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--> SpaceBattles commenter: I have to think, now, that the only way Marvel could make Norman a likeable character would be to make his primary business rival the Red Skull. Norman's probably still an awful person, but juxtaposing him to an ''actual nazi'' somehow makes him more tolerable.

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--> SpaceBattles ---> Website/{{SpaceBattles|DotCom}} commenter: I have to think, now, that the only way Marvel could make Norman a likeable character would be to make his primary business rival the Red Skull. Norman's probably still an awful person, but juxtaposing him to an ''actual nazi'' somehow makes him more tolerable.
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* CassandraTruth: Absolutely nobody believes that Greg (or rather his PHO handle Void Cowboy) is actually "Spider-Guy".
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** After swiping and sifting through Harry Osborn's wallet, Aisha wonders out loud if he is related to [[Creator/OzzyOsbourne "that old singer"]].

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** After swiping and sifting through Harry Osborn's wallet, Aisha wonders out loud if he is related to [[Creator/OzzyOsbourne [[Music/OzzyOsbourne "that old singer"]].
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''[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/arachne-worm-spiderverse-alt-power.719587/ Arachne]]'' is a crossover between ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' and ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' by Tangent.

In a fight between a gender-flipped Doc-Ock and [[ComicBook/SpiderVerse several Spider-Heroes]], an Alchemax spider winds up going through a portal to Earth Bet and winds up in Taylor Hebert's locker.

Taylor, Aisha Laborn, Greg Veder, and [[CanonWelding Earth Bet's version of Peter Parker]] all get bitten by the Alchemax spider.

Web-slinging shenanigans ensue.

[[DeadFic The last update was in February 2019]].

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!!This fanfic contains examples of the following:

* AdaptationalBadass: Greg gets Spider-man powers as a result of getting bit.
* AdaptationalHeroism: Earth Bet's Norman Osborn apparently hasn't been turned into Green Goblin yet.
* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler: Sophia Hess breaks out of jail and goes rogue]].
* AdaptationNameChange: Inevitable given an alt-power:
** Taylor is Arachne.
** Greg is Spider-Guy.
** Aisha calls herself [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Black Arachnia]] but is code-named [[MythologyGag Ghost Spider]] by the PRT.
** Peter's protectorate persona is called Webb.
* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: Taylor and Aisha get both Spider-man powers and variations of their canon power (Taylor seems limited to just controlling spiders, and Aisha is outright invisible rather than having a PerceptionFilter).
* AgeLift: Earth Bet's Peter Parker is an adult PRT agent rather than a teenager.
* AllThereInTheManual: Taylor, Greg, Aisha, and Peter all have their costumes and some other details posted on PHO.
* AllWebbedUp: Webbing makes a useful alternative to containment foam.
* BerserkButton: Calling Aisha's cape identity anything other than Black Arachnia is one for Aisha.
** Oni Lee getting badly injured is one for Lung.
** [[spoiler: Taylor becomes one for Sophia]].
* BigEater: All of the Spider-people.
* BrickJoke: An exhibitionist couple [[RunningGag keep]] [[MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces having sex in public places]]. Taylor, Aisha, and Greg all find them and wish they got a room. [[spoiler: Sophia finds the two Jaybirds after she breaks out of jail and makes off with their money, and the boyfriend of the couple then gets banned off of PHO for defending his exhibitionism]].
* CanonWelding: Earth Bet has it's own Peter Parker, Norman and Harry Osborn, Eddie Brock, and Flash Thompson.
* EntertaininglyWrong: After Peter notices that the spider who bit Taylor, Greg, and Aisha has the word "Alchemax" on the side, right before it bites him, Piggot starts panicking about a Bio-Tinker named Alchemax on the loose in Brockton.
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** The general consensus regarding [[RunningGag a local pair of]] [[MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces Jaybirds]] is "GetARoom!".
** Norman hates Medhall and Max Anders. The readers universally agree with him.
--> SpaceBattles commenter: I have to think, now, that the only way Marvel could make Norman a likeable character would be to make his primary business rival the Red Skull. Norman's probably still an awful person, but juxtaposing him to an ''actual nazi'' somehow makes him more tolerable.
* ForegoneConclusion: The [[AllThereInTheManual author's notes]] reveal that Aisha will be made a probationary Ward after some time in the Undersiders. [[spoiler: Chapter 13 has Aisha and the other Undersiders getting caught, and presumably will be press-ganged into the Wards as probationary members]].
* GetARoom: The universal reaction to [[RunningGag the Jaybird couple who keep]] MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces.
* TheHeist: The Undersiders stage one on Oscorp. [[spoiler: Taylor makes sure it doesn't work]].
* IncrediblyLamePun: When Taylor is riding upwards on an Elevator, the narration says "things were definitely looking up!".
* MonumentalDamage: Oscorp has several interiors trashed in a Cape fight, and [[spoiler: the Undersiders' lair gets demolished in a fight between Spider-guy and Lung]], ''in the same day''.
* MythologyGag:
** The obligatory starting with a mutant spider biting people.
** Taylor adopts Spider-Gwen's costume, while Aisha is given Gwen's "Ghost Spider" moniker.
** "Spider-Guy" and "Webb" are used by Greg and Peter, respectively.
** Flash Thompson bullies someone with spider powers.
** Oscorp is in the Tinkertech business.
** Peter (and presumably the other Spiders) have dreams of events in the 'main' Spider-Verse.
** The Undersiders stage a heist as a distraction. [[spoiler: the target is Oscorp]].
* NoKillLikeOverkill: The Oscorp heist ends with [[spoiler: the Undersiders completely hosed down in Webbing, preventing their escape]].
* OhCrap:
** Peter when bitten by (what he thinks is) a Tinkertech Spider. Piggot reacts likewise, thinking a Bio-Tinker named Alchemax is on the loose.
** The Undersiders when Aisha sneaks in on them.
** Greg's quite understandable reactions to facing Oni Lee, and then getting chased by Lung.
** Alabaster and several skinheads when Lung chases Greg through their gathering.
** The Undersiders when [[spoiler: the Oscorp heist goes sideways]].
* RunningGag: A pair of Jaybirds MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
** Played Straight with Greg, who understandably flees when faced by Lung. Lung gives chase.
** Averted with [[spoiler: the Undersiders, who are too AllWebbedUp to flee]].
* ShoutOut:
** Aisha deliberately names her Cape persona [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Black Arachnia]] as one.
** Someone asks Greg about a restaurant named [[Creator/MarcellJankovics Marcell's]].
** After swiping and sifting through Harry Osborn's wallet, Aisha wonders out loud if he is related to [[Creator/OzzyOsbourne "that old singer"]].
* {{Troll}}: Aisha talks Coil into getting her a costume that's a pallette-swap of Taylor's, for this very reason.
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