Wasp (Nadia Van Dyne)

Nadia Van Dyne is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Mark Waid and Alan Davis, the character first appeared in Free Comic Book Day 2016 Civil War II (July 2016).

Biography
Nadia is the child of Hank Pym and his first wife, Maria Trovaya, who was abducted and supposedly killed by foreign agents. Nadia was raised in the Red Room until she obtained a Pym Particle sample and escaped. Initially intending to meet her father, Nadia learns that he is more or less dead, and instead uses parts of his costume and other materials to create a Wasp suit, hoping to obtain the admiration of her father's allies. She later meets Janet Van Dyne, and they get along quite well, with Janet feeling that she has the potential to become a true hero.

Nadia soon joins the Avengers and gains U.S. citizenship. Upon realizing that S.H.I.E.L.D.'s index of the world's most intelligent people doesn't list any women above 27th place, she starts the program G.I.R.L. (Genius In action Research Labs) to look for women with genius intellects. When choosing a legal name, Nadia takes the surname 'van Dyne', as she does not know much about her birth parents and Janet has believed in and supported her.

At one point she aids Scott Lang - who is in outer space at that time - in an attempt to return to Earth, which results in a sequence of bizarre adventures in the Microverse. However, in the process, the two of them became quantum-entangled with each other.

In Issue #4 of the second series, it is revealed that Nadia has bipolar disorder, just like her father.

Iago PUC's ideas

 * A version of Nadia appears in the continuity of Marvel's Spider-Man: Webbed Champion. This version (renamed Nadia Watson) is depicted as the 12-year-old younger half-sister of Mary Jane Watson; daughter of Mary Jane’s mother with a unknown Russian scientist who was a colleague of Richard and Mary Parker. At the age of four, Nadia earned the abilities of Size-Shifting, Flight (when small, she produces organic wasp wings in her back), Pyrokinesis and Illumination after Oscorp's last surviving "Dragonfire" (a Pym Particle-powered genetic hybrid of Dragonfly and Firefly) fused with her body. After her parents were killed by Oscorp mercenaries seeking the researches for the Dragonfires, Nadia was taken in by her father’s fellow scientists for her safety.
 * First appearing in the show's tie-in comic book series Princesses of Destiny Issue #11 “Sisters Lost and Found”, Nadia is shown having learned to control her powers with help from her father’s former colleagues before they were killed by Mordecai Midas’s mercenaries under Gayle Watson's employ, and Nadia ended up forced to flee into the nearby forest. She was soon discovered, sought after, and found by Mary Jane / Tigra, who defeated Gayle / Tarantula, and brought Nadia home, where Nadia was welcomed in open arms by Aunt Anna. In the next issue, she is mentioned to have enrolled at Bilderberg Academy under Pepper Potts's request, and to have become best friends with Teresa Parker. She is also shown to have adopted the superhero alias of Dragonfire.
 * Nadia / Dragonfire appears in the Disney+ crossover miniseries Marvel's All-Star Multiverse, voiced by Jessica DiCicco. First appearing in the show's short-episode series Free Adventures, she joins Peter Parker and his friends on their world road trip onboard their personal jetplane provided by Tony Stark.
 * A version of Nadia Van Dyne appears in Marvel: All New, All Different Chronicles, voiced by Natalie Lander. This version the character (renamed Nadia Lang Van Dyne) is depicted as Hank Pym's granddaughter, and is the 13-year-old daughter of Scott Lang and Hope Van Dyne, Cassie Lang's older sister and Gwen Stacy's older cousin. She is a Bilderberg Academy junior student who operates as the superheroine Dragonfire since Oscorp's last surviving "Dragonfire" (a Pym Particle-powered genetic hybrid of Dragonfly and Firefly) fused with her, granting her the abilities of Size-Shifting, Flight (when small, she produces organic wasp wings in her back), Size Addition, Pyrokinesis and Illumination. Despite having her powers, she initially kept them in secret and refused to use them until she overheard of Norman Osborn's growing insanity and, regarding how Osborn was responsible for certain disasters including her aunt Helen's death, begun taking up her superhero alias of Dragonfire. She and Katrina Romanoff / Red Shadow would also join the New Champions led by Spider-Man during the fall of Midtown High School.

Joint ideas

 * Nadia Van Dyne appears in Avengers: Agents of the Infinity, voiced by Mae Whitman. In this series, she's depicted as Janet's adoptive younger sister with her character being amalgamated with the one of Cassandra Lang.