#nadia trovaya

[arojenniferwalters]

Canon Aro(Quoiromantic)Ace 80/?: Nadia Van Dyne in Avengers Inc. #5 (2024)

[comicwaren]

From Wasp #003

Art by Kasia Nie and KJ Díaz

Written by Al Ewing

[chucksnerdthoughts]

Wasp #4

That was a fine ending. I wasn’t blown away by it by any means. But it was still enjoyable enough. I always like seeing Naida, so no complaints here! -Chuck

[batcavescolony]

Janet Van Dyne: I'm not the mom friend, I have no mothering instinct. I don't have-

Nadia: *exists*

Janet: ok I'll make an exception because she looks very polite.

[heckcareoxytwit]

Nadia Van Dyne/Pym/Trovaya as Wasp III picspam

Art by Kasia Nie

Wasp #1 and 2 (2023)

[yokyopeli]

viventem piscis natat sub aqua (Uralic solidarity) [Aikku/Toni; Nadia & Edwin Jarvis; Avengers No Surrender/The Unstoppable Wasp vol 2#1]

@aggressivelyarospec week 2023

Ethnic Finnish, sapphic, Aikku Jokinen and half-Hungarian, arospec ace, Nadia Van Dyne/Trovaya meet and bond.

English version 1436 words (24.5.2020/19.6.2020)

Suomeksi 1182 sanaa (24.6.2023) (44 hits)

[docgold13]

365 Marvel Comics Paper Cut-Out SuperHeroes - One Hero, Every Day, All Year…

June 15th - The Wasp / Nadia Van Dyne

Nadia is the daughter of Hank Pym and his first wife, Maria Trovaya. Maria had been pregnant when she was abducted by spies looking to extort military secrets from Pym.  Tragically, Maria died during the spies brutal interrogation, but not before giving birth to a daughter.  The infant ended up in the care of the Russian spy school known as The Red Room.  She was named ‘Nadia’ a Russian name that means ‘hope’ and trained from early childhood to be an agent of the Red Room.  

Believing that she might possess the same scientific genius as her biological father, Nadia’s handlers informed her of father’s identity and provided her with the means to research the size-altering properties of ‘Pym Particles.’  At the same time, Nadia also received combat training, including harsh lessons from the infamous Winter Soldier.  

Nadia proved to be just as much a genius as her father, although the cruel lengths that The Red Room went to broaden her intellectual acumen had the effect of making her intent escaping their grasp.  In her early teens, Nadia was able to reproduce the Pym particles and alter her size, thus enabling her to flee. 

She made her way to the States and tried to locate Hank Pym, only to discover the sad news that he had perished in battle against Ultron.  Nadia broke into one of Pym’s old laboratories and created a flying suit similar to that used by Pym’s ex-wife, Janet Van Dyne, The Avenger known as The Wasp.  Nadia intended on becoming the new Wasp and earn the admiration of her father's allies, The Avengers.  

It was a challenge Nadia was able to accomplish and her quick thinking saved the life of the Avenger known as The Vision in her first encounter with the team. Jan was initially conflicted in her feelings about Nadia.  The young woman did remind Jan of her ex-husband, in both positive and negative ways.  She is brilliant, full of energy and excited over the prospect of discovery, yet also impulsive, driven and not entirely aware of the consequences of her actions. 

Hank Pym had suffered for many years from undiagnosed Bipolar I Disorder; it was something that both helped Hank achieve incredible scientific discovery yet also contributed to his making terrible mistakes.  And Jan could see this same sense of reckless genius in Nadia.  Following an adventure where the two heroines saved the life of the United States’ president, Janet ultimately decided that she was happy to share the mantle of The Wasp with Nadia.  As such, Nadia became ‘The Unstoppable Wasp’ and would go on to have numerous adventures.  

In the wake of the second Superhero Civil War, Nadia joined a new iteration of The Avengers and became close friends with Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan). Kamala helped Nadia earn her United States citizenship.  With Jan’s blessing Nadia took on the last name Van Dyne.  

The Wasp and Ms. Marvel went on to aide Mockingbird in a battle against the villainous Monica Rappaccini.  Mockingbird shared with Nadia SHIELD’s list of the top researchers in the fields of science and technology and Nadia was discouraged to find that there were so few woman on this list, with none ranking any higher that 26.  

Nadia decided to try to help address this matter by forming the Genius In action Research Labs (or G.I.R.L.), an enterprise to assess the Earth's greatest female scientific minds and provide them with the kind of support and guidance to help them best live up to their potential.  Alongside her activities with GIRL, Nadia has additionally joined the young hero team called The Champions.  

Following a brief manic episode that segued into a major depressive episode, Nadia began therapy to help her better cope with her symptoms of Bipolar I Disorder.  Nadia identifies as asexual.   

Nadia’s character is something of a homage to the character of Hope Pym (portrayed by Evangeline Lilly) who appears in the MCU’s Ant-Man movie

The Unstoppable Wasp first appeared in the pages of Free Comic Book Day/#Civil War II (2016).  

[greerbaiting]

I asked someone else about this, but I have a really dark headcanon: in the present day, Hank's memories of Maria Trovaya are hazy, and he's more or less gotten over her death aside from the desire to find those responsible. If someone (say, Nadia) asks him about it, it would turn out that he had already forgotten many details about their time together, or if he remembered details, actually confused them with details about Jan (like her favorite color or what she wore on a certain date).

It's based on the fact that ever since the 70s, Hank seems to have moved on Maria, to the point that he barely talks or thinks about her, and even on his mission to rescue Maria from Soviets during the West Coast phase, seems to feel more obligation than affection toward her. Then when this rescued "Maria" was revealed as an imposter, it doesn't seem to affect him very much in the long run. in House of M, the reality that granted everyone's greatest wishes, Hank kept Maria dead, as opposed to the Avengers or X-men bringing back fallen comrades like Hawkeye and Magik.

(I also think what really puts the nail in the coffin for Hank and Maria was Jan's fakeout death during Secret Invasion. Finally, she was the one he grieved for and obsessed over at the cost of all his other relationships. She was the ideal that he would measure others against.)

The fallout, especially if Nadia is the one asking, would be very painful...

Sorry if all my Hank Pym headcanons swing between being extremely silly and extremely dark.

Interesting! I tend to write Maria as someone that Hank will never truly be "over" even as he moves on with his life. She was his first love and he lost her so soon after they got married. If anything I write the reverse where he's more likely to remember something about Maria but mix it up with Jan, since she's so imprinted on him.

[aimmyarrowshigh]

also! can you tell us a bit about nadia van dyne? i see you write drabbles for her and post about her sometimes but i know NOTHING about her! like? a wasp that was in the red room? fascinating, tell me more

MY BLORBO, NADIA VAN DYNE!

How do I even begin to explain Nadia Van Dyne? Nadia Van Dyne is flawed, but flawless. She has one of the highest IQs in the Marvel Universe and started the Agents of G.I.R.L. to champion women scientists and heroes. I hear her genetic ability to shrink is insured for $10,000. I hear she's taking driving lessons... with Carol Danvers. Her favorite musical artist is Dazzler. One time, she met Doctor Doom on a plane, and they became best friends and he sort of became a good guy for a while. One time, she punched Monica Rappaccini in the face... and it was awesome.

::record scratch::

Okay, now that that's out of my system, seriously for real though, Nadia is the best. Every part of her character creation is that she was made to be my best blorbo girl. I love her.

Quick biography:

Way way way back in the day, Dr. Henry "Hank" Pym fell in love with a Hungarian entomologist (and political prisoner) named Dr. Maria Trovaya, who escaped to the US. She is who got him interested in ants. They got married. They went on their honeymoon to Hungary, where the Red Room kidnapped Maria and faked her murder so that Hank/the Americans wouldn't try to get her back. Hank had a nervous breakdown and got REALLY into ants, became Ant-Man, etc.

MEANWHILE: Maria is alive and being held captive by the Red Room when it's discovered that SHE'S PREGNANT WITH HANK'S BABY. She gives birth in the Red Room and is immediately killed, because now the Red Room doesn't need her -- they have her baby, who they can train from literal birth AND who is the product of TWO geniuses instead of just being ONE genius. Maria survives just long enough to name her Nadia, which means "hope" (because Hope Van Dyne in the MCU actually came first, and Nadia is an homage to her).

(Double meanwhile: Hank meets Janet Van Dyne, whom he thinks looks like 'a less beautiful Maria,' and he is a piece of shit. He marries Janet, is physically and emotionally abusive, Janet gets out, Hank turns into Ultron, it's a whole thing.)

Back in the Red Room, Nadia's FIRST MEMORY IN THIS WORLD is of A KIND MAN WITH A SILVER ARM TELLING HER SHE'S SMART. ::cries for 70 years::

Nadia is raised and trained to be a Red Room agent, but she's put in the science division that I'm forgetting the name of, so she does not have to pass as many physical tests as other Red Room girls (for example, she only has to be able to kill someone in like 14 ways instead of 27). She has one friend in the science division, who is much more into the killing aspect of the Red Room than Nadia is and protects her: Ying. However, because of their closeness, Ying is taken away and reassigned to the normal assassin program. Nadia is alone.

Nadia is determined to escape the Red Room and bring Ying with her, so she eventually manages to acquire black market Pym Particles and experiments with them. She integrates their size-changing properties into her being because hand-wavey superhero science and escapes into the Quantum Realm and thereafter, to America.

She makes her way to Hank's last known address in New Jersey, but oh no, Hank is dead sort of, and also Ultron, sort of, whatever, he's gone. Nadia is crushed that he is dead (she doesn't know about the Ultron part). Nadia decides to become the Wasp and join the Avengers. She saves Vision's life and is like, "YAY I SAVED MY NEPHEW'S LIFE!" and she's not technically wrong. Jarvis immediately is like, "I am adopting this child. Let's go meet Janet."

Janet and Nadia meet by saving the President from a microbomb, idk, it's a whole thing. Anyway, they meet, and Janet immediately just totally falls in love with Nadia and takes her out for a day on the town to experience all of the things she'd never gotten to do before, while living in the Red Room, like ice cream and not being in the Red Room.

Then Civil War II happens and idk whatever.

Then Nadia decides that she is going to form the Agents of G.I.R.L. and that's where her first solo series starts, and you should read it because it's SO GOOD!!!!

Fun Nadia Facts:

Canon aroace!

Canon bipolar representation! Her manic episode is the best-written one that I've ever read.

Canon cute language mix-ups and Russian accent!

Canon thinks of Viv Vision, whom I also deeply love, as her great-niece, and she's again, not wrong!

Janet and Bobbi are co-raising her and Ying! And I ship Janet/Bobbi so much!

Nadia is a badass optimistic traumatized scientist ballerina angel superhero, and I love her.

[jeremywhitley]

Dear Mr. Whitley,

Sorry for not including this in a previous ask, but given that Nadia's biological mother is Hungarian, and Hungarian women have several ways of writing their married names depending on how "traditional" they are, what would Maria Trovaya Pym used as her married name? Pymné Henrik (Mrs. Henry Pym), Pymné Trovaya Maria (Mrs. Maria Trovaya Pym), or just retaining Trovaya Maria?

(Given the quirk of surname first Hungarian names, Nadia's name in Hungarian would be Pym Nadia or Van Dyne Nadia.)

That's a great question I am not culturally well versed enough to answer intelligently.

[fyeahunstoppablewasp]

Nadia “meets“ her mom for the first time.

[arojenniferwalters]

Canon Aro(Quoiromantic)Ace 80/?: Nadia Van Dyne /Trovaya in Wasp: Small Worlds #4 (2023) 1/ 5

[comicwaren]

From Wasp #004

Art by Kasia Nie, Carola Borelli and KJ Díaz

Written by Al Ewing

[chucksnerdthoughts]

Wasp #3

Really great issue! I’m a bit sad this was just a mini. But it was so much fun! I loved seeing Nadia and Janet thrive in world’s without Pym. It makes a lot of sense and was just a blast! Yeah, I just really loved this whole issue. I’m sad to see it end next time but I’m sure it’ll go out on a great note!

-Chuck

[batcavescolony]

I would die for Nadia

Deborah is right she is too precious and too good for this world. Also I love her little facts.

[orlissa]

I’ve started reading Sam Maggs’s The Unstoppable Wasp: Built on Hope. This Wasp is Nadia, Hank Pym’s daughter from his first wife, Maria Trovaya. Who is supposed to be Hungarian--even tho Trovoya is no way a Hungarian name XD Anyway, it seems like Maggs plans on referencing Nadia’s “Hungarianness,” and I’m looking forward to seeing how much she messes it up :D