Mayday Parker
Mayday Parker is a female comic superhero who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Origin
May Parker was a female human who was the daughter of Peter Parker and Mary Jane Parker who inhabited Earth-982 in the Multiverse. (What If v2 #105)
Peter and Mary Jane were reunited with their baby daughter by Kaine, who found the child living with Alison Mongrain, the con-artist who had kidnapped the baby on instruction from the Green Goblin. After they were reunited, Peter lost a leg during a horrific battle with the Green Goblin. After the battle, Peter was offered a bionic replacement from Mr. Fantastic, and considering it a wake-up call, decided to retire and focus on being a husband and father. (Spider-Girl v1 #49)
Despite her parents' hopes, May began developing versions of her father's Spider-powers when she was fifteen. At the same time, Normie Osborn set out to restore the family name as he saw it. Mayday donned Ben Reilly's Spider-Man costume to stop him, but her worried parents burned the costume after May used it to keep her from taking on crime fighting. (Spider-Girl v1 #0)
Days later May was parting ways with her father from the police station when her spider-sense alerted her to a shady character who was stalking her father. She secretly nabbed the stalker, who was intending to kill her father, and beat him up in an alleyway with a trashcan without allowing him to see her identity. This threw the would-be-killer off of Peter's tail, and May got an addicting rush from saving someone's life. Over dinner the same night, Peter told his family about the police case he was working on related to a string of murders in the fashion business. May used this info to investigate the fashion store her father was talking about, wondering if the villains behind the fashion murders were the same people trying to get at her dad. While investigating, May wore a makeshift costume from various pieces of black clothing she owned as well as the web-shooters she had saved from Ben Reilly's costume without her parents knowing. Upon arriving at the store she found a conversation happening between a mysterious villain named Nobody and his henchmen, one of which was the stalker hired to kill her father. While listening in, May was noticed by one of the henchmen, and a battle ensued in which she defeated the goons and Nobody who used his powers to teleport away when the cops arrived. May rushed home to avoid being caught fighting crime by her parents. However, the escapade had inspired May to use her powers more, and over the next few days she secretly sewed herself a costume and christened herself Spider-Girl. (Spider-Girl v1 #1)
Over time, she came to be very popular at high school and was noted for her athletic talent. One day, she came to save her friends from the Green Goblin who had a message for Peter Parker. He had May deliver the message to meet him at the 'bridge' stating that he would know what he meant. (What If v2 #105)
Amazing Spider-Girl
After an attempt at helping the S.H.I.E.L.D. government agency, a case filled with a piece of the Carnage symbiote was released. It attaches itself to May's friend Moose, who becomes the new Carnage. In exchange, Carnage will bond itself to Moose's terminally ill father, curing him in the process. Carnage causes a stir at May's school and kidnaps Peter and Baby Ben, forcing May to confront her friend. May tries to talk to Moose within the symbiote but fails, and it bonds with her cousin Ben. Peter escapes as May battles the two symbiotes and gathers sonic gear that may be able to defeat the symbiote. However, it is May who uses the weapons, thereby destroying the piece of the Carnage symbiote. Her success is not without a measure of collateral damage: not only is Moose furious at Spider-Girl for dooming his father, but the sonic weapon renders Ben deaf. (Amazing Spider-Girl v1 #12)
Fury the Goblin Queen begins acting out the Green Goblin's final gambit against Peter Parker. While kidnapping the retired Spider-Man, Fury also activates a signal that awakens the unconscious girl within the Osborn labs' tank. The changeling escapes, confronting Mayday on the roof of her high school just as she is changing into Spider-Girl. The two briefly battle before being caught in an explosion. A critically injured May is rescued from the debris by Araña's forces. Araña is suddenly traumatized by her own ordeal, and, thinking that May might not survive her ordeal, offers to merge with her. However, she intervenes in a vision quest that Mayday is undergoing. By aiding her to overcome a force she was meant to overcome alone, she obstructs Spider-Girl from uncovering whether or not she is the true May; mainly because May is half Latina on her father's side and Araña is only going by the trauma she went through not thinking of what could happen to May and her school. Araña also has an ulterior motive: by assuming the body and power of Spider-Girl she hopes to take the Black Tarantula, an adversary and former lover, by surprise and defeat him. Araña successfully completes the merger and temporarily assumes control of May's body, leaving May and a third, blond woman who shares her name (later revealed to be the spirit of Aunt May) trapped within Araña's body. (Amazing Spider-Girl v1 #25)
Spider-Verse
As part of the Great Hunt initiated by Morlun, his brother Daemos located May's family and Wes and immediately assaulted them, managing to badly wound May and damage Peter Parker's cybernetic leg. Peter, in an effort to save his daughter, collided with Daemos, knocking him clear. May managed to grab her brother, Benjy, and could only watch on in horror as her family members were cut down in front of her. Just then, two other Spider-Men opened a portal from another universe and beckoned May to join them. A tearful May then vowed vengeance on Daemos for the murder of her loved ones as she vanished. (Amazing Spider-Man v3 #8) She later accompanies Spider-UK, Spider-Ham, and Old Man Spider-Man to recruit the Peter Parker and other Spider Totems of Earth-616, revealing herself to him to convince him of the gravity of their situation. (Amazing Spider-Man v3 #9)
Overview
Personality and attributes
She was given the nickname of Mayday by her friends and loved ones. Later on, she came to be given the name Spider-Girl. (What If v2 #105)
It was said that she took more after her mother than her father. In fact, some thought that one of her problems was that she was perhaps too popular. (What If v2 #105)
Initially, she thought her athletic ability came from the result of training, practice and hard work. (What If v2 #105)
May Parker was the daughter of Peter Parker and Mary Jane Parker. Her parents came to hide certain secrets from their daughter where among these included that her father Peter had been Spider-Man. (What If v2 #105)
Powers and abilities
May Parker was a superpowered mutate who was born from abilities she inherited from her father who was Spider-Man. She herself was unaware of this information and thus did not become aware of her powers until her teenage years. (What If v2 #105)
Similar to her father, she came to inherit his Spider-Sense that warned her of danger in her immediate vicinity. (What If v2 #105)
As a hero, she came to make a modified version of her father's costume and thus created the Spider-Girl Suit. (What If v2 #105)
Notes
- The Mayday Parker Spider-Girl was created by Tom DeFalco, Ron Frenz and Mark Bagley where she made her first appearance in What If v2 #105 (February, 1998).
Alternate Versions
In other media
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Films
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Novels
Appearances
- What If v2: (1998)
- Spider-Girl v1:
- Amazing Spider-Girl v1:
- Spectacular Spider-Girl v2:
- Amazing Spider-Man v3:
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