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History
Early Life
Nadia Pym is the daughter of Hank Pym and his first wife, Maria Trovaya, who was kidnapped during their honeymoon and subsequently killed by foreign agents, Nadia was raised in the Red Room in Moscow, Russia, where she was being trained to become a Red Room agent herself.
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Her earliest memory is of a man with a star on his arm. When Nadia started to read, she showed great aptitude for science, so her handlers, believing her skills to be genetic, informed her of her famous heritage and began encouraging her to emphasize her studies more. Learning of her parentage only increased Nadia's drive to escape the Red Room, and she was eventually able to obtain a black market Pym Particle sample.[2] Nadia had a young friend named Ying, who helped her in her study of Pym Particles and learned a way to use them; however, she disappeared suddenly and Nadia was told she was reassigned to another project. Nadia attempted to impress her superiors into bringing her back, but they never did.[3] After studying the Pym Particles enough to master their size-changing properties, Nadia used them escape the Red Room.[2]
Becoming the All-New, All-Different Wasp
After her escape, Nadia immediately made her way to the front door of Hank Pym's home in Cresskill, New Jersey, where she discovered that Hank had seemingly sacrificed his life to stop Ultron shortly beforehand. Crushed that her father passed before she could even meet him, Nadia decided to shrink down and break into his lab in order to learn as much about him as she could. Using old Ant-Man suit pieces and materials laying around, she crafted a new costume and decided to become the new Wasp, vowing to earn the admiration of her father's allies.[4]
Nadia decided that she wanted to meet her stepmother, Janet Van Dyne, the original Wasp, and the team that her family helped found, the Avengers, and thus went to introduce herself to the current iteration of the team. Arriving at the Avengers Hangar, Nadia was at first mistaken to be the one responsible for firing energy blasts at their headquarters. After Nadia introduced herself to the team, the Vision, still suffering from the after-effects of Mr. Gryphon's control, started to pop in and out of the timestream. The energy blasts that were attacking the Avengers earlier were time-displaced from the moment he tried to hit Nadia when she arrived at their headquarters.
As the Avengers tried to figure out a way to help their friend, the Vision's solar powers started to go superthermal, transforming him into a living bomb that would destroy the entire hangar and everyone inside it. Ignoring Tony Stark's order to retreat, Nadia flew inside the Vision to plant explosives, which she detonated, causing his temperatures to normalize and seemingly saving his life. Having earned their trust, Nadia was taken by Edwin Jarvis on a road trip in which he would introduce her to her extended family tree.[2]
Jarvis and Nadia next went to Long Island and meet Janet in Southampton, though they had to rush due to the threat of a Microverse bomb. Together, Nadia and Janet defused the weapon, saving the President of the United States. Realizing how out of touch Nadia was with the real world, Janet took her out for a day out before admitting that, while she'd fight to the death to keep the name, she was fine with sharing it as long as Nadia used it for good.[5]
Returning to Janet's home, the two Wasps had to deal with W.H.I.S.P.E.R. agents disguised as members of the Russian Consulate; however, news of Bruce Banner's death at the hands of Hawkeye was soon revealed, devastating Nadia. She decided to try to stop the impending Civil War by using her Microverse-based lab to construct a device so that Ulysses could focus his powers; however, the device went critical and Janet, having raced in to stop her, was forced to pull her out. Devastated further, Janet had to tell Nadia that not everything can be fixed by applying science and this was something that had to be fixed through personal means, despite the fact that it felt like she was losing her friends. While Nadia slept, Janet admitted to Jarvis that her innocence and drive was a refreshing thing and that she was proud to have her as a Wasp.[3]
Joining the Avengers
In the aftermath of the second superhuman Civil War, Nadia joined the Avengers and Ms. Marvel accompanied her to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services in an effort to help sort her naturalization issues. After the meeting with Deborah Forrester, the pair assisted Mockingbird in taking down Monica Rappaccini, and although the Scientist Supreme escaped, Nadia gleefully spent time with Bobbi, whose work on Project: Gladiator and adventures in the Savage Land had inspired her as a child. After mentioning that S.H.I.E.L.D.'s list of most intelligent humans listed women no higher than 27th, Nadia was prompted to start G.I.R.L., an enterprise to assess the Earth's greatest female scientific minds and convince S.H.I.E.L.D. that their list was outdated and in need of revision.[6]
Kang War
After Sam Alexander, Miles Morales, and Kamala Khan left the Avengers to found the Champions,[7] Nadia stayed with the team, who also recruited Hercules to bolster their ranks. They were then invited by Peter Parker to Parker Industries' main headquarters, the Baxter Building, where Peter offered them a new base of operations outside of the old hangar; however, Nadia finally realized that Peter was connected to Spider-Man and grew immediately distrustful of the businessman due to her distrust of Spider-Man.[8]
After being rescued from having been erased from time by Hercules, Nadia took the infant Kang and used his adult self's time-travelling tech to escape into the timestream to return the baby to its proper place in history.[9] During her chase, she was plucked out by the Priests of Pama from the 26th Century, who had evolved into paradox eaters after Kang's attack on the group searching for his younger self in the past. They attempted to convince Nadia to sacrifice the baby to them so that all of his future crimes would be undone; however, Nadia refused and instead plunged herself back into the timestream to rescue the Avengers murdered by Kang and drawing the attacking time-travelers to the Priests. The Avengers were then able to successfully return the child to his time and was thanked by the Avengers for her work, though the Vision told her a shocking secret.[10]Attributes
Powers
Size Reduction: Because of the Pym Particles in her bloodstream, Nadia could reduce herself in size, usually down to a few inches, at which size she is not easy to notice,[4] though she has no issue shrinking further.[11]
Wasp's Sting: Nadia can generate powerful bio-electric blasts from her hands.[12]
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Nadia altering her helmet size.
Size Addition: In addition to being able to shrink, Nadia can grow in size as well. Though she seldom enlarges herself, she has exhibited unique combat skills based upon this power, such as throwing her helmet and increasing its mass prior to impact.[13]
Entering other Planes of existence: Nadia can use the Pym Particles in her bloodstream to shrink to sub-microscopic stature. When 99.99 + % of her mass is extra-dimensionally shunted, she is sent into a "subatomic universe," one of countless alternate universes accessible to Earth only by the mass-shunting process, known as the Microverse.[11]Abilities
Genius Intelligence: Nadia has a great aptitude for science. Her handlers at the Red Room, believing her skills to be genetic, informed her of her famous heritage and began encouraging her to emphasize more on her studies.[12]
Martial Arts: Nadia, like all the students of the Red Room Academy, is trained in multiple forms of hand-to-hand combat,[12] including Krav Maga.[13]
Multilingual: Nadia can speak fluent English, Russian, [6] Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, and Mandarin Chinese.[14]
Graceful Dancer: Nadia was taught various types of dance in the Red Room.[6]
Acrobatics: Nadia is an accomplished athlete, gymnast, acrobat, and aerialist capable of numerous complex maneuvers and feats.[13]
Tactician: Nadia is a very effective strategist and tactician, capable of devising a plan to easily overpower multiple assailants with minimal effort.[13]Paraphernalia
Equipment
Wasp's Suit: Using pieces of old Ant-Man suits and materials laying around Hank Pym's Laboratory, Nadia crafted her own costume.[4]
- Bio-Synthetic Wings: She installed a pair of wings on the suit's back to allow her to fly like the original Wasp,[4] though unlike their predecessor's, they can also function at her normal height.[6]
Notes
- At some point, Nadia received combat training from the Winter Soldier while a student at the Red Room.[2]
- Nadia exhibited a massive distrust towards Spider-Man, something Janet Van Dyne had in the early days as well. Peter had sheepishly suggested that it was because spiders and wasps were just natural enemies;[8] however, Nadia seemed to prefer Miles Morales among the two, as she stated she liked him "better anyway." She also called him "Spider-Man Two," much to his obvious dismay.[16] She eventually learned to trust Spider-Man, though ironically still doesn't trust his alter ego, Peter Parker.[17]
Trivia
See Also
- 138 appearance(s) of Nadia Van Dyne (Earth-616)
- 9 minor appearance(s) of Nadia Van Dyne (Earth-616)
- 9 mention(s) of Nadia Van Dyne (Earth-616)
- 1 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Nadia Van Dyne (Earth-616)
- 235 image(s) of Nadia Van Dyne (Earth-616)
- 19 quotation(s) by or about Nadia Van Dyne (Earth-616)
- 5 item(s) used/owned by Nadia Van Dyne (Earth-616)
Links and References
References
- ↑ Unstoppable Wasp #8
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 All-New, All-Different Avengers #9
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 All-New, All-Different Avengers #14
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Free Comic Book Day (Vol. 2016) #Civil War II
- ↑ All-New, All-Different Avengers #12
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Unstoppable Wasp #1
- ↑ Champions (Vol. 2) #1
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Avengers (Vol. 7) #1
- ↑ Avengers (Vol. 7) #2
- ↑ Avengers (Vol. 7) #3
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 All-New, All-Different Avengers #14
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 All-New, All-Different Avengers #9
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 Unstoppable Wasp #4
- ↑ Whitley, Jeremy (21 February 2017) What languages does Nadia know? Tumblr. Retrieved on 21 May 2018.
- ↑ Avengers (Vol. 7) #2–3
- ↑ Civil War II: The Oath #1
- ↑ Avengers (Vol. 7) #11