Three years after The Avengers’ release and two months after Avengers: Age of Ultron dropped, Ant-Man buzzed into theaters, and while Evangeline Lilly’s Hope van Dyne didn’t suit up as Wasp alongside Scott Lang, we did see a flashback of her mother, Janet, as the superheroine.
Joss Whedon mentioned back in 2012 that Wasp was being considered to be one of The Avengers’ leading heroes back when there was uncertainty regarding Scarlett Johansson’s involvement as Black Widow, but a lot’s changed since then.
Ant-Man and the Wasp will finally see Hope donning her superhero guise, as well as fully introduce Janet (played by Michelle Pfeiffer), and a year later, Hope will get to team up with the MCU’s other heroes in Avengers 4.
Longtime Marvel fans know that Wasp was one of the founding Avengers, alongside Iron Man, Hulk, Thor and her crime-fighting partner Ant-Man, but the MCU opted to go in a different direction with its initial lineup, and Ant-Man and Wasp were left out of the excitement.