The Origins Of Ant-Man And The Wasp Explained

Ant-Man and the Wasp will be the third Marvel Cinematic Universe movie of 2018 and the twentieth movie in the franchise overall - and we're really excited about it! The movie will see Paul Rudd's Scott Lang and Evangeline Lilly's Hope van Dyne returning to the big screen and teaming up as the titular heroes to join forces against Hannah John-Kame's villainous Ghost. The Marvel Cinematic Universe origins of the pairing are very different to those depicted in the comics, however, and in this video we'll take a look at how they came to be a duo in the source material. Classically, the Ant-Man and the Wasp duo is composed of Hank Pym and Janet van Dyne - who are actually played by Michael Douglas and Michelle Pfeiffer in the Marvel Cinematic Universe - but they are depicted as being older characters in the movies and we're yet to discover anything about their origins. Surely Ant-Man and the Wasp will delve deeper into them but, in the meantime, we'll look at the origins of the original pairing in the comic books. Pym first appeared in Tales to Astonish #27 in 1962 (though he didn't appear as Ant-Man until Tales to Astonish #35 later that same year) and van Dyne first appeared in Tales to Astonish #44 in 1963. They met when Janet went to Hank for help after her father - a former colleague of Hank's - was killed by an alien. Hank immediately found her attractive and gave her similar superpowers to himself, which allowed them to become a superhero duo. We hope you enjoy the video! Let us know your thoughts about it in the comments - and make sure you subscribe to our channel!

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God how I loved Wasps' design in the Avengers Earth's Mightiest Heroes cartoon! Soo cute and perky! Anyone else with me?

[Brook]

Seeing them continuing the Heist storyline is great. Also the actress that's playing Ghost is also in Ready Player One.

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I want to see the bromance btw Scott and Wade

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I want the MCU retconned so that Hank and Janet can be young Avengers in the present day and Scott and Hope are either killed off or erased from existence like nothing of Edgar Wright's script ever happened.

[fficialdregs]

soooo Wasp is pretty much the reason the avengers are a thing and she's known with little to no care? the fuck, she should of been in the very first avenger movie if anything. Whereas Wonder Woman was given spotlight in the first justice league movie without waiting on later movies.

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I hope we see hank and Janet suit up as ant man and the wasp again in the movie

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I hope Janet in the MCU is all nice and bubbly. The actor playing her looks so serious.

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Antman and the wasp development and origin was great in the comics.

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I cant wait to see the movie but its gotta be after avengers infinity war but its before infinity war and after civil war!!!

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7 ultrons if you count the first one, if you don't then 6

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What about Ultimate edition Hank being a wife abuser and trying to kill Wasp with Raid?

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It’s a shame that awesome Avengers show got canceled and replaced with the crappier one

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Wtf why didnt you do scott langs comic book origin.

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Oh wrong video I thought this was a pitch meeting video about ant man

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