Hank Pym

Yellow Jacket

Wasp

Ultron

### Education

PHD in Biochemistry and Bachelors in Robotics from California Institute of Technology

### Birthplace

Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

### Affiliation

Pym LabsSHIELD

Avengers

Secret Avengers

Avengers AI

### Occupation

ScientistVigilante

Avenger

## Physical description

### Handedness

Right Handed

**Dr. Henry Jonathan "Hank" Pym** was an American scientist, vigilante, and S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. Hank was born in Omaha, Nebraska and was one of the smartest people in the city. Hank was desperate to leave Nebraska since he felt intellectually stifled by his family. As soon as Hank turned 18, he left for California and enrolled in Cal-Tech. Through tireless working, Pym earned his doctorate at the young age of 26 although he began developing several issues as a result. Around this time, Pym left the United States for Hungary and met Maria Trovaya a fellow scientist and the two fell in love and married. Unbeknownst to them both, Maria's father was involved with the terrorist organization Leviathan who was after Maria's work. The two returned to the United States to hide, but were attacked and Maria and their newborn infant Nadia were kidnapped. Hank then worked tirelessly to finish a secret project he was working on, the Pym Particles. The particles allowed a person to shrink and grow through contact, and Hank used the particles to sneak into the hideout that Maria and Nadia were hidden in although he found their corpses. While Hank became depressed, he was found by Nick Fury who recruited him as a superhero in 2006 under the codename **Ant-Man**. Hank then partnered with Janet van Dyne who became the Wasp. The two fell in love and began dating before later marrying. In 2008, the two would form the Avengers along with Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, and the Hulk and the team would remain active to combat threats. Around this time Hank discovered he could use his growth particles to grow into enormous sizes and decided to change his code name to **Giant Man**. After several missions with the Avengers, Hank became convinced that more drastic actions to protect the world were needed and secretly created Ultron, an AI in a adamantium body. Ultron turned on humanity and would become one of the biggest threats to mankind. Hank felt immense guilt because of this and, mixed with his mental issues, he had a mental breakdown and became **Yellowjacket** as well as being more violent. Hank's mental condition worsened culminating with him attacking the rest of the team and seriously injuring Janet. As a result Hank was benched from super heroics and regulated to being a scientist for SHIELD, Janet divorced him, and all three of his identities were given to three other people: Scott Lang (an honorable thief who was so skilled that he appeared on SHIELD's radar) became Ant-Man, Bill Foster (Hank's protégé) became Goliath, and Rita DeMara (a reformed criminal turned SHIELD agent) became the new Yellowjacket. As the chief scientist of SHIELD, Hank was unhappy as he was no longer allowed on the field and could only help by acting as a mission control for Scott and Rita. During the Superhuman Civil War, Hank was given new duties in picking out and training a new Ant-Man and Giant Man as both Scott and Bill had joined the Anti-Registration side and Bill had died in battle. Hank picked Raz Malhotra (a SHIELD scientist) to be the new Giant-Man and Eric O'Grady (a rogue SHIELD agent) as the new Ant-Man. In the aftermath of the Civil War, Hank abandoned SHIELD and joined the remnants of the Secret Avengers and even led them using the name of **Wasp** after Janet retired. After the defeat of the Dark Avengers and HAMMER, Hank was allowed to join the Avengers once again and reclaimed his identity of Giant Man with Raz becoming Goliath. Later during Ultron's biggest assault against humanity, Hank sacrificed himself by transferring his conciseness into an AI and uploading it into Ultron's main AI and taking it over. As the new Ultron, Hank decided to shut himself down so that there would be no way for Ultron to hurt anyone ever again.