For a little while, she quit being a superhero to raise her daughter as a single mother, though she later returned under the name Arachne. Once again, however, she switched sides when Freedom Force got embroiled in a fight with Avengers and X-Men, going on to join the West Coast Avengers, and later serving on Iron Man's Force Works team. Despite this, when the participants of Secret Wars returned to Earth, Carpenter, still in the guise of Spider-Woman, joined the government mutant-hunting team known as Freedom Force alongside former members of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, including Blob, Pyro, Avalanche, Destiny, and leader Mystique, ostensibly acting as a villain and enemy of the X-Men for a time. Though she initially sided with the villains, she switched sides in the fight after meeting Spider-Man.
Who is Julia Carpenter?Īvengers West Coast #74 cover (Image credit: Marvel Comics)
Sadly, there's a reason we've been referring to the original Madame Web in the past tense, as she was killed by Ana Kraven, the daughter of Kraven the Hunter, in the story ' The Gauntlet.' However, before her death, she was able to pass her abilities, as well as her mantle as Madame Webb, down to a successor - Julia Carpenter, the previously mentioned second Spider-Woman. The original Madame Web also has a connection to three heroes who have used the name Spider-Woman - she had a relationship with the second Spider-Woman Julia Carpenter (more on her momentarily), she acted as a mentor to the third Spider-Woman Mattie Franklin, and she was the grandmother of the fourth Spider-Woman Charlotte Witter. She first encountered Peter Parker when she aided him in finding the victim of a kidnapping, going on to act as something of a guide and mentor to Spider-Man over the years - even psychically learning his identity, though she later lost this knowledge after a near-death experience in a fight with the Juggernaut.
Interestingly enough, Cassandra Web was also a mutant with the powers of precognition and clairvoyance, as well as telepathy. Amazing Spider-Man #210 cover (Image credit: Marvel Comics)
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