Wasp (Hope Van Dyne)

Hope van Dyne (née Pym) is a fictional character portrayed by Evangeline Lilly in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film franchise, loosely based on the Marvel Comics character Hope Pym. Portrayed as the daughter of Hank Pym and Janet van Dyne, she was a senior board member of her father's company, Pym Technologies, and later inherits the superhero identity of Wasp from her mother, using a suit containing shrinking technology to shrink to the size of an insect and also fly with insect-themed wings.

After rekindling her relationship with her father, Van Dyne and Pym work together to bring back Van Dyne's mother who was previously trapped in the Quantum Realm. After doing so, Van Dyne and her parents fall victim to the Blip. When the three are restored to life, Van Dyne joins the Avengers in a battle against an alternate Thanos. She later begins the Pym van Dyne Foundation, continues a relationship with Scott Lang, and becomes a step-mother to Cassie Lang. She is later trapped in the Quantum Realm alongside her family and works with them to defeat Kang the Conqueror.

She first appeared in the 2015 film Ant-Man and later appeared in Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019) and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023). Lilly also appears in the Disney+ animated series What If...? (2021) as an alternate version of the character. She is noted for being the first superheroine to be a titular character in a MCU film, preceding Captain Marvel, Black Widow, and Shuri.

Wasp Suit

 * Size Manipulation: Similar to the Ant-Man's suit, Hope was able to reduce herself to the size of an insect by using Pym Particles in the belt of the suit to distance her atoms, effectively compacting her physical structure and allowing her to shrink down whenever necessary. She still maintained her regular sized strength and durability while in a reduced scale as the process amplifies the amount of force she can generate and increases her density. Additionally, the process of altering size compresses force and energy, manifesting as brief shockwaves of vibration around the target, which briefly augments her force and momentum as she returns to normal size.
 * Superhuman Strength: When decreased in size, Hope possessed a certain degree of superhuman strength, able to easily overpower enemies when shrunken down. The momentum of her attacks also appears to be increased. As she shrinks and regrows in an instant, the power behind her attacks, combined with her already superhuman strength and combat skills, allow for her to defeat the most skilled of combatants within a fraction of a second.
 * Superhuman Durability: When decreased in size, Hope is much resistant to injury, enough to survive falls from great heights and other impacts that would injure or kill even normal sized humans. She was notably capable of taking blows from the extremely dangerous Ghost.
 * Flight: By utilizing four artificial insect-like wings, Hope could fly at impressive speeds and maneuver with great agility with ease, as evidenced when a knife was thrown at her while she was shrunken down. She was able to fly from the center of San Francisco to Fisherman's Wharf in a matter of minutes. She can also use the wings at full-size as blunt-force weapons.
 * Energy Projection: Hope can fire bolts of energy from the wrists of her gauntlets. They are powerful enough to blast burning holes in reinforced materials, incapacitate the Ghost mid-phase, and knock a man unconscious.
 * Insect Manipulation: Through the use of the EMP Communication Device given to her by her father, Hope can use electromagnetic waves to communicate and control insects, primarily ants. The device uses electromagnetic waves to mimic pheromones and stimulate the olfactory nerve center of insect-sized organisms.

Abilities

 * Genius-Level Intellect: Raised by Hank Pym, Hope is an expert in many fields of science. She seems to carry on her father's (and possibly her mother's) passions in chemistry and physics, which explains why she seemed confident in her understanding on the Ant-Man Suit to the point that she thought she could wear it to take down Darren Cross.
 * Expert Businesswoman: Hope's business acumen has risen to the point she was able to secure for herself a stable position in Pym Technologies's board. She possessed enough power in the company to have the deciding vote to remove Hank Pym, the company's founder and CEO, from the company.


 * Expert Martial Artist: Hope has trained in martial arts since she was a child. She trained Scott Lang in combat skills and fighting techniques, enabling him to become Ant-Man. Her martial arts prowess came in handy when she finally took the mantle of the Wasp. Hope employs a mixed martial art including elements of Muay Thai, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Judo, and Aikido.
 * Master Acrobat: Hope incorporates gymnastics and acrobatics into her fighting style as she battles opponents, notably dodging a knife thrown at her while shrunken, then using it as a platform to continue her assault.

35Baragon's ideas

 * Hope Van Dyne/Wasp appears as one of the main characters of Avengers High.
 * Hope Van Dyne/Wasp appears in Captured, and episode idea for Marvel's Avengers Assemble.

Iago PUC's ideas

 * Hope Van Dyne / Wasp appears in Iago PUC's Avengers Animated Trilogy, voiced by Tara Strong. She first makes a cameo appearance in Forces from the Infinity as one of the Avengers' several allies who take part in the battle of Wakanda before attending to Peter Parker and Kamala Khan's award ceremony in New Asgard. She later makes full speaking appearances in the two sequels as a member of the Avengers.
 * Hope Van Dyne / Wasp appears in Iago PUC's version of Marvel's Spider-Man and its spin-off web-series Marvel's Ant-Girl, voiced by Kari Wahlgren. Again a member of the Avengers, Hope is married to Scott Lang, and is Cassie Lang's mother, as well as Gwen Stacy's maternal aunt.
 * She also appears in Marvel's Spider-Man: Webbed Champion, also voiced by Kari Wahlgren. Sharing the same details of her appearance in Iago PUC's first version (see above), she appears in "What Girls Are Made Of", on which she entrusts Carlie Cooper to be Cassie Lang's babysitter. In "Seeds of Life", Wasp and Ant-Man help Spider-Man's friends protect New York from Oscorp robots controlled by Madame Masque, until the villainess is defeated and Norman Osborn is exposed to public eyes as the Green Goblin's true identity, and as the mastermind behind the deaths of Peter Parker's and Harry Lyman's parents. Hope is later seen congratulating Gwen and her friends for their success. She later appears in the finale "Legendary Universes, Part 6: Ultimate Alliance" along with the Avengers and Champions joining the final battle against the Regent and his army of Insectoids from the Negative Zone, and is also astonished with the presence of the Champions' allies from the alternate dimensions; most specifically Grimlock, whom Cassie spoke to her about.
 * She also appears in A Marvel Christmas Carol, voiced again by Wahlgren. She is first seen with Ant-Man and the rest of the Avengers battling Frost Giants in New York. She is later seen helping prepare a Christmas party at F.E.A.S.T. shelter, on which she and Scott allow Cassie to help Peter Parker with his plan to reform Franklin Todd from his greed ways.
 * Wasp returns in Marvel's Superhero Adventures: Infinity War, voiced again by Wahlgren. She is first seen visiting Peter Parker's aunt May, with whom she and Carol Danvers discuss plans for Jessica Reilly's marriage with Alana Jobson, while Cassie enjoys herself with other children. Later, when superheroes form an alliance to stop Thanos and his forces, Wasp is among the heroes who form a home-guard on Earth while others search for the Infinity Stones. In the film's climax, Wasp participates the final battle against Thanos's armies, until the Klyntauri are teleported back to the Sanctuary X. In the epilogue, Hope is with her family, attending to Jessica's marriage with Alana.
 * Wasp returns in the sequel miniseries  Marvel's All-Star Multiverse, voices again by Wahlgren.
 * Hope Van Dyne / Wasp appears in Marvel: All New, All Different Chronicles, voiced by Colleen Villard. She is an expanded member of the Avengers, Scott Lang's wife, and the mother of Nadia Van Dyne and Cassie Lang as well as Gwen Stacy's maternal aunt. She is also resentful of Norman Osborn, whom she blames for the death of her sister (and Gwen's mother) Helen in the Oscorp riot.