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. Screwball was an Internet entertainer and criminal with millions of followers. She once tricked Spider-Man into her mad games by simulating the kidnapping of a civilian, guiding him through a series of traps through the city, facing thugs (her "fans" as she calls them), and deactivating bombs until he reached the captive, only to reveal herself as the 'victim'. She was later arrested for the deed, while remarking she can't be held responsible since she didn't commit the crimes, but her fans did. During A few months later after her arrest, Screwball returned, now with the goal to attract more followers on the internet. To do this, she set up various challenges for Spider-Man throughout the city, coercing the webslinger to go through them while she was streaming it all. After Spider-Man cleared all of her challenges, she decided to throw a party to celebrate her new 50 million followers. Spider-Man, with the help of Miles Morales used the opportunity to track down the location where the party was happening so he could finally capture Screwball once and for all. Foreshadowing this, Screwball fled from the party right after Spider-Man's arrival, starting a chase over the rooftops of Manhattan. To make things more difficult to Spider-Man, Screwball had previously set up bombs around the city that would explode if he did not make certain stunts while chasing her. Fortunately, she would finally be put in jail as Spider-Man finally manages to capture her. As she is being escorted to a police car, she can be heard asking if she could livestream on the way to the station. It turned out, however, that some of the prison guards in Ryker’s Island were fans of her show, and wanted the show to go on. Therefore, they gave Screwball a streaming setup in her cell, allowing her to continue broadcasting.
Appearances
- Amazing Spider-Man v1: (2008)
- Superior Spider-Man v1:
- Amazing Mary Jane v1:
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