Martha Franklin (Earth-616)
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History
Overhearing a conversation between her father and Norman Osborn about a ceremony, Mattie took her father's place in the Gathering of Five. Granted the gift of power, Mattie was endowed with super strength, flight and all the powers similiar to that of Spider-Man. When Spider-Man mysteriously disappeared for a few months from the superhero scene Mattie took to fighting the criminals in his name. When the real Spider-Man returned, Mattie fought Charlotte Witter and then became known as Spider-Woman with the blessings of Jessica Drew. She was sent to a boarding school, and fought several new villains while there and made a friend in Cheryl Lansing.
Mattie wasn't seen for quite a while, and eventually went missing. She broke into Jessica Jones apartment in a drugged stupor, but quickly fled. Investigating more, Jessica discovered Mattie was being harvested for drugs by her boyfriend and kept sedated. Apparently, Mattie was being used a source for Mutant Growth Hormone, a power-inducing drug that requires a super-powered individual's genetic material. With the help of Jessica Drew, Jessica Jones brought Mattie back to the safety of her uncle.Powers and Abilities
Powers
Mattie has the cumulative powers of the previous Spider-Women; Jessica Drew, Julia Carpenter, and Charlotte Witter
Mattie Franklin possesses a variety of superhuman powers, derived from her participation in the Gathering of Five and the absorption of the superhuman abilities possessed by the other Spider-Women and by Madame Web. Thus she possesses the following superhuman abilities:
- Superhuman strength, speed, stamina, agility, and reflexes.
- Superhumanly acute hearing and heightened senses.
- Adhesive touch that allows her to cling to walls and other surfaces via electro-static attraction.
- Immunity to all forms of non-corrosive toxins and poisons after an initial exposure to them. These initial exposures make her dizzy, but her metabolism quickly recovers and renders her immune to it.
- Immunity to all forms of radiation.
- Venom blast: Spider-Woman can discharge a powerful toxin with her body's excess bio-electricity, which she focuses through her hands. These bio-electric blasts affect the nervous system, and their intensity can be regulated to deliver a minor shock, render someone unconscious, or even kill. (Their concussive force is powerful enough to puncture metal.)
- Pheromones: Mattie generates chemicals that make her extremely attractive to men and tend to repulse women.
- Flight
- Psionic webbing: By using psychokinetic energy, she can bind ambient free-floating molecules into strands of solid force. Her psi-webs can be used to wrap enemies, or focused into narrow web-lines that she can swing from. Due to its psychic nature, her psi-webs can be used in ways Spider-Man's webbing never could, such as causing webs to form from a distance, or controlling the movement of her webbing mentally.
- Psychic spider legs sprouting from her back. Occasionally, Mattie has been shown to be able to fire blasts of unknown energy from the tips of her spider-legs which are able to stun an opponent.
- Moderate telepathy.
- Precognitive flashes.
Strength level
Notes
- Mattie was given the combined powers of the previous Spider-Women in a ritual known as The Gathering of Five
- Mattie is the third woman to use the name Spider-Woman
Links
- Appearances of Martha Franklin (Earth-616)
- Character Gallery: Martha Franklin (Earth-616)
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- Fan-Art Gallery: Martha Franklin (Earth-616)
- Quotations by Martha Franklin (Earth-616)
- Comicboards: Question about Mattie Franklin
- Wikipedia: Spider-Woman
- Marvel Directory: Madame Web
- Spider-Woman Fanpage
- Marvel Encyclopaedia: Spider-Man, New York, 2003, p184
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