Post by wasp on Jan 7, 2010 11:26:08 GMT -5
Name: Janet van Dyne Pym
Age: 26
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Side: Good
Affiliation: Fashion Designer/hero
Description:
Personality: Despite initially wanting to be a fashion designer, Jan Van Dyne has grown into the role of a superhero admirably. She's a highly capable team member, able to follow orders without argument, and she's also a brilliant team leader, capable of developing decent attack strategies for the right enemies.
Powers/Abilities: Size Reduction: Due to long-term exposure to Pym Particles, The Wasp can reduce herself in size, down to the dimensions of the insect from which she takes her name, roughly 1/2 inch in height. She usually chooses not to retain her standard density while at this reduced mass, but can choose to do so at will. The "lost" mass is shunted to a pocket dimension for later retrieval. Additionally, she retains full-sized strength while at reduced size.
Flight: due to small implanted insect wings, at speeds of up to 40 mph. These are functional when she reduces herself to less than four inches in height.
Wasp's Sting A powerful bioelectric blast from her hand that has been shown to be capable of cutting through concrete.
Insect Communication and Control: through the use of her retractable antennae, in a manner similar to Ant-Man's Helmet. She rarely chooses to utilize this ability.
Size Addition: The growth process requires the rapid acquisition of bodily mass, presumably from an extradimensional source. This extradimensional mass fortifies all of her cellular tissue, including her bones and muscles, enabling her to support her increased weight, and giving her superhuman strength. Perhaps due to the bodily strains that her husband Hank experienced as a side-effect of such powers, Janet uses these powers only in emergency, preferring to shrink to her wasp-sized form.
Talented Fashion Designer: Janet is a very talented fashion designer.
Multilingual: She can speak American English and Spanish
Skilled Combatant: Janet has adapted to a special kind of hand-to-hand combat that was created by her husband Hank Pym, which takes advantage of the fighter's insect size against a much larger form and physique enabling them to strike pressure points before the opponent even realizes what happened.
History: Janet van Dyne was the daughter of world-renowned scientist Vernon van Dyne. Early in her life, she was a flighty, self-centered dilettante living resplendently on her father's fortune. She had an on-and-off romantic relationship with the world-renowned soldier-of-fortune called Paladin. When an alien brought to Earth during one of her father's experiments murdered the elder van Dyne, Janet contacted his colleague, Dr. Henry Pym. She told Pym of her resolve to bring her father's killer to justice. Pym revealed his secret identity as Ant-Man, and Janet underwent a biochemical process involving his Pym Particles that allowed her to shrink to insectoid proportions and to grow wings.
As The Wasp, Jan and Hank tracked down and defeated the murderous Kosmosian, banishing it to its home dimension. Pym and van Dyne gradually fell in love; Jan reminded Pym of his deceased first wife, Maria. Pym and van Dyne became crime-fighting partners in their costumed identities.
Age: 26
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Side: Good
Affiliation: Fashion Designer/hero
Description:
Personality: Despite initially wanting to be a fashion designer, Jan Van Dyne has grown into the role of a superhero admirably. She's a highly capable team member, able to follow orders without argument, and she's also a brilliant team leader, capable of developing decent attack strategies for the right enemies.
Powers/Abilities: Size Reduction: Due to long-term exposure to Pym Particles, The Wasp can reduce herself in size, down to the dimensions of the insect from which she takes her name, roughly 1/2 inch in height. She usually chooses not to retain her standard density while at this reduced mass, but can choose to do so at will. The "lost" mass is shunted to a pocket dimension for later retrieval. Additionally, she retains full-sized strength while at reduced size.
Flight: due to small implanted insect wings, at speeds of up to 40 mph. These are functional when she reduces herself to less than four inches in height.
Wasp's Sting A powerful bioelectric blast from her hand that has been shown to be capable of cutting through concrete.
Insect Communication and Control: through the use of her retractable antennae, in a manner similar to Ant-Man's Helmet. She rarely chooses to utilize this ability.
Size Addition: The growth process requires the rapid acquisition of bodily mass, presumably from an extradimensional source. This extradimensional mass fortifies all of her cellular tissue, including her bones and muscles, enabling her to support her increased weight, and giving her superhuman strength. Perhaps due to the bodily strains that her husband Hank experienced as a side-effect of such powers, Janet uses these powers only in emergency, preferring to shrink to her wasp-sized form.
Talented Fashion Designer: Janet is a very talented fashion designer.
Multilingual: She can speak American English and Spanish
Skilled Combatant: Janet has adapted to a special kind of hand-to-hand combat that was created by her husband Hank Pym, which takes advantage of the fighter's insect size against a much larger form and physique enabling them to strike pressure points before the opponent even realizes what happened.
History: Janet van Dyne was the daughter of world-renowned scientist Vernon van Dyne. Early in her life, she was a flighty, self-centered dilettante living resplendently on her father's fortune. She had an on-and-off romantic relationship with the world-renowned soldier-of-fortune called Paladin. When an alien brought to Earth during one of her father's experiments murdered the elder van Dyne, Janet contacted his colleague, Dr. Henry Pym. She told Pym of her resolve to bring her father's killer to justice. Pym revealed his secret identity as Ant-Man, and Janet underwent a biochemical process involving his Pym Particles that allowed her to shrink to insectoid proportions and to grow wings.
As The Wasp, Jan and Hank tracked down and defeated the murderous Kosmosian, banishing it to its home dimension. Pym and van Dyne gradually fell in love; Jan reminded Pym of his deceased first wife, Maria. Pym and van Dyne became crime-fighting partners in their costumed identities.
