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Superhero Origins: The Wasp


this miniaturized hero was the first
female Avenger welcome to watchmojo.com
and today we will explore the comic book
origins of Janet Van Dyne otherwise
known as the wasp even the mind of a
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as with most comic book characters there
are often reimagining ‘z and different
versions to a character’s past we have
chosen to primarily follow the storyline
which unfolded in 1962 s tales to
astonish issue number 44 which was then
expanded upon in 1963 s The Avengers
number 1 Janet Van Dyne was first
introduced while she was accompanying
her world-renowned scientist father to
visit dr. Henry Pym home in order to
enlist his help little did she suspect
that dr. Pym was really ant-man a
superhero with the ability to shrink
down to insect proportions and control
insects in order to fight crime upon
their meeting Janet and Hank instantly
felt an attraction to each other while
she admired his handsome good looks he
couldn’t shake the fact that Janet bared
a striking resemblance to his deceased
wife Maria getting down to business
Janet’s father explained that they had
come in search of help in creating a
gamma ray beam to detect signals from
other planets
Hank explained that his research was
based in molecular cell transition and
as such he didn’t see how he could be of
any assistance despite this setback
Janet’s father continued his research
alone and soon managed to complete his
work and opened a portal to another
world discovering a planet called cosmos
he accidentally transported a creature
to his lab with the alien introducing
itself as the most dangerous criminal of
its home planet it quickly revealed its
intentions to enslave all of humanity
Janet returns soon after to discover
that the alien had smashed the Machine
and killed her father panicking she
called Hank Pym as he was a fellow
scientist that her father had trusted in
response
Hank shrunk down and catapulted himself
to the scene to investigate what had
happened once there Janet met with
ant-man and helped him examine the scene
with ant-man coming to the conclusion
that the crime was the work of an alien
force Janet pledged to have her revenge
after ant-man discovered a trace of
residue that scared his aunts he
returned to his lab and summoned Janet
deciding to reveal his secret identity
to her he recruited her as his sidekick
as he had already Harvard a hope to find
a partner to share his secrets with
while fighting crime with Janet
recruited she was given the power to
shrink and grow and was genetically
modified to grow wings and antennae
whenever she was miniaturized she was
also provided with a costume along with
wrist weapons
fired blasts called stings and was given
the identity of the wasp together we can
do more and we can ask fun soon as
Janet’s transformation procedure was
completed the building containing her
father’s lab crumbled and the alien
creature emerged as a giant being
summoned to the site by Hanks network of
ant Scouts Janet and Hank shifted sighs
and raced off to battle the being from
another dimension along the way Janet
professed her growing love for the hero
which he rejected due to her young age
and fear of losing another lover
arriving on scene they discovered that
they like the army were unable to stop
the aliens rampage unable to mount a
proper offensive they returned to Hanks
lab to create shotgun shells with a
neutralizer that could destroy acid
based beings with the ants carrying the
gun back to the scene they fired the
weapon from a rooftop and made the
creature dissolve celebrating their
victory ant-man called the FBI to let
them know that he’d recruited a new
partner while wasp committed herself to
one day gaining Hanks affection
regularly using her powers as the wasp
she continued to work closely with
ant-man to tackle evil before too long
they did indeed become lovers and two of
the first five founding members of the
Avengers working alongside Iron Man Thor
and the Hulk in order to stop Loki over
the years the wasp and her partner have
regularly appeared in various comics and
media while she has occasionally used
the growth serum to assume the alternate
identity of giant girl are you a fan of
the tiny super heroine for more super
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