Spider-Powers/How to Obtain

Overview
**How to Obtain**

The Spider-People possess the traits, attributes, and/or abilities of a spider, such as super strength, agility, and the ability to climb on surfaces. Most of the time these individuals are not born with their abilities and instead gain it through other means, mostly due to accidents. The following is a list of all the known ways in which a Spider-People can obtain their amazing abilities.

## Spider-Bite

Most incarnations of spider-people obtained their powers in this way, being the most common way to obtain these spider-like powers. There are several alternatives to the sting that can give spider heroes their abilities.

* **Radioactive Spider Bite**: Being the most common bite, the individual in question is bitten by a radioactive spider exposed to a large dose of radiation, managing to obtain the abilities of the arachnid after being bitten by it.
* **Enhanced Spider Bite**: This is another common way to gain the abilities of a Spider-People, similar to the radioactive spider, the individual is bitten by a genetically engineered or altered spider. Usually created by an organization that would end up biting him, or her, and eventually giving them their powers.

## Magic Manifestation

Some Spider-People gain their powers through mystical forces such as magic or sorcery. Because of these, the individuals who obtain the arachnid powers in this way have organic spider webs, so they do not have to worry about making a web-shooter like those who are bitten by a spider do (even those who were bitten by the arachnid they still have a small probability of also developing organic webbing).

* **Magic Spider-Bite**: Being similar to the classic Spider-Bite, the magic bite allowed the user to gained the powers of an arachnid as well as additional abilities of its own.
* **Power Givers**: People related to things such as magic or sorcery, wizards, witches and others that give spider-like powers to the spider-people either as a blessing or a curse.

## Genetic Manipulation

Being one of the less common ways of obtaining Spider-Powers, some Spider-People gain their powers trough a medical procedure either thanks to an special drug, a failed experiment or other things related to biology and genetics that doesn't involved a spider-bite. This way of obtaining powers turns out to be the most dangerous because it can result in several permanent changes to the user. The person who obtains their spider-powers in this way has a high probability of ending up being more spider-like than a person, which would give them great abilities unique to the rest of the Spider-People but with the secondary effect of developing a primitive personality that resembles to those of spiders. Another side effect may also be gaining some extra limbs because the procedure alters the cells more than the DNA. Unlike the rest of the ways to obtain spider-powers, which only affects the DNA to a lesser extent.

* **Gene Splicing**: This formed involves the fusing and splicing of Spider DNA with human DNA often resulting in Spider Powers, except for the lack of an actual Spider-Sense. Instead, Miguel has "Accelerated Vision" which allows him to see farther, and better than a normal human. He also has fangs that contain a paralyzing, non-toxic venom to attack people with.
* **Serum Injection**: In this way, the individual receives a type of vaccine or an improved serum that has spider blood or DNA. This serum gives them the superhuman powers of the spider, managing to become the spider-people of this universe. They can take it by drinking it or injecting it into themselves.

## Electronic Connection

Being another uncommon way to obtain spider powers, in this way individuals need something else, preferably something that has to do with robotics or electronics, to use their abilities. They may or may not be bitten by a spider, however despite those events most of the Spider-People's powers can only be used if they are linked to the other item in question.

* **Robopathy**: This Spider-People can be bitten by an spider and getting spider-likes abilities, however they can only used those abilities if the user is wearing an robotic armor since without it, they can't used the classic Spider-People's powers, the only power they can used without the help of the machine is their Spider-Sense.
* **Internet-Hybrid**: The least common form of this mode is the hybrid internet where the person in question creates a virtual avatar with all the powers of spider-people. Thus, they continue to be a normal person in their universe, but after being placed in a virtual world, they obtain powers through the avatar. They are also immune to the glitch effect because, since they are an avatar, the spider-people do not have atoms that can be damaged by it multiversal travel. Until now, Margo Kess was the only known spider-person to gain her powers that way.

## Power Inheritance

This is a less common way to obtain spider-people powers but still possible. It happens when the individual in question is a relative of an already established Spider-People. Not all people who are relatives of a Spider-People get their powers but some others do.

* **Spider-Cloning**: That happens when a spider-people is cloned, whether by a villain or organization, the clone gains their memories as well as all their powers. These clones usually gain unique abilities depending on how they were created.
* **Bloodline Inheritance**: These versions of Spider-People gain their powers if their blood is related to that of a Spider-People who has already obtained their powers, such as a son or daughter, because of this the child may eventually develop the abilities of their father or mother. This is more likely to happen if both parents have spider-powers. The time at which these skills develop varies depending on the person but usually ranges from early childhood to mid adolescence.