He discovered a subatomic particles he called the Pym Particles that can shrink a human being to the size of an ant and also maintain their original strength. He created the Ant-Man suit that used the Pym Particles, Hank used the suit against the soviets during the cold war. His intelligence rival that of Howard Stark. Hank is haunted by the loss of his wife, he distanced himself from his daughter, Hope. Hank fear of losing her prevents him from allowing her to used the Ant-Man suit but with time he ultimately accepted her to be the new Wasp. Despite his success as a scientist and businessman, Hank is kind, caring, polite, selfless, moral and honorable, however, he can also be short-tempered, aggressive and violent if provoked, when he was insulted by S.H.I.E.L.D.
Publication Information
- Ant-Man : Hank Pym
- Version : Ant-Man 2015
- Alter Ego : Formerly Ant-Man
- Known As :
- Dr. Henry Pym
- Dr. Pym
- Type :
- Entomologist
- Physicist
- Former Member of Strategic Scientific Reserve
- Former CEO Of Pym Technologies
- Relative :
- Janet van Dyne : Wife
- Hope van Dyne : Daughter
- Emily : Housekeeper
- Affiliation : Pym Technologies
- Gender : Male
- Origin : United State
- Season : Ant-Man
- First Appeareance : Ant-Man
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- Main View : Full Movies
Head of Defense Mitchell Carson about not being able to protect his wife, Janet van Dyne, Hank smashed Mitchell's face into the desk to the point where his nose bled and threatened him should he mention his wife ever again, Hank is extremely distrustful of anything related to S.H.I.E.L.D. after they tried to copy the Pym Particles behind his back.
Ant-Man Prelude
In 1963, a group of radicals in the Soviet-controlled East Berlin discovered a piece of an old HYDRA technology; the leaders of S.H.I.E.L.D. decided to send an agent to Berlin and stop them from reverse-engineering it. Howard Stark confronted Pym about giving S.H.I.E.L.D. his Ant-Man Suit. However, Pym was unwilling to give his suit to anyone else, so Agent Peggy Carter had to convince him to go to Berlin personally. To see if the suit actually worked, she fired a few bullets at Pym, and he became small like an ant in the blink of an eye.
Ant-Man Prologue
During a mission in 1987, Hank and his and wife, Janet van Dyne who was known as the Wasp, were trying stop a Russian ICBM in flight. Hank was unable to shrink down enough to disarm the missile, Janet with no other choice sacrificed herself by shrinking down to the Quantum Realm to disarm the warhead. After, Janet is presumed dead and Hank stricken with grief stop being Ant-Man. He sent his young daughter, Hope van Dyne away to a boarding school. In 1989, Hank resigns from S.H.I.E.L.D. after they had try to recreate the Pym Particles. After, Hank created his own company named Pym Technologies.
Ant-Man : Larger Than Life
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Thor
When Jane Foster's equipment was stolen, Henry Pym was referred to by Erik Selvig as the friend that he was going to email that has had previous experience with S.H.I.E.L.D., though his name was ommited from the scene.
Ant-Man
Hank gets invited to a presentation at Pym Technologies the company he founded. He runs into Hope Van Dyne and his former protege, Darren Cross who shows him a prototype of The Yellowjacket suit, modeled after the Ant-Man suit that he wore. Darren has not had success at shrinking living tissue. After he and Hope talk about how to stop Darren. Hope asked Hank to give her the suit, but he refused. He told her he "found a guy". Hank than went to his housekeeper Emily who is dating Ignacio, who had a friend named Ernesto who is the cousin of Luis who is the best friend of former thief Scott Lang, who Hank had been watching for sometime.
Captain America : Civil War
Hank and Scott Lang continued to work together, having upgraded the Ant-Man suit. Inspired by Scott's escape from the Quantum Realm, one of the new features allowed Scott to increase in size without the use of Pym discs. Scott claimed to have passed out in Pym's lab after testing this function. Later when Scott is incarcerated in the Raft prison, he recounts to Tony Stark how Hank had always told him you cannot trust a Stark.
Ant-Man and the Wasp
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- Hank distrusts the Stark family far more than S.H.I.E.L.D., due to the fact that his ex-friend, Howard Stark had a hand in trying to the replicate the Pym Particles, to the point where he doesn't trust anyone with the last name "Stark", although this may seem prejudice; this distrusts of his proved to be correct.
- Insect Manipulation : Hank, through the use of radio and electric waves and signals accessed with the suit's helmet, later an EMP Communication Device, can communicate with organisms the size of insects, especially ants, mimicking their pheromones and allowing him a rudimentary form of control over these insects.
- Size Manipulation : Ability to shrink in size with the help of the Pym Particles and while wearing the Ant-Man suit. The size changing process enhanced his density, momentum, effort, and exertion to super human levels. This, along with, force being compressed during shrinking, granted Hank superhuman strength, and resilience while shrunken. The brief shockwave aura around him caused by size changing charges him with enough momentum to send people flying immediately after returning to normal size. However, the many years of using this shrinking technology took a physical and mental toll on Hank, which forced him to stop being Ant-Man.
- Superhuman Strength : While wearing the Ant-Man suit in its miniature form, Hank possessed superhuman strength due to his increased density and compressed energy, enabling him to take out multiple opponents while in small scale. He is said to have the force of a bullet when shrunken, which led him to learn unique fighting skills to avoid killing someone with his strikes.
- Genius-Level Intellect : Hank is highly intelligent, as he is one of the most intelligent individuals on the planet; his intellect, rivals that of even Howard Stark.
- Master Scientist : Hank is a brilliant scientist; as he has demonstrates knowledge of different disciplines, including biology, engineering, chemistry and physics; he was also the one who discovered an unknown type of particles that can increase or decrease the size of humans or other objects, Hank even created a suit that can not only harness the Pym Particles by shrink a human to the size of an insect, yet maintain his human size strength and resilience.
- Expert Businessman : Hank made his own successful company; as he managed to run Pym Technologies very successfully for an unknown number of years.
- 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 : Discovered by Hank, it allows its user to that reduce the distance between atom.
- Pym Discs : Created by Hank, it allows its user either shrink or enlarge objects and creatures.
- Scott Lang : Successor
- Erik Selvig : Colleague
- S.H.I.E.L.D. : Former employer
- Howard Stark : Former S.H.I.E.L.D. superior
- Peggy Carter
- Darren Cross : Former protege
- Mitchell Carson
- Main Article : Yellowjacket
