Alexis May (Earth-36)

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## Tarantula

* Tarantula
* Unmasked

## **Notes**

* Alexis May, and by extension, Donuts exist outside of mainstream Marvel Universe continuity. Themselves, their stories, and other characters are unrelated and not connected to the Marvel Multiverse.

Las Vegas' Neighborhood Glider, The Spectacle of Lights and Amazement

**Nicknames**

Al, Lex, Jackie, Missy Elliot, Janet Jackson, A-Team

**Editorial Names**

The Friendly Neighborhood Tarantula, The Dastardly Tarantula

**Given Titles**

Void Knight, The Wielder of The Necrosword, The Would-Be Prince of The Void, The Black Sheep of The McFarlane's

## Affiliations & Relationships

### Relatives

**Biological Family**

* Hakeem James (father, deceased)
* Ania May (mother, alive)
* Guy James (brother, alive)

### Companions

**Lovers**

* Shay Daniels ((Earth-36) soulmate, deceased)
* Lexi McFarlane (crush)

**Friends**

* Veronica Meyers (Earth-36)
* Ren Carter (Earth-36)
* Evan Edwards (Earth-505)
* Max Brooks (Earth-17)
* Han Wylder (Earth-808)
* Shay Daniels (Earth-505)
* Shay Daniels (Earth-47)
* Damien Cates (Bedlam)

### Affiliations

**As Alexis**

* Defy Media Incorporated
* Lauder University

**As Tarantula**

* Bruiser Brigade
* The Zinchari Conclave
	+ The Champions
* TLC; formerly

## Origin & Living Status

### Origin

Eaten by a giant prehistoric spider called a Zinchari

### Birthplace

Spring Valley, Las Vegas, Nevada. Earth-36

### Reality

Native* Earth-36

Immigrated

* Earth-6161

## Personal Information

### Occupation

Vigilante, mutliversal protector, student, paid intern

## Creators & Appearances

### Creator(s)

NeoFantasy & Morpheus

The young woman named **Alexis May** is known across two universes as The Friendly Neighborhood **Tarantula**. Born on Earth-36 to police captain Hakeem James and Dr. Ania May, she lived in Las Vegas for her entire life and it wasn't until she met Shay Daniels that her life would change. The two became close friends and even began to date when they entered high school. Sadly, there would be a terrible accident. One day at Spring Valley High, it was attacked by a new mutant with the ability to produce sonic screams. Here, she awoken a prehistoric spider underneath the school who was part of a race of prehistoric spiders called The Zinchari. Alexis would be eaten by the spider but spit up after it had died, bestowing her with incredible abilities. However, she would find the darker truth that Shay was killed in the ensuing chaos. Vowing to be the person Shay always saw her as, she gained the saying based off of his birth year, "***'02 till infinity***" and became Las Vegas' resident superhero, **Tarantula**.

She would go onto have an interesting yet isolated life as she refused to engage in friends. However, this would change as she entered her senior year of high school whenever she met two transfer students, Veronica Meyers and Ren Carter who would come to learn her secret and become the only friends she made in high school. They would become increasingly important as Veronica discovered her connection to The Nightosphere, a strange and otherworldly dimension that gifted her magical abilities and Ren discovered her heightened intelligence after stealing an experimental EXO suit from her father's company. The trio would go on to form the team, TLC and fight several villains such as Meek, Shriek, Phantasm, and the supervillain team, Supreme Clientele. After graduating from Spring Valley High, she would encounter another Tarantula from an alternative reality named Max Brooks who would recruit her to join the mutliversal Zinchari team known as The Champions in order to protect all realities relating to The Zinchari. She agreed.

More recently, Alexis would be assigned to Earth-6161 in order to see if two potential prospects were ready to join The Champions, **Lexi McFarlane** and **Damien Cates**. Under orders to not reveal her true origins, she fabricated a story about how she gained abilities by way of being bitten by a spider that came from Arasaka. She would earn their trust and join their team, **Bruiser Brigade** whilst enrolling into ESU. Here, she would encounter new villains and begin to slowly learn more about Zinchari Avatars and Void Knights. However, she would further learn that Earth-6161 didn't have a Shay and in return, created Lexi and Damien to take his place, two halves of a whole with both embodying the hero. With this revelation, it began to put Alexis on the path of healing as she realized that she was meant for something greater and that Shay's death didn't define her. Reiterating her saying to Lexi and Damien which became the Bruiser Brigade's motto, "***'02 till infinity.***"

## **Attributes**

### **Powers**

**Zinchari Avatar**: After Alexis was eaten by a Zinchari Spider, she was bestowed with incredible abilities which unwillingly placed her in the hands of destiny. Her abilities are drastically different than those of other Zinchari members but more like Han Wylder and Donny Pichelli as they are the unique batch of Zinchari Avatars as they were given powers from the more powerful members of that clan. However, she still had the base abilities that all Zinchari Avatars gain. Having been stated by Shay Daniels, Evan Edwards, and even Madam Webb herself, Alexis is arguably one of the more powerful Zinchari Avatars and is more powerful than all of the Void Knights but it is because of this power that she has to be careful with it. Her power is only rivaled by two people. First, Lexi McFarlane because of her duplication ability, paralytic talons, limited telepathy, and her combat background. Second, Damien Cates because he figured out how to add more abilities to Bedlam by way of hacking his Codex along with being the only Void Knight to have a perfect symbiosis outside of the creator.

* **Superhuman Physiology**: Alexis has an enhanced physiology that is stronger than Prime Universe - Earth-505 - Shay and a few others, barring Han Wylder and Donny Pichelli. Her strength - and by extension, durability - is extremely high where she has shown to be able to hold up a crumbling building with one hand and rescuing people with the other. She has taken hits from several different superhumans - both magic based and non - where she was able to recover either immediately or quickly. Her agility, equilibrium, stamina, and reflexes have been heightened to the point that acrobatics are not a problem for Alexis anymore as she has shown great skill in all fields. Her acrobatic ability is only rivaled by Han - who is the most acrobatic Zinchari Avatar - but she beats all other Avatars in the reflexes department because of one of her more unique abilities. Lastly, she is a healing factor that allows for her to heal from different injuries ranging from cuts to broken bones that vary from time of healing. This also slows down her aging - like all Zinchari Avatars - to an extreme degree.
* **"Danger Danger"/Zinchari-Sense**: Due to the Zinchari that ate her, Alexis has a highly fine-tuned and elaborate Zinchari-Sense. Dubbed "Danger Danger" by Alexis - who says this every time it goes off -, this sense allows for Alexis to detect danger around her in a 365-degree radius field around 3-feet of her. However, where this changes is that she can identity the danger, measure the level and amount of danger, and be given time - dubbed "Quantum Time" - as time slows down relative to only her which gives her time to react to situations faster than others. Danger Danger also acts as an actual precognitive ability as she will receive glimpses of the future in dreams or in the form of visions which heightens her "feelings of deja vu" whenever she is in the situation she saw. These visions are not always accurate nor can she see anything more than one person in the vision but she is receiving training from Mademoiselle Carver of Earth-505 in this regard. This sixth sense also extends to a connection to other Zinchari Avatars and Void Knights she develops a relationship with as Danger Danger will randomly activate whenever someone that also has ESP - who is part of the Zinchari Conclave or Void Hive - is in extreme danger. This was showcased whenever Alexis showed up to help Damien fight King Crimson.
* **Wall-Crawling**: Due to being digested inside of the Zinchari's venom, her genetics were changed - naturally - and one of these ways is her unique wall-crawling ability. Whenever she attaches herself to a surface, she can mentally control the adhesion level she posses by manipulating the space between atoms. Where outer electron's native function is repulsion, this allows for Alexis to change this to attraction and grants her the ability to crawl across all surfaces with ease. This also extends to the amount of weight she can lift off of surfaces. So far, she was able to fling a dumpster with her adhesion.
* **"Wicked"/Thermal Energy Manipulation**: Where as other Zinchari Avatars are able to simply heat up his hands, Alexis produces a high-amount of excess thermal energy within her body which always keeps her warm and virtually eliminated her body's function to sweat. However, this also led to something else entirely. Due to her abnormally high-thermal energy count, Alexis is able to manipulate this energy in controlled bursts and entire move-sets. These actions vary in reference to power and can either give someone a sunburn or melt enter walls of metal with just a touch. However, more interestingly, it - for some reason - affects people with genetic alterations or mutations more destructively. When she used this ability on Overdrive - who is a sentient metaphysical virus -, he caught ablaze and actually affected the physical realm by setting things on fire by accident which he had never done before. Another example is whenever she accidentally used it on Lexi who scared her and set her cells on fire from within, cooking her internally and this was only stopped whenever Bedlam bonded with Lexi and healed her (thankfully, Lexi blamed herself for this incident because she scared Alexis). After Evan tested her blood, he revealed to her that her body needs to release the excess thermal energy daily and that her body set up safety-precautions in order to completely halt future thermal-based mutations. This is because any more mutations would kill her as it would generate even more thermal energy.
	+ **Solar Flare**: Arguably this is Alexis' most extreme ability. Alexis can expel all of the thermal energy within her body in one large blast that results in the scorching of her local environment - within 8 feet of her - and the burning of anyone around her. While the burns aren't as serve as direct contact would be, it will and has left first-degree burns on enemies. This ability can melt anything binding her and generate ash as well as knock back large groups of enemies. The first time Alexis used this ability, she suffered from hypothermia for a week. However, as she has gotten older and learned to hone this ability, she only gets a shiver now but it still does leave her drained completely of excess thermal energy, leaving only enough to keep her alive.
	+ **Dehydration**: A trick she learned from watching a movie, Alexis can raise her external body temperature to match that of a supercharged sauna and dehydrate anyone near her. She did this to Leslie Brown - her universe's Vulture - as they were flying and this resulted in Leslie falling unconscious from dehydration. She also uses this ability to mess with people sometimes as she find it amusing.
	+ **Immolation Ball**: Inspired by Ryu from Street Fighter, Alexis developed the ability to release a concentrated ball of thermal energy that doubles as a concussive blast that knocks back surrounding enemies and burns the intended target. The initial burn is simple first-degree but if Alexis charges the ball, it can reach up to fourth-degree burns.
	+ **Gliding/Hovering**: While not able to fly, she can use the excess thermal energy at her disposal to glide in the air or hover with it. It is important to note that after Evan tested her blood, he discovered that while she is mutating, her body set up safety-precautions on further mutations - as mentioned before -.

### **Abilities**

* **Gifted Artist**: Alexis is an extremely talented sketch artist and graffiti artist. These skills have served her well throughout the years as she created TLC's logo that she would spray paint near criminals as their "call-sign" and then later, she would do this with Bruiser Brigade. Her skills transitioned well into