Fire Spider

*"Even if things don't go as planned, we still have to accept our responsibility for the actions we take."*
—Fire Spider to Anna Stone
**Fire Spider** is a world-renowned superhero, the leader of the Super Hero Agency, the founder and leader of the late superhero team, the Flaming Heroes, and the President of Earth.

Xavier "Xavi" Turell gained pyrokinetic and arachnid-based superpowers from a scientist, and used his gifts as the superhero, **Fire Spider**. He formed his own team, the Flaming Heroes, and was later recruited by Shadow Mind to join the SHA, where he quickly rose through the ranks but gained a public reputation as a menace.

Fire Spider was killed by Eagle during Ωmega War II, and his spirit transferred into a robotic body that he inhabited for a long period of time.

In May 2020, Fire Spider wound up on the Etha space station on Earth-1, where he met the Arcadian Rebels. Since then, he's worked with them on an on-and-off basis, until the events of Diana Stone's fight against the Rebels forced him to take a back seat in order to take care of her son, Joey.

## Biography

### Early Life

#### Great Power

*"I remember that I used to love superheroes as a kid. Loved them. How they were the best of the best, how they always won, how they didn't fear anything... I wanted to be just like them. And one day, my wish came true."*
—Fire Spider
Xavi Turell was born in Madrid, Spain in April 2000. He acquired the proportionate powers of a spider, as well as pyrokinetic abilities. When he was just six years old, a scientist invited him to his shack, where he asked him to drink a chemical formula. Being a naïve child, he would take any chance to become a superhero, so he drank the formula.

Hours later, he woke up feeling physically invigorated, as if every part of his body had been "recharged." The scientist told him to lay low and practice using his powers, and he spent the next several years training. He took up the moniker of "Fire Spider" because of his amazing abilities.

According to a World Government Council member during Operation F.L.A.W., Turell would attend law school at an unknown point in time.

#### Superhero Sensation

As Fire Spider grew in experience, so did his reputation. He became known for single-handedly defeating criminal gangs and teams of super-villains. This led to him receiving invitations to join other teams of heroes, with each time not lasting long. Fire Spider preferred to work alone, because he liked it and others could not keep up with him.

Fire Spider traveled outside of Spain to perform his heroic duties, but when he returned home, he realized that his country was under the threat of Darktime. He realized that his closest friends also had superpowers, so he brought them together to form a team.

### Flaming Heroes

#### Founding the Team

Fire Spider founded the Flaming Heroes, a group of superheroes, to combat threats. The team consisted of his closest superpowered friends, and he provided them with costumes corresponding to their unique powers. Namely, they fought against Darktime, Fire Spider's archenemy, until he gave him a chance to be good and join the team.

For a week and a half, Darktime joined the Flaming Heroes on their missions, albeit under constant surveillance.

#### Taking an Oath

Fire Spider led the Flaming Heroes against the villain Wormnest, who intended to use their self-replicating worms to brainwash the masses. Fire Spider was saved by Darktime, who intercepted one of the villain's mind-controlling worms, at the cost of his own goodness.

The heroes proceeded to thwart Wormnest's plans, and left before Darktime would wake up. Although his teammates were happy that Darktime was no longer one of them, Fire Spider knew that his enemy was briefly a true hero.

Fire Spider then took an oath to always protect his friends.

#### Shadow Mind's Offer

Fire Spider was found by the superhero Shadow Mind when the latter was on a business trip in Spain. Fire Spider was offered membership of the Super Hero Agency, and he accepted, but not before leaving his closest friend in charge of the Flaming Heroes.

### Super Hero Agency Career

#### Rising through the Ranks

Afterwards, Fire Spider moved into the SHA's headquarters. He passed the agent test with flying colors, and quickly rose through the heroic ranks. He even got his own headquarters.

#### Operation H.U.N.T.

When black turkeys were rampaging through the city, Fire Spider suggested that the SHA lure them into a trap. He went with Shadow Mind to investigate black stains found in an area of the town the same day. While their computer analyzed the evidence, he prepared the "checkmate." After Shadow Mind brought three of them to the trap, Fire Spider interrogated them and later interrogated their leader after he caught them, finding clues each time. He learned that the gang's lieutenant held vital information regarding a dangerous weapon, and that he was being hunted.

When electricity suddenly went down in the city, Fire Spider went to rescue Ice Storm, Spark and Phoenix after they went to the bigger boss' hideout and were captured. He rescued Spark, and when they went to rescue Ice Storm, they were trapped in a plasma laser cell. However, he figured out a way to escape. When the alarms went off, he sent Ice Storm and Spark to the jet while he went to go rescue Phoenix.

He was found by Spark's evil half, but they were soon joined by Fire Spider's dark clone, Dark Spider, who wanted to destroy him. While the two villains fought, Fire Spider and Spark were joined by Darkwave, who helped them rescue Phoenix. He exploded Phoenix's cell, and they went back to the jet. However, when Fire Spider learned that the turkeys were captured, he and Darktime went to rescue them.

They rescued the turkeys from a hideout but accidentally activated the self-destruct sequence. As they were escaping, Darktime was caught under a large falling rock, so Fire Spider crafted a large web slingshot to send him to the jet, but in doing so he was caught in the explosion.

Fire Spider barely survived and was found by Spark, who brought him to the jet. He was eventually brought to the SHA headquarters, where Spark discovered that he had a secret workshop where was working on a new body with bionic upgrades for himself. Spark transferred Fire Spider's mind into his new body to save his life.

Afterwards, he went with Spark to Darktime's headquarters to rescue Darkwave. They discovered that Darktime placed bombs on the boat that Shadow Mind was about to enter, so they warned him about it beforehand. They went to go save him after he was found by Dark Shadow, but were defeated by Dark Spider and Spark's evil half.

He woke up on a tall building, and was told that Spark and Ice storm were both in life-threatening situations, but Dark Spider told him that he could only save one in time. When Dark Shadow appeared and claimed that he was the leader, and not Dark Spider, Fire Spider took advantage of their arguing and destroyed Dark Spider by firing two supernova fireballs into his face. He then left to save his friends by catching Spark (who was falling from a skyscraper) with a web-net, and stopped lava from reaching Ice Storm by creating a fiery force-field.

Fire Spider regrouped with his allies to fight their dark clones, but since he disintegrated Dark Spider, he had to fight Darktime. He taunted the villain with jokes, and defeated him. Back at the agency headquarters, he began to play video games and was joined by his allies. Fire Spider later returned to his original body.

#### Operation F.U.R.

Fire Spider was called by Ice Storm when the latter was shrunken by a villain. He was also called for backup by Shadow Mind when the latter discovered a villain's headquarters in the sky. Together, they fought Darktime and another villain, but then they were found by Dark Shadow, who was riding upon a dragon.

He tricked Dark Shadow into fighting Darktime. When he and the other heroes encountered Darkwave, Fire Spider attacked him and took his serum. He then fled, and defeated Ice Storm, Phoenix and Cyberbat because they were in his way. Spark also failed to dispatch him, but Shadow Mind was able to stop him. Back at the headquarters, Fire Spider revealed that he had been viewing the agency's heroes as vigilantes who were above the law, and believed they would accomplish more if they accepted that. Shadow Mind then presented him with a newspaper referring to Fire Spider as a menace.

Fire Spider was then alerted of a nearby robber, so he and Spark went to intercept their vehicle: a limousine. However, Fire Spider discovered that the robber was actually the journalist who called him as menace, and was dressed for a costume party. Fire Spider's public image was exacerbated. Cyberbat tried to help his situation by intimidating the journalist into preserving his reputation, but the next morning they published an issue stating that Fire Spider was a villain who sent an accomplice to threaten him. Fire Spider scolded Cyberbat.

Phoenix also tried to help Fire Spider's reputation, but they also failed, as the journalist (who was promoted to editor-in-chief) believed that Fire Spider sent them to blackmail him. When the mayor of the city was found dead, the editor-in-chief believed that Fire Spider was responsible. When police officers showed up to the headquarters to arrest him, he attacked one officer and escaped.

Fire Spider was later found by Ice Storm while the former was on a solo mission in the city. Afterwards, he went to go see Spark, but found Dark Spider instead. He shot at him with a machine gun, and cut his head with a katana. He and Darkwave also defeated two of Twister's enemies easily. He killed one of them with a sonic wave flamethrower. When Darkwave wanted to scold him, Fire Spider punched him in the face, told him he stuck his nose where it didn't belong, and left. However, after Darkwave defeated him, he found out that he was unnaturally drunk, which he believed to be a sabotage attempt.

When more villains appeared, Fire Spider unleashed his "atomic flare," he inadvertently caused major destruction throughout the city. While his fellow heroes worked on making repairs, Fire Spider was questioned by Shadow Mind until the police arrived to arrest him. The police told the heroes to fix all the damagers. Fire Spider returned later, was promoted to Commander, and left soon after seeing a news report. He returned again afterwards and suggested that the heroes move into the headquarters.

#### Operation B.A.T.

During Operation B.A.T., Fire Spider was questioned by Ice Storm in the former's penthouse regarding Cyberbat's disappearance. When Ice Storm became suspicious of him, he attempted to spy on him by climbing up to his window. However, when Fire Spider shut his windows, he caused Ice Storm and his robot assistant to plummet down to the street.

Fire Spider later found a clue involving Cyberbat's disappearance, and called Shadow Mind to tell him about it while the latter visited Ice Storm in the hospital. Before Shadow Mind came to see him, Fire Spider foiled a bombing attempt, which he believed was connected to Cyberbat's absence. His clue was one of Cyberbat's gadgets, leading him to believe he was actually kidnapped. They decided to try and figure out who kidnapped them so they could rescue Cyberbat from their potential hideout.

He eavesdropped on a conversation Phoenix had with his artificial intelligence, being insulted that he would take his rank if Phoenix was kicked out of the agency for dereliction of duty.

Fire Spider met with Shadow Mind and Ice Storm to go over another clue found by Ice Storm: one of Cyberbat's boomerangs. However, it turned out to be an explosive boomerang, and after it went off, the evidence was destroyed. Fire Spider updated the Spark on what occurred, and then he detected Darkwave's helicopter being crashed by an unknown villain into a mountain. When it caused an avalanche that threatened the city, Spark evacuated the civilians while Fire Spider melted the avalanche. The act caused him to faint, and in his unconsciousness, he had a dream about the future in which he was captured by a villainous agency, along with Cyberbat.

Shortly afterwards, he was captured by the villainous agency along with Shadow Mind, Ice Storm, and Spark. However, he revealed his ace in the hole, Dark Spider, who was redeemed as a hero and arrived to liberate them. Darktime also revealed a trick up his sleeve: he had the Flaming Heroes under his control, and he had them fight the heroes. When he realized the futility of the situation, he merged with Dark Spider to become "Supreme Spider" and fought his former team along with Darktime so his friends could escape.

When Spark was shot by "Speeder," Shadow Mind removed the bullet with help from Fire Spider over the phone. Darktime then attacked the heroes with a piloted robot, and they cooperated to defeat him, but Darktime perished in the process.

Fire Spider later found Cyberbat, who was being held hostage by "the Comedian." He sent in Dark Spider (posing as Fire Spider) to surrender, much to their surprise, while he came through the ceiling and knocked the Comedian out. When they brought Cyberbat back, they found the agency's headquarters destroyed, so Fire Spider invited them to rent a floor in his penthouse tower as a temporary headquarters.

#### Operation H.A.C.K.E.R.

Fire Spider announced Operation H.A.C.K.E.R. when an unidentified hacker appeared in the city. He spread awareness of the hacker, and he and other heroes spent weeks of investigation. However, this did not lead them anywhere, and they waited to see if they attacked again, which they did not.

#### Operation F.L.A.W.

*"As some of you probably know, I've carefully protected my secret identity during the years, but recent events have made me realize that I have to change. The Metapopulation Registration Act gives us a choice: we can either follow the path Forest Fire defends and let superheroes with powers completely out of control run rampant, or superheroes can be legal and recover some of the people's trust. I'm not wearing my old mask because I'm ashamed of what I do. I'm proud of who I am, and I'm here to prove it."*
—Fire Spider
In wake of Fire Spider's "atomic flare" incident, people began to demand that superheroes be held accountable for their actions. They desired for heroes to be trained just as police officers and firefighters are, and for them to reveal their names to the public. Altogether, the "Metapopulation Registration Act" (MRA) forced heroes to either abide by the law and reveal themselves to the world, or take another path. Fire Spider was one of the heroes who joined the pro-registration side.

When the law was put into motion, Fire Spider revealed his identity as Xavi Turell to the world and became the first registered superhero. He and the other pro-registration heroes prevented the anti-registration heroes' escape from the city with an infiltration. He and Ice Storm were later captured by Forest Fire, who planned to kill them, but was stopped by Dark Spider and the Twister.

When Forest Fire called upon a being known as "the one" for a wish, Fire Spider interfered and wished for her to be transported to Earth-4902, where the SHA never existed. The resistance on that Earth transport Fire Spider to them, and led a raid on her castle.

### SHA Leadership

A year and a half since the creation of the SHA, Fire Spider became its stand-in leader after Shadow Mind and Ice Storm, the Leader and Second-In-Command respectively, mysteriously went missing. He led the SHA through Earth's reconstruction efforts after the Uprising's invasion, became the liaison between the agency and planet Earth's government, the World Government Council (or WGC) and even recruited a new member, Iron Sentinel (the Sentinel of Earth-5621). However, after narrowly surviving an attack on their headquarters by an enemy army from another dimension, the SHA was forced to start travelling through other Earths as well. It was during this Operation, classified as Ωmega War II, that Fire Spider lost his life at the hands of Eagle, the interdimensional assassin, and became a ghost. However, during this time, he possessed his counterpart from Earth-86780 and went with him to the aforementioned universe, feeling like the SHA had to learn how to move on without him.

### Superhuman World War

#### Ghost Hero

However, shortly after arrival, Fire Spider, his counterpart and the Flaming Heroes of Earth-86780 were forced to evacuate their universe when it threatened to explode because of natural phenomena. However, due to an accident in the escape pods' programming, they were taken to the SHA universe, which had been torn apart by a war that started during the SHA's absence.

The two Fire Spiders eventually found the SHA, with the original deciding to keep his own presence secret while his counterpart did all the physical work.

During a police raid at Extreme Tower, the two Fire Spiders were captured by heavily armed officers and taken to the World Government Council (WGC) headquarters, where the Fire Spider of Earth-86780 (the WGC was unaware of both the interdimensional switch and the original Fire Spider being a ghost) would have to explain himself to the government before being locked up. To prevent this, Fire Spider took over his counterpart's body and explained everything. This enraged the counterpart in several ways, as he felt what the ghost did was a violation of trust.

Later on, during a mission in New Guinea with Iron Sentinel, who knew the secret of the two Fire Spiders, the heroes had to fight several enemies, taking advantage of the ghostly Fire Spider's physical possession techniques. During one of such battles, Fire Spider got stuck inside an enemy as this was knocked out. Not having enough experience to know how abandon an unconscious body, Fire Spider could only watch helplessly as, in Iron Sentinel's absence, his counterpart deployed a Ghost Bomb that would send the ghost hero back to death (ironically, the bomb was designed by Fire Spider and Cyberbat years prior) and ran away.

Fortunately, with the help of other SHA members, the villain inside which body Fire Spider was trapped in was carried to the Batcave before the bomb exploded. Seeing his counterpart with the other heroes, he decided to force his way out and reveal himself to blow the whistle on his counterpart's attempt to kill him. However, the Fire Spider of Earth-86780 took advantage of his ghost counterpart's unexplained and sudden appearance to frame him as a doppelganger created by an enemy of the SHA to separate them, which sounded more credible to the heroes. The ghost left the Batcave, but he was shot down by Eagle the moment he got out. The SHA members rushed out to see the ghostly Fire Spider lying wounded before Eagle, who managed to resist against the heroes and escape. The Fire Spider ghost also escaped, with his counterpart following him.

#### Return to Life as Fire Spider 3.0

After a confrontation in an abandoned residential building, the two Fire Spiders were attacked by Eagle. However, they managed to run away and lose their enemy. It was then that the Fire Spider of Earth-86780 suggested that his ghostly counterpart get a new body, because he felt tired of being manipulated like a robot. Upon hearing those words, Fire Spider remembered the robotic body he'd prepared for emergencies and headed over to the ruins of the SHA HQ with his counterpart. Using the physical features of the Fire Spider of Earth-86780 to bypass the security, the two heroes entered a secret lab underneath the HQ and uncovered an upgraded robotic body. Fire Spider's ghost integrated itself within the body's systems and returning to action one more time. Having fully aadapted to his new body, Fire Spider flew away from the HQ thanks to an on-board jetpack with his counterpart in tow, none of them realizing that Eagle was spying on them.

While flying, the two Fire Spiders noticed a WGC convoy, which they ignored held Iron Sentinel, Lightno-Strike and several other SHA members as part of a small SHA group who'd decided to begin peaceful negotiations with the WGC to abolish the S.E.A. However, the convoy spotted the two heroes and fired upon them, causing them to land on the train. As this happened, however, a hooded figure jumped on the train and quickly dispatched the two heroes, neutralizing Fire Spider on the spot (thanks to a lucky shot) and sent his Earth-86780 counterpart flying away from the train.

Fire Spider woke up as the only metahuman in the train, as the rest, both the hooded figure and the train's powered occupants, had escaped under mysterious circumstances. He was taken to thw WGC's Meeting Room, where he, as the sole member of the SHA found in the train, was supposed to convince the WGC to abolish the S.E.A. After a long argument, Fire Spider was reminded of who held the actual power in the WGC and requested an audience with the "Shadow Man", also referred to as the President of Earth. However, he got more than he bargained for when he realized that the Shadow Man was actually Darktime, his old nemesis, who'd gotten into politics after one of the SHA's assignments resulted in an invasion of Earth. As Darktime explained how he got to his current position, an argument sparked between them; the former villain believed that the heroes had failed Earth and had to be eliminated, while Fire Spider claimed it wasn't right to "sign a death sentence" for all the metapowered people on Earth. This led to a fight between the two of them, which ended with Darktime almost killing himself with a gun to become a martyr. However, while Fire Spider pushed the gun a bit out of the way, the bullet grazed Darktime's head and his body fell to the ground. At this moment, Shadowbat crashed through the wall, with two robots, the Shadow-Buster and the Spider-Buster, following him. As Shadowbat told him to run away, Fire Spider took Darktime and got him to a hospital. However, it was revealed that Darktime had slipped into a coma. Devastated by this, Fire Spider let himself be captured.

#### Fire Spider 4.0, President of Earth

As he was about to be taken into the WGC HQ, however, Fire Spider remembered Darktime's words during their battle. He instantly got away from his captors and got to the WGC's Meeting Room, where he established that Darktime was no longer available to fulfill his duties and that, as the WGC agent of highest rank who didn't belong to the Council itself (he was the liaison between them and the SHA itself, which counted), he would be taking over. As the Councilmen looked at each other in surprise, Fire Spider morphed his body using nanotechnology into a bulkier, more resistant body, and even added a suit to it as he sat on the Shadow Man's seat. At this moment, Fire Spider became President of Earth. However, a signal was sent by him to all electronic devices on Earth, showing Fire Spider's face (with mask on) with the subtitles "NEW PRESIDENT", making him public in contrast to his predecessors, who ruled from the shadows. Shortly after this, Fire Spider used his presidential authority to assemble all superhumans on the planet, be it heroes or villains, in order to stop a crisis that could've killed countless people. Thanks to the aid of many superheroes and even some supervillains, Earth was saved, but people mostly saw Fire Spider as the main hero, for he had been the one to assemble everyone to save the planet. Fire Spider then took advantage of this moment to announce that he was abolishing the S.E.A and reinstating superhumans into activity, ending the Superhuman World War and garnering him full support from superhumans and major support from normal people.

However, after this, Eagle attacked on behalf of a mysterious ally, leading to a full-blown battle between the SHA (and its allies) and the assassin; however, the latter completely overpowered most of the heroes. After this, a moment of calm followed, in which Eagle revealed that his reason to hate the SHA was that they involved themselves in the Ωmega War II and killed many of his partners when they were supposed to stay away from the conflict. After this, he went into a frenzy and started shooting at civilians, which urged the heroes to spread to minimize collateral damage; however, the more they spread, the less they actually accomplished. Thankfully, Eagle was stopped and gave the heroes information about a base in the Arctic, but Fire Spider mentioned that the reason behind the assassin's frenzy was a disease called Dimensium Dementia.

After this, however, Cyberbat and Iron Sentinel asked Fire Spider about the Dimensium Dementia, but it was his Earth-86780 counterpart who explained what it was; it was a condition that occurred whenever someone stayed away from their home universe for too long, resulting in changes in personality that made the afflicted violent and obsessed with either going home or remaking the world they're inhabiting into something resembling their own world. The Fire Spider of Earth-86780 was asked to reveal how he knew all that, but he tried to avoid the question. However, Fire Spider revealed that his Earth-86780 counterpart was infected. This surprised the SHA members present, but they were relieved to hear that helping them was slowing down the infection. At the request of the Fire Spider of Earth-86780, promised to stop him should he ever show signs of being unnecessarily violent or wanting to destroy the world. After this, Fire Spider ordered the heroes to leave for back-up, as they'd raid the base Eagle mentioned a few days later and wanted to have as much help as possible.

A while after, Fire Spider met with Cyberbat's civilian identity in the latter's house, where they talked about the past seven months, which went from the beginning of Operation: Omegaverse to the present day, and what they had to do to achieve peace.

Days later, in his office, Fire Spider was confronted by his counterpart of Earth-23568, who went by the name of Dark Spider. The two had a small talk in which Dark Spider revealed that the organization Eagle was working with, the SVO (Super Villain Organization), had come to the SHAverse because of one of the SHA's members being formerly involved with something called "Pure Havoc". After this, Dark Spider ran away as the WGC HQ was attacked with missiles while Fire Spider was inside. After digging his way out, Fire Spider assembled the SHA to help rescue any survivors from the attack. Afterwards, he had a meeting with the SHA to discuss Pure Havoc. Iron Sentinel's other half, the Lonely One (both of whom now went by the name of Equilibrium), explained that Pure Havoc was an operation in which he and another friend named travelled through the multiverse to conquer it; this caused the destruction of a hundred universes and the conquering of three hundred more, only to be halted by Earth-23568's resistance. Fire Spider then sent Equilibrium, Fire Flame, Cyberbat, Blue Titan and a newly integrated recruit, Inferno Guardian, to the SVO headquarters in the Arctic for a recon mission.

Afterwards, Fire Spider, in a camp set in the Arctic, met the heroes to receive their report. However, he noticed Cyberbat was missing. He was told that Cyberbat had been infected by symbiotes who worked under Dark Spider and, to an extent, the SVO. This prompted Fire Spider to transform his body into Warmode, a one-man army suit, and launch a full assault against the SVO HQ with the aid of many super heroes, including the SHA. However, Dark Spider's symbiotes proved to be extremely dangerous and began infecting almost everyone, except Fire Spider, who not only was able to weaken the symbiotes with fire, one of their two only weaknesses, but his robotic body made symbiotic possession impossible. Taking advantage of this, Fire Spider ran into the SVO HQ by himself, locked the door (leaving his teammates behind to be infected) and moved on to confront Dark Spider, who proceeded to "broadcast" the fight between them through the infected heroes' eyes. While the battle was back-and-forth, Dark Spider was eventually able to overpower Fire Spider and destroy his body from the inside with an electromagnetic pulse (EMP). However, a last-second plan by Fire Spider allowed him to survive the EMP and turn the odds in his favor, finally killing Dark Spider with a katana. After this, he barely managed to escape the crumbling of Dark Spider's section of the SVO HQ where the two were fighting. As he left in the last second, his body failed and he had a dream of being in a plane with Darkwave's civilian identity. Fire Spider then entrusted the SHA to continue the assault as he left for Extreme Tower to find Darkwave. However, as he got there, he was informed by EXTREME., Extreme's private Artificial Intelligence (AI), that Darkwave had passed away while fighting Veymous, a galactic warlord. Fire Spider then hurried to scan the fight scene, but only found a few traces of dark matter energy which proved that Darkwave had been teleported somewhere else, possibly to another universe. After this, he returned to the SVO HQ only to find the assault over and the villains returned to their universes. A few weeks afterwards, he delivered an eulogy for the Flaming Heroes, his super hero team killed by Eagle, and revealed a memorial statue built in their honor.

### The Three Years

#### Shadow Mind's Betrayal

A few weeks after the assault on the Super Villain Organization, Fire Spider found out that one of the founding members of the SHA, codenamed Phoenix, had been murdered in his own house. This sparked an internal conflict within the group, where rather than work together, each hero went off on their own to find the killer, believing it to be one of their own. In Fire Spider's case, he gave Eagle a full pardon and investigated Phoenix's crime scene with him, along with all the subsequent ones. He even buried each one of the victims, including Diana Stone, after investigating their deaths. The conflict came to an "end" when Shadow Mind, the old founder of the SHA, returned to pass the torch to Fire Spider, only to be "assassinated" seconds later by the killer they were looking for. However, a final clue intentionally left on the scene led him to meet up with Shadow Mind himself, who revealed that not only was he alive, he also was the killer all along; he had only founded the SHA so he could rule the world with it, yet Fire Spider beat him to the punch by becoming President of Earth and thus he started killing all of its missing members to "help" his successor. After a fight, Shadow Mind committed suicide by jumping into one of Fire Spider's attacks on purpose, thus leaving the case simultaneously solved and unsolved. This unsatisfactory conclusion, along with the internal struggles that occurred during this incident, created a rift in the SHA that didn't really heal, even as time passed.

#### Obsession

After the incident with Shadow Mind, Fire Spider tried to split his focus between leading the SHA and running the planet, but the past months had taken a toll on the team's unity. One by one, the team members left to live normal lives, leaving him alone to rule the world by himself. Using his robot body, he kept himself awake at all times, working 24/7 to keep order on the planet while also investigating a way to bring Darkwave back. This, sadly, had lasting consequences for his private life; he neglected his parents and brother, along with all his friends, which in turn led him to focus even more on his political career. In the end, he found himself completely alone, leading the world mostly by himself for three years.

#### The Portal

Around the first week of January 2020, three years after the SHA's unofficial disbandment, Fire Spider discovered that a group of supervillains was going to fire a portal with energy readings similar to to the ones from when Darkwave disappeared. With no time to waste, he headed over there himself and made quick work of the villains, only to be thrown into the portal as it was being fired up. While he doesn't know how long he spent jumping through worlds, as he claimed that his perception of time was blurry, he wouldn't be heard from again until May 2020... when he ended up in Earth-1.

### Traveling to Earth-1

#### Waking Up on a Distant Planet

In May 2020, Fire Spider mysteriously ended up floating in space and was found unconscious by a crew of aliens, who took his body to the Etha space station. The Arcadian Rebels landed on the same station to refuel on the same day. When he snuck away from the aliens, he mistook Tiresias for Lonely One, initiating a spat with him, until the rest of the Rebels sorted the situation out.

When the surrounding aliens became hostile, Fire Spider attempted to defuse the difficult situation. Joined by Almanac, they made progress until more enforcements arrived. He helped evacuate citizens when they were being fired upon, as the Rebels fended them off and protected the bystanders.

Fire Spider followed the Rebels onto their ship and joined them on their rescue mission. Despite his brutal honesty almost creating a rift not just between himself and the team, but also between the team members themselves as a hole, he was allowed to accompany them all the way through the trip, even actively participating in some fights by their side. When the Sage sent the team back in time to help save Samuel Lars, a close friend of Saul Collins, Fire Spider was there during the big fight and even mourned Collins's apparent death at the time. He returned to Earth with the rest of the Rebels, and decided to continue fighting crime in this world until he could go back to his own.

## Personality

*"We all need someone we can rely on, someone whose help we know we can count on when needed. But there's a moment in life where you must ask yourself the terrible question. What happens when those you believed you could count on turn their backs on you? That's when you realize that you must learn to take care of yourself. But sometimes, you still need help."*
—Fire Spider
Fire Spider is a complicated man. He puts on the façade of a happy joker, but he has suffered a lot of emotional pressure from his career as a superhero. He learned to suppress his emotions to the extent that it was theorized he was apathetic. This theory was supported when he killed Dark Spider during Operation F.U.R. with neither regret nor sorrow. However, Dark Spider had brought up a hurtful topic before his death, meaning he may have dormant emotions. This was further implied when he blamed himself for Cyberbat's ostensible death, but also contradicted when he shot Darktime after intentionally exposing him to a lethal explosion. However, these instances occurred at different periods, meaning it is possible he just grew darker with time. His true former personality therefore remains a mystery.

Fire Spider battled with his inner darkness a year after the events of Operation: Invasion. He became a more optimistic person, but he still took a serious approach to life. He became more of a team player following the disappearance of Shadow Mind and Ice Storm, whereas he used to be an independent, anti-authoritarian hero. He would support his fellow heroes when they faced doubts and personal problems. He has gradually matured into a more mature hero, able to keep his cool and think rationally under pressure. He is still slightly cynical, accepting the idea that not all battles could be won, but are still worth fighting.

Fire Spider took an oath to protect his friends, no matter where he had to go, what he had to do or what lines he had to cross. This is because he deeply cared for them, and he was even disheartened when Darktime, a villain attempting redemption, risked his life to save Fire Spider from being brainwashed.

When he met the Arcadian Rebels, he demonstrated his honesty towards them and his overall excessively brutal honesty when Anna Stone dared him to give his opinion on each Rebel.

He is a chaotic good person. He is agnostic, and he fights for a world where no one has to suffer alone and he does not feel forced to help everyone. However, he has constant doubts about whether he should be Fire Spider, believing that his fight is likely to never end yet praying that it will someday.

## Physical Appearance

Fire Spider's robot body was carbon black with mechanical skin composed of specially-built alloy plates. He had the form of a physically fit young adult.

Now back in a human body, he has short, messy, dark brown hair and greenish grey eyes, along with a lean but muscular build; all of these are traits he shares with his Earth-1 counterpart.

In both iterations, he's 5'9.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

*"I only remember waking up hours later, feeling physically invigorated. As if every part of my body had been recharged."*
—Fire Spider
* **Spider Physiology:** A scientist made a molecular resequencing smart virus with a non-normative reciprocal action, which rewrote Fire Spider's DNA and gave him the amazing powers of a spider. He extrapolated the serum from the genetic abilities of an experimental spider, a genetically modified species of the genus *Araneus*. The original spider from which the spider was developed is the common house spider (*Parasteatoda tepidariorum*), indigenous to the Western Hemisphere. The spider was a transgenic species, using genes from the *Delena* spider, family *Sparassidae*, the Net Web spider, family *Filistatidae*, genus *Kukulcania*, the grass spider, the highly poisonous Brazilian wandering spider *Phoneutria fera*, *Phidippus clarus*, a species of jumping spider, and a *Microhexura montivaga*, the spruce-fir moss spider. The scientist used synthesized transfer R.N.A. to encode an entirely new genome, combining the genetic information from all the spiders into the genetically designed super spider. He is one of the strongest, most athletic and experienced members of the Super Hero Agency, making him a force to be reckoned with.
	+ **Superhuman Strength:** Fire Spider has the proportionate strength of a spider, meaning he can lift 173 times his own bodyweight (22,836 pounds/11.418 tons). When put under stress, however, this amount can increase.
	+ **Superhuman Durability:** Fire Spider became much more physically tougher from his transformation. He can survive blows that would kill a normal person, and has been able to withstand explosions that would cripple most people.
	+ **Superhuman Agility:** Fire Spider is incredibly agile and flexible, traits which aid him with his masterful gymnastic maneuvers.
	+ **Superhuman Senses:** Fire Spider has a set of reflexes with nerve conduction velocity so fast it borders on precognition; an early awareness of danger. With focus, he can even see if a specific individual is in danger. This is similar to a spider having senses all over its body that alert it to danger. Since his reflexes border on precognition, he once had an anticipatory dream during Operation B.A.T.
	+ **Regenerative Healing Factor:** Fire Spider's cells contain the power to self-heal from severe infection and tissue damage.
	+ **Wallcrawling:** Fire Spider is able to adhere to any non-slippery surface.
	+ **Web Generation:** Fire Spider is able to shoot webs from a subdermal gland in his wrist flexor muscle, having manifested spinnerets in his forearms to secrete webbing. The composition is made up of a liquid protein that hardens the more it is stretched, with a tensile strength and elasticity that defies the laws of chemistry, physics and biology (stronger than steel threads of the same diameter). Spiders can spin webs that cover whole trees, but they have a signal line, a single thread they touch and they know what is happening anywhere in their web; they can even feel vibrations if something is about to hit the silk before it even happens. During Operation H.U.N.T., he created a web-slingshot to launch Darktime into their jet, and caught the Spark from falling with a web-net. The latter feat proves that his new bionic body allowed him to accomplish shooting webs just like his organic body.
* **Fire Manipulation:** Fire Spider can create, control, and absorb fire. He can also generate fiery force-fields, as seen during Operation H.U.N.T. He can also emit large blasts of fire, but the effort occasionally caused him to faint; now that he has mastered his powers, this is no longer the case.
* **Fusionism:** During Operation B.A.T., Fire Spider merged with Dark Spider to become "Supreme Spider". It is unknown if he could still do this after possessing his current robotic body.

### Robot Body

In times of need, Fire Spider has used an artificial body. While at first it was simply an upgraded bionic body, it was turned into a fully robotic body sometime before the Superhuman World War. He currently inhabits this body after being killed by Eagle.

* **Enhanced Stamina:** Given that his robot body does not have lungs, he does need to breathe, meaning he has endless physical stamina.
* **Oxygen Independence:** For the same reasons stated above, he does not need to breathe while inhabiting this body, allowing him to operate in underwater environments or even the vacuum of space without requiring additional equipment.
* **Automatic Repair Functions:** In case of a critical error or an emergency, Fire Spider's robotic body will automatically shut down and begin an internal repair process. This has been seen during the Odyssey through the Multiverse, where his body was severely damaged after he and the Rebels tried to stop a tsunami, while the second time was during the Entertainer crisis, after Sentinel tore a hole through his chest; however, due to the nature of this wound damaging some crucial components, everything in his body shut down, including the mechanisms that allowed his ghost form to leave at any time, essentially trapping him in a coma of sorts.
* **Possession:** After he was killed by Eagle and turned into a ghost, Fire Spider gained the ability to possess other bodies, such as his new robotic one.
* **Quarantine Protocol:** Should someone try to hack his body or take control of it, the Quarantine Protocol will automatically ensure that Fire Spider's ghost will remain unaffected, but as a drawback he will be confined inside a spectral containment unit until the protocol is overridden. While the Quarantine Protocol usually activates on its own, it can also be triggered manually, as seen during Operation: Paradox, which was how Fire Spider was kept captive during that mission.

### Abilities

Fire Spider is one of the oldest members of the Super Hero Agency. He was the first agent to reach the leadership position by rising through the ranks. He was the first agent to receive the Super Hero Rank, the SHA phone, the Commander Rank, the Master Rank, the third agent to receive the Third-in-Command Rank by earning it through work, be a stand-in leader, as well as the second leader of the SHA (and the first leader who is not a founder).

*"So, are we gonna stand here? Or are we gonna fight?"*
—Fire Spider
* **Master Combatant:** Throughout his super hero career, Fire Spider has learned the basics of several martial arts styles, including Karate, Kung Fu, Taekwondo, and Kenjutsu, through observation and mimicking. However, to make up for his lack of proper mastery in these styles, he incorporates his superhuman physical attributes, webs, and pyrokinetic abilities into a unique fighting style based on speed and agility. While he was able to defeat Darkwave, Ice Storm, Phoenix, Cyberbat and the Spark, he has also been bested by Shadow Mind. After he resisted arrest, he was defeated by Darktime, but he beat him in their second match. He also knows how to use bladed weapons, as he once used a katana against the Dark Spider of Earth-23568. While his agile fighting style makes him a dangerous opponent, it's not as effective against opponents who can easily withstand his blows, as proven when he lost to Darkwave, a teammate with unnatural physical strength; however, Fire Spider was unnaturally intoxicated during this fight, so it's possible that he could've had ways to counter his own ineffectiveness.
* **Master Acrobat:** Fire Spider can use his superhuman agility in conjunction with his wallcrawling to move around the environment quickly and smoothly, making him a master of parkour. His superhuman senses also warn him of incoming obstacles ahead of time, allowing him to evade them. Furthermore, he can swing on his webs to move around complicated places without having to stop. He can swing with the speed of a cheetah and the agility of a chimpanzee.
* **Expert Marksman:** Fire Spider possesses amazing accuracy and precision with his webs. During Operation H.U.N.T., he fired two supernova fireballs into both sides of Dark Spider's face. He was able to fire webs to block the barrels of laser guns on the Etha space station. On Earth-1, even after he was damaged, he was accurate enough to web up the barrel of Joni Jacobson's revolver, even though it was pointed perpendicular to him. Fire Spider also has some proficiency in wielding firearms, as he used a machine gun against Dark Spider during Operation F.U.R.

*"Tu plan fue muy ingenioso, lo admito."
"Ah, así que hablas español. Mejor para mí."*
—Black Turkey to Fire Spider
* **Gifted Intelligence:** Fire Spider is a highly intelligent strategist, leader, engineer, inquisitor, physician, pilot, and linguist. He is an extremely accomplished superhero due to his extensive career. He has also demonstrated a working understanding of Time Travel.
	+ **Expert Tactician:** Fire Spider is an expert strategist. During Operation H.U.N.T., he designed a trap for Shadow Mind to lure in the enemy (which even the enemy admitted was very clever). On the same mission, he devised a method of escape from a plasma laser cell, and took advantage of the bickering between Dark Spider and Dark Shadow so he could save his allies. He anticipated that he could defeat Darktime with his sense of humor. Prior to the events of the mission, Fire Spider designed a new body for himself so he could transfer his consciousness should the need ever arise. During Operation F.U.R., he tricked Dark Shadow into fighting Darktime so his allies could escape, and he also escaped SHA-level confinement. He called on Dark Spider, his ace in the hole, to liberate him and fellow heroes from confinement during Operation B.A.T. When Darktime revealed that he had his former team under his control, he merged with Dark Spider to fend them off while his allies escaped. Fire Spider and Dark Spider plotted to rescue Cyberbat together. During Operation F.L.A.W., he readily had another vial of the serum which gave him his powers and ingested it after Forest Fire stripped him of his powers. He also led the raid on Forest Fire's castle. Fire Spider demonstrated his leadership capabilities with his own team, the Flaming Heroes, when he took command of the SHA in Shadow Mind's absence, and when he was elected to become the President of Earth.
	+ **Expert Engineer:** Fire Spider is knowledgeable in mechanical engineering. He designed a new body for himself with bionic upgrades prior to the events of Operation H.U.N.T.
	+ **Expert Mathematician:** Fire Spider presumably has a working understanding of physics and calculus, having to do equations in his head for web-swinging, e.g. if a pendulum is 40 meters long and attached a 45-degree angle, he needs to know how far the pendulum will fall at its lowest point because he would be the pendulum. He is also likely familiar with Bernoulli's principle and calculating linear acceleration between points A and B.
	+ **Skilled Interrogator:** Fire Spider interrogated several turkeys during Operation H.U.N.T., including their leader, and learned who hired them.
	+ **Skilled Investigator:** During Operation B.A.T., Fire Spider deduced that Cyberbat was kidnapped when he found one of his gadgets shortly before he foiled a bombing attempt.
	+ **Skilled Physician:** Fire Spider helped Shadow Mind treat Spark's gunshot wound over the phone during Operation B.A.T.
	+ **Skilled Pilot:** Fire Spider can fly a plane, as seen during Operation F.L.A.W.
	+ **Trilingualism:** Fire Spider speaks Spanish and English fluently, and he knows some Binary.

*"Defeat only comes when you lose all hope and faith in victory."*
—Fire Spider
* **Indomitable Will:** Fire Spider lives by an oath to protect his friends no matter what. He is dedicated to his cause as a superhero and a leader, almost to an obsessive degree.

## Weaknesses

* **Mnemophobia:** Fire Spider has a fear of losing his memories.
* **Analgesia:** His robotic body is unable to feel physical pain, meaning that Fire Spider literally cannot know when he's exceeding his physical limits.

## Techniques

* **Atomic Flare:**A dangerous technique, Fire Spider summons two red fireballs over both of his palms and makes them spin on themselves, gathering even more heat from their surroundings to grow warmer and warmer. Eventually, the fireballs turn orange, which means they've crossed the 1.100 ºC temperature threshold, and eventually a dazzling white, meaning that each one is burning at 1.500 ºC. After that, he presses them against each other right over his head, where they both detonate in a massive explosion. So far, he has only been known to use it three times; once in his home universe, where he accidentally destroyed two cities in the process; once when fighting an underwater alien creatures with the Rebels on planet Balvon during the Odyssey, although the shock wave from this blast accidentally created a tsunami that would've killed countless civilians if not for his and the Arcadian Rebels' efforts; and once during Operation War Against Reign, where he destroyed a great deal of the Nyxos' base and killed two of their leaders at the cost of almost completely destroying his own body from the energy output. Interestingly enough, the only time he used it in his own organic body he came out completely unscathed, whereas the two times he used it in his robotic body resulted in it suffering severe damage; thus, it's possible that his weakness to this power results from said body simply being unable to keep up with the energy output.

## Equipment

### Attire

* **Fire Spider Suit:** As of May 2022, having returned to an organic body, Fire Spider uses a suit made out of nanotechnology designed by Xena Turell at his request. While the specific combat capacities of this suit are unknown at the moment, it is known that he stores the nanites in his own body, where the heat they produce creates a positive feedback loop with his own body that keeps him fully charged and energized until he summons them to become his armor.

### Weaponry and Gadgets

* **SHA Phone:**
* **Machine Gun:** Fire Spider used a machine gun against Dark Spider during Operation F.U.R.
* **Katana:** He also cut Dark Spider's head with a katana.
* **Sonic Wave Flamethrower:** He used this to kill a villain during Operation F.U.R.

### Transportation

* **Firecycle:** Fire Spider's personal vehicle is a high-tech motorcycle. It has many unique features, such as zero gravity wheels, a gyroscopic adaptation system, a self-sustaining engine, a handle with a biometric scanner so only he can ride it, an on-board miniaturized computer with GPS included, and web-net shooters.

## Relationships

* Mother
* Brother

Allies* Super Hero Agency
	+ Diana Stone/Venom Queen
* Flaming Heroes
* Arcadian Rebels
* Joey Stone
* Sana Ernest

## Trivia

* Fire Spider is a fan of video games and comic books.
* Fire Spider's first hug was with Anna Stone in May 2020.