What is Hope van Dyne?
[[File:Evangeline Lilly 2018 2.jpg|thumb|[[Evangeline Lilly]] portrays Hope van Dyne / The Wasp.]] '''Hope van Dyne''' is a fictional character played by Canadian actress [[Evangeline Lilly]] in the [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]] (MCU) movie franchise, loosely based on the [[Marvel Comics]] character [[Hope Pym]]. She first appeared in the 2015 movie ''[[Ant-Man (movie)|Ant-Man]]'' and later in ''[[Ant-Man and the Wasp]]'' (2018), ''[[Avengers: Endgame]]'' (2019), and ''[[Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania]]'' (2023). [[Madeleine McGraw]] portrays a younger version of Van Dyne. Alternate versions of Van Dyne appear in the [[Disney+]] animated series ''[[What If...?]]'' (2021–2024), also voiced by Lilly and McGraw. Van Dyne is noted for being the first superheroine to be a titular character in a MCU movie, preceding [[Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics)|Captain Marvel]], [[Black Widow (Marvel Comics)|Black Widow]], and [[Black Panther (character)|Black Panther]] and inspiring the creation of comic superheroine [[Nadia van Dyne]]. She is the daughter of [[Hank Pym (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|Hank Pym]] and [[Wasp (Marvel Comics)|Janet van Dyne]], and a former chairwoman of the board of Pym Technologies. When [[Darren Cross]] attempted to create and sell a new weapon based on her father's Ant-Man Suit, van Dyne reunited with her father and, along with [[Scott Lang (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|Scott Lang]] who succeeded Hank as [[Ant-Man]], was able to defeat Cross. After these events, Pym found the possibility of saving his wife due to Lang's first experience in the [[Quantum Realm]], from which van Dyne was finally being offered by her father a suit that belonged to her mother, therefore taking on the name of '''[[Wasp (Marvel Comics)|Wasp]]'''. Over the course of another year, van Dyne would train alongside Lang, while forming a romantic relationship with him, until she broke up because Lang's actions during the Clash of the Avengers resulted in her and her father being wanted by the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FB