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I'm such a cool chick, it's insane! 
- -- Spider-Girl
May Parker is the daughter of Mary Jane Watson-Parker and Peter Parker, the one true Spider-Man, in the MC-2 universe; a universe where most of the events, history, and character history associated with the heroes of Earth-616 happened 15 years before they would have on Earth-616. In the 616 universe, MJ's baby was switched with a stillborn but in the MC-2-verse she stayed with her parents after being saved by Kaine. Also different in this reality, Peter lost his leg fighting the Green Goblin and quit being Spider-Man about two years after his daughter was born.
May discovered her powers during a high school basketball game, inheriting them from Peter. Uncovering her father's past life as a superhero, she battled the grandson of the original Green Goblin wearing the Spider-Man costume and web shooters to save her parents. Peter objects to May picking up the Spider-Man legacy, so May created a new costume in secret. Continuing the tradition of using great power with great responsibility, May Parker becomes the stunning Spider-Girl.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
May possesses powers inherited from her father, including the proportionate strength, speed, and agility of a spider. While unable to lift 10 tons like her dad, she is more agile than Peter. May also has super equilibrium.
She also has the subconscious premonition of "danger" sense known as her "spider-sense." May's spider-sense seems to be more developed than her fathers.: Whereas Spider-Man could only get a feeling that a particular spot was dangerous to him (or similarly to the preservation of his secret identity), Spider-Girl is able to sense the exact direction from which the danger comes. In addition, whereas Spider-Man's spider-sense simply registered a general sense of danger (with the strength of the response being in proportion to the amount of danger he was in), Spider-Girl can recognize sources of danger. This allows her to determine whether the danger is posed by a familiar source (such as an attack by a familiar foe) or is a new threat. This applies even if she has incomplete knowledge of the source of danger. For example, if May is being spied on by an unknown observer on several different occasions, she is able to tell if each incident involves the same, or a different observer as a previous incident.
Like her father, May possesses the ability to manipulate the inter-atomic binding forces of matter, allowing her to form temporary molecular bonds between her body and another object, which in turn enables her to cling to solid surfaces and scale walls simply by placing her hands on them. Her electrostatic ability to stick to surfaces is considerably more powerful than Peter's. She also has the ability to transmit this ability through objects for short distances. For example, Spider-Girl could stick to the floor, and by transmitting her electrostatic "stickiness" through the floor, cause all people and objects in contact with the floor (within a reasonable distance) to become stuck in place. Lastly, she can reverse this ability and instead repel off of a surface. This is generally used to add power to her jumps, but has also been used to repel people and objects away from her at great speeds.
Wallcrawling
Spider-Girl has the ability to cling to objects or surfaces (regardless of the degree of inclination, i.e. walls and ceilings) by a variety of means.
Healing Factor
Spider-Girl has the ability to heal at (an accelerated rate) from most wounds. The worse the wound, the longer it takes to heal.
Abilities
None known.
Strength level
Superhuman strength, able to lift approx. 5 tons.
Weaknesses
None known.
Paraphernalia
Equipment: Webshooters
Transportation: Web-swinging and conventional automobiles.
Weapons: None known.
Notes
- It is unclear whether Spider-Girl is a mutant. She did not receive her powers by accident or design, but was born with them, which fits the usual definition of "mutant" in the Marvel Universe. However, the series never uses the word "mutant" to describe her. Before her birth, a Sentinel robot registered her as "beyond the range of embryonic normalcy," but not specifically as a mutant (The Amazing Spider-Man #415). Spider-Girl has not been shown to register on a mutant detector such as Cerebro that can distinguish a "true" X-gene mutant from other types of superhuman.
- Like her father, May also has an Uncle Ben. However, unlike her dad, May never knew her uncle: Ben Reilly, Spider-Man's clone. His last words before his death are about her: "Take care of my 'niece,' Peter... tell her about... her Uncle Ben" (Peter Parker: Spider-Man vol. 1 #75). Her first costume and web-shooters are in fact his, kept in storage since his death. When May asks her father about him, however, Peter leaves out the fact that Ben was really a clone, instead referring to him as a cousin.
- If Spider-Girl has any children in the future, they too would have an Uncle Ben - May's baby brother. As Peter and MJ named May after Peter's Aunt May, May asks which Uncle Ben the newborn is named after: her Uncle Ben, or Peter's Uncle Ben. Peter asks if it really matters, and May simply responds, "I guess not."
Trivia
- May's costume features the same design once used by the spider-clone, Ben Reilly while he was acting as Spider-Man. At one point she also donned a black and white costume similar to Venom's (which she purchased from the Spider-Shop) when her costume was damaged in a fight.
- The afore-mentioned "Spider-Shop" is a boutique which sells Spider-Girl and Spider-Man themed apparel and accessories. Initially May was upset to learn someone was capitalizing off her name (especially in light of the fact that nothing in the store came in her size). This was made even worse by the fact all of her friends believed that by shopping there they were helping their heroine Spider-Girl, assuming that she had to have some connection to the store for it to use her likeness. It was later revealed that May's mom Mary Jane owned the Spider Shop. (MJ said that Peter was upset that he could never collect on the various comics and products that used his image, so she figured she would take control of Spider-Girl's appearance early on in her career.) The profits go towards May's college fund.
- On Earth-616, May Parker was believed to be stillborn. Whether or not this is the case, or whether May was switched for another infant and kidnapped by Norman Osborn as has been suggested is still uncertain.
- On Earth X, May Parker has bonded with a symbiote (against her father's wishes) and has taken to calling herself Venom. Whether or not the symbiote with which she has bonded is actually the original Venom symbiote or one of its descendants is unknown.
- On Earth-1122 there is an alternate Spider-Girl who resembles that of her Earth-982 counterpart. This Spider-Girl has implied that she is the daughter of Ben Reilly.
Appearances in Other Media
Action Figures
- Toy Biz's 8-inch scale "Famous Covers" action figure line included a Spider-Girl with a cloth costume and removable mask.
- Toy Biz's 5-inch scale "First Appearances" line included a Spider-Girl (as well as her allies, Stinger and American Dream).
- Toy Biz's preschool-oriented "Spider-Man & Friends" line has included several Spider-Girl figures and toys. These feature an exposed lower face, visible eyes, and pigtails or a ponytail, to make it easier for very young children to differentiate Spider-Girl from Spider-Man.
See Also
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Links and References
- Bio at Marvel.com
- Spider-Girl Message Board
- Save Spider-Girl Website
- Spider-girl MC2 Universe
- Interview with Tom DeFalco on Spider-Girl and Last Hero Standing
- Interview with the whole creative team
- Interview with DeFalco
- Spider-Girl Fan Site
- Spider-girl profile at samruby.com
- Unofficial Spider-girl homepage
- Spider-girl Fansite
References
- ↑ First appearance in her own comic series: Spider-Girl #1, even though Spider-Girl #0 is technically first in that series.
- ↑ She didn't really die in this one, but it is her last last appearance. She reappeared in Exiles #21 when the Puppet Master reanimated her corpse.
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Healing Factor, Superhuman Strength, Superhuman Agility, Superhuman Stamina, Superhuman Reflexes, Superhuman Speed, Superhuman Durability, Superhuman Senses, Wallcrawling, Night Vision, Radar Sense
