Marvel's Spider-Man: Webbed Champion/Mother Focus

Mother Focus is the 19th episode of Marvel's Spider-Man: Webbed Champion.
== Characters ==
=== Featured Characters ===
* Spider-Man / Peter Parker
* Ghost-Spider / Gwen Stacy (flashback and main story)
=== Supporting Characters ===
* Helen Stacy (first appearance) (flashback and main story)
* Champions
** Tigra / Mary Jane Watson
** American Knight / Kevin Walker
** White Wolf / Harry Lyman
** Kid Arachnid / Miles Morales
** Spider-Girl / Anya Corazon
** Ant-Girl / Cassie Lang
** Ms. Marvel / Kamala Khan (picture only)mentioning herself as Kamala Khan's childhood friend, Sharon reveals she has two pictures of herself with Kamala; one of when they were children, one in their superhero outfits
** Brawn / Amadeus Cho (mentioned only)
** Jarvis
* S.H.I.E.L.D.
** Yuri Watanabe
** S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy
*** White Swan / Agent 13 / Sharon Carter (first appearance)
*** Falcon / Sam Wilson (first appearance)
=== Antagonists ===
* Raymond Warren (flashback and main story) (as Jackal in flashbacks)
* Red Goblin / Joanna Jameson (first appearance)
* Doctor Doom / Victor Von Doom (first appearance)
* Green Goblin / Norman Osborn (mentioned only)
=== Other Characters ===
* Randy Robertson
* Aunt May
* Hank Pym (cameo)
* Hope Van Dyne
* Scott Lang (cameo)
* Fantastic Four (mentioned only)
* George Stacy (single appearance; picture only; deceased)
* Sarah Warren (single appearance; flashback only; deceased) (as a zombie in illusion)
* J. Jonah Jameson (no dialogues; dies)
* Joanna's mother (mentioned only; deceased)
== Plot ==
Gwen Stacy is asleep in her bed until she begins having dreams of her mother Helen in the night when she disappeared 10 years ago, and in an unknown space. Initially believing it is just another nightmare, Gwen begins hearing Helen's voice in her head, calling her name, while Gwen also envisions her uncle Raymond Warren having been responsible for Helen's disappearance. Meanwhile, a mysterious figure flies towards the New York Penitentiary, and bombs J. Jonah Jameson's cell, killing him.
On the following morning, Gwen is approached by her friends, who comfort her over her recent nightmares. Entering Gwen's mind, Mary Jane Watson has a vision of Helen, and senses that she is still alive, and trapped somewhere in the Quantum Realm. Peter Parker, Harry Lyman, Kevin Walker, and Miles Morales discover another of Warren's secret laboratories within the remains of Oscorpfollowing its destruction in Seeds of Life, and find files revealing that Warren never was Gwen's uncle, and took her in as his "niece" after sending Helen to the Quantum Realm. Despite distraught with this truth, Gwen accepts help from her little cousin Cassie Lang, as well as Anya Corazon, Mary Jane and Kevin in accessing the Quantum Realm, and find a way to retrieve Helen, while Peter and the others seek to apprehend Warren. Peter, Harry, and Miles are also met with Yuri Watanabe and Amadeus Cho's fellow S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy trainees—Gwen's cousin Sharon Carter / White Swan and her lover Sam Wilson / Falcon—, who are investigating the identity of Jameson's killer. Finding a message from the killer indicating that Warren is the next target, Spider-Man rushes to S.H.I.E.L.D. to set up an ambush, only to find out that Warren (despite cured from his Jackal conditionas depicted in Brand New Champions) escaped with help from a Doombot sent by Doctor Doom to retrieve him. Spider-Man is soon confronted by Jameson's killer: the Red Goblin, a red-suited, female version of the Green Goblin.
Spider-Man defeats Red Goblin, who retreats, but not before Spider-Man analyzes her biological DNA for check-up. Through the analyzed DNA, Jarvis identifies the Red Goblin as Jameson's illegitimate first born daughter Joanna, who was abandoned by her father along with her mother in Russia before Joanna's mother was killed by Warren, and Joanna was raised and trained by the agents of the Red Room. Upon obtaining Norman Osborn's Green Goblin technology, Joanna turned against the Red Room agents so she could seek her past persecutors, and have her revenge on Warren and Jameson. Spider-Man, Kid Arachnid, and White Wolf agree to chase after Warren in Latveria (where Warren is being taken), with White Swan and Falcon providing them transport and following them. Through archives written by her grandfather Dr. Hank Pym, Gwen and her friends find and access the Quantum Tunnel, and use it to enter the Quantum Realm, where they find Helen trapped in a quantum field which is keeping her frozen in time, and free her. Meanwhile, Spider-Man and his group arrive in Latveria, and confront Warren, who is seeking help from Doctor Doom to retain his lost powers as the Jackal, and execute his plan to finish his cloning of Gwen, for whom he replaced his long deceased daughter Sarah. Just as Doctor Doom discovers the group and attacks them, Red Goblin emerges, ready to get her revenge on Warren.
White Swan and Falcon fight Red Goblin while Spider-Man duels with Doctor Doom, and Warren unleashes the incomplete Jackal clones to attack Latveria, forcing the Doombots to contain them, and Kid Arachnid and White Wolf to escort the citizens to safety. Warren attempts to take advantage of the situation to complete the creation of Gwen's clone, but Gwen (arriving there with help from Jarvis) stops him and destroys the cloning machine, while Warren is captured by Tigra, who places him in a hypnotic trance which forces him to envision himself in oblivion, and Sarah returning as a zombie, haunting him for life. Red Goblin avoids White Swan and Falcon, and sets out to attack Gwen, revealing that she is also hunting Helen for her knowledge of the Quantum Realm's secrets, which are the key for Joanna to bring her mother to life. Overhearing this, Spider-Man defeats Doctor Doom, and incapacitates Red Goblin, damaging her glider, and causing it to fly uncontrollably towards the power core of Doom's castle, exploding it and severely injuring Joanna. The young heroes return home while Warren and Joanna are arrested, and Tigra hypnotizes Doom to erase his memories of the incident, and prevent him from planning revenge on the Americans. Next day, Gwen and her cousins are with Helen, who is being nursed by Peter's aunt May in a hospital, and expecting full recovery before being happily visited by Hank and Hope Van Dyne, and Gwen seeks to make great changes in Warren's former home, with her friends offering to help.
== Voice Cast ==
* Robbie Daymond as Spider-Man / Peter Parker
* Ashley Johnson as Tigra / Mary Jane Watson
* Laura Bailey as Ghost-Spider / Gwen Stacy
* Cameron Bowen as American Knight / Kevin Walker
* Max Mittelman as White Wolf / Harry Lyman
* Jessica DiCicco as Ant-Girl / Cassie Lang, Sarah Warren
* Melanie Minichino as Spider-Girl / Anya Corazon
* Nadji Jeter as Kid Arachnid / Miles Morales
* Erica Lindbeck as White Swan / Agent 13 / Sharon Carter, Helen Stacy
* Zeno Robinson as Falcon / Sam Wilson, Randy Robertson
* Nancy Linari as Aunt May
* Sumalee Montano as Yuri Watanabe
* Kari Wahlgren as Hope Van Dyne, Red Goblin / Joanna Jameson
* John DiMaggio as Raymond Warren
* Maurice LaMarche as Doctor Doom / Victor Von Doom
== Trivia ==
* This episode marks the first vocal mention of the Fantastic Four in the continuity of the show (although Invisible Woman was mentioned in "City of Heroes, Part 2: Where There’s Smoke"). The characters would later appear on person in the Disney+ sequel miniseries Marvel's Spider-Man: Rising Legend, the follow-up movie Superhero Adventures: Infinity War, and the second sequel miniseries All-Star Multiverse.
* The moment when Mary Jane / Tigra forces Raymond Warren to hallucinate his deceased daughter Sarah as a vengeful revenant is similar to how Quentin Beck / Mysterio forces Peter / Spider-Man to hallucinate a zombie version of Tony Stark / Iron Man in Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
== References ==
Category:Episodes
Category:Marvel's Spider-Man: Webbed Champion