Ant Family

The Ant-Family is a loose affiliation of individuals utilizing Hank Pym's Pym Particles as part of their heroic endeavours.

The original 'Ant-Team' was Hank and his wife Janet Van Dyne.

A post-doc intern working for Hank, Roy Palmer, found that after using the Pym Particles in experiments, his body absorbed them and manufactures replacements on a constant basis. This is likely due to a latent metagene reaction to radiation exposure.

Pym and his wife/ex-wife Janet van Dyne were the original 'Ant-Man' and 'The Wasp'. Janet was lost to the Quantum Realm during a mission for SHIELD.

In 2010, Pym recruited Scott Lang to become the new Ant-Man, and he and Pym's daughter Hope van Dyne teamed up.

Around 2018, it was discovered that Pym's daughter from his first marriage was still alive, kidnapped by the USSR and trained in the infamous Red Room. She was reunited with her father. Nadia Pym adopted the moniker Yellowjacket.

During this same timeframe, Scott's teenage daughter Cassandra Lang demonstrated she had been secretly dosing herself with Pym radiation for years. This gave her an inherent capability to shrink and grow at will, much like Roy Palmer.