Flange, I’m posting this because it is perfect and I will never be as eloquent as you.
BRINGING THIS BACK BECAUSE I FUCKING LOVE THESE TWO DORKS
Not screen-reader friendly, and has bluespace, but very interesting anyway,
Tag: hank pym
Have you ever given any thought to what Jan/Wasp would be like in the Iron Man: Armored Adventures universe? Lately I’ve been imagining her and AA!Pepper being besties in college and having awesome, world-saving adventures in between study dates
OH MY GOD ARMORED ADVENTURES JAN
I WANT IT
I want her to be the ultra-sophisticated super-smooth and accomplished sophomore who takes Pepper under her wing at Harvard, makes sure Tony and Rhodey don’t work themselves to death at MIT, chats with Gene in Mandarin (okay, YELLS AT GENE in Mandarin when he’s being a dick), and opens a fashion house with Whitney in her spare time. And is also a badass winged size-shifting superhero.
Meanwhile, MIT junior Hank Pym can’t get his shit together long enough to talk to her, let alone ask her out, which is a total running joke all season.
I really wish we’d had a third season of Armored Adventures with new heroes and Steve getting defrosted and Howard continuing to be the only affectionate, supportive, well-adjusted Howard Stark in any canon anywhere.
Sam. Sam. SAM. I need this. The world needs this. You need to write this. For yourself. For the internet. For the universe. I am not above manipulating you in your medicated state. DO IT.
Insecticide
There are valid reasons for why Marvel swapped out Janet Van Dyne and Hank Pym for Natasha Romanova and Clint Barton as founding members of the Avengers in the MCU. Especially for where Marvel’s collective head was back in 2008-2011, when they weren’t even sure there would be an Avengers to form. It required far less CGI (and thus less money), it fit better with the MCU conceit of the Avengers being a SHIELD-sponsored paramilitary unit instead of Team Treehouse living on Tony Stark’s dime, it avoided tipping the team too far into Science Geeks Plus Cap territory, Black Widow and Hawkeye had more currency, etc. These may not be the best reasons, the only reasons, or insurmountable reasons, but they’re valid reasons.
But Marvel is going to have to come up with perfect reasons to justify apparently fridging Janet in 2014 to give Hank a tragic past and Scott Lang an age-appropriate love interest.
They had options here, far more than they did in 2008 when this was all a pipe dream or in 2011 when they punched their golden ticket with The Avengers. The MCU has expanded greatly, both on Earth with Agents of SHIELD and out into space with Guardians of the Galaxy and there is plenty of room to fit Janet in. Janet’s tiny, she fits everywhere.
Except, apparently, in the MCU as a living woman.
Discovered on the rewatch
I think every MCU fan needs to know that while the Avengers are squabbling with Fury under the influence of the Scepter, this exchange happens. Only fragments of it are audible, but is preserved on the subtitle track:
Thor: You treat your champions with such mistrust.
Natasha: Are you boys really that naive? SHIELD monitors potential threats.
Bruce: Captain America’s on threat watch?
Natasha: We all are.
Tony: Wait, you’re on that list? Are you above or below angry bees?
Steve: Stark, so help me God, if you make one more wisecrack…
Tony: Threat! Verbal threat! I feel threatened!
Steve: Show some respect.
Tony: Respect what?Are you above or below angry bees?
Are you above or below angry bees?
ARE YOU ABOVE OR BELOW ANGRY BEES?
Tony gets a text from an anonymous text post cap-2.
It reads “Could angry bees have done that?”
Tony is confused for a second but then he laughs. And then he has to ring Hank Pym, because the guy’s nuts about bugs and might actually know if it’s possible for a swarm of angry bees to take down three helicarriers, but he loses interest about five minutes into Hank’s monologue.
knitting in the dark 