{"id":6716,"date":"2014-07-31T01:57:57","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T01:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/07\/31\/founding-avenger-janet-van-dyne-will-be\/"},"modified":"2014-07-31T01:57:57","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T01:57:57","slug":"founding-avenger-janet-van-dyne-will-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/07\/31\/founding-avenger-janet-van-dyne-will-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Founding Avenger Janet Van Dyne will be pre-emptively killed off in Marvel&#8217;s &#8220;Ant-Man&#8221; movie."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/geek\/ant-man-janet-van-dyne\/'>Founding Avenger Janet Van Dyne will be pre-emptively killed off in Marvel&#8217;s &#8220;Ant-Man&#8221; movie.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/v-p-potts.tumblr.com\/post\/93359848634\/founding-avenger-janet-van-dyne-will-be-pre-emptively\">v-p-potts<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/romanovvs.tumblr.com\/post\/93359171509\/founding-avenger-janet-van-dyne-will-be-pre-emptively\">romanovvs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"link_og_blockquote\">\n<p><em>Ant-Man<\/em>\u00a0star Michael Douglas has revealed that popular\u00a0<em>Avengers<\/em>\u00a0comics character Janet Van Dyne is already dead by the time the film\u2019s main storyline begins. Douglas plays Hank Pym, the first Ant-Man and husband to Janet Van Dyne.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m an entomologist,\u201d he told\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/insidemovies.ew.com\/2014\/07\/27\/ant-man-interview-comic-con\/\"><em>EW<\/em><\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m also a physicist and I discovered in 1963, a way, a serum to reduce a human being to the size of an ant, maintaining the strength. But unfortunately during this process, a tragic personal accident happened with my wife.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Janet Van Dyne, A.K.A. Wasp, was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemablend.com\/new\/Avengers-Almost-Had-Wasp-Instead-Black-Widow-Joss-Whedon-Wanted-Second-Villain-34698.html\">included<\/a>\u00a0in an early draft of Joss Whedon\u2019s first\u00a0<em>Avengers<\/em>\u00a0movie. In the new\u00a0<em>Ant-Man<\/em>\u00a0adaptation she would have been in her 50s or 60s, and mother to Evangeline Lilly\u2019s character Hope Van Dyne. Instead she\u2019s been given an offscreen death in what fans are labeling a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/janetvancrime?f=realtime&amp;src=hash\">#JanetVanCrime<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span>The founding members of the Avengers team were Iron Man, the Hulk, Thor, Ant-Man, and Janet Van Dyne as the Wasp. In other words, all of the male characters get their own movie franchises, while the Wasp is not only sidelined, but killed off to provide backstory for characters in the new\u00a0<\/span><em>Ant-Man<\/em><span>\u00a0movie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/geek\/ant-man-janet-van-dyne\/\"><strong><span>[READ MORE]<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gayperson.tumblr.com\/tagged\/%2Amarvel-fandom-voice%2A-reprESENTATION%21%21%21-YOUR-MOVE-DC%21%21%21-YOUR-MOVE%21%21-ON-YR-LEFT-DC%21%21%21\">#*MARVEL FANDOM VOICE* REPRESENTATION!!! YOUR MOVE DC!!! YOUR MOVE!! 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Douglas plays Hank Pym, the first Ant-Man and husband to Janet Van Dyne. \u201cI\u2019m an entomologist,\u201d he &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/07\/31\/founding-avenger-janet-van-dyne-will-be\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Founding Avenger Janet Van Dyne will be pre-emptively killed off in Marvel&#8217;s &#8220;Ant-Man&#8221; movie.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[688,691,693,685,684,687,686,692,690,689],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6716"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}