Crustaccia

Dr. Clawdia Connors, aka Crustaccia, is the Bee-verse counterpart to The Lizard. Clawdia is a geneticist and marine biologist looking for the key to long life by studying arthropods, specifically crustaceans, like crabs and lobsters. Due to a lack of test subjects, Clawdia injected herself with a serum composed of DNA from multiple crustacean species. While the effects regarding long life have yet to be discovered, Clawdia has found considerable physical mutations have taken place in her body. She had grown antennae, her left arm developed into a large crab claw, and parts of her body, including her jaw and her right leg were covered in a carapace. Furthermore, her eyesight had been enhanced to the same degree of that of a mantis shrimp. Taking her mutations to be a sign of carcinisation, the convergent evolutionary theory that all living beings will converge towards crab-like forms, Clawdia hoped to evangelize her theory by forcibly turning all other humans into crab-like mutants like herself, until stopped by her students Petra Parker and Gwen Stacy. She still believes crabs to be the superior life form, but is instead happier to bide her time conducting other research and wait for her theory to prove itself rather than forcing evolution to fast forward.

In addition to completely modifying Clawdia's body, her serum also left her rather scatterbrained and easily distracted, leading to a lot of poorly planned and unsafe experiments that go off the rails rather quickly, forcing Petra to step in before people get hurt.

In the Decoupled Bee-verse, Clawdia Connors is instead named Clawdia Coraline.

Before Clawdia was introduced as a Bee-verse counterpart, there was another idea for Dr. Connor's counterpart with minimal changes. You can read more about that counterpart here.

## Incidents

Due to her lack of attention span and airheaded nature, a lot of Clawdia's experiments and discoveries, despite her good intentions, often end up with disastrous results. Some incidents she is directly responsible for include:

* Mutant Honey-Bee: Clawdia's "mad science" caused Honey-Bee to mutate into a feral Honey-Bee like creature that terrorized New York mindlessly looking to set up a new hive. It took the intervention of the Frenemies and the Fantastic Four (and the usage of the Human Torch and Drone as bait) to subdue the mutant Honey-Bee and return Petra to normal.

* Hornet: Clawdia discovered the Hornet symbiote and roped in Petra to help study it, in which the symbiote latched on to Petra and began to alter her personality, making her more aggressive and easily angered, as well as causing Petra to seek out more symbiote hosts to assimilate into "The Hive". After the Fantastic Four and Petra managed to rid Petra of the symbiote, the Hornet symbiote found a new host in Bugle reporter Edith Brock, before getting separated and experimented on by SHIELD, who then gave it to Flora Thompson.

## Gallery

Clawdia pogging at a video "proving" her theory of convergent evolutionClawdia and her little friendClawdia tormenting Kyle from South Park with Crab PeopleClawdia and Petra admiring Clawdia's latest experimentClawdia hanging out with the other cool crustaceansClawdia standing in front of a conspiracy boardClawdia hanging out with the other cool crustaceans (now in color!)Clawdia and the Daily Bagel's baker\conspiracy theorist are having a lively discussion (In the Decoupled Bee-verse)Clawdia targeted by Cheshire and his Fiendish FourClawdia getting attacked by Cheshire and his Fiendish FourCrustaccia, defeated by Cheshire's Fiendish FourAn injured Clawdia, cradled by Honey-Bee, who questions Hornet about the attack