The Darkhold: Wasp — "King Maker"

[deh_tommy]

Following a stinging personal assessment from Kang, Janet van Dyne’s doubts and frustrations regarding her marriage to fellow Avenger Hank Pym are starting to take a toll on her mental well-being.

Comments

[nyadnar17]

It so beyond fucked that Pym is the poster child for "Abuser".

Man was having a mental break down. All of his "friends" either didn't notice, didn't care, or actively tried to take advantage of the situation.

Hank Pym doesn't belong in the same category as "abuser".

[lordy_co]

He's basically a male Wanda Maximoff.

[deh_tommy]

Or rather, she’s a female Hank Pym.

Can’t wait for his resurrection having everyone aggressively blast him to forgive himself for beating his wife and someone inserts his “greatest hits” (second-hand accounts of the worst experiences of his life) into his head to act as his memories.

[luxshine]

This, so much.
It was ONE hit during one hell of a mental breakdown (which, people tend to forget, Janet encouraged as it was how she got to marry him... stupid weird seventies).
And even THEN, not only HE never blamed her, he blamed himself. There was this AMAZING arc in the West Coast Avengers where he went from suicidal to accepting that he was not his many hero identities, that he was enough as Hank Pym, and that he (and Janet) could move on separately from what had happened (and then he found that his ex-wife was not really dead and... I honestly forgot what happened to that sublot). But he became better. And then, writers obsessed with the status quo, deleted that and I hate it.

[deepspaceartist]

Yeah, a lot of people forget that Jan herself is morally iffy at best in that storyline. "Oh no, Hank has put on a new costume and is pretending to be someone completely different who murdered Hank Pym. Maybe he's in need of help and support to get him through what is clearly a severe mental breakdown? Nah, this is my shot to manipulate him into marrying me!" (Note to Jan, tricking someone into marrying you is never an ok thing to do.) Like shit, at least Hank realizes that hitting Jan is wrong and he feels bad about it. I don't think Jan ever acknowledged that what she did was pretty fucked up.