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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
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Well now that Hank’s dusted Tony beating Thanos would be saving his ass.
Yeah it’s ironic how for all of Hank’s insults towards Tony, he is the one out there helping the world while Hank spends his days sitting on his ass as a hermit.
Edited by slimcoder on Sep 6th 2018 at 8:46:58 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."The major thing that keeps him from being a supervillain is that he's got relatively small ambitions
He doesn't want his tech to change the world. If he ever did he soured on it. He just wants a monopoly on it and his family back together. Then he'll move to a beach and retire
And that's probably best for everyone
Forever liveblogging the AvengersMCU Hank lacks the motivation to be 616 Hank. That's why Tony made Ultron, Hank was too fucking lazy to be bothered.
My various fanfics.I think their differing paths is because they both have differing views on their technologies' potential.
Tony is defensive of who wears his armor suits, but he sees a future for the arc reactor to be used in peaceful and energy-producing capacities, or for his drones to protect the planet. Hank doesn't see any good coming out of other people learning how to synthesize the Pym Particle; he's certain its only inevitable outcome is war.
Edited by Tuckerscreator on Sep 6th 2018 at 9:43:12 AM
Which is ridiculous. In-character, but ridiculous. Shrinking things has far more civilian applications than military ones. Storage, shipping, energy, medicine... the list goes on. Most civilian companies would sell their children for access to Pym particles.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff....Probably not the right way of phrasing it to Hank Pym.
I think Hank just imagines being the next Oppenheimer or Nobel. He's clearly a glass-half-empty kind of guy. Imagine the civilian applications...! But you drop one nuke...
Edited by Unsung on Sep 6th 2018 at 11:14:43 AM
Here's a thought: What if Tony offered to sell Stark Industries to Hank.
Why would he do this: one, to end the Stark Pym feud (that he barely knows about true, but still).
Two, because if you combine Stark Tech and the Pym Particles, you could probably do things more incredible than either alone.
Three, because if Hank owns the company of the one person he never wants to own Pym Particles, then he never has to worry about it again.
....you know, this made so much sense in my head. Now it's just full of holes. Oh well, discuss anyway.
One Strip! One Strip!"STARK SELLS COMPANY TO INTERNATIONAL FUGITIVE FOR $4.20"
But seriously, we've yet to see Pym and Stark in a room together. I do want that.
...Both of them de-aged to the point where Howard was still alive, all three of them and Maria and Janet at a fundraiser leading into the most epic Hank Pym blow-up.
Edited by Unsung on Sep 6th 2018 at 12:20:16 PM
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I don't think he does, no. The Pym/Stark vendetta is entirely one-sided. Stark is much too busy with very important things like
- Saving the world.
- Accidentally endangering the world.
- Saving the world from himself.
Etc. to actually know or care about who Pym is.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Hank Pym was someone that Howard Stark knew, but was clearly not important enough for Howard to mention him in between all of the times he had to think of Steve to climax.
My various fanfics.Another distinction to note between Tony and Hank:
The driving reason behind why Tony focuses so much on developing inventions with a hoped-for positive effect on the world is because of his history as a weapons manufacturer. He feels guilt for what his creations did, and wants his life to leave more of a positive legacy on humanity than a negative one.
Hank has no such regret. He was much more successful at keeping the Pym Particle out of the hands of unsavory parties and thus no war crimes were committed with it. So he feels no need to heal the world with better inventions like Tony does because there’s been no misuse he has to atone for.
Interview with the Bendelsohn
, during which he uses the word “Skrullin’” at least 500 times.

Hank is very much the flip the board, set the box on fire, and salt the fucking Earth type of person
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