History ComicBook / AntMan

** It was more recently revealed that Nadia was also bipolar, with suggestions it was passed down from him.

* FatalFlaw: Hank's feelings of inadequacy, which caused seemingly every problem in his life outside of ComicBook/{{Ultron}}. Among other things, this led to him:

* ReplacementLoveInterest: Hank's initial attraction to second wife Janet was because she bore a strong resemblance to his first wife Maria. Years later, Hank reflects that his attempt to have Janet take the role of Maria in his life was probably the cause for their relationship not working out.

%%* ComedicSociopathy

* {{Jerkass}}: Just two example:

%%* StickyFingers

** And according to Creator/JimShooter, it wasn't even intended to be a deliberate hit. Apparently the writer had directed in the script that Hank, ''accidentally'' backhand her while making a "I give the hell up, this is getting ridiculous" gesture, but that the artist disobeyed him and picked the most dramatic possible interpretation of the script, making it look like he struck her in a fit of rage. There is also a conflicting rumor that the moment was meant as a MoralEventHorizon, in an AbortedArc that would lead to Pym becoming an Avengers

** And the cherry on top of that cake isthat Jan actually ''is'' guilty of abusing Hank as she willfully and blatantly used his drug-addled and unstable mental state to force him into marriage with her, with it even being mentioned several that Hank was so out of it during the ceremony that he had no idea what he was saying. Unlike Hank, Janet has ''no excuse.'' She was just being manipulative for the sake of keeping Hank by her side no matter what. She even has a panel ranting before anyone, beside possibly herself, knew it was Hank about how [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/MWN-QfHUgDD9O1bluFExXysPQSrqPUt-wr8oK_omCfuMT7qu6ynOqLXaIoGbLzhwKzg8JGrC7N_V=s1600 Hank's focus on science had halted their relationship and how this was her true happniness.]]

* DomesticAbuse: * DomesticAbuse: No, but colored as such by nearly every comic writer fan there is. Hank, during drug-induced mental breakdown back-hands Janet when she attempts to stop him from an insane plan that would risk the lives of The Avengers. Key words being "drug-induced mental breakdown". He clearly wasn't in his right mind by any means and would have done the same to anyone who'd been in Jan's position. All later writers ignore these little details and treat him as an outright wifebeater.

** Bear in mind, that In the relationship between Hank and Janet Pym was never very healthy. Janet was several years younger than Hank, and she was a DoppelgangerReplacementLoveInterest for his first wife. Janet was very much an extrovert, whereas Hank Pym was aloof and tended not to be a people person. Their marriage happened when Hank in a fit of schizophrenia created the Yellowjacket persona and kidnapped Janet and claimed to kill Hank Pym, only for Janet to catch on that ComicBook/UltimateMarvel, he's Hank Pym and consent sadly portrayed as a particularly psychotic wife-beater, even going so far as to marrying him, and then getting married while he's in that addled state. Since Hank created Yellowjacket because he believed Janet wouldn't like him or say yes, he and Janet remained married and he still sported the Yellowjacket identity nearly kill Jan after that, carrying across many of the same crippling issues of insecurity that he had before the relationship.an argument escalates into a full-on fight.
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Orwellion editing notwithstanding, it's a fact that Hank was not well, it's a fact that Jan knew this and took advantage of it, and it's a fact that doing so was emotionally abusive. Being in a bad mood on the other hand, could hardly be called such.
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* DomesticAbuse: No, but colored as such by nearly every comic writer and fan there is. Hank, during a drug-induced mental breakdown, back-hands Janet when she attempts to stop him from an insane plan that would risk the lives of The Avengers. Key words being "drug-induced mental breakdown". He clearly wasn't in his right mind by any means and would have done the same to anyone who'd been in Jan's position. All later writers ignore these little details and treat him as an outright wifebeater.
** And according to Creator/JimShooter, it wasn't even intended to be a deliberate hit. Apparently the writer had directed in the script that Hank, ''accidentally'' backhand her while making a "I give the hell up, this is getting ridiculous" gesture, but that the artist disobeyed him and picked the most dramatic possible interpretation of the script, making it look like he struck her in a fit of rage. There is also a conflicting rumor that the moment was meant as a MoralEventHorizon, in an AbortedArc that would lead to Pym becoming an Avengers villain.
** And the cherry on top of that cake is that Jan actually ''is'' guilty of abusing Hank, as she willfully and blatantly used his drug-addled and unstable mental state to force him into marriage with her, with it even being mentioned several times that Hank was so out of it during the ceremony that he had no idea what he was saying. Unlike Hank, Janet has ''no excuse.'' She was just being manipulative for the sake of keeping Hank by her side no matter what. She even has a panel ranting before anyone, beside possibly herself, knew it was Hank about how [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/MWN-QfHUgDD9O1bluFExXysPQSrqPUt-wr8oK_omCfuMT7qu6ynOqLXaIoGbLzhwKzg8JGrC7N_V=s1600 Hank's focus on science had halted their relationship and how this was her true happniness.]]
*** The real kicker comes when there was an attempt at a retcon. In the story they try to explain the whole thing as everyone knowing it was Hank and playing dumb, including Janet, for the sake of Hank's fractured psyche. Janet through out the story is played as an emotionally broken and sympathetic character.
*** And a Second Retcon by Creator/BrianMichaelBendis where it said to be an elaborate [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kxF371gMSro/TQBQp75HknI/AAAAAAAAQG0/UO4-wSqvMec/s1600/scan0007.jpg PR]] [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kxF371gMSro/TQBPVWlAOxI/AAAAAAAAQGs/8wlqbfYFsM0/s1600/scan0004.jpg stunt]] [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kxF371gMSro/TQBPVMAo0ZI/AAAAAAAAQGk/L6gP1bMR68E/s1600/scan0005.jpg with]] [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kxF371gMSro/TQBPVI1hcjI/AAAAAAAAQGc/EVsIiEAr1hs/s1600/scan0006.jpg everyone]] in the know, and that it was to throw the media.
** In the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel, he's sadly portrayed as a particularly psychotic wife-beater, even going so far as to nearly kill Jan after an argument escalates into a full-on fight.
** EarlyInstallmebytWeirdness: The very first Hank Pym story was a science fiction-horror story with no superheroics and wouldn't feel out of place in an episode of ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'' or ''Series/{{The Outer Limits|1963}}''. It wasn't until his second appearance where the concept was retooled into a superhero adventure story, with superhero comics undergoing a revival and the ComicBook/FantasticFour being a big enough hit from a year before that Marvel was ready to start branching out with other heroes and costumed adventurers.
* EngineeredHeroism: As Yellowjacket in Avengers #212, Pym unleashed a giant robot called Salvation I that only ''he'' could stop in an attempt to appear heroic in front of his fellow Avengers. When the actual incident happened, [[EpicFail he failed]], nearly got killed, and had to be saved by Janet.
* FatalFlaw: Hank's feelings of inadequacy, which caused seemingly every problem in his life outside of ComicBook/{{Ultron}}. Among other things, this led to him:
** Becoming Giant-Man after comparing himself to people like ComicBook/IronMan, ComicBook/TheMightyThor, and the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk. This gave him an increase in strength but made him clumsier and a much bigger target, as well as causing serious health risks if he grew beyond his limit.
** [[InsecureLoveInterest Not proposing to Janet when both of them were clearly interested in each other]], since he figured she'd be more interested in celebrities and millionaires as opposed to a scientist. This led to him developing a split personality and becoming Yellowjacket for the first time.
** Causing the breakdown of his marriage, as Jan's success and money coupled with his failures in science (most notably, Ultron) led to him becoming more bitter and angry towards her.
** Becoming desperate to prove himself as a meaningful member of the Avengers, which led to him attacking a super-villain after the conflict was resolved and being kicked out of the Avengers, as well as [[EngineeredHeroism creating Salvation-1]] to attack the Avengers so he could stop it.
** Very nearly outright committing suicide early during his run in the Avengers' [[ComicBook/WestCoastAvengers West Coast title]] while alone in their headquarters, when his body would no longer take the strain of changing size and he felt that without actual superpowers he'd just be TheLoad. Occasional guest heroine Firebird showed up just in time to talk him out of it.

* DomesticAbuse: Hank, who developed the persona Yellowjacket during a mental breakdown, marries Janet but their initially-happy marriage quickly deteriorates and culminates in Hank slapping Janet hard enough to bruise her face. For this, he is booted off of The Avengers, he and Janet are divorced, and their superhero partnership is broken.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: As seen in the opening description, the very first Hank Pym story was a science fiction-horror story with no superheroics and wouldn't feel out of place in an episode of ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'' or ''Series/{{The Outer Limits|1963}}''. It wasn't until his second appearance where the concept was retooled into a superhero adventure story, with superhero comics undergoing a revival and the ComicBook/FantasticFour being a big enough hit from a year before that Marvel was ready to start branching out with other heroes and costumed adventurers.

* ''VideoGame/LegoMarvelSuperheroes2'': Hank Pym plays a minor role in the main story as Giant-Man/Goliath (using the former's name and the latter's costume). A bonus level features Pym as both Ant-Man and Yellowjacket, and the Scott Lang Ant-Man can also be unlocked. DLC based on ''Ant-Man and the Wasp'' adds an additional level and the movie versions of Lang's Ant-Man and Giant-Man.

* QuestionableConsent: Hank Pym married Janet during an emotional breakdown where he claimed the identity of Yellowjacket, a supervillain who claimed to kill "Hank". Janet knew all along that Yellowjacket was Hank, and that Hank in his normal state was too insecure to pop the question, but she married him while he was in this altered state, and while Hank was happy to be married to her when he snapped back, later writers, such as Kurt Busiek, have him and Janet discuss how messed up it was for her to marry him in that situation (though granted that Yellowjacket kidnapped her, it was also Janet trying to calm him in that state).

* DoppelgangerReplacementLoveInterest: His initial attraction for Janet was because she bore a strong resemblance to his first wife Maria. Years later, Hank reflects that his attempt to have Janet take the role of Maria in his life was probably the cause for their relationship not working out.

* ReplacementLoveInterest: Janet van Dyne was a dead ringer for Hank's dead wife, Maria.

* NeverLiveItDown: He provides the picture for the comics page, slapping his wife Janet/The Wasp. To this day, Hank is still (falsely) accused of being a "wifebeater" and people that don't read comics frequently claim that he's a repeat offender. In actuality, he hit Janet only once (in what was supposed to be an accident) while he was in the midst of a mental breakdown largely caused by Jan's emotional abuse. The way people both in-universe and out talk about the incident, you'd think he'd been beating her since the day they met.

* TheMasochismTango: His relationship with Janet was this long before they got divorced. Janet was far younger than Hank and was a DoppelgängerReplacementLoveInterest who resembled his first wife, Dr. Maria Trovaya. Personality wise, Janet was an extroverted socialite interested in fashion and invested in being a public superhero. She was often playful and flirty with her fellow male team-mates and insensitive to Hank. Hank was introverted and insecure, preferred staying in the laboratory and rarely communicated openly to her. This in part led to his breakdown as a "bad-boy" Yellowjacket. Janet consented to marry him in this state knowing that he was normally too shy to do it despite both of them wanting to. While Janet believed she was helping Hank, he would backbite and hurt her emotionally during their marriage until the incident when he slapped her led her to call it quits.

* HappilyMarried: He and his first wife, Dr. Maria Trovaya, were happy together until her death. His relationship with Janet had happy moments but was not as unfulfilling.

* DomesticAbuse: No, but colored as such by nearly every comic writer and fan there is. Hank, during a drug-induced mental breakdown, back-hands Janet when she attempts to stop him from an insane plan that would risk the lives of The Avengers. Key words being "drug-induced mental breakdown". He clearly wasn't in his right mind by any means and would have done the same to anyone who'd been in Jan's position. All later writers ignore these little details and treat him as an outright wifebeater.
** And according to Creator/JimShooter, it wasn't even intended to be a deliberate hit. Apparently the writer had directed in the script that Hank, ''accidentally'' backhand her while making a "I give the hell up, this is getting ridiculous" gesture, but that the artist disobeyed him and picked the most dramatic possible interpretation of the script, making it look like he struck her in a fit of rage. There is also a conflicting rumor that the moment was meant as a MoralEventHorizon, in an AbortedArc that would lead to Pym becoming an Avengers villain.
** And the cherry on top of that cake is that Jan actually ''is'' guilty of abusing Hank, as she willfully and blatantly used his drug-addled and unstable mental state to force him into marriage with her, with it even being mentioned several times that Hank was so out of it during the ceremony that he had no idea what he was saying. Unlike Hank, Janet has ''no excuse.'' She was just being manipulative for the sake of keeping Hank by her side no matter what. She even has a panel ranting before anyone, beside possibly herself, knew it was Hank about how [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/MWN-QfHUgDD9O1bluFExXysPQSrqPUt-wr8oK_omCfuMT7qu6ynOqLXaIoGbLzhwKzg8JGrC7N_V=s1600 Hank's focus on science had halted their relationship and how this was her true happniness.]]
*** The real kicker comes when there was an attempt at a retcon. In the story they try to explain the whole thing as everyone knowing it was Hank and playing dumb, including Janet, for the sake of Hank's fractured psyche. Janet through out the story is played as an emotionally broken and sympathetic character.
*** And a Second Retcon by Creator/BrianMichaelBendis where it said to be an elaborate [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kxF371gMSro/TQBQp75HknI/AAAAAAAAQG0/UO4-wSqvMec/s1600/scan0007.jpg PR]] [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kxF371gMSro/TQBPVWlAOxI/AAAAAAAAQGs/8wlqbfYFsM0/s1600/scan0004.jpg stunt]] [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kxF371gMSro/TQBPVMAo0ZI/AAAAAAAAQGk/L6gP1bMR68E/s1600/scan0005.jpg with]] [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kxF371gMSro/TQBPVI1hcjI/AAAAAAAAQGc/EVsIiEAr1hs/s1600/scan0006.jpg everyone]] in the know, and that it was to throw the media.
** In the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel, he's sadly portrayed as a particularly psychotic wife-beater, even going so far as to nearly kill Jan after an argument escalates into a full-on fight.

* DomesticAbuse: * DomesticAbuse: No, but colored as such by nearly every comic writer and fan there is. Hank, during a drug-induced mental breakdown, back-hands Janet when she attempts to stop him from an insane plan that would risk the lives of The Avengers. Key words being "drug-induced mental breakdown". He clearly wasn't in his right mind by any means and would have done the same to anyone who'd been in Jan's position. All later writers ignore these little details and treat him as an outright wifebeater.

* DomesticAbuse: His relationship with Janet in their final days of the marriage:
** In Avengers #211-212, Hank Pym and Janet are shown having a very strained marriage, with Janet being devoted to Hank, while he instead sulks and acts distant to her, backbites and insults her and acts in a way that is emotionally abusive certainly. During a mission, Yellowjacket goes LeeroyJenkins and nearly causes a catastrophe killing everyone, leading him to be brought to court martial. In response, Pym goes and builds a robot to stage an engineered heroic and when Janet confronted him, he struck her. And while Yellowjacket was in a nervous breakdown, he didn't apologize or react in shock when he did this (unlike Peter Parker in a similar incident during ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga'') and he forced Janet to go along with his scheme which she weakly says yes to. In the actual Court Martial, Janet shows up wearing glasses to cover her black-eye, which she takes off to {{Facepalm}} when Hank in response to Captain America's charges, instead accuses Cap of being a pervert which the other Avengers are all aghast by (Tony Stark who was sympathetic to Hank merely says, "Hank for the love of god, stop!"). The other Avengers on seeing Janet's face are aghast and later Hank's robot scheme backfires nearly killing him until Janet saves the day.
** According to Creator/JimShooter, it wasn't intended to be a deliberate hit. Apparently the writer had directed in the script that Hank, ''accidentally'' backhand her but the artist Bob Hall disobeyed him and picked the most dramatic possible interpretation of the script, making it look like he struck her in a fit of rage. The actual comic does indeed treat this act as domestic abuse, and Hank shows no remorse or apology for doing this by accident, and the other Avengers react in shock on seeing Janet's black-eye which she sports for several pages in the following issues.
** Bear in mind, that the relationship between Hank and Janet Pym was never very healthy. Janet was several years younger than Hank, and she was a DoppelgangerReplacementLoveInterest for his first wife. Janet was very much an extrovert, whereas Hank Pym was aloof and tended not to be a people person. Their marriage happened when Hank in a fit of schizophrenia created the Yellowjacket persona and kidnapped Janet and claimed to kill Hank Pym, only for Janet to catch on that he's Hank Pym and consent to marrying him, and then getting married while he's in that addled state. Since Hank created Yellowjacket because he believed Janet wouldn't like him or say yes, he and Janet remained married and he still sported the Yellowjacket identity after that, carrying across many of the same crippling issues of insecurity that he had before the relationship.

* DomesticAbuse: * DomesticAbuse: No, but colored as such by nearly every comic writer and fan there is. Hank, during a drug-induced mental breakdown, back-hands Janet when she attempts to stop him from an insane plan that would risk the lives of The Avengers. Key words being "drug-induced mental breakdown". He clearly wasn't in his right mind by any means and would have done the same to anyone who'd been in Jan's position. All later writers ignore these little details and treat him as an outright wifebeater.
** And according to Creator/JimShooter, it wasn't even intended to be a deliberate hit. Apparently the writer had directed in the script that Hank, ''accidentally'' backhand her while making a "I give the hell up, this is getting ridiculous" gesture, but that the artist disobeyed him and picked the most dramatic possible interpretation of the script, making it look like he struck her in a fit of rage. There is also a conflicting rumor that the moment was meant as a MoralEventHorizon, in an AbortedArc that would lead to Pym becoming an Avengers villain.
** And the cherry on top of that cake is that Jan actually ''is'' guilty of abusing Hank, as she willfully and blatantly used his drug-addled and unstable mental state to force him into marriage with her, with it even being mentioned several times that Hank was so out of it during the ceremony that he had no idea what he was saying. Unlike Hank, Janet has ''no excuse.'' She was just being manipulative for the sake of keeping Hank by her side no matter what. She even has a panel ranting before anyone, beside possibly herself, knew it was Hank about how [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/MWN-QfHUgDD9O1bluFExXysPQSrqPUt-wr8oK_omCfuMT7qu6ynOqLXaIoGbLzhwKzg8JGrC7N_V=s1600 Hank's focus on science had halted their relationship and how this was her true happniness.]]
*** The real kicker comes when there was an attempt at a retcon. In the story they try to explain the whole thing as everyone knowing it was Hank and playing dumb, including Janet, for the sake of Hank's fractured psyche. Janet through out the story is played as an emotionally broken and sympathetic character.
*** And a Second Retcon by Creator/BrianMichaelBendis where it said to be an elaborate [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kxF371gMSro/TQBQp75HknI/AAAAAAAAQG0/UO4-wSqvMec/s1600/scan0007.jpg PR]] [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kxF371gMSro/TQBPVWlAOxI/AAAAAAAAQGs/8wlqbfYFsM0/s1600/scan0004.jpg stunt]] [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kxF371gMSro/TQBPVMAo0ZI/AAAAAAAAQGk/L6gP1bMR68E/s1600/scan0005.jpg with]] [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kxF371gMSro/TQBPVI1hcjI/AAAAAAAAQGc/EVsIiEAr1hs/s1600/scan0006.jpg everyone]] in the know, and that it was to throw the media.
** In the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel, he's sadly portrayed as a particularly psychotic wife-beater, even going so far as to nearly kill Jan after an argument escalates into a full-on fight.

* DomesticAbuse: His relationship with Janet in their final days of the marriage:
** In Avengers #211-212, Hank Pym and Janet are shown having a very strained marriage, with Janet being devoted to Hank, while he instead sulks and acts distant to her, backbites and insults her and acts in a way that is emotionally abusive certainly. During a mission, Yellowjacket goes LeeroyJenkins and nearly causes a catastrophe killing everyone, leading him to be brought to court martial. In response, Pym goes and builds a robot to stage an engineered heroic and when Janet confronted him, he struck her. And while Yellowjacket was in a nervous breakdown, he didn't apologize or react in shock when he did this (unlike Peter Parker in a similar incident during ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga'') and he forced Janet to go along with his scheme which she weakly says yes to. In the actual Court Martial, Janet shows up wearing glasses to cover her black-eye, which she takes off to {{Facepalm}} when Hank in response to Captain America's charges, instead accuses Cap of being a pervert which the other Avengers are all aghast by (Tony Stark who was sympathetic to Hank merely says, "Hank for the love of god, stop!"). The other Avengers on seeing Janet's face are aghast and later Hank's robot scheme backfires nearly killing him until Janet saves the day.
** According to Creator/JimShooter, it wasn't intended to be a deliberate hit. Apparently the writer had directed in the script that Hank, ''accidentally'' backhand her but the artist Bob Hall disobeyed him and picked the most dramatic possible interpretation of the script, making it look like he struck her in a fit of rage. The actual comic does indeed treat this act as domestic abuse, and Hank shows no remorse or apology for doing this by accident, and the other Avengers react in shock on seeing Janet's black-eye which she sports for several pages in the following issues.
** Bear in mind, that the relationship between Hank and Janet Pym was never very healthy. Janet was several years younger than Hank, and she was a DoppelgangerReplacementLoveInterest for his first wife. Janet was very much an extrovert, whereas Hank Pym was aloof and tended not to be a people person. Their marriage happened when Hank in a fit of schizophrenia created the Yellowjacket persona and kidnapped Janet and claimed to kill Hank Pym, only for Janet to catch on that he's Hank Pym and consent to marrying him, and then getting married while he's in that addled state. Since Hank created Yellowjacket because he believed Janet wouldn't like him or say yes, he and Janet remained married and he still sported the Yellowjacket identity after that, carrying across many of the same crippling issues of insecurity that he had before the relationship.

O'Grady quickly made a name for himself as [[HateSink the most hated superhero in the Marvel Universe]], earning the ire of just about every respectable superhero (and villain) which he met. Despite this, O'Grady just rolled with the punches, and managed to land a spot on a number of super-teams, including the [[Comicbook/AvengersTheInitiative Initiative]], Cap's Comicbook/SecretAvengers, and the Comicbook/{{Thunderbolts}}.

* ButtMonkey: Has become kind of a RunningGag both in and out of the comics, though it's technically not really deserved considering it stemmed from maybe two bad judgment calls on Pym's part at the most.

* FusionDance: [[spoiler:Hank and Ultron fuse into one being during Rage of Ultron. At first, Ultron's mind is dominant over Pym's, but Starfox forces the more human side to wake up.]]

* KilledOffForReal: In the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe, during ''ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}}''

--> '''Hank''': "I did a pretty good job of screwing up my life recently. You just about finished the job for me! You used me, egghead...and you tried to make me a criminal! But you couldn't, you see. I've come to terms with myself in the past month. I know who I am, and who I'm not! I'm not Ant-Man anymore, I'm not Giant-Man...or Goliath...or Yellow-Jacket! I am Henry Pym! And it was Henry Pym who beat the Masters of Evil!"

* InsistentTerminology: During Geoff John's Avengers run, Scott keeps repeating that he's not ''really'' an Avenger, he's just helping them. No-one listens.

* TheAtoner: The reason why he's in the Secret Avengers now. That, and [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]] decided to give him a second chance.

* ShoutOut: To ‘’Franchise/Batman’’ When Eric was hiding inside MsMarvel purse he mentioned all the cool stuff she must have at her lair like a dinosaur or a giant penny

* DomesticAbuse: No, but colored as such by nearly every comic writer and fan there is. Hank, during a drug-induced mental breakdown, back-hands Janet when she attempts to stop him from an insane plan that would risk the lives of The Avengers. Key words being "drug-induced mental breakdown". He clearly wasn't in his right mind by any means and would have done the same to anyone who'd been in Jan's position. All later writers ignore these little details and treat him as an outright wifebeater.
** And according to Creator/JimShooter, it wasn't even intended to be a deliberate hit. Apparently the writer had directed in the script that Hank, ''accidentally'' backhand her while making a "I give the hell up, this is getting ridiculous" gesture, but that the artist disobeyed him and picked the most dramatic possible interpretation of the script, making it look like he struck her in a fit of rage. There is also a conflicting rumor that the moment was meant as a MoralEventHorizon, in an AbortedArc that would lead to Pym becoming an Avengers villain.
** And the cherry on top of that cake is that Jan actually ''is'' guilty of abusing Hank, as she willfully and blatantly used his drug-addled and unstable mental state to force him into marriage with her, with it even being mentioned several times that Hank was so out of it during the ceremony that he had no idea what he was saying. Unlike Hank, Janet has ''no excuse.'' She was just being manipulative for the sake of keeping Hank by her side no matter what. She even has a panel ranting before anyone, beside possibly herself, knew it was Hank about how [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/MWN-QfHUgDD9O1bluFExXysPQSrqPUt-wr8oK_omCfuMT7qu6ynOqLXaIoGbLzhwKzg8JGrC7N_V=s1600 Hank's focus on science had halted their relationship and how this was her true happniness.]]
*** The real kicker comes when there was an attempt at a retcon. In the story they try to explain the whole thing as everyone knowing it was Hank and playing dumb, including Janet, for the sake of Hank's fractured psyche. Janet through out the story is played as an emotionally broken and sympathetic character.
*** And a Second Retcon by Creator/BrianMichaelBendis where it said to be an elaborate [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kxF371gMSro/TQBQp75HknI/AAAAAAAAQG0/UO4-wSqvMec/s1600/scan0007.jpg PR]] [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kxF371gMSro/TQBPVWlAOxI/AAAAAAAAQGs/8wlqbfYFsM0/s1600/scan0004.jpg stunt]] [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kxF371gMSro/TQBPVMAo0ZI/AAAAAAAAQGk/L6gP1bMR68E/s1600/scan0005.jpg with]] [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kxF371gMSro/TQBPVI1hcjI/AAAAAAAAQGc/EVsIiEAr1hs/s1600/scan0006.jpg everyone]] in the know, and that it was to throw the media.

* EngineeredHeroism: As Yellowjacket, Pym unleashed a giant robot called Salvation I that only ''he'' could stop in an attempt to appear heroic in front of his fellow Avengers.

* OvershadowedByAwesome: In-universe, it was established via retcon that Hank first came up with the Giant-Man identity because he felt his shrinking abilities were useless when compared to the raw power the other Avengers brought to the table.

* SanitySlippage: The stress from the amount of work he had on himself, his crushing self-doubt mixed with the disrespect of his teammates, and Janet's emotional abuse of him ultimately lead him down a disastrous spiral which has defined his superhero career since.

** And the cherry on top of that cake is that Jan actually ''is'' guilty of abusing Hank, as she willfully and blatantly used his drug-addled and unstable mental state to force him into marriage with her, with it even being mentioned several times that Hank was so out of it during the ceremony that he had no idea what he was saying. Unlike Hank, Janet has ''no excuse.'' She was just being manipulative for the sake of keeping Hank by her side no matter what. She even has a panel ranting before anyone, beside possibly herself, knew it was Hank about how [[http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/yjwedding11.jpg Hank's work had killed their relationship and how this was her true happniness.]]
*** The real kicker comes when there was an attempt at a retcon. In the story they try to explain the whole thing as everyone knowing it was Hank and playing dumb, including Janet, [[http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/yjwedding18.jpg for the sake of Hank's fractured psyche]]. Janet through out the story is played as an emotionally broken and sympathetic character.