The Ant-Man family
Hank Pym
Ant-Man
- Ant-Man · the original, 1980s (also Scott Lang, 2015 onwards)
AlivePlayed by Michael Douglas
Who they arebeyond the guide
The physicist who discovered the particles that make all of it work, the original Ant-Man, and a man whose reflex is to trust nobody with his own research.
Alive
- Appearances
- 3
The source lists Janet van Dyne on the same ledger row, so they share this status note.
Along the chronological spine
A life, in order
Every appearance in chronological order. Tap an entry to read what happens there.
- 2015Scott Lang, a burglar fresh out of prison, is recruited by Hank Pym to steal a shrinking suit before Pym's protégé Darren Cross can weaponise the technology. Lang succeeds, goes subatomic to sabotage Cross, and — critically — returns from the Quantum Realm, which Pym had believed impossible. Darren Cross has spent years reverse-engineering Pym's shrinking formula into the Yellowjacket suit, and has been selling it to HYDRA.Open Ant-Man →
- 2018Hank Pym and Hope rescue Janet van Dyne from the Quantum Realm after thirty years. Hank and Scott are never Ant-Man simultaneously. Hank was the original in the 1980s, retired, and handed the suit to Scott in 2015.Open Ant-Man and the Wasp →
- 2023Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (FILM, 2023) — The Lang and Pym families are pulled into the Quantum Realm, revealed to contain an entire hidden civilisation.Open Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania →