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February 17, 2012 3:06 pm Josh, in regards to your comment about Reed and Peter not being straddled with the domestic abuser labels, its because they have so much more to their characters, most likely because they've been consistently in books for 50 years. Pym moves in and out of books and occasionally goes a year or two without being seen, so what happens to him follows him more. The people who write Reed and Peter either ignore that they hit their wives, or don't feel like its relevant to their stories to bring up. Pym on the other hand has it brought up regardless of its relevance. It has become one of his defining traits because EVERYONE brings it up.

February 17, 2012 12:34 pm I don't want to be rude and post to another site in your section, but basically this article from comicsine is the perfect response to yours. http://www.comicvine.com/news/off-my-mind-is-hank-pym-a-wife-beater-or-did-he-get-a-bum-rap/143296/?page=3&sort=first

February 17, 2012 12:29 pm Basically, fans of Pym get angry about him being forever labelled a wife-beater because he hit her ONCE while he was in the middle of a mental breakdown. But you never see people calling Reed Richards or Peter Parker women-beaters even though there are multiple occasions when Reed has hit Sue, and Peter has hit MJ from the old comics. Pym has basically done nothing but try to atone for hitting Jan and his other mistakes since those incidents, but the writers seem to want him to be the joke character who hit his wife forever.