Jessica Drew (Earth 1) - Smallville Extended Universe

**Jessica Drew**, also known as **Spider-Woman**, was born in London but at a young age moved with her parents to Sokovia, where she became gravely ill from prolonged radiation exposure. Her father, geneticist Jonathan Drew, injected her with an experimental serum based on the blood of irradiated spiders to save her life. Because the serum required time to take effect, Jessica was placed in a hibernation chamber for years and placed in the care of Jonathan’s research partner after her father left for the United States and her mother died. Awakening in the 21st Century, Jessica sought civilization and found a nearby village. She was captured by the HYDRA faction led by Wolfgang von Strucker in Sokovia and brainwashed into serving HYDRA as an agent under the codename **Arachne**. She was trained by some of the best HYDRA agents in the modern age, becoming a gifted enhanced operative sent on multiple assassination missions around the world. She was then saved and adopted by Nancy Adams who she lives with.

She later reformed and became a S.H.I.E.L.D agent and has served as a member of the Avengers and an Agent of SWORD.

## Personality

Jessica Drew is a woman with a childish attitude and needs some supervision by her comerades in S.H.I.E.L.D and her mother.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Superhuman Strength:** Spider-Woman's muscular density and strength have been extraordinarily enhanced and enable her to lift about 7 tons.
* **Superhuman Speed:** Spider-Woman is capable of running and moving at speeds much greater than even the finest human athlete.
* **Superhuman Stamina:** Spider-Woman's musculature generates less fatigue toxins during physical activity than the musculature of an ordinary human. She can exert herself at peak capacity for several hours before fatigue begins to impair her.
* **Superhuman Durability:** Spider-Woman's body is somewhat tougher and more resistant to injury than an ordinary human's, although she is far from invulnerable. She is capable of withstanding impact forces that would severely injure or kill an ordinary human with only mild to moderate discomfort.
* **Superhuman Agility:** Spider-Woman's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are enhanced to levels beyond the human body's natural limits.
* **Superhuman Reflexes:** Spider-Woman's natural reaction time and reflexes are enhanced to levels beyond the human body's natural limits.
* **Superhuman Flexibility:** Spider-Woman's body is extraordinarily limber and her tendons and connective tissues are twice as flexible as the average human being's, despite the augmented musculature and its enhanced strength.
* **Superhuman Hearing:** Spider-Woman's hearing is superhumanly acute and enables her to detect sound at virtually any frequency, and she's been known to detect, sort out, and correctly identify sounds through thick steel doors, and across considerable distances.
* **Contaminant Immunity:** Spider-Woman's metabolism rapidly creates powerful immunities to all forms of toxins, poisons and drugs, after an initial exposure that usually makes her dizzy. Her body is totally immune to radiation.
* **Wall-Crawling:** Spider-Woman's limbs can adhere to surfaces via electrostatic attraction. Spider-Woman can hold and carry a considerable amount of extra weight while sticking to walls without falling off; it's safe to assume that the weight she can carry is dozens of times her own, and the limits of how long she can do this before fatigue sets in are still unknown.
* **Venom Blasts:** Her body possesses an inordinate amount of bio-electricity that she has learned to channel and discharge through her hands, in controlled bursts of what she calls "Venom Blasts". These energy projections vary in power; they mostly affect the nervous system in humans. Spider-Woman can regulate them from simply a stun to potent enough to kill an average-sized man in the same way that a lightning bolt could kill him.
* **Pheromone Secretion:** Her metabolism generates certain types of pheromones that can create fear, elicit attraction and/or repulsion on others, depending on unknown factors which might include gender and mood.