Janet Van Dyne (Earth-1610)

The Wasp
Name	Janet van Dyne
Current Alias	The Wasp
Aliases	Jan, Janet "Jan" Pym
Affiliation and Relationships
Affiliation	Formerly Ultimates, S.H.I.E.L.D.
Relatives	Unnamed Caucasian father Unnamed Asian mother Henry "Hank" Pym (ex-husband)
Marital Status	Estranged
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Female
Height	5′3″ (1.6 m)
Weight	105 lbs (47.63 kg)
Eyes	Irises: Purple
Hair	Black
Unusual Features	2 retractable pairs of wings
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Mutant
Living Status	Deceased
Reality	Earth-1610
Personal Information
Identity	Secret
Citizenship	American
Occupation	Molecular biologist, U.S. government super operative
Base of Operations	The Triskelion
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Mark Millar, Bryan Hitch
First	Ultimates #2 (February, 2002)
First	Ultimates #2 (February, 2002)
Death	Ultimatum #2 (December, 2008)
Death	Ultimatum #2 (December, 2008)

History

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Janet van Dyne was born to a Caucasian father and Asian mother in 1976. She was a mutant who could generate a wasp-like sting which she discharged through her hands. Additionally, only her Wasp uniform changed size with her when she shrank, so if was she ever required to change size in civilian clothing she would have to go naked. Sometimes Janet ate bugs, formed larval nests and laid egg-like constructs, side-effects of her insectoid genetics.

In her college years she shared a room with Betty Ross and started seeing Henry Pym. Janet's status as a mutant was known by Pym. He was abusive to her early in their relationship and he hit her twice. The first time he put her head through the bathroom door, and the second time he punched her so hard at a Christmas party that he split the roof of her mouth in two. Betty Ross also claimed that several times Janet appeared to be missing chunks of hair.

Hank attempted to change, going on a medication, and Jan believed that joining the Ultimates could be a new start for them. But later the tensions of losing and humiliating himself in a battle with the Hulk, and his jealousy of Jan's friendship with Captain America, led to a heated argument between the couple, resulting in Henry hitting her once again. Jan retaliated, and the battle between the two grew more vicious. When Janet resorted to using her mutant powers, shrinking to wasp size, Henry retaliated by donning his Ant-Man helmet and commanding an army of ants to attack her. After the fight Janet was in a state of anaphylactic shock, caused by receiving multiple ant stings at wasp size. Captain America beat her husband into a humiliated pulp for assaulting his wife, despite the fact that Henry grew to giant size in the practically one-sided fight. However, when Captain America visited Janet Pym afterwards, the news made her even sadder. To Mrs. Pym, her hopes for saving her marriage had been destroyed.

Janet was captured by Chitauri at wasp size and smuggled out of the Triskelion to their base in Arizona. She was rescued by Black Widow and with the rest of Ultimates, fought off the alien invasion.

Afterwards Captain America and the Wasp came together and started dating, despite attempts of a deeply rueful Hank Pym to make amends. A while later Jan started to get bored with the relationship, due to the generation gap between them and all of Cap's friends being elderly, and secretly began seeing Hank again (though the relationship has been platonic so far). She recently walked out on Steve and met up with Hank in a bar.

The invasion of America by the Liberators failed to take Janet in to account. They discounted the possibility that someone whose only ability is to make herself "smaller and weaker" could be a threat. By the time they found her, Janet had made her way to the cells in the Triskelion where Captain America was being held under suspicion of murdering Hawkeye's entire family. Soldiers working for the Liberators entered his cell and found two metahuman signatures. Although Janet was easily subdued, they failed to realize that she had already liberated her boyfriend.

In the fight back against the Liberators, Hank had given Janet the Giant Man serum just in case of emergency. Growing higher, Wasp is able to stomp Swarm just once.

When the Ultimates decided to become independent of S.H.I.E.L.D., Janet became the team leader.

During the flood in New York City in the beginning of the Ultimatum event, Wasp was separated from her team and was found by Hank Pym and Hawkeye dead and eaten by Blob. Pym avenged her death by biting off Blob's head. Before Pym's death, he requested his team members take Janet's body to his lab and activate "the Jocasta project".

Attributes

Power Grid

Powers

Janet Van Dyne is a mutant. As a side-effect of this mutation, Janet had some insect-like behavior, such as the propensity to lay eggs and eat insects.

Size Reduction: Janet's primary mutant power was the ability to reduce her bodily size through force of will. Janet appeared to have some control over her exact proportions, as she was able to fit inside the Hulk's nose and also be longer than the hand of an average man. She retained her normal strength while reduced in size. In addition, Janet was limited by her body's natural neurological reflex that prevented her from shrinking to below a certain size.

Flight: When reduced in size, a pair of insect-like wings grew from Janet's back. These wings allowed her to fly at an unknown maximum speed.

Bio-Electrical Blasts: Janet was also capable of producing blasts of bio-electrical energy that she called her "Wasp Stings". These stings varied in potency, depending on her size. While her size was reduced, Janet could utilize painful shocks that harmed even superhumanly durable beings. While at full size, however, her blasts would kill a human in the same way that a lightning bolt would.

Size Addition (Formerly): Prior to his death, her husband Hank Pym gave Janet a sample of his Giant Man serum that he developed from her own mutant powers. Janet used this serum in a time of need, and grew sixty feet in height while gaining strength and durability. She then used this power to kill the Red Wasp by crushing her under her foot.

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Abilities

Janet earned double Ph.D.s, one in molecular biology. She was moderately fluent in German. Skilled in unarmed combat

Weaknesses

The capability of Janet's sting is dependent on her size. Also, at small size, Janet is at risk of getting crushed.

Trivia

• In the Ultimate Universe, Wasp was a Mutant. She tried to hide her origins even from other Ultimates.

See Also

• 67 appearance(s) of Janet Van Dyne (Earth-1610)
• 1 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Janet Van Dyne (Earth-1610)
• 7 minor appearance(s) of Janet Van Dyne (Earth-1610)
• 2 mention(s) of Janet Van Dyne (Earth-1610)
• 1 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Janet Van Dyne (Earth-1610)
• 50 image(s) of Janet Van Dyne (Earth-1610)
• 5 quotation(s) by or about Janet Van Dyne (Earth-1610)

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