Yellowjacket

"You tried to hide your suit from me? Now, it's gonna blow up in your face and destroy everyone you care about."

- Darren Cross to Hank Pym

Darren Cross, also known as Yellowjacket, was the CEO of Cross Technologies.

Working for Pym Technologies
"Hank Pym was my friend, and mentor, but mentors are meant to nurture their protege's potential, not stunt it."

- Darren Cross

Darren Cross graduated from MIT as valedictorian at the age of twenty. He was hired directly from MIT by Hank Pym, and for a time worked as his assistant at Pym Technologies. However, he became obsessed with learning the secrets of Pym's Ant-Man Suit, and his size-reducing Pym Particle technology.

Taking Over
"I'm the future of war!"

- Darren Cross

Over the years, Cross forced Hank Pym from his own company and took over as CEO, renaming it Cross Technologies, the company under Cross' leadership became a rival of Stark Industries under the guidance of Darren Cross. Cross continued to obsess over Pym's previous experiments that had remained hidden from the world, focusing much of his energy into understanding the science behind the Ant-Man Suit. Evenutally, Cross' obsession paid off and he was able to make his own weaponized version of the Ant-Man Suit, called the Yellowjacket Suit.

WIRED Magazine Interview
"Pym tech has yet to roll out a single new product during your time as CEO." "Is there a question?"

- James Rondell and Darren Cross

Cross gave an interview with WIRED Insider discussing his work at Pym Technologies. Cross assured his interviewer James Rondell that Pym tech was working hard with their old designs while developing a new design which would be astonishing. When Cross was asked about Hank Pym and his involvement in the company and whether or not he was pushed out of his company, he claimed he and Pym were close friends before cutting the interview short.

Reunited with Hank Pym
"Hank, will you tell our guests what you told me every single time I asked you was the Ant-Man real." "Just a tall tale." "Right, because how could anything so miraculous possibly be real."

- Darren Cross and Hank Pym

Cross organised a presentation with several potential investors for his Yellowjacket Suit, and also invited Hank Pym to witness his success. To his surprise Pym showed up and was greeted by his estranged daughter Hope van Dyne, who was now working for Cross. While giving his presentation, Cross showed off many pieces of footage believed to be of Ant-Man in the 1980's and used Pym as an example of his history with the project, which Pym continued to deny. Eventually Cross showed his guests his Yellowjacket Armor and explained it's many benifits to the military, only receiving criticism from one guest.

With the guests discussing the pitch, Cross spoke to Pym in private, when Pym finally confessed that he had developed the Pym Particles and the Ant-Man Suit in the '80's. Pym warned Cross not to pursue this project any further as he believed that the technology was far too dangerous when put into the wrong hands.

Murder
Cross sought out the guest who questioned him in the Pym Technologies bathroom, where he presented himself as friendly and understanding, handing over a paper towel for the man to wash his hands. However when the man continued to question Cross' work, Cross shot him with a gun containing the unstable Pym Particles, causing his body to shirk and collapse into itself, leaving a tiny bloody mess on the floor. Cross wiped away the mess and flushed it down the toilet.

Perfecting the Serum
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Dinner with Hope van Dyne
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Confronting Pym
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Selling the Yellowjacket
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Fighting Ant-Man
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Death
When Scott Lang fought Cross in Maggie Lang's House, Lang shrank himself and sabotaged the Yellowjacket Suit. There, Lang escaped his would-be-death as Cross imploded to the subatomic Quantum Realm.

Personality
Darren Cross is an extremely cruel and ruthless businessman who is willing to use Hank Pym's Pym Particles as a weapon. He is a man who believes that the end justifed the means and would easily attempt to use anything in order to gain his final goal of miniaturizing organic matter not even caring about using lambs to shrink even if the end result was a failure and once this was accomplished Cross had no qualms about flicking the successfully shrunk lamb in its container as a mere plaything. However he was a good person when he starting working for Pym as his protege, but that changed when Cross became obsessed with the Pym Particles and the Ant-Man Suit. As Pym pointed out, Cross was basically what Pym used to be like in his youth and originally thought he was the son he never had.

Cross also had no problems with murder, as he killed a man who questioned the Yellowjacket Suit's safety using a Shrink Gun, attempted to kill Pym out of jealousy and anger, and Cassie Lang and Jim Paxton when they got in the way. He was also willing to sell the Pym Particles and Yellowjacket Suit to shady businessmen like HYDRA. As a man of extreme caution and intellect, he was able to deduce and plan ahead of his enemies, like when he set a trap for Scott Lang, Hank Pym and Hope van Dyne after the latter attempted to steal his suit.

As Yellowjacket, he became crazy after losing Pym Technologies and being electrified by a fly-light trap. He attempted to kill Ant-Man. He also was willing to use Cassie Lang as a hostage to get to Scott.

Powers
"Why don't you pick on someone your own size?"

- Scott Lang


 * Size Reduction: Using the original Ant-Man suit and pym particle formula as a start up point, Cross developed a new suit which allows him to reduce approximately to the size of an ant. He also still maintains his regular sized strength and durability when shrinking.
 * Flight: The suit has the power of flight.
 * Energy Pulse Stinger: The suit has two tentacle-like 'stingers' on the back which can fire intense energy blasts.
 * Superhuman Strength: The suit grants the wearer superhuman strength while shrinked.

Abilities
"Well, they don't draft the stupid kids first."

- Darren Cross


 * Genius Level Intellect: Darren Cross graduated from MIT at only twenty years old and was impressive enough to be recruited by genius Hank Pym to work for him.
 * Master Scientist: Cross was recruited by Hank Pym to work at his company, Pym Technologies as his personal assistant and one of the lead scientists. Over time, he became obsessed with replicating Pym's Ant-Man Suit, and managed to create his own version, the Yellowjacket Suit.
 * Expert Businessman: Cross was able to oust Pym from Pym Technologies and become its leader. Though the company had not presented a product in some time, Cross assured, in an interview, that its shareholders were satisfied.

Allies

 * Cross Technologies
 * James Rondell - Interviewer
 * HYDRA
 * Mitchell Carson - Business Partner

Enemies

 * Scott Lang/Ant-Man - Killer
 * Hank Pym - Mentor turned Enemy
 * Hope van Dyne - Assistant turned Enemy
 * Stark Industries - Business Rivals
 * Cassie Lang - Hostage
 * Jim Paxton

Trivia

 * In the comics, Darren Cross was a technology industrialist whose heart was failing, so he murdered homeless people and took their hearts to keep himself alive. Scott Lang fought Cross when he kidnapped Specialist Erica Sondheim, the only person who could cure Lang's daughter, Cassie. When Lang and Cross fought, Cross died of a massive coronary.