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Ghost-Spider
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Real Name
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Gwen Stacy
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First Appearance
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Edge of Spider-Verse #2 (September, 2014)
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Creators
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Jason Latour, Robbi Rodriguez
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Team Affiliations
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Web-Warriors, Order of the Web, Spider-Army
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Aliases
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Spider-Woman, Spider-Gwen
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Base of Operations
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New York City, New York
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Powers
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Superhuman strength, superhuman agility, enhanced speed and reflexes, precognitive spider-sense, wall crawling
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Skills and Abilities
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Tracking, skilled fighter
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Tools and Weapons
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Web-shooters, Symbiotic costume
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Ghost-Spider (Gwen Stacy) is a superhero in the Marvel Multiverse and an alternate reality version of Gwen Stacy.
Origin[]
After being bitten by a radioactive spider, Gwen Stacy decided to use her powers to become Spider-Woman.
Biography[]
Gwen as Spider-Woman
Gwen Stacy became Spider-Woman when she was bitten by the radioactive spider that was meant to bite Peter Parker. She was given a costume and web-shooters by her dimension's Janet van Dyne. Her Peter Parker idolized Gwen's role as Spider-Woman and tried to become a hero as well by fusing himself with lizard DNA. He became a monster called the Lizard and died after a fight with Spider-Woman. When he was found by the authorities Peter had already reverted to human with no indication that he had ever been the Lizard. The media ran with the story that innocent teenager Peter Parker had been murdered by the vigilante Spider-Woman. This put a huge target on Spider-Woman's back and every cop in the city (including her her own father) was now out to bring her down.
When a group of parasitic monsters called the Inheritors began killing spider-powered heroes across every possible reality, Spider-Woman was recruited to help stop them and met Spider-Man. Afterwards, she returned to her home dimension only to be depowered by an evil version of Cindy Moon. A scientist named Elsa Brock theorized that exposing the compound that turned Peter into the Lizard to the radioactive isotopes in Spider-Woman's blood could restore her powers. However the isotopes turned the Lizard compound into living black liquid. A symbiotic lifeform similar to the Venom symbiote, the black liquid merged with Spider-Woman and gave her powers similar to her originals. However the artificial symbiote made Spider-Woman highly aggressive and she was blamed for killing villains (who were actually being killed by her her reality's version of the Punisher).
Spider-Woman learned how to control her symbiotic costume after realizing that it was starving due to the lack of cellulose in her diet and began to eat more vegetables, however the damage of her symbiotic rages was done. Spider-Woman could no longer function as a hero in her world while being accused of villainous murderer. She was able to use the technology that let her travel the multiverse during the Inheritors' attack to travel to Spider-Man's reality. There she changed her codename to Ghost-Spider and began attending school at Empire State University with Spider-Man's assistance. When her reality's Mary Jane Watson transported to Ghost-Spider's new home reality, she was bonded to a clone of Ghost-Spider's artificial symbiote and became a version of Carnage. After defeating her, Ghost-Spider and Mary Jane returned to their home dimension and Ghost-Spider decided to try and rehabilitate her reputation.
Powers[]
Originally Ghost-Spider had all of the powers as Spider-Man (superhuman strength, wall-crawling, spider-sense, etc) but she lost her abilities. An artificial symbiote now gives her versions of her original powers but requires that Ghost-Spider eats a lot of cellulose rich foods in order to function normally.
Ghost-Spider has a pair of web-shooters that create a version of Spider-Man's webbing by using the moisture in the air.