Spider Queen (Marvel)
The Spider Queen is a female comic supervillain who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Adriana Soria
Ana and Steve Rogers dated a couple of times in 1945. (Spectacular Spider-Man v2 #16) As a patriot, she came to serve in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and though America was at war prevailing sentiment forbade her from entering into combat. This was until one day when she was drafted into a special unit of marines with this rag-tag group unable to accomplish even the most basic elements of their specialised training. (Spectacular Spider-Man v2 #17) Unknown to her, she was part of the U.S. government's attempts to create super-soldiers, under the direction of Professor David Jaffe. Thus, she became among the participants in the attempt to recreate the Project Rebirth results due to her Mutant genes that resulted in her developing into a new phylum known as Homo Insectus. Ana responded well to the testing, better than any of her male compatriots. In 1946, she and her squad mates were taken to the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, where they were exposed to a nuclear bomb test. The radiation mutated her and shattered her mind, and ultimately the program was shuttered. Following the projects being shut down, Ana was left in an military asylum near Miami, Florida over the years. (Spectacular Spider-Man v2 #18)
Decades later, Ana, who had dubbed herself the Queen, stole a device from the US government; the device was capable of emitting a chemical and radiological burst that shuts down every human brain within a six-hundred mile radius, save for those with the insect gene. (Spectacular Spider-Man v2 #18) The Queen exited a limo in downtown Manhattan and began to emit a subsonic cry that drew followers to her. When an unaffected cabdriver honked at her, she tossed his car into a building. As some of her followers rioted in the streets, she entered a bank and told her minions to clear a path to the top floor for her. On the top floor, she was borne on a makeshift throne; when a police helicopter asked her if she had any demands, she swatted it aside with her telekinesis. Before long, Spider-Man and Captain America arrived on the scene, but she incapacitated Spider-Man with her sonic screech and swarmed Captain America with her drones. She hit Cap with his own shield, then knocked him out with a kick to the face. As Spider-Man struggled with her followers, she hit him with another scream, then kissed him, claiming him as her mate. (Spectacular Spider-Man v2 #15)
The Queen webbed Spider-Man and Cap to the walls with Spider-Man's webbing. She kissed Spider-Man again, but reacted violently when he refused her. As she turned to taunt Captain America, he freed himself; evading her drones, he freed Spider-Man, as well. She ordered her drones to kill Cap but leave Spider-Man alive; Spider-Man fought through them, driving the Queen to the roof. She ordered several of her followers to jump of the building's roof as a warning to Spider-Man, then exerted her control over him as he writhed in agony. He still refused to submit, however, and the Queen soon had to deal with a missile fired from a SHIELD fighter jet. She deflected it harmlessly away, but was then charged by Captain America, who knocked her off the side of the building. (Spectacular Spider-Man v2 #16) Surviving, the Queen had her hair styled downtown, then was taken by her drones to the subways, where she set a swarm of angry bees on a transit cop. She proceeded to the Hive, an underground base her drones were in the midst of constructing for her. Later, in the Hive, she held court, telling her mesmerized subjects her origin. (Spectacular Spider-Man v2 #17) In the Hive, the Queen tried to engage one of her drones in conversation, but found that he was unable to, due to her control over him. (Spectacular Spider-Man v2 #18)
Spider-Island
She went into hiding where she hid in an abandoned facility that was once managed by Project: Rebirth. Whilst there, Steve Rogers came to the facility to check if she was there with Adriana ambushed him where she managed to knock him unconscious. With the aid of the Jackal, she had Rogers transformed into a half-spider monster as her consort with him being known as the Spider-King. She then had the Jackal create a virus in the form of mutated bed bugs that were released into New York City. The creature bit many ordinary humans and imparted them abilities similar to Spider-Man with this developing into an epidemic. Over time, the virus mutated and reached its third stage where it transformed the infected into giant mutated spiders that were completely subservient to the powers of the Queen. As a result, this allowed Adriana Soria to quickly come into control over New York. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #670)
During the fight, her body succumbed to a mutation leading to her a giant spider-monster where she was able to fight against the various superheroes against her. This was until Spider-Man decided to deprive her of her power by having Octobots that were filled with the cure for the spider-flu. The robots then spread the cure turning the transformed humans back to normal thus depriving the Queen of her strength leading to her moving to stop Spider-Man. In this moment, she was weak enough to allowing Kaine to deal a fatal blow to her thus fulfilling the prophecy from Madame Web of Spider-Man killing the threat posed by the Spider Queen. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #672)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Ana Soria was also known to had gone by the name of the Queen. (Spectacular Spider-Man v2 #17)
Ana was said to had been a patriot who wanted to had served her country. (Spectacular Spider-Man v2 #17) At the time, women were generally refused the right to military service combat. (Spectacular Spider-Man v2 #18) However, she came to be drafted into the marines and served in combat engagements as the first woman fighter during the war. (Spectacular Spider-Man v2 #17) Ana was said to had been different as she was a natural soldier and a pioneer who was tougher than any man at the time. The more they tried to break her the stronger her resolve became where she served in an unnatural environment. (Spectacular Spider-Man v2 #18)
During her service, she was said to had fallen in love with Captain America but he loved his country more than her. (Spectacular Spider-Man v2 #17)
She had the potential of being more dangerous than a hundred Hulks. (Spectacular Spider-Man v2 #17) After her transformation, her mindset came to believe in the concept of survival of the fittest. (Spectacular Spider-Man v2 #18)
Powers and abilities
It was said that she was one of the most powerful super-soldiers ever created. Among her abilities included telekinesis, psychic attacks, super-strength, insect manipulation, a sonic scream and a number of other abilities. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #672) She was able to control every insect on the planet with this extending to select humans as one third of the population carried the insect gene. (Spectacular Spider-Man v2 #18)
Adriana was able to transform into a large multi-legged spider-monster that was 28 stories tall with her being considered an Omega-level threat. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #672)
She was able to maintain a telepathic link with all those that were part of her Homo Arachnis colony. This meant she could hear their thoughts and command them to obey her commands. She could accelerate the effects of the spider-flu on the infected causing them to transform into their third stage spider form upon command. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #671) Through her subjects, she was able to feed off the web of life itself and draw strength allowing her to gain the abilities akin to a god. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #672)
Notes
- The Spider Queen was created by Paul Jenkins and Michael Ryan where she made her first appearance in The Spectacular Spider-Man v2 #15 (August, 2004).
Alternate Versions
Appearances
- The Spectacular Spider-Man v2: #15
- Amazing Spider-Man v1:
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