Screwball (Marvel)
Screwball is a female comic supervillain who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Screwball took out an installment plan on a camera small enough to be placed out of sight in her helmet. (Amazing Spider-Man Presents: American Son v1 #1)
Soon after her debut Screwball became an internet sensation, amassing eighteen million subscribers. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #562) She also launched an age-restricted section on her website. (Amazing Spider-Man v2 #608)
She would then rob an off-track betting parlour in Midtown where she was pursued by Spider-Man and began videoing their chase for her stream. At first, she managed to evade him through her parkour skills with the Wall-Crawler having to place a Spider-Tracer on her. Immediately after being tagged, Screwball panicked and surrendered herself to the authorities as she claimed that Spider-Man had marked her for death after the reports of the Spider-Tracer Killer on the news. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #559)
Screwball's bail was paid by the Bookie on the condition that she pose as Spider-Man and participate in a fake fight against obscure villain, the Basher. Confronting the Basher as Spider-Man, Screwball lunged at him, knocking Basher down with a single blow all the while being filmed by a crew broadcasting the footage to the criminal Bar with no Name. Silently fleeing the scene, Screwball was followed by the real Spider-Man who soon caught up to her and snared her feet with webbing. Unmasked, Screwball explained her use of the costume at the Bookie's behest and told Spider-Man where to find him. (Amazing Spider-Man v2 #562) Spider-Man counted Screwball among the wave of new enemies he had encountered in recent times. (Amazing Spider-Man v2 #568)
She later joined forces with the Jester in order to play a prank on Mayor J. Jonah Jameson. During this time, she attempted to upload the video onto the Internet when both villains were attacked by Spider-Man who's mind unknown to them had been taken over by Doctor Octopus. (Superior Spider-Man v1 #6)
Quentin Beck in the guise of famed movie director Cage McKnight hired Screwball to take the role of production manager for a movie that was based on Mysterio's fight with Spider-Man. (Amazing Mary Jane v1 #3)
Overview
Personality and attributes
She took the name Screwball where she sought to be the world's first 'live streaming super-villain'. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #559)
Her entire basis for being a criminal was to get footage for her stream with it said that whilst she performed thefts she did not do it for the money. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #559)
Powers and abilities
Screwball had said that she was a master of parkour that was urban gymnastics. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #559)
She had a crew of people supporting her to help stream her criminal actions. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #559)
Notes
- Screwball was created by Dan Slott and Marcos Martin where she made her first appearance in Amazing Spider-Man v1 #559 (July, 2008).
In other media
Television
- In Spider-Man, Screwball appeared in the 2017 animated television series where it was a costumed identity of Liz Allan who used the persona to stage prank videos in the episode "Screwball Live".
Video games
- In Marvel's Spider-Man, Screwball appeared in the setting of the 2018 video game where she was voiced by actor Stephanie Lemelin.
Appearances
- Amazing Spider-Man v1: (2008)
- Superior Spider-Man v1:
- Amazing Mary Jane v1:
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