After rekindling her relationship with her father, Van Dyne works with him to bring back her mother who was previously trapped in the Quantum Realm and defeat various supervillains including Yellowjacket and Ghost.

[2] In 2013, actresses Jessica Chastain, Emma Stone, Rashida Jones and Bryce Dallas Howard were in talks to play the female lead in the then-upcoming Ant-Man film.

[8] One of the important things for Reed when joining the film was emphasizing both Hope and Janet van Dyne more, given the Wasp being "a crucial part" of the Ant-Man comics.

[10] Lilly noted that the name change "emphasizes the challenges the two characters need to overcome in order to reconcile, as well as reflects the tragedy of Janet's loss that created the rift in the first place".

[15][16] Kevin Feige noted that Van Dyne was the more obvious choice to take up the mantle of Ant-Man, being "infinitely more capable of actually being a superhero" than Lang, and that the reason she does not is because Pym is afraid of losing her, rather than sexism.

[18] Peyton Reed noted that "Scott almost did call Hope" but "the Russo brothers, along with their screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, felt that there was too much story riding on the backs of too many characters to do justice to Wasp".

", Van Dyne was recruited by Nick Fury into S.H.I.E.L.D., but was killed in Odessa, Ukraine causing her father to murder various members on the Avengers Initiative roster in revenge.

[32] In the film, Van Dyne is shown to be in a good place having healed her relationship with her father, succeeded in saving her mother, fallen in love with Scott and is now a step-mother to Cassie.

[32] After the film's release, in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Lilly noted that Hope did not change much in the movie adding that "there wasn't somewhere [Van Dyne] needed to get to or go other than just to repair a little wound in her relationship with her mom".

[46] Screen Rant writer Ross Tanenbaum later opined that her retirement leaves Van Dyne's MCU future in question but also noted that in the Multiverse anyone can be "recast".

[53] For the first film, Joanna Robinson of Vanity Fair criticised the use of Van Dyne's hairstyle saying "the most extreme thing Hope wears is that severe haircut".

[56][57][58] Throughout the mainstream comics set in the Marvel Universe (Earth-616), the superhero character, Wasp, was Janet van Dyne, who debuted in the anthology series Tales to Astonish #44 (June 1963, plotted by Stan Lee, scripted by H.E.

[a][66] In 2015, Van Dyne seeks out Pym's help after finding out how close the new CEO, Darren Cross, is from replicating the Ant-Man shrinking technology.

While Hope still holds resentment towards Pym, she begins to reconcile with her father after he reveals that her mother shrank herself down to disarm a missile and became trapped in the subatomic Quantum Realm.

Van Dyne dons the Wasp suit for the first with Lang as the Ant-Man and the two arrange to buy a part needed for the tunnel from black-market dealer Sonny Burch.

However, Van Dyne and her parents disintegrate, falling victim to the Blip, leaving Lang trapped in the Quantum Realm for five years in present time.

[70] After confronting her mother, Janet reveals to Van Dyne that she is indirectly responsible for Krylar's boss, Kang's, uprising of the realm, having helped rebuild his Multiversal Power Core after he was "exiled" before enlarging it beyond use.

Van Dyne flies into the storm to save Lang, who had made a deal with Kang after he captured Cassie, and help him acquire the power core.

[72] After saving Bruce Banner, who was sent to Earth to warn humanity about Thanos, Van Dyne, alongside other survivors (including Peter Parker, Bucky Barnes, Okoye, Sharon Carter, Kurt, and Happy Hogan) leave their base in New York City and travel to Camp Lehigh where a cure is said to be in development.

's Nevada base who is recruited by Peggy Carter and Howard Stark to join a team to fight a celestial-powered younger Peter Quill.

She becomes a member of the Avengers, consisting of Captain Peggy Carter, Natasha Romanoff, Clint Barton, Tony Stark, and Thor and fights against the Chitauri during the Battle of New York.

[75] Contrarily, for Ant-Man and the Wasp, Stephanie Zacharek, writing for Time, felt that "the focus on Lilly as a better hero than Rudd was just checking off boxes in the name of gender equality".

", feeling that she "gave the episode's strongest performance" and that "Hope's final act of going giant size for the first time in the MCU was beautifully played".

[79] On Lilly's role in Quantumania, ScreenGeek writer, Mark Salcido, noted that Van Dyne was "stilted" and sidelined to Rudd's Lang, but added that she had a few "rare touching moments between her and Pfeiffer".

[80] Conversely, The Hollywood Reporter writer, Frank Scheck, found "Lilly's Wasp has plenty of moments to shine" but noted that it was "frustrating to see the main characters separated into various groups for long stretches of the film".

[81] In a review for the film, IGN writer, Joshua Yehl, noted Lilly's small role, saying that it "feels strange for a character who's mentioned in the title".

[82] TheWrap writer, Alonso Duralde, also wrote that Van Dyne felt "admittedly lost among all [the] characters" and that "despite the Wasp's inclusion in the title", the "superhero comes off as a bit of an afterthought once all is said and done".

[83] Daily Bruin writer, Francis Moon, also felt that "Lilly takes a backseat with no development of her character Hope or her alter-ego, the Wasp" in the film.

[85][11] Amelia Rayne Kim of Screen Rant noted that Van Dyne becoming the Wasp "not only made sense for the narrative but it prevented her from being simply a supporting character or a love interest".

[90] In July 2016, Nadia was introduced as the Unstoppable Wasp as the daughter of Hank Pym and his first wife Maria Trovaya, and was originally recruited to the Red Room and trained as a Black Widow.