Jackpot (Marvel)

Jackpot is the name of three superheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The first incarnation of Jackpot, Sara Ehret, first appeared in Spider-Man: Swing Shift (May 2007). The second incarnation, Alana Jobson, debuted in The Amazing Spider-Man #545 (January 2008). In August 2023, Mary Jane Watson was announced to be taking up the mantle as the third Jackpot.
==Fictional character biography==
===Origin===
Sara Ehret, a pregnant scientist at Phelcorp (a subsidiary of Oscorp) works on gene therapy to cure Parkinson's disease when she is accidentally exposed to "Lot 777". The virus rewrote the DNA in her cells leaving her in a coma for 4 months. Coming out of her coma Ehret went on to have her child Madeline with no complications, however when her family came under threat by falling debris she displayed superhuman strength to save them.
Jackpot went on to train and become a government sanctioned Initiative superhero for New York City. Though she served as a crimefighter for a while, Sara Ehret had no desire to remain one, preferring to her normal life and family. When another woman, Alana Jobson, recognized Sara and showed genuine enthusiasm at paying her for the use of Sara's Jackpot identity and license, Sara took the offer and gave up costumed crime fighting.
===Alana Jobson===
Alana buys Sara's identity, and while the latter goes in hiding, the former starts using a cocktail of enhancement drugs, including Mutant Growth Hormone to grant herself the powers of super-strength, stamina, and invulnerability associated with the Jackpot identity. In denial of her own sexuality, Alana developed a crush on Spider-Man, whom she emulated. She later was revealed to be a lesbian. She had been attracted to Sara but never revealed this to her.
Alana/Jackpot teams up with Spider-Man on a search for the villain Menace. They eventually find her after she attacks a council meeting and kidnaps a councilwoman. Jackpot interferes with the fight between Spider-Man and Menace, pulling Menace from her glider. However, as a result of this action, the glider slams into the rescued councilwoman, killing her. Menace blames Spider-Man for the woman's death and escapes. Jackpot blames herself, as does Spider-Man, as seen in his internal monologue. Still, he attempts to comfort her but Jackpot, who is distraught and angered by the experience, takes it all out on Spider-Man by pushing him away and storming off.
During the 2008 "Secret Invasion" storyline, Jackpot is libeled by Dexter Bennett, current owner of the Daily Bugle and endorser of a series of slanderous articles about her activity as a superhero after she accidentally attacks a meeting of pharmaceutical sales executives whose company has connections to Walter Declun.
Jackpot is furious when she discovers the articles and goes to the Daily Bugle, along with a publicity representative supplied by the Initiative. While there, the newspaper is attacked by a Super-Skrull, who is searching for Spider-Man, and who harbors all of the superhuman abilities of Spider-Man's adversaries the Lizard, Rhino, Electro, Hydro-Man, Sandman, and Venom, Jackpot battles Super-Skurll in order to allow the Bugle staff to escape, but she is then attacked by Menace. All three combatants are injured by the impact of Jackpot's personal glider vehicle, before Menace escapes. Jackpot defeats the Super-Skrull by freezing him to death inside a freezer.
While fighting Commanda and Blindside, Alana is pumped with the blindness serum used by Blindside to defeat his enemies. Spider-Man comes arrives and administers an antidote to Alana, restoring her vision, but the serum's interaction with the drugs which gave her superhuman powers, results in a fatal side effect in Alana, who dies shortly.
===Sara Ehret reclaims the identity===
Investigating Jackpot's identity, Spider-Man goes to what he believes is Jackpot's house only to find Sara Ehret, who tells him she is not the superheroine Jackpot (Alana Jobson), and sends Spider-Man away, saying he "really should keep out of this."
Later, Spider-Man, having already discovered the whole truth about Alana and Sara, goes to notify Sara about Alana's death, blaming Sara for evading her responsibilities and allowing the otherwise powerless and untrained Alana to go to her doom. Sara is left clutching Jackpot's costume, while Spider-Man walks away, after telling her that people with powers do not have a choice of giving up their responsibilities.
Distraught, Sara reclaims her heroic identity and later comes into conflict with Boomerang and, a new Rose, who learn of her identity. Under Rose's orders, Boomerang tracks Sara down at her house and murders her husband in front of her and her daughter.
Sara gets revenge and unmasks the Rose, but is forced to change her, and her daughter's, identity, taking the name Alana Jobson.
===Mary Jane Watson ===
Mary Jane Watson became Jackpot during Zeb Wells' run on The Amazing Spider-Man. After Mary Jane and Peter Parker got sent to an alternate Earth that had been devastated by the god Wayep, the duo was rescued by Paul Rabin, a resident of the alternate Earth and the son of that dimension's Benjamin Rabin, Wayep's Emissary. The group was able to send Peter back to the main Earth, leaving Mary Jane and Paul stranded on this alternate Earth. MJ survived with Paul and they developed a Power Slots device, which worked as a slot machine for superpowers. MJ could activate the device and a random superpower would be bequeathed unto her. This device did come with a risk: if MJ's spin landed on three skulls, she could die.
Mary Jane and Paul were able to escape to the main Earth, bringing along with them two children they adopted from Paul's Earth. After the children were revealed to be magic constructs created by the Emissary of the main Earth and eventually ceased to exist, Mary Jane took up the Jackpot mantle to cope with their "deaths".
==Powers and abilities==
===Sara Ehret===
*Superhuman strength
===Alana Jobson===
*Superhuman strength, speed, agility, reflexes, durability, and stamina
* Expert gymnast
===Mary Jane Watson===
*Random superpower generation via Jackpot Bracelet
==Idea Wiki Appearances==
===Iago PUC's ideas ===
*The Alana Jobson incarnation of Jackpot appears in the continuity of Marvel's Spider-Man: Webbed Champion, voiced by Peyton List. This version is depicted as Max Modell's paternal niece, and a 23-year-old college student who (one year before Peter Parker became Spider-Man) earned her metahuman powers due to exposure to a Super-Soldier serum which was accidentally infused in her by Monica Rappaccini during a fight against Iron Man. Despite terrified with her condition, Alana became inspired to become Jackpot. Also as in the comics, she is an openly Lesbian young woman, but she is not attracted to Sara Ehret, and is instead romantically involved with Peter Parker's older cousin Jessica Reilly, who became Spider-Woman through similar circumstances. Living together in a townhouse, Jessica and Alana also raised Jenna (a genetically engineered child who was created by Raymond Warren the Jackal with Jessica's and Alana's combined blood samples) as their own daughter. Along the years, Spider-Woman and Jackpot also formed a bond with several heroes who became their friends; those include Captain Marvel and She-Hulk, who became their respective mentors, as well as married superheroes Hulkling and Wiccan. Along with her powers and abilities from the comics, Jackpot also has photographic memory (similar to Captain America), and the ability to sense weak points of other subjects (similar to the Inhuman Karnak).
**Alana / Jackpot appears as a main character in the comic book tie-in Marvel's Princesses of Destiny. She and Jessica Reilly / Spider-Woman are featured in the second issue "Out", which chronicles their superhero origins, and the beginning of their romantic relationship.
**Alana / Jackpot appears as a supporting character in the first Disney+ sequel miniseries Marvel's Spider-Man: Rising Legend, voiced by Peyton List. In the first episode "Brand New Day", Alana / Jackpot helps Spider-Man and his team of the Champions stop the conflicts between criminals in New York orchestrated by Cletus Kasady / Carnage. She and Jessica also host a family dinner in their townhouse to celebrate their graduation from college after coming out to their families.
**Alana makes a non-speaking appearance in A Marvel Christmas Carol, on which she along with Jessica and Jenna attend to a Christmas party being held on F.E.A.S.T., where her uncle Max is amusing children in his Santa Claus costume.
**Alana / Jackpot makes a major appearance as a main character in Marvel's Superhero Adventures: Infinity War, voiced again by Peyton List. It is revealed that sometime after the superheroes defeated the Regent and his army from the Negative Zone (as depicted in the climax of the Webbed Champion series's "Legendary Universes" arc), Spider-Woman, Jackpot, Hulkling and Wiccan joined the Avengers under Captain Marvel's request. They were also offered by Tyler Hayward a membership on his Thuderbolt Program, but they refused, critical of Hayward's use of metahumans (both heroes and villains) as living weapons for wars and battles they would not be expected to survive in. After the Thunderbolts were decimated by Thanos's armies, Jackpot accompanied Spider-Woman, Hulkling and Wiccan in searching for the Infinity Amulet before the Regent (who defected from the Thunderbolts to join Thanos's rising empire) did. Defeating the Regent, the four hid the Amulet to a safe place away from Thanos's sight, and faked its destruction. Three months later, she and Jessica continue their superhero duties and their relationship, while making plans for their marriage, which is scheduled to be held on New Year's eve. After overhearing of Thanos's plans about the Infinity Stones, Spider-Woman and Jackpot are among the heroes who search for the remaining Infinity Stones before Thanos's Black Order members do. The two are selected to lead Thor, Anya Corazon / Spider-Girl, Wolverine, Drax the Destroyer, and Hulk on the search for the Reality Stone in Knowhere, where they clash with Taneleer Tivan the Collector, before a brainwashed Vulture and a pack of Klyntauri attack the city. She and the group manage to distract both villains enough for Cloak and Dagger to teleport Anya safely back to Earth with the Stone. After the Infinity Stones are placed back in the Amulet, Jackpot joins the heroes on Earth to hold down against the invading Klyntauri during the final battle while Spider-Woman accompanies the others on a direct assault against Thanos himself in the Sanctuary X. Later in the epilogue, Alana marries Jessica in a ceremony attended by their friends and families, as well as their fellow superheroes and Avengers. She is later seen watching the New Year fireworks during the wedding reception.
**Alana / Jackpot also appears in the second Disney+ sequel miniseries Marvel's All-Star Multiverse, voiced again by Peyton List. In the first episode of the short-episode series Free Adventures, Alana is mentioned to be on a honeymoon with Jessica (following their marriage in Superhero Adventures: Infinity War), and is expected to spend a week in Hawaii. In the first main episode "Return of the Legends", she and Jessica return from their week-long honeymoon, and rejoin the Avengers on their new superhero operations. They put their daughter Jenna on the care of Peter Parker and his friends in the Horizon Star (where the Avengers' children were invited for a play-date), while Alana (as Jackpot), Jessica (as Spider-Woman) and their fellow Avengers work alongside the Fantastic Four and Peter's partners from the Legendary Universes (Rey Skywalker, Sonic the Hedgehog, Leonardo of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Optimus Prime) to stop Thane. Alana makes a silent appearance in the next episode "The Sky's the Limit", where she along with Jessica and Jenna watch the news about Princess Athena's public presentation of the Skycruiser Commandos. In the finale "One Universe, One People", Jackpot is shown joining the final battle against Thane and his army on Titan.
*The Mary Jane Watson version of Jackpot appears in Marvel Girl Power, voiced by Ashley Johnson.
*The Mary Jane Watson version of Jackpot appears in Sonic and Marvel Superheroes: Multiverse Speedstorm, voiced by Laura Bailey.
===35Baragon's ideas===
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===Moon Silvight's ideas===
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===Joint ideas=== 
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==Gallery==
File:Jackpot Marvel Comics.jpg|Alana Jobson
File:Alana Jobson a.k.a. Jackpot (Marvel).jpg|Concept of Alana Jobson / Jackpot as she appears in Marvel's Princesses of Destiny, Marvel's Spider-Man: Rising Legend, Marvel's Superhero Adventures: Infinity War, and Marvel's All-Star Multiverse
File:Amazing Spider-Man Presents Jackpot Vol 1 3 Textless.jpg|Sarah Ehret
File:Mary Jane Watson as Jackpot.jpg|Mary Jane Watson as Jackpot
File:MJ the New Jackpot Vi7Yudx9gK.jpg
File:MJ Jackpot FB IMG 1692609782576.jpg
File:Amazing Spider-Man Family Vol 1 6 Textless.jpg
File:Jackpot (Sara Ehret).jpg
File:MJ Jackpot.png|Mary Jane Watson as Jackpot in Marvel Girl Power and Sonic and Marvel Superheroes: Multiverse Speedstorm
File:Jackpot (Alana Jobson).png
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