Thread:BEJT/@comment-1998684-20180909133844/@comment-26838855-20180909214544

Hi, thanks for reaching out.

It's not so much that I just decide to work out characters' ages, but more that if their approximate date of birth is needed for the timeline, I'll work it out. So for example, if we're told that something happened to a character when they were 20, then I'd work out when they roughly would have been born, and then place the event 20.5 years after that.

There hasn't been a need to work out Hank and Janet's dates of birth, so I haven't done it properly. Also, it's a slightly different process for them, because the thing is, they've given Michelle Pfeiffer hair and makeup that is intended to make her look older than she actually is, because she's 14 years younger than Michael Douglas.

I can do some quick, simplified calculations for you, if you like. So if we basically pretend (for the sake of ease) that overall, Michael Douglas films them about 8 months before their setting, then Hank's date of birth would be about 8 months after Michael Douglas'. This would mean he was born around May 1945.
 * The middle of filming for Ant-Man was October 2014, 10 months before the main events of the film are set.
 * The middle of filming for Ant-Man and the Wasp was September 2014, 6 months before the main events of the film are set.

As for Michelle Pfeiffer, who was only in the second film, we would need to add about 6 months, so roughly October 1958. Except Janet's been aged-up.

So if you were to, say, add 3 to Janet's age for every 1 you subtract from Hank's age until they're a more normal age gap that also fits how old they've made Michelle Pfeiffer look, you might take away 2 from Hank's age and add about 6 to Janet's. This would mean that overall, my approximate guess is that Hank was born around 1947 and Janet around 1952. This would make them about 32 and 27 respectively when Hope was born, and 39-40 and 34-35 respectively when they leave her in 1987.

As for joining S.H.I.E.L.D., that's also not really been of importance so we haven't really calculated it. However, in Ant-Man, Hank says he created the Pym Particle 40 years ago. While that would suggest 1975, I'm going to assume he's rounding a bit, because he didn't start going on missions until around the mid-1980s, and it can't have taken over 10 years to get going. So he perhaps created it around the late '70s, and from that, I'd guess he maybe joined S.H.I.E.L.D. in the mid-'70s, when he was in his late 20s.

I'll need to see the film again to know for sure about the Elihas Starr events. However, I had a quick go at working it out a month ago, purely based on Hannah John-Kamen and Young Ava's actress' ages, and it would suggest about 1997.