Anya Corazon (Earth-616)

* Spider-Girl
* Anya Corazon

###  Affiliation

Spider-Army, Warriors of the Great Web; formerly Avengers Academy, partner of Spider-Woman, Spider Society, Young Allies, partner of Spider-Man, Ms. Marvel, and Wonder Man

### Base Of Operations

Loomworld; formerly Avengers Compound, Los Angeles, California; Sims Tower, Times Square, Manhattan, New York City, New York, Earth-3145; Central Park, Manhattan, New York City, New York, Earth-13; New York City, New York, Earth-616; WebCorps headquarters

## Origin

### Origin

Human, mutate; Miguel Legar saved her life from a stabbing, by partnering with her. She became the Spider Society's hunter, which unlocked her powers as a side-effect (Magic-based mutate)

## History

" *My father once told me there's no way to get a good **story,** to do a good **job,** without **embedding** yourself in the **dirt.** So... for better or worse... I'm your girl. "*

-- ****Spider-Girl****

### Early Life

Anya, or **Araña** as she would be called, was a teenage gymnast from Brooklyn whose father Gilberto Corazon was an investigative reporter. He moved with her from Mexico to the United States after her mother was killed.

### Spider Society

It was at an average day at school that she saw her friend Lynn being
 bullied by an older boy. Anya defended her friend, and the two started
to fight. A teacher broke their conflict up, but that night the two went
 down to a bridge to resume their battle. When she got there, Anya
discovered a stranger being attacked by a strange group. This Sisterhood of the Wasp attempted to kill the man, but Anya leapt in the way of the killing blow.[3] The man, Miguel, was the sorcerer of the Spider Society,
 a secret group dating back for hundreds of years. Recognizing that Anya
 had the ability to become the new Hunter of the Society, he transferred
 some of his power to her to save her life.[4] Because of this she gained a spider-shaped tattoo, enhanced strength and agility, and the power to grow an blue exoskeleton.[5]
 These powers first revealed itself when training in the desert,
allowing her to defeat multiple ferocious beasts. However, her new
abilities didn't come from Miguel or the Society; his transfer had
unlocked her own natural potential.

As she joined the Spider Society as their Hunter, they gave her cover as
 an intern of WebCorps, a company the Society used to hide its actions.[6]
 After developing her secret identity, she and her new team went on a
mission to prevent the Sisterhood from empowering their own Hunter.

### Heart of the Spider

She succeeded, and continued to have further adventures against the Sisterhood and their hired help, Amun.[8] Amun ended up discovering Anya's identity, but she was able to convince him not to target her friends or family.

### Hunter Revealed

Later, Araña learned that she was not a true Hunter, as no Hunter
before her has ever had an exoskeleton like hers. In a battle in which
the Sisterhood attempted to resurrect their Hunter (even Spider-Man
 got involved), Miguel died and she released the power of the Hunter,
letting Nina take hold of it. After the battle Anya quit Webcorps, but
remained an active hero.

### Civil War

She was part of the registered heroes during the Civil War, though she never took part in the final battle. After the battle she became something of a sidekick to Ms. Marvel. She was captured by the Puppet Master, but was freed from his control. During this time her exoskeleton was ripped off her body by the Doomsday Man, leaving her unable to use it.

Despite being depowered she continued to fight crime, though even
 swinging had become more difficult. It was around then that she became
friends with Nomad.

Later she was hunted by the Kravinoff Family, for their conquest to kill all the "spiders" and resurrect Kraven. She, along with Arachne, Madame Web, were captured, and Spider-Woman (Mattie Franklin) was sacrificed. After Kaine
 took his place in a sacrifice, Spider-Man went after the Kraven family.
 Madame Web was mortally wounded, and gave her powers to Julia before
passing, to stop Spider-Man from killing the newly revived Kraven. Julia
 gave Anya a new costume, but she continued to go by Araña.

### Young Allies

Later she and Nomad had become allied with another group of Super-teens (Referred to only contextually as Young Allies). They battle the Bastards of Evil.

### Spider-Girl

Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew)
 called her Spider-Girl, another in a long list to get her identity
wrong since she changed her costume. This led to Anya officially
becoming Spider-Girl, in part to avoid confusion.

In later events, the Red Hulk
 had gone on a rampage, and killed Anya's father almost instantly.
Infuriated, Spider-Girl went after the Red Hulk, but he got away. She
was ready to give up being Spider-Girl, when her friend Rocky Flint told her about how HER mother had been killed by the Green Goblin.
 She decided that she still had responsibility as Spider Girl, and later
 attended her father's funeral. One night on her way to Rocky's house,
she came upon a car jacking, and went into an alley to change into her
costume. When she got dressed she saw that Red Hulk had taken care of
it, and wanted to talk with her. He explained how he'd been
investigating the murder of a friend, when he came across her father,
and worked with him, sharing notes on the investigation.

While investigating, the Red Hulk and her father had been
poisoned, and as a result Red Hulk had went into the berserk rage. He
explained that the organization behind the poisoning was called "Raven."
 Anya agreed to work together with him on their hunt for answers. Later
in the day, she confessed her entire day to an invisible Sue Richards who had already secretly known she was Spider-Girl, and who had been friends with her father for at least 7+ years.

Soon after, Ana Kravinoff came hunting after Spider-Girl, using her Twitter tweets to track her down. After taking down Screwball
 for a second time, Anya looks at the footage that Screwball herself had
 been taking. She had then noticed Ana Karvinoff in the background
during an interview. She then laid a trap for Ana, knowing she'd find
her clothes. They got into a fight, which eventually led to
Spider-Girl's victory, and Ana Kravinoff's arrest.

In an attempt to impress Norah Winters, Phil Urich
 set up Spider-Girl, by tweeting her with information on a sighting of
the Hobgoblin. Spider-Girl put gum into her ears, and followed a trail
of witnesses to the Hobgoblin. When the Hobgoblin laughed, the affect
was not as great on Spider Girl due to the gum in her ears, and she
managed to hold her own against him. Spider-Man interfered, causing the
Hobgoblin to get away.

Spider-Girl asks Spider-Man for help in tracking down, and
attacking the organization known as "Raven," discovering different
hide-outs and valuable information. They followed a trail that led to a
hidden facility, where they discovered files on a project aimed at
brainwashing Spider-Girl as an agent of Raven, and that Anya's roommate
Rocky was a kidnapping target. It also showed that her "creepy"
neighbor, Kurt Godwin, was an agent of Raven, and had been spying on
Anya.

Spider-Girl rushed to her apartment to find that three Raven
Agents were waiting there to recruit her, using her roommate and her
father as leverage. Minutes into their confrontation, Anya felt her
super-strength return, and used it to punch one of the "American Ninjas"
 through a wall, and took down the other agents. She then discovered
that she had webbing as well, before getting information out of the
Raven agents. She called Spider-Man about the base she found, and went
in for an assault.

She took down most of the agents in the dark, virtually unseen.
She called the Red-Hulk for help, and destroyed a machine that kept the
American "Ninjas" in line. They turned on Godwin, and almost killed him
before Spider-Man and Red Hulk arrived to stop them. Anya then proceeded
 to rescue her friend, and showed Rocky who she really was. Rocky then
revealed she already knew, and they exchanged a hug.

### Spider-Island

During the events of Spider-Island, Anya was attacked by agents of the Sisterhood after school. She fled to get her friend Rocky to safety, and confronted the Hand, finding that Wilson Fisk
 wanted to team up with her. She refused but Madam Web (Julia Carpenter)
 came to Spider-Girl and told her that she must ally herself with her
enemies. Reluctantly she agreed to work with Wilson Fisk, who put a
group of the Hand under her command. With this group she attempted to
stop the Wasps from killing off the spiders infected citizens.

Spider-Girl later realized that Madam Web had meant for her to
team up with the Wasps, and slow down the Spiders, so that a cure could
be found. Eventually the Spiders were defeated, and a cure was
administered to everyone in the city, including Anya. However, she seems
 to have retained her powers despite being "cured," suggesting she was
not given the real cure or she was immune to the antidote.

### Avengers Academy

She was recruited into the Avengers Academy.

### Inhumanity

Anya turned to the Avengers for help in rescuing two Terrigan
Cocoons. Spider-Girl and her allies soon realized they were caught in a
war between AIM and Toxie Doxie; a mad geneticist whose deal with AIM
had turned sour. Unable to fight AIM given the technocracy's current
diplomatic immunity, the Avengers and Anya were forced to move
carefully.[15] Anya spent much of the time learning how to operate with the Avengers, and also received a new costume.[16] In the end Spider-Girl rescued the cocoons and took down Toxie Doxie.

### Spider-Verse

Spider-Girl became Jessica Drew's protegé, and joined the Multiversal Spider-Army when the Inheritors threatened to destroy every Spider from all realities.[18]
 Her abilities were indispensable for the Spider-Army to discover the
Inheritors' plan, as her powers and relationship with the Spider Society
 allowed her to read their scrolls.
After the Inheritors were defeated and exiled to Earth-3145, each member of the Spider-Army proceeded to return to their respective reality. [20] After the universe of Spider-UK was revealed to had been destroyed by an Incursion, he decided to stay in Loomworld,
 the former base of the Inheritors, and use the Web of Life and Destiny
to reach out any reality in need of a Spider-Man. With nothing else to
do in her life, Spider-Girl decided to join him, and together became the
 Warriors of the Great Web.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

**Spider Physiology:** Thanks to the events of Spider Island Anya possesses some off-shoot copy of Spider-Man's powers, granted to her by the Jackal's machine. The radioactive spider bite was in essence recreated in her, the complex mutagenic enzymes in spider-man's blood were transferred triggering numerous body-wide mutagenic changes within, granting her superhuman strength, speed, toughened flesh, and possibly numerous unknown arachnid-like abilities.

* **Superhuman Strength:** Anya's strength is relatively large at her stage in heroism. Her strength may also be increasing, because she was quickly able to subdue Arachne, who can lift 10 tons. however, following the events of Spider Island, her strength has increased to a level comparable to Spider-Man's, if slightly less.
* **Superhuman Speed:** Anya can run and move at speeds that are beyond the physical limits of the finest human athlete. She is ultimately capable of running at speeds in excess of 30 miles per hour.
* **Superhuman Stamina:** Anya's advanced musculature produces less fatigue toxins during physical activity than an ordinary human. This allows her to exert himself physically for much longer periods of time before fatigue begins to impair her.
* **Superhuman Agility:** Anya's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are all enhanced to levels that are beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete. Araña is extraordinarily limber and her tendons and connective tissues are twice as elastic as the average human being's, despite their enhanced strength.
* **Superhuman Reflexes:** Anya's reflexes are similarly enhanced and are currently about 10 times greater than those of an ordinary human.
* **Wall-Crawling:** She has the ability to cling to walls at will.
* **Biological/Organic Webbing Generation:** She has the ability to organically produce her own silk webbing from glands within her forearms, limited by her body's health and nutrition. These organic webs has many of the same properties as Spider-Man's artificial webbing. The silk is released through a spinneret near each wrist containing a central web spigot orifice used for web-slinging and drag lines, supplemented by several radial minor spigots for other types of webs connected to specialized glands.
* **Shadow Camouflage:** She is able to hide in shadows and go completely undetected by most people. Whether this is an actual power or simply stealth remains to be seen.

### Abilities

* **Skeletal Flexibility**: A skilled gymnast Anya has developed her body's muscles and bones to an extraordinary point allowing her to compress/contort into small cavities, similarly against high impacts to soften the blows.
* **Bilingual**: She's also bilingual. She can speak in Spanish (her parents' language) and English.
* **Cunning Intellect**: Though only of average intelligence Anya has seemed to developed amazing investigating skills and a powerful ability to evaluate the situation, stay calm under pressure, and improvise solutions.
* **S.H.I.E.L.D Training**: S.H.I.E.L.D. training teaches a variety of skills for on the field work in espionage, containment, and heroism.
* **Fighting**: Obviously a capable fighter before the training, her teaching seemed to have focused on safety and basics.
* **Hacking**: A typical class Anya grew a passion for it and practices on her free time.

## Notes

* Anya's father and mother are respectively of Puerto Rican and Mexican descent.

## Trivia

* "Araña" is Spanish for "spider."
* "Corazón" is Spanish for "heart."
* Anya's Twitter name is *The\_Spider\_Girl*.
* Anya is an Eminem fan.