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Spoilers for all works set prior to the end of Avengers: Endgame are unmarked.

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Avengers Family Members

Tony Stark's Family

Howard Stark

Howard Anthony Walter Stark

"What is and always will be my greatest creation... is you."

"Technically, we're not even sure it works, but— well, let's face it, I invented it, so it works."

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Stark Industries, S.H.I.E.L.D.

Portrayed By: John Slattery, Dominic Cooper (young), Gerard Sanders (Iron Man)

Voiced By: Héctor Emmanuel Gómez (Cooper's Howard), Raúl Anaya (Slattery's Howard) (Latin-American Spanish dub); César Lechiguero (Iron Man 2), Txema Moscoso (Ant-Man, Captain America: Civil War), Manuel Gimeno (Captain America: The First Avenger), Guillermo Romero (Agent Carter) (European Spanish dub), Hirofumi Nojima [Cooper's Howard], Yutaka Nakano [Slattery's Howard] (Japanese dub), Claudio Galvan, Gutemberg Barros [Cooper's Howard], Samir Murad [Slattery's Howard] (Brazilian Portuguese dub)

Appearances: Iron Man ^note  Photo only | Iron Man 2 ^note  Video recording only | Captain America: The First Avenger | Captain America: The Winter Soldier ^note  Photo only | Marvel One-Shots: Agent Carter | Agent Carter | Ant-Man ^note  Flashback only | Captain America: Civil War ^note  As an illusion made by B.A.R.F. and video recording only | Avengers: Endgame

"Let me tell you, you don't get to climb the American ladder without picking up some bad habits on the way."

The founder and CEO of Stark Industries, Tony Stark's father, and Steve Rogers' and Peggy Carter's friend. During World War II, Stark was America's biggest military contractor, and one of the leading scientists behind the Super-Soldier project. He occasionally assisted Rogers in several missions during his tenure before returning to Stark Industries.

Alongside Carter, Stark later became a founding member of S.H.I.E.L.D., which he remained loyal to until an untimely car accident took his life along with his wife's.

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• Abusive Parents:
  • Howard's son, Tony, said that his dad never told him he loved him (or even liked him, for that matter), and that the happiest day of his life was when he shipped Tony off to boarding school at the tender age of around seven years old. A flashback in an Iron Man 2 prelude comic also reveals Howard was both verbally and physically abusive on top of that (he hit Tony for leaving his toys on the floor, cursed loudly at him for it, and then berated him for "wasting his time" playing with toys). Civil War took it a step forward and had Howard do nothing but mock and scold Tony for being lazy and sleeping around in the single flashback scene he appeared in (though that was a BARF recreation of Tony's memories, so the validity is questionable). While the tape he left behind for Tony to find in Iron Man 2 suggests parental love (he calls Tony his "greatest creation", see image quote), it's fairly obvious that he saw Tony as a project instead of a child.
  • His own father is one to him as well. When he met time-traveling Tony in Endgame, Howard mentions that his father used to hit him with a belt.
• Ace Pilot: The best civilian pilot in the USA during WWII, skills he used to fly Steve Rogers 30 miles behind enemy lines.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • In the comics, he and Steve Rogers aren't really close as he was not involved whatsoever in Steve's origin story. In here, the two are close friends as he helped turn Steve into a Super-Soldier and made him his iconic vibranium shield and he continued to mourn Steve until he died.
  • Prior to the MCU, Howard never interacted with Peggy Carter in the comics and the two were never close friends as a result. The two only started interacting with each other in the comics after the MCU had established their relationship.
• The Alcoholic: Howard is seen drinking numerous times throughout his appearances, even being seen nursing a hangover with an alcoholic drink and seen drinking in his old tapes. It's Played for Laughs but becomes more heartbreaking and sinister when one takes into account his Parental Neglect and abuse (mentioned above) of Tony.
• All for Nothing: Howard's attempts to prevent his weapons from getting into the wrong hands and do good in the world are ultimately futile. Iron Man 1 establishes that Stark Industries will double deal in illegal weapons trading after his death until Tony shuts down the weapons department entirely. S.H.I.E.L.D. will be infiltrated by HYDRA and Howard will die at the Winter Soldier's hands.
• Alternate Self:
  • In Endgame, Tony runs into his past self while stealing the Tesseract which was stored in Camp Lehigh in the year 1970.
  • What If…? also introduces two variants of Howard: One in a reality where Peggy Carter is the one who gets injected with the Super Soldier Serum and another where The Avengers assembled in 1988 due to the threat of a Celestial invasion. Tony's other variants also mention their Earth's Howard.
• Always Someone Better: In the second film, it seems Tony thinks his father was this to him. Quite aside from Howard's apparent lack of parenting skills, he's been "dead for almost twenty years...still takin' [Tony] to school".
• Ambiguously Bi: Mentions in Agent Carter that he can relate to Peggy's mourning for Steve because he feels the same way. Peggy, who for the record is Steve's explicit love interest, returns the favor when she attempts to help him overcome his grief, pointing out that the both of them loved Steve.
• Ambiguously Jewish: In the fourth episode of Agent Carter, Howard relates several details of his background that hint at this. He also uses Yiddish in the second season.
• Arbitrarily Large Bank Account: He definitely shows shades of this in Agent Carter, especially season 2, much like his son in the present day. However, it's arguably more impressive in Howard's case, given that he's a relatively young man in the series and founded Stark Industries (as opposed to Tony, who's also a brilliant engineer but inherited the prosperous company from his father on top of that).
• The Atoner: Eventually, he got fed up with all the destruction his more dangerous inventions caused and sought to have them destroyed. It's implied he founded S.H.I.E.L.D. as way to make amends.
• Bigger Stick: Working on a Super-Soldier project either led to this kind of thinking or is his reason for being there in the first place. In any case, he eventually said, "peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy".
• Bludgeoned to Death: The Winter Soldier killed him by punching him in the head with his cybernetic arm until he died.
• Bungling Inventor: Zigzagged. Howard was a brilliant scientist and genius inventor, that can not be disputed. But Agent Carter shows that he had a vault filled with what he called "bad babies", inventions of his that didn't work how he wanted and several of them had very dangerous flaws. First Avenger and Iron Man 2 imply that some of his more ambitious and fantastic ideas couldn't be achieved due to being limited by the technology of the time. While Howard was an incredible inventor it's still shown that he had plenty of misfires as well.
• Brainy Brunette: He built Stark Industries on technology and arranging military contracts.
• Break the Cutie:
  • Strongly implied - in The First Avenger, Howard's cheerful, optimistic, and outgoing, as opposed to the bitter, emotionally-distant drunk he's shown to be in other films. Steve's "death" was likely a Cynicism Catalyst - Tony claims Howard couldn't stop talking about him decades later.
  • Having to confront all the destruction his inventions caused also helped him along the way.
  • The reveal in Winter Soldier that S.H.I.E.L.D. had been taken over from within by HYDRA, and Howard knew about it, may have also had a lot do with his emotional turn later in life. Being hunted down and assassinated by HYDRA may also have a hand in it if he knew they were planning on doing so beforehand.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: An odd example. Even he can't remember every woman he's gone out with. Exaggerated in Agent Carter Season 2: He doesn't even remember Dottie Underwood as the woman who held him hostage in the previous season's finale. Apparently, a woman kidnapping him by gunpoint isn't a very significant incident for him.
• Butt-Monkey:
  • To some degree, inventions wise. His hover car appears to work until it falls down to the ground, and when he's studying the Cube, he's Blown Across the Room.
  • He's this In-Universe as well, as Peggy and even Jarvis will often take jabs at his various vices (with or without him actually being around), though all in jest.
• The Casanova: During The '40s at least.
  • In Captain America: The First Avenger, he kisses one of the showgirls helping him demonstrate the early repulsor car at the fair, and later suggestively invites Peggy for fondue in Switzerland when flying Steve behind enemy lines to rescue the 107th.
  • In the Agent Carter short film, he explains bikinis to Dum-Dum at the end.
  • In the Agent Carter show, his tomcatting is expanded upon and has several women hanging around his Los Angeles mansion's pool.
• Casual Kink: In Agent Carter, Peggy finds a closet of female fetish clothes Stark uses to add a "theatrical element" to his private life in his... personal penthouse.
• Chick Magnet: Like his future son, Howard was a well known ladies' man.
• Chivalrous Pervert: He's genuinely trying to do some good in the world with his inventions and can be all-business when the situation calls for it, but Agent Carter shows that he'll also bed anyone in a skirt, with very few exceptions like Peggy.
• Composite Character: Takes the role of Dr. Myron McLain as the guy responsible for creating Captain America's Shield.
• Cursed with Awesome: His technical genius becomes this when he sees the destruction his inventions can cause, especially the ones that weren't even supposed to be weapons.
• Curtains Match the Window: He has dark brown hair and dark brown eyes.
• Deadpan Snarker: Not quite as snarky as his son, but he's no slouch.
  • In Iron Man 2:
    Howard: I'm Howard Stark... and on behalf of everybody at Stark Industries, I would like to show you... my ass.
  • In Ant-Man:
    Hank Pym: I formally tender my resignation.
    Howard: We don't accept it. Formally.
• Depending on the Writer: The movies proper are pretty consistent on the fact that while Howard was never going to win World's Best Dad, he's merely emotionally distant and snarky with Tony, but does genuinely love him. Some tie-in material for Iron Man 2 portrays him as outright physically abusive (which could be dismissed as Early-Installment Weirdness).
• Dude, Where's My Respect?:
  • In Agent Carter, it appears Peggy is the only S.S.R. agent who doesn't jump to believing the frame job on him.
  • During WWII, he had to contend with officers who thought they knew how to use his inventions better than he did. Many innocent people died because of it.
• Dramatic Irony: Howard is this trope packed into a single person. Iron Man and Iron Man 2 establish much of Howard's later personality and legacy. So it can be difficult to watch a happy, even idealistic hero knowing he becomes a drunken, neglectful parent whose death leaves a scar in his son's life.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Back in the 40s, Howard Stark was an opportunistic lech who takes pride in using his influence and wealth to do great things and work with many potential business partners. That said, he absolutely refused to accept the Arena Club's membership offer due to its racist and misogynistic tones. When he goes in with his harem of girls to buy time for Peggy to snoop around, he wastes no time expressing his hatred of the place, and outright tells the manager that he's never coming back to it.
  • While Howard might have been a ruthless and unscrupulous S.H.I.E.L.D executive who tried to secretly replicate Hank Pym's shrinking particles without his permission in the late 80s, he was thoroughly disgusted with Mitchell Carson mocking the (supposed) death of his wife, Janet.
  Howard: [after Mitchell gets punched by Hank] Don't look at me, you said it.
• Expy Coexistence: Subverted. There was talk of having The Rocketeer team up with Peggy Carter in the What If... episode, What If… Captain Carter Were the First Avenger? but with Howard Hughes being a mentor to the Rocketeer. It was scrapped because the creators thought it would be awkward having Hughes and his Expy Stark existing in the same universe.
• Fantasy-Forbidding Father: In the Iron Man 2 prelude comic, he viciously berates (and even strikes) his seven-year-old son for playing with toys, calling it “nonsense” and demanding that Tony do something more productive during his time over the weekends.
• He Knows Too Much: One of the reasons why HYDRA sent the Winter Soldier to assassinate him is because he was starting to catch on to their infiltration of S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Howard Hughes Homage: Especially in his younger years, as an engineer/inventor/pilot with a very active love life. He even gets into filmmaking, one of Hughes' other ventures, in Agent Carter.
• Hypocrite: In his sole flashback scene in Captain America: Civil War, Howard berates a young Tony for slacking off and sleeping with women in foreign countries. Agent Carter had previously established that Howard himself did all of those things to a much greater extent than his son ever did.
• Insufferable Genius: Like father, like son, though with a strange sense of modesty.
  Howard: Speaking modestly, I'm the best mechanical engineer in this country, but I do not know what's inside this [HYDRA submarine] or how it works.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Tony may not know about this until after he's dead, but he's very loyal and benevolent to Steve Rogers, not that it helps Tony's case. In fact, this is one of the main factors that causes no shortage of tension between the two. Although Tony's able to finally reconcile with his dad in Endgame.
• Killed to Uphold the Masquerade: Hinted at in Winter Soldier. When Natasha questions why S.H.I.E.L.D. never caught on to HYDRA's infiltration, Zola smugly remarks, "Accidents will happen." News clippings of the Starks' deaths then appear onscreen. His death is finally shown in Civil War, where it turns out he was killed to acquire the Super Soldier Serum he'd synthesized.
• Ladykiller in Love: Howard was a famous playboy but settled down after finding love with Maria.
• Like Father, Like Son: Technological genius and playboy with a streak of showmanship who dresses very well and becomes involved with superheroes. Additionally, both Tony and Howard eventually become disillusioned with the weapons business after seeing all the chaos it causes and wish to make amends by doing something good (Tony became Iron Man, Howard founded S.H.I.E.L.D.) while still having to deal with politicians and General Ripper characters who keep wanting them to make weapons. Both are prone to snarky comments and witty barbs too.
• Mad Scientist: He's got the tendencies, even if he doesn't have the attitude.
  Howard: Seems harmless enough. Hard to see what all the fuss is about.
  [touches energy bit, massive explosion blows him back]
  Howard: [dazed, yet unconcerned] ...Write that down.
• Make It Look Like an Accident: In The Winter Soldier, it's revealed that the car accident that killed him and his wife was in fact an assassination arranged by HYDRA. Civil War elaborates on this by showing that they were killed by Bucky for the Super Soldier Serum that Howard was taking away from HYDRA.
• May–December Romance: Implied between him and Maria, since he would have been 51 when his son was born in 1970 while Maria's actress was 49 when she portrayed the character dying in 1991. It's likely the age difference between Howard and Maria ranged from ten to twenty years, though in real life there was only a two year difference between Slattery and Davis.
• Millionaire Playboy: When he's not working for the U.S military to defeat the Nazis or trying to run S.H.I.E.L.D alongside its co-founders, Howard loves nothing more than to spend gratuitous amounts of money, hang out with beautiful women and show off his inventions to other people. That said, he has used his hedonist lifestyle to occasionally assist the likes of Peggy Carter during important missions, such as distracting the men-only Arena Club by waltzing in with a harem, or assisting in building machines to contain zero matter.
• Mr. Alt Disney: Richard Sherman (who with his brother Robert composed and wrote songs for Walt Disney) wrote the Stark Expo Jingle in Iron Man 2. Compare the video footage of Slattery's Howard in Iron Man 2 with episodes of Disneyland, Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, and The Wonderful World of Disney, particularly ones about "The Florida Project" and "Epcot". The resemblance is deliberate and eerie.
• My Greatest Failure: Not finding Steve after he crashed the Valkyrie into the Arctic. It was how Ivchenko was able to put him under hypnosis.
• Nice Guy: Before devolving into Jerk with a Heart of Gold, he's genuinely nice to just about anyone he meets. He gets along with Peggy enough to ask her if she'd like some fondue and when Steve misinterprets it for them having an affair, Howard takes the time to explain him what fondue is. He even takes Steve's contributions to the uniform to heart when showing him his new shield. When Captain America sinks the plane and is missing, Howard is hellbent on finding him, to the point where S.H.I.E.L.D. agents loyal to his cause make finding Captain America their first priority.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
  • In Agent Carter, his inventions end up causing mass death and destruction once Leviathan finally gets their hands on them. In many cases, his inventions were actually not weapons and were intended to be used as defensive equipment for soldiers, but severely flawed prototypes meant that they could end up accidentally causing a great deal of death. Much more vile characters then make use of these "weapons". Even Jarvis called his inventions "Mr. Stark's bloody inventions" while losing most of his usual Servile Snarker tone in his voice, indicating even he's horrified with his boss' work.
  • A flashback in Ant-Man shows that he attempted to replicate his S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague Hank Pym's shrinking technology behind his back for use in other weapons and technology. When Hank, who had kept the tech to himself to ensure it wouldn't be misused by others, discovers this, he is furious, resigns from S.H.I.E.L.D., and cuts off all contact with Howard. Hank is so bitter about it that he refused to reach out to Howard's son Tony and the Avengers to share his technology in the modern day.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Doing your patriotic duty to help your home country defeat the Nazis by becoming a military contractor? All well and good until a General Ripper steals one of your untested dangerous prototypes and it causes nothing but innocent deaths when it turns out it induces a Hate Plague.
• Non-Action Guy: He's an excellent pilot and a genius weapons designer, but no fighter.
• Parental Favoritism: The fact that Howard, always a distant and hard-to-please dad, "never shut up" about Steve Rogers is a thorny point with Tony by the time The Avengers rolls around, fueling his initial dislike of Steve.
• Parental Neglect: Howard was proud of Tony and left him the map to creating a new element, but it sounds like he was as bad at communicating his feelings as Tony.
  Tony: He was cold, he was calculating, he never told me he loved me, he didn't even tell me that he liked me, so it's a bit hard for me to digest that he said the whole "future is riding on me" thing. You're talking about a man whose happiest day of his life was shipping me off to boarding school.
• Parents as People: He definitely could have done a better job as a father but at the end of the day, he still loved Tony dearly even if he was terrible at showing it. His video message in Iron Man 2 has him state outright that Tony was his greatest creation, and when Tony goes back in time in Endgame, Howard reveals to Tony (who is hiding his identity) that he's overjoyed that he's about to be a father, but is also terrified about his child turning out like him and just plain not knowing how to raise one. It's this open conversation about the fear of failing their children that helps Tony finally accept that his father truly cared about him in his own way, even if he never realized it. Tony even tells the past Howard that by this point, all he really remembers are the good times with his father instead of the bad.
• Platonic Life-Partners: Deconstructed with Peggy. Howard genuinely respects her skills (unlike most men in the time period) and Peggy is one of the few women he doesn't flirt with (aside from friendly teasing). However, because of his history as a notorious playboy, many people (including Peggy's co-workers) assume that they have a romantic relationship or Peggy is attracted by the playboy's sex appeal.
• The Pornomancer: Much like his son, Agent Carter shows this is a running trait; especially in the episode "A Sin to Err", where his list of his paramours in the last six months is at least three pages long and Jarvis still comments that it seems rather short. He's even had more of his escapades shown than Tony has, though that might have to do with Tony being in a stable relationship in most of his films while Howard hasn't met his future wife yet.
• Posthumous Character: Averted in The First Avenger, Agent Carter, the one-shot he appears in and his cameos in Ant-Man and Avengers: Endgame, due to their taking place in the 1940s through the 1980s, but in the modern-day setting of most of the films, Howard has been deceased since December of 1991.
• Rags to Riches: He was the son of parents who did menial jobs for money. He became a Self-Made Man who would make millions.
• Really Gets Around: We can see where Tony got it from. Best shown when Peggy hides him in The Griffith, where he spent most of his time having sex with the residents there, leading Peggy to call him disgusting.
• Redemption Equals Death: Stark shows shades of believing this in Agent Carter, believing that setting himself up as bait in a trap is the best way to make up for the damage done by his weapons. "This is the only way to redeem myself!"
• Reed Richards Is Useless: He invented a lot of stuff that far outpaces even today's technology that never made it past the prototype stage. Justified in some cases, as he intentionally kept them that way for fear of them being used as weapons.
• Related in the Adaptation: In the mainstream comics, Tony is Howard's adopted son. The movies, however, take a cue from the Ultimate comics and have Howard be Tony's biological father.^note Specifically, the Ultimate line and the movies both drew from the character's original depiction. The fact that Tony was adopted by Howard was not revealed until 2013 in the comics and was a surprise to Tony when he learned of it. For most of the character's history, Howard actually was (assumed to be) Tony's biological father.
• Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: While on the run in Agent Carter, he calls his butler Jarvis for assistance in preparing his favorite drink.
• Science-Related Memetic Disorder: When he gets an idea for an invention, no matter how dangerous, he can't not make it. That's why he has a vault for his "bad babies".
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Howard develops weapons for the military which is why he wasn't punished for helping Steve with his Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!.
• Self-Made Man: Howard claims his parents were working-class people from Manhattan's Lower East Side, so he had to fight his way to the top and his millions.
• Silver Fox: He aged pretty finely.
• The Smart Guy: In charge of improving Cap's shield and costume as well as other high-tech devices for the Allies.
• So Proud of You: Posthumously to Tony. After digging through his father's research, Tony finds a hidden message.
  Howard: "Tony, you are too young to understand this right now, so I thought I would put it on film for you. I built this for you, and some day you'll realize that it represents a whole lot more than just people's inventions. It represents my life's work. This is the key to the future. I'm limited by the technology of my time, but one day you'll figure this out. And when you do, you will change the world. What is, and always will be, my greatest creation... is you."
• Stepford Smiler: Underneath his cocky showy persona he harbors deep feelings of guilt for his failure to to find Steve and all the death and destruction his inventions bring.
• Time-Shifted Actor: Played by a total of three actors corresponding to the different ages at which the character appears: by Dominic Cooper in the 1940s, by John Slattery in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, and by Gerard Sanders in various flashback photos in Iron Man. This even applies to voice-acting, as Dominic Cooper voices Howard's younger variants while John Slattery voices his older variants in What If…?.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Howard became this over the years, especially when he started to become a father for Tony. He didn't exhibit any real jerkass tendencies during World War II; only a very mild dig at Rogers not noticing the radioactivity of a cube fragment. By the time of the early seventies and onwards, Howard has become a significantly more unpleasant person, having conspired to try to replicate Hank Pym's shrinking formula behind his back, and being dismissive of his own son's shortcomings and Upper-Class Twit-like antics. He was somewhat aware of this though, as he admits to an undercover time-traveling Tony in Endgame (though Howard isn't aware of that fact) that he's worried about his child turning out like him, and that he's terrified about not being cut out to be a father, no matter how happy he is about being one.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: A number of his early weaponized or weaponizable inventions end up in the hands of very nefarious individuals right after World War II and are used to devastating effects, and it's up to Peggy Carter and him to ensure they don't cause more harm than they already did.
• Upper-Class Twit: He very much acts like this in Season 2 of Agent Carter. While he does spend a lot of his time trying to shoot movies and drink away his problems with many gorgeous women, he immediately drops everything to help Peggy when it comes to resolving the Zero Matter crisis.
• What You Are in the Dark: For all he postures as a hard-partying womanizer, Stark cares deeply about the people of the world and his inventions are intended to help people. He also goes out of his way to help people in other ways, such as saving Jarvis from charges for treason and rescuing his wife, Ana, from Nazi-occupied Austria. Tellingly, he never publicizes acts like those.

Maria Stark

Maria Stark

♫ Try to remember the kind of September
When grass was green... ♫

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Stark Industries

Portrayed By: Hope Davis

Voiced By: Talía Marcera (Latin American Spanish dub), Catherina Martínez (European Spanish dub), Yuko Izumi (Japanese dub), Lina Rossana (Brazilian Portuguese dub)

Appearances: Captain America: Civil War ^note  As an illusion made by B.A.R.F. and video recording only | The Falcon and the Winter Soldier ^note Flashback with archive footage from Civil War

"Say something. If you don't, you'll regret it."

Howard Stark's wife and Tony Stark's mother.

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• Adaptational Dye-Job: Maria in the comics was traditionally portrayed as a brunette. In the movies, she's portrayed by Hope Davis, who has blonde hair.^note Likewise, comics Maria has Icy Blue Eyes, while Davis has green eyes.
• But Not Too Foreign: Her maiden name "Carbonell" is Spanish/Catalonian, implying that at least one of her parents was from Spain/Catalonia, but she never gives any indication of being foreign to America or of recognizing Spanish/Catalonian culture.
• Despair Event Horizon: Implied, given when the Winter Soldier moves to kill her, she doesn't even try fighting back, or even screaming.
• Elegant Classical Musician: The first time she's seen, she's playing and singing on the piano.
• Good Parents: By all indications (and the fact Tony never complains about her the same as he does his father), she was this for Tony.
• Last Girl Wins: After Howard Stark gained a reputation of being a notorious playboy, it seems that he settled into a happy marriage once he met Maria.
• May–December Romance: Implied between her and Howard, since he would have been 51 when his son was born in 1970 while Davis was 49 when she portrayed the character dying in 1991. It's likely the age difference between Howard and Maria ranged from ten to twenty years, though in real life there was only a two year difference between Slattery and Davis.
• Muggle: She was just an ordinary person, with no particular scientific expertise or genius. She still seems capable of dealing with both Howard and Tony, though.
• Out of Focus: She appears and is mentioned much less than her husband, Civil War being the first time she was shown onscreen.
• Parental Neglect: Played with. While Maria was an exponentially better parent than Howard Stark was and openly affectionate toward her son in Civil War, Tony mentions to JARVIS in the Iron Man 2 tie-in comic that whenever he came home from boarding school, the "only person happy to see him was you (Edwin Jarvis)", implying that she was at least somewhat distant as a mother. It's potentially justified in that she was simply too busy with work to make time for him, though it does beg the question as to why she couldn't plan ahead for her seven-year-old son's sole weekend at home.

Pepper Potts

Virginia "Pepper" Potts / Rescue

"Tony, trying to get you to stop has been one of the few failures in my entire life."

^{Click here to see Iron Man Mark: XLIX "Rescue"}

Species: Enhanced human (formerly), Human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Stark Industries

Portrayed By: Gwyneth Paltrow

Voiced By: Yotzmit Ramírez (Latin-American Spanish dub), Alicia Laorden (European Spanish dub), Hiroe Oka (Japanese dub until Infinity War), Sayaka Kobayashi (Japanese dub since Endgame), Silvia Goiabeira (Brazilian Portuguese dub), Mélanie Laberge (Canadian French dub)

Appearances: Iron Man | Iron Man 2 | The Avengers | Iron Man 3 | Spider-Man: Homecoming | Avengers: Infinity War | Avengers: Endgame

"You know, there's only 8,011 things that I really need to talk to you about."

Tony Stark's faithful personal assistant, later CEO of Stark Industries, and eventually his Love Interest.

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• Action Girl:
  • Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow requested she become this in Iron Man 3. She does, briefly, first when she temporarily gains control of the Mark 42 armour during the attack on the Malibu mansion, then again in the finale as a result of getting pumped full of Extremis by Killian.
  • Endgame takes this a step further, as she joins in the final battle as Rescue.
• Action Mom: She's Happily Married to Tony during 5-year-Time Skip in Endgame and has a daughter. She also joins the final battle in her Rescue armor.
• Action Survivor: One becomes this when working for a superhero. She becomes a full-on Action Girl after donning the Rescue armor in Endgame.
• Adaptational Context Change: In the comics, her nickname "Pepper" comes from her red hair and freckles. Here, Stark gave her the nickname due to their first meeting involving her threatening to use pepper spray on his security.
• Adaptational Dye-Job:
  • Pepper's hair progresses from her natural red in the comics, to Paltrow's standard blonde in her final MCU appearance.
  • In Endgame, the Rescue armor has a blue-silver color scheme (likely to compliment Tony's standard red-gold), instead of the usual red-silver colors from the comics.
• Age Lift: Pepper is at least ten years younger in the comics.
• All There in the Manual: She's not officially referred to as Rescue in Endgame, but toy packaging◊ released after the film identifies her as such.
• Alliterative Name: Her nickname and last name both start with a P.
• Babies Ever After: She and Tony have a daughter, Morgan, after the five-year Time Skip in Endgame.
• Bash Siblings: Becomes this with the Avengers in Endgame.
• Battle Couple: She and Tony fight as Back-to-Back Badasses during the final battle against Thanos in Endgame.
• Beleaguered Assistant: Best example is her first scene in Iron Man 2 when she's trying in vain to get Tony's attention for 8,011 things and he's walking away from her while talking about something unrelated.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Sweet, charming, graceful... And she's killed several villains, including landing killing blows on the Big Bad characters of two of Iron Man's own movies! She fries Obadiah at the end of the first film, and Killian at the end of the third film.
• Big Damn Heroes:
  • In Iron Man 3, she's the one who steps in and saves Tony from Killian when the latter comes back for one last scare.
  • In Endgame, she joins The Cavalry (donning the Rescue suit Tony built for her) to combat Thanos and his army in the Final Battle.
• Blue Is Heroic: In Endgame, she wears the blue-colored Rescue suit to combat Thanos.
• Brought Down to Badass: Despite no longer having Extremis, she instead suits up in her Rescue armor in Endgame.
• Brought Down to Normal: The closing narration of Iron Man 3 mentions that she was cured of Extremis.
• The Cameo:
  • In The Avengers, she appears in three scenes and only one with speaking lines.
  • She also makes a brief appearance at the end of Spider-Man: Homecoming.
  • In Avengers: Infinity War, she only appears for one scene towards the beginning and doesn't reappear afterwards (aside from her calling Tony a few moments later).
• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: As Tony's personal assistant, it's her job description to keep him focused and on task, no matter what weird thing he has cooked up or how far he spaces out.
• Combined Energy Attack: In a similar way to what Tony, Thor and Vision did to Ultron Prime in the climax of Age of Ultron, Pepper combines the Rescue armor's repulsor beams with The Wasp's energy bolts and Shuri's sonic blasts to repel Thanos during the final battle of Avengers: Endgame.
• Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: The name "Rescue" is never used for her armor, though the reasoning for that specific codename doesn't exist in the MCU (the comics version is explicitly a pacifist who does actual rescue work and avoids combat when possible, while her MCU gear is fully weaponized). Pepper only wears the suit during a Big Badass Battle Sequence where there's not a lot of dialogue to spare to make the reference anyways. However, merchandise based on the character does use the name Rescue.
• Composite Character: She has the general appearance of her comic book counterpart, as well as being a Love Interest for Tony, but several aspects of her personality (particularly her hyper-competence) borrow a lot from Bambi Arbogast, the older woman whom Tony hires as her replacement after she's Put on a Bus in the comics. (Bambi herself — in a much younger incarnation — briefly appears in Iron Man 2 and has a blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance as Pepper's new PA in Iron Man 3, presumably having replaced Natasha Romanov).
• Cry Laughing: In Avengers: Endgame, she forces herself to put on a smile after Tony used the Infinity Stones to Snap a 2014 version of Thanos and his army out of existence and is mortally wounded as a result. Pepper assures him that she and Morgan will be fine and he can rest now. After Tony dies, the smile instantly drops and she starts crying in grief.
• Cursed with Awesome: Being infected with Extremis grants Playing with Fire and Healing Factor.
• Damsel in Distress: Deconstructed. Though Tony has obviously saved Pepper a few times, at least two Big Bad's downfalls were directly down to dismissing her as this role in their plans. Both Obadiah and Killian saw Pepper as a mere collateral damage or lure in their vendetta against Tony, enabling her to set about their destruction while they fought against him.
• Deadpan Snarker: "Taking out the trash" is the best example of her polite and low-key insults.
• Demoted to Extra: During Phase 1, Pepper Potts was arguably the main female character, appearing in 3 out of 6 films and having a major role in two of them ^note For comparison, Natasha Romanoff appears in two films and has a major role in only one of them.. In Phase 2, she only appears in the first film, but at least she plays an important part in it. In Phase 3, she is reduced to brief cameos in Spider-Man: Homecoming and Avengers: Infinity War, and has a slightly larger but still minor role in Avengers: Endgame.
• Disney Death: In Iron Man 3, Tony watches her fall from a great height into a pillar of fire. Since she was pumped full of Extremis earlier, she survives.
  Tony: You just scared the devil out of me. I thought you were...
  Pepper: Dead? Why? Because I fell two hundred feet?
• Do a Barrel Roll: Blink and you'll miss it, but for an inexperienced pilot of the armor, Pepper certainly pulled one off well right before destroying the necrocraft and joining her husband in a Back-to-Back Badasses moment.
• The Dog Bites Back: Related to the above, Killian infuses Pepper with Extremis, and then causes the explosion that appears to kill her. Once she turns out to be alive, Pepper beats up Killian, grabs one of Tony's repulsors and disintegrates the poor sap.
• Dude Magnet: Tony falls for Pepper and quits his playboy act to be with her. Word of God confirmed that Happy was in love with her for some time. Killian took an interest in her during Iron Man 3.
• Fiery Redhead: Zigzagged. She's certainly strong and outspoken, but too calm and level-headed to fully fit the trope.
• Genocide Survivor: Endgame reveals that she survived the Snap.
• Girl Friday: "I do anything and everything Mr. Stark requires." This includes sneaking into her boss' company and downloading files for him without alerting anyone else. She's not the page image for nothing.
• Good with Numbers: Tony relies on her to do the number thing. He doesn't even know his own SSN. In fact, Pepper was hired after she corrected a minute error Tony made on some financial projections, which no one else caught.
• Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Her Rescue armor is primarily purple with silvery accents.
• Happily Married: Pepper and Tony make it official in Endgame, and she proves herself to be a devoted wife to him and a loving mother to their daughter Morgan.
• The Heart: Gwyneth Paltrow has credited Pepper's popularity with the fans to her fulfillment of this role as part of her relationship with Tony, and she agreed to a cameo in The Avengers because of it.
• Hidden Depths: The Iron Man novelization reveals she was a model in her youth. Tony alludes to this in Iron Man 2 when he asks if Pepper modeled in Tokyo like "Natalie Rushman".
• High-Heel Power: A hyper-competent Girl Friday, later a CEO, and can rock a pair of pumps.
• Honest Corporate Executive: As CEO of Stark Industries, she refuses to accept the Extremis project because it could be easily weaponized.
• Hyper-Competent Sidekick: She runs Stark Industries for Tony when he's busy or bored. By Iron Man 2, Tony recognizes this and names her the CEO of Stark Industries.
• In-Series Nickname: Her birth name is hardly ever brought up.
• Irony: Throughout the movies, her relationship with Tony struggled because his dedication to being Iron Man kept getting in the way, and Tony tried to retire (several times, actually) to be with her. In Endgame, however, it was Pepper more than anyone else who convinced the initially reluctant Tony to don the Iron Man armor once again and rejoin the Avengers in order to restore the other half of the universe.
• Kaleidoscope Hair: She was originally a redhead, but gradually shifted to her actress' natural blonde hair.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: In the finale of Iron Man 3, she demonstrates her badass cred by disabling an Iron Man suit, ripping off its arm, and then uses its repulsor to finish off Killian.
• Like Parent, Like Spouse: The little we see and know of Maria Stark suggests that she and Pepper are quite similar. Both are blonde women (although, Pepper's hair starts off as more red) with a more elegant and grounded perspective, who ultimately manage to get their husbands to quit the playboy act and start a family with them.
• Living Emotional Crutch: Tony states Pepper is "the one thing that [he] can't live without".
• Mama Bear:
  • When Pepper gets her own Powered Armour during the Final Battle in Avengers: Endgame, she definitely has shades of this towards Spidey, which makes sense considering her husband's own Parental Substitute and Papa Wolf relationship with Peter. She also didn't object to Tony returning to heroics in a bid to bring back a Snapped!Peter, either.
    Pepper: Hang on, I got you, kid.
  • Her participation in protecting the entire universe from Thanos also extends to keeping her daughter Morgan safe.
• Masculine Lines, Feminine Curves: Pepper's Mk. XLIX Rescue Armor suit is aesthetically designed to appear feminine in contrast to the suits Tony wears; while Tony's face masks typically have straight-edged and angular jaw and brow lines, the one on Pepper's has more smooth and rounded edges.
• Meaningful Name:
  • Virginia "Pepper" Potts. Silk hiding fire.
  • The Iron Man novelization reveals Tony gave her the nickname after she threatened to pepper-spray a couple Stark Industries security guards when they tried to remove her from Tony's office as she confronted him about an accounting error.
• Mistaken for Pregnant: A variation. In Civil War, Steve Rogers asks Tony Stark where Pepper is during their discussion in the Joint Counter Terrorist Centre, and Tony struggles to answer. Steve assumes that must mean she's pregnant, but Tony reveals that what he actually meant was that they have broken up.
• Morality Chain: Tony's mood and attitude take a notable dip during his and Pepper's separation in Civil War.
• Morality Pet: Downplayed. Tony does become nicer by the end of the first movie and onward, but can still be quite arrogant and obnoxious. Pepper is the one he's the nicest to. She also doubles as his Living Emotional Crutch.
• Motor Mouth: In the first two Iron Man movies, she usually manages to counteract Tony's own fast-talking and wall of sarcasm by just talking over him. Though sometimes even Tony can't get a word in edgeways.
• Nice Girl: One of the easiest to get along with in Stark Industries.
• Non-Action Snarker: She doesn't fight — most of the time — and sass is one of her ways of dealing with things.
• Non-Protagonist Resolver: Pepper is the one who kills Obadiah Stane in Iron Man and Aldrich Killian in Iron Man 3 instead of Tony.
• Offscreen Breakup: By the time of Civil War, she has broken up with Tony as he couldn't stop being Iron Man. They're back together from Spider-Man: Homecoming onward.
• Oh, Crap!: Throughout Iron Man 2, Tony repeatedly tried and failed to tell her about how the miniature reactor in his body was now killing him, including one incident where Pepper refused to hear him outright because she was still steaming over a quarrel they'd been having. After spending the whole movie annoyed and angry at him, Tony finally manages to drop the bomb on her, and she's absolutely terrified at the thought.
• One True Love: Pepper becomes this from Iron Man 2 onward, with Tony devoting himself to her completely, and not even seriously looking at another woman during their brief separation. In Avengers: Endgame, Tony tells Pepper that even if he dies adrift in space and this message reaches her somehow, he wants her to know that he would die dreaming of her.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Everybody calls her Pepper instead of Virginia.
• Only Sane Woman: In Tony's life. She (tries to) keep him focused.
• Out of Focus: In Endgame, she is notably absent from most of the scenes set at her cabin with Tony^note Excluding a Deleted Scene introducing their retirement, allowing him quality time with Morgan before he perished at the end of the movie.
• Powered Armor:
  • During the attack on Tony's house in Iron Man 3, Tony transfers the Mark 42 armor on her to protect her from the collapsing house.
  • In Avengers: Endgame, Tony has made a blue and silver armor as an anniversary gift for Pepper, although he doesn't expect her to wear it. Pepper does wear it for the final battle against Thanos.
• Punny Name: A "pepper pot" is another name for a pepper shaker.
• Put on a Bus: In Captain America: Civil War, Tony says they're taking a break. It is a possible Actor Allusion to Gwyneth's "conscious uncoupling" with her husband Chris Martin.
• Relationship Upgrade:
  • To Official Couple with Tony as of the end of Iron Man 2. They broke up with each other sometime between Iron Man 3 and Civil War, due to Tony breaking his promise to retire as Iron Man, but are back together by the events of Spider-Man: Homecoming.
  • It's heavily implied they went through another Relationship Upgrade at the end of Homecoming. When Peter backs out of the press conference they had planned at the last minute, Pepper pressures Tony as to what "big announcement" they are going to tell the 50 reporters gathered in the next room, to which Tony and Happy produce an engagement ring they had been carrying since 2008. The couple's first scene in Infinity War confirms that they are now engaged.
  • After the Time Skip in Endgame, she and Tony are now married and have a child.
• The Reliable One: To Tony. He wouldn't ask just anyone to remove the prototype arc reactor and slot in the new one.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: She almost does this twice, in the first movie when she discovers Tony is risking his life as Iron Man and in the sequel after the pressure of running the company and having to deal with Tony's erratic and irresponsible behavior become too much. She doesn't go through with it, though.
• Servile Snarker: She's an expert at the Passive-Aggressive Kombat and Stealth Insults. She never loses her sweet smile or polite demeanor during the following:
  Pepper Potts: I got your clothes here; they've been dry cleaned and pressed. And there's a car waiting for you outside that will take you anywhere you'd like to go.
  Christine Everhart: You must be the famous Pepper Potts.
  Pepper Potts: Indeed, I am.
  Christine Everhart: After all these years, Tony still has you picking up the dry cleaning.
  Pepper Potts: I do anything and everything Mr. Stark requires. Including occasionally taking out the trash. Will that be all?
• Sexy Secretary: Ironically, not what Tony hired her for.
• Short-Lived Leadership: Tony promotes her to CEO of Stark Industries at the beginning of Iron Man 2. She tries to resign at the end of it, after what can't be more than a few weeks at most. Subverted when The Avengers confirms she's still running SI.
• Silk Hiding Steel: Downplayed; less 'subtle manipulation' and more 'semi-aggressive nudging'. Getting a concept into Tony's head when he's thinking about something else is not a job for subtlety.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Pepper doesn't begin a romantic relationship with Tony unless he was willing to take it seriously, and she wouldn't be another one of his many flings. It's best evident in her refusal to kiss him in the first Iron Man. She eventually makes Tony a honest man who becomes completely devoted to her and sheds his playboy ways for good.
• Slut-Shaming: Justified; Consummate Professional Pepper has a low opinion of Tony's childish behavior and especially of his oversexed lifestyle. During her introductory scene, she appears to give Christine Everheart a free escort anywhere she wants to go. Christine, realizing Tony just used her for another one-night stand, takes it out on Pepper, who politely offers a Stealth Insult and maintains a low opinion of the reporter throughout the rest of her appearances. Perhaps anticipating a similar experience, all she has to say to Maya is "you saved yourself a world of pain".
• Spanner in the Works: Had Pepper not kept Tony's first arc reactor and given it back to him, he would've been without a power source for his armor/pacemaker after Iron Monger took his new one, leaving him to die and allowing Stane to go unopposed.
• Territorial Smurfette:
  • Averted with Christine Everhart in Iron Man. Pepper is perfectly civil to her after Christine slept with Tony. It's only when Christine is pretty rude to her that she snarks back. Moreover, the dialogue suggests that Pepper's had this situation with Tony's one-night stands before and thus averts the trope as a rule.
  • Subverted in Iron Man 2. Tony Stark expects this to happen with Pepper and the new aide Natasha, but the two of them get along fine (barring one moment where Pepper blames Nat for Tony's erratic behavior). Pepper takes it as a sign of Tony's arrogance that he'd assume another Love Triangle would form over him.
• Three-Point Landing: In Endgame, she does this on her arrival at the final battle in her armor, followed by the signature Iron-Man mask lift.
• Took a Level in Badass: In Iron Man 3, she successfully operates a suit to save Tony's life. At the end of the film, she becomes even more powerful and finishes the mastermind off with the powers derived from Extremis. She takes another level in Endgame, wearing her own suit of armor for the final battle.
• Undying Loyalty: To Tony. When it comes down to it, Pepper had every reason in the world to leave Tony, and no doubt had several opportunities over the years. She never did, and it's clear it's because she loves him and would do anything for him. She's fully aware of his faults and refused to start a relationship with him until he became a better man.
• Villain Killer: Surprisingly, until Endgame was released, she had the highest personal kill count of Big Bads. She was the one to activate the arc reactor and actually kill the very first Big Bad of the MCU, Obidiah Stane. She then kills Aldrich Killian with her Extremis powers, much to her own shock.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: She was always protective of Tony; in the third movie, she gets to prove it physically instead of just by calling S.H.I.E.L.D.. Killian finds this one out the hard way, and won't be coming back to learn from his mistake of messing with her and Tony.
• Wet Blanket Wife: Downplayed. While at first Pepper seemed fine with Tony's Iron Man alter ego, following his near-death in The Avengers and the destruction of their home, she urges him to quit. When he doesn't due to his compulsion to heroism, she ends their relationship. They have gotten back together and are engaged by the end of Spider-Man: Homecoming, though Avengers: Infinity War shows that she's still trying to convince Tony to give up superheroing. Avengers: Endgame, however, reveals that Pepper has since given up on trying to get him to stop, instead encouraging Tony to help the Avengers as he has the time travel theory in his mind and it will come back to haunt him if he doesn't.
• Xenafication:
  • In part thanks to Gwyneth Paltrow and Robert Downey Jr. insisting on it, Pepper has her own action scene in Iron Man 3. As she's usually so peaceful, her sudden aggression surprises even herself.
    Pepper: [after killing Killian] Oh my God... That was really violent!
  • In Avengers: Endgame, after spending much of the Infinity Saga running Stark Industries and retiring to a peaceful life with her husband and daughter, Pepper wastes no time donning her own Rescue suit in order to participate in the final battle. And in spite of not using Tony's armored suits at all since 2013, she fights just as effectively as her husband does.

Morgan Stark

Morgan Howard Stark

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Stark Industries

Portrayed By: Lexi Rabe, Katherine Langford ^note older self in a deleted scene

Appearances: Avengers: Endgame

"I love you three thousand."

The four-year-old daughter of Tony Stark and his wife Pepper. Born during the five-year Time Skip in Avengers: Endgame, Morgan is debuted as an adorable, stunningly intelligent little girl primed to someday follow in her father’s footsteps as a superhero.

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• Adaptational Heroism: In the comics, Morgan Stark was actually the supervillain Brass and the older cousin of Tony, whom he felt inferior to and resented because Tony was chosen over him to run the company. The movie version is a sweet and innocent four-year-old girl whose worst conflict with the heroes is extorting Tony into giving her a juice pop so she'll stop using the word "shit" and, according to her father, being tempted to use Captain America's shield as a sled.
• Adorably Precocious Child: Four years old and already tinkering with her mother's Rescue helmet.
• Affectionate Nickname: "Maguna", used by her father as a pet name when he's being particularly playful.
• Affirmative Action Girl: She is a girl genius clearly interested in her father's work (and STEM in general, if Tony's remarks about her are anything to go by) as well as his suit and former role as Iron Man (as seen by her obsession with Pepper's Rescue helmet).
• Affirmative-Action Legacy: See above.
• Age Lift: Comic!Morgan is an adult, whereas this one is a kid.
• Brainy Brunette: Just like her old man, Morgan has brown hair and shows tremendous intellectual potential.
• Breaking the Cycle of Bad Parenting: Tony is determined to do better by Morgan than Howard did by him. He succeeds immeasurably. The fact that he was able to do so at a time when he walked away entirely from the superhero scene, his business work and all his workaholic ways means that he's able to devote himself to her completely during her early childhood.
• Cheerful Child: Thanks to Tony’s and Pepper’s good parenting, Morgan is a sweet-tempered and playful Innocent Prodigy with a good sense of humor. Subverted at the end of Endgame, when she acts much more withdrawn after her father’s death.
• Child Prodigy: Downplayed. However, there are still multiple examples scattered throughout her scenes and Tony's dialogue about her that make it abundantly clear Morgan isn't your average four-year-old:
  • When Tony tells her that he loves her a ton, she replies that she loves him three thousand. A ton is two thousand pounds, so in order for Morgan to one-up her dad, the next logical conclusion would be to add another thousand to that. This becomes even more impressive when one considers that most four-year-olds can barely even count to twenty, according to child psychologists; the fact that Morgan can not only conceptualize such large numbers but incorporate them into logical arguments at her age is astounding.
  • Morgan's interest in technology already sets her apart from your average four-year-old; while most kids that age would be playing with stuffed animals or stumbling through a jumbo puzzle, Morgan tinkers with the Rescue helmet, watches Tony as he works, and regularly explores the garage.
  • Morgan's vocabulary, syntax, and self-awareness all mark her as gifted; she strings together sophisticated sentences, listens and speaks to adults as if they were equals, and is advanced enough to tease her dad, a well-known Troll himself, about him accidentally saying "shit" in front of her. The fact that Tony talks to her as he would another adult, without dumbing down his words, using baby-talk, or excluding his witty sense of humor, says a lot about what he thinks of her intellect.
• Constantly Curious: According to Tony, Morgan is eternally fascinated with the workshop/storage area in the garage. She also seems to make a regular habit of "borrowing" her mother's Rescue helmet to tinker and play with, and she sometimes sneaks out of bed to watch her father work.
• The Cutie: She is absolutely adorable.
• Daddy's Girl: She and Tony are very close, far closer than Tony and his father were during his childhood. In Tony's Video Will, he addresses what he plans to be his last words to her.
• Dead Guy Junior: Her middle name comes from her long-dead grandfather Howard Stark.
• Gender-Blender Name: When Tony first brings up having kids to Pepper, he describes a little boy named after Pepper's uncle Morgan. Since Morgan is a gender-neutral name in real life, they keep the name when the baby turns out to be a girl.
  • Her middle name is also Howard.
• Gender Flip: In the comics, Morgan Stark was male. Luckily, "Morgan" is a unisex name (or rather, two distinct male and female Celtic names which came out identical when Anglicized).
• Generation Xerox: Like Parent, Like Child
  • Morgan possess Tony’s precocious love of technology — he built circuit boards and engines when he was her age, and she tinkers with the Rescue helmet, explores the garage, and watches Tony when he works.
  • Morgan takes entirely after Tony in terms of physical characteristics. She has his brown eyes and brown hair and looks almost nothing like her mother, who is a Fiery Redhead with Icy Blue Eyes.
  • Morgan seems to have the beginnings of Tony’s lifelong sarcastic streak and talent for trouble — even at four years old, she excels at banter, gleefully repeats a swear word she heard Tony say, steals the Rescue helmet to wear for herself, and apparently considered using Captain America’s shield as a sled.
  • As a nod to the first Iron Man film, she's seen getting hungry for cheeseburgers near the end of Endgame.
• Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: When we first see Morgan, she's dressed in a pink swan cardigan, along with the mask that her father is creating for her mother's "Rescue" suit while imagining that she's a superhero in her tent (just like her father). She also shows an innate curiosity in her father's technology at a very young age!
• In Name Only: The comic version of Morgan Stark was Tony's vengeful adult male cousin, who sought revenge on Tony due to feeling he'd been cheated out of the Stark fortune. In the films, Morgan is Tony's adoring four-year-old daughter.
• Innocent Prodigy: Morgan has her father’s sense of humor, is completely unaware of the tension between Tony and Steve when the Avengers visit Tony’s house, and is exceptionally cute thanks to her unusually attractive parents. She’s also an established Child Prodigy with a promising future in engineering, science, and superheroics. Just like her dad.
• Innocent Swearing: After overhearing her father exclaim, "Shit!", she repeats it after him, much to Tony's chagrin.
• It Runs in the Family: Like her father and his father before him, Morgan is a dark-haired, dark-eyed tech prodigy with attitude and a gift for trouble.
• Last Episode, New Character: Born during the Time Skip about half an hour into Endgame.
• Lineage Comes from the Father: Brown hair and brown eyes? Check. Precocious interest in technology? Check. Talent for banter and trouble? Check. Taste for cheeseburgers? Check. Blatant Foreshadowing about her taking up the Iron Mantle someday? Three thousand check.
• Little Miss Snarker: Downplayed, but it's still clear where she gets her sense of humor from.
  Tony: [who just figured out time travel] Shit!
  Morgan: [behind him] Shit!
  Tony: [startled; turns around and makes a scolding motion] What are you doing up, little miss?
  Morgan: [cheekily] Shit.
• Meaningful Name: Morgan's middle name is Howard, undoubtedly after her grandfather. It's a subtle way of Foreshadowing the meeting Tony will eventually have with his dad in Avengers: Endgame, though it does leave one to wonder why her middle name isn't Maria after Tony's mother, as it's a feminine name more appropriate for a girl.
• Related in the Adaptation: Morgan Stark has no relation to Pepper Potts in the comics. Here, Morgan's her daughter.
• Related Differently in the Adaptation: "Morgan Stark" is still related to Tony, but in different ways. In the comics, Morgan is Tony's cousin, while in the films, she's his daughter.
• Ret-Gone: The possibility that this could happen to Morgan is the main reason Tony is initially hesitant about the Time Heist. Tony is against using the Infinity Stones to pull off a timeline reset that completely undoes the Snap since doing so, as he points out, would remove her (and by extension, other children like her) from existence. As an alternative, he suggests simply bringing the snapped population back into the present day, which is what the Avengers eventually end up doing. Changing the past itself through Quantum Time Travel isn't possible anyway, but could be possible through the sheer eldritch power of the Infinity Stones, which Tony doesn't want to risk.
• She Is All Grown Up: In one of Endgame's most infamous deleted scenes, an adult version of Morgan meets her father in the Soul Stone shortly after his death. Suffice it to say, she has matured a lot from the mischievous, innocent little four-year-old Tony remembers, confusing Tony tremendously.^note Out-of-universe, this confused test audiences too, which is why it ended up being deleted; test audiences didn't understand what this young woman was doing alongside Tony.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Appears for all of three scenes, but her existence is the reason the objective of the Time Heist was to resurrect the victims of the snap in the present day rather than alter the past entirely, which has massive implications for the MCU as a whole. As a result, any time the MCU explores the ramifications of restoring half the Universe after five years can be traced back to Morgan being born.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Had Morgan been a boy as Tony initially proposed to Pepper, she would have been almost identical to him when he was a little kid.
• Tomboyish Name: Not so much her first name as her middle name; Howard is a strictly male name and Morgan is very much a girl.
• Troll: Continually repeats a swear word her dad accidentally let slip in front of her in order to goad him into giving her a popsicle and tucking her into bed again. Looks like It Runs in the Family.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Morgan has tremendous intellectual potential to become just as revolutionary and world-changing as her dad, but as she’s only four years old, she hasn't really had the time or chance to master the sciences or don the Iron Man armor. Not yet anyway.
• Walking Spoiler: Her entire existence spoils the fact that Tony, after years of struggle and a ten-year on/off relationship with Pepper, finally managed to retire and build the family he always wanted, and provides a justification for why the Avengers simply undo the Snap rather than prevent it from ever happening in the first place.

Steve Rogers' Family

Sarah Rogers

Sarah Rogers

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Voiced By: N/A

Appearances: Captain America: First Vengeance

Steve Rogers' mother.

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• Adaptational Angst Downgrade: Her husband Joseph isn't abusive in this iteration and she didn't have another younger son who died in infancy…
• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: At the same time though, her husband was killed in action before Steve was born, meaning that she had to raise Steve all by herself. This is also the reason why she never had Steve's younger brother, only to lose him too.
• Good Parents: She deeply loved Steve and raised him incredibly well, as he would later go on to become one of the greatest superheroes in history.

Joseph Rogers

Joseph Rogers

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Voiced By: N/A

Appearances: Captain America: First Vengeance

Steve Rogers' father.

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• Adaptational Nice Guy: He wasn't an abusive alcoholic like in the comics here.
• Death by Adaptation: In the comics, he died in 1926 but in the movies, he died six years earlier in May 1920 which is about two months before Steve was born.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: He gets killed in a mustard gas attack instead of dying of a heart attack like in the comics.
• Disappeared Dad: He died two months before Steve was born.

Peggy Carter

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Thor Odinson's Family

Odin Borson

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Loki Laufeyson

See his page

Frigga

See MCU: Asgard

Hela Odinsdottir

See her page

Bor Burison

See MCU: Asgard

Bruce Banner's Family

Jennifer Walters / She-Hulk

See MCU: Other Superheroes

The Walters Family

See MCU: United States Citizens

The Son (UNMARKED SPOILERS)

Skaar

Species: Enhanced human-alien hybrid

Citizenship: Sakaar

Portrayed By: Wil Deusner

Appearances: She-Hulk: Attorney at Law

The half-alien son of Bruce Banner, which he conceived during his time as a gladiator on Sakaar.

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• Amazing Technicolor Population: He has green skin like his father and first cousin-once-removed.
• Half-Human Hybrid: Well, more like Half Superhuman Hybrid. Skaar's mother is an alien, and his father is the Hulk.
• Last Episode, New Character: Makes his first appearance at the end of the first season of She-Hulk.
• Younger Than They Look: He's ten years old at most, but he has a full-sized adult body.

Natasha Romanoff's Family

Alexei Shostakov / Red Guardian

See Other Superheroes

Yelena Belova

See her own page.

Ivan

Ivan

Species: Human

Citizenship: Russian

Portrayed By: N/A

Appearances: Avengers: Endgame^note Mentioned only

The father of Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow.

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• Composite Character: Of Black Widow's biological father from the comics and her foster father Ivan Petrovich Bezukhov, with whom he shares the first name.
• The Ghost: He is mentioned a few times, but he never makes an actual appearance.
• One-Steve Limit: Averted. There are several other MCU characters named "Ivan", notably Ivan Vanko, another Russian guy who met his daughter.
• Mythology Gag: His first name is the same as Ivan Petrovich Bezukhov, who acted as Black Widow's mentor and foster father in the comics.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Unlike his wife, we don't know exactly what happened to Ivan.

Natasha Romanoff's mother

Natasha Romanoff's mother

Species: Human

Citizenship: Russian

Portrayed By: N/A

Appearances: Black Widow^note Mentioned only

The late mother of Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow.

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• Determinator: According to Melina, she was relentless in her search for her daughter, which is why Dreykov decided to execute her.
• The Ghost: She is mentioned a few times, but she never makes an actual appearance.
• Like Mother, Like Daughter: Apparently, she and Natasha have one thing in common: They're both equally relentless.
• Mama Bear: She never stopped looking for her daughter to save her from the Red Room. Unfortunately, she was executed by Dreykov before she could find her.
• No Name Given: Even Natasha never learned her real name. When she asks Dreykov about it, he tells her that the only thing written on her tombstone is "Unknown".
• Posthumous Character: She was executed by Dreykov a long time ago.

Melina Vostokoff

Melina Vostokoff

Species: Human

Citizenship: Russian

Affiliation(s): Red Room (formerly)

Portrayed By: Rachel Weisz^{Foreign voice actors}Carla Medina (Latin American Spanish dub), Atsuko Tanaka (Japanese dub), Élida L'Astorina (Brazilian Portuguese dub)

Appearances: Black Widow

A spy and assassin who has undergone Red Room training five times.

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• Action Girl: She can fight just as well as Natasha, Yelena, and Alexei.
• Action Mom: Melina is an assassin, a scientist, as well as the adoptive mother of Natasha Romanoff and Yelena Belova.
• Adaptational Heroism: Her comic counterpart is a villain, while here, she's portrayed as Natasha and Yelena's adoptive mother who still cares about them. Seemingly subverted when she betrays Natasha, Yelena, and Alexei to the Red Room... then it's revealed that it was actually a plan to get them in to shut the operation down.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In the comics, Melina is a younger rival to Natasha, being envious after years of growing up in her shadow. This version of Melina is much older than Natasha and serves as a surrogate mother figure to both her and Yelena, and they ultimately remain on good terms.
• Age Lift: Is explicitly stated to be younger than Natasha in the comics, but is old enough to be her adoptive mother in the film.
• Alternate Self: Has one on Earth-82111.
• Badass Normal: Melina does not have superpowers, but she is still a deadly martial artist.
• Battle Couple: She and Alexei Shostakov genuinely care for one another, even during the most precarious times.
• Beneath the Mask: Her cold cynical exterior shows genuine cracks from time to time. When Natasha discovers Melina kept the scrapbook of her and Yelena pretending to take photos of holidays, Melina admits she did it for a sense of comfort.
• Brainy Brunette: She's a brilliant scientist with dark brown hair.
• Broken Bird: Just like Natasha and Yelena, her time as a spy and Red Room agent has made her bitter and untrusting.
• Chubby Chaser: Is still very much attracted to Alexei, and if anything, it seems to be because of the current shape he's in, not in spite of it.
• Comic Book Movies Dont Use Code Names: She is never referred to by the "Iron Maiden" codename she bears in the comics.
• Composite Character: This version of Melina is a Black Widow agent who was involved with the Red Guardian, aspects taken from the comic version of Natasha.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Despite having dark hair and her tendency of wearing dark clothing, Melina is a kind and loving mother to her adoptive daughters.
• Deadpan Snarker: Melina can make some sassy statements that rival those of both Natasha and Yelena.
• Everyone Has Standards: She was perfectly fine developing a mind control method for Dreykov, largely for her own Mad Scientist inclinations, but discovering he was using it to control Yelena and other Widows is a large part of what causes her to turn against him.
• Fake American: In-Universe. Melina and Alexei both put on American accents during their time undercover in Ohio. Melina briefly exposes her natural Russian accent when Alexei tells her in private that they have to leave.
• Genius Bruiser: Primarily a handler, strategist and scientist, and Alexei points out that she was mainly the brains of their previous missions together while he did the heavy work. Despite this, she's still a Black Widow, and is fully capable of handling herself in a fight, even managing to get the drop on Taskmaster at one point.
• Good Wears White: She wears a white tactical suit during her mission of terminating the Red Room.
• Mad Scientist: Came up with the brainwashing method used by Dreykov. She uses this on pigs at her home/research station, even ordering a pig to stop breathing to demonstrate its potency. After Dreykov's death, Natasha saves a final vial of the serum's antidote and suggests that Melina try to replicate its formula.
• Major Injury Underreaction: Both times we see her significantly injured (once while being shot on the plane during their "family" escape in the 1990s, then later in the aftermath of the crashing of the Red Room fortress), she reacts with nothing but mild irritation at worst.
• Mama Bear: Much like Alexei, Melina does genuinely love Natasha and Yelena as daughters, and is ultimately willing to take on the Red Room to protect them.
• My God, What Have I Done?: When Yelena reveals that she and other Widows were placed under mind control by the serum she developed, Melina is shocked and remorseful.
• No Sympathy: Zig-zagged. As a result of undergoing Red Room training five times, Melina's outward care for other creatures was ground into dust. She orders one of her pigs to stop breathing for almost a minute, all while showing no concern for the creature's wellbeing, merely scientific excitement. Melina later asks Natasha how she "kept her heart", like she's read about hearts in books but never witnessed one herself. However, it is ultimately shown that she genuinely cares for Natasha and Yelena - she's just not really capable of properly showing it in any normal way.
• Older Than They Look: In 2016, she doesn't look that much older than she was in 1995.
• Spy Catsuit: Dons the standard Black Widow catsuit just before Dreykov's goons show up to apprehend everyone. She'd actually swapped clothes with Natasha as part of their plan, meaning she spends the climax of the movie in Natasha's white suit.
• Undercover as Lovers: With Alexei in 1995, as they posed as a married couple in order to steal information from HYDRA loyalists within S.H.I.E.L.D. To strengthen the ruse they were given Natasha and Yelena to pose as their daughters, and stayed for three years before stealing the data. Despite commenting on Alexei's weight gain, she still appreciates how he looks.
• You Are Fat: She tells Alexei that he's gotten fat since the last time they saw each other, though she adds that he still looks good.

Clint Barton's Family

In General

• Alliterative Family: Sort of. The males are Clint and Cooper, the females are Laura and Lila. Broken by the naming of their next child, Nathaniel, though that could be counted as he's named after "Auntie Nat".
• Happy Ending Override: In Avengers: Age of Ultron, Clint manages to complete one last successful mission and retire to be with his wife and family. In Captain America: Civil War, Clint siding with Captain America over the Sokovia Accords results in him getting incarcerated in the Raft. While Cap manages to break him out, he's put under house arrest but this benefits him as he is able to spend more time with them. Unfortunately, Clint's family are reduced to dust after Thanos's victory at Wakanda, which compels him to come out of retirement one more time to revive them, which he does.
• Living Emotional Crutch: For Clint. After they are killed by Thanos, Clint becomes a ruthless vigilante brutally slashing his way through cartels and mob bosses, believing them to be unworthy of living compared to the millions of innocents, including his own family, who died instead.
• Satellite Family Member: So far they only exist in relation to Clint.
• Spared by the Adaptation: In Ultimate Marvel, Laura Barton and her children were killed by Black Widow. In Age of Ultron, they remain safe and sound, and Natasha is an Honorary Aunt. Subverted in Endgame, where they are among the casualties of Thanos's finger snap, and then double subverted when they are brought back with the other Snap victims.
• Unexpected Character: In-universe, before the events of Age of Ultron, only Natasha Romanoff and Nick Fury knew about their existence, outside of Clint himself.

Laura Barton

Laura Barton

"You know I totally support your Avenging."

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s):^{Click here to see spoilers}S.H.I.E.L.D. (formerly)

Portrayed By: Linda Cardellini^{Foreign voice actors}Ayari Rivera (Latin-American Spanish)

Appearances: Avengers: Age of Ultron | Avengers: Endgame | Hawkeye

Laura Barton: I see those guys... Those gods...
Clint Barton: You don't think they need me.
Laura Barton: I think they do, which is a lot scarier. They're a mess.

Clint Barton's wife.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: Laura's blonde in Ultimate Marvel but a brunette in the MCU. She also has brown eyes instead of blue.
• Adaptational Badass: Laura is a normal wife and mother in the comics. She is a retired agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. in the MCU.
• Ascended Extra: Like Doctor Cho, Laura is a very minor character in the comics, and was killed after only a handful of issues.
• Back from the Dead: She gets killed by the Snap in the beginning of Avengers: Endgame and comes back thanks to Bruce Banner at the end of it.
• Brainy Brunette: Laura is a former agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. with investigating skills, fluency in German, and brown hair.
• Composite Character: The finale of Hawkeye shows her to be the owner of a S.H.I.E.L.D. watch marked "19", implying she has been combined with Bobbi Morse/Mockingbird, Clint's ex-wife in the comics, who also exists in the MCU.
• Curtains Match the Window: Her hair and eyes are both brown.
• Gratuitous German: In the fourth episode of Hawkeye, Laura briefly switches to speaking German to her husband to talk about some of the loose ends he's been cleaning up.
• Happily Married: Laura lives on a farm with their children, far away from danger and not even in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s records (courtesy of Directory Fury himself). This situation is why Clint is the most stable and personally fulfilled out of the Avengers.
• Hidden Depths: Hawkeye reveals she has some investigative experience and is fluent in German. This is because, like her husband, she is a former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent.
• The Lost Lenore: Her death makes Clint go revenge-crazy in Endgame and he ultimately brings her back.
• No Body Left Behind: As the start of Endgame reveals, she was disintegrated along with half the universe after Thanos completed the Infinity Gauntlet. Then she was blipped back into existence five years later.
• Older Than They Look: Because of the Snap, she's five years younger than her actual age.
• Retired Badass: As a former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, this is pretty much a given.
• Spared by the Adaptation: She and her children are thankfully avoiding the fate of their comic book counterparts being murdered by this universe's Black Widow.
• Understanding Boyfriend: Gender-Inverted. She's fully aware of Clint's work for S.H.I.E.L.D. and supports him even if it means he's away from the family. Hawkeye establishes that she also knows about his previous run-ins with the Tracksuit Mafia and why he needs to deal with them before coming home. The end of the show reveals why Laura understands Clint so well - she was also a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent.
• Wet Blanket Wife:
  • Inverted. Clint worries that his life as a superhero is an unwelcome strain on his wife, but she shoots that idea down and supports the fact that he's needed for something so important.
    Laura Barton: You know I totally support your avenging. I couldn't be prouder.
  • Taken even further in Hawkeye, where she acts as a sounding board, doing research and computer work for Clint and even figuring out what the Tracksuit Mafia is after: an antique Rolex Clint thought had been destroyed.
• You Are Number 6: The codename she used during her S.H.I.E.L.D. days is "Agent 19".

Cooper, Lila and Nathaniel Barton

Cooper, Lila and Nathaniel Pietro Barton

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Species: Humans

Citizenship: American

Portrayed By: Ben Sakamoto (Cooper Barton); Imogen, Isabella Poynton (Age of Ultron) and Ava Russo (Endgame and Hawkeye) (Lila Barton); Jaiden Stafford (Age of Ultron) and Cade Woodward (Endgame and Hawkeye) (Nathaniel Barton)

Voiced By: Abdeel Silva (Cooper Barton); Alma de la Rosa (Lila Barton)(Latin-American Spanish)

Appearances: Avengers: Age of Ultron | Avengers: Endgame | Hawkeye

Clint and Laura Barton's children.

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• Adaptation Name Change: In the Ultimate Marvel timeline, Clint's children were named Callum, Lewis, and Nicole. In the film, they are Cooper, Lila, and Nathaniel. The first letter of each name corresponds to the birth order in both continuities.
• Dead Guy Junior: Their third child is named after Natasha, but his middle name ends up being Pietro, after the man who sacrificed himself to save Clint's life in the battle against Ultron. By the end of Endgame, his first name becomes this trope too after Natasha sacrifices herself, while also preventing Clint from doing so instead, so the team can receive the Soul stone to bring all the Snap victims back.
• Gender Flip: While the Bartons' eldest child is male in both continuities, in the MCU the second child is a girl instead of a boy. The youngest is also a boy instead of a girl.
• No Body Left Behind: As the start of Endgame reveals, they were disintegrated along with half the universe after Thanos completed the Infinity Gauntlet. Then they are blipped back into existence.
• Straight Man: By Hawkeye, Cooper has grown into the Dumbass Teenage Son, Lila is The Reliable One, and Nate is the token Cheerful Child. That said, Nate is the one who learned ASL for his dad.

Edith Barton

Edith Barton

"There are people in this world who have more than they could ever need and want, and they do nothing to help anybody else. Hell, it's usually them who keep people like us down."

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Portrayed By:Joanna Whicker

Appearances: Hawkeye

Clint Barton's mother

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• Struggling Single Mother: She had to resort to thievery to support herself and Clint since she had no money and his father is absent.

Sam Wilson's Family

Sarah Wilson

Sarah Wilson

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Portrayed By: Adepero Oduye

Appearances: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

The younger sister of Sam Wilson.

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• Adaptation Name Change: She goes by her maiden name, as opposed to her late husband's, which in the comic was Casper.
• Ascended Extra: She's seldom seen or referenced in the comics, with less than a dozen appearances in 50 years. In the comics, her other brother Gideon (who appears to be Adapted Out) is more likely to appear.
• Genocide Survivor: She and her sons survived the Snap.
• One-Steve Limit: Averted, she has the same first name as the mother of Steve Rogers. Bucky seems to find this amusing.

A.J. & Cass

A.J. & Cass

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Portrayed By: Aaron Haynes (A.J.), Chase River McGhee (Cass)

Appearances: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

Sarah Wilson's sons.

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• Disappeared Dad: Their father passed away sometime prior to The Snap.
• Genocide Survivor: They survived the Snap along with their mom while it killed Sam.
• Hero-Worshipper: They clearly look up to and adore their uncle Sam.

Pietro and Wanda Maximoff's Family

Tommy Maximoff

Thomas "Tommy" Maximoff

"This is my costume, I'm the cool twin."

Species: Enhanced human (Mental construct)

Citizenship: American

Portrayed By: Jett Klyne, Gavin Borders (age 5)

Appearances: WandaVision

"Next stop: Cavity Town!"

Wanda and Vision's son and Billy's older fraternal twin brother.

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• Adaptational Context Change: In the comics, Tommy is named for Phineas Thomas Horton, creator of the Human Torch (1939), whose body was (or wasn't) used to create the Vision. Due to the changes in Vision's origin in the MCU, Horton has no relevance to the Vision (although his existence was teased in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment in Captain America: The First Avenger). Instead, Wanda decides that Tommy is the perfect name for The All-American Boy she wants her son to be.
• The All-American Boy: Wanda decides upon the name "Tommy" as in her eyes it's the perfect, All-American boy's name.
• Alternate Self: Has a variant on Earth-838.
• Ambiguous Situation:
  • His and Billy's shared ability to magically age themselves up is something that could be explained by either Billy's Reality Warper nature, Tommy's Super-Speed, or some other, unknown power behind the twins. Agatha claims they were created through Wanda's use of Chaos Magic, which allows the spontaneous generation of matter.
  • It's implied that he and Billy were erased from reality like Hex Vision when Wanda ended the Hex. But we don't actually see what happens to them when their home disappears. Furthermore, we later hear their screams in Wanda's head, but it's unclear if this is their souls, where they are if so, and if Wanda is genuinely communing with them somehow, especially as she is in the process of studying the Darkhold.
• Big Brother Instinct: When being held hostage by Agatha, Tommy can be heard yelling at her to let go of his brother.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Aside from the blue baby blanket and his Halloween costume, all of Tommy's outfits have at least some green.
• Deadpan Snarker: He inherits some of his parents' dry sense of humor.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: In Episode 9 of WandaVision it's shown that, like Vision, the twins are a magical construct of Wanda's and their existence is tied to the Hex. They disappear when Wanda dissolves the Hex completely. In the comics the original Billy and Tommy were fragments of a demon's soul, and ceased to exist after being reabsorbed by the demon.
• Expy: Episode 6 makes him one for Reese from Malcolm in the Middle in the 1990s/2000s sitcom pastiche as the dimwitted, rebellious, and destructive brother (albeit not as senselessly mean or cruel).
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The foolish to Billy's responsible. He loves playing pranks and when he gets excited he starts running around wildly until Wanda has to grab him by the arm and give him a stern talking to.
• Generation Xerox: He shares the same powers as his uncle.
• Hero-Worshipper: To his Cool Uncle Pietro. Tommy copies everything Pietro does, including wearing the same Halloween costumes and instantly changing his opinion of his mother's costume when he hears the latter call it lame, and is delighted to discover that they have the same superpowers.
• Mythology Gag:
  • With his brother, their Color-Coded for Your Convenience colours reflect their comic book costumes, as Tommy typically wears metallic green and Billy wears red and blue.
  • His Hero-Worshipper attitude and desire to copy his uncle Pietro somewhat reflects the fact that Pietro's characterization more closely resembles Tommy's personality in the comics (a Comedic Sociopath Manchild).
  • Pietro calls him and Billy "demon spawn" in Episode 6, referring to his and Billy's past as pieces of Mephisto's soul in the comics.
• Plot-Relevant Age-Up: The twins are infants at the start of Episode 5, but quickly age themselves up to become five-year-olds, and later turn ten so they can adopt a puppy. Later in the episode it seems that they are about to do it again before Wanda stops them.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Billy's blue. He's much more active and playful than Billy. Fittingly, he wears Pietro's costume for Halloween and develops Super-Speed, while Billy goes with his Wiccan outfit from the comics and is implied to have mystical powers like their mother's.
• Sibling Rivalry: Tommy playfully insults Billy in a similar way Pietro does their mother. It's a Vitriolic Best Buds situation though as Tommy makes it clear he likes his brother, he just thinks he's a dork.
• Super-Speed: Tommy's power, much to Pietro's delight.
• Three-Month-Old Newborn: He and Billy are pretty big when they are born. Justified, even, given the Mind Screw sitcom world they're all trapped in.
• Trickster Twins: Along with Billy, Tommy manages in the course of a single day to smuggle a dog into the house and age himself up twice. In the sixth episode, the two of them start stealing candy and vandalizing random houses in Westview with the help of Pietro, though Tommy eventually gets the ability to do this on his own.
• Walking Spoiler: Like his brother, his birth and aging-up is a pretty big spoiler.

Billy Maximoff

William "Billy" Maximoff

"Mom, my head feels weird, it's like, really noisy. I don't like it."

Species: Enhanced human (Mental construct)

Citizenship: American

Portrayed By: Julian Hilliard, Baylen Bielitz (age 5)

Appearances: WandaVision

"Whoa, Mom. Are you Old Red Riding Hood?"

Wanda and Vision's son and Tommy's younger fraternal twin brother.

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• Adaptational Context Change: In the comics, Billy is named for Simon Williams, aka Wonder Man, whose brain patterns were used to create Vision. Given the changes to Vision's origin in the MCU, Williams has no relevance to either Wanda or Vision ^note Simon Williams was intended to make a cameo in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, portrayed by Nathan Fillion, but his appearance did not make it into the film. Instead, Billy is named for William Shakespeare, at Vision's suggestion.
• Alternate Self: Has a variant on Earth-838.
• Ambiguous Situation:
  • His and Tommy's shared ability to magically age themselves up is something that could be explained by either Billy's Reality Warper nature, Tommy's Super-Speed, or some other, unknown power behind the twins. Agatha claims they were created through Wanda's use of Chaos Magic, which allows the spontaneous generation of matter.
  • Also given the revelation that Wanda's abilities aren't just superpowers given to her by the Mind Stone, but magic she was apparently born with, and the fact that the other witches in Agatha's coven used magic that was the same color as Billy's powers, it's unclear whether he is actually a warlock instead of a superpowered person like his brother.
  • It's implied that he and Tommy were erased from reality like Hex Vision when Wanda ended the Hex. But we don't actually see what happens to them when their home disappears. Wanda hears Billy cry out to her despite he and Tommy having disappeared when the Hex came down. The scene ends before it becomes clear whether Wanda was imagining things or if they actually survived in a disembodied form.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Aside from the blue baby blanket, all of Billy's outfits are at least partly red.
• Deadpan Snarker: He inherits some of his parents' dry sense of humor.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: In Episode 9 of WandaVision it's shown that, like Vision, the twins are a magical construct of Wanda's and their existence is tied to the Hex. They disappear when Wanda dissolves the Hex completely. In the comics Billy and Tommy were fragments of a demon's soul, and ceased to exist after being reabsorbed by the demon.
• Expy: Episode 6 makes him one for Malcolm from Malcolm in the Middle in the 1990s/2000s sitcom pastiche as the more intelligent and sensitive brother that narrates to the audience.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The responsible to Tommy's foolish. While he's not above participating in playing pranks alongside his twin, he does seem to be a bit more level headed and calm than the hyperactive Tommy.
• Foreshadowing: When Agatha takes the kids to her house so Wanda can have her alone time, Billy notes that he likes being around Agnes because she's "quiet". This is because Agnes is the witch Agatha Harkness and is able to use her magic to block her thoughts from Billy.
• Generation Xerox: He shares the same powers as his mother.
• Meta Guy: As part of the aforementioned Malcolm parody, he spends Episode 6 narrating to the audience. Related to that, the way he does this is via Leaning on the Fourth Wall, not unlike a very famous fictionalized king his purported namesake wrote of.
• Mind over Matter: Uses this to stop his brother mid Super-Speed run when he senses his father in danger, in addition to using it to stop Hayward's bullet in the series finale of Wandavision. Notably his energy is colored blue, as Wiccan's powers are usually shown in the comics.
• Mythology Gag:
  • Billy is, in this series, named for William Shakespeare. In The Vision (2015), Vision's synthezoid son Vin was a huge fan of the Bard.
  • With his brother, their Color-Coded for Your Convenience colours reflect their comic book costumes, as Tommy typically wears metallic green and Billy wears red and blue.
  • Billy's halloween costume is a Civvie Spandex take on his comic book costume, right down to the headband.
  • Pietro calls him and Tommy "demon spawn" in Episode 6, referring to his and Tommy's past as pieces of Mephisto's soul in the comics.
• Named After Someone Famous: He is named after William Shakespeare. Vision, coming up with the name, quotes the bard. "All the world's a stage."
• Plot-Relevant Age-Up: The twins are infants at the start of Episode 5, but quickly age themselves up to five year olds and later ten. Later in the episode it seems that they are about to do it again before Wanda stops them.
• Power Incontinence: Once his psychic powers begin to manifest, he's not able to turn them off, which is very distressing for him, especially because Wanda is totally incapable of parenting at this point. He tells Agnes he likes being around her because he can't hear her thinking.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Tommy's red. He's more quiet and well-behaved than his brother. Fittingly, he wears his Wiccan outfit from the comics for Halloween and is implied to have mystical powers like their mother's, while Tommy wears Pietro's costume and develops Super-Speed.
• Seers: Sees a vision of his father trying to exit Westview and being ripped apart in the process. In the next episode, he complains to Wanda about his head being "noisy" all the time, apparently being unable to control this power enough to "turn it off" yet.
  • In the final episode he has a precognitive flash of something happening to Wanda moments before it actually happens.
• Sibling Rivalry: Tommy playfully insults Billy in a similar way Pietro does their mother. It's a Vitriolic Best Buds situation though as Tommy makes it clear he likes his brother.
• Three-Month-Old Newborn: He and Tommy are pretty big when they are born. Justified, even, given the Mind Screw sitcom world they're all trapped in.
• Trickster Twins: Along with Tommy, Billy manages in the course of a single day to smuggle a dog into the house and age himself up twice. In the sixth episode, the two of them start stealing candy and vandalizing random houses in Westview with the help of Pietro.
• Walking Spoiler: Like his brother, his birth and aging-up is a pretty big spoiler.

Iryna and Oleg Maximoff

Iryna and Oleg Maximoff

"Yeah, like mischief. But a silly mischief that always becomes fine!"

Species: Humans

Citizenship: Sokovian

Portrayed By: Ilana Kohanchi & Daniyar Aynitdinov

Appearances: WandaVision

The parents of Pietro and Wanda Maximoff.

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• Adaptational Name Change: In the comics, Pietro and Wanda's mother is named Natalya Maximoff; here she is named Iryna. And their adoptive parents were named Django (Natalya's brother) and Marya Maximoff.
• Canon Foreigner: At the time of writing, Pietro and Wanda's father is completely unknown in the comics, even to them. For a long time, Magneto was their father, but that was eventually retconned and their adoptive father was Django Maximoff. In WandaVision, their father is known, and was present in their lives up until his death.
• Deceased Parents Are the Best: They were loving and caring parents, trying to raise their children in the harsh and violent reality of late 90s Sokovia, and, of course, they get killed.
• Happily Married: Seem to genuinely love each other even in the harsh, war-torn country of Sokovia, which makes it all the more tragic when they get killed.
• Good Parents: In the limited time we see them, we can see that they both loved their kids dearly and wanted a good life for them in Sokovia.
• Not Enough to Bury: They get the brunt of the explosion that destroys the Maximoff apartment and as such, their corpses are not clearly seen when Wanda comes to, presumably in bits and pieces.
• Plot-Triggering Death: Their deaths were the catalyst for Wanda and Pietro's enlistment in HYDRA.
• Unseen No More: They were mentioned a few times before finally appearing in Episode 8 of WandaVision via flashback.

Scott Lang's Family

Cassie Lang

See MCU: Other Superheroes

Maggie Lang

Margaret "Maggie" Lang

"You're her hero, Scott. Just... be the person she already thinks you are."

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Portrayed By: Judy Greer

Voiced By: Yadira Aedo (Latin-American Spanish), Cássia Bisceglia (Brazilian Portuguese)

Appearances: Ant-Man | Ant-Man and the Wasp

Scott's ex-wife, who currently has custody of their daughter Cassie.

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• Adaptation Name Change: Her name in the comics is Peggy Rae, but here it's Maggie Lang. This is likely done to avoid confusion with Peggy Carter, who is a much more prominent character in this franchise. Downplayed, however, as both are equally applicable shortenings of Margaret.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: In the comics, Peggy Rae is straight-up mean with a resentment towards costumed superheroes, and explicitly manipulated the court system so she could get three weeks out of a month with Cassie, and never did her relationship with Scott improve. Also, when Cassie became Stature, she was very happy to run away from home to become a superhero against her mother's wishes. Here, Maggie Lang is portrayed in a much more understanding light, with her only resenting Scott for being a crook, and becoming Amicable Exes with him once he proves himself a hero. She's also on much better terms with Cassie than in the comics.
• Amicable Exes: Although she is concerned that Scott hasn't gotten his act together and hence has a frosty relationship with him, she clearly still cares for him, emphasizing to Cassie that "he is not a bad man". And while she is firm with Scott, unlike Paxton, Maggie is never hostile towards him. They reconcile after Scott saves Cassie and Paxton from Darren Cross. Subsequently, this is played much more straight in Ant-Man and the Wasp; Maggie and Paxton both love Scott and regard him as a part of their extended family, and she gets angry at the FBI agents constantly raiding Scott's home.
• Digging Yourself Deeper: Maggie isn't really good in taunting FBI agents. To be fair, they do take it in stride.
• Family Theme Naming: With her daughter Cassie. They also have the same letters after their similar ones.
• Took a Level in Kindness: In the sequel. Her relationship with Scott has improved drastically, and she is vocally in support of him despite previously being quick to criticize him. No doubt this is due to Scott leading both an honest life after getting out of prison, plus risking his life to save Cassie in the first movie.

Peter Parker's Family

May Parker

May Parker

"This is what we do. We help people."

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Salvation Army, F.E.A.S.T.

Portrayed By: Marisa Tomei^{Foreign voice actors}Diana Alonso (Latin-American Spanish), Mabuki Ando (Japanese), Éveline Gélinas (Canadian French)

Appearances: Captain America: Civil War | Spider-Man: Homecoming | Avengers: Endgame | Spider-Man: Far From Home | Spider-Man: No Way Home

"You have a gift. You have power. And with great power, there must also come great responsibility."

Peter Parker's aunt, with whom he lives in Queens.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: May Parker was always shown as an old woman in the comics but it's a fact that the young May Parker when she married Ben was blonde. As in the case of changing May's ethnicity here, she has become a dark haired woman. Also, May had blue eyes in the comics but she has brown eyes here.
• Adaptation Personality Change: Aunt May was a typical doddering and oblivious old woman in the early comics before the writers made her a Cool Old Lady later on, although she's usually a passive character. In the MCU, thanks to an Age Lift, Aunt May is an assertive and spirited maternal figure who's not afraid to F-Bomb in shock when she discovers her nephew is a superhero, something that her soft-spoken comic counterpart would never do. MCU May also shows support for Peter's superhero life in Far From Home, whereas in the comics she's fearful of him getting hurt or outright against it like in Ultimate Spider-Man.
• Adaptational Attractiveness: A given when you cast Marisa Tomei as a character who's usually a Cool Old Lady. Even more than the Younger and Hipper Ultimate Marvel version! This is lampshaded to hell and back in her cameo in Captain America: Civil War, with Tony practically having his tongue hanging out while talking to her.
  Tony: It's so hard for me to believe that she's someone's aunt.
  May: Yeah, well, we come in all shapes and sizes, you know.
• Adaptational Badass: On top of being younger than most other incarnations, she's also a lot more capable, even going as far as taking an active and physical role in Peter's first fight against Norman Osborn in No Way Home — that's hard to imagine for comic book May. Sadly, it leads to her death.
• Adaptational Wimp: When it comes to her cooking skills. In the comics, she's a Supreme Chef who's particularly great at baking. In the MCU, however, she's a Lethal Chef.
• Age Lift: Seems like Aunt May gets a decade younger with each adaptation◊ (Rosemary Harris was in her seventies^note though according to the novelization, her version of May was somewhere in her eighties, Sally Field in her sixties, and Marisa Tomei was only 51). At least it's not an Improbable Age, given Tom Holland was at the time of Civil War 19 playing the 15-year-old Peter.
• Alternate Self: Has a variant on Earth-89521.
• And Starring: Marisa Tomei gets the "with" credit in the end titles of all three Spider-Man films.
• Ascended Extra: She only has a few minutes of screen time in each of her appearances until No Way Home, where she plays a bigger and much more important role. Unfortunately, it's also the film where she's Killed Off for Real.
• Back from the Dead: Is resurrected by Professor Hulk in Endgame. Unfortunately, it doesn't stick as Green Goblin murders May a year later, this time for good.
• Bus Crash: Though May herself doesn't actually appear in Infinity War, Far From Home confirms that she got dusted by Thanos's Badass Fingersnap, with her first scene being her recalling how she blipped back into her apartment, to the confusion of its new tenants, who mistook her for a man's mistress or a ghost.
• Calling Parents by Their Name: In a bit of a departure from most depictions of Spider-Man, Peter, his friends, and Peter's Raimi-verse variant primarily address her as "May" instead of "Aunt May". This seems to be a change that was born from Spidey's solo films, as both Peter and Tony call her "Aunt May" in Civil War.
• The Cameo: May appears in two scenes in Captain America: Civil War to establish her role in Peter's life. She also appears briefly in Endgame comforting Peter at Tony's funeral.
• Characterization Marches On: From Homecoming onwards, May is noticeably a more traditional mother figure whose emotional well-being is one of Peter's primary concerns. Compare her rather laid-back reaction to hearing about him getting into a fight and getting a black eye from it to her angrily confronting Peter about being out late. That said, once May actually finds out that her nephew is Spider-Man, she's nothing but supportive for Peter's career in crimefighting, to the point of even secretly packing his suit for him when he's going to Europe just in case he needs it.
• Cheated Death, Died Anyway: Was resurrected after being dusted by Thanos, only to be murdered by the Green Goblin a year at most later.
• Clueless Dude Magnet: She seems unaware of just how attractive men find her.
• Composite Character: Oddly enough, she takes on the role Uncle Ben has in most Spider-Man media with her death teaching Peter what he'd been learning over the course of his tenure in the MCU: "With great power, there must also come great responsibility." May's demise is a result of his impulsive actions trying to get Strange to wipe everybody's memories and tampering with the spell, starting a string of events that leads to the Green Goblin killing her with his glider. Uncle Ben is confirmed to have existed in the MCU thanks to What If…? (2021), but it's unclear what impact he had on Peter and his decision to become Spider-Man. May is also this to her Insomniac Games counterpart, who died at the end of Spider-Man (PS4) due to a villainous plot after advising Peter one last time.
• Cool Aunt: So much so that, when Peter comes back bruised from an obvious fight, instead of telling him the usual shtick of "fighting is wrong", she asks him if he at least got some hits in. In Homecoming, she quickly shifts gears upon realizing how upset Peter is over losing the "Stark Internship", and later helps him get ready for his date with Liz without a moment's hesitation. By Far From Home, May has grown comfortable with the idea of her nephew being a superhero, acting as a publicist of sorts for Spidey and scheduling an appearance for him at a local homeless shelter. She also encourages Peter (still shell-shocked from the events of Endgame) to take his suit on his trip to Europe, and ends up packing it for him herself when he leaves it behind. In No Way Home, she cleans Peter's suit after it was ruined by someone getting paint on it and later assists him in transporting the villains to Happy's apartment and trying to cure them of their afflictions.
  • She does have her limits though, as in Homecoming, May's initially fed up with Peter sneaking out of the house all the time and skipping school, and in No Way Home, Peter mentions she didn't take it so well when she first found out he was Spider-Man.
• Curse Cut Short: The very last scene of Homecoming, the camera pans to reveal that May was watching Peter trying his new suit, to which her reaction is "What the fu—?!" *Smash Cut to credits*
• Curtains Match the Window: She has brown hair and brown eyes.
• Dead Alternate Counterpart: Her Earth-89521 counterpart was mentioned by Peter to have died during the Zombie Apocalypse. May also dies in No Way Home.
• Death by Adaptation: May is still alive in the comics, but she's Killed Off for Real in No Way Home, a first for any live-action Spider-Man film.
• A Death in the Limelight: She gets more screen-time and plot relevance in No Way Home than any of her previous appearances. She dies halfway through the film.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: Dies in her nephew's arms after being mortally wounded by the Green Goblin's attack.
• Dies Wide Open: In No Way Home, her eyes remain open as she dies.
• Disappointed in You: She has a look of disapproval when Peter tells her that the multiverse villains aren't his problem and the best thing they can do is to just send them back to their home universes as they are.
• Doomed by Canon: Tearfully Lampshaded by the alternate Peters. Due to her being Peter's caretaker, and hence his only domestic role model, she takes the place Uncle Ben does in other continuities. This is really highlighted in No Way Home, and needless to say, she imparts the lesson of "With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility" and ends up getting killed by a criminal Peter helped. In this case, she ended up dying much later than the start of Peter's career, and she wasn't killed by a desperate petty criminal but by an Alternate Universe Green Goblin that she and Peter were trying to rehabilitate.
• Dude Magnet: Tony, Mr. Delmar, the Thai restaurant waiter, Ned, and Happy have all expressed attraction towards her, usually right in front of Peter.
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Her initial appearance in Civil War had her in more fashionable 2010s clothes and heavier make-up. Stating with Homecoming, her wardrobe is changed to '90s clothing, she wears big glasses, and her make-up is toned down.
• Former Teen Rebel: Implied, when she tells Peter that she also used to sneak out at night when she was younger. The extended edition of No Way Home reveals she was arrested at protests in her youth, keeping in line with her Ultimate counterpart.
• Friends with Benefits: She and Happy were apparently this while Peter was away on his trip in Far From Home. Happy is under the impression that they are in a serious relationship and admits to being in love with her, while May insists it was more of a casual thing.
• Good Bad Girl: She's a very sweet and warm-hearted woman who doesn't have any problem having a casual relationship with Happy Hogan.
• Good Parents: Despite not being Peter's biological parent, May is extremely open and supportive with him.
• Her Heart Will Go On: Downplayed. Ben died prior to Civil War and she's shown wearing a wedding ring on a necklace. By Far From Home, she's apparently ready to start dating again and has a casual relationship with Happy Hogan, though she isn't interested in anything more serious like other examples of this trope.
• Hidden Depths: She seems to have a decent amount of legal expertise, as shown when she is being interrogated by federal agents in No Way Home. She's also on a First-Name Basis with Matt Murdock, hinting she already knew him before he was called to act as Peter's lawyer.
• Hope Spot: After being struck full-on by the Goblin's glider and nearly blown up by one of his pumpkin bombs, May is still able to get to her feet and at first it seems she will be fine. She imparts some wisdom to her nephew and prepares to exit the building with him. Then she collapses on the ground and Peter realizes she was mortally wounded by the glider.
• Hotter and Sexier: Lampshaded in-universe. Aunt May is a middle-aged woman here, instead of the kindly old lady from both the original and Amazing Sony series of Spider-Man movies. Tony, who constantly hits on her, calls her "Aunt Hottie" and notes that he can barely believe she's Peter's aunt. In Homecoming, several characters comment on her attractiveness or hit on her.
• Killed Off for Real: She's mortally wounded by the Green Goblin's glider near the third act of No Way Home, causing her to bleed out and die in Peter's arms. And unlike her previous death at Thanos's hands, it's made clear that May isn't coming back from this one.
• Killed Offscreen: Far From Home reveals that she was one of the many offscreen casualties of The Snap. She recalls the circumstances of her resurrection early on in the film.
• Kill the Cutie: A ray of sunshine to anyone she meets, May gets killed by the Green Goblin to torment her nephew.
• Lethal Chef: Tony reproves of her date loaf in Civil War, and her first scene in Homecoming has May burning dinner, forcing her and Peter to go out to eat.
• Major Injury Underreaction: Played for Drama when she's hit by the Green Goblin's glider. May gets back up and says that she's fine to Peter, and the audience is also led to believe this — but then she collapses while repeating that she needs to catch her breath, and passes away seemingly unaware that her injuries were fatal.
• Mama Bear: Fully showcases her Mama Bear credentials in No Way Home when she helps her beloved nephew Peter fight off Norman Osborn aka Green Goblin, despite lacking any superpowers and only armed with a pipe.
• Mentor Occupational Hazard: Falls victim to this in No Way Home, where her lesson that everyone deserves a second chance influences Peter's decision to try to save the villains. She also gives him the famous "with great power" quote before dying from the Green Goblin's attack.
• Morality Chain: The Goblin recognizes her as Peter's, which is exactly why he kills her. After May dies, Peter wants nothing more than to kill Goblin with his own hands and would have gone through with it had he not been stopped by Raimi Peter.
• Mortal Wound Reveal: Happens in No Way Home when May collapses after being seemingly unfazed from getting hit by the Goblin's glider. Peter is confused until he realizes his hand is covered in his aunt's blood, and she dies about a minute later.
• Ms. Fanservice: In Far From Home, the camera lingers on a few shots of her wearing tight jeans while she addresses Peter on the phone.
• Nice Girl: One of the nicest characters in the film series, naturally people-oriented, kind and sweet to everyone she meets, very supportive and protective towards Peter.
• Nerd Glasses: She sports a pair of positively gigantic glasses in several scenes.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Showing kindness to Norman Osborn causes the Goblin persona to realize she is Spidey's Morality Chain and makes him decide to "free" Peter by killing May.
• Official Couple: Subverted; she gets into what she calls a "summer fling" with Happy in Far From Home, but they are still figuring out where it'll go from here. The start of No Way Home reveals they've broken up.
• Older Than They Look: Tony can barely believe she is Peter's aunt, but May is actually in her 50s.
• Open-Minded Parent: Despite her initial shock at it, she's accepting of Peter's vigilantism as Spider-Man and helps him out when he needs it. In Homecoming, she finds Peter almost naked with Ned in his room, and simply keeps smiling as she gently suggests he put some clothes on. In No Way Home, when she bursts in on what appears to be Peter and MJ about to have sex, she calmly tells Peter there's nothing wrong with it and is completely supportive.
• Out of Focus: She has a less prominent role in Far From Home due to her nephew spending most of the movie overseas.
• Parents Walk In at the Worst Time: In No Way Home, she and Happy intrude on Peter changing out of his suit with MJ there, and assume the two of them are about to have sex. May quickly closes the door while warning Peter to wear protection... only to walk back in again when she realizes that the girl in the room is the famous MJ, and is excited to meet her for the first time.
• Promoted to Love Interest: Downplayed. She has a brief relationship with Happy Hogan in Far From Home; their comic counterparts don't have anything to do with each other.
• Race Lift: Dialogue confirms that May is Italian-American in this continuity (Mr. Delmar calls her "a hot Italian woman"), similar to her actress. In the comics, May Reilly Parker was Irish-American. It's likely that her maiden name is different or she has mixed Italian and Irish heritage similar to many Italian-Americans, especially in the Northeast (such as Robert De Niro himself).
• Reimagining the Artifact:
  • Behind-the-scenes material for Homecoming notes that in a modern adaptation, Aunt May would no longer be the same kind of character, since the original Aunt May was rooted in a pre-feminist Greatest Generation idea of an ideal maternal figure, whereas in The New '10s, an aunt figure who looks after an orphaned kid as a single parent would be closer to a "big sister" in dynamics, owing to the slowing down of the aging process and the erosion of The Generation Gap. Thus, May is portrayed as Younger and Hipper.
  • Also, since May isn't an elderly woman in this incarnation, Peter's concern about her discovering his superhero identity is now less about potentially shocking an already frail old woman and more about not wanting to add extra stress to who is heavily implied to be a widow still grieving for her late husband.
• Sacrificial Lion: Her death in No Way Home at the Goblin's hands has a huge impact on Peter and fuels his emotional arc for the rest of the film.
• Secret-Keeper: May learns what her nephew has really been up to at the very end of Homecoming. Ironically, May does a better job of keeping Peter's secret than Peter himself.
• Shipper on Deck: For Peter and MJ, as shown when May offers her nephew advice in confessing his feelings for MJ during their summer trip in Far From Home. In No Way Home, she is delighted to meet MJ in person, and while their screentime together is brief, the two seem to get along great.
• Ship Tease: Tony flirts with her in Civil War; however, in Homecoming, May says that she's not a fan of him. Also, in the two months between Civil War and Homecoming, Tony has gotten back together with Pepper.
• Stacy's Mom: Tony even describes her to Peter as "Aunt Hottie". For a case of a younger person also falling for her, there's Peter's friend Ned.
• Stuffed In A Fridge: She's targeted by Green Goblin explicitly so he can kill her to make Peter "stronger". He succeeds.
• Time-Delayed Death: After being hit by the Goblin glider, she gets to her feet and walks around for at least a minute, seemingly not realizing how serious her injuries are. Sadly Truth in Television, as it's completely possible for someone to survive a bit longer thanks to a boost of adrenaline from the body going into a state of shock.
• Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Kind, caring to all, and a supportive motherly figure to Peter. What does she do when she comes back in the Blip? Organizes charities to help those displaced by the Snap and its undoing. When Peter tries to shirk his responsibilities, she keeps his head on straight and convinces him to help the villains from other universes because she believes it’s the right thing to do. Even when it costs her her life, May's dying words are to encourage Peter to continue helping people because he has the power to do so.
• Two First Names: "May" and "Parker" can both be used as first names.
• Wham Line: Spouts off the most famous quote in Spider-Man history, trying to teach Peter what it means to do the right thing. Then she dies.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Homecoming ends with her learning about Peter being Spider-Man, which is not addressed at all in Infinity War, probably because there are much bigger issues for everyone to worry about. It's resolved in Far From Home, which shows she has come to accept it in the wake of everything that's happened since. Granted, Infinity War is set two years after Homecoming, so by then, she had 2 years to come to terms with Peter's secret.
• With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Uncle Ben's last words are given to her in No Way Home.
• Younger and Hipper: May is much younger here than in any prior adaptation and is closer in spirit to a Cool Big Sis instead of the grandmotherly figure she is usually portrayed as.

Ben Parker

Benjamin Franklin Parker

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Portrayed By: N/A

Appearances: Spider-Man: Far From Home^note initials seen on briefcase

Peter's uncle who passed away some time before the events of Civl War.

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• Alternate Self: Has one on Earth-89521, Earth-96283, and Earth-120703.
• The Ghost: Due to his death having been covered in previous iterations and being well known to fans, the MCU hasn't even mentioned Ben by name outside of What If…? (2021). In the films themselves, his presence is acknowledged indirectly with May wearing her wedding ring on a necklace in Civil War and Peter telling Ned that he can't tell May he's Spider-Man in Homecoming because of "everything that's happened with her" while in Far From Home, Ben's initials appear on his briefcase.
• In Spite of a Nail: He and all his variants died shortly after Peter gained his powers.
• Out of Focus: Unlike in the comics and other versions where Ben's death is Peter's biggest regret, here it's implied that while Ben's death is what started Peter's crime-fighting career, it didn't have the same impact that it usually does. Instead, Peter has to learn what it means to be a responsible hero across all three of his solo films while also seemingly having been inspired to be a hero because of Iron Man and the Avengers, with No Way Home having May speak the famous "with great power, there must also be great responsibility" line which Peter had never heard before.
• Truer to the Text: No Way Home reveals that like in the original comics, Ben never said, "With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility", which was simply stated in the narration. May's actually the one to say it instead after she's fatally wounded by the Green Goblin.
• Two First Names: "Parker" is also applicable as a first name.

Pym Family

Hank Pym / Ant-Man I

See his own page.

Janet van Dyne / The Wasp I

Janet van Dyne / The Wasp I

"This place... it changes you. Adaptation is part of it, but some of it is... evolution."

^{Click here to see her as Wasp}

Species: Enhanced human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): S.H.I.E.L.D. (formerly), Pym Technologies

Portrayed By: Michelle Pfeiffer, Hayley Lovitt ^note (younger body double), Paul Rudd ^note (as Janet inhabiting Scott's body)

Voiced By: Rebeca Patiño (Latin-American Spanish dub), Mercedes Montalá (European Spanish dub), Gara Takashima (Japanese dub), Sandra Mara Azevedo (Brazilian Portuguese dub)

Appearances: Ant-Man^note Flashback and photograph only | Ant-Man and the Wasp | Avengers: Endgame | Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

Hank Pym's wife and Hope's mother. During the Cold War she wore a companion suit to Hank's Ant-Man suit and performed missions for S.H.I.E.L.D. under the codename of "the Wasp".

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• Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder: Due to being trapped in the Quantum Realm for over three decades, Janet began a relationship with the alien Krylar, though it's implied that it was primarily done for sexual satisfaction. Unlike most examples, Hank is completely okay with this, having attempted to move on himself but was unable to do so.
• Action Girl: She and Hank spent years as a superhero tag-team for S.H.I.E.L.D., taking on threats around the world until her apparent death in the line of duty.
• Action Mom: Continued being a superhero after having Hope. According to Hope, she was seven when Janet disappeared.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: Janet is almost always portrayed with brown hair in the comics. She's originally shown with darker hair (in flashbacks) here, but by the time she's reunited with her family in the present, her hair has faded to a blondish-gray, and flashbacks in her youth before that show her with blonde hair anyway.
• Adaptational Intelligence: Janet in the original comics was a young and somewhat naive fashion designer falling in love with the older scientist Hank Pym while this version is a fellow scientist, keeping her more in line with the Ultimate Marvel-version of the character.
• Adaptation Personality Change: In the comics, Janet is still a young woman who works as a fashion designer, full of joie de vivre and a bit ditzy. Here, she's older and more grounded and is shown to be a very talented scientist in her own right, but she still has her moments of playfulness.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Like with her husband Hank, Janet was one of the founding members of the Avengers in the comics. In the MCU, Janet is trapped in the Quantum Realm during the organization's creation and for most of their history, and so never becomes affiliated with the group before they become defunct post-Endgame.
• Adaptational Superpower Change: In the comics, Janet's ability to shrink and shoot bio-electric blasts are innate as a result of absorbing enough Pym Particles to alter her genetic code. Here, they're derived from her suit.
• Age Lift:
  • In the comics, she and her husband are inaugural members of the Avengers. Here, they are (or at least Hank) instead founders and early members of the Avengers Initiative, and work for S.H.I.E.L.D.
  • Janet is also implied to be around the same age as her husband in the films, whereas her comics counterpart had a significant age gap between her and Hank.
• Animal-Themed Superbeing: Although her costume lacks the yellow and black patterns, her superhero identity is named after the wasp.
• Back from the Dead: She and the rest of her family were victims of Thanos's snap before they were revived by Bruce Banner.
• Battle Couple: She went on missions with her husband.
• Characterization Marches On: In Ant-Man and the Wasp, Janet begins waxing lyrical about the wonders of the Quantum Realm to her husband when they reunite, and is even willing to send Scott into it to get Quantum particles for Ava Starr and do further research. Fast-forward to Quantumania, and Janet now wants nothing to do with the Quantum Realm or discuss her 20-year experience living in it, to the point of freaking out and shutting down Cassie's Quantum signal invention once she learns what it is.
• Clothes Make the Superman: Her wings and abilities come from her suit, which is visually and functionally similar to the Ant-Man suit. This is in sharp contrast to the comics, where her wings, stingers, and shrinking abilities all come from within her body as a result of a scientific procedure.
• Composite Character: She disappeared after helping invent the Ant-Man gear, making her a mix of her comic counterpart and Pym's first wife, Maria.
  • She also gets the scientific background of her Ultimate Marvel-counterpart. However, her overall personality and her more kind relationship with Hank are taken from her main-comic version.
• Covert Pervert: She admits to her husband and daughter in Quantumania that she hooked up with Krylar because as a woman she had "needs". Hank is relatively blasé about the fact, while Hope is grossed out.
• Costume Evolution: In her character poster for Ant-Man and the Wasp, her suit seems to be a different color that what was seen in Ant-Man.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Janet's 20-year stay in the Quantum Realm was incredibly traumatic for her, to the point where she actively avoids any discussion regarding it, even with close family members like her husband and daughter. Given that it's later revealed that she ended up creating Kang's empire within the Quantum Realm and spent her life fighting him as a member of La Résistance, she definitely has reasons not to talk about it.
• Deadpan Snarker: Janet can make some witty comments and comebacks that are successful in making Hank and Hope chuckle.
• Decomposite Character: Despite still being the first Wasp in this continuity, some of her traits are given to her daughter Hope: Hope's the main Wasp in this continuity and the one associated with the Avengers via Endgame. She also spots a haircut similar to Janet's iconic hair from the comics.
• Demoted to Extra: In the comics, a founding Avenger (and even the source of the team's name), and one of the most recurring central members of the team, as well as definitely being the Wasp in the Marvel Universe. Here, she's thought to be dead in the first film, loses her prominence as the Wasp to her Canon Foreigner daughter, only returns at the end of the second film, is erased by Thanos in The Stinger, and makes only a single non-speaking appearance in Endgame and never fights alongside the team she's usually tied so closely to. She finally gets some good screen-time in Quantumania.
• Distaff Counterpart: Her suit was similar to Hank's apart from having wings and a different visor for her helmet.
• Dropped a Bridge on Her: In the first post-credits scene of Ant-Man and the Wasp, Thanos's use of the Infinity Gauntlet killed her while Scott is in the Quantum Realm.
• Dying Moment of Awesome: Hank believed that her dying act was to go subatomic to dismantle a nuclear bomb targeted at Washington, D.C. from within. After Scott returns from the Quantum Realm, Hank's not so sure that she died; and the sequel showed that she didn't.
• The Faceless: The two times she's seen on screen in the first Ant-Man, her face is obscured, first by her Wasp suit mask and again by a big floppy hat. There's also what could very well be her◊ in the Quantum Realm.
• Flight: Unlike Ant-Man, the Wasp was equipped with a pair of insect-like wings, which barring flagrant abuse of physics (beyond what the Pym Particles already cause) likely only worked when she shrunk down.
• Happily Married: To Hank; in contrast to the significantly messier relationship they have in the comics, their relationship here is loving to the point where even their scientific bickering looks sweet.
• Hero of Another Story: We only see the last minute of her career as a Cold War-era superhero. She also spent thirty years wandering the Quantum Realm.
• Heroic Sacrifice: She shrinks herself to dangerous levels to save Washington, D.C., and doesn't come back. She survived, but she didn't have the means to return to normal, and wouldn't for decades. Though at one point, she did have a chance to return to Earth from the Quantum Realm on Kang's ship. However, after interacting with the ship's core that was linked to Kang's mind, she sees all the worlds and timelines he had destroyed, and those he would. She chooses to expand his core with one of her discs making it unusable, ensuring his continued exile, and giving up her way back to Hope and Hank.
• Iconic Sequel Character: Does not appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe until the seventh year, and not officially until the tenth.
• Improvised Weapon: She seems to have made a spear tipped with one of her suit's wings to defend herself in the Quantum Realm, which is nicely shown sheathed on her back when she and Hank reunite. She's never actually seen using it, though.
• In Name Only: Not to the extent of Hank, but her powers, personality, profession, and role in the Marvel Universe are all generally at odds with the original comic character. While she has moments of similarity to her comic self, they are few and far between.
• La Résistance: She was a member of the forces fighting against Kang after he took over the Quantum Realm.
• Last Episode, New Character: Played With. She debuted via flashback in the final Phase Two film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but her official introduction happens in a Phase Three film.
• The Lost Lenore: Losing her caused Hank to retire, distance himself from his daughter, lock away his research and refuse to share it with anyone, ultimately cut off ties with Stark and S.H.I.E.L.D., and become what is essentially a billionaire hermit. For years he held onto the hope that he could find her but appears to have given up in the present until Scott shows him that it is possible to come back from where she was.
• The Maiden Name Debate: Implied. After being rescued from the Quantum Realm, Scott greets her and addresses her as "Ms. van Dyne" instead of "Mrs. Pym".
• Mama Bear: She and Hank exit the Quantum Realm just in time to save Hope and Scott from Ghost.
• Military Superhero: A covert one of S.H.I.E.L.D. during the Cold War, much like her husband.
• Morality Pet: To Hank. Bill Foster claims that Janet was the only one who was ever able to bring him down to earth.
• Never Found the Body: She shrunk down to subatomic size, and was never seen again.
• No Body Left Behind: Is disintegrated along with half the universe after Thanos completes the Infinity Gauntlet, the timing of which coincides with the mid-credits scene of Ant-Man and the Wasp.
• Not Quite Dead: The ending of Ant-Man hints that it is possible Janet is still alive, somewhere. Then, when Scott goes subatomic, he sees recurring flashes of someone◊. She was able to survive in the Quantum Realm for thirty years and is successfully rescued by Hank, Hope, and Scott.
• Odd Name Out: With her husband Hank and daughter Hope.
• Out of Focus: In contrast to her husband (whose younger self appears during the Time Heist), and her daughter (who participates in the final battle), Janet is by far the least involved in the events of Avengers: Endgame, only making a voiceless cameo during Tony Stark's funeral.
• Parenting the Husband: She's the only person who can calm Hank down and get him to see reason.
• People Puppets: Briefly uses Scott as one to give Hank and Hope the directions necessary to get her out of the Quantum Realm.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: She retains her strength at normal size when she shrinks, reflecting the strength of ants compared to their small size.
• Plucky Girl: Despite being Trapped in Another World all alone for three decades, she didn't allow herself to Go Mad from the Isolation, remains optimistic that she'll still see her family again all those time, and the first thing she does when she finally got back is to heal the person who was just trying to kill her.
• Posthumous Character: Hank holds onto the hope that she's still alive and still researches ways to reach her, but both he and Hope have accepted that she's effectively dead until the ending, in Hank's case. Subverted in Ant-Man and the Wasp as she turns out to be alive, double-subverted when she's disintegrated in The Stinger, and triple-subverted when she comes back from the dead after the Time Heist.
• The Power of Love: Janet's love for her family and the unyielding hope that she would see them again appears to be what kept her sane during her imprisonment in the Quantum Realm.
• Red Is Heroic: The primary coloration of Janet's Wasp suit is red.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: She is reluctant to discuss her time in the Quantum Realm. It turns out she spent her time interacting with Kang the Conqueror, first helping him rebuild his time ship then acting as a terrorist against his growing quantum empire.
• Shoot the Shaggy Dog: After being freed from the Quantum Realm after so many years, she doesn't get to enjoy it for long due to being a victim of Thanos's finger snap.
• Silver Vixen: Despite being trapped in the Quantum Realm for years and having to fend for herself there, she still aged incredibly well into her 60s.
• Sizeshifter: Just like Ant-Man, she uses Pym Particles to shrink and grow. She goes missing when she shrinks too far.
• Sympathetic Adulterer: While trapped in the Quantum Realm she started a physical relationship with Krylar, despite being married. However she had no way to make contact with Hank or find a way to escape for decades, meaning that Hank understands why she started a relationship with him.
• Together in Death: She along with her husband and daughter are vanished by Thanos's Badass Fingersnap together.
• Trapped in Another World: She didn't die when she went subatomic, but rather spent three decades in the microscopic Acid-Trip Dimension known as the Quantum Realm.
• Tritagonist: Of Quantumania. Her past in the Quantum Realm, her connection with Kang, and time as a freedom fighter trying to take him down are all driving factors of the film.
• The Unseen: Her face is never seen in Ant-Man. It's even obscured by a hat in a family photo. We don't get an idea of what she looks like until Ant-Man and the Wasp.

Hope van Dyne / The Wasp II

Hope van Dyne / The Wasp II

"That's how you punch."

^{Click here to see her as Wasp}

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Pym Technologies, Avengers

Portrayed By: Evangeline Lilly, Madeleine McGraw (young)

Voiced By: Maria Roiz (Latin-American Spanish dub), Eva Díez (European Spanish dub), Yuki Uchida (Japanese dub), Angélica Santos (Brazilian Portuguese dub)

Appearances: Ant-Man | Ant-Man and the Wasp | Avengers: Endgame | Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

"It's about damn time."

Hank Pym's daughter, who assists him in the training of Scott, specifically with the physical training and martial arts. Hope is the chairwoman of Pym Technologies and cast the deciding vote that pushed her father out of the company, but as Darren Cross grew closer to recreating Hank's research, she had a change of heart and decided to aid her father in destroying that research. However, old wounds do not heal so easily as she resents her father for never being forthcoming about the fate of her mother.

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• Abnormal Ammo: Like Scott, Hope carries Pym Particle discs that are stored inside her suit's gauntlets to shrink and enlarge any object of her choice.
• Action Girl: She's the one who teaches Scott how to fight. She also helps Scott disable the HYDRA goons surrounding Hank.
  Scott: You're going to teach me how to punch? Okay, [holds up his hand as a target] Show me how to—
  [Hope punches him in the face]
  Hope: That's how you punch.
• Adaptation Name Change: Played For Drama. She uses her mom's surname because of her strained relationship with her father.
• Adaptational Dye-Job: The Wasp suit is generally yellow and black in the comics, while here it's black and silver with a few streaks of red. This was likely done to make it distinct from the Yellowjacket suit which used said color scheme.
• Adaptational Heroism: In the Marvel Comics 2 comics, Hope van Dyne/Hope Pym was an Ax-Crazy villain called Red Queen. Although she is on strained relations with her father in the film due to her mother's death years ago and vents her frustrations on Scott, she's more or less on the side of good here.
• Affectionate Nickname: Her mother calls her "Jellybean".
• Alliterative Family: With her father Hank.
• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: She's cold and distant to both her own father and Scott, the former especially.
• Ascended Extra: A minor villainous character from an Alternate Continuity to the main Marvel Universe in the comics becomes a major character and the Wasp of the MCU, rather than her mother.
• The Atoner: She tries to make up for the mistakes she made, after returning to her father.
• Back from the Dead: She and the rest of her family were victims of Thanos's snap before they were revived by Bruce Banner.
• Badass Bookworm: She's a high-ranking scientist in Pym Technologies, who happens to pack a mean punch.
• Badass Normal: Hope has trained to become a formidable martial artist long before she acquires her Wasp suit.
• Bash Siblings: Becomes this with the Avengers in Endgame.
• Battle Couple: With Scott Lang, the second Ant-Man, as of the sequel.
• The Beastmaster: Hope has the ability to command and communicate with every ant species there is.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Scott. She goes from punching him during their first training session to kissing him by the end of the film.
• Big "YES!": She yells this when she starts shooting down the ships of Kang's soldiers during the final battle of Quantumania.
  Hope: Yes! Come on!
• Bling-Bling-BANG!: Her second (and technically first to outright use onscreen) Wasp suit has yellow/gold plates in it.
• Brainy Brunette: Hope has brown hair and she is an accomplished scientist, much like both of her parents.
• Broken Bird: Because Hank never gave her the details of her mother's death and pushed her away when she sought comfort, it ate away at her and turned her bitter. This built-up resentment is the main reason she stood against her father when the company voted to oust him. She tries to put that aside in order to accomplish her father's goal (once she saw how much worse things would be if Darren was allowed to succeed) but it's difficult for her too and she still feels rejected (since her father won't let her actually carry out his plan, despite the fact she is more able than anyone else he could find).
  Hope: You know, after my mother died, I didn't see him for almost two weeks!
  Scott: He was grieving.
  Hope: Yeah, so was I and I was seven! And he never came back, not in any way that counted! He just shipped me off to boarding school.
• Calling Parents by Their Name: In Ant-Man she calls her father Hank throughout, stemming from her long-seated resentment toward him. She does, however, call him "Dad!" once after he gets shot, an event that happens after they've started working through what happened to Hope's mother (the cause of the rift between father and daughter). In the sequel, she's back to calling him "Dad" after they reconcile.
• Canon Foreigner: In a sense. The exact character of "Hope van Dyne" as presented in the film has never existed in the main Earth-616 continuity, but a villainous character named Hope Pym/Red Queen existed in the What If? Alternate Universe known as MC2. The two characters share very few similarities, though.
• Canon Immigrant: A loosely-adapted version of the MCU Hope, Nadia Pym, (later Nadia van Dyne, bringing it full circle) eventually made her way into the original Marvel comics universe (instead of the MC2 Alternate Universe) after the success of the first Ant-Man film. Again, 616 Nadia ("Nadia" is Russian for "Hope") doesn't actually have that much in common with the movie Hope aside from being Hank Pym's daughter^note But not Janet's, her mother being Hank's oft-forgotten first wife from his Silver Age origin who replaces Janet as the Wasp.
• Closet Shuffle: As revealed in Ant-Man and the Wasp, Hope went to hide in her wardrobe every time she played hide-and-seek with her mother during her childhood. Scott points out that she doesn't seem to have really understood the purpose of the game.
• Combined Energy Attack: In a similar way to what Tony, Thor and Vision did to Ultron Prime in the climax of Age of Ultron, Hope combines her blasters' energy bolts with Rescue's repulsor beams and Shuri's sonic blasts to repel Thanos during the final battle of Avengers: Endgame.
• Composite Character: Takes her name and relationship to Hank Pym from Hope Pym of Earth-982, but takes her haircut, surname, and outfit from her mother, Janet van Dyne. Her father eventually presents her with a new suit, which she dons in the sequel to become the Wasp.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: She starts out like this out of personal reasons due to having Daddy Issues with Hank by conspiring with the equally crooked Darren Cross to take over her father's company, but then she realizes Cross is a far worse corporate crook than her and returns to Hank.
• Costume Evolution: Her Wasp suit in the stinger of Ant-Man appears to be different from the one she wears in the sequel and Endgame, which had dark green and brown accents. By the time of Quantumania, Hope's suit is now a honey-yellow, looking much like Janet's costume in the comics.
• Dead Alternate Counterpart: The point of divergence in the What If… The World Lost its Mightiest Heroes? timeline, as in that timeline she joined S.H.I.E.L.D. and was killed during a mission. Her father then went mad with grief and blamed Nick Fury for her death, eventually killing everyone who was considered a recruit on the Avengers Initiative until he was stopped by Loki and Fury. The deaths of the Avengers before they were even a team, in particular Thor, meant that there was nothing stopping Loki from taking over the planet.
• Deadpan Snarker: Hope's level of snark can be as equal as Scott's whenever they are having a conversation.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: She warms up to Scott and reconciles with her estranged father throughout the movie. By Ant-Man and the Wasp, she's considerably more relaxed, regularly laughing at Scott's antics, being more open about her growing affection for Scott, and generally showing much more emotional vulnerability.
• Deuteragonist: Promoted to this in the sequel, where she has a much more active role, both story-wise (her decisions and actions propel much of the narrative) and literally as she lets her Action Girl abilities shine through as the Wasp.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Just because her father doesn't tell her the truth about her mother, Hope resents him for years to the point she addresses him by his name, drops his surname in favor of her mother's, and kicks him out of his own company.
• Dropped a Bridge on Her: In the first post-credits scene of Ant-Man and the Wasp, Thanos's use of the Infinity Gauntlet killed her while Scott is in the Quantum Realm.
• Dude Magnet: Being portrayed by the gorgeous Evangeline Lilly, Hope naturally has quite a lot of success with the opposite gender:
  • Scott Lang is very much attracted to her, and eventually starts a romantic relationship with her.
  • Both Luis and Kurt mention finding her attractive in the first Ant-Man film.
  • Darren Cross and Sonny Burch are both implied to have a thing for her.
  • During her time in the Quantum Realm, even Broccoli Man tries to hit on her, much to her exasperation.
• Eating the Eye Candy: During their training, Hope briefly glances at Scott's abs while he treats an injury.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: Hope was initially introduced with a bob-style haircut, but later grows her hair out in subsequent appearances. This is both to show that time has passed since the first Ant-Man movie, and to visually represent her less-uptight personality. Quantumania, which shows Hope at her most carefree in the series, has her sporting a pixie-style hair-do.
• Expy: Inverted with Nadia Pym, who is based more on Hope than Hope is based on her MC2 counterpart.
• Extremely Protective Child: She may have her issues with her father, but she still loves him and won't let anyone hurt him. When Darren Cross points a gun at Hank in the climax of Ant-Man, Hope knocks out a henchman to take his gun and threatens to shoot Cross if he doesn't leave her father alone.
• False Reassurance: During her dinner to Darren Cross, she toasts him with "You're a success story, Darren. You deserve everything coming to you." What Cross doesn't know is that she's in league with her father, Hank Pym, to ruin him and destroy his research.
• Flight: The Wasp suit has a pair of insect-like wings that enables Hope to fly.
• Generation Xerox: Like her mother, Hope becomes a superhero called the Wasp, as well as being romantically involved with an Ant-Man. The two of them also become victims of Thanos's Snap before they are resurrected five years later.
• Genius Bruiser: Hope is an accomplished scientist and an expert martial artist, just like both of her parents.
• Gold-Colored Superiority: Hope's yellow/gold-colored Wasp suit is equipped with wings and blasters, which makes it superior in comparison to Scott's red Ant-Man suit.
• Good Stepmother: She's essentially this to Cassie, even though she and Scott aren't married, as she openly encourages Cassie's scientific endeavors and shares Scott's concern for her well-being, while Cassie refers to Hope's parents as her own grandparents.
• Hairpin Lockpick: When she and Hank are taken into custody by the FBI in Ant-Man and the Wasp, Hope uses a hairpin she had hidden in her mouth to free herself and Hank from their handcuffs.
• Hand Blast: The gauntlets of Hope's Wasp suit are equipped with energy blasters called "stingers". The power levels of these stingers range from bolts that can knock a man unconscious to constant streams of concussive energy that are powerful enough to push Thanos back.
• Heel–Face Turn: Hope betrayed Hank by scheming with Cross to take over Pym Technologies, shutting her father out of his own company. She eventually has a change of heart when she realizes Cross is dangerous and returns to Hank so they can find a way to stop him.
• Honor Before Reason: Despite only being resurrected moments prior, and having little idea about what's going on regarding the fight against Thanos, Hope nonetheless suits up to help save the world alongside Scott.
• Hypercompetent Sidekick:
  • To Scott, to her chagrin because she is far more qualified to wear the Ant-Man suit than he is. Why she can't be the Ant-Man is a point of contention between her and her father at first; then they reconcile and get over it.
  • When she becomes the Wasp in the sequel film, she's shown outdoing Scott in superheroics for the most part, and also gains abilities he doesn't, such energy blasts and wings to fly with.
• Iconic Sequel Character: Does not appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe until the seventh year.
• Ironic Name: She's quite pessimistic and cynical.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's a huge jerkass to Scott for the first half of Ant-Man when he is largely passive towards her, mainly because she is upset because her father vetoed her using the suit to pull off the heist. She warms up to him eventually. She resumes a cold attitude towards him Ant-Man and the Wasp, but this is somewhat justified given Scott stole the Ant-Man suit, got involved in a fight with the Avengers, caused her and her father to have to go on the run, and didn't even invite her to help him out during the battle.
• Lady in a Power Suit: Hope wears a tailored suit during her days as the chairwoman of Pym Technologies.
• Lady of War: Hope carries herself with an aloof and graceful air. This is seen even in fight scenes, in which she uses a Mixed Martial Arts fighting style that incorporates gymnastics and Judo. This was intentional by Evangeline Lilly, who felt that Hope should fight with elegance and femininity that little girls would love.
• Last Episode, New Character: Debuted in the final Phase Two film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
• Legacy Character: She inherits her mother's bob, and eventually the Wasp title by the time of Ant-Man and the Wasp.
• Locked Out of the Loop: She's among the thousands of reinforcements that Doctor Strange brings to the finale in Endgame. She’s seen looking around with a quizzical expression. Despite this, she willingly joins the battle against Thanos, follows Steve's orders to repair the Quantum Tunnel, and helps clear a path for Captain Marvel to get the Nano Gauntlet to said Tunnel.
• Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter: Fell out with her father after Janet's death, but reconciles with him during the movie, especially when she learns of Janet's Heroic Sacrifice.
• Meaningful Name:
  • Lampshaded by her father when he is giving her the prototype Wasp suit at the end of Ant-Man.
  • It's more meaningful in the What If… The World Lost its Mightiest Heroes? timeline where her untimely death drove Hank Pym mad with grief, and he soon responds by murdering nearly all the Avengers out of spite, which in turn allows Loki to proceed with his conquest unopposed. In short, the death of Hope doomed Earth to a reign of subjugation and tyranny.
• The Mole: She used her seniority in Pym Technologies and closeness to Cross to provide Scott and Hank with important information, while exaggerating her antagonism with her father. Cross figures it out anyway and thwarts their main plan to steal the Yellowjacket suit.
• Morality Chain:
  • Cross empathizes with Hope's resentment towards her dad (though he takes it too far for even her), he doesn't kill Pym when he breaks into Pym's house because Hope is in the next room, and he pauses when Hope tells him that he is losing his mind.
  • Hope is also Hank's only tether from descending into complete madness after the supposed death of Janet, which is why he's so overprotective of her in the first movie. In the episode "What If… The World Lost Its Mightiest Heroes?", the death of Hope during a S.H.I.E.L.D. mission led to that timeline's Hank Pym to go on a murder revenge spree upon the Avengers.
• More Deadly Than the Male: Make no mistake, between her and Scott, Hope is the superior fighter and user of the suit, and she has a better suit that fires bolts of energy and can fly. The only thing Scott has been shown to do that she hasn't is to grow into giant size.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
  • She was the deciding vote that ousted Hank from Pym Tech and put Darren Cross in charge. It's implied that she did it out of spite. She soon realized that it was a very bad idea.
  • She was the one that called the cops on Scott, which turns out to have consequences as it led to Darren piecing together Scott's involvement in Hank's planned heist — something which otherwise might have been avoided and made the climax go smoother than it did. Scott fighting the Falcon might have made Cross aware that someone was wearing the suit, but the man arrested near Hank's mansion — who somehow disappeared from his cell without a trace — was too much of a coincidence to ignore.
• No Body Left Behind: Is disintegrated along with half the universe after Thanos completes the Infinity Gauntlet, the timing of which coincides with the mid-credits scene of Ant-Man and the Wasp.
• Nom de Mom: She goes by her mother's maiden name instead of her birth surname, due to her estrangement from her father.
• Not So Above It All:
  • While sneaking through Cassie's elementary school in Ant-Man and the Wasp, Hope can't help but make fun of Scott when his suit malfunctions and makes him the size of a small child.
  • She criticizes Scott for calling Steve Rogers "Cap" in Ant-Man and the Wasp, but in the climactic battle of Endgame, Hope addresses Rogers as "Cap", too. Scott grins at her, and she, aware of her hypocrisy, grins back.
  • In Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Hope works diligently to help rebuild Pym Technologies and also get shrinking tech to benefit society. Yet, she also gleefully skips work to throw on her Wasp suit and share a romantic moment with Scott on the Golden Gate bridge with a six-pack of beer.
• Not So Stoic:
  • She's pretty squicked out when she hears about her parents' respective sex lives while separated.
  • When engaging in superheroics, Hope tends to be fairly stoic and focused on the mission, with nothing throwing her off course. However, when she gets trapped in the probability zone in Quantumania, Hope is just as distracted and freaked out by the various copies of her showing up as Scott was.
• Out of Focus: Much like Hank, Hope gets far less attention in Quantumania compared to the first two films.
• Pest Controller: She wears a special earpiece that allows her to convey commands to ants.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: She retains her strength at normal size when she shrinks, reflecting the strength of ants compared to their small size.
• Primary-Color Champion: The coloration of Hope's Wasp suit are yellow/gold and dark blue with streaks of red.
• Relationship Revolving Door: Has an on-off relationship with Scott, having cut ties with him by the time the sequel begins. By the end of the movie, they're back together... Until unforeseen circumstances end their relationship again in the mid-credits scene. They eventually get together for good at the end of Endgame.
• Sci-Fi Bob Haircut: Hope sports the classic bob her mother, the first Wasp, had in the original comics. She grows it out in the two years between Ant-Man and Ant-Man and the Wasp so that it more resembles Tomboyish Ponytail. Averted in Quantumania, which shows that she's cut it down to a pixie-style.
• Second Love: To Scott, assuming that he didn't have a relationship after his and his first wife's divorce prior to their Last-Minute Hookup.
• Sexy Mentor: She's the one who gave Scott proper combat training and has a Last-Minute Hookup with him.
• Sharp Dressed Woman: Wears a suit for much of Ant-Man, except in training scenes where it wouldn't be practical. She's a big whig at the company after all.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: She steps out of the limo in a stunning, floor-length silver dress while attending a red carpet event with Scott in Quantumania.
• Sizeshifter: Her suit in the second film which utilizes Pym Particles allows her to shrink and grow back to normal size at will.
• Teacher/Student Romance: She serves as both a personal trainer and the love interest of Scott Lang.
• Time-Shifted Actor: She's portrayed by Madeleine McGraw when she appears as a child in some flashback scenes of Ant-Man and the Wasp. As an adult, she's portrayed by Evangeline Lilly.
• Together in Death: She and her parents are vanished by Thanos's Badass Fingersnap together.
• Took a Level in Badass: Not that she wasn't an extremely capable woman, but being given the Wasp suit elevates her to One-Man Army status in Ant-Man and the Wasp, where she curb-stomps Burch and his many goons.
• Took a Level in Cheerfulness:
  • She's much more optimistic in the sequel, partially due to her joy at finally getting her chance to be a hero and partially due to her renewed hope of reuniting with her long-lost mother.
  • By the time of Quantumania, Hope has everything she could ever want in her life, which reflects her mood exponentially. In the film's prologue, she's shown working diligently to make the Pym Particles available to society, throws on her Wasp suit to share a romantic moment with Scott on the Golden Gate Bridge, and is visibly happy to be with her family whenever they're together.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: She jumps back into the Quantum Realm, and delivers a world of hurt on Kang before he can deliver the killing blow after he brutalized Scott.
• Welcome Back, Traitor: Despite their estranged relationship, Hank and Hope work together to stop Darren Cross from realizing his nefarious plans.
• What Measure Is a Non-Cute?: She objects to Cross testing his shrink ray on baby lambs, having expected the test subjects to be rodents.
• You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: She has this reaction in Ant-Man and the Wasp when she sees Sonny Burch show up to make another attempt to steal the lab.
  Hope: Really? This guy again?
• You Killed My Father: Subverted in Avengers: Endgame. Hope joins the final battle shortly after learning about what Thanos did to her and both of her parents, but she does so to protect the world instead of to take revenge.

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