Webweaver/Comics

Webweaver is a minor posthumous character in the comic book series The Boys He was a web-swinging Supe and the first superhero that Billy Butcher and Greg Mallory took down. Butcher and Mallory's encounter with Webweaver lead to the creation of the CIA-backed anti-Supe taskforce, The Boys.
==History==
Webweaver was a tricky and reserved superhero, being referred to by The Legend as the "thwipster", he has an uncle who's queer but has come out of the closet. Unlike other Supes, his identity is unknown, as he was never part of any superhero team. During an attempt by Vought-American to have a Payback and Glorious Five Year Plan crossover, Webweaver was sent there to talk to the Soviet Supes, spending a lot of time with Vasilii Vorishikin. 
A couple of years later, during a meeting between Billy Butcher, Greg Mallory and The Legend to get information on a superhero they can take down in order to get funding from the government, Webweaver was the name that came up, and it's later revealed that the job to take him down "went like clockwork," and helped spawn the creation of The Boys.
==Powers==
* Spider Physiology: After Webweaver was injected with Compound V, he gained the proportionate physical capabilities of a spider.
** Web Generation: Webweaver is able to generate spider webs due to him having spinnerets on his wrists. The web's tensile strength and adhesive properties allow him to use the webs for a variety of purposes, from swinging between buildings to restraining his enemies.
== Trivia ==
*Webweaver only mentioned in the original run of The Boys because he was already eliminated prior to the events of issue one. It wasn't until The Boys: Dear Becky that readers got to see what Webweaver looked like because he's featured on the Comics Elite variant cover of the first issue where he is taken down by Hughie Campbell.
*Given that his name is "Webweaver", he's referred as the "thwipster," and has an uncle much like , it was obvious that the character is a parody of .
**Coincidentally, years later Marvel would create an alternate version of Spider-Man called Web-Weaver.
*According to the Old Legend, Webweaver's webbing abilities are organic, whereas most adaptations of use synthetic webbing. 's of Spider-Man was the first version of the character to use organic webbing.
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