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4[[caption-width-right:300:Ant-Woman just had a bit too much redundancy for her.]]
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6-> ''"I invented ''Ant'' in jail in 1996. I was convicted of robbery and sentenced to one year and probation. The event was a turning point in my life. I used to draw portraits and hot chicks on envelopes for commissary. One day around day #6 of 358, I was depressed about where my choices in life put me. I was looking out the barred window and a single ant crawled in from the outside of my window seal. I said to myself 'Man, I wish I were an ant! Then I could crawl right out of this place and start my life all over!' Well, I couldn't pull that one off, so I decided to make a homemade comic book about it. It got around and I had a little audience with my cellmates. Really built up my confidence about drawing. That's when I realized that one day I could be a comic book artist. I sent out my first submission from the county jail. I hope one day my story can be an inspiration to anybody out there who has a dream."''
7-->-- '''Mario Gully'''
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9''Ant'' is a current superhero comic series written and drawn by Mario Gully.
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11Hannah Washington is an 8-year-old African-American girl who gets picked on and ridiculed on a daily basis. To escape this torment, Hannah creates the Ant, an alter-ego derived from stories she wrote in her diary. As her name implies, the Ant is a superheroine who has all the strengths (but none of the weaknesses) of an actual ant.
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13As time passes and Hannah grows up, however, it's discovered that she actually ''is'' the Ant. That, and all the childhood issues she's been dealing with are actually past memories, non-existent... or something like that.
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15Already somewhat unstable due to being in a mental institution, Hannah chooses to don the mantle of the Ant and discover how she came to pass, as well as taking on some supervillains along the way.
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17The series received a {{Reboot}} in 2021, with Mario Gully handing over art and writing duties to [[Comicbook/SavageDragon Erik Larsen]].
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20!!The Ant comics contain examples of:
21* ActionGirl: Hannah can pack quite the punch, and her Ant abilities make her even tougher.
22* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: As a girl, Hannah was bullied by her peers at school. This contributes partially to why she imagined herself as the Ant.
23* AnimalMotifs: Obviously, Hannah's is the ant. She has SuperStrength (like how an ant can lift three times its weight), can crawl on walls, wears a red suit with antennae, and can "fix" said suit by consuming sugar. Also counts as AnimalThemedSuperbeing.
24* ClingyCostume: Justified. Hannah's ant costume isn't spandex, but a gathering of nanobots that form to her body, and will simply grow back even when she rips them apart.
25* CreepyGood: Ant has quite the scary face and is ''very'' ruthless, but is a heroine through and through.
26* {{Crossover}}: She's teamed up with Comicbook/{{Savage Dragon}} and Comicbook/{{Spawn}} in the 2021 reboot.
27* EnemyMime: Jessica Mime, who dresses (quite loosely) as a mime and has a sort of "mime power" in the form of gauntlets that allow her to make various shapes in the air out of HardLight. She's an obnoxious loudmouth even by non-mime standards, though.
28* {{Foil}}: The Arachnid is this to the Ant. Like the Ant, the Arachnid is a red-skinned superbeing with an insectoid [[AnimalMotifs Animal Motif]]. But the former's a [[MsFanservice curvaceous superheroine]], while the latter's a [[{{Gonk}} hideous supervillain]].
29* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Hannah has healing abilities thanks to the Ant suit.
30* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: Adult Hannah, which the artists tend to accentuate with plenty of [[BoobsAndButtPose Boobs-And-Butts Poses.]]
31* MindScrew: It's unclear whether the Ant is either Hannah's imaginary persona, or an actual person, but the story lends credence to both ideas.
32* MsFanservice: Definitely. Hannah covers a [[MostCommonSuperpower lot]] [[HartmanHips of the]] [[BoobsAndButtPose tropes]] associated with this.
33%% * NighInvulnerability: Ant's suit makes her incredibly durable, but her outfit can be destroyed after taking significant damage.
34* OneWordTitle
35%% * PowerUpFood: Ant can regain her suit by consuming sugar.
36%% * SassyBlackWoman: She used to be a mild example of this, but {{Flanderization}} made this a straighter example.
37%% * SuperArmor: Her Exoskeleton Variation, Hannah's exoskeleton is strong, but it breaks off easy. It can be reconstructed by Hannah consuming sugar.
38* WallCrawl: As an ant-themed superhero, Hannah can do this. Plenty of the covers demonstrate this ability of hers.

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