Henry Pym
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Cover art to Avengers (vol. 3) #59.
Art by Gary Frank.
Publisher Marvel Comics
First appearance Tales to Astonish #27 (January, 1962)
Created by Stan Lee
Jack Kirby
Characteristics
Alter ego Henry "Hank" Pym
Species Human (empowered)
Team
affiliations The Avengers
The Initiative
West Coast Avengers
Secret Defenders
Notable aliases Ant-Man, Giant-Man, Goliath, Yellowjacket, Doctor Pym
Abilities Genius-level intellect.
Can change his or any physical object's size to his advantage: Growth/size reduction, to a maximum height of 100 feet or the stature of an ant. Has also developed chemicals and equipment to achieve this effect as well as gear for insect communication, flight and energy attacks. Superhuman strength at reduced size.
Dr. Henry "Hank" Pym is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe, created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-plotter Jack Kirby.Contents [hide]
1 Publication history
2 Fictional character biography
2.1 Early Adventures
2.2 Avengers Founder
2.3 Downfall and Redemption
2.4 Return to the Avengers
2.5 Post-Avengers Activities
2.5.1 Beyond
2.5.2 Civil War
2.5.3 The Initiative
3 Powers and abilities
4 Enemies
5 Successors
5.1 Ant-Man
5.2 Giant-Man
5.3 Goliath
5.4 Yellowjacket
6 Other versions
6.1 MC2
6.2 Marvel Zombies
6.3 Ultimate Henry Pym
6.4 Earth 5012
6.5 Amalgam Comics
7 In other media
7.1 Television
7.2 Films
7.3 Video game
7.4 Collectable Card and Miniature Games
7.5 Toys
8 Bibliography
9 Footnotes
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Publication history
Henry "Hank" Jonathan Pym first appeared in Tales to Astonish #27 (January 1962) in a non-super-hero tale. When he next appeared in Tales to Astonish #35 (Sept. 1962), he adopted the guise of Ant-Man. He was later joined by Janet van Dyne who adopted the superhero role of the Wasp[1] and co-starred in his stories. They went on to become founding members of the superhero group The Avengers before he assumed the alternate identity of Giant-Man[2] in addition to his Ant-Man identity.
He left the Avengers along with Thor, Iron Man and the Wasp, however unlike Thor and Iron Man who, much later, went on to receive their own series[3][4] Hank Pym remained in Tales to Astonish before he was eventually replaced by Namor.
Hank Pym rejoined the Avengers once more and adopted the new identity of Goliath[5]. Both as a superhero and as a scientist he proved invaluable to the team. However, at this point he began experiencing several problems. He had lost his size changing abilities and was stuck as a giant. His long-nursed inferiority complex became more and more evident. He again adopted a new (4th) identity (Yellowjacket) while under mental duress[6] which would become his most popular guise to date.
Years later, during a nervous breakdown Pym regrettably slapped his wife. This led to Pym's downfall as a super-hero. Years later after much effort, Pym was again accepted by both his teammates and his (now) ex-wife as both a valuable ally and friend.
Several related or semi-related characters have taken Pym’s previous identities (See: successors). During his time with the West Coast Avengers, Pym made a decision to give up adventuring under a costumed identity and instead fought with the team as "Doctor Pym", an inventor/scientist who made use of Pym particles to shrink a variety of technological gadgets and weaponry stored in the pockets of his red jumpsuit.
Pym is often considered to be one of the least commercially successful of the Lee/Kirby creations of the early sixties. Therefore, the character's feelings of inadequacy when compared with icons such as Captain America, Iron Man, and Thor directly parallels his "second string" status in the eyes of many fans. Additionally, the initial impetus for the continued revamping of Pym's powers/identities was no doubt to boost the character's popularity. Interestingly, it should also be noted that fans of the character have long complained that writers have unfairly fixated on Pym with overly tragic storylines over the years and that this should do nothing to diminish his status when compared to other Marvel Universe icons. Nonetheless, Pym remains one of the central figures in the Marvel Universe, particularly in the Avengers family of comic books and can currently be found in Avengers: The Initiative in his Yellowjacket identity.
Pym was featured in both animated adaptations of the Avengers: as Ant-Man in the series Avengers: United They Stand and as Giant-Man in the direct-to-video film Ultimate Avengers. A live action Ant-Man film is scheduled for 2008.
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Early Adventures
Henry Pym was born in Elmsford, New York. At one point, Henry was married to a Hungarian woman called Maria Trovaya. Sadly, their marriage was cut short when Maria was killed by Hungarian Secret Police. Shortly after that, biochemist Hank Pym discovered what he called Pym particles, a rare group of subatomic particles from which he formulated a size-altering formula. Testing the solution on himself, he found they were far more powerful than he hypothesized—one type of these particles had the power to make things shrink and the other to restore an object to its natural size. He was shrunk down to the size of an insect and narrowly escaped the inhabitants of an anthill. He then restored himself. After he undertook an exhaustive study of ants, he later constructed a "cybernetic-helmet" that would let him communicate with and control insects. He designed a costume and gave himself the superhero name Ant-Man. On his first outing as Ant-Man, he defeated several KGB agents that were trying to steal a formula for an anti-radiation gas that Pym had created. He started a career as Ant-Man and fought many supervillains and monsters.
Later, Pym was contacted by Dr. Vernon Van Dyne, who asked for Pym's help in contacting aliens. He refused, but became attracted to Vernon's daughter, Janet Van Dyne. Vernon Van Dyne was later slain by an alien outlaw. Janet asked for Hank's help to avenge his death. Pym then revealed his secret identity to her. Hank used some Pym particles on her and grafted wasp wings beneath her shoulders (but they disappeared when she was normal size and came back again when using Pym particles). Janet assumed the name of The Wasp. They tracked down and defeated Vernon's killer, thus forming a permanent partnership and starting a relationship.
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Avengers Founder
Pym, along with the Wasp, Iron Man, Thor and the Hulk, was a founding member of the Avengers. Shortly after the group's formation, he developed a variant Pym particle that could increase his size; using these, he became Giant-Man and later Goliath. Pym was a mainstay on the team's roster during the early years of the Avengers. Despite the occasional leave of absence with Jan or a fall back to "reserve" status to make room on the roster, Pym was always ready to heed the call of duty when either his super-powers or his scientific expertise were required by his fellow Avengers.
However, Pym also suffered a series of mental problems during his tenure with the team. His research into Pym Particles to become Giant-Man was driven, partially, by his feelings of inadequacy when his powers were compared against those of Thor or Captain America. Years later, he had a breakdown during which he became amnesiac and developed the cocky "Yellowjacket" persona, which he speculated was the result of his subconscious desire to remove the inhibitions that kept him from proposing to Janet in the first place; he only fully recovered after his wedding to Janet. Almost immediately prior to that incident, he had created an android called Ultron, which, to his horror, became self-aware and evil, and plotted to kill and replace him and the rest of humanity with robots. The extent of his guilt involved in Ultron's creation was not revealed until years later, when he admitted that Ultron's brain patterns were in fact based on his own, and thus he felt that Ultron reflected the darkest part of his personality. Additionally he had recently participated in a battle where he had to 'kill' an army of Adaptoids. Even though the Adaptoids were lifeless, that didn't help Pym who saw himself as killing them (by the hundreds).
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Downfall and Redemption
Following his marriage to Janet, Pym (now using the Yellowjacket identity) and his wife would return to the Avengers for a brief period before taking a leave of absence so that he could pursue full-time research. Later, at the onset what would be known as the Kree-Skrull War, they retire from the Avengers, though Pym would soon return briefly (as Ant-Man) and travel inside the fallen Vision in order to repair the android.
Following two adventures alongside the Defenders, Pym would return to the Avengers (again as Yellowjacket) at the insistence of his wife. At this point, Pym is clearly uncomfortable and insecure in his role as a super-hero. In this emotionally fragile state, he is brainwashed by Ultron and regresses back to his original Ant-Man costume and personality, forgetting all of his subsequent adventures with the team. He attacks his friends- given that Iron man is the only founding member there and is wearing a different suit of armor, he assumes that Iron Man has betrayed the team, and is particularly angry at Captain America, who he believes to be an impostor- and nearly kills his wife (though he believes that he is saving her) in the course of creating a 'bride' for the mad robot in the form of Jocasta. After Ultron's brainwashing is reversed, Pym re-joins the team as Yellowjacket until he is forced out when the roster is restructured by government liaison Henry Peter Gyrich.
During this time, Pym's mental and emotional problems continue, and at some point, he had begun to be verbally abusive towards Janet. On his first mission after rejoining the Avengers and over-eager to prove himself, he attacks an enemy who had stopped fighting. Captain America proceeds to bring charges against him, and Pym is suspended from Avengers duty pending the verdict of a court-martial. At this point, he suffers a complete breakdown, and becomes extremely paranoid and violent. At the nadir of this degeneration, he concocts a plan to make himself look good in front of his teammates by staging an attack upon them at his court-martial which only he could stop. When Janet finds out what Pym is planning and begs him to reconsider, he strikes her. The plan backfires and Pym is exposed, disgraced, and expelled from the Avengers. Furthermore, Janet proceeds to divorce him. It is later revealed in Avengers: The Initiative that Pym's greatest fear is that everyone (including himself) only sees him as the man who beat up his wife.
During the Avengers event The Crossing, it is revealed that his erratic behavior is in some part due to the time traveler Kang the Conqueror attempting to brainwash both him and Iron Man (also causing Iron Man's descent into alcoholism) into betraying the team. In Pym's case, the brainwashing failed to take hold. This explanation was debunked as one of Immortus's deceptions by a Space Phantom during the Avengers Forever limited series.
Left penniless and friendless in the wake of his disgrace, Pym is manipulated by his old foe Egghead (who is at the time presumed dead) into stealing the national reserve of adamantium. Upon leaving the scene of the crime, Pym is confronted by the Avengers, whom he had anonymously summoned, but now is forced to fight. He is defeated and blamed for the theft while Egghead skillfully erases all evidence of his involvement. Blaming the whole thing on a reputedly dead villain is taken as further proof of Pym's madness and he is incarcerated on Ryker's Island. During his imprisonment, he suffers another blow when Janet begins a relationship with Tony Stark, the man whom Pym had years earlier deduced to be one of his closest friends, Iron Man.
Still not fully satisfied with his victory over his arch-enemy, Egghead reforms the Masters of Evil, and kidnaps Pym at his trial, making it appear as if Pym himself had staged his own escape. Egghead plans to use Pym in another of his schemes, but this time the former Avenger outsmarts the villain and defeats his Masters of Evil single-handedly. Egghead's last attempt to destroy Pym is thwarted by the bow-wielding Hawkeye, whose brother had been murdered by Egghead in years prior. The Avenger accidentally kills Egghead in the course of saving his former teammate's life. With the real perpetrator exposed, Pym is cleared of all charges. After an emotional farewell at Avengers Mansion, in which Pym makes some degree of peace with Janet, his former team, and himself, he leaves his past behind, and takes a research position in a laboratory located in the Midwestern United States.
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Return to the Avengers
Some time later, Pym rejoined the Avengers, first in an advisory role for the West Coast Avengers, ultimately joining the West Coast team officially as "Dr. Pym", and later rejoining the East Coast team as Giant-Man. During this time, he finally made peace with his own self-loathing over his role in Ultron's creation when new Avengers member Justice provided him with vibranium which he used to beat Ultron into defeat, finally acknowledging that Ultron wasn't his 'dark side', but simply an experiment that had gone wrong. After the events of "Kang Dynasty", where Pym's various personalities were integrated and he made peace with his past problems, Pym re-adopted his Yellowjacket costume, to put the past behind him and acknowledge his healed psyche. (He had previously stated that he would never again adopt this, his most famous costumed identity, as that was the identity he used at the time he struck Jan.) After a time, he and the Wasp became friends again and, some years later, resumed a romantic relationship. In the events detailed in the "Avengers Finale", Pym and Janet left the team to re-kindle their relationship in England, where Pym had accepted a residency at Oxford.
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Post-Avengers Activities
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Beyond
Despite his semi-retirement after the dismantling of the original Avengers team, Pym did not stay away from the Avengers or the superhuman community for long. Pym, along with the Wasp and a number of other characters, were transported to a "Battle World" by a Beyonder-like character in the events chronicled in the limited series Beyond!. He did not wear the Yellowjacket costume during these events and once again went by the "Dr. Pym" name, donning a jumpsuit similar to the one from his West Coast Avengers days, however with the same yellow/black coloring of the Yellowjacket costume. In another tie to his WCA "Dr. Pym" days, he once again carries with him an arsenal of shrunken equipment, including an Avengers Quinjet that he claims he "forgot" to return to Tony Stark after the team disbanded. Over the course of the events on Battle World, it is revealed that Pym and Van Dyne have called off their most recent attempt at a romantic reconciliation in England, although they remain on good terms with each other.
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Civil War
Both Pym and the Wasp also played crucial roles in the events chronicled in Civil War. Pym, back in costume as his Yellowjacket persona, sided with Iron Man during these events, believing that superheroes should register with the government and be held responsible for their actions. His inferiority complex may have played a role in this decision; when Captain America came to enlist him in fighting against the Act, Pym said he was surprised that Captain America had come to him at all, let alone to be one of the first.
Pym took part in the battle at Geffen Meyers Chemical Plant, and expressed horror when a Thor clone, created by Pym, Reed Richards and Tony Stark, killed Bill Foster who has had taken up Pym's former identity, Goliath, in battle. He was wracked with grief, calling Foster one of his best friends and expressing his anger at Richards for allowing this to happen, wondering if a Thor clone needed to be bonded to a person like Donald Blake or Jake Olson to have a conscience. He was also kidnapped and beaten up by Hulkling so that the young Skrull-Kree Hybrid could impersonate Pym and free the Negative Zone prisoners for the upcoming final battle.
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The Initiative
At the conclusion of the Civil War, it is revealed that Pym was named "Man of the Year" by Time Magazine because of his "global revolution," likely referring to the list that Pym, Richards, and Stark made the night Stamford happened. Pym is now one of the chief Administrators at Camp Hammond, the Military Base located in Stamford, CT for the training of government registered Super-Humans as part of The Initiative. In one of the first missions that the Initiative recruits participated in, Pym played a key role in preventing a HYDRA suicide attack on the President of the United States' ranch in Crawford, Texas. As Pym appeared to be sacrificing himself while diverting the crash course of the Hydra ship, he privately expressed that this act of heroism (as opposed to his prior actions during his mental breakdowns) would be what people remembered when they spoke of him. As a result of his heroism, Pym was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, with Military Distinction, in a Rose Garden ceremony and told "Heck of a job, Pymmie!" by a grateful President.
As one of the leads of the Initiative program and having achieved notoriety for his recent heroism and leadership, Pym now seems to be more at peace with himself and his role in the super-human world than he has in years. He is also involved in a romantic relationship with fellow Proponent of Super-Human Registration and Avenger Tigra.
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Powers and abilities
Dr. Hank Pym is a scientific genius of the highest order with expertise in the fields of quantum physics, robotics/cybernetics, artificial intelligence, biochemistry, and even entomology. It can be argued that Pym is the only hero in the Marvel Universe that rivals Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four in so many varied intellectual and academic achievements (However, it should be noted that on one occasion he commented that Spider-Man may actually be smarter than him, due to Spider-Man managing to construct his spider-tracers to interact with his insect-based powers when he was fifteen when it took Pym years to develop his ant-controlling helmet, which operates on a similar principle)[7]. During his career, he has regretfully created the robotic villain Ultron, often repaired the Vision, and invented much of the Avengers' equipment. The robot Rover, another of his creations, served as a jet, possessing rudimentary artificial intelligence and offensive capabilities. His greatest scientific achievement, however, was the discovery of "Pym particles" that enable mass to be shunted or gained from an alternate dimension.
Originally by imbibing special capsules of Pym particles, Pym was able to shrink to half-inch size and adventure as the Ant-Man and, later, to grow to 30-foot size and adventure as Giant-Man and Goliath. At present he is able to break the 100-foot mark. He soon switches from using capsules to a Pym particle-filled gas, but eventually his body has absorbed enough particles to shrink and grow at will. At one point, Pym finds himself able to use the Pym particle field about his body to shrink and grow objects in contact with him, and he has carried various high and low tech equipment in his jumpsuit. Currently, he can only shrink and grow objects that have been specially-treated with Pym particles beforehand. Strangely, because Pym's mass is extended extra dimensionally when he is at ant-size, he retains his full human-size strength at that size, although his weight is reduced in proportion to his insect-like size.
When fully grown as Giant-Man or Goliath, he also exhibits superhuman strength. As Yellowjacket and Ant-Man, he has the physical strength of a well conditioned athlete. At giant size as Giant-Man or Goliath, Pym's strength varies according to the height he achieves. At his maximum height of about 100 feet tall, he displays immeasurable superhuman strength, as well as increased durability. At heights somewhat greater than an ordinary human, his strength is heightened slightly above the maximum of human potential. However, he has the ability to grow several stories tall. At such heights, his strength increases to levels far beyond that attainable for even the finest human athlete. The higher Pym grew past a certain level, however, the more of his strength he has to use simply to support his own enormous mass. As Ant-Man, Pym has used a communication device in his helmet that has allowed him to communicate and control insect life, mostly ants, and a loudspeaker that enables him to be heard while shrunken. Also as Ant-Man, he often uses miniaturized equipment such as a slingshot-type vehicle to propel him to trouble spots around Manhattan. As Goliath, Pym can shrink an entire laboratory or an array of firearms to the size a microchip when not in use. The various compartments on his uniform straps contain a wide variety of miniaturized equipment. Currently as Yellowjacket, Pym uses his shrinking ability along with a bio-energy gun, also incorporated into blasting gauntlets. His costume also has artificial wings which enable him to fly at both insect and human size.
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Enemies
In each of his aliases, he had archenemies. Among his enemies are:
Egghead
Scarlet Beetle
Ultron
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Successors
A number of other superheroes (and a few supervillains) have used Dr. Pym's rejected costumes and codenames, including his Ant-Man and Goliath identities.
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Ant-Man
Other users of this name included Scott Lang and Eric O'Grady
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Giant-Man
Bill Foster used this identity for a time between his Black Goliath and Goliath IDs.
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Goliath
Clint Barton, Bill Foster and Erik Josten have used this identity.
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Yellowjacket
Rita DeMara used this identity originally as a supervillain then later as a superhero.
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Other versions
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MC2
Hank and Janet end up giving birth to two children: Hope Pym (Red Queen) and Henry Pym Jr. (Big Man). Hank later perishes on the last mission of the original Avengers, with Janet dying of a broken heart. Their parents' death motivates Red Queen to form The Revengers. Big Man later leaves the group and joins a government-sponsored team for reformed super-villains. The Superhero known as The Buzz wears a costume that is similar in appearance to the Yellowjacket suit.
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Marvel Zombies
In the Marvel Zombies reality, Pym, currently using a Giant-Man identity, is one of the many heroes who has been transformed into a flesh-eating zombie. Unlike many of the other zombies, who only eat people when the hunger overtakes them—indeed, Spider-Man in particular is horrified by what he has become—Pym's zombie self is coldly rational. This is no more evident than when the still human Pym is aware of the bite that has infected him and will eventually transform him into a zombie, he captures the Black Panther and keeps him in a locker, where he casually slices off parts of the Panther's body to provide himself with a supply of fresh food. He also admits to the nearly unconscious Panther that he actually enjoys the taste of flesh, and is afraid that he would continue eating it even if a cure for the zombie infection was found.
At the conclusion of the storyline, Pym is one of the few zombies left alive (And the only one completely whole and unmarred) after the final battle with Galactus, and joins the remaining zombies as the apparent leader of "the Galactus". Currently, the Marvel Zombies are attacking a Skrull planet, only to encounter the Fantastic Four of this reality- currently consisting of Black Panther, Storm, the Thing and the Human Torch-, leaving the Zombies eager to capture the FF and transport back to their reality.
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Ultimate Henry Pym
Promotional art for Ultimates #6. Art by Bryan Hitch.
In the Ultimate Marvel continuity, Henry "Hank" Pym is a brilliant, but mentally fragile scientist who takes Prozac and is married to Janet Pym, née van Dyne. He is chosen to work on the "Super Soldier Project" for S.H.I.E.L.D. under Nick Fury. Hank is also the superhero "Giant-Man", able to grow to 59 feet and 11 inches (60 feet being the point where the human body cannot support its own mass). He gains his powers after experimenting on the blood of his wife Jan, who is a mutant.
In this continuity, he is prone to domestic violence, a spin off of a storyline in traditional Marvel continuity. He has been attempting to change, going on a medication, and Jan believes that joining the Ultimates could be a new start for them. But the tensions of losing and humiliating himself in a battle with the Hulk, and his jealousy of Jan's "friendship" with Captain America, lead to a heated argument between the couple that ends after they have a violent fight, and Janet is hospitalized. Captain America himself takes revenge, beats him to a pulp despite the fact that Pym was giant-sized at the time, and forces him out of the team.
He is eventually allowed back into the Triskelion, but not as a member of the Ultimates; instead, he serves with the staff and acts as a psychiatrist for inmates, including Norman Osborn, Otto Octavius, Maxwell Dillon, Flint Marko and Sergei Kravinoff.
Henry seems to overcome his violent streak and becomes desperate to get in the Ultimates again, becoming the ant-manipulator "Ant-Man" and building two prototype androids, Ultron and Vision II. Despite this, he remains a pariah, becoming increasingly depressed as S.H.I.E.L.D. debuted an entire team of Giant-Men who are capable of breaking the 60-foot "limit" that he had been unable to overcome and making Hank's place obsolete. Desperate, he joins the vigilante team Defenders, starting a meaningless affair with Valkyrie and making a laughing stock of himself.
In spite of his sad descent, he is able to relate to his estranged wife Jan again, and the two begin to see each other again (though their renewed relationship has been platonic so far). On a side note, he is visited by the traitor within the Ultimates — an object of great fan speculation, as of 2005 — but seems too much in a funk to seriously care (It is revealed in Ultimates 2 #9 that the traitor was Ultimate Black Widow). In recently published materials, it has been revealed that Pym is building an army of Ultrons for the invading Coalition. Hank Pym keeps the American populace in line using the Ultron robots he created, not knowing how full scale the attack will prove to be. As the tide of the battle starts to turn to the Ultimates favor, Hank orders the Ultron robots to help The Ultimates and they start taking out The Liberators armed guards. He swears to Quicksilver that he planned on infiltrating The Liberators from the start. Although he appears to be lying, at some point earlier he did give the Wasp a growth serum. Interestingly, when she uses it, she grows taller than Giant-Man ever did, to nearly the same size as the S.H.I.E.L.D. Giant-Men. Apparently Pym finally overcame the 60-foot limit that plagued him earlier in the series.
As the Liberators are killed or arrested, Pym once again tries to convince the Ultimates he was on their side the entire time, but Captain America and even Thor don't want to hear it. As the series comes to a close, Jan visits him in the cell Thor and Hulk had occupied earlier, quipping "So, do we all have spend a little time in these cells?"
It has been suggested that this version of Hank suffers from bipolar disorder, which would explain his mood swings between manic/creative highs and depressive/violent lows. His use of Prozac seems to bear this out, as this drug is often prescribed to sufferers.
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Earth 5012
In the alternate reality that is the home of the alternate Tony Stark now known as the villain Iron Maniac, Hank Pym was presumed dead during the initial conflict with the being known as Titannus. It also appears that in this reality he was another version of the Hulk, as Iron Maniac asked, when first encountering the 616-Hulk, whether it was Banner or Pym, concluding after hearing the Hulk's speech patterns that it was Banner.
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Amalgam Comics
In Amalgam Comics, Hank Pym is combined with Green Arrow to form Goliath, and with Hal Jordan to form the Green Goliath. Yellowjacket is combined with Blue Beetle to form Blue Jacket.
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In other media
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Television
Henry Pym was featured regularly in the short-lived The Avengers: United They Stand cartoon, voiced by Rod Wilson. Though he uses his Ant-Man alias, he also happens to have his Giant-Man/Goliath powers. When he enlarges, his helmet changes from one that covers his entire head to one with a visor that leaves his mouth and jaw exposed.
Ant Man on Fantastic Four
Henry Pym in his Ant-Man alias was featured in the Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes episode "World's Tiniest Heroes" voiced by John Payne II. He is an old friend of Mister Fantastic who invited him over to show off the micro world. When the Fantastic Four accidentally shrunk themselves, they end up having a hard time getting to the lab until Ant-Man and his ants arrived. After his ants rescue them from a fan in the vent, he helps the Fantastic Four get back to normal size after an accident. Afterwards, Mister Fantastic and Ant-Man continue to talk about the micro world as the other leave them to their business.
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Films
He was also a major character in the animated features Ultimate Avengers and Ultimate Avengers 2, based on the Ultimates rendition of the character. He was voiced by Nolan North.
A live-action feature film entitled, Ant-Man, is to be directed by Edgar Wright for a scheduled 2009 release. Wright has stated that the film will include both Pym, as a 60's era Ant-Man, and Scott Lang as Pym's successor in contemporary times.
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Video game
Hank Pym appears in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance voiced by Jerry Houser. He is a support character who gives advice and helps with some side puzzles, as well as sending you on a side mission of finding his "lost" Ant-Man helmet (in the S.H.I.E.L.D. Omega Base, in the same room where Bruce Banner is found trapped under rubble). Besides aiding on side puzzles, he gives you some information on devices that you will encounter such as the Mutant Amplifier, the Destroyer Armor, the M'Kraan Crystal, and the Muonic Inducer. He also had a theory about the Infinity Vortex being either a black hole or a portal to another reality.
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Collectable Card and Miniature Games
HeroClix (Collectable Miniatures Game)
Giant Man (Ultimate) - mutant mayhem (HeroClix) expansion set
Yellowjacket - Rookie, Experienced and Veteran figures in the Fantastic Forces (HeroClix) expansion set.
Goliath - a Rookie figure in the Fantastic Forces (HeroClix) expansion set.
Ant Man - Rookie, Experienced, Veteran and limited edition figures in the Supernova (HeroClix) expansion set.
Giant Man (616) in the avengers set
Vs. System (Collectable Card Game)
Hank Pym @ Ant-Man - Diminutive Hero - from Avengers expansion set
Hank Pym @ Yellowjacket - Pym Particle Creator - from Avengers expansion set
Hank Pym @ Giant Man - Towering Titan - from Avengers expansion set
Hank Pym @ Goliath - Giant Genius - from Avengers expansion set
Pym Laboratories - Location card from Avengers expansion set
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Toys
In 1999, a toy line was produced for The Avengers: United They Stand cartoon series, with an action figure of Hank as Ant-Man released.
Toy Biz released a figure of Hank Pym in his Giant-Man costume in an Original Avengers box set that also included a miniature Ant-Man figure.
Toy Biz released the same figure in Series 4 of their Marvel Legends toyline a few years later, only as a repaint of Hank in his Goliath outfit. The figure also came included with miniature Ant-Man and Wasp figures. It was a short-packed figure and became fairly valuable. The figure was reissued in ML7, again as a short-pack.
In 2006, an exclusive series of Marvel Legends figures was released to Wal-Mart stores in the United States. This series required the purchasing 10 of the figures in the assortment to complete the "Build-A-Figure" toy of Giant-Man.
In 2007, after Hasbro took over Marvel Legends, a Hank Pym in his Yellowjacket persona was released with the second series. A mini Yellowjacket had previously been included with Wonder Man in the ToyBiz Legendary Riders series.
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Bibliography
Tales to Astonish (as Henry Pym) #27 (Marvel Comics, January 1962)
Tales to Astonish (as Ant-Man) #35-49 (Marvel Comics, September 1962 - November 1963)
Tales to Astonish (as Giant-Man) #49-69 (Marvel Comics, November 1963 - July 1965)
Ant-Man's Big Christmas #1 (2001)
Essential Ant-Man (black-and-white trade paperback) (2002)
Fantastic Four #539 (Civil War 2007)
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Footnotes
^ Tales to Astonish #44 (Jun. 1964)
^ Tales to Astonish #49 (Nov. 1964)
^ Iron Man v1 #1, May, 1968.
^ The Mighty Thor v1 126 (Mar. 1966)
^ Avengers v1. #28 (May, 1966)
^ Avengers #59 (Dec. 1969)
^ Marvel Knights: Spider-Man #15
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