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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]] |
30 | |
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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36 | ---- |
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. |
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