<strong>CHARACTER NAME:</strong>Wasp<br/><strong>PLAYED BY:</strong>Praetoria<br/><strong>REAL NAME:</strong>Janet Van Dyne<br/><strong>AGE:</strong>32<br/><strong>SEXUAL ORIENTATION:</strong>Heterosexual<br/><strong>HEIGHT:</strong>5’4”<br/><strong>WEIGHT: </strong>110<br/><strong>AFFILIATION:</strong>The Avengers, West Coast Avengers<br/><strong>APPEARANCE</strong><br/>Civilian<div class="floatright">Costume</div><br/><div class="floatleft">(http://amokmagazine.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/evangeline-lilly1.jpg?w=400)</div><div class="floatright">(http://www.tebeosfera.com/imagenes/personajes/6/0/personajes-F875-661-345-360.jpg)</div><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><strong>HISTORY:</strong><br/>The daughter of famous scientist Vernon Van Dyne, Janet grew up wealthy and more than a bit spoiled. She was used to the best in life and it showed in her very ‘nouveau riche’ bearing and constant shopping trips. But when a being accidentally summoned during an experiment in dimensional energy transfer killed her father and escaped, the young socialite vowed to bring the monster to justice. Jan sought out her father’s colleague, Henry Pym, for advice and assistance in her quest. In turn, Pym told her of his secret identity of Ant-Man and put Jan into a biochemical treatment to give her super-powers. With the ability to shrink, fly, and armed with special gauntlets that fired stings of bio-energy, Jan was dubbed the Wasp and teamed up with Ant-Man to find her father’s killer, and send it back to it’s home dimension.<br/><br/>Wasp and Ant-Man quickly became crime-fighting partners, and eventually lovers. They were also two of the heroes the answered the call to fight Loki and became founding members of the Avengers along with Thor, Iron Man, and the Hulk. Jan was very excited about being a superhero, and engaged in crime-fighting with the zeal of a dilettante with a new hobby. Hank, however, prefered to engage in scientific experimentation rather than heroics. Still, the couple remained lovers and would eventually marry, if under slightly unusual circumstances.<br/><br/>Hank was sadly plagued by a number of setbacks in his scientific career that lead to bouts of mental instability. In his desire to create an artificial intelligence that would help humanity, he ended up creating Ultron, a hyper-intelligent robot with the goal of eliminating all organic life. An accident with experimental gasses gave Hank a bout of schizophrenia and the delusion he was a villain named Yellowjacket. When Yellowjacket kidnapped Jan from Avengers Mansion, Jan played along and ended up marrying Hank in this persona, where his lack of inhibitions gave him the freedom to propose to her. But the marital bliss was not to last. Hank suffered further mental damage at the hands of Ultron and became more reckless, causing friction with the Avengers. In a bid to ‘prove’ himself, Hank constructed a robot that only he would know how to defeat and secretly unleash it on the Avengers, allowing him to save them. Discovering the plan, Jan tried to stop Hank, but he lashed out at her physically, striking her. Unfortunately, the robot proved to be too difficult for Hank to defeat and it was Jan that ended up saving the day. Hank was kicked out of the Avengers and Jan filed for divorce.<br/><br/>In the years after, Jan grew into a competent, confident heroine, even being elected to lead the Avengers on many occasions. Outside of being a hero, Jan continued her passion of fashion design, becoming a renowned designer in demand by elite clientele. Jan and Hank would try to reconcile on several occasions, but nothing ever took. For her part, jan still cared for Hank deeply, but the attempts at reconciliation would lead to nothing more than brief romantic flings between friends.<br/><br/>Jan seemingly gave her life in a recent Skrull invasion of Earth. In the months leading up to the invasion, the shape-changing aliens had seeded Earth with Skrull agents, who kidnapped key citizens and heroes and took their places. One such Skrull agent took the place of Hank Pym and injected Jan with what he claimed was a growth serum to stabilize her size changing powers. In the final battle in New York against the Skrulls, ‘Hank’ activated the serum in Jan, causing her to grow uncontrollably and build up devastating amounts of bio-energy in her body, turning her into a living bomb. In order to save millions, Thor used his hammer to redirect the explosive energy back into Jan, vaporizing her.<br/><br/>In reality, the explosion shrunk Jan down to levels that she was previously incapable of achieving, sending her into the sub-atomic Micro-verse. Eventually, Jan was able to use her Avengers Identicard to get a distress call back to her teammates. With the help of hank Pym, Jan was returned to normal size and rejoined the team. Now recovered from her near-death ordeal, Jan is ready once again to unleash her stings on evildoers<br/><br/><br/>.<br/><strong>POWERS/ABILITIES:</strong><br/><br/>Size Alteration: Jan can shrink herself down to approximately ½ inch in size, becoming difficult to see and hit. She is able to control her density while shrinking and can gain a measure of superhuman strength if she retains her normal human density as such a small size. Years of exposure to Pym particles have also given her the ability to increase her size, upwards of 100’ in height. Her strength also grows into superhuman levels when at larger sizes.<br/><br/>Flight: Jan’s implanted wings activate as she shrinks, granting her flight at reduced sizes. At her smallest size, she can fly at 60 mph and has nearly complete maneuverability in any direction without worrying about turn speeds, stall speeds, or other facets of flight. She can use her wings up to a point where she is less than a foot shorter than her normal height, although her speed and maneuverability are reduced to being as fast as an Olympic sprinter.<br/><br/>Bio-Energy Blasts: Jan can fire off blasts of bio-energy that are capable of shattering or rupturing high-impact materials. She is even capable of causing superhumanly durable beings like the Hulk some mild discomfort with her stings. The pain of her stings increases when she targets vulnerable body parts like eyes and eardrums.<br/><br/>Superhuman Strength: If she maintains her human density as she shrinks, Jan gains superhuman strength at her smallest size that allows her to bend a 1-inch thick steel bar in half. When she increases her size, Jan’s strength increases dramatically until she reaches 25 feet tall; after that the strength gained from growing is on a shallower curve as more of her strength is used to support the increased body mass. At 10’ tall, she can lift/press 1000 pounds. At 25’ tall, she can lift/press 25 tons. And at 100’ tall, Jan can lift/press 50 tons.<br/><br/>Superhuman Agility: At her smallest size, Jan possesses a heightened level of agility that allows her to dodge energy blasts.<br/><br/><br/><strong>WEAKNESSES:</strong>At increased size levels, Jan suffers all of the difficulties that come with such gigantic sizes. The taller she grows, the less stable her sense of balance is and the easier it is to knock her off her feet with sufficient force to move her mass. Because of the effort needed to move blood around her body, she is easier to be knocked unconscious with strikes and pressure placed on the carotid arteries. Prolonged periods of increased size also produce painful headaches and dizziness.<br/><br/><strong>SKILLS AND TALENTS:</strong><br/>Fashion Designer: Jan is a well known and renowned fashion designer who has produced several lines of clothing. Most of her creations are modeled by her friends and teammates in the Avengers and other hero teams like the Fantastic Four and the X-Men.<br/><br/>Skilled Fighter: Jan has several years of experience as a heroine and has been trained in fighting by Captain America, Black Panther, and other skilled combatants in the Avengers. As a result, Jan can hold her own against most trained fighters that she faces, although experts and masters will still defeat her handily.<br/><br/><strong>PERSONALITY:</strong>In the beginning, Jan was a ditzy and flighty teenaged girl. She tried juvenile means of getting attention from Hank like feigning interest in Iron Man or Thor. Crime-fighting was a thrill ride that let her accomplish some actual good.<br/><br/>Jan’s matured a lot over the years. Today, she’s considered a team leader on par with Captain America. She has the trust and respect of her teammates and of the superhero world at large. She still has a playful sense of humor in fights, but it’s tempered with experience and seriousness when warranted. Her sense of humor is also displayed in her annual ‘Rate the Hunks’ party that she throws with She-Hulk for the ladies of the Avengers.<br/><br/><br/><strong>EQUIPMENT:</strong>Unstable Molecule costume, Avenger’s Identicard, access to all Avengers equipment, vehicles, and facilities.<br/><br/><br/><strong>KNOWN ENEMIES:</strong>Ultron, Masters of Evil, Kang, Whirlwind, numerous other enemies of the Avengers or threats to Earth.