Madame Web
Madame Web is a female comic character who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Cassandra Webb
When Peter Parker's girlfriend Debra Whitman showed Peter Parker an advertisement for the psychic 'Madame Web' where he dismissed her as a fraud. However, a hostile takeover of the Daily Globe left Spider-Man with only Madame Web as a possible clue leading to him paying her a visit personally. Using her psychic abilities, she gave Spider-Man enough clues to lead him to the criminals. Though Spider-Man was still skeptical of her abilities, they were erased when Madame Web called him at his Chelsea Street apartment with knowledge of his identity. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #210)
While in the hospital, Parker overheard a plot to kill someone to keep them out of a race. He thought that they meant the New York marathon but there were sixteen thousand runners in the race. To stop it, he had to know who the target was but would need a miracle. As such, he contacted Madame Web on a pay phone, who knew exactly who he was and what he wanted immediately. She said that the conditions were not right for her to answer his question but she would contact him if things changed. Spider-Man watched over the marathon, taking care of problems as they occurred. It was then that a pay phone rang near him and a pedestrian answered it and then yelled to Spider-Man. He wondered who could know he was at that location and it was Madame Web. She told him the 'psychic vectors' had improved and she could see two men with automatic rifles waiting for Barney Wicker who was presiding at the Finish Line. Spider-Man cursed his stupidity, realizing that the 'race' was a political one, not a marathon. Ultimately, he managed to stopped the assassins by tipping the water tower's roof onto them. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #216)
Months later, Black Tom Cassidy sought to add her abilities to his criminal organization, and sent his friend Cain Marko, the Juggernaut, to retrieve her. Madame Web, foreseeing this, called on Spider-Man to help stop the Juggernaut. Despite Spider-Man's efforts, the Juggernaut succeeded in reaching Madame Web. When he lifted her up, he unknowingly removed her from an elaborate life-support system that had been keeping her alive. Finding her thus useless, Juggernaut dropped her and left. Madame Web, barely alive, was taken to the hospital. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #229) After visiting her at the hospital, she told Spider-Man that she no longer remembered his identity and had lost her clairvoyance. Before he left, she asked him to turn on the radio and a news report claimed there had been a robbery at an Osborn Manufacturing building. He left, telling her he hoped she would recover. She smiled to herself after he left and said she expected to. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #239)
One night, Cassandra had a vision of Norman Osborn and the Green Goblin offering her eternal youth if she acquired one piece of five magical artifacts. She contacted Spider-Man, telling him that she needed the piece because she was near death. After he retrieved the piece, he said he hoped it would help but to call Thor next time. Before he left, she warned him that J. Jonah Jameson was about to kill Osborn. After Spidey stopped the murder, she delivered the piece to Osborn who asked if she was willing to take part in a ceremony. She agreed, saying that she was an old woman that wanted her youth and health back. She then had a premonition of Osborn’s genetic bomb and the death of the world. (Spider-Man v1 #96) Among the gathered participants were Osborn, Override, Morris Maxwell and Mattie Franklin. The gathered members stood to gain, at random, power, death, wisdom, insanity or immortality. The catch was that the gift you thought you had gotten was actually one of the others. Before the ceremony, Madame Web was impatient to begin. She was tired of Maxwell’s constant warnings, saying they all knew why they were there. She placed her piece at the altar and was knocked backwards. Mattie checked her pulse and said she was dead. Eventually, she was found to have been given immortality. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #441)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
Her psychic abilities allowed her to glimpse the future. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #210)
After the Gathering of Five ceremony, she came to be given the gift of immortality. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #441)
Notes
- Madame Web was created by Dennis O'Neil and John Romita, Jr. where she made her first appearance in The Amazing Spider-Man v1 #210 (November, 1980).
In other media
Television
- In Spider-Man, Madame Web made her first appearance in the 1994 animated series where she had a recurring role and was voiced by actress Joan Lee.
Films
- In Madame Web, a young Cassie Webb appeared in the setting of the live-action film where she was portrayed by actress Dakota Johnson.
Video games
- In Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, Madame Web made an appearance in a supporting role where she was voiced by actress Susanne Blakeslee. She would be the one who informed Spider-Man of the Tablet of Order and Chaos where she would direct him along with three other dimensional counterparts of him in finding the various pieces within their respective universes in order to repair the damage made by Mysterio. Web would direct each of the Spider-Men in the use of their powers and used her own telepathic abilities to suppress Ultimate Spider-Man's Symbiote from overwhelming him. When Spider-Man returned to her, he found Madame Web captured by Mysterio who threatened her life unless he gave he the remaining fragments of the Tablet. After he was defeated, she would thank Spider-Man for saving the Tablet of Order and Chaos. In the credits, she was surprised by the sudden arrival of Spider-Ham who asked her "So, what'd I miss?".
Appearances
- Amazing Spider-Man v1: (1980)
- Prowler v2:
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