Line #114 ComicBook/SpiderWoman


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4	[[caption-width-right:350:Does whatever a Spider-Man can![[note]]Pictured from left to right: Silk (Cindy Moon), Julia Carpenter, Jessica Drew, and Mattie Franklin. Above Jessica is Spider-Girl (Anya Corazón), below Jessica is Earth-1610/Ultimate Universe Jessica Drew, and Ghost-Spider (Earth-65 Gwen Stacy, formerly Spider-Woman)[[/note]]]]
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7	->'''Spider-Man:''' I didn't say you could ''lend [the name] out''. There's, like, ten of you now.\
8	'''Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew):''' There's three, and they are ripping ''me'' off.
9	-->-- ''ComicBook/NewAvengers''
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11	''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' was a huge success to Creator/MarvelComics, so obviously, later on a DistaffCounterpart would be inevitable. No, we're not talking about his daughter from ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga'', ComicBook/SpiderGirl. We're talking about the one DistaffCounterpart conceived way before ''The Clone Saga''. These are what we'd like to call... The Spider-Women.
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13	Compared to other {{Distaff Counterpart}}s, Spider-Women are rarely an accurate one for Spidey. Most of the time, they possess a set of unique abilities on their own, instead of web-shooters. They also form a small form of LegacyCharacter pool (while not exactly a big one like ComicBook/{{Venom}} or ComicBook/{{Robin}}), and occasionally, each form possesses different names, including even Spider-Girl. Although the Spider-Girl in question is ''NEVER'' any of the AlternateUniverse versions of the original Spider-Man's daughter, with one of them taking the Spider-Woman name later in her career.
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15	See also the other Marvel spider-themed heroines [[ComicBook/AnyaCorazon Spider-Girl]] (from the Prime Marvel universe), [[Characters/SpiderGirl Spider-Girl]] (Earth-982 variant and Peter Parker/Spider-Man's daughter), and [[Characters/SilkMarvelComics Silk]].
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17	See also: ''ComicBook/SpiderWomen'', a 2016 BatFamilyCrossover featuring three Spider-Heroines, including Spider-Women Jessica Drew and Earth-65 Gwen Stacy.
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19	[[AC:Main Comics]]
20	[[index]]
21	* ''Spider-Woman'' (1978) #1-50 (Jessica Drew)
22	* ''Spider-Woman'' (1993) #1-4 (Julia Carpenter)
23	* ''Spider-Woman'' (1999) #1-18 (Mattie Franklin)
24	* ''Spider-Woman'' (2009) #1-7 (Jessica Drew)
25	* ''ComicBook/SpiderWoman2014'' #1-10 (Jessica Drew)
26	* ''Spider-Woman'' (2016) #1-17 (Jessica Drew)[[note]]continuation of the 2014 volume[[/note]]
27	* ''ComicBook/SpiderWoman2020'' #1-21 (Jessica Drew)
28	* ''ComicBook/SpiderWoman2023'' #1-present (Jessica Drew)
29	[[/index]]
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31	[[AC:Other Comics]]
32	* ''ComicBook/MarvelSpotlight1971'' #32 (first appearance of Jessica Drew)
33	* ''ComicBook/SecretWars1984'' #6 (first appearance of Julia Carpenter)
34	* ''Spectacular Spider-Man'' #263 (first appearance of Mattie Franklin)
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37	!!General Tropes
38	* ActionGirl: All of them, naturally. But special mention goes to Jessica, Julia, and Anya who are also natural fighters on their own. Jessica's trained by ComicBook/{{Taskmaster}}, a BadassTeacher himself. Julia is good in hand-to-hand combat for being a government agent. Anya is skilled gymnast and ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} provided her further combat training.
39	* AnimalisticAbilities:
40	** Jessica - Spider strength, speed, agility and WallCrawling. She can also secrete pheromones just like female spiders. Her "[[ShockAndAwe venom blast]]" and {{Flight}} are loosely based on how [[https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/the-electric-flight-of-spiders/564437/ some spiders can fly using the planet's electric field]].
41	** Julia - Spider strength, speed and agility. Her wall-crawling and ProjectileWebbing are [[PsychicPowers psionic-based]].
42	** After a battle with Charlotte Witter, Mattie not only regained her original powers but also the spider-based abilities Witter had absorbed from the previous two Spider-Women. She could also generate psychic SpiderLimbs.
43	* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Spiders, obviously.
44	* ArchEnemy:
45	** Jessica Drew - Morgan le Fay, though some may go with Gypsy Moth[=/=]Skein or Viper[=/=][[ComicBook/{{HYDRA}} Madame Hydra]].
46	** Julia Carpenter - Manipulator; he murdered Julia's ex-husband, Larry, and was the BigBad of her four-issue miniseries from the early 1990s.
47	** Mattie Franklin - Flesh and Bones, though mostly through virtue of being the only recurring baddies in Mattie's predominantly MonsterOfTheWeek-based run.
48	* ChestInsignia: The Spider symbol appears here on the costumes for Julia, Mattie, and Anya, with a few of Jessica's costumes also showing this. Silk uses a spider-web as her chest symbol, while Gwen technically doesn't have a symbol at all, with her spider symbol being the white parts of her suit.
49	* {{Crossover}}: Often with Spider-Man, at times; it's also pivotal to Spidey's development (it created Venom).
50	* DistaffCounterpart: Somewhat subverted, since none of the Spider-Women have ''any'' relation to Peter Parker whatsoever apart from acquaintance. Only Cindy Moon gained her powers from the same exact source, and she has a slightly different power-set (namely organic webs rather than webshooters) in addition to not using the Spider-Woman alias. And while Gwen also got her initial powers from a spider bite and shares the same power set, being her universe's Spider-Man equivalent, she goes on to gain additional abilities thanks to bonding with her dimension's Venom symbiote, on top of abandoning the Spider-Woman alias as well.
51	** The ComicBook/UltimateMarvel version of Jessica Drew is a genuine example of this, being an OppositeSexClone of Peter who emerged intact from the Ultimate Clone Saga.
52	** Mattie's reason for becoming Spider-Woman was because she was a Spidey fangirl.
53	** Lampshaded in ''VideoGame/MarvelUltimateAlliance'', where Jessica jokes that she's [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} not Spidey's sister]], she's not [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} his cousin]] that [[ComicBook/SheHulk needed a blood transfusion from him]], she's [[ComicBook/CaptainMarvelMarvelComics never received his powers from him]], and [[ComicBook/{{Rescue}} they've never dated]], although she does find him cute.
54	* MagnusMeansMage: In Jessica's original series, her ally and mentor Magnus was a sorcerer and former apprentice of Morgan le Fey.
55	* MostCommonSuperpower: Except for Mattie, Anya, and Gwen, the Spider-Women are quite busty.
56	* MsFanservice: Mainly Jessica, but even Julia could be this. {{Stripperiffic}} Charlotte also counts.
57	* MythologyGag: Jessica was at first assigned with the name "Arachne", then changes it to "Spider-Woman". The reverse happened to Julia (who ''wanted'' to be called Arachne from the start).
58	* SeductiveSpider: Invoked in-verse and out of verse due to the well-toned and form-fitting figures of the Spider-Heroines making them notable cases of DudeMagnet, none more so than Jessica whose powerset partially involves using pheromones for seduction.
59	* SensualSpandex: Except for Julia, after she gave her costume to Anya. Doubles with LivingClothes for Gwen after she bonds with her universe's Venom symbiote.
60	* StatuesqueStunner: Both Jessica (5'10") and Julia (5'9").
61	* WallCrawl: Just like Spider-Man.

Context ComicBook / SpiderWoman