Wasps use their venomous sting to subdue prey and defend their nest. They also use it to defend themselves.

Stern, Roger( w), Buscema, John( p), Palmer, Tom( i),Scheele, Christie( col), Novak, Jim( let), Gruenwald, Mark( ed). The Avengers,vol.1,no.263(January 1986).New York City: Marvel Comics Group. The Wasp makes a cameo appearance in the X-Men: The Animated Series episode "One Man's Worth". [119] This version is a member of the Avengers from a timeline where the X-Men never formed. There’s a fascinating but rather horrible nature fact at the heart of Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s 2015 play The Wasp. It concerns the tarantula hawk wasp, which is by all accounts exactly as unpleasant as it sounds. I won’t go into the full gory details – if you want to know more, go and see the play – but essentially the baby tarantula hawk wasp grows up inside the abdomen of a tarantula, eating it from the inside out and only emerging when fully grown. Oh, and apparently it’s got one of the most painful stings on the planet – because it didn’t sound bad enough already. Photo credit: Robert Bettelheim The Ultimate Marvel incarnation of Wasp is Janet Pym, a 26-year-old mutant and a member of the Ultimates. [95] [96] [97] She holds two PhDs (one known to be in molecular biology [98]) and is portrayed as being of Asian descent. [99] [100] She is moderately fluent in German.EXCLUSIVE: Naomie Harris ( Moonlight) and Natalie Dormer ( Game of Thrones) have been tapped to lead the psychological thriller The Wasp, which BAFTA winner and two-time nominee Guillem Morales ( Inside No. 9) is directing for XYZ Films. Janet van Dyne is usually depicted as having the ability to shrink to a height of several centimeters, fly by means of insectoid wings, and fire bioelectric energy blasts. She is a founding member of the Avengers and the one who gave them their name as well as a longtime leader of the team. She is also the ex-wife of Hank Pym and the stepmother of Nadia van Dyne. The Wasp appears in Marvel Future Avengers, voiced by Kaori Mizuhashi in Japanese and Kari Wahlgren in English. [ citation needed] Janet appears in the live-action film Avengers: Endgame, [132] in which she is restored to life off-screen and attends Tony Stark's funeral. [133]

Nadia soon joins the Avengers and gains U.S. citizenship. Upon realizing that the most intelligent women on S.H.I.E.L.D.'s index don't list any women above the 27th place, she jump starts the program G.I.R.L. ( Genius In Action Research Labs) to look for women with genius intellects. [87] When deciding her legal name, Nadia realizes that she can't take the name 'Pym' as she never knew much about her biological mother and father. She decides to take the surname 'Van Dyne' as Janet was the only person there for her and believed in her success. [88] Other versions [ edit ] MC2 [ edit ] Gavin says, 'At the beginning of April and May the colony is really small, with just a few workers. Growth is slow until you get to a certain mass, then it's almost exponential growth.' In his 1970s run on The Avengers, artist George Pérez revamped the character's costume a number of times, having a significant impact on the character's development: At times The Wasp is so naturalistic in its style of conversation, it’s almost like the television series The Office, where those none the wiser thought there may have been at least an element of spontaneity about it, but in fact absolutely everything is scripted and planned down to the last detail. Two-handers can go either way – this one comes up trumps, thanks to a solid script from Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, and assured performances from Myanna Buring as Carla and Laura Donnelly as Heather. Heather and Carla haven’t seen each other since school. Their lives have taken very different paths – Carla lives a hand to mouth existence while Heather has a high-flying career, husband and a beautiful home. And yet, here they are in a café having tea and making awkward conversation. That is until Heather presents Carla with a bag containing a significant amount of cash and an unexpected proposition…She made occasional appearances in Avengers vol. 3, returning as an active member of the team in issue #27 (2000) before resuming leadership duties. She and Captain America became co-leaders of the team starting in issue #38. In 2023, Comic Book Resources ranked the Wasp 19th in their "10 Most Fashionable Marvel Heroes" list. [82] John Cena and Colton Haynes Lend Voices to "Marvel Avengers Academy" ". February 4, 2016. Archived from the original on August 12, 2016 . Retrieved February 4, 2016. In 2022, Newsarama ranked the Wasp 4th in their "Best Avengers members of all time" list [2] and 21st in their "Best female superheroes" list. [71] Please Gamble Responsibly. Call 1-800-NEXT STEP (AZ), 1-800-522-4700 (NH), 888-789-7777/visit ccpg.org (CT), 1-800-BETS OFF (IA), or visit OPGR.org (OR) or www.1800gambler.net (WV).