining the Initiative. He appears in Camp Hammond, as an official recruit for the Initiative, along with Crusader, Melee, Geldoff, Dragon Lord, Geiger, Red Nine, and Diamondback.^[8]

In particular, during his first meeting with the Taskmaster, Eric attempts to slander the name of his predecessor, Scott Lang by passing off stories of his lewd stalker behavior regarding Ms. Marvel onto Scott, as well as claiming that Scott Lang was never really an official Avenger and that he was simply hiding inside the Avengers mansion during his tenure with the team and following the group around as a hanger-on. Unfortunately, Scott's daughter Cassie overhears Taskmaster and Eric laughing at Eric's lies and attacks by growing to giant size and attempts to step on the human-sized Eric. Using his suit to increase his size to fight the giant-sized version of Cassie, Eric tricks her into thinking she had stepped on and killed the hero Stingray, in order to knock her down with a cheap shot. This in turn causes Hank Pym to grow giant-sized and attack Eric, who upon defeating Cassie begins to mock her by yelling "Who's Your Daddy Now?". However, as their fight begins to attract the attention of people outside the Initiative compound, the Taskmaster brings all three of the giants down with his shield.^[9]

When the clone of MVP, KIA, went on a murderous rampage across Camp Hammond, O'Grady was among those the recruits of his class who were defeated by the insane clone.^[10] He hid under an unconscious Geiger and survived mostly unharmed. He hid from the rest of the action along with the Taskmaster.^[11]

Eric is later seen having a counseling session with Trauma, who helped him with a repressed "naked Santa" memory from his childhood.^[12]

When the Skrull invasion occurs in New York city, the Initiative are ordered to fight. Eric decides to avoid this by shrinking down and hiding.^[13] He soon discovers, however, that the Skrulls have taken over Camp Hammond.^[14] He aids the Shadow Initiative in a failed attempt to assassinate Queen Veranke.^[15] Escaping by once again shrinking down, Eric discovers the Skrulls' last resort plan: to open a giant Negative Zone portal, and have the entire United States removed from this dimension. Escaping the Skrulls on the back of one of their shock troopers, Eric brings the information to some of the remaining Initiative members, and they set out to stop the plan from happening.^[16]

Thunderbolts

Following the Invasion's end, Eric is commended for his good work, and is promoted to a position in the Thunderbolts.^[17] However, under Norman Osborn's command, he performed black ops missions to eliminate individuals who might depose Osborn from his position of a hero. One was to discredit Doc Samson by placing a gamma emitter on his back, to cause him to go in a rage. He in Black Widow's cleavage instead of her pocket. Another was eliminating Deadpool, who was harassing Osborn for money. Eric made the mistake of climbing up Deadpool's leg, for his entire body was covered with skin flakes as a result of his cancer.

Eric soon began have second thoughts on joining the team, as it isn't the type of superhero life he wanted. The problem was, Osborn would kill him if he attempted to leave. Paladin advised that he lay low until Osborn finally loses his mind.

When Bucky Barnes was captured to lure Sharon Carter out into the opening, as well as induct into the Thunderbolts. However, Falcon smashed into the Thunderstrike to save Bucky, Ant-Man secretly released Barnes when no one was looking.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

With the assistance of Pym Particles, Eric has the ability to shrink to the size of an ant, while retaining full size strength, and increase in size and communicate telepathically with insects via a cybernetic helmet.

Abilities

Standard SHIELD weapons training

Strength level

As Ant-Man he has the normal human strength of a man of his age, height, and build who engages in intensive regular exercise. At small size, his is compact and at large size are enhanced.

Weaknesses

He can be squashed at small size and at giant size, his achilles tendons are vulnerable.

Paraphernalia

Equipment

various gadgets housed within a shrinking exoskeleton armor ex. retractable robot legs with magnetic grapples

Transportation

leg-mounted jet thrusters (this can also be use as a flamethrower)

Weapons

mandible-like tools that swing out like claws

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Recommended Readings

• Irredeemable Ant-Man #1

Related Articles

• Ant-Man(Henry Pym)
• Ant-Man(Scott Lang)

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