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Real Name: Henry Pym
Occupation: Scientist, adventurer
Legal Status: Citizen of the U.S. with a criminal record.
Identity: Publicly known
Place of Birth: New York City
Marital Status: Divorced
Known Relatives: Maria Trovaya (first wife, deceased), Janet Van Dyne (second wife, divorced)
Base of Operations: Avengers’ Compound, Los Angeles, California
Past Group Affiliations: Partner of the Wasp, Avengers, Defenders (briefly), Masters of Evil 3, and West Coast Avengers
Known Powers:
A mental breakdown disgraced Pym and caused him to retire his size-changing identities. After a stint as the West Coast Avengers’ secretary and physicist, Pym hit upon his most recent heroic identity.
Projective Shrinking: Dr. Pym can whip up a field of Pym particles and alter the size of any inorganic object he touches, with Incredible effect. Any intelligent target, such as a robot, may make a Material strength FEAT roll against the power to avoid the effects.
Equipment:
Micro-equipment: In the many pockets of his outfit, Dr. Pym has col lected an array of simple weaponry which he carries at reduced size. He can enlarge and use any of these in a round. He has been seen using sledge hammers, baseball bats, chainsaws, flying cameras, and laser drones, support braces, shields, and restraining glass spheres. Most of these have Remarkable material strength and most of their attacks are as per nor mal items of their variety. Items with flight capabilities have Poor speed. A player using this character should specify before play just what equip ment he carries with him. Pym usu ally carries up to six items.
Vehicle: “Rover,” which has been called the Pym-mobile, is one of Dr. Pym’s more complicated devices. Rover seats two, flies at Excellent speed, climbs walls at Remarkable speed, and can make acid and gas attacks at Remarkable intensity and a range of two areas. Rover has grip per claws of Remarkable Strength and Fighting ranks. And, most sur prising of all, Rover can speak, possessing Typical Reason and a childlike curiosity of the world around it. Although Pym could con ceivably shrink it, he has yet to do so.
Talents:
Henry Pym is a brilliant scientist, skilled in Chemistry, Biology, Genetics, Electronics, Physics, and Engineering. He also has the Repair/Tinkering talent. He discovered the Pym particle and created robots such as Ultron and Rover, possessing independent thought.
Contacts:
Outside the Avengers, Pym can contact Scott Lang, the current possessor of the Ant-Man equipment.
Role-Playing Notes:
Throughout his early career, Pym was quiet and studious, never quite feeling comfortable as a flashy super-hero. In his last days as Yellowjacket, he was abusive to the Wasp and finally acted to betray the Avengers. After a long period of soul- searching and an abortive suicide attempt, he finally put his life back together. His new outfit is deliberately non-heroic looking, the better to avoid falling into the same old behavioral traps, and his outlook is analytical, positive, and somewhat light-hearted.
History:
Dr. Henry Pym, an American biochemist with extensive knowledge in other scientific fields, married Maria Trovaya, a brave and beautiful young woman who had been a political dissident in her native Hungary, from which she had fled. Naively believing that his American citizenship would protect her, Henry and Maria Pym traveled to Hungary shortly after their marriage. The Pyms were confronted by agents of the secret police there. Henry Pym was knocked unconscious and Maria was murdered. Pym was greatly distraught by his wife’s death, and decided to do whatever he could in the future to battle injustice and inhumanity.
Back in the United States, Pym discovered a rare group of subatomic particles, which have become known as the “Pym particles.” Pym was able, through the application of magnetic fields, to entrap the particles within two separate serums. One serum would reduce the size of persons and objects, and the other would restore them to their normal size. Pym tested the reducing serum on himself and discovered it was more powerful than he had expected: It reduced him to the size of an insect. Pym became entrapped in an anthill and was pursued by the ants within. He escaped and restored himself to his normal size with his other serum. Deciding that the serums were too dangerous to exist, Pym destroyed both of them. However, weeks later he reconsidered his decision and began to recreate the serums, whose existence he then kept secret. Inspired by his experience in the anthill, Pym undertook a study of ants, and succeeded in creating his first “cybernetic helmet,” which would enable him to communicate with ants through transmitting and receiving psionic/electrical waves.
After an alien being from the planet Kosmos killed the scientist Vernon Van Dyne, Pym revealed his secret identity of Ant-Man to Van Dyne’s daughter Janet, who wished to avenge his death. Pym taught Janet how to use the gas within which he now contained the “Pym particles,” and, through bioengineering, gave her the ability to grow insect-like wings when she used the gas to shrink herself to insect size. As the Wasp, Janet Van Dyne assisted the Ant-Man in finding and defeating the murderous Kosmosian. Pym and Van Dyne gradually fell in love, and they became crime-fighting partners in their costumed identities, and were two of the founding members of the Avengers.
Pym next developed a series of capsules containing the Pym particles which he used to grow to greater than normal heights. Thereafter, Pym preferred to use his power to grow to giant size for crime-fighting, and called himself Giant-Man. However, his size-changing imposed great strains on Pym’s body that he believed could be fatal, and, upon deciding their careers as Giant-Man and the Wasp were too great a danger for Van Dyne, Pym decided to retire as a costumed crime-fighter.
Sometime later, when both Attuma and the Collector captured the Wasp, Pym decided to use his growing power again, donned a new costume, and adapted the name of Goliath. Wasp was rescued, and Pym continued to work in his laboratory while adventuring as Goliath.
One day, Pym accidentally dropped some vials containing various unknown gases. The released gases wreaked a radical temporary personality change in Pym. He took the new identity of Yellowjacket, claimed that he had murdered Henry Pym, and kidnapped the Wasp, proposing marriage to her (as Pym had long wanted to do). Van Dyne realized what was going on and went along. An attack by the Ringmaster and his Circus of Crime shocked Pym back to sanity, and Pym — now married to Van Dyne — seemed to have everything.
However, various laboratory failures and other problems, combined with his own impossibly high standards for himself, led to a deterioration of Pym’s personality and relationship with his wife. After a particularly violent incident while the Avengers were trying to capture the Elfqueen, Yellowjacket was court-martialed and kicked out of the Avengers, and Van Dyne divorced him.
Pym then fell under the influence of his old arch-enemy Egghead, and only after several complicated turns of events was Pym able to defeat Egghead and his accomplices and get back in the good graces of the Avengers.
Life still wasn’t easy for Pym. Working with the West Coast Avengers, Henry Pym grew depressed and contemplated suicide. Afterwards, with the inspiration of Espirita, he gathered his strength and decided to forge a new life for himself. He found a way to use Pym particles on inorganic objects he was touching, being able to shrink objects up to two stories high. He devised miniaturized gear and took an active part in adventuring yet again as Doctor Pym, wearing normal clothing. His ability to force other items to shrink, along with a gift for tactics and his scientific genius, has provided him with all the abilities he needs as an Avenger.