Janet van Dyne

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* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

## Identity

### Known Aliases

Wasp (Codename)
Agent, Miss, Sentinel, Weapon W (Titles)

### Relatives

Vernon van Dyne (Father, Deceased)
Alice van Dyne (Mother, Deceased)
Blaine van Dyne (Uncle)
Amelia van Dyne (Aunt)
Nadia Pym (Stepdaughter)

### Affiliation

Shield (Agent)
Sentinels (Former Member)

## Background Profile

### Janet van Dyne: 1969 - 1981

Janet van Dyne was born into a wealthy Canadian family of Dutch ancestry. Her family's fortune was made from textiles and fashion. The Van Dyne brand was overseen by her uncle Blaine van Dyne, and his wife, the talented fashion designer Amelia. Meanwhile, Jan's father, Dr. Vernon van Dyne, was a world-renowned scientist known to use his share of the fortune to fund eccentric experiments — not all of them intended to be used to further the family's fabric empire. Once upon a time, Vernon had been a close pupil to Abraham Erskine. Jan's mother, Alice, was a vibrant and creative woman, much younger than her husband.

Jan had a happy childhood. She and her mother were very close. The tragedy of Jan's early life involved a car accident on Jan's tenth birthday. While Vernon and Jan were left mostly unharmed, Alice suffered a severe brain injury that left her comatose for several months until she passed away a week before Janet turned eleven.

### Janet van Dyne: 1981 - 1985

I had first met Janet with Vernon shortly after I was assigned to oversee the Sentinel Forge. Some of Vernon's private experiments had involved saturating a synthetic fabric with bursts of controlled radiation. I was told that this process may have been something he and Erskine had worked on together, possibly a precursor to the Vita-Ray generator. I wined and dined with Vernon in an attempt to get him to turn the technology over to the SSD, but he was not interested.

Four years later, at Vernon's funeral, I made an even more generous offer to his brother. Unfortunately, Blaine van Dyne was convinced that the radiation from the machine had been what killed his brother and had the apparatus destroyed. However, as I was leaving, a teenage Jan ran up to me and slipped me a note.

### Janet van Dyne: 1985 - 1987

After reading the letter, I met with Jan in secret at her school. She explained to me that her father had told her that there were people with unusual abilities, not because of scientific experiments performed on them, but by virtue of exceptional genetic mutation. I thought I understood what she was saying. Jan knew about aberrants, but then she revealed to me that she was one such person.

Jan took a hell of a risk telling a Sentinel that she was an aberrant. Because of this I asked he why she felt the need to tell me this and that is when she said she was having trouble containing the bio-electricity her body generated. Jan confessed that her powers accidentally killed both her parents.

In exchange for Jan turning over her dad's private notes to the SSD, I agreed to find a way to help Jan with her condition. I knew that some SSD scientist like Trask would want to turn Jan into a lab rat and wanting to avoid that, I did what little I could do on my own for a couple for years, mostly just giving Jan some experimental medication that would reduce the potency of her mutant powers.

### Janet van Dyne: 1987 - 1989

As a beautiful teenager, Janet lived the life of an opulent socialite, having grown an interest in pursuing an education in fashion design. At least, that's what the public saw of her. However, after eighteen months, Jan's body had built up a resistance to the drugs I was giving her and so I introduced her to Hank Pym, a young and unconventional scientist in the employ of the SSD. I had previously assigned Hank to his own private arm of the SSD — the Weapon M program — and that allowed me to task him to secretly work with Jan to find a solution to her problem.

What I didn't know at the time at first was that Jan took a romantic interest in Hank. Though Hank was still grieving the loss of his first wife, Jan got creative. She began using her fortune to finance Hank's travels to Europe. Under the guise of romantic getaways, Jan gave Hank the means to settle some scores with Soviet operatives.

It turns out that Jan had an adventurous kink. Helping Hank cover up his vigilante activities was not enough for her. By the time I had found out what Hank was doing, he had also begun to experiment directly on Jan — exposing her to Pym Particles, training her to use her own significant bio-electricity to control the size-shifting without a special apparatus, and had even grafted a pair of cybernetic wings on her back.

Discovering this, I had no choice but to Weaponize the two. I made the pair the SSD's Weapons M and W. The two left the Forge and began working with the Sentinels. But that was only the beginning of the pair's crazy adventures together.

## Shield Analysis

### Special Value: 8

* **Bioelectric Blasts:** Van Dyne has the mutant ability to generate intense amounts of energy from her body and emit potent biolectric blasts from her hand. She calls this the "Wasp's Sting."
* **Bio-Synthetic Wings:** Due to small implanted insect wings created by her husband, Van Dyne can fly at incredibly fast speeds when at reduced size. The wings are functional when she is a nearly foot shorter than her height. Her flight speed can also allow her to gain a form of superhuman reflexes and agility, being able to easily evade targets and attacks.
* **Insect Control:** Though the use of hidden cybernetic implants, Van Dyne can channel her biolectricity to communicate with and control certain higher insects, in a manner similar to Ant-Man's Helmet. However, she rarely chose to utilize this ability as the prototype cybernetics tend to give her severe migraines.
* **Size Alteration:** After repeated exposure to Pym Particles, Van Dyne possesses the power to reduce her size to dimensions of an insect, roughly 1/2 inch in height. She usually chooses not to retain her standard density while at this reduced mass, but can choose to do so at will. The "lost" mass is shunted to a pocket dimension for later retrieval. Initially, Van Dyne had to inhale a gas or drink a potion containing the Pym Particles, but using her biolectric powers she quickly mastered the ability to control her size by conscious effort without a containment suit. Her biolectricity allows her to utilize the effects of the Pym Particles more effectively than her husband, so much that she can imbibe them on a weekly basis rather than daily.

### Heuristics Value: 3

* **Martial Artist:** Since she began adventuring and working as a Weapon for the SSD, Van Dyne has been trained in hand-to-hand combat.

### Intellectual Value: 3

* **Tutored:** Van Dyne was trained by several paid mentors throughout her childhood, including a very expensive private education.

### Expertise Value: 4

* **Charisma:** Van Dyne has a personality that radiates cheer. Even the most dour person finds it difficult not to smile her presence. She is an incredible boost to the morale of any group of which she enjoys membership.
* **Leadership:** Van Dyne is a gifted charismatic leader. She is also an astute diplomat and an avid student of public relations.
* **Psychology:** Van Dyne is an amateur therapist. Though she lacks the formal training, she has proven herself very capable with coaxing her husband out of his depressive lows.

### Logistics Value: 4

* **Fashion Designer:** Van Dyne is a very talented fashion designer. Her talent has earned her a great deal of acclaim in the fashion world. Her talents also extend to designing colorfully armored adventuring costumed using the unstable fabric engineered by her father.
* **Linguistics:** Van Dyne can speak fluent English, Spanish, French, and Italian.
* **Vehicle Operation:** Van Dyne is a skilled driver. Though she can fly on her own with incredible grace, she does not possess any trained of efficient piloting skill.

### Director's Value: 8

* **Wasp:** "Janet is a ray of sunshine which is an unusual treat in this line of work. She is also key to maintaining the Van Dynes' considerable funding of Avengers task forces."

### Threat Assessment

* **Special Value:** 8
* **Heuristics Value:** 3
* **Intellectual Value:** 3
* **Expertise Value:** 4
* **Logistics Value:** 4
* **Director's Value:** 8
	+ **TOTAL:** 30

## Trivia and Notes

### Notes

* Janet Van Dyne resides in Subsidiary-Reality M, within Murum Locus.
* Wasp is a character originating from *Marvel Comics*.
* Janet being a mutant is a nod to her Ultimate Marvel universe counterpart.

## Gallery

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## Fury Files

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## Links and References

* Appearances of Janet van Dyne

1. ↑ Fury Files: Janet van Dyne