Ant-Man (Hank Pym)

Henry Pym
Ant-Man Giant-Man Goliath Yellowjacket Wasp Ultron
Series	Marvel Comics
Age	Unknown
Birthday	Unknown
Sex	Male
Species	Unknown
Height	6'0"
Weight	535 lbs.
Alignment	Neutral Good

“	I feel as if I've been given a second chance at... at everything. As if this is the beginning of a whole new way of life for Dr. Hank Pym. Who matters.	„
	~ Hank Pym

Hank Pym, better known as the original Ant-Man, is a superhero from Marvel Comics. He has also been known as Giant-Man, Goliath, Yellowjacket, Wasp, and Ultron.

Background

Hank Pym was an ordinary biochemist living in America, who ended up marrying an escaped refugee from Hungary. Believing Hank's American citizenship would protect her, the two traveled to Hungary for a vacation. However, Pym's wife was recognized by the secret police, and they ended up murdering her after knocking Hank out. Angered by his wife's death, Hank swore to do whatever he could to stop injustice and inhumanity. One day, Hank created a strange particle that could shrink objects to a much smaller size. After testing it on himself, Hank found that the serum was too powerful, shrinking him to the size of an ant. Once he managed to return to his normal size, Hank began studying the ants that attacked him while he was small. Building a helmet to let him communicate with the ants, Hank decided to use his shrinking particle to help him fight crime, with the ants as his personal army, becoming the Ant-Man.

Powers & Abilities

• Pym Particles:
  • Self-Shrinking: As Ant-Man and Yellowjacket, Henry Pym possessed the power to reduce himself to the size of an ant, approximately one-half inch in height, by means of the subatomic particles known as the Pym Particles. The nature, source, and mechanics of the Pym Particles remain unrevealed. Originally, when Pym inhaled a gas or drank a potion containing the Pym Particles, the Particles would interact with the electrical impulses of his brain, creating an organism-wide "reducing field." Thus activated, the field reduced his entire body at a uniform rate to the smaller size he desired. Although he usually chose to reduce himself to one half inch in height, he could reduce his size to any size between that and his normal size. Usually, Pym did not compress his mass into his smaller size. Instead, his mass was somehow extended into an extra-physical dimension that is opened by the activating of the Pym Particles, from which the mass could later be reclaimed. Strangely, because Pym's mass was extended extra-dimensionally when he was at ant-size, he retained his full human-size strength at that size. To return to normal size, Pym inhaled another gas or drank another potion, either of which contained another type of Pym Particles. These particles interacted with his brain to create an organism-wide "enlarging field," which is energized by mental command. Thus, Pym could grow back to his normal height and reclaim all of the mass that was extended extra-dimensionally.
  • Gigantification: Pym also discovered Pym Particles which interacted with his brain to enable him to grow to gigantic height as Giant-Man and Goliath. The growth process required the rapid acquisition of bodily mass, comes from an extradimensional source. This extra dimensional mass fortified all of his cellular tissue, including his bones and muscles, enabling him to support his increased weight, and giving him superhuman strength and durability. Early in his career this caused health problems due to the strain, and he was subject to various limitations on his size and the duration of his transformations (described under History.) He is capable of growing hundreds of feet tall exceeding the heights of even the tallest buildings in New York. He can grow past the barriers of the "Microverse" to enter Overspace, a point above and apart from all other realities where it's possible to confer with abstract cosmic entities.
  • Entering other planes of existence: Pym can use the Pym Particles to shrink to sub-microscopic stature. When 99.99 + % of his mass was extra-dimensionally shunted, he was sent into a "subatomic universe" or "microverse," one of countless alternate universes accessible to Earth only by the mass-shunting process. Such as shrinking down to enter the Microverse, and on one occasion growing into the plane inhabited by such cosmic beings as the Living Tribunal and the In-Betweener.
  • Self Sustenance: According to the Beast, Pym Particles can sustain their users while small, eliminating the need for air and food.
  • Adverse Effects: Pym Particles exert a large amount of physical and mental strain on the subject's body. Pym personally has had many mental breakdowns because of Pym Particles usage.
• Wasp Enhancements:
  • Wasp Stings: Pym is capable of firing powerful, bioelectric energy blasts from his hands much like his deceased ex-wife.
  • Bio-Synthetic Wings: As Wasp, synthetic specialized cells implanted beneath his shoulder blades expand into insect-like wings as he shrinks; when he returns to normal size, the wings disappear beneath a nearly undetectable layer of genetically engineered callus. He could presumably match Van Dyne's topflight speed, flying up to 38 mph for up to an hour before tiring. Able to maneuver in flight much like a real wasp, he can hover and dart forwards and backwards in addition to sustained forward flight. since abandoning the Wasp identity, Pym no longer uses his wings, although it's unknown whether he still retains them.
• Pym Particle Field Generation:
• Sonic Shout:
• Thunderclap:
• Super Breath:
• Super-Genius Intelligence: Dr. Henry Pym is one of the world's foremost biochemists and also possesses considerable expertise in numerous scientific fields such as subatomic physics, robotics, cybernetics, artificial intelligence, programming, emergency medicine, optics and entomology. He has also referred himself one of the five smartest people on the planet which makes him capable of rivaling others such as Reed Richards and is regarded by the Eternity as the Earth's "Scientist Supreme". During his career, he created robot Ultron, explored and repaired the Vision often, and created much of the Avengers' equipment. Another robot, Rover, was a jet with rudimentary artificial intelligence and sophisticated offensive capabilities.
• Skilled Combatant: Hank is a skilled hand-to-hand combatant using special styles of unarmed combat depending on his size. If he is small, he takes advantage of the opponent's larger form by assaulting points of his/her body that they would not expect and move to another before they detected him. If he was giant, he would take advantage of his own massive form and use attacks that would either throw them off balance or render them unconscious before they could concoct a better strategy against him. Has had some training in judo, karate and wrestling. He was also trained by Captain America in unarmed combat making him a very formidable fighter. A trained scuba diver. Capable pilot of aircraft ranging from conventional helicopters to high tech vehicles such as the Avengers Quinjets.
• Martial Arts: Hank had received training in judo before becoming Ant-Man. He used a judo move to overpower an ant which was larger and stronger than himself.

Equipment

• Ant-Man's Suit: The original Ant-Man suit, and the most iconic by extent, it’s made of a steel mesh consisting of unstable molecules, which allows Ant-Man to stretch and contract without his suit getting in the way. It also allows him to fire blasts out of his hands that would change the size of his targets as well. The suit’s bioware can sense energies and radiation, and in the base of his boots he has electronically-controlled springs.
  • Size Alteration: The suit allows the user to shrink to the size of an ant, approximately one-half inch in height, or grow to gigantic height by means of the subatomic particles known as the Pym Particles.
  • Cybernetic Helmet: As Ant-Man, Pym wore a "cybernetic helmet" which permitted him to achieve rudimentary telepathic communication with ants and other higher insects and to control their minds. Also, Pym formerly required gas capsules or potions to shrink, grow, or return to normal size.
    • Communicate with Insect Life: The wearer of the helmet is able communicate with most insects, mainly Ants. This gives the person a basic form of control over these insects. The helmet is able to generate manipulated forms of electromagnetic waves. These waves are able to be sent in to the brains of insects through the part of their minds that allows large numbers of them to work as colonies or a single unit. The user does not have complete control but is able to create influence. Using an entire colony of ants the user can command them, such as forming themselves into bridges or walkways, allowing themselves be used as mounts or attacking a target, usually in swarms, as a distraction.
    • Pym Particles Control: The helmet can be used to command the Ant-Man suit to deploy Pym Particles to change size.
    • Radio Communicate: The helmet is also able to communicate via radio waves and other communication spectrum allowing the user to communicate with array of communication devices. This allows Pym to communicate with those around him at a reduced size.
• Giant-Man's Suit: After being able to grow to giant sizes for a sustainable amount of time, Hank decided to adopt a new costume and persona, Goliath With this new identity, he claims to have better insect control with his Cyberno-Helmet, as well as having a Directi-Finder in his belt, which can track the other Avengers from the emergency signals they send out.
  • Cyberno-Helmet:
  • Directi-Finder:
• Toolbot: The toolbot is a small, technological, handheld multi-tool device that stores hundreds of useful such as a key, minicomputer, and energy sword which are all shrunken down to microscopic sizes with a computer programmed "smart chip" giving Pym the right, or appropriate tool in any situation.
• Avengers Identicard: Hank uses it to access the Avengers Mansion.
• Yellowjacket's Suit: Yellowjacket Pym carries miniaturized versions of his Ant-Man helmet's devices in his cowl, enabling him to perform the same feats it could. His costume also has artificial wings which enable him to fly while reduced in size. As Giant Man, he created a helmet that he could use to reduce or extend other objects and people.
  • Pym can even shrink an entire laboratory or an array of firearms to the size a microchip when not in use. The various compartments on his "Goliath" uniform straps contain a wide variety of miniaturized equipment. Pym must specially treat objects in his laboratory before being able to change their size.
  • Size Alteration: The Yellowjacket Suit allows the user to shrink to the size of an ant, approximately one-half inch in height, or grow to gigantic height by means of the subatomic particles known as the Pym Particles. The Particles would be released by the suit by way of a special gas.
  • Bio-Energy Projection / Bio-Sting: Also known as a Bio-Sting the gloves of the suit can fire powerful bursts of bio-energy.
  • Flight: The suit has artificial wings which enable the user to fly while reduced in size.
  • Cowl Communicator: This enables Giant-Man a two-way radio contact, as well as cybernetic communication with insects, or with other people using his insect communication technology. He can communicate with and command higher insects such as ants, wasps and bees.
  • Wasp Goggles: Pym wears a pair of specially designed goggles that enhanced his peripheral vision and could make video recordings of whatever he saw, they also contained a retinal scanner and analytical sensors, including devices that analyzed different kinds of energy, even magical energy, transmit his thoughts as radio frequencies to receiving radio equipment such as his Ant-Man helmet, and communicate with insects when not serving as eye protection.
• Stinger Pistol / "The Stinger": Pym currently carries a small, technological firearm that converts his body's mutated, bio-electric aura and fires it as a powerful stun beam.
  • Bioelectric Stingers: As Yellowjacket, Pym formerly carried electric "stingers" in his gloves capable of emitting electrical bolts of variable current.
• Wasp's Suit: Following the death of the Wasp, Hank took Janet’s mantle in an attempt to have his own legacy. With just the suit’s goggles, Hank is able to enhance his peripheral vision, record videos of whatever he sees, identify people through retinal scanning, detect and read magic and energy signatures, and can analyze these signatures to determine their user. The suit itself allows Hank two-way radio communication with its cowl, to amplify his own voice like a megaphone using another device also located in his cowl, to holographically project images with his gloves, to use Bio-Stings that can jam Ultron’s transmission frequencies, and most notably his pockets are actually subatomic dimensions that can carry his numerous gadgets.
• Image Inducer Camouflage:
• Size Pellets:
• Shrinking Gas:
• Cellular Disruptor Gun:
• Microscopic Cybernetic Sensors:
• Portale Pym Pocket Holes:
• Pym Particle Stream Device:
• Portable Communicator:
• Jetpack:
• Eraser Tech:
• Neural Inhibitor:
• Nylon Lasso:
• Portable Ant Control Device:
• Miniature Portable Surveillance Cameras:
• Ants: As Ant-Man, Pym often utilized flying insect "mounts".
• Wasps:
• Bees:
• Small Flying Craft: Which could be disguised as a cellphone.
• Rover Airship: It that had an artificial intelligence capable of human speech and complex reasoning. Bug shaped, the VTOL airship comfortably seated two people and could hover or fly up to 250 mph; emit acids, flames, gases or a spotlight from its front grille, project elongating metallic tentacles used for gripping or grappling and climb up sheer surfaces using its insect-like legs.

Feats

Strength

• Has peak physical strength for a human, and retains it while shrunk.
• At ten feet tall, can press around 1000 pounds.
• At twenty-five feet tall, can lift 10 tons.
• At one-hundred feet tall, can lift 50 tons.
• Knocked back both Black Panther and Beast.
• Grabbed a wrecking ball and threw it backwards.
• Pulverized Ultron.
• Tore a building in half and lifted it over his head.
• Lifted Absorbing Man over his head.
• Lifted multiple people with ease while tearing a large ray gun apart.
• As Ultron, is just as strong as the original Ultron.
• Ripped off a large portion of a skyscraper.
• While giant, held back a mind-controlled Reptil.
• Fought Absorbing Man while giant and again while possessed by Greithoth.
• Battled Atlas, who would have killed Moonstone if he wasn’t stopped.
  • Moonstone beforehand beat all of the Avengers including Iron Man, Vision and Scarlet Witch.
• Stated to be significantly more powerful as Yellowjacket than Giant Man.
• Threatened Hercules who promptly backed off (further supported with later in the comic, Hank beats a Titan that had beat Hercules beforehand).
  • Hercules can hold the weight of the heavens.
• With Hercules, restrained the Hulk.
  • Hulk has destroyed Nightcrawler’s universe with a clap.
  • Hulk has battled Hyperion in the past, who has survived being at ground zero of an Incursion.
• Held back Thor from attacking Quicksilver.
• Held off Ultron and his Brides.
• Ants dug a hole large enough to destabilize the ground underneath Hulk.
• While big, sent Namor flying.
• Fought and overwhelmed Mole Man and his army.
  • While he was knocked out, this was due to him being caught off guard.
• Fought and defeated an alternate version of himself.
• Sonic disruptor sting was able to hurt Power Man.
• Temporarily overpowered attacks and took hits from Swordsman and Power Man.
• Captain America believed if he hadn’t blocked Hank’s punch with his shield, he would’ve been sent to the next country (potential hyperbole).
• Knocked Vision flying with a punch.
• Briefly crushed Scarlet Witch with an enlarged rover.
• Was able to match Argus evenly in physical strength and destroy his eye with a stinger blast.
• Should be comparable to other Pym Particle users:
  • Scott Lang has suckerpunched All-Father Ultron, who should be as strong as Odin due to absorbing his power. Odin can fight Surtur and Seth, who can both destroy Yggdrasil, which exists in all planes of reality, of which there are infinite. Surtur’s flames would’ve extended far enough to engulf Otherworld and all realities, burning down “everything with a capital E”.

Speed

• While giant, can travel several feet with one step.
• Shrunk and grew in quick succession to dodge attacks from Red Hulk.
• Flies at speeds up to 38 miles per hour as Wasp.
• Can easily dodge incoming projectiles.
• As Ultron, is just as fast as the original Ultron.
• Can shrink and grow to normal size in less than a microsecond (0.012 – 0.024c).
• Shrank down before getting hit by Doctor Spectrum’s blast, which are EM spectrum energy beams that travel at the speed of light (0.47c).
• Sub-atomically shrunk to evade radiation particles.
• Shrunk to dodge Radioactive Man’s blasts which should  travel at light-speed.
• Reacted to a point-blank shot from the paste gun from Radioactive Man.
  • The gun was stated to immobilize Bill Foster ‘almost before he could move’ from a meter or two away.
• Dodged an arrow from Hawkeye.
• Reacted and avoided an attack from Tigra.
• Quickly noticed a concussion blaster from a spare Ultron hand and blasted Ultron with it.
• Prepared and reacted to an attack from Quicksilver. Quicksilver is impressed following this, and also reacts to a surprise attack from Hawkeye.
• Grabbed Captain America’s shield mid-throw, with Quicksilver comparing Hank’s reflexes to himself.
  • Quicksilver could react in a picosecond, even when he had a concussion (138.76c).
• Should be comparable to other Pym Particle Users.
  • Wasp was able to exist as a Quantum State.
• Reacted to an attack from Thor.
  • Thor can cross the universe in a short time-frame (at least 9.275 quintillion c, likely infinite).
  • Thor has matched Ares in the past, who can battle in planck time.
  • Mjolnir has has flown to Thor without much effort after it was sent to “the farthest place from here beyond the farthest point of known existence. where it is an endless abyss beyond the eyes of even the most ancient, abstract primordial gods” by Sif (Immeasurable).

Durability

• Stayed standing after being hit by a large boulder.
• Survived hits from a wrecking ball.
• His durability increases with his size.
• As Ultron, is composed of adamantium, the toughest metal in the Marvel universe.
• Got hit in the face by Vision’s beam twice.
• Took blows from the Unspoken.
• Survived a ‘hello chat’ from Ultron.
• Survived the destruction of his helicopter after Thor’s attack.
• Withstood Graviton putting “the weight of the world” on him.
• Survives hits from stingers, both Wasp’s and his own.
  • Wasp’s stingers can cause considerable damage to Sentry.
• Survived a shockwave caused by Greithoth and Skirn’s hammers (possessing Absorbing Man and Titania respectively).
  • Absorbing Man can harm Thor and cause earthquakes.
  • Titania could send She-Hulk flying with a hit.
• Survived getting sucker punched and kicked by Eternity.
  • Eternity was likely holding back as he didn’t want to actually harm Hank, rather just teach him a lesson.
• Should be comparable to other Pym Particle users.
  • Scott Lang survived an attack from an enraged All-Father Ultron.

Skill

• Invented the Pym Particle and Ultron.
• One of the five smartest people on the planet.
• Trained by Captain America in hand-to-hand combat.
• Has training in judo, karate, and wrestling.
• Has had six different superhero identities.
• Founded the Avengers alongside heavy hitters like Hulk, Iron Man, Thor, and the Wasp
• Constructed the Infinite Avengers Mansion.
• Grew into Overspace and shrunk into Underspace.
• Outwitted Reed Richards and Ultron.
• Defeated Absorbing Man, Whirlwind, Ultron, Power Man.
• Dubbed ‘Earth’s Scientist Supreme’ by Eternity himself
  • And no, it’s unlikely that it was Loki in disguise 🙂.
• Explored the multiverse for 163 days straight.
• While shrunk, was able to sneak onto a builder report unit without being noticed by any Builders or Alephs.

Weaknesses

• Mental Difficulties: Henry Pym suffered a series of mental breakdowns over the years. At one point, Hank created a separate personality for himself as the "Yellowjacket" but claimed to have actually killed Pym. He was eventually identified as suffering from a bipolar disorder.
• Has had a series of mental difficulties over the years.
• Growing places strain on Pym's body, making it so he can't maintain his big forms for a long time.
• Changing size without his specialized helmet can affect his brain chemistry.

Fun Facts

• Hank has had 6 different superhero identities over the years.
• He is considered the Marvel Comics counterpart of DC Comics the Atom.