Spider-Girl

This page is for the current Spider-Girl, Anya Sofia Corazon .

For the original Spider-Girl, see: May Parker.

Origin

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Anya was a normal girl living with her father Gil Corazon, until everything changed one night when she went out to a bridge in Central Park to fight a boy from school. By the time Anya showed up, a fight broke out in the park between a group named the " Sisterhood of The Wasps" and a group called " The Spider Society". Whilst attempting to help a mysterious man named Miguel (from the Spider Society), Anya was stabbed by a member of the Sisterhood of Wasps. Due to a spell which Miguel had cast, the Sisterhood of the Wasps were transported away because they had used a weapon on sacred grounds, but the wound Anya had was still severe. Miguel (the sorcerer of the Spider Society) transferred some of his power to her, saving her life, but also transforming her into the Hunter of the Spider Society, for whom he had been looking.

Creation

Arana was created by Fiona Avery and Mark Brooks

Mayor Story Arcs

Araña

Araña (Anya)

Anya received a spider-shaped tattoo from the energy transfer, and life seemingly returned to normal. However, the Spider Society soon approached her asking for help in fighting crime, as she was their new Hunter, despite that several members were annoyed with Miguel's choice of who to make the Hunter. After one or two fights against the Sisterhood of the Wasp, Anya was taken out to the desert to unlock her true potential. After a few hours she was attacked by wolves, and had a vision of her mother. Anya then discovered that she could summon a blue exoskeleton around herself, which gave her added endurance and strength. After being picked back up by Migueld and the rest of the Spider Society, Anya was asked to choose a name for herself. Anya decided on Araña, which means spider, as it was her mother's name. Miguel and Araña would team up many times for the Spider Society, for example, preventing the Sisterhood of Wasps from summoning their chosen warrior.

Araña recently learned that Hunters (of The Spider Society) don't have an exoskeleton like she has. In yet another battle against the Sisterhood of The Wasps, the Wasps were once again trying to summon their Hunter. The Sisterhood was unsuccessful, but Miguel did not survive the battle despite Spider-Man's help. Araña transferred her power to Nina Smith, another Spider Society member, after the death of Miguel. Although she isn't a Hunter anymore, she still has many of her

Civil War

During the Civil War, a registration-act was passed, legally ordering all persons with super-human ability to register with the government. Araña chose to 'do the right thing' and register with the government after an encounter with Wonder Man and Ms. Marvel. After this initial encounter Anya, being registered, had been working with Ms. Marvel for a long period of time, as sort of a trainee. She had various super-hero missions together with Ms. Marvel. During one of these missions, Anya was held hostage by the Puppet Master along with superheroes Stature, Dusk, Tigra and Silverclaw. There she was hypnotized and was ordered to kill Ms. Marvel, Anya however resisted the mind control long enough to be restrained by Machine Man and Sleepwalker. During this time Anya begain to see Ms Marvel (or Carol, as she now called her) as a mother-figure and they developed a good and close bond. When an alien kidnapped Ms. Marvel, Araña came after her, but she was stopped by Agent Sum, he wanted to make a plan first. When Anya and others got to Monster Isle, where Carol was held captive, they confronted the Brood, whom had kidnapped her. A battle erupted and during this battle, Ms. Marvel appeared to them as Binary and defeated the Brood. After this battle, Anya decided it was time to head back home, and to take the superhero life just a little bit slower.

The Gauntlet & Grim Hunt

Grim Hunt

However, Anya's rest was not for long. During the Kravinoff family hunt for Spider-Man and spider-affiliated individuals, Anya is attacked by Ana, Vladimir and Alyosha. Luckily, Spider-Man as well as the former Spider-Woman now calling herself Arachne and Kaine come to her aid. But after a run in with Alyosha, Anya gets sprayed with a type of sleeping powder and is taken to the Kravinoff mansion. Anya is taken to a dungeon where not just she, but also Madame Web, Martha Franklin and Arachne are being kept prisoner. The women where to be sacrificed through some ritual so that Kraven the Hunter could be revived. Martha Franklin was the first to die, reviving the son of Kraven, be it in a monstrous form. The second one to die was Kaine, posing as Peter Parker and with his death reviving Kraven himself. Just before Anya was about to be killed, the recently reborn Kraven stops his feral son from committing the act. Not soon after, Spider-Man attacks the Kravinoff family and frees the others, including Anya. Sasha tries to run, with Anya following. Help however came to late for Madame Web, who bleeds out in Arachne's arms, but not before passing on her powers of future visions to her. In the mean time Spider-man was fighting Kraven while Anya was battling Ana and Sasha. The fight between Spider-man and Kraven came to a high when Spider-man was about to kill Kraven. Arachne, with Madame Web's powers, intervenes and helps Spider-man make the right call by showing him a future vision of what would happen if he really did kill Kraven. After that Spider-man lets Kraven live and he and his family disappear. After the battle, Spider-man, Arachne and Anya are seen talking over Kaine's tomb as Arachne takes on her new responsibilities and gives her Spider-woman costume to Anya. Peter, joking, calls Anya "Spider-Girl" but she refuses the name and decides to stick with Araña. After Arachne leaves Araña and Spider-Man set off swinging back to the city and leaving the Kravinoff mansion, hopefully forever.

Young Allies and becoming Spider-Girl

After the events of the Grim Hunt, Anya was given the costume of the former Spider-Woman, Julia Carpenter. Anya donned the costume, and eventually started calling herself Spider-Girl trying to help Spider-Man in cleaning the streets. Anya fought alongside a new team of superheroes named the Young Allies when a group of young villains attacked New York. Wearing Arachne's costume, Anya is seen struggling with her lack of powers as she slightly misses a jump during a team-up with Nomad. However she immediately enters into battle against The Bastards of Evil, where she is subsequently thrown across New York by Singularity until caught by fellow super-hero Toro, the two then once more enter the fray and fight the good fight. After the battle Anya joined the super-hero team and became close friends with teammate Nomad, even trusting her with her secret identity.

Anya as Spider-Girl

Spider-Girl (Anya)

During this time, Anya and her father Gil sold their house and started living in New York City. The two had found a beautiful apartment. While working on their new place, Anya's father took her to the Fantastic Four, with whom he had build a warm friendship over the years. This was a big surprise to Anya, since her father had never told her about his friendship with the FF. An example of the warm friendship was that Gil had come to Susan Richards for advise about the situation with his young teenage daughter whom was also a superhero. He asked her what he should do, and how to raise her from now on. Susan told Gil he probably had nothing to worry about, since she was a smart, intelligent girl who knew what she was doing, and that he should just support her as much as he could. After their visit, Anya and her dad returned home, thinking their move to New York City was the beginning of something new and great.

However, disaster struck not much later. During the first week in their new house, Anya's father Gil went to the New York University library, where in secret, he worked on solving a murder case with General Thunderbolt Ross. Unbeknown to the both of them, Gil and Ross where being watched and as soon as they found a major clue in solving the murder, an unnamed man pored a deadly poison (which would cause heart failure) into both their coffee's. Ross drank his coffee first and started feeling the effects of a coming heart failure but immediately turned into the Red Hulk, temporarily losing his mind and starting a rampage, but surviving the poison. Gil however had no such luck. He drank his coffee and started feeling the effects quit soon as well. This however all happened at the same time the Red Hulk went on a rampage. Gil saved a women, but got stuck under a large part of the sealing that came down after the rampage.

During this time, a still unbeknown Anya, tried texting her father but got no response. When she saw the news that there was an incident at the New York library (where she knew her dad was) involving the Red Hulk and the Fantastic Four, Anya rushed to the scene. Swinging into the library she suddenly stood face to face with a crazed Red Hulk. Seeing her father under a pile of rubble and the FF being taken out, she knew she had to take the Red Hulk head on. And thus, she did. Trying to make the Red Hulk leave the scene so paramedics could help her father she leaded him away from the city, taunting and punching him when she could, but above all trying to stay ahead of the monster. She finally managed to get the Red Hulk into the harbor, where he jumped into the water, seemingly disappearing and leaving a baffled Anya behind. Not soon after, the Fantastic Four arrived. Susan (already knowing Spider-Girl was Anya, but Anya didnt know that at the time) tried helping Anya, but she ran off to see how her father was doing. She arrived on the scene just soon enough to see medics taking away her father's dead body, with Anya not being able to do a thing.

Anya was devastated with grief, not knowing how to go on further. Luckily she was helped and supported by the Richards family and some good college friends of Anya, among them Rocky Flint who herself knows what's like to lose a parent in a superhero conflict. Also a strange neighbor keeps telling Anya that she is welcome to come over anytime she wants or needs to. This however could not stop Anya from feeling more lost in life then ever before. The funeral was visited by many loved ones and friends beside Anya herself, including Mayor J. Jonah Jameson and Reed and Susan Richards.

Wondering the streets, Anya was invited to stay with a friend, knowing that Anya didn't want to be alone. On her way over to the house of her friend, she was suddenly taken by the Red Hulk, whom she blamed for her father's death. She immediately started fighting him, with little to no effect. The Red Hulk (aka Thunderbolt Ross) had his mind back and tried to tell Anya that it was not him, but someone else who had killed her father and poisoned him. After a while Anya believed what Ross had to tell her, and she told him she wanted to be a part of taking the ones down who where responsible. She left him saying that even if Red Hulk was not totally responsible for the death, he would still have to pay for his crimes after they would find those who where mainly responsible.

Some time after the funeral, Susan Richards came to Anya, after witch Anya confessed to Susan that she was really Spider-Girl. Susan acknowledged that she already knew, because her father had told her. Susan also told Anya that she and Reed would financially support her, so she would still be able to live in the apartment and go to school. Anya was touched by their kindness and is planning to honor her father's memories as well as bringing those responsible for her father's death to justice, even if it means taking down the Red Hulk for his part in the death.

Quickly tracking down the Red Hulk, Anya discovered that General Ross was seeking to expose the Ravens, a long time terrorists group that supplied weapons both regular and biological to various groups and super villains over the years. The Ravens sought to poison Ross and his contact but due to Ross's Hulk biology, he instead transformed into the Red Hulk but unable to control himself and Anya's father was caught in the middle. Seeking the truth behind the Ravens, the terrorists group revealed they wanted to use Anya as their own personal body guard and having the Red Hulk kill her father was icing on the cake. However, when they confronted Anya they were unaware that she had been infected by the Jackal's bed bugs that gave her back not only her original spider powers but also organic webbing. She quickly disabled the group and then set up the Red Hulk to find them, which he quickly tore the group apart and used his military and Avengers contacts to defeat the Ravens. However, it was revealed that there are small sects of the Ravens still in the world but due to the fall of both HYDRA and AIM thanks to Nick Fury, they groups are all splintered but unknownly are being brought together by the new H.A.M.M.E.R.

In the mean time, Anya and Ross came to truce since they were able to avenge their friend and father's deaths. Anya return to school with Susan Richards continuing as her main guardian and financing through the Future Foundation.

Currently Spider-Girl, she is fighting a city of people who have Spider-Man's powers, read more in Spider-Island story arc. During the arc, Anya made a deal with the Kingpin in order to fight off the Sisterhood of the Wasp, which was using Spider Island as their launching base to change the balance of power and defeat and replace the Queen. Anya after tricking the Hobgoblin was able to defeat the Sisterhood and then later ended her deal with the Kingpin after he was cured from his own spider powers by Spider-man. It was later revealed that the cure used on New York ended up leaving Anya with her spider powers intact and vetured out to continue her fight as Spider-girl.

Powers and Abilities

• Superhuman Strength : Araña's strength is relatively large at her stage in heroism. Her strength may also be increasing, because she was quickly able to subdue Arachne, who can lift 10 tons.

• Superhuman Speed : Araña can run and move at speeds that are beyond the physical limits of the finest human athlete. She is ultimately capable of running at speeds in excess of 30 miles per hour .

• Superhuman Stamina : Araña's advanced musculature produces less fatigue toxins during physical activity than an ordinary human. This allows her to exert himself physically for much longer periods of time before fatigue begins to impair her.

• Superhuman Agility : Araña's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are all enhanced to levels that are beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete. Araña is extraordinarily limber and her tendons and connective tissues are twice as elastic as the average human being's, despite their enhanced strength.

• Superhuman Reflexes : Araña's reflexes are similarly enhanced and are currently about 10 times greater than those of an ordinary human.

• Wall-Crawling : She has the ability to cling to walls at will.

• Biological/Organic Webbing Generation : She has the ability to organically produce her own silk webbing from glands within her forearms, limited by her body's health and nutrition. These organic webs has many of the same properties as Spider-Man's artificial webbing. The silk is released through a spinneret near each wrist containing a central web spigot orifice used for web-slinging and drag lines, supplemented by several radial minor spigots for other types of webs connected to specialized glands.

Former Powers

• She could summon a blue exoskeleton carapace that emanates from the tattoo on her upper arm; she can control the thickness, coverage, and shape of the carapace. At its thickest, it is resistant to small firearms. However, when using full armor, contact with water leaves her unable to breathe, forcing her to retract it.

Physical Characteristics

• Age: 16
• Height: 5'3"
• Weight: 115 lbs.
• Eyes: Brown
• Hair: Brown
• Place of Birth: Fort Greene, New York
• Education: High School Student
• Occupation: Student; Former intern at WebCorps; Hunter for Spider Society
• Known Relatives: Gilberto Corazon (Father, Deceased), Sofia Corazon (Mother, Deceased)
• Araña is half - Puerto Rican & half - Mexican American.

Other Versions

Earth-6215

On Earth-6215, Araña is a member of the League of Losers. She was killed by an explosion when the League was trying to find the time machine used by Chronok.

Earth-982

On MC2, an adult Araña is still partnered with Miguel, who is still alive, tests Spider-Girl, then covers for her, by posing as a seer to lead Hobgoblin off track when he tried to find out her weakness. She later tricked Spider-Girl in to switching bodies, leaving Spider-Girl stuck in Araña's body, and Araña in Spider-Girl's body. Arana then tried to bring down the Black Tarantula, revealing that she once had a romantic relationship with him.

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