WASP
WASP is from the world of Marvel (she is a good superheroine)
Janet van Dyne was the flighty, self-centered daughter of a wealthy scientist.
When her father unleashed a monster that killed him, Janet convinced her
father's associate "Hank" Pym to help her. Using Pym Particles, Hank subjected
Janet to a procedure that allowed her to shrink in size and grow wings as well
as fire blasts of energy which she called wasp stings. Thus Janet became Wasp.
After beating the monster that killed her father, Wasp became a founding member
of the Avengers. She's grown over the years, even leading the team for a time
There's more to Janet Van Dyne than her ability to shrink to insect size and
blast foes with her "wasp stings". Even when stripped of these incredible
abilities, she is still a capable fighter and leader who serves as the current
co-chair of the Avengers; the super team she helped found. And she's got
incredible fashion sense!
Real Name: Janet Van Dyne
Occupation: Adventurer, fashion designer, independently wealthy socialite
Identity: Publicly known
Legal Status: Citizen of the United States with no criminal record
Place of Birth: Cresskill, New Jersey
Group Affiliation: Avengers
Base of Operations: Avengers Mansion
First Appearance: TALES TO ASTONISH #44
History: Janet Van Dyne is the daughter of world-renowned scientist Vernon Van
Dyne. When an alien brought to Earth during one of her father's experiments
murdered the elder Van Dyne, Janet contacted his colleague, Henry Pym. She told
Pym of her resolve to bring her father's killer to justice, and said she wanted
to devote her life to combating criminals. Pym revealed his secret identity as
Ant-Man, and Janet became his crime-fighting partner after undergoing conversion
into a superhumanly powerful being.
Height: 5 ft. 4 in.
Weight: 110 lbs.
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Auburn
Known Superhuman Powers: The Wasp can reduce herself in size, down to the
dimensions of the insect from which she takes her name.
Fighting: Excellent
Agility: Remarkable
Strength: Good
Endurance: Excellent
Reason: Good
Intuition: Remarkable
Psyche: Excellent
Known Powers:
Shrinking: Can shrink with Incredible ability down to 1/2 inch tall. She retains
all her other powers only between this 1/2 inch and 48 inches in height. When
she shrinks small wings grow from her back. While small she is +2CS to fight
larger opponents and is -2CS to be hit by them.
Winged Flight: Poor, Can only fly at any size below 48 inches.
Enhanced Abilities: Her strength is raized by +1CS in her smallest size but her
health does not change.
Insect Communication: She can communicate with all insectoid life with Typical
ability. She can also command them.
Wasp Sting: Remarkable Energy
Origin
After rescuing an alien visitor trapped under a fallen tree, Lana was given, as
her reward, a ring with biogenetic powers. Later, she discovered that she could
use it to gain insect-abilities. She turned into a human firefly and a
grasshopper girl. She grew insect antennae to send and receive "vibratory"
messages and turned into a centipede. She decided to use her new power to begin
a career as a super-hero. Wearing a stretchable costume and a mask, the Insect
Queen of Smallville started foiling crime. One day, she heard an emergency on
the radio then wrapped Clark Kent in a cocoon, exposing her own identity as
Insect Queen but sure that Superboy would have to expose his identity by
bursting free to answer the emergency, . Clark fliew out the window, while still
in the cocoon. Using super-speed he performed his rescue and returned to the
cocoon. Lana saw Clark climbing out wearing butterfly wings and believed his
story that he grew them in her cocoon, and that's how it flew, not due to him
being Superboy.
super-powers
Using her alien bio-ring, Insect Queen can take on the characteristics of any
species of insect, also covering all insect-like anthropods, like spiders and
lobsters (SB 127). At first the ring responded to her desires of the moment, but
once she decided on a super-hero career, she began to command the ring to give
her specific insect-powers (SB 124). At first she thought she could only assume
the characteristics of a particular species of insect only once (SB 124), but
later, the alien returned to tell her that she could use each form only once
each 24 hours (SB 127).
Insect Queen has turned into a human firefly, grasshopper girl, a centipede,
dragonfly, ant girl, bee girl, beetle girl, moth larva, spider-girl, mosquito
girl, caterpillar, water-skater girl, damsel fly, lobster-girl, tent worm, queen
termite, ant lioness, she-shield bug, cicada-girl, horsefly, click beetle,
moth-girl, butterfly girl, foam bug, tent caterpillar, human fly, small-sized
leaf-cutting bee and a sphinx moth.
weaknesses - Insect Queen can only assume the form of one particular species of
insect each 24-hour period (SB 127). As her power is not natural and dependant
upon a device, if the bio-ring falls off her finger while in insect form, she is
frozen in that form until she puts it on again (AD 355).
(this information was glommed from the wonderful web-site Legion Roll Call,
although I wish they had an entry for Infectious Lass.)
Talents:
Business, Martial Arts D, Aerial Combat, Leadership, Fashion Design.
Contacts: Avengers, Giant Man
LINKS:
http://www.oocities.org/ragnodimaggio/ind-eng.htm
http://jerome.galica.free.fr/marvel/Avengers/wasp/wasp.htm