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A cloning disaster puts Ritsuko on a new path...and gives her a second chance to make things right.

"To Know Her Is To Fear Her!"

Superwomen of Eva: Treacherous Web by OrionPax09 is another of the Superwomen of Eva stories set in his Marvel Comics-based fusion Fan Verse.

Ritsuko Akagi, while growing disgusted with the work she does for Gendo Ikari, keeps on going because of her powerlessness in this situation. This all changes one day, though, when an experiment with a Rei clone body is tainted by a little spider...


Tropes:

  • Amazonian Beauty: Ritsuko becomes quite muscular when in "Spider-Woman" mode. At least once or twice, this makes people feel attracted to her in the story (and in one Omake, it pretty much makes Maya break out into a Les Yay confession right then and there).
  • Breast Expansion: As commonly happens in the Superwomen of Eva stories (especially those written by Orionpax09), a side-effect of Ritsuko's genetic modification is a distinct increase in her breast size. One of the first things she notes about herself after getting over the shock of seeing her having fangs and claws is that she is at least as busty as Misato now.
  • Broken Bird: Gendo's untimely death has the side-effect of tossing Shinji into a pretty deep depression. Ritsuko's attempts to liven up his life (as best as she can) are a recurring plot point.
  • Burp of Finality: In the third chapter, Ritsuko can't stop belching after she kills Gendo and then eats the hand which Adam was fused into, as even her mutated anatomy is struggling to cope with digesting an angel. As embarrassing as the gas issue is for her, it serves to punctate that Adam has been well and truly killed, which throws a serious monkey wrench into SEELE's plans.
  • Clothes Make the Superman: A variation. Ritsuko devises a nanotechnology Spider-Woman costume which can retract into and deploy from a wristwatch (in a Shout-Out to the animated series Spider-Man Unlimited), plus changing into a number of alternate modes (like additional armor) on vocal command.
  • Composite Character: Ritsuko's abilities are a mixture of Spider-Man 2099, the Sam Raimi films' version of Spider-Man, and the various versions of Spider-Woman (mostly Jessica Drew, with the extra limbs of Mattie Franklin).
  • Dropped a Bridge on Him: Both the fact that Gendo (regardless of what Fanon may say or how important he is to the series canon) is just a normal man who can get killed by a superhuman if caught completely unprepared, and the fact that killing him does not automatically make things easier to anybody.
  • Eating Solves Everything: After killing Gendo, Ritsuko is presented with the problem of what to do about the embryonic Adam, since she knows that letting the First Angel fall back into SEELE's hands is just asking for trouble. In desperation, she makes a risky move: she eats the embryonic Angel. It's justified that she had conducted a study of her now-venomous saliva and deduced it was lethally toxic to Angels, but it's also lampshaded that it was a desperate and rather crazy idea. It also gives Ritsuko a wicked case of gaseous indigestion.
  • How Do I Shot Web?: Ritsuko spends a nice chapter or two figuring out just what her new physical abilities are, and that includes how to use her new organic webbing spinnerets.
  • In Spite of a Nail: Killing Gendo Ikari has neither lessened the threat that series The Man Behind the Man SEELE is, nor has changed the fact that the Angels are coming (and in the same order as canon, as well). This is one of the biggest things that teach Ritsuko what all other spider-powered Marvel heroes have learned.
  • Late-Arrival Spoiler: Ritsuko killing Gendo and eating Adam happens about halfway through the third chapter, so subsequent chapters can't help but give these facts away.
  • Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Ritsuko gets four "spider-legs" when she's Spider-Woman, which can be used as full-on limbs.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The first thing Ritsuko decides to do once she has a grip on her new spider-powers? Kill Gendo Ikari and eat Adam. Bad news, though: the DNA of Adam is interacting weirdly with her own, painting a big target on her back for the Angels to see during their rampages (and giving her a rampaging case of indigestion)...and worse yet, this gives SEELE free reign to place Wilson Fisk as their puppet liaison, along with Harry Osborn as their puppet commander...and neither of them have the standards (however few) that Gendo had...
  • No Kill like Overkill: Gendo's fatal injuries (see the Rasputinian Death entry below) would have each been lethal on their own; combined, they would have been enough to kill him several times over.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When Kaji is about to report on Gendo's death, he acts completely serious the entire time.
  • Off the Rails: Most other Superwomen of Eva stories keep Gendo as a Big Bad for the superwomen to defeat. With no idea that a superwoman even exists up until she attacks him in his bedroom, with full intent to kill and thus no preparedness, he becomes a Disc One Zero-Effort Boss. Of course, look above to see how bad that idea turned out...
  • Rasputinian Death: Ritsuko went into a blind rage when getting revenge on Gendo, and it shows in just how thoroughly she killed him.
    Taking in a deep breath, Kaji answered, "Well, according to the medics, Gendo could have died in several ways. His skull was crushed, his neck shattered, his skin had been ripped apart by some kind of cutting tools, he had been stabbed repeatedly, his lungs were punctured, his right forearm has been torn apart and shattered, and..." Once again, Kaji sucked in a deep breath as his gaze once again went to Shinji. "And there was some king of neuro-toxin present in his system. In large enough quantities to cause complete paralysis of the muscles, including the heart."
  • Shout-Out:
    • As mentioned above, Ritsuko's Spider-Woman outfit (and the super-science behind it) owes a lot to the Spider-Man Unlimited animated series.
    • Kaji's recitation of Gendo's fatal injuries is very similar to the coroner's report on Gramps Johnson from Them!.
  • They Would Cut You Up: One of Ritsuko's initial fears upon discovering her spider-powers and not knowing that she can "turn them off". Later on, upon unwillingly throwing Rei to the wolves by saying that the Angels may be detecting her half-Angel status and thus their rampages are not exactly going as expected (by chasing after Ritsuko, who was close to Rei at the time), Osborn and Fisk immediately order Ritsuko to dissect Rei to find out the details of why is this happening—which Ritsuko has to talk her way out of preventing for a while.
  • Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: Downplayed for comedy. Eating Adam gives Ritsuko a wicked case of gaseous indigestion, which she justifies to a concerned Misato as being a result of eating at a very poor-quality greasy spoon diner the previous evening. She's still suffering the occasional stomachache several days later, to her surprised dismay.
  • Weirdness Magnet / Supernaturally Delicious and Nutritious / Magnetic Plot Device: Ritsuko swallowing Adam has an unexpected secondary effect: that of becoming a beacon for the Angels to chase after, desperate to merge with Adam... and her, as collateral damage. Additionally, the fact that the Angels can feel her when she's in Spider-Woman mode (and she is not going to stop being Spider-Woman) makes saving other people during an Angel rampage a chore.
  • Why Did It Have To Be Spiders?: Ritsuko is shown to be arachnophobic early in the story, and as empowering as her augmentations are, every time she concentrates to change into Spider-Woman, she pictures spiders, and the narrative constantly mentions that it disgusts her.

Alternative Title(s): SOE Treacherous Web

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