Hope Pym

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Hope Pym
Hope Pym by Ron Frenz.jpg
Hope Pym / Red Queen.
Art by Ron Frenz.
Publication information
Publisher Marvel Comics
First appearance A-Next #7
(April 1999)
Created by
In-story information
Species Human
Team affiliations Revengers
Notable aliasesRed Queen
Abilities
  • Suit granting:
    • Retractable claws on her gloves
    • Flight via bio-synthetic wings
    • Bio-electric energy blasts
  • Skilled hand-to-hand combatant

Hope Pym is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz, the character first appeared in A-Next #7 (April 1999). She is the daughter of superheroes Hank Pym and Janet van Dyne in the MC2 universe. [1] Hope Pym is a supervillain known under the codename Red Queen. [2] [3]

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Evangeline Lilly portrays a different version of the character, Hope van Dyne , in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Ant-Man (2015) and appears as the Wasp in the films Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019), and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023). Alternate versions of the character returned in the animated series What If...? (2021).

Publication history

Hope Pym debuted in A-Next #7 (April 1999), [4] and was created by writer Tom DeFalco and artist Ron Frenz. [5]

Fictional character biography

Hope Pym and her twin brother Big Man (Henry Pym, Jr.) became outraged when people began referring to A-Next as the "next generation" of Avengers after their parents' deaths. Using their parents' fortune, the twins put together the supervillain Revengers team and gained access to the Avengers Mansion via their parents' security codes. [6] [7] When they ambushed A-Next, Hope set about to torture Cassie Lang, feeling that she's the Avengers' rightful heir. Hope was finally stopped when Henry Jr. prevented her from initiating the mansion's self-destruct sequence, which would have killed both A-Next and the Revengers. [8]

The Red Queen was later seen using Silikong, a criminal that was mutated with a crystalized human, and his clones to get revenge on the A-Next, but her plans were thwarted by them and American Dream. [9]

Sometime after the Spider-Verse event, the Red Queen teamed up with Entralla to take control of A-Next using hypnosis and planned to make Stinger execute Ant-Man. Her plans were thwarted by Mayday Parker (now known as Spider-Woman), the New Warriors and Spider-Man of Earth-3145. [10]

Powers and abilities

Hope Pym / Red Queen uses implanted bio-wings to fly. She has bio-electric blasters installed on the gloves on the back of her hands, and extendable claws built into her gloves. However, she apparently does not have the ability to alter her size. [8]

Reception

Critical response

Deirdre Kaye of Scary Mommy called Hope Pym a "role model" and a "truly heroic" female character. [11] Screen Rant included Hope Pym in their "10 Most Powerful Variants Of The Wasp In Marvel Comics" list. [12]

In other media

Television

Marvel Cinematic Universe

Evangeline Lilly portrays Hope van Dyne / Wasp in media set within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, [17] [18] [19] with Madeleine McGraw portraying the character as a child in flashbacks. [20] Hope appears in the live-action films Ant-Man (2015), Ant-Man and the Wasp , Avengers: Endgame , and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania . Additionally, alternate timeline versions appear in the Disney+ animated series What If...? . [21]

Video games

Miscellaneous

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  8. 1 2 A-Next #12
  9. ↑ American Dream #1-5
  10. ↑ Spider-Island #3-5 (2015)
  11. ↑ Kaye, Deirdre (November 16, 2020). "Looking For A Role Model? These 195+ Marvel Female Characters Are Truly Heroic". Scary Mommy . Retrieved October 16, 2022.
  12. ↑ Harn, Darby (September 14, 2021). "10 Most Powerful Variants Of The Wasp In Marvel Comics". Screen Rant . Retrieved November 26, 2022.
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