Wasp (Hope van Dyne)

Hope van Dyne

• Able to change size while still retaining all of her mass thanks to Wasp suit, effectively making her a human bullet
• Able to fly thanks to Wasp suit
• Can fire energy stings from gauntlets on Wasp suit
• Expert hand-to-hand combatant. Van Dyne employs a mixed martial art including elements of muay Thai, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Judo, kickboxing, and aikido
• Brilliant scientist, engineer, and businesswoman

• Overexertion of her body mass can lead to fatigue, particularly when growing to giant-size. Like Lang, she cannot maintain a large stature for long.

Hope van Dyne demonstrated a focused and determined personality when she was able to utilize the EMP Communication Device to control the Ants with ease and proved herself a hyper-competent hero when compared to Scott Lang. Van Dyne is also very snarky, as shown when she mocked Lang by calling him "princess" or "useless" when he acted incompetent. Van Dyne is generally self-assured and blunt, being brutally honest about Lang's poor hero skills and his friends' unimpressive thieving reputation. In spite of her candid demeanor, she does try to motivate Lang by encouraging him, tutoring him and telling him that he's not that much of a failure when he did eventually improve. Van Dyne even grew to respect Lang and becomes proud of him when he demonstrates that he learned what she has been teaching him. She eventually became romantically affectionate towards Lang but showed slight embarrassment for it.

Van Dyne had a strained relationship with her father following her mother's apparent death, but after he revealed the truth, reconciled with him and even during the strain asked his help in stopping Darren Cross from enacting his plans. She was very much closer to her mother than her father during her childhood, but she loved both of them as she resented Pym for keeping her away after her mother seemingly died.

Some of Pym's cynical nature rubbed onto van Dyne as well. Her relationship with Lang had gotten strained following the latter using their technology to help Captain America violate the Sokovia Accords and seemingly "destroyed" the Ant-Man Suit. She was initially still angry at him and gave him cold responses up until the point where Lang revealed he had in fact saved it. The two soon mended their relationship, with Lang even wanting her as a partner.

Hope van Dyne is the daughter of Hank Pym and Janet van Dyne, and a former chairwoman of the board of Pym Technologies. When Darren Cross attempted to create and sell a new weapon based on her father's Ant-Man Suit, van Dyne reunited with her father and, along with Scott Lang who succeeded Hank as Ant-Man, was able to defeat Cross. After these events, Pym found the possibility of saving his wife due to Lang's first experience in the Quantum Realm, from which van Dyne was finally being offered by her father a suit that belonged to her mother, therefore taking on the name of Wasp.

Over the course of another year, van Dyne would train alongside Lang, while forming a romantic relationship with him, until she broke up because Lang's actions during the Clash of the Avengers resulted in her and her father being wanted by the FBI. Two years later, van Dyne, Pym, and Lang successfully managed to retrieve her mother from the Quantum Realm and also faced Ava Starr when she became a threat to their plan of rescue. Van Dyne also reconciled with Lang and resumed their relationship.

Alongside her parents, van Dyne was among the half the population who turned to dust following Thanos' Snap. Five years later, during the Battle of Earth, van Dyne was resurrected, where she aided the Avengers in defeating Thanos and his army. After Thanos' army was disintegrated, van Dyne attended Tony Stark's funeral with Lang and her parents and later returned home to San Francisco to celebrate their victory with Cassie Lang.

In 2026, Hope and the rest of her family were sucked into the Quantum Realm through a Quantum Satellite created by Cassie. Separated from Scott, Hope followed Janet as she reunited with Krylar, only to be betrayed by him, forcing them to escape. She would later reunite with Scott and help him retrieve the Multiversal Engine Core at the behest of Kang the Conqueror. Hope, alongside her family, confronted and defeated Kang during the Uprising in Axia, safely returning home.