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| Name = Nice

image=[[Image:AvengersIII59.jpg|250px]]

| Type = [[Album (music) | Album]]

|caption=Henry Pym, as Yellowjacket, on the cover to [[Avengers (comics)|Avengers]] (vol. 3) #59. '''Art by [[Gary Frank]].'''

| Artist = [[Puffy Amiyumi | Puffy]]

|comic_color=background:#ff8080

| Cover = Puffy_AmiYumi_-_Nice.jpg

|character_name=Henry "Hank" Pym

| Background = orange

|real_name=Henry Pym

| Released = [[January 22]], [[2003]] (Japanese release)

|publisher=[[Marvel Comics]]

[[August 12]], [[2003]] (US release)

|debut=''[[Tales to Astonish]]'' #27 (January, 1962)

| Recorded = The Steakhouse Studio, Cello Studio, Sony Music Studios, [[Tokyo]]; Sunset Sound, Sub Jersey Studios, Vibratorium, Mansfield Lodge, Andy's house, John's house

|creators=[[Stan Lee]]<br>[[Jack Kirby]]

| Genre = [[J-Pop]]

|alliance_color=background:#ffc0c0

| Length = 48:35 (US)

|status=Inactive

| Label = [[Bar None Records|Bar None]]

|alliances=None

| Producer = [[Andy Sturmer]]

|previous_alliances=[[Avengers (comics)|The Avengers]]<br />The West Coast Avengers

| Reviews = <nowiki></nowiki>

|aliases=Ant-Man I, Giant Man I, Goliath I, Yellowjacket

*[http://Allmusic.com AMG] 4 1/2 stars out of 5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:0amsa9qgw238 link]

|relatives= Maria Trovaya (first wife, deceased), Janet Van Dyne a.k.a. [[Wasp (comics)|The Wasp]] (second wife, divorced), [[Ultron]] (creation, "son"), [[Jocasta (comics)|Jocasta]] ("first daughter-in-law"), [[Alkhema]] ("second daughter-in-law"), [[Vision (comics)|Vision]] ("grandson"), [[Scarlet Witch]] (former granddaughter-in-law), [[Victor Mancha]] ("grandson")

|

|powers=Can change his, or any physical object's, size to his advantage: Growth/size reduction, to a maximum height of 100 feet or the stature of an ant. Has also developed chemicals and equipment to achieve this effect as well as gear for insect communication, flight and energy attacks. Superhuman strength at reduced size. <br> Genius-level intellect.

| Last album = ''[[An Illustrated History]]''<br />([[2002]])

|}}

| This album = ''Nice''<br />([[2003]])

Dr. '''Henry "Hank" Pym''' is a [[fictional character]] in the [[Marvel Universe]], a founding member of the [[superhero]] group [[Avengers (comics)|The Avengers]] and a brilliant scientist who spends much of his time in his lab. Over the years, Pym has had a number of different costumed identities, such as '''Ant-Man''', '''Giant-Man''', '''Yellowjacket''' and '''Goliath'''; he is currently going by the alias of "Yellowjacket". While his brilliance could not prevent several encounters with mental illness and an [[inferiority complex]], his mind and stability of spirit have proven invaluable to the [[Avengers (comics)|Avengers]] team.

| Next album = ''[[Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi (album)]]''<br />([2004]])

}}

'''''Nice.''''' is the third [[North American]] [[Album (music)|album]] by [[J-Pop]] group [[Puffy AmiYumi]], released in [[2003]]. (See [[2003 in music]]). The US release featured a few track changes: "Atarashii Hibi" and "Tomodachi" were replaced with "Urei", "Teen Titans Theme" and "Planet Tokyo", an English rewrite of "Akai Buranko" (Red Swing).

==Character history==

The cover is an homage to [[John Lennon]] and [[Yoko Ono]]'s "[[bed-in]]" peace protests held in [[1969]].

At one point, Henry Pym was married to a [[Hungary|Hungarian]] called Maria Trovaya. Sadly, their marriage was cut short when Maria was killed by Hungarian Secret Police. Shortly after that, [[biochemist]] Hank Pym discovered what he called Pym particles, a rare group of [[subatomic particle]]s from which he formulated a size-altering formula. Testing the solution on himself, he found they were far more powerful than he hypothesized&mdash;one of these particles had the power to make things shrink and the other to restore an object to its natural size. He was shrunk down to the size of an insect and narrowly escaped the inhabitants of an anthill. He then restored himself. After he undertook an exhaustive study of ants, he later constructed a "[[Cybernetics|cyber]]-helmet" that would let him communicate with and control [[insect]]s. He designed a costume and gave himself the superhero name '''Ant-Man'''. On his first outing as Ant-Man, he defeated some [[KGB]] agents that were trying to steal some anti-[[radiation]] gas that Pym had made. He started a career as Ant-Man and fought many [[supervillain]]s and [[monster]]s.

==Track listing==

Later, Pym was contacted by Dr. Vernon Van Dyne, who asked for Pym's help in contacting aliens. He refused, but became attracted to Vernon's daughter, Janet Van Dyne. Vernon Van Dyne was later slain by an alien outlaw. Janet asked for Hank's help to avenge his death. Pym then revealed his secret identity to her. Hank used some Pym particles on her and grafted [[wasp]] wings beneath her shoulders (but they disappeared when she was normal size and came back again when using Pym particles). Janet assumed the name of [[Wasp (comics)|The Wasp]]. They tracked down and defeated Vernon's killer, thus forming a permanent partnership and starting a relationship, before becoming founding members of [[Avengers (comics)|the Avengers]]. Shortly afterward, he developed a variant Pym particle that could increase his size; using these, he became '''Giant-Man''' and later '''Goliath'''.

#"Planet Tokyo" (Sturmer) - 3:49

#"Tokyo Nights" (Pierre Taki, Sturmer, John Fields) - 3:53

#"Angel of Love" (Suzuki Shoko, Sturmer) - 3:12

#"Sayonara" (YO-KING, Sturmer) - 3:16

#"Invisible Tomorrow" (Puffy AmiYumi, Sturmer) - 3:54

#"Thank You" (Yumi, Sturmer) - 3:55

#"Long Beach Nightmare" (Ami, Sturmer) - 3:15

#"Your Love Is a Drug" (Sturmer) - 3:33

#"K2G (Kimi Ni Go!)" (Puffy AmiYumi, Sturmer) - 4:37

#"Shiawase (Happiness)" (Okuda Tamio) - 4:20

#"Urei" (Puffy AmiYumi, Sturmer) - 3:54

#"Teen Titans Theme" ([[media:TEEN_TITANS_GO!!!!.ogg|listen]]) (Sturmer) - 3:08

#"Red Swing" (Puffy AmiYumi, Sturmer) - 3:51

==Personnel==

However, Pym suffered a series of mental problems. Shortly before his wedding, he had a breakdown during which he became amnesiac and developed the cocky "'''Yellowjacket'''" persona; he only fully recovered after his wedding to Janet. Almost immediately prior to that incident, he had created an [[android]] called Ultron, which, to his horror, became self-aware and evil, and plotted to kill and replace him and the rest of humanity with [[robot]]s. The extent of his guilt involved in Ultron's creation was not revealed until years later, when he admitted that Ultron's brain patterns were in fact based on his own.

'''Puffy AmiYumi'''

*''[[Ami Onuki]]'' - [[vocals]], harmony, [[guitar]]s

*''[[Yumi Yoshimura]]'' - vocals, harmony

'''Additional personnel'''

Several years later, Pym had a complete breakdown, and became extremely paranoid. During the course of this breakdown, he became overbearing and verbally abusive towards Janet. At the nadir of this degeneration, he struck her, and then proceeded to concoct a plan to make himself look good in front of his teammates by staging an attack upon them which only he could win. This plan backfired and Pym was exposed, disgraced, and expelled from the Avengers, and the couple divorced.

*''[[Andy Sturmer]]'' - [[drums]], guitar, drum programming, [[ARP Instruments, Inc.|ARP synthesizer]], [[Moog synthesizer]], guitars, [[pipe organ]], [[mellotron]], [[percussion instrument|percussion]], [[vibraphone]], [[keyboard instrument|keyboards]], [[trumpet]], [[marimba]], [[bass guitar|bass]], [[Prophet synthesizer]], [[Fender Rhodes]], [[kazoo|vocal kazoo]], claps, [[piano]], [[acoustic guitar]], [[ARP|ARP string ensemble]], harmony, [[VOX Continental organ]], [[BVO]]

*''John Fields'' - guitars, bass, piano, [[vocoder]], [[Hammond organ|Hammond organ B3]], [[Roland space echo]], [[chamberlin]], [[Farfisa organ]], strange echoes,

*''Wookie Von Crozier'' - crazy drum fill

*''Chris James'' - drums, Wurlizer, synthesized blips and bleeps, [[toy piano]], chamberlin

*''Printz Board'' - [[flugelhorn]]

*''Bleu'' - [[12 string guitar]]

*''Dean Parks'' - [[banjo]], acoustic guitar

*''Elizabeth Lea'' - [[trombone]]

*''The Horndogs'' - horns

*''James Childs'' - guitars

*''Phillip Broussard, Jr.'' - horny chorus

*''Toishi Toshikazu'' - horny chorus

==Production==

After Pym's mental state returned to normal he rejoined the Avengers, first in an advisory role and later as Giant-Man. After the events of "Avengers Forever", Pym re-adopted his Yellowjacket costume, to put the past behind him and acknowledge his healed psyche. After a time, he and the Wasp became friends again and, some years later, resumed a romantic relationship. In the events detailed in the "Avengers Finale", Pym and Janet left the team to re-kindle their relationship in England, where Pym had accepted a residency at [[Oxford University|Oxford]].

*Producer: Andy Sturmer

*Instrument recording: John Fields

*Vocal recording: Thom Russo, John Fields

*Mixing: Thom Russo, John Fields

*Mastering: Kotetsu Tohru

*Mastering assistants: Phillip Broussard, Jr., Ohno, Shiota Osamu, Hatagoshi Hideyasu

*Musical instruments technician: Oba Toshimasa

*A&R: June Shinozaki

*Interpreter: Takamizawa Mai

*Art direction: Central 67

*Design: Central 67

*Photography: Uchida Shoji

*Hair and make-up: Shuma Tesuro

*Styling: Miyajima Takahiro

==Powers and abilities==

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Dr. Hank Pym is a scientific [[genius]] of the highest order with expertise in both the fields of [[robotics]]/[[cybernetics]] and [[biochemistry]]. Throughout his career, he has created the [[robot]] Ultron, often repaired [[Vision (comics)|Vision]], and invented much of the [[Avengers (comics)|Avengers]]' equipment. The robot Rover, another of his creations, served as a jet, possessing rudimentary [[artificial intelligence]] and offensive capabilities.

His greatest scientific achievement, "Pym particles", led to several costumed identities. Pym particles enable mass to be shunted or gained from an alternate dimension. By imbibing special capsules of Pym particles, Pym was able to shrink to half-inch size and adventure as the Ant-Man and, later, to grow to 30-foot size and adventure as Giant-Man and Goliath. He later switched from using capsules to a Pym particle-filled gas, but eventually his body had absorbed enough particles to shrink and grow at will. As Yellowjacket, Pym used his shrinking ability along with a bio-energy gun (used incorporated into blasting gauntlets.) In his insect guises, Pym also used a communication device in his helmet that allowed him to communicate and control insect life (mostly ants.) At one point, Pym found himself able to use the Pym particle field about his body to shrink and grow objects in contact with him, and he carried various high and low tech equipment in his jumpsuit. Currently, he can only shrink and grow objects that have been specially-treated with Pym particles beforehand. As Hank's abilities have fluctuated between growth and size reduction, he has remained an intellectual at heart. [http://www.marvel.com/universe/index.htm]

==Successors==

A number of other [[superhero]]es (and a few [[supervillain]]s) have used Dr. Pym's rejected costumes and codenames; they are listed here in chronological order of first appearances.

===Goliath II===

:''Main article: [[Hawkeye (comics)]]''

'''Clint Barton''' is better known as the superhero [[Hawkeye (comics)|Hawkeye]]; he used the Goliath identity only during the [[Kree-Skrull War]] and later during "[[Operation: Galactic Storm]]".

===Black Goliath/Giant-Man II===

:''Main Article: [[Black Goliath]]''

'''Dr. Bill Foster''' was Pym's lab assistant, an [[African American]] who used the Giant-Man identity briefly. He had an equally brief career as the ''Black Goliath'' before retiring from superheroics.

===Ant-Man II===

{{main|Ant-Man (Scott Lang)}}

'''Scott Lang''' was a thief who was reformed with the aid of Pym and [[Iron Man]]. After a fairly lengthy, if not especially noteworthy, career as the second Ant-Man, he became an affiliate of the [[Fantastic Four]] and most recently became a full-time member of the Avengers. For a period of time he dated [[Jessica Jones]]. He was killed in ''Avengers'' #500, but his daughter, Cassie, has taken up his heroic mantle as [[Stature]] in the pages of ''[[Young Avengers]]''.

===Goliath III===

{{main|Atlas (comics)}}

'''Erik Josten''' was originally known as the supervillain ''Power Man''; after an encounter with [[Luke Cage]], who was also calling himself Power Man at the time, he changed his codename to ''The Smuggler'', and later to '''Goliath'''. He adopted the superheroic identity of '''Atlas''' upon joining the [[Thunderbolts (comics)|Thunderbolts]].

===Yellowjacket II===

'''Rita DeMara''' was a reluctant supervillainess who was most notable for her brief affiliation with two incarnations of the [[Masters of Evil]]. She was awarded temporary reserve member status in the Avengers when she assisted [[Captain America]] during a crisis. When her second affiliation with the Masters of Evil ended, she went to the future with the [[time travel]]ling [[Guardians of the Galaxy]], and joined that group for a time. When she returned to the present, she was killed by Iron Man, who was being [[mind control]]led by [[Immortus]] in the guise of [[Kang the Conqueror]].

==Ultimate Henry Pym==

In the [[Ultimate Marvel]] continuity, Henry "Hank" Pym is a brilliant, but mentally fragile scientist who takes [[Prozac]] and is married to [[Wasp (comics)|Janet Pym, née van Dyne]]. He was chosen to work on the "Super Solder Project" for [[SHIELD]] under [[Nick Fury]]. Hank is also the superhero "Giant-Man", able to grow to 60 feet. He gained his powers after experimenting on the blood of his wife Jan, who is a [[mutant]].

Just like in the mainstream timelines, he was prone to [[domestic violence]]. He had been attempting to change, going on a medication, and Jan believed that joining the Ultimates could be a new change for them. But later the tensions of losing and humiliating himself in a battle with the Hulk, and his jealousy of Jan's friendship with [[Captain America]], led into a heated argument between the couple that ended after he assaulted her and violently sent her to the hospital. Captain America himself took revenge, beat him to a pulp and forced him out of the team.

Henry seemed to have overcome his violent streak and was desperate to get in the [[Ultimates]] again, becoming the ant-manipulator "Ant-Man" and building two prototype androids, Ultron and Vision. Despite this, he remained a [[pariah]]. Desperate, he joined the vigilante team [[Defenders (comics)|Defenders]], starting a meaningless affair with [[Valkyrie (comics)|Valkyrie]] and making a laughingstock of himself.

In spite of his sad descent, he has been able to relate to his estranged wife Jan again, and the two are starting to see eachother again (their relationship has been platonic so far). On a side note, he was visited by the [[traitor]] within the [[Ultimates]]&mdash;an object of great fan speculation, as of 2005&mdash;but seems too much in a funk to seriously care.

==References==

*''[[Tales to Astonish]]'' (as '''Henry Pym''') #27 ([[Marvel Comics]], January [[1962]])

*''[[Tales to Astonish]]'' (as '''Ant-Man''') #35-49 ([[Marvel Comics]], September [[1962]] - November [[1963]])

*''[[Tales to Astonish]]'' (as '''Giant-Man''') #49-69 ([[Marvel Comics]], November [[1963]] - July [[1965]])

*''Ant-Man's Big Christmas'' #1 (2001)

*''Essential Ant-Man'' ([[black and white]] [[Trade paperback (comics)|trade paperback]]) (2002)

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