Hank Pym

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Doctor **Henry Jonathan "Hank" Pym** is an entomologist and physicist, who developed the Ant-Man Suit, after discovering the Pym Particles. For a time, he worked for S.H.I.E.L.D. as a consultant and became the original **Ant-Man**, fighting beside his own wife, Janet van Dyne, who had taken on the mantle of the Wasp, as they took on missions together, including one to capture his former ally, Elihas Starr. However, during a mission to stop a Soviet Union missile, Ant-Man witnessed the Wasp sacrificing herself to save millions of lives, as she had become trapped within the Quantum Realm, with seemingly no way to save her. Pym then changed directions and had founded Pym Technologies while also retiring as the Ant-Man, vowing never to use his invention again, turning his back on S.H.I.E.L.D. as he had found that Howard Stark and Mitchell Carson had tried to recreate his original designs for S.H.I.E.L.D.'s purposes.

Despite retiring from heroics for many years, Pym was forced into actions as he had learned that his former protege, Darren Cross, had recreated the Pym Particles and planned to use it to create the Yellowjacket Suits, which Cross would then sell to organizations such as HYDRA and the Ten Rings. Pym had then joined forces with his daughter, Hope van Dyne, as they recruited Scott Lang to use the Ant-Man Suit, and steal away the Yellowjacket designs from Cross. Despite some troubles to get Lang to master their technology, Pym's plan eventually succeeded and Cross was defeated. However, during the final fight, Lang had found himself transported inside the Quantum Realm and successfully escaped, giving Pym a new hope that he could save his wife. Pym also gained a respect for his own daughter's abilities, as he finally gave her a new Wasp Suit.

Pym and Hope van Dyne then spent three years developing a way to save Janet van Dyne from the Quantum Realm, while they were forced into hiding after a year due to the creation of the Sokovia Accords. Once Pym learned that Scott Lang was getting signals from the Quantum Realm, they brought him in to assist them, despite him being on his house arrest. Despite their plans being challenged by Ghost and Sonny Burch, who had sought to steal the Mobile Laboratory in order to gain the research for their own purposes, Pym had finally managed to succeed in rescuing his wife, as they reunited after thirty-one years. However, while they attempted to learn more about the Quantum Realm, Pym was killed by Thanos, with his wife and daughter, before they were all resurrected five years later, due to the actions of the Avengers, who had defeated Thanos.

## Powers and Abilities

### Former Powers

**Ant-Man Suit:**

Hank Pym is now retired, but while he operated as Ant Man he had the following abilities:

* **Size Alteration:** Ability to shrink in size with the help of the Pym Particles.
	+ **Superhuman Strength:** Ability to maintain human-sized strength when shrunken down in the Ant-Man suit. This is possible through the process of size reduction compresses force and energy.

#### Equipment

* **Ant-Man helmet:** Created by Hank, it has the ability to enable its user to communicate and control Ants.
* **Ant-Man suit:** Created by Hank, it allows its user to shrink in size.
* **Pym Particles:**
* **Pym Discs:**