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Hope Van Dyne never had much of a childhood. While the other kids were at play, Hope was helping out around the lab of her father, particle physicist Dr. Hank Pym. Despite losing her mother at an early age and her father's strict tendencies and scientific single-mindedness, Hope never stopped being an optimistic and enthusiastic person. While she often wished for more of a life outside of the lab, Hope always applied herself to her studies and her father's experimental work with shrinking matter.

During her young adulthood, Hope began uncovering bits of secret information hidden within the analogs of Pym's work. Something called 'Project: Ant-Man'. Hope dug deeper and found that her father used to work covert operations for government contractors using an experimental exosuit that allowed the wearer to alter the size of their body. She also found a connection between her father and somebody named Scott Lang, an ex-con. Hope confronted her father about the hidden 'Project: Ant-Man". Pym had no choice but to tell his daughter the truth about his past and his current connection to Lang, an ex-con now engaged in corporate espionage under Pym's employ. Finally, Pym told Hope that he'd kept this secret from her because these endeavors were the cause of Hope's mother's death all those years ago. Though initially devastated by her father's lie, Hope became intent on using the size-altering Pym Tech to continue her father's research and exploration of the miniature world. Begrudgingly, Pym accepted and built Hope her own Pym Tech exosuit to use around the lab.

Months later, Pym received a distress signal from his operative Scott Lang, who had been captured while running a data grab at Cross Technologies. Hope volunteered to use her exosuit to infiltrate Cross and save Lang. Pym refused, having lost his wife in an accident with her own exosuit, and telling Hope that he couldn't lose her too. Ultimately, Hope chose to run the rescue without her father's knowledge. In preparation, Hope modified her exosuit with modifications she had been secretly developing: blaster technology and a flight pack. Keeping a low profile, Hope was able to successfully infiltrate Cross and save the new Ant-Man.

Hope proved herself to her father and expanded her role from lab work, now joining alongside Lang on infiltrations of hostile corporations as the ex-con's partner in crime: The Wasp

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In many regards, Hope Van Dyne's Wasp is a self made woman. I thought it would be interesting to introduce the concept of her own scientific intellect being the force behind giving the Wasp her wings (as she was initially grounded by Pym's wingless design of the lab-oriented suit (an attempt to make sure that Hope couldn't put herself in danger with the same flight capabilities that Janet's suit had)). Because the Wasp is synonymous with Ant-Man and the Pym brand, it was important to make her design feel similar to the two Ant-Man designs. The color scheme is drastically different, but you have returning features like the stripe motif on the body suit and the various elements of the metallic Harness Technology, which enables the size alteration via Pym Particles and has been a mainstay throughout every generation of the Pym exosuit.

Of course the big new addition is the wings, which are constructed from a lightweight carbon fiber and are retractable as part of the flight pack modification to the Wasp's Harness. From a design standpoint, the flight pack is kind of the Wasp's answer to the traversal capabilities of Scott Lang's leg servos. One thing that I've kept consistent throughout all the Pym stuff is the quasi-fragility of it all. Ant-Man and the Wasp are capable of fighting and sustaining some damage, but the suits aren't meant to be brawlers; they're much more geared towards the exploration and infiltration angle.

So yeah. My interpretation of Hope Van Dyne's Wasp is a bit more lighthearted. She and Lang make a great team, with Lang's physicality pairing well with Hope's scientific and technological know how.

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I hope you enjoy! Please favorite and let me know what you think in the comments below!

Stay Tuned for more entries in my MARVEL Redesign Series!

Description
Hope Van Dyne never had much of a childhood. While the other kids were at play, Hope was helping out around the lab of her father, particle physicist Dr. Hank Pym. Despite losing her mother at an early age and her father's strict tendencies and scientific single-mindedness, Hope never stopped being an optimistic and enthusiastic person. While she often wished for more of a life outside of the lab, Hope always applied herself to her studies and her father's experimental work with shrinking matter.

During her young adulthood, Hope began uncovering bits of secret information hidden within the analogs of Pym's work. Something called 'Project: Ant-Man'. Hope dug deeper and found that her father used to work covert operations for government contractors using an experimental exosuit that allowed the wearer to alter the size of their body. She also found a connection between her father and somebody named Scott Lang, an ex-con. Hope confronted her father about the hidden 'Project: Ant-Man". Pym had no choice but to tell his daughter the truth about his past and his current connection to Lang, an ex-con now engaged in corporate espionage under Pym's employ. Finally, Pym told Hope that he'd kept this secret from her because these endeavors were the cause of Hope's mother's death all those years ago. Though initially devastated by her father's lie, Hope became intent on using the size-altering Pym Tech to continue her father's research and exploration of the miniature world. Begrudgingly, Pym accepted and built Hope her own Pym Tech exosuit to use around the lab.

Months later, Pym received a distress signal from his operative Scott Lang, who had been captured while running a data grab at Cross Technologies. Hope volunteered to use her exosuit to infiltrate Cross and save Lang. Pym refused, having lost his wife in an accident with her own exosuit, and telling Hope that he couldn't lose her too. Ultimately, Hope chose to run the rescue without her father's knowledge. In preparation, Hope modified her exosuit with modifications she had been secretly developing: blaster technology and a flight pack. Keeping a low profile, Hope was able to successfully infiltrate Cross and save the new Ant-Man.

Hope proved herself to her father and expanded her role from lab work, now joining alongside Lang on infiltrations of hostile corporations as the ex-con's partner in crime: The Wasp

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In many regards, Hope Van Dyne's Wasp is a self made woman. I thought it would be interesting to introduce the concept of her own scientific intellect being the force behind giving the Wasp her wings (as she was initially grounded by Pym's wingless design of the lab-oriented suit (an attempt to make sure that Hope couldn't put herself in danger with the same flight capabilities that Janet's suit had)). Because the Wasp is synonymous with Ant-Man and the Pym brand, it was important to make her design feel similar to the two Ant-Man designs. The color scheme is drastically different, but you have returning features like the stripe motif on the body suit and the various elements of the metallic Harness Technology, which enables the size alteration via Pym Particles and has been a mainstay throughout every generation of the Pym exosuit.

Of course the big new addition is the wings, which are constructed from a lightweight carbon fiber and are retractable as part of the flight pack modification to the Wasp's Harness. From a design standpoint, the flight pack is kind of the Wasp's answer to the traversal capabilities of Scott Lang's leg servos. One thing that I've kept consistent throughout all the Pym stuff is the quasi-fragility of it all. Ant-Man and the Wasp are capable of fighting and sustaining some damage, but the suits aren't meant to be brawlers; they're much more geared towards the exploration and infiltration angle.

So yeah. My interpretation of Hope Van Dyne's Wasp is a bit more lighthearted. She and Lang make a great team, with Lang's physicality pairing well with Hope's scientific and technological know how.

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I hope you enjoy! Please favorite and let me know what you think in the comments below!

Stay Tuned for more entries in my MARVEL Redesign Series!