Hank Pym(1459)

**Dr. Henry "Hank" Pym**, Ph.D, is an American; entomologist, biochemist, roboticist, engineer and physicist and "Scientific Adventurer". He has been considered one of the smartest humans on Earth. He discovered the Pym Particles; subatomic particles which can increase or decrease the size and mass of objects or living beings. He built a suit and for a time, became the original Ant-Man, fighting beside his future wife, Janet Van Dyne, who had taken on the mantle of the Wasp. Later, he became a founding member of the Avengers, "Earth's Mightiest Heroes". Pym was the creator of the deadly android; Ultron. He was also able to modify his Pym Particles to allow him to grow in size to become Giant-Man. After the Avengers he changed identities to Yellowjacket.

## Character Info

### Relatives

Janet Pym(Wife)Hope Pym(Daughter)Henry Pym Jr(Son)Nadia Pym(Daughter)

## Out Of Character

### Early Life

Hank was born and raised in East Nowhere, Nebraska the son of Brad Pym and Doris Pym. A prodigy from birth, he spent his time creating fantastical and fun inventions encourage by his grandmother. But on her death, he became more serious and decided to stop with his wild ideas.

He attended university where his own professors discouraged Pym's use of his own imagination and inventing things for fun by being told that he would never invent anything that would impact the world. Pym excelled better than any of his fellow classmates, earning his doctorate in biochemistry while his friends were still undergrads.

He married Maria Trovaya, a brave and beautiful young woman who had been a political dissident in her native Hungary, from which she had fled. Naively believing that his American citizenship would protect her, Henry and Maria Pym traveled to Hungary shortly after their marriage. The Pyms were confronted by agents of the secret police there. Henry Pym was knocked unconscious and Maria was murdered. Pym was greatly distraught by his wife's death, and decided to do whatever he could in the future to battle injustice and inhumanity.

### Discovery of Pym Particles

Back in the United States, Pym discovered a rare group of subatomic particles, which have become known as the "Pym Particles." Pym was able, through the application of magnetic fields, to entrap the particles within two separate serums. One serum would reduce the size of persons and objects, and the other would restore them to their normal size. Pym tested the reducing serum on himself and discovered it was more powerful than he had expected: it reduced him to the size of an insect. Pym became entrapped in an anthill and was pursued by the ants within. He escaped and restored himself to his normal size with his other serum. Deciding that the serums were too dangerous to exist, Pym destroyed both of them.

However, weeks later he reconsidered his decision and began to recreate the serums, whose existence he then kept secret. Inspired by his experience in the anthill, Pym undertook a study of ants, Thinking that someday he might want to use the shrinking potion on himself again, Pym also designed a protective suit for himself, Unstable Molecules and steel mesh

In the late 1980s, Pym was working for S.H.I.E.L.D. as a research and development consultant. One day, he was approached by SHIELD Director Fury, who demanded that Pym must lend the Ant-Man suit over to his team for a covert mission to shut down a Hydra outpost. Pym declined, because he did not trust anyone handling his suit other than himself, in fear that it may end up in the wrong hands. Fury wouldn't let him out on the field, but S.H.I.E.L.D. but changed his mind when he realized Pym would not budge.

Pym traveled to Berlin, but was hesitant about being in the field. He'd find the outpost and discover the Hydra agents testing a brainwashing machine. He was disgusted by technology being used for evil. He used the stealth of being miniature to mess with and defeat the Hydra agents and to destroy the machine. Back at headquarters, Fury expressed his disapproval of Pym's decisions to destroy the technology and told Pym that it would be his last mission, but Pym told him that there was more good work the Ant-Man suit could do, and only he himself would be allowed to wear it, so he asked for his next assignment.

Sometime later, Hank Pym realized he could use the help of Ants, he just had to create a device so he could communicate with them, so he successfully invented the E.M.P. Communication Device, which utilized an electromagnetic pulse to mimic ant's pheromones and communicate in a language they would understand.

Every species of Ants were following his lead by passing the test, but when it came to test the *Paraponera clavata* ("Bullet Ants"), they just ignored him, so Hank shrank himself expecting the result to be a different one. The problem is that, instead of listening to him, the ants began to attack and chase him until a centipede showed up and they were forced to work together to solve the situation.

Back to his normal size, Hank put the centipede in a proper place and the ants start ignoring him again.

As time went on, Pym began to go on more missions for S.H.I.E.L.D., eventually sharing the secret of his suit with his wife Janet so that she could create her own version and accompany him in the field.

Hank and Janet would become their own Superheroes for several years until the Early 2000s when forced into retirement due to injuries and concerns of the current Variant of their Pym Particles.

The Pym's having already started their own company and becoming very successful in that regards was recruited in 2010 for the Avenger's. Pym working for the last few years on fixing the issues with the Pym Particles decided it was time to rejoin the Super hero world.

### 2020 Disaster

After the Iliad Disaster and the Decision by the United Nations to disband the current Avengers Team Hank along with his Wife decided to return to focus on their Company and their family.

## Powers and Abilities

### Abilities

**Physicist**: Dr. Henry Pym is a gifted scientist with a particular expertise in particle physics.

**Brawling**: Hank has had many years of practice with unarmed combat, marrying conventional punching with the acrobatic capabilities afforded him by Ant-Man's Suit when shrunken to insect size. Even in his advancing years, he still demonstrated a forceful and effective punch.

## Paraphernalia

### Equipment

* **Ant-Man's Suit**
* **Ant-Man's Helmet**
* Portable ant control device
* Miniature portable surveillance cameras