Wasp

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WASP	Janet Van Dyne Height: 5'4" Weight: 110 lbs. Eye Color: Brown Hair Color: Auburn Species: Mutagenic ABILITIES Intelligence: 3 Strength: 1 Agility: 2 Speed: 2 Durability: 3 [glow=black,2,300]Health: 3[/glow][glow=red,2,300]Energy: 9[/glow]
ACTIONS Bio-Electric Force Blast: 4 [2x Damage] Close Combat: 1 [Strength Bonus or Weapon Modifier] - Hand-to-Hand Flight: 2 [Only through Shrinking]	Leadership: 3 Shrinking: 7 [Insect Strength] Social Skills: 4 - Avengers Protocol - Dizzy Brunette - Fashion - Socialite

MODIFIERS Wealth: [3]
CHALLENGES Psychological: [2], Expensive tastes and an obsession for fine clothing.
DESCRIPTION Janet Van Dyne was the daughter of world-renowned scientist Vernon Van Dyne. Shortly after Henry Pym gained fame for his research in the field of cell specialization, and in particular for his discoveries about the nature of wasp cells, Vernon Van Dyne visited Pym to ask if Pym would collaborate on Van Dyne's pet project, a gamma-radiation-based beam able to detect signals of intelligent life from other planets. Pym declined since the nature of Van Dyne's project was too far outside his field. Out of curiosity, Van Dyne's daughter Janet tagged along to meet the reputedly hansom Pym. She and Pym were attracted to one another; she reminded Pym of his late wife Maria. Van Dyne went ahead with his project, and several days later succeeded in aiming the beam at a distant planet. The planet indeed possessed intelligent, albeit monstrous, life and one of its criminals followed the beam to Earth to escape prosecution. extraterrestrial discovered Van Dyne and killed him in his laboratory, not wanting a witness alive who had the means to contact the authorities on its home planet. After killing Van Dyne, the alien escaped to menace the rest of the city. Janet heard the noise of the brief scuttle from the adjoining room. She discovered her father's body, and uncertain of how to handle the situation, called Pym. Although Pym first dismissed Janet's call as a cruel prank, her story was verified when Pym, in his guise as the original Ant-Man, received a cybernetic message from his legion of ants which related the appearance of an alien in the vicinity on Van Dyne's laboratory. Pym went to investigate the scene as the Ant-Man. When Janet Van Dyne demonstrated previously uncharacteristic moral strength during the crisis, and expressed determination to avenge her father's death, Pym revealed his secret identity to her and asked if she would undergo conversion into the Wasp, a superhumanly powered crime-fighting partner for the Ant-Man. Janet readily accepted. Drawing on his recent scientific discoveries, Pym implanted cells beneath her skin at her shoulder blades and temples corresponding to those cells found in wasp wings and antennae, respectively. He instructed her on the use of the gas which he employed at the time to shrink to insect size. The result was that Janet Van Dyne could grow wings and antennae when she achieved wasp size. Outfitted in a costume of Pym's design, the Wasp first mastered flight and cybernetic contact with insects on the mission to locate and vanquish the alien that had killed her father. Ant-Man and the Wasp gradually fell in love, developing a crime-fighting partnership which lasted through their participation in the founding of the Avengers and several of Pym's identity changes. As Pym refined the biotechnology behind size-changing, the Wasp eventually became able to change size through mental command. The couple married several years after the Avengers were founded. Years later, after Pym suffered a series of nervous breakdowns and resigned active crime-fighting, they divorced. The Wasp is currently chairperson of the Avengers.