Pym Particles were initially created in the 1960s by scientist Hank Pym, who aided the intelligence organization S.H.I.E.L.D. by harnessing the technology using a custom suit to become a field agent, alongside his wife Janet van Dyne.

Scott's desire to right wrongs was the motivation for his illegal activities, yet his love for his daughter, Cassie, makes him determined to go straight upon his release from San Quentin State Prison.

SCOTT: Hey how's your girl, man?
LUIS: Oh, she left me.
SCOTT: Oh.
LUIS: Yeah, my ma died too. And my dad got deported. But I got the van!
SCOTT: Nice.

Adopting the fake identity of "Jack", he obtains a job at a Baskin-Robbins in San Francisco until his boss discovers his criminal past and fires him on the spot. Baskin-Robbins don't play.

After Hank was voted out as CEO of Pym Technologies (with his daughter Hope casting the deciding vote), Darren Cross became the new CEO and rebranded the company Cross Technologies.

The Yellowjacket suit was designed to maximize the military applications of Pym's technology.

Scott presents Cassie with a hideous stuffed rabbit. "He's so ugly!" she exclaims. "I love him!"

It's a Carbondale, made in 1910 from the same steel as the Titanic.

He finds the Ant-Man suit, which he mistakes for an old motorcycle suit. He takes it anyway, curious why anyone would bother to lock it up.

Cross uses lambs as test subjects, despite promising Hope that he would be using rats. The experiments continue to be a failure, however, with each shot of Pym Particles reducing the lambs to tiny blobs of jelly.