This article is about the character from The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes. For other versions of the character, see Wasp.
Wasp (real name Janet Van Dyne) is a regular character who appears in the Disney XD Marvel Comics animated series The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes. She is a superhero who works with Hank Pym at Grayburn College in New York City. She is one of the five founding members of the Avengers and the one who gave the group its name.
Janet Van Dyne was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
Background[]
Janet is a lively, playful, and witty young woman. She can also be rather childish and is sometimes quick to judge. She tends to make humorous or cheeky remarks, especially in combat. She is very fond of Hank, but fails to share his passion for science. She can easily get jealous or annoyed when Hank overlooks her feelings for him.
Physical appearance[]
Wasp is a young girl with blue eyes and short auburn hair. She wears a black and yellow striped backless dress with black leggings, yellow gloves and boots. She also wears yellow headphones that look like insect antennas and a black choker around her neck. Sometimes, she wears her supersuit underneath her civilian clothing.
Powers and abilities[]
- Size Manipulation: Through the use of the Pym Particles and a device fitted into her super suit, Wasp is able to shrink herself down to much smaller sizes or grow to gigantic size.
- Flight: Wasp is able to fly when she is the size of an insect. When small, she grows a pair of insect-like wings which retract when she returns to normal size.
- Bio-Electrical "Wasp" Stings: Wasp can emit small bursts of bio-electrical energy into powerful electrical blasts, also known as "stingers."
Role in the series[]
In the beginning, Wasp wants to use her powers as a superhero, while Hank is reluctant to do the same. She gets her chance when she stops Whirlwind. In "The Man in the Ant Hill", Wasp arrives at Hank's laboratory in Wakanda after Pym as Ant-Man maintained a fight with Klaw and his men. Later, Janet fight with Whirlwind, who was hired by Klaw to steal a Sonic Disruptor from a university. Finally, Ant-Man and Wasp defeats Whirlwind and send it to the Big House. Nick Fury offers Hank and Janet work for SHIELD and joins the Avengers, Janet shows excited, but Hank refuses to join them. It is only in the two-part pilot "Breakout" that Janet gets that chance, as she alongside Hank and other heroes face the villain Graviton and find they work well together, so they form the Avengers. After the team is formed, Wasp participates in recapturing the escaped villains all around the world.
In "Ultron-5", Wasp is captured by Ultron after the robot became corrupt, although he did not try to kill her due of his programming of not hurting her. She manages to break free when suddenly become into Giant Wasp and hits Ultron really hard but returns to normal after her first experience as a giant. In "The Ultron Imperative", she, Hawkeye, and Black Panther fight against Iron Man Armors, who were controlled by Ultron. She later went to Helicarrier with Iron Man and Hulk to try to stop Ultron. When Ultron is stopped by Hank, she congratulates him but Hill reminded them that Hank's fault because he was the one who created him.
In the season one finale, Janet tries to convince Hank not to leave the Avengers, but Hank already had taken its decision. Later, she finds the Norne stone in the Arctic, but this was only a trap of the Abomination. She fights fiercely against him until Abomination overwhelms her before the arrival of Giant-Man, but all three are transported to Jotunheim. When Loki's army is heading to Earth, Wasp, Black Panther, Ant-Man, Hawkeye, and Hulk appeared to face them. With the help of Sif and the Warriors Three, the Avengers managed to defeat them and avoid the conquest of Earth. Later, they faced Loki but end up being easily defeated because Loki had absorbed the powers of Odin. However, after a hard battle, the Avengers manage to defeat Loki. After the battle, Odin thanked the Avengers to have helped Asgard.
In "Who Do You Trust", Janet is present when Iron Man reveals to the Avengers the existence of the Skrulls. After Iron Man and Black Panther leave the Avengers suspecting a traitor among them, she, Hawkeye, Hulk, and Captain America (the real Skrull) decide to remain as Avengers. In "Secret Invasion", she, Hawkeye and Miss Marvel went to Washington to stop Skrulls. Once arrived there, they are outnumbered by Skrull. After an arduous battle, the Avengers manages to defeat the Skrulls.
In "Behold...The Vision", she and Jane were watching a horror movie at the mansion. Suddenly, Vision appears demanding to know the location of Captain America's shield. Seeing as Vision was hurting Wasp, Jane tells the location of the shield, Vision then retires to address Wakanda. After regaining consciousness, she calls her teammates to warn them about the new enemy, but it was too late because Vision was already fighting against them. Later, Jan told Jane to reconsider not date with superheroes for her safety. In "Ultron Unlimited", Wasp encounters Vision again, who uses his solar beam to neutralize her. Wasp discovers that Ultron is still alive and that he plans to replace the Avengers with machines. Ultron also informs her that he wanted to remove her brain and place it into a robot female for himself to make her perfect. She was later released by Vision.
In "Yellowjacket", Hank is supposedly killed in an explosion from his lab. On the night of Hank's funeral, Wasp faced Yellowjacket, who claimed to be responsible for the murder of Hank. She tells the other Avengers that Yellowjacket could be Hank, but they refuse to believe her. She later unmasks Yellowjacket and shows that her theory was true. After escaping from the prison, Wasp asks Iron Man to let Hank rejoin the Avengers.
In "Avengers Assemble!", Wasp was present when Terrax, a herald of Galactus came to Earth. Terrax informed her and the other Avengers that Galactus was coming to devour the planet. Seeing that it was not a mere threat, Captain America called all the heroes of Earth to help to save the planet. Wasp teamed up with Wolverine, Human Torch, Thing, and Hawkeye to face Stardust, a herald of Galactus; she manages to defeat Stardust. Later, she and her teammates were hailed by the people of New York.
Trivia[]
- Just like her comic book counterpart, Wasp is the first female Avenger and the one who names the team.
- Unlike her "death" in the Secret Invasion comics, Wasp survives her encounter with the Skrulls.
- Like her variant from Spidey and his Amazing Friends, Janet is younger than her live-action counterpart and is not married to Hank Pym, but is still romantically involved with him.
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Miscellaneous[]
See also[]
External links[]
Wasp on the the Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes Wiki
Janet Van Dyne (Earth-8096) on the Marvel Database
