Do writers hate Hank Pym Ant-Man?

[Skullkid]

I'm not sure what your point here is.
Batman being a harmful crazy person is starting to become how people normally write him now.
Even though just like with Hank it's BS that's limits the character.

[chamber-music]

The reason other characters get away with stuff is down to good writing and popularity.

If you have hundreds of comic books starring a character over decades with memorable storylines that make a character popular then people will overlook the one storyline in which a character does something messed up.

Batman has been written as a crazy jerk a lot of times and he has been called out on it.

Hank Pym has mostly had bad to good storylines most of his comic history. Not even the biggest Hank Pym fans would say he has had more than a few great stories. Like a lot of characters he has untapped potential. The Pseudo science behind his powers have only really tapped into it's potential in the last 10 to 15 years when some of the real world science behind particle physics started to be used by writers to do more interesting things with pym particle powers as our understanding and theories behind particle physics have become even more interesting.

[Desmark]

Ultron is certainly free of Pym now after the devondra incident but he seems as delusional as ever though it may of course be Slott simply ignoring the events of infinity wars to tell his story. Wonder when age of pymtron is going to be upon the MU.

[Michael Watkins]

I just find it funny how it took one story to get Pym labelled as an abuser but now writer will ever call out Batman as an abusive parent despite multiple stories of him physically and emotionally harming his kids.

i'll call him an abuser if it makes you feel better. he's definitely a tool.

[Michael Watkins]

Why does it seem like the same people who say Hank needs to stay gone are the same people who keep making Hank out as an abuser when that's not the case?

it's totally the case. and i don't need him to be gone. i just think that he should stay Ultron.

[Michael Watkins]

Scott was mostly irrelevant until he died and came back while Hank's been a lead character in team books for most of like 50 years, has an entire large tree of important characters spinning off from him and his science, and the seminal story about his illness and problems is a classic Marvel saga. But he's done some bads, so I guess he's toxic and tarnished instead of being interesting, unique, and now a way to explore mental illness.

they've had the opportunity to "explore mental illness." it isn't going to happen. Hank's just not that interesting outside of the wife beating. his best stories are actually Ultron's stories. they should just focus on making Ultron more interesting. he's been kind of dull as of late. might be because readers still see him as Hank Pym. Scott isn't a spin off. he's a correction and update to damaged brand. he was irrelevant because the writers were just as nostalgic about the lee/kirby era as the people on this board. they held Scott back. he debuted in the early 80s and wasn't offered an Avengers spot until Geoff Johns took over the title. this was after serving with the Fantastic Four and Heroes for Hire. after they turned their attention to Scott, Ant-man suddenly became marketable. they realized that a single dad (and he was one of the first) and reformed criminal (he was one of the first) had story potential. he kicked Doom's @$$ and hasn't beaten up a loved one. that has to count for something. good on Hank for passing the mantle to someone less problematic. it's too bad he didn't do the same with the Yellowjacket identity. i miss Rita.

[Revolutionary_Jack]

David Michelinie created Scott Lang to be Ant-Man because at the time Hank Pym had undergone many identity changes -- Yellowjacket, Giant Man -- that the original Ant-Man identity had been left open. And Michelinie felt that the niche of the original stories which focused on a shrinking dude who could talk to ants had been abandoned by later writers.So Scott became a full-time Ant-Man.

This was before the slap.

So the preslapsarian (heh) Hank wasn't some great hero. He was a convoluted hot mess, and all Jim Shooter did was confirm Pym's hot mess status for all time. In the words of Shooter the Great:

Jim Shooter: "Before I embarked on the storyline that led to the end of Hank Pym and Janet van Dyne's marriage, I reread every single appearance of both characters. His history was largely a litany of failure, always changing guises and switching back and forth from research to hero-ing because he wasn’t succeeding at either. He was never the Avenger who saved the day at the end and usually the first knocked out or captured. His most notable "achievement" in the lab was creating Ultron. Meanwhile, his rich, beautiful wife succeeded in everything she tried. She was also always flitting around his shoulders, flirting, saying things to prop up his ego."

[Skullkid]

it's totally the case. and i don't need him to be gone. i just think that he should stay Ultron.

No it's not the case, it's already been explained so thoroughly why it isn't you just keep ignoring the facts about it to make it look like Hank was deliberate serial abuser.
And Hank isn't Ultron it's just Ultron wearing his skin.

[Triniking1234]

I don't think writers hate Hank Pym. Current writers are either afraid to use him due to un-necessary drama that surrounds him now or they don't know how to use him.

Even after Hank slapped Janet, he was still being used because the readers of the time knew it was just comic book drama and reading how the character would recover from that event and getting arrested later due to Egghead would make an interesting read. Even his personas of Ant-Man, Giant Man, Goliath and Yellowjacket stuck around albeit on new characters.

Hank had presence on Avengers off-and-on more than other Avengers with no book until recently. It seems like the social media peasants and haters dug up the slap and that caused his presence to be diminshed resulting in Scott over-taking him cuz even when Hank was around with no codename he over-shadowed Scott.

[DigiCom]

I don't think that comic-book writers hate Hank. I think most are just lazy. They don't bother taking characters in new directions for long, due to the almighty status quo.

So you get characters with certain "set points" that, no matter what happens, they always return to. Hulk always loses control of his transformations. Thing is never cured for long. Spidey's luck always runs out.

And Hank is always a screwup who can't move past his own mistakes.

The last time someone did something really unique with Hank Pym, IMO, was Avengers AI, but that story was lost in the muddle of the writer's pet characters. Even so, the "infinite game" scene was probably the best Hank writing in a while.

[Michael Watkins]

No it's not the case, it's already been explained so thoroughly why it isn't you just keep ignoring the facts about it to make it look like Hank was deliberate serial abuser.

his behavior was abusive to Janet during that run. it only culminated in the slap. he was a deliberate serial abuser.

[Michael Watkins]

Hank had presence on Avengers off-and-on more than other Avengers with no book until recently. It seems like the social media peasants and haters dug up the slap and that caused his presence to be diminshed resulting in Scott over-taking him cuz even when Hank was around with no codename he over-shadowed Scott.

The OP brought up the abuse of Janet.

[Skullkid]

his behavior was abusive to Janet during that run. it only culminated in the slap. he was a deliberate serial abuser.

And thus you keep proving my point since he was very clearly mentally unwell through that whole thing.
Seriously when he took up his Yellowjacket persona who legitimately thought he was a villain who killed Hank Pym.

[Triniking1234]

The OP brought up the abuse of Janet.

OK?

Read my whole post.

[Michael Watkins]

OK?

Read my whole post.

you highlighted the portion where you were dissing people who didn't share your point of view.