Post by Yellowjacket on May 6, 2008 5:33:54 GMT -5
The Character
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Cannon or your own: Canon
Copyright: Marvel
Characters civilian name: Doctor Henry Pym
Code names/Aliases: Yellowjacket; formerly Ant-Man, Giant-Man, Goliath, Doctor Pym
Class: Super-hero
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Gender: Male
Age: 40
Apparent Age: 35
Hair: Blonde
Eyes: Blue
Height and weight: 6'0" and 185lbs
Appearance: A tall, toned man, Henry Pym looks like a guy who spends too many days in the lab. with blonde messy hair that curls up, and a thin face. His eyes are bright blue, and apparently his best feature. Pym's nose is rounded, his face a little angular, but with a firm square jaw. Pym looks his age, perhaps give or take a few years, and has aged gracefully. There's no mistaking him for a younger man. Although tone, Pym is not really muscular, and much skinnier than others he's known to hang around.
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Super Powers: When it comes to power, Hank Pym has you covered. Although no heavy-hitter like his fellow Avengers founders, Hank is capable of doing things they never imagined. He has the ability to mentally change his size, to be ant-size, or just below his average height, to being twelve feet tall to two-hundred feet. Hank’s powers have evolved beyond even just being related directly to him. He is also capable of shrinking inanimate objects done to a small size (the size/weight ratio depends solely on the size of the object and how small it is made in comparison) and making them virtually weightless so to be carried by an ordinary man (such as himself as was the case). However, Pym has had many difficulties with his powers over the years. The Pym Particles that course through Hank’s blood are extra-dimensional energy Hank had tapped into in the past, and are able to be turned into tablets (solid), serum (liquid) and shrinking gas (gas), the energy at certain dosages allows complete control over height, and lends itself out so that the mass of the grown or shrunken being doesn’t get too high or small and allows the bones and organs of the individual to remain healthy and stops them from collapsing in any event. This extra-dimensional energy has had its fluctuations however.
Learned Abilities: Henry Pym's skills rely on some judo training, and some fighting techniques taught to him by Captain America.
Equipment: Hank Pym is in possession of several gadgets depending on which role he is playing. If he is himself in combat he may have any number of shrunken weaponry or labs on him. As Ant-Man, Pym relies only on his cybernetic helmet. As Giant-Man or Golaith, it isn't uncommon for Pym to carry around his pager, which turns into a miniature jet. As Yellowjacket, it is not uncommon for him to carry his disruptor gun, a gun that disrupts a person's nervous system for a few minutes, or bio-disruptor stings that remain in his gloves. As Yellowjacket, the entire costume serves a purpose. The wing vibrate allowing flight or to charge up energy for the bio-disruptor blasts. The mask hides cybernetics that mimic his Ant-Man helmet.
Weaknesses: At one point in Hank’s history, his constant growing deteriorated his health, to the point where it became a great strain to grow. This strain was undone when Hank was stuck at a ten foot height, and managed to overcome his condition thanks to Bill Foster. Hank has lost his powers in the past, and been stuck at 6 inches tall. All of this led him to stop using his powers, until Janet Van Dyne was hospitalized by the Toad. Hank used both his shrinking and growing powers is a mad rage as he fought the Toad, and later Whirlwind. The himself nearly died from the exertion. However, this problem is no more, as Hank’s powers have returned to a positive healthiness in him. However, Hank has a set limit in his growing, to prevent his bones from collapsing, this set height was once sixty feet, it is now 200. Growing to 200 feet is a great strain on Pym, and he can only hold the height for roughly five to ten minutes. That height makes it difficult for him to breathe, and to properly move as he is in constant pain.
Hank is no Captain America, he is not as well physically trained as his contemporaries, relying on gadgets and his powers to give him an edge. However, Hank is no light-weight, he possesses the strength of a man who works out regularly, but is not trained nearly as well as the other Avengers. He is not able to hold fights with the super-strong at any less that ten feet, even then, he is not always on par with others. At 25 feet, he is perhaps as strong as Iron Man’s normal strength, although various conditions factor into this.
Hank’s power to shrink things is now mostly relegated to objects he has been able to work on in his laboratory, it is unknown how much a strain it is to shrink something outright in this day and age, however, it does cause great mental anguish to shrink down especially large things.
Mentally, Hank Pym is not always healthy, his history of mental breakdowns plays key to proving this. He has at one point abused anti-depressants, and has been known to lash out at particularly bad points in his mental health. Hank is currently as healthy as he’ll ever be, but is still marred down by low self-esteem, and perhaps greater anxiety.
Hank has found it hard to deal with crushing blows, the death of a close friend led him to take anti-depressants constantly, and made him easy pickings to temporarily replace during the Civil War. As always, Hank’s greatest fear is his mental health, and to this day, with his multitude of mental breakdowns. Hank is perhaps the least mentally healthy man he knows, a fact he constantly dreads.
Background: The sad saga of Henry Pym started wonderfully. He was a biochemist with a loving wife, and a whole future ahead of him. When on his honeymoon with that wife, Maria Trovoya, he was knocked out, suffering head trauma while his wife was taken away and killed.
Hank was detained by the US Embassy while still on honeymoon in his wife’s Eastern-European home city, and was informed of her death. This was Hank Pym’s first mental breakdown, as he went out into the city madly, trying to seek revenge, after some counseling, Pym was sent home.
From that day on, Pym had a chip on his shoulder, he would attempt to prove himself to his contemporaries, he first tapped into his shrinking formula at this point, and instantly fond himself in over his head, as the man trapped in an ant-hill. One ant saved Pym’s life, and he managed to almost move on from the experience, though he destroyed his shrinking and growing formulas.
Later, when spies attempted to extract a government device from Pym, he valiantly decided not to tell the spies anything, even when his lab partners were threatened. Pym had secretly recreated his shrinking serum and growing serum, and turned them into gaseous form. He had also created a steel-mesh costume and a cybernetic helmet that allowed him to talk to ants. He first went out into the world as Ant-Man to both stop the spies, and to save his colleagues, he succeeded and decided to become a super-hero.
This would lead him down several roads. Ant-Man enjoyed small success, battling two-bit hoods in costumes, and even taking on a partner in Janet Van Dyne. Though Jan was flirtatious to Pym, Hank couldn’t commit to a relationship as he was still haunted by his dead wife. Eventually, Hank would come to found the Avengers, the pivotal part he played was entrapping Loki at the end of their first outing, and suggesting teaming up again. His partner added the name.
Almost instantly after founding the Avengers, Hank would become Giant-Man considered either to make himself more impressive compared to his teammates and as a logical part of his powers, where he had already mastered the height of an ant. Hank would enjoy more success as Giant-Man as he fought more dangerous enemies, such as the Human Top and the Living Eraser and even the Black Knight (Nathan Garrett). Pym even enjoyed having a Giant-Man fan-club. Although when it came time for the founding Avengers to go their separate ways, Hank and Jan didn’t continue adventuring, not so soon after Jan’s near death, instead they retired for the first time.
Hank would return after Wasp was kidnapped by the Collector. He went straight to the Avengers, and found himself mocked by Hawkeye and was even considered a phony. He put on the Goliath costume for the first time, and took the moniker, and went off to battle the Collector. Though for a time he was stuck at ten feet tall.
With help from Bill Foster, Hank managed to regain control over his size. However, Hank’s power problems weren’t over. During his course as Avengers leader, he created a being named Ultron, who would soon come back to haunt him, was shrunken by Whirlwind, and had to come back to terms with his Ant-Man powers, while his Goliath powers waned. However, his Goliath powers were soon returned to him. Worst of all, however, was when a mix of a mental breakdown and gases created Pym’s alter-ego, Yellowjacket. A tough-talking vigilante with a mean streak, Yellowjacket was created to be the Wasp’s perfect partner, he wasn’t shy like Pym, but had apparently believed he had murdered Hank.
As Yellowjacket, Pym married the Wasp, and for a long time, he was happy and mentally healthy. After a time, Pym and Wasp quit the Avengers, and missed the Kree-Skrull War, however, during said war, Pym did enter the Vision’s body, and help him overcome a death-like state, all the time in his Ant-Man costume.
Pym would appear and disappear from the roster, and at one point was brainwashed by Ultron to become Ant-Man again. As Ant-Man, Hank single-handedly beat the Avengers until taken down by the Wasp. However, Ultron would kidnap the happy couple.
Not only was this a sign of Pym being once again abused by Ultron, but by this time he’d become irritable and angry at his work, his third mental breakdown. This mind-control however, led him to believe Ultron was trying to preserve the Wasp in a metallic shell, Ultron used Wasp mental engrams to create life in Jocasta, but the process was stopped, and Hank’s sanity and life were returned to him.
Hank was an Avenger during the Korvac Saga, and stayed with the team until Henry Peter Gyrich closed the large Avengers roster down to seven members. Hank happily went back to his lab-work until much later.
When Hank did return, he’d had his last mental breakdown. He made a horrible mistake instantly, and struck down an enemy while Captain America was talking to her. Hank was disgraced and about to be court-martialed. If he were in his right sense of mind, the most horrible moment of his life never would have happened. In a mental fit, he struck the Wasp, and regretted it since. He also had an adamantium robot attack the Avengers during his court-martial, but failed to stop it like he planned. Instead the Wasp saved the day, and Hank was expelled from the team.
Hank was then tricked by Egghead into thinking he had created an arm for Trish Starr (Egghead’s niece who he attempted to kill, resulting in a lost arm), Hank found himself playing the fool to Egghead, as he had to break into a government facility in order to appease Egghead or Trish would be killed. Hank did secretly signal the Avengers, and was forced to fight them. By himself, he was able to hold off Iron Man, Thor and Captain America, but the Wasp defeated Hank once again and he was arrested.
His life truly destroyed, Hank decided to build himself back up. Tony Stark briefly dated his ex-wife, and Hank turned down an escape offer from Scott Lang, the current Ant-Man. Hank saw various psychologists, and continued to wait for his day in trial.
When that day came, Hank was kidnapped by the Masters of Evil, and framed to be their leader. However it soon proved to be a ruse, perpetrated by Egghead in his plan to destroy Yellowjacket. The Masters of Evil found themselves completely beaten by Pym however, he single-handedly defeated every member without using a single super-power. Pym, having finally won back his sanity, and his life, was saved by Hawkeye, and Egghead was killed.
Pym soon gained his freedom when Egghead’s brainwashing of Pym’s witnesses was undone, and he moved on. His last bit of official Avengers business was done, when he helped Hawkeye go through his own court-martial as a witness, and then left Avengers mansion. Leaving the Yellowjacket equipment behind, saying “Find a good man to fill this suit”, before he left.
Pym would turn up when in need of a biochemist for whatever reasons, although his relationship with the Wasp was rocky, they became genuine friends again, and Pym would leave.
He would next turn up as tech support for the West Coast Avengers, and helping the team essentially as their Jarvis. He worked like this for a time, briefly pursuing a relationship with Tigra that she turned down, after sleeping with him once.
Pym would try to commit suicide, but was stopped by Bonita Juarez, alias Firebird, and at the time Espirita, she convinced him he had something to live for, and he reinvented himself as Doctor Pym, Scientific Adventurer, and became a hero anew. Pym would use shrunken weaponry in battle, and showed a greater use of his size-altering powers than ever before.
Pym’s relationship with the Wasp also became a possibility again, and during his long run with the West Coast team, Pym was happier and healthier than he had been in years.
He would disappear from heroics again for some time, recreating a way for him to finally use his other size-changing abilities again and would rejoin the Avengers as Giant-Man, he would last with the Avengers until the end, he also had a crisis of his own, as those who had used Pym Particles started having problems. Hank fought giant ants he created for Project B.I.G., which was to solve World Hunger, these particles problems led to Bill Foster being shrunk even smaller than ant-size, Scott Lang being knocked out, Clint Barton growing until he was unable to support his mass, Janet Van Dyne growing to fifty feet in agony, and Pym having to confront the creatures from the Kosmos, and return Erik Josten from the Kosmos dimension in order to stop the fluctuations. Tigra was also involved in this, as she destroyed Project B.I.G.
During the Crossing he ‘learned’ from ‘Kang’ that his mental breakdowns were caused by outside forces mainly ‘Kang’. When Onslaught came, Pym disappeared with every other hero.
On Counter-Earth, he became Ant-Man again, created Ultron and the Vision, and had a relationship with Janet Van Dyne, however this world he wound up trapped inside the Vision for a time, and did little significant anything.
When he returned, his relationship with the Wasp was starting up again, and he found a new job. He became a reserve Avenger, as Giant-Man, and for a time, managed to put Ultron behind him by destroying the creature. Although he revealed his brain engrams had been used when Ultron was originally created.
He would also spend some time in a Destiny War team where he confronted Yellowjacket, and learned that the Kang who told him his breakdowns were caused by outside forces was a lying Immortus. Hank came to terms with his breakdowns being his fault, and managed to confront his worst side.
When he returned, he returned to the Avengers as Goliath, and was split between Yellowjacket and Henry Pym. Pym was abducted by Yellowjacket and replaced with the arrogant version of himself. Yellowjacket and Pym had troubles, both drawing from the same mass, and were soon remerged when the two accepted each and every side of themselves, and were joined to one happy and healthy Hank Pym.
Pym would become Yellowjacket in order to redeem the name both to himself and others, and became a healthy mindset at last. When the Avengers Disassembled, Pym was only concerned for an injured Jan, and stayed in her hospital all the time.
He would go to Oxford for a while, but his last attempt to reconcile with Jan failed. They were both dragged into a new ‘Secret Wars’ situation, with the Stranger behind it, and Hank returned to being Doctor Pym. He also started a relationship with Firebird. The relationship didn’t last because they had different priorities. Hank was a pro-registration member during the Civil War, and one of the three most dedicated men to it. During the Civil War, Hank lost a close friend, and started to abuse anti-depressants, but remained dedicated to the cause.
By the end of the Civil War, Hank was named ‘Man of the Year’ by Time Magazine, and became a trainer at Camp Hammond where he received a presidential award for single-handedly stopping a Hydra ship, although Hank saw it as a way to finally redeem himself.
Hank is currently a stable man with a long history of many terrible things. He still attempts to atone for each sin, by being a hero, and constantly keeping himself in check. He knows his issues, and fights through them like a hero, because he will not become the worst man ever, he refuses to become what some may perceive him to be. He only wants to be a hero, and make up for past mistakes.
Personality : Hank Pym is a man haunted by mistakes. He is a man who is seemingly more robotic than anyone like him. He tends to be the one man who generally is completely avoidant of any proper interaction with his friends and teammates. This is generally considered to be part of his personality since his last nervous breakdown. However, Hank tends to be a genius. His creative ingenuity has spawned several things, such as a way to both shrink and grow human beings, artificial intelligence, communication with insects, control over the size of objects and other by touch, and even the growth of plants and insects in order to solve world hunger, which failed miserably.
Hank has been prone to nervous breakdowns in his past, a fact that haunts him constantly. While he is finally at peace with himself, accepting both his flaws and all he has done, including his Yellowjacket persona, Pym cannot escape his past, numerous reconciliations with the Wasp have proved this. Hank is normally capable, although he seeks both acceptance and redemption from the people in his life. This has led to many problems, such as helping Tony Stark create a Thor clone, only to have one of his closest friends killed in the process. Pym can be surmised in personality as unstable, but usually a strong, good force, who always tries to better himself and prove himself.
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Brief Sample Roleplay
The man called Yellowjacket hung from the rooftops in Hell's Kitchen, he knew it was Daredevil's stomping ground. That wasn't important to him. Not tonight. Tonight to Henry Pym was about once again attempting to prove himself worthy, to himself, to Jan, to Tony, to the world. His long career was screwed up, and he found his days filled with listening to garbage come out of the Taskmaster or Gyrich. Or trying to help Tony and Reed with the plans they made that day. The plans that led to the registration act. Tonight, Hank was in New York because he called it home, no matter where he went, it was home.
Tonight, the yellow tinted goggles on Hank mask shone as he found himself diving from rooftop to rooftop. Hank could have easily flown, but that made him shrink. He knew it was better to prove himself full sized. He'd done it twice before as Yellowjacket and as Doctor Pym. He saw three wannabe thugs run from a small-time robbery. Hank knew his duty, he found them stopping in an alley, and shrunk down to insect size, flew the distance, and touched down on the dank asphalt.
Growing to his regular height, the man clad in black and yellow smirked, smugly.
"Hello boys. Fancy meeting you here."
"Yo, where you come from?" Came the cry of a small, white kid, no older than twenty-five, and dressed like a poor man's 50 Cent. He was shorter than Hank, around 5'10", and he seeemed to have large bags under his eyes, either because he got little sleep, or more commonly was taking narcotics.
"Not important Eninem. What is important is getting those valuables back to that quaint little shop back there." The man called Yellowjacket said in his most intimidating voice. He growled out the words, trying to make sure he was just as good as Daredevil. Maybe not a fighter like him, but Hank had the right tools for the job.
One of the thieves pulled out a gun, he was dressed similarly to his pal, but was taller, 6'3", of African American descent, and with a large coatee spread across his face. He looked intimidating but his eyes had a nervous twitch Hank recognized. The thug screamed as he squeezed the trigger, and the gun's sound carried in the alley.
Hank Pym had seemingly disappeared before their eyes. He shrunk fast enough, but was well aware they weren't afraid of him. He grew back up to his regular height, and held his arms out,with only three kids to stop, Hank just let out one disruptor blast escape his gloves, his 'wings' vibrating to pick up the needed energy. The blast engulfed his would-be attackers and knocked them out cold. Only Hank could tell it was a little victory, compared to fighting Asgardian Gods, evil androids, and being involved in a Destiny War.
He let out a grimace and thought about the small victory, he considered flying away, but he needed to make sure these kids were jailed. That was part of making the public happier with masked men, working with the police without identities unknown to everyone. Not that Hank worried about a secret identity. The police arrived quickly enough. One of the officers Hank recognized, a tall, brown-haired moustached man who wore the badge proudly. The officer was Blake Harmon, the man who married Scott Lang's ex-wife.
Blake was accompanied by a large, blading sweating detective, who was clearly Blake's senior. Pym smiled knowing Blake wasn't as tough as he showed. He almost considered having a long winded insulting conversation with the man, for what he caused Scott to go through before his untimely passing. Hank didn't, but he refused to talk to the man. Instead he talked to the sweaty detective. When all was said, and the thugs taken away, Hank glared at Blake, and shrunk down to insect size. Flying up to the rooftops with a tiny buzz not even the most sensitive ears could hear, unless you were Daredevil of course.
Landing on a rooftop, Hank grew back up to normal size and took of his cowl. He stared at the face of Yellowjacket, remembering the good times and the bad in that mask. He let out a sigh, but refused to let it all catch up to him again, he was sick of looking pathetic in front of everyone. Times like this, he missed Bonita...
