Yellowjacket (Marvel)
Yellowjacket is the name used by several characters in the Marvel Universe.
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Yellowjacket (Dr. Henry Pym)
- Main Article: Hank Pym
Dr. Hank Pym was a male human scientist who one day while working in his laboratory accidentally dropped and smashed some vials containing various unknown gases. The gases caused Pym to develop a severe case of schizophrenia. He took the new identity of Yellowjacket and made himself a new suit. After he claimed that he had murdered Pym, he kidnapped Janet van Dyne, and proposed to her, as Pym had long wanted to do. Realizing that Yellowjacket was really Pym, van Dyne decided to play along, fearing that she would worsen his psychological condition if she did otherwise. (Avengers v1 #60)
Yellowjacket (Rita DeMara)
- Main Article: Rita DeMara
Originally a criminal, Rita DeMara became Yellowjacket when she stole Henry Pym's Yellowjacket costume and modified it for her own use.
DeMara stole the original Yellowjacket's Suit created by Hank Pym from Avengers Mansion, and modified it for her own use. DeMara, as Yellowjacket, clashed with Pym's ex-wife, Janet van Dyne, the Wasp, when DeMara raided Henry Pym's former laboratory in van Dyne's New Jersey home. The Wasp easily captured the new Yellowjacket when DeMara became hysterical upon using her helmet's cybernetic size-control devices to shrink herself to a tiny size. At that time, DeMara could not adjust psychologically to being so small, although she later learned to do so. (Avengers v1 #264)
Yellowjacket was recruited by Baron Zemo for his Masters of Evil, but later reformed and even became an honoary Avenger. However, she soon reverted to supervillainy, working with the Femizons and Doctor Octopus's Masters of Evil.
After Octopus' attack on Avengers Mansion led her into a battle with dopplegangers during the Infinity War, Yellowjacket met the 31st-century superheroes known as the Guardians of the Galaxy. When they returned to their native time (and timeline), she tagged along and joined the team. After many adventures, she finally travelled back to her home time.
Along the way, she encountered a future where the Avengers were enemies of the state. Seeking to help them, she came to warn the team after arriving in the modern age, only to be slain by a mind-controlled Iron Man. (Avengers v1 #264)
Yellowjacket (Criti Noll)
- Main Article: Criti Noll
Criti Noll was a high ranking member of the Dard'van, a religious sect of the shape-shifting alien race known as the Skrulls. She was selected to replace Dr. Henry Pym as part of their Secret Invasion of the planet Earth. While undercover as an student of Oxford University, Criti Noll approached Pym when he was living in England. Feigning adulation for his past work, Criti Noll drew all of the information Pym and the human race knew about the Skrulls, then using the powers of the Hulk, knocked him unconscious and delivered him to the Skrull Empire. She then subjected herself to the transformation process and replaced Pym. (Mighty Avengers v1 #15)
Yellowjacket (Darren Cross)
- Main Article: Darren Cross
Darren Cross was a male human who came to be a businessman that headed Cross Technological Enterprises. After his resurrection, he vowed to find a means of healing him and to make the Lang’s pay for their part in his injury. To that end, he had his agents capture Egghead where Cross offered him access to Hank Pym’s secret lab in the Ant-Man helmet along with its various secrets in exchange for his aid in finding a cure for Augustine. Egghead found an experimental battle armor that was being developed by Pym that used Pym Particles as a power source that could offer a solution. Darren Cross decided to equip himself and gain the power for himself. (Astonishing Ant-Man v1 #12)
Overview
Yellowjacket abilities were granted by the costume, which included flight, the ability to shrink in size, and the ability to fire electrical blasts.
Like Ant-Man's Helmet, the cowl of the Yellowjacket Suit allows the user to communicate with insects.
The Yellowjacket Suit allows the user to shrink to the size of an ant, approximately one-half inch in height, or grow to gigantic height by means of the subatomic particles known as the Pym Particles. The Particles would be released by the suit by way of a special gas.
The gloves of the suit could fire powerful bursts of bio-energy known as a Bio-Sting.
Notes
- The concept of Yellowjacket was created by Roy Thomas and John Buscema where it made its first appearance in Avengers v1 #59 (December, 1968).
Alternate Versions
In other media
Television
- In The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, the Yellowjacket identity appeared in the setting of the animated television series in the episode "Yellowjacket". It was an identity assumed by Hank Pym after he suffered a mental breakdown where he portrayed himself as a villain that targeted other supervillains. Seemingly killing them, he actually shrunk them to a subatomic level in an effort to contain them.
- In What If...?, the Yellowjacket identity appeared in the setting of the 2021 animated Disney+ television series in the episode "What If... the World Lost Its Mightiest Heroes?" where he was voiced by actor Michael Douglas.
Films
- In Ant-Man, the Yellowjacket identity was used by Darren Cross in the setting of the 2015 live-action film set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe where he was portrayed by actor Corey Stoll. the Yellowjacket Suit was designed by Darren Cross as a weaponized version of Dr. Hank Pym's Ant-Man Suit. Via exposure to Pym Particles the suit allowed the user the ability reduce the space between their atoms, reducing their size and increasing their density. The suit could generate powerful bio-electric blasts. The exact power source and upper limits of this ability are unknown. It was equipped with some type of rocket or jet propulsion system. However, this was primarily used for short distance flight and hovering. It remains unclear if this system could sustain long distance flight. Cross planned to sell the Yellowjacket Suit to potential bidders, but the demonstration was demonstrated by Pym's protege and successor as Ant-Man, Scott Lang. Cross himself donned the suit to fight Lang, who eventually shrunk between the armor's molecules and damaged its circuitry. The damaged suit began shrinking Cross unevenly, and he was ultimately shrunk to the Quantum Realm with his head still big and his limbs shrunk.
Video games
- In Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2, Hank Pym in the Yellowjacket identity appeared as a boss level antagonist in the setting of the video game where he was voiced by actor Wally Wingert.
- In Marvel: Contest of Champions, the MCU incarnation of Darren Cross as the Yellowjacket appeared in the setting of the mobile video game.
- In Marvel: Future Fight, the MCU incarnation of Darren Cross as the Yellowjacket appeared in the setting of the mobile video game.
- In Marvel: Future Revolution, the Yellowjacket identity was used by an alternate universe version of Hank Pym who appeared as an antagonist in the setting of the mobile video game.
Appearances
- Avengers v1: (1968)
- Astonishing Ant-Man v1:
- Marauders v1:
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