Reply To: "What if …" – the Disney+ series … is kind of 'meh' ?

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Actually,with the Marvel (and to a lesser extant DC) a  hero’s personality, past and relationships depends on which era and universe (both major lines have multiverses) of comics you are reading.

The Hank Pym that I was introduced to  in the 2000’s through cartoons and comics was a peace nick scientist who had issues with hurting flies and was a very strong family man, and like Tony Stark kept making the “Frankenstein’s monster” mistakes in new and innovative ways that you wouldn’t think a grown man with a doctorate would make.  And according to my mother that was essentially how he was back when she was kid.

That said I also know from my Mom that sometime in the  70’s or 80’s (likely the 70’s), a lot messy stuff happened in the Marvel comics from what I have heard it was due mostly to a single editor in a major gatekeeper position. Lots of characters that had been married got divorces (including Ant man and Wasp) for different reasons, language use became more crude,  superstition and witchcraft became more prevalent story elements, etc. This also seems to have happened with DC either at the same time or a bit later on.