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As the family who founded Pym Technologies and created Pym Particles, the Pyms are a trio of scientific geniuses, with Hank and Janet having their own superhero careers as Ant-Man and the Wasp - a career that only ended with Janet's death. After leaving S.H.I.E.L.D., Hank picks Scott Lang as his successor, permanently connecting him to the family and making them his greatest allies.
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Janet van Dyne / The Wasp I
Janet van Dyne / The Wasp I
"This place... it changes you. Adaptation is part of it, but some of it is... evolution."
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Species: Enhanced human
Citizenship: American
Affiliation(s): S.H.I.E.L.D. (formerly), Pym Technologies
Portrayed By: Michelle Pfeiffer, Hayley Lovitt note , Paul Rudd note
Voiced By: Rebeca Patiño (Latin-American Spanish dub), Mercedes Montalá (European Spanish dub), Gara Takashima (Japanese dub), Sandra Mara Azevedo (Brazilian Portuguese dub)
Appearances: Ant-Mannote | Ant-Man and the Wasp | Avengers: Endgame | Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Hank Pym's wife and Hope's mother. During the Cold War she wore a companion suit to Hank's Ant-Man suit and performed missions for S.H.I.E.L.D. under the codename of "the Wasp".
- Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder: Due to being trapped in the Quantum Realm for over three decades, Janet began a relationship with the alien Krylar, though it's implied that it was primarily done for sexual satisfaction. Unlike most examples, Hank is completely okay with this, having attempted to move on himself but was unable to do so.
- Action Girl: She and Hank spent years as a superhero tag-team for S.H.I.E.L.D., taking on threats around the world until her apparent death in the line of duty.
- Action Mom: Continued being a superhero after having Hope. According to Hope, she was seven when Janet disappeared.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: Janet is almost always portrayed with brown hair in the comics. She's originally shown with darker hair (in flashbacks) here, but by the time she's reunited with her family in the present, her hair has faded to a blondish-gray, and flashbacks in her youth before that show her with blonde hair anyway.
- Adaptational Intelligence: Janet in the original comics was a young and somewhat naive fashion designer falling in love with the older scientist Hank Pym while this version is a fellow scientist, keeping her more in line with the Ultimate Marvel-version of the character.
- Adaptation Personality Change: In the comics, Janet is still a young woman who works as a fashion designer, full of joie de vivre and a bit ditzy. Here, she's older and more grounded and is shown to be a very talented scientist in her own right, but she still has her moments of playfulness.
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Like with her husband Hank, Janet was one of the founding members of the Avengers in the comics. In the MCU, Janet is trapped in the Quantum Realm during the organization's creation and for most of their history, and so never becomes affiliated with the group before they become defunct post-Endgame.
- Adaptational Superpower Change: In the comics, Janet's ability to shrink and shoot bio-electric blasts are innate as a result of absorbing enough Pym Particles to alter her genetic code. Here, they're derived from her suit, at least until she returns from the Quantum Realm, having absorbed enough energy there to heal Ghost.
- Age Lift:
- In the comics, she and her husband are inaugural members of the Avengers. Here, they are (or at least Hank) instead founders and early members of the Avengers Initiative, and work for S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Janet is also implied to be around the same age as her husband in the films, whereas her comics counterpart had a significant age gap between her and Hank.
- Animal-Themed Superbeing: Although her costume lacks the yellow and black patterns, her superhero identity is named after the wasp.
- Back from the Dead: She and the rest of her family were victims of Thanos's snap before they were revived by Bruce Banner.
- Battle Couple: She went on missions with her husband.
- Characterization Marches On: In Ant-Man and the Wasp, Janet begins waxing lyrical about the wonders of the Quantum Realm to her husband when they reunite, and is even willing to send Scott into it to get Quantum particles for Ava Starr and do further research. Fast-forward to Quantumania, and Janet now wants nothing to do with the Quantum Realm or discuss her 20-year experience living in it, to the point of freaking out and shutting down Cassie's Quantum signal invention once she learns what it is.
- Clothes Make the Superman: Her wings and abilities come from her suit, which is visually and functionally similar to the Ant-Man suit. This is in sharp contrast to the comics, where her wings, stingers, and shrinking abilities all come from within her body as a result of a scientific procedure.
- Composite Character: She disappeared after helping invent the Ant-Man gear, making her a mix of her comic counterpart and Pym's first wife, Maria.
- She also gets the scientific background of her Ultimate Marvel-counterpart. However, her overall personality and her more kind relationship with Hank are taken from her main-comic version.
- Covert Pervert: She admits to her husband and daughter in Quantumania that she hooked up with Krylar because as a woman she had "needs". Hank is relatively blasé about the fact, while Hope is grossed out.
- Costume Evolution: In her character poster for Ant-Man and the Wasp, her suit seems to be a different color that what was seen in Ant-Man.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Janet's 20-year stay in the Quantum Realm was incredibly traumatic for her, to the point where she actively avoids any discussion regarding it, even with close family members like her husband and daughter. Given that it's later revealed that she ended up creating Kang's empire within the Quantum Realm and spent her life fighting him as a member of La Résistance, she definitely has reasons not to talk about it.
- Deadpan Snarker: Janet can make some witty comments and comebacks that are successful in making Hank and Hope chuckle.
- Decomposite Character: Despite still being the first Wasp in this continuity, some of her traits are given to her daughter Hope: Hope's the main Wasp in this continuity and the one associated with the Avengers via Endgame. She also spots a haircut similar to Janet's iconic hair from the comics.
- Demoted to Extra: In the comics, a founding Avenger (and even the source of the team's name), and one of the most recurring central members of the team, as well as definitely being the Wasp in the Marvel Universe. Here, she's thought to be dead in the first film, loses her prominence as the Wasp to her Canon Foreigner daughter, only returns at the end of the second film, is erased by Thanos in The Stinger, and makes only a single non-speaking appearance in Endgame and never fights alongside the team she's usually tied so closely to. She finally gets some good screen-time in Quantumania.
- Distaff Counterpart: Her suit was similar to Hank's apart from having wings and a different visor for her helmet.
- Dropped a Bridge on Her: In the first post-credits scene of Ant-Man and the Wasp, Thanos's use of the Infinity Gauntlet killed her while Scott is in the Quantum Realm.
- Dying Moment of Awesome: Hank believed that her dying act was to go subatomic to dismantle a nuclear bomb targeted at Washington, D.C. from within. After Scott returns from the Quantum Realm, Hank's not so sure that she died; and the sequel showed that she didn't.
- The Faceless: The two times she's seen on screen in the first Ant-Man, her face is obscured, first by her Wasp suit mask and again by a big floppy hat. There's also what could very well be her
◊ in the Quantum Realm. - Flight: Unlike Ant-Man, the Wasp was equipped with a pair of insect-like wings, which barring flagrant abuse of physics (beyond what the Pym Particles already cause) likely only worked when she shrunk down.
- Happily Married: To Hank; in contrast to the significantly messier relationship they have in the comics, their relationship here is loving to the point where even their scientific bickering looks sweet.
- Hero of Another Story: We only see the last minute of her career as a Cold War-era superhero. She also spent thirty years wandering the Quantum Realm.
- Heroic Sacrifice: She shrinks herself to dangerous levels to save Washington, D.C., and doesn't come back. She survived, but she didn't have the means to return to normal, and wouldn't for decades. Though at one point, she did have a chance to return to Earth from the Quantum Realm on Kang's ship. However, after interacting with the ship's core that was linked to Kang's mind, she sees all the worlds and timelines he had destroyed, and those he would. She chooses to expand his core with one of her discs making it unusable, ensuring his continued exile, and giving up her way back to Hope and Hank.
- Iconic Sequel Character: Does not appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe until the seventh year, and not officially until the tenth.
- Improvised Weapon: She seems to have made a spear tipped with one of her suit's wings to defend herself in the Quantum Realm, which is nicely shown sheathed on her back when she and Hank reunite. She's never actually seen using it, though.
- In Name Only: Not to the extent of Hank, but her powers, personality, profession, and role in the Marvel Universe are all generally at odds with the original comic character. While she has moments of similarity to her comic self, they are few and far between.
- La Résistance: She was a member of the forces fighting against Kang after he took over the Quantum Realm.
- Last Episode, New Character: Played With. She debuted via flashback in the final Phase Two film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but her official introduction happens in a Phase Three film.
- The Lost Lenore: Losing her caused Hank to retire, distance himself from his daughter, lock away his research and refuse to share it with anyone, ultimately cut off ties with Stark and S.H.I.E.L.D., and become what is essentially a billionaire hermit. For years he held onto the hope that he could find her but appears to have given up in the present until Scott shows him that it is possible to come back from where she was.
- The Maiden Name Debate: Implied. After being rescued from the Quantum Realm, Scott greets her and addresses her as "Ms. van Dyne" instead of "Mrs. Pym".
- Mama Bear: She and Hank exit the Quantum Realm just in time to save Hope and Scott from Ghost.
- Military Superhero: A covert one of S.H.I.E.L.D. during the Cold War, much like her husband.
- Morality Pet: To Hank. Bill Foster claims that Janet was the only one who was ever able to bring him down to earth.
- Never Found the Body: She shrunk down to subatomic size, and was never seen again.
- No Body Left Behind: Is disintegrated along with half the universe after Thanos completes the Infinity Gauntlet, the timing of which coincides with the mid-credits scene of Ant-Man and the Wasp.
- Not Quite Dead: The ending of Ant-Man hints that it is possible Janet is still alive, somewhere. Then, when Scott goes subatomic, he sees recurring flashes of someone◊. She was able to survive in the Quantum Realm for thirty years and is successfully rescued by Hank, Hope, and Scott.
- Odd Name Out: With her husband Hank and daughter Hope.
- Out of Focus: In contrast to her husband (whose younger self appears during the Time Heist), and her daughter (who participates in the final battle), Janet is by far the least involved in the events of Avengers: Endgame, only making a voiceless cameo during Tony Stark's funeral.
- Parenting the Husband: She's the only person who can calm Hank down and get him to see reason.
- People Puppets: Briefly uses Scott as one to give Hank and Hope the directions necessary to get her out of the Quantum Realm.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: She retains her strength at normal size when she shrinks, reflecting the strength of ants compared to their small size.
- Plucky Girl: Despite being Trapped in Another World all alone for three decades, she didn't allow herself to Go Mad from the Isolation, remains optimistic that she'll still see her family again all those time, and the first thing she does when she finally got back is to heal the person who was just trying to kill her.
- Posthumous Character: Hank holds onto the hope that she's still alive and still researches ways to reach her, but both he and Hope have accepted that she's effectively dead until the ending, in Hank's case. Subverted in Ant-Man and the Wasp as she turns out to be alive, double-subverted when she's disintegrated in The Stinger, and triple-subverted when she comes back from the dead after the Time Heist.
- The Power of Love: Janet's love for her family and the unyielding hope that she would see them again appears to be what kept her sane during her imprisonment in the Quantum Realm.
- Red Is Heroic: The primary coloration of Janet's Wasp suit is red.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: She is reluctant to discuss her time in the Quantum Realm. It turns out she spent her time interacting with Kang the Conqueror, first helping him rebuild his time ship then acting as a terrorist against his growing quantum empire.
- Shoot the Shaggy Dog: After being freed from the Quantum Realm after so many years, she doesn't get to enjoy it for long due to being a victim of Thanos's finger snap.
- Silver Vixen: Despite being trapped in the Quantum Realm for years and having to fend for herself there, she still aged incredibly well into her 60s.
- Sizeshifter: Just like Ant-Man, she uses Pym Particles to shrink and grow. She goes missing when she shrinks too far.
- Sympathetic Adulterer: While trapped in the Quantum Realm she started a physical relationship with Krylar, despite being married. However she had no way to make contact with Hank or find a way to escape for decades, meaning that Hank understands why she started a relationship with him.
- Together in Death: She along with her husband and daughter are vanished by Thanos's Badass Fingersnap together.
- Trapped in Another World: She didn't die when she went subatomic, but rather spent three decades in the microscopic Acid-Trip Dimension known as the Quantum Realm.
- Tritagonist: Of Quantumania. Her past in the Quantum Realm, her connection with Kang, and time as a freedom fighter trying to take him down are all driving factors of the film.
- The Unseen: Her face is never seen in Ant-Man. It's even obscured by a hat in a family photo. We don't get an idea of what she looks like until Ant-Man and the Wasp.
Hope van Dyne / The Wasp II
Hope van Dyne / The Wasp II
"That's how you punch."
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Species: Human
Citizenship: American
Affiliation(s): Pym Technologies, Avengers
Portrayed By: Evangeline Lilly, Madeleine McGraw (young)
Voiced By: Maria Roiz (Latin-American Spanish dub), Eva Díez (European Spanish dub), Yuki Uchida (Japanese dub), Angélica Santos (Brazilian Portuguese dub)
Appearances: Ant-Man | Ant-Man and the Wasp | Avengers: Endgame | Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
"It's about damn time."
Hank Pym's daughter, who assists him in the training of Scott, specifically with the physical training and martial arts. Hope is the chairwoman of Pym Technologies and cast the deciding vote that pushed her father out of the company, but as Darren Cross grew closer to recreating Hank's research, she had a change of heart and decided to aid her father in destroying that research. However, old wounds do not heal so easily as she resents her father for never being forthcoming about the fate of her mother.
- Abnormal Ammo: Like Scott, Hope carries Pym Particle discs that are stored inside her suit's gauntlets to shrink and enlarge any object of her choice.
- Action Girl: She's the one who teaches Scott how to fight. She also helps Scott disable the HYDRA goons surrounding Hank.Scott: You're going to teach me how to punch? Okay, [holds up his hand as a target] Show me how to—
[Hope punches him in the face]
Hope: That's how you punch. - Adaptation Name Change: Played For Drama. She uses her mom's surname because of her strained relationship with her father.
- Adaptational Dye-Job: The Wasp suit is generally yellow and black in the comics, while here it's black and silver with a few streaks of red. This was likely done to make it distinct from the Yellowjacket suit which used said color scheme.
- Adaptational Heroism: In the Marvel Comics 2 comics, Hope van Dyne/Hope Pym was an Ax-Crazy villain called Red Queen. Although she is on strained relations with her father in the film due to her mother's death years ago and vents her frustrations on Scott, she's more or less on the side of good here.
- Affectionate Nickname: Her mother calls her "Jellybean".
- Alliterative Family: With her father Hank.
- Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: She's cold and distant to both her own father and Scott, the former especially.
- Ascended Extra: A minor villainous character from an Alternate Continuity to the main Marvel Universe in the comics becomes a major character and the Wasp of the MCU, rather than her mother.
- The Atoner: She tries to make up for the mistakes she made, after returning to her father.
- Back from the Dead: She and the rest of her family were victims of Thanos's snap before they were revived by Bruce Banner.
- Badass Bookworm: She's a high-ranking scientist in Pym Technologies, who happens to pack a mean punch.
- Badass Normal: Hope has trained to become a formidable martial artist long before she acquires her Wasp suit.
- Bash Siblings: Becomes this with the Avengers in Endgame.
- Battle Couple: With Scott Lang, the second Ant-Man, as of the sequel.
- The Beastmaster: Hope has the ability to command and communicate with every ant species there is.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Scott. She goes from punching him during their first training session to kissing him by the end of the film.
- Big "YES!": She yells this when she starts shooting down the ships of Kang's soldiers during the final battle of Quantumania.Hope: Yes! Come on!
- Bling-Bling-BANG!: Her second (and technically first to outright use onscreen) Wasp suit has yellow/gold plates in it.
- Brainy Brunette: Hope has brown hair and she is an accomplished scientist, much like both of her parents.
- Broken Bird: Because Hank never gave her the details of her mother's death and pushed her away when she sought comfort, it ate away at her and turned her bitter. This built-up resentment is the main reason she stood against her father when the company voted to oust him. She tries to put that aside in order to accomplish her father's goal (once she saw how much worse things would be if Darren was allowed to succeed) but it's difficult for her too and she still feels rejected (since her father won't let her actually carry out his plan, despite the fact she is more able than anyone else he could find).Hope: You know, after my mother died, I didn't see him for almost two weeks!
Scott: He was grieving.
Hope: Yeah, so was I and I was seven! And he never came back, not in any way that counted! He just shipped me off to boarding school. - Calling Parents by Their Name: In Ant-Man she calls her father Hank throughout, stemming from her long-seated resentment toward him. She does, however, call him "Dad!" once after he gets shot, an event that happens after they've started working through what happened to Hope's mother (the cause of the rift between father and daughter). In the sequel, she's back to calling him "Dad" after they reconcile.
- Canon Foreigner: In a sense. The exact character of "Hope van Dyne" as presented in the film has never existed in the main Earth-616 continuity, but a villainous character named Hope Pym/Red Queen existed in the What If? Alternate Universe known as MC2. The two characters share very few similarities, though.
- Canon Immigrant: A loosely-adapted version of the MCU Hope, Nadia Pym, (later Nadia van Dyne, bringing it full circle) eventually made her way into the original Marvel comics universe (instead of the MC2 Alternate Universe) after the success of the first Ant-Man film. Again, 616 Nadia ("Nadia" is Russian for "Hope") doesn't actually have that much in common with the movie Hope aside from being Hank Pym's daughternote who replaces Janet as the Wasp.
- Closet Shuffle: As revealed in Ant-Man and the Wasp, Hope went to hide in her wardrobe every time she played hide-and-seek with her mother during her childhood. Scott points out that she doesn't seem to have really understood the purpose of the game.
- Combined Energy Attack: In a similar way to what Tony, Thor and Vision did to Ultron Prime in the climax of Age of Ultron, Hope combines her blasters' energy bolts with Rescue's repulsor beams and Shuri's sonic blasts to repel Thanos during the final battle of Avengers: Endgame.
- Composite Character: Takes her name and relationship to Hank Pym from Hope Pym of Earth-982, but takes her haircut, surname, and outfit from her mother, Janet van Dyne. Her father eventually presents her with a new suit, which she dons in the sequel to become the Wasp.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: She starts out like this out of personal reasons due to having Daddy Issues with Hank by conspiring with the equally crooked Darren Cross to take over her father's company, but then she realizes Cross is a far worse corporate crook than her and returns to Hank.
- Costume Evolution: Her Wasp suit in the stinger of Ant-Man appears to be different from the one she wears in the sequel and Endgame, which had dark green and brown accents. By the time of Quantumania, Hope's suit is now a honey-yellow, looking much like Janet's costume in the comics.
- Dead Alternate Counterpart: The point of divergence in the What If… The World Lost its Mightiest Heroes? timeline, as in that timeline she joined S.H.I.E.L.D. and was killed during a mission. Her father then went mad with grief and blamed Nick Fury for her death, eventually killing everyone who was considered a recruit on the Avengers Initiative until he was stopped by Loki and Fury. The deaths of the Avengers before they were even a team, in particular Thor, meant that there was nothing stopping Loki from taking over the planet.
- Deadpan Snarker: Hope's level of snark can be as equal as Scott's whenever they are having a conversation.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: She warms up to Scott and reconciles with her estranged father throughout the movie. By Ant-Man and the Wasp, she's considerably more relaxed, regularly laughing at Scott's antics, being more open about her growing affection for Scott, and generally showing much more emotional vulnerability.
- Deuteragonist: Promoted to this in the sequel, where she has a much more active role, both story-wise (her decisions and actions propel much of the narrative) and literally as she lets her Action Girl abilities shine through as the Wasp.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Just because her father doesn't tell her the truth about her mother, Hope resents him for years to the point she addresses him by his name, drops his surname in favor of her mother's, and kicks him out of his own company.
- Dropped a Bridge on Her: In the first post-credits scene of Ant-Man and the Wasp, Thanos's use of the Infinity Gauntlet killed her while Scott is in the Quantum Realm.
- Dude Magnet: Being portrayed by the gorgeous Evangeline Lilly, Hope naturally has quite a lot of success with the opposite gender:
- Scott Lang is very much attracted to her, and eventually starts a romantic relationship with her.
- Both Luis and Kurt mention finding her attractive in the first Ant-Man film.
- Darren Cross and Sonny Burch are both implied to have a thing for her.
- During her time in the Quantum Realm, even Broccoli Man tries to hit on her, much to her exasperation.
- Eating the Eye Candy: During their training, Hope briefly glances at Scott's abs while he treats an injury.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: Hope was initially introduced with a bob-style haircut, but later grows her hair out in subsequent appearances. This is both to show that time has passed since the first Ant-Man movie, and to visually represent her less-uptight personality. Quantumania, which shows Hope at her most carefree in the series, has her sporting a pixie-style hair-do.
- Expy: Inverted with Nadia Pym, who is based more on Hope than Hope is based on her MC2 counterpart.
- Extremely Protective Child: She may have her issues with her father, but she still loves him and won't let anyone hurt him. When Darren Cross points a gun at Hank in the climax of Ant-Man, Hope knocks out a henchman to take his gun and threatens to shoot Cross if he doesn't leave her father alone.
- False Reassurance: During her dinner to Darren Cross, she toasts him with "You're a success story, Darren. You deserve everything coming to you." What Cross doesn't know is that she's in league with her father, Hank Pym, to ruin him and destroy his research.
- Flight: The Wasp suit has a pair of insect-like wings that enables Hope to fly.
- Generation Xerox: Like her mother, Hope becomes a superhero called the Wasp, as well as being romantically involved with an Ant-Man. The two of them also become victims of Thanos's Snap before they are resurrected five years later.
- Genius Bruiser: Hope is an accomplished scientist and an expert martial artist, just like both of her parents.
- Gold-Colored Superiority: Hope's yellow/gold-colored Wasp suit is equipped with wings and blasters, which makes it superior in comparison to Scott's red Ant-Man suit.
- Good Stepmother: She's essentially this to Cassie, even though she and Scott aren't married, as she openly encourages Cassie's scientific endeavors and shares Scott's concern for her well-being, while Cassie refers to Hope's parents as her own grandparents.
- Hairpin Lockpick: When she and Hank are taken into custody by the FBI in Ant-Man and the Wasp, Hope uses a hairpin she had hidden in her mouth to free herself and Hank from their handcuffs.
- Hand Blast: The gauntlets of Hope's Wasp suit are equipped with energy blasters called "stingers". The power levels of these stingers range from bolts that can knock a man unconscious to constant streams of concussive energy that are powerful enough to push Thanos back.
- Heel–Face Turn: Hope betrayed Hank by scheming with Cross to take over Pym Technologies, shutting her father out of his own company. She eventually has a change of heart when she realizes Cross is dangerous and returns to Hank so they can find a way to stop him.
- Honor Before Reason: Despite only being resurrected moments prior, and having little idea about what's going on regarding the fight against Thanos, Hope nonetheless suits up to help save the world alongside Scott.
- Hypercompetent Sidekick:
- To Scott, to her chagrin because she is far more qualified to wear the Ant-Man suit than he is. Why she can't be the Ant-Man is a point of contention between her and her father at first; then they reconcile and get over it.
- When she becomes the Wasp in the sequel film, she's shown outdoing Scott in superheroics for the most part, and also gains abilities he doesn't, such energy blasts and wings to fly with.
- Iconic Sequel Character: Does not appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe until the seventh year.
- Ironic Name: She's quite pessimistic and cynical.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's a huge jerkass to Scott for the first half of Ant-Man when he is largely passive towards her, mainly because she is upset because her father vetoed her using the suit to pull off the heist. She warms up to him eventually. She resumes a cold attitude towards him Ant-Man and the Wasp, but this is somewhat justified given Scott stole the Ant-Man suit, got involved in a fight with the Avengers, caused her and her father to have to go on the run, and didn't even invite her to help him out during the battle.
- Lady in a Power Suit: Hope wears a tailored suit during her days as the chairwoman of Pym Technologies.
- Lady of War: Hope carries herself with an aloof and graceful air. This is seen even in fight scenes, in which she uses a Mixed Martial Arts fighting style that incorporates gymnastics and Judo. This was intentional by Evangeline Lilly, who felt that Hope should fight with elegance and femininity that little girls would love.
- Last Episode, New Character: Debuted in the final Phase Two film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- Legacy Character: She inherits her mother's bob, and eventually the Wasp title by the time of Ant-Man and the Wasp.
- Locked Out of the Loop: She's among the thousands of reinforcements that Doctor Strange brings to the finale in Endgame. She’s seen looking around with a quizzical expression. Despite this, she willingly joins the battle against Thanos, follows Steve's orders to repair the Quantum Tunnel, and helps clear a path for Captain Marvel to get the Nano Gauntlet to said Tunnel.
- Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter: Fell out with her father after Janet's death, but reconciles with him during the movie, especially when she learns of Janet's Heroic Sacrifice.
- Meaningful Name:
- Lampshaded by her father when he is giving her the prototype Wasp suit at the end of Ant-Man.
- It's more meaningful in the What If… The World Lost its Mightiest Heroes? timeline where her untimely death drove Hank Pym mad with grief, and he soon responds by murdering nearly all the Avengers out of spite, which in turn allows Loki to proceed with his conquest unopposed. In short, the death of Hope doomed Earth to a reign of subjugation and tyranny.
- The Mole: She used her seniority in Pym Technologies and closeness to Cross to provide Scott and Hank with important information, while exaggerating her antagonism with her father. Cross figures it out anyway and thwarts their main plan to steal the Yellowjacket suit.
- Morality Chain:
- Cross empathizes with Hope's resentment towards her dad (though he takes it too far for even her), he doesn't kill Pym when he breaks into Pym's house because Hope is in the next room, and he pauses when Hope tells him that he is losing his mind.
- Hope is also Hank's only tether from descending into complete madness after the supposed death of Janet, which is why he's so overprotective of her in the first movie. In the episode "What If… The World Lost Its Mightiest Heroes?", the death of Hope during a S.H.I.E.L.D. mission led to that timeline's Hank Pym to go on a murder revenge spree upon the Avengers.
- More Deadly Than the Male: Make no mistake, between her and Scott, Hope is the superior fighter and user of the suit, and she has a better suit that fires bolts of energy and can fly. The only thing Scott has been shown to do that she hasn't is to grow into giant size.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
- She was the deciding vote that ousted Hank from Pym Tech and put Darren Cross in charge. It's implied that she did it out of spite. She soon realized that it was a very bad idea.
- She was the one that called the cops on Scott, which turns out to have consequences as it led to Darren piecing together Scott's involvement in Hank's planned heist — something which otherwise might have been avoided and made the climax go smoother than it did. Scott fighting the Falcon might have made Cross aware that someone was wearing the suit, but the man arrested near Hank's mansion — who somehow disappeared from his cell without a trace — was too much of a coincidence to ignore.
- No Body Left Behind: Is disintegrated along with half the universe after Thanos completes the Infinity Gauntlet, the timing of which coincides with the mid-credits scene of Ant-Man and the Wasp.
- Nom de Mom: She goes by her mother's maiden name instead of her birth surname, due to her estrangement from her father.
- Not So Above It All:
- While sneaking through Cassie's elementary school in Ant-Man and the Wasp, Hope can't help but make fun of Scott when his suit malfunctions and makes him the size of a small child.
- She criticizes Scott for calling Steve Rogers "Cap" in Ant-Man and the Wasp, but in the climactic battle of Endgame, Hope addresses Rogers as "Cap", too. Scott grins at her, and she, aware of her hypocrisy, grins back.
- In Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Hope works diligently to help rebuild Pym Technologies and also get shrinking tech to benefit society. Yet, she also gleefully skips work to throw on her Wasp suit and share a romantic moment with Scott on the Golden Gate bridge with a six-pack of beer.
- Not So Stoic:
- She's pretty squicked out when she hears about her parents' respective sex lives while separated.
- When engaging in superheroics, Hope tends to be fairly stoic and focused on the mission, with nothing throwing her off course. However, when she gets trapped in the probability zone in Quantumania, Hope is just as distracted and freaked out by the various copies of her showing up as Scott was.
- Out of Focus: Much like Hank, Hope gets far less attention in Quantumania compared to the first two films.
- Pest Controller: She wears a special earpiece that allows her to convey commands to ants.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: She retains her strength at normal size when she shrinks, reflecting the strength of ants compared to their small size.
- Primary-Color Champion: The coloration of Hope's Wasp suit are yellow/gold and dark blue with streaks of red.
- Relationship Revolving Door: Has an on-off relationship with Scott, having cut ties with him by the time the sequel begins. By the end of the movie, they're back together... Until unforeseen circumstances end their relationship again in the mid-credits scene. They eventually get together for good at the end of Endgame.
- Sci-Fi Bob Haircut: Hope sports the classic bob her mother, the first Wasp, had in the original comics. She grows it out in the two years between Ant-Man and Ant-Man and the Wasp so that it more resembles Tomboyish Ponytail. Averted in Quantumania, which shows that she's cut it down to a pixie-style.
- Second Love: To Scott, assuming that he didn't have a relationship after his and his first wife's divorce prior to their Last-Minute Hookup.
- Sexy Mentor: She's the one who gave Scott proper combat training and has a Last-Minute Hookup with him.
- Sharp Dressed Woman: Wears a suit for much of Ant-Man, except in training scenes where it wouldn't be practical. She's a big whig at the company after all.
- She Cleans Up Nicely: She steps out of the limo in a stunning, floor-length silver dress while attending a red carpet event with Scott in Quantumania.
- Sizeshifter: Her suit in the second film which utilizes Pym Particles allows her to shrink and grow back to normal size at will.
- Teacher/Student Romance: She serves as both a personal trainer and the love interest of Scott Lang.
- Time-Shifted Actor: She's portrayed by Madeleine McGraw when she appears as a child in some flashback scenes of Ant-Man and the Wasp. As an adult, she's portrayed by Evangeline Lilly.
- Together in Death: She and her parents are vanished by Thanos's Badass Fingersnap together.
- Took a Level in Badass: Not that she wasn't an extremely capable woman, but being given the Wasp suit elevates her to One-Man Army status in Ant-Man and the Wasp, where she curb-stomps Burch and his many goons.
- Took a Level in Cheerfulness:
- She's much more optimistic in the sequel, partially due to her joy at finally getting her chance to be a hero and partially due to her renewed hope of reuniting with her long-lost mother.
- By the time of Quantumania, Hope has everything she could ever want in her life, which reflects her mood exponentially. In the film's prologue, she's shown working diligently to make the Pym Particles available to society, throws on her Wasp suit to share a romantic moment with Scott on the Golden Gate Bridge, and is visibly happy to be with her family whenever they're together.
- Violently Protective Girlfriend: She jumps back into the Quantum Realm, and delivers a world of hurt on Kang before he can deliver the killing blow after he brutalized Scott.
- Welcome Back, Traitor: Despite their estranged relationship, Hank and Hope work together to stop Darren Cross from realizing his nefarious plans.
- What Measure Is a Non-Cute?: She objects to Cross testing his shrink ray on baby lambs, having expected the test subjects to be rodents.
- You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: She has this reaction in Ant-Man and the Wasp when she sees Sonny Burch show up to make another attempt to steal the lab.Hope: Really? This guy again?
- You Killed My Father: Subverted in Avengers: Endgame. Hope joins the final battle shortly after learning about what Thanos did to her and both of her parents, but she does so to protect the world instead of to take revenge.
