Shay Daniels (Earth-30)

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## Origin and Living Status

### Origin

Human Mutate; Eaten by a Zinchari spider on his 16th birthday and bestowed with spider-like abilities

## Personal Information

### Occupation

Vigilante, student, disc jockey, author, historian

### Base of Operations

Dawn Studios, Northern Las Vegas, Nevada; formerly, Manny's Apartment, Manhattan; The Daniels Residence, Spring Valley, Nevada

## Creators and Appearances

### First

Web of Tarantula #1
(April, 2018)

 **Daniels is a hero**. And I don't say things like that lightly. He's a smart kid. History smart. Too smart for his own good at times. He's the first one to be suited up at the crack of dawn and the last one clocking off patrol. Kid's got his struggles, not what you'd think either. Stepfather died and he stepped up as a hero of Las Vegas. His best friend kills his girlfriend, the damn kid forgives him. Essentially, he is the 21st century Job. Lost everything and kept going at it, never stopped, not even for a minute. At worst case scenario, he's just some spandex vigilante to his community. Best case, Tony? He might end up being the best damn hero to get the job done. And I wouldn't want to miss it.
—Hellhound[src]
The quippy, pop-culture-loving historian-to-be, **Shay Daniels** is better known as the bombastic and legend-making **Tarantula**. Born to the absentee and influential biologist Dr. Daniels, Shay would come face-to-face with his father's discoveries on his sixteenth birthday in The Mojave Desert. Shay would be eaten by it after awakening a Zinchari Spider on accident, and when he emerged, he would be bestowed incredible spider-like abilities. Shay refused to use his abilities until after the death of his step-father, which forced him to step up and protect the city of Las Vegas as Tarantula.

To protect those he loves, Shay kept his identity a secret but told a handful of individuals like Ren Carter, Hendrix Shays, Jane Harper, Tyler Price, and others. All the while, Shay began to gain notoriety as Tarantula, becoming a pillar in the modern superhero community and becoming a founding member of Hooligans. Since Shay donned the suit, he has fought countless dangerous villains such as The Radioactive Man, Alucard, Shriek, Calypso, and the most notorious of his villains, Hobgoblin who killed Shay's girlfriend Alexis May.

Recently, following the events of the superhero community's war against SHIELD, Shay would be one of the many primary targets in SHIELD's campaign. However, once The Hooligan defeated SHIELD, Shay's life underwent an extreme change after he returned to normalcy in Vegas. This revelation shattered his will and belief system, almost making Shay quit. Still, instead, he was only left wondering if any of it was ever really worth it in the end. He would find himself embroiled in a nationwide conquest for companies. Still, Vegas was his primary concern as Monica Eden and Connor Carter announced their partnership and the release of "Droids." Shay's personal and professional life began to fall apart continuously as it all seemingly had something to do with his biology teacher, Professor Vince Naper.

## History

### Early Life

Shay James Daniels was born in Las Vegas, Nevada, to an unnamed father who was a renowned geneticist and reporter, Jennifer Daniels. His father vanished earlier that year, but Jennifer remarried Captain Patrick Knight, leading Shay to become brothers with Patrick's son, Jordan Knight.

#### Hooligans: Mythos

In 2007, at the premiere of Michael Bay's Transformers at the local movie theater, Shay met Jane Harper, Bernard Smith, Tyler Price, and Alexis May, who were present with their parents to view the movie. Shay and Tyler immediately connected over their shared love of Optimus Prime and sat together to watch the film in a group. As the movie ended and they all said goodbye, Shay noticed that they all lived on the same block as he saw Tyler and Jane live across the street from him. Then Alexis and Bernard showed up. Happy to have friends, the group became inseparable.

Shortly after becoming fast neighborhood friends, Shay and Bernard played basketball in Bernard's front yard. Shay was guiding Bernard on how to do a jump shot, and Bernard was teaching Shay how to go triple-double. However, the ball entered his neighbor's backyard when Bernard missed a three-pointer. When Shay and Bernard went to ask for it back, the neighbor slammed the door in their faces. It was an older, grumpy man who didn't enjoy that children had shown up in his neighborhood. At first, Shay was going to ask for Bernard's parents, but that was when Bernard got an idea and invited their other friends outside.

With the group assembled, Bernard's idea was to have Jane and Tyler distract the neighbor while Shay and Bernard hoist Alexis over the brick wall to the ball from the backyard. As their plan was set, Jane and Tyler knocked on the door while Shay, Bernard, and Alexis moved around the back of the house. However, when Alexis got over the wall, none knew that the neighbor had a dog. This led to Alexis running around in the backyard, trying not to scream, and the neighbor slamming the front door on Jane and Tyler. However, Shay cleared the fence in one jump and hoisted Alexis out of the backyard, and when she got on the wall, she helped him over. Just as the group ran away, the old man noticed the ball was gone and stormed outside, screaming, "Damnit, you hooligans!!" thus, Hooligans were born.

#### Summer Knights

As Shay aged, he transformed the summer between eighth grade and his first year of high school. He became incredible at basketball and was working with Spring Valley High School's basketball coach with hopes of becoming his point guard. He befriended a player, Owen Morgan, and the two worked closely together to train Shay to become an athlete. At the same time, Shay became enamored with history, loving to research the different periods that interested him. Yet, it wasn't until Jane showed him a Kurasawa film that he began to take a deep interest in Samurai culture and... Her. Shay started to develop feelings for Jane and often talked to Jennifer and Patrick about it. However, his life would change more drastically than just basketball and history.

### 2018 - Welcome to the Show

#### Nevadatonin

Jennifer dropped Shay off at school as Shay's birthday began rolling around. However, before she pulled away from Spring Valley High, Jennifer saw her ex-husband, who was believed dead. Immediately pulling over, Jennifer screamed at Dr. Daniels, who was there to sneak Shay a birthday present. It was a book that eventually became Shay's favorite book, The Great Gatsby. Jennifer had several questions, but ultimately, Dr. Daniels promised to tell her everything if she just promised to give the book to Shay. Snatching the book, Jennifer asked why this book in particular, and Dr. Daniels explained that he always saw Shay as his Nick Carraway.

Jennifer rode in the car silently with Dr. Daniels. The directions he gave her were out past Northern Las Vegas and well into the desert, but it was when Dr. Daniels attempted to turn on the radio that the silence was broken. Jennifer demanded to know what Dr. Daniels was doing that could've been more important than Shay. There was a brief silence, and Dr. Daniels explained The Donuts Project and why he had to go into hiding as he was the only one who knew where The Cosmic Cube was sent. Jennifer pulled the car over and told him that Dr. Daniels talks, and she drives. Reluctantly, he agreed, and Jennifer started the car again.

Dr. Daniels explained that his work on the Zinchari Spiders was too important to let him be a simple civilian. He didn't want to put Jennifer and Shay through that, resulting in him leaving. Jennifer asked about the cube, and Dr. Daniels explained that if it fell into the wrong hands, it would've been the end of humanity as they knew it. This resulted in Dr. Daniels and Connor Carter sending it into space, but only Daniels knew the location of where it went. As he explained the last part, Jennifer stopped the car, and the two stepped out. Dr. Daniels explained that while he can't be in Shay's life like he wants, he is still nearby, and the two walk toward a dune.

As they approached the dune, a small slab lifted slightly on the floor, and Dr. Daniels lifted it, inviting Jennifer in. Frustrated by this, Jennifer reluctantly followed him down into the makeshift lab. Daniels explained that a former SHIELD base was left abandoned, but Jennifer wasn't impressed and was shocked to see Zinchari Spiders in containers. He explained that he never stopped researching and hoped that Jennifer would accompany him. Jennifer launched into a series of threats if he planned to do anything, but Daniels threw his hands up, explaining that he just wanted to let her know about their friends.

Daniels explained that something happened to Connor after Dr. Daniels disappeared and his wife died. Jennifer stated Connor got rich, but Dr. Daniels denied it was about money and warned her against interacting with him or Monica Eden. When Dr. Daniels dropped Monica, Jennifer gave up on trying to listen or help. She ranted about how Dr. Daniels couldn't come back into her life after nearly sixteen years and tell her and Shay who to talk to and why. Dr. Daniels tried to explain, but Jennifer smacked him, asking how dare he act like he was still her husband and Shay's father, then stormed out of the lab. As she left, Dr. Daniels somberly looked down, and a tear streamed down his face, realizing that his son would become something else.

Dr. Daniels knew of Monica's plan to convince Jennifer to put Shay's birthday party in the desert to set up someone gaining spider-based abilities. However, Dr. Daniels knew how the spiders thought and how they attacked humans based on body heat and knew that in the end, the highest percentage of who would gain the abilities was Shay. Jennifer would get back to her car and get in. In the passenger seat was the book from Dr. Daniels, and when she opened it, she saw Dr. Daniels write a series of song lyrics on the first page. She tore the page out in her rage and crumbled it up, tossing it out of the window while driving away. And it was T-Minus 23 hours till disaster.

#### Mythos

When Shay turned sixteen, he was eaten by a giant prehistoric spider in The Mojave Desert. Shay began to display superhuman abilities a week after the incident but refused to utilize them out of genuine fear. His reluctance to use his abilities sadly led to his downfall. His step-father, Patrick, would be killed during a hit-and-run, an event that Shay could've stopped if he had used his abilities.

Still reluctant to use his newfound powers, Chester Ballinger - later, The Radioactive Man - would attack Shay at his step-father's funeral, who needed to absorb gamma radiation to survive. During this confrontation, a family pastor, Ray, witnessed Shay utilize his powers but kept it a secret; sometimes becoming a confidant of his. Witnessing this, Shay would be forced to become something more significant, so he donned a suit created by his two best friends, Ren Carter and Alexis May, and defeated The Radioactive Man. That night, Shay became The Spectacular Tarantula from then on.

#### Nuketown!!!

Shay's early adventures involved him fighting several of his villains that would become his rogues' gallery. He fought a former classmate, Helen Turner, who became Shriek, who activated her mutant gene, granting her a sonic scream. By this point, Hooligans consisted of childhood friends Shay, Ren, Alexis, Tyler Price, Jordan Knight, Jane Harper, and Bernard Smith.

During this time, Alexis and Shay would begin a relationship, realizing their feelings for each other. At the same time, Shay and Hooligans would become embroiled in a terrorist plot in The Mojave Desert. Ford Easton would appear before Hooligans and ask them for help stopping Madame Hydra. Reluctant at first, the group eventually did help him and stop Hydra from dropping a nuclear warhead in the not-so-fictional place of Nuketown.

#### The Birds

Toward the end of the year, Shay and Hooligans find themselves combating The Barone Crime Family as they begin to target Tarantula. Shay's substitute history teacher, Manny McClain, revealed himself to be a mutant vigilante known as Stormsword, and he assisted in taking down Tommy Barone, the head of The Barone Crime Family. However, Jennifer discovered Shay's double life after he took down Tommy. She was forced to reckon with the fact that her son had been lying to her for a year and that he had the power to save Patrick; she rejected her son and kicked him out, ending their relationship. Shay left his home and moved in with Ren and her adoptive father, Hendrix Shays, at Dawn Studios.

### 2019 - Triumph

#### A Day At The Races

Virtually overnight, a new villain named Calypso had taken over the city of Las Vegas utilizing voodoo. She used her mastery over animals to command the local wildlife and other animals from zoos, unleashing them on the town. Shay responded, but she would defeat him swiftly, using a compound called Sulfuric Trioxide, which Dynamics Industries created. The mixture removed Shay's powers for twenty-four hours, and then she broke his leg, giving her enough time to seek out an ancient artifact housed within the Las Vegas Natural History Museum.

As Shay was recovering, Ren - who had gained powers - did recon on Calypso and learned what the artifact she was hunting for was. Shay used this time to research the artifact and discovered it was something called The Amulet of Power, but if the Amulet found the user wanting, it would harm the user. Shay made an estimated guess that Calypso was not worthy, and at the end of the day, as Shay's powers returned to him, his healing factor kicked in, and his leg was fully restored.

He and Ren found themselves at the Las Vegas Natural History Museum but allowed themselves to be captured by Calypso. When she reached for the Amulet, it blinded her temporarily, and Shay rendered her unconscious. Her magic wore off with her incapacitated, and the animals left the city. SHIELD arrested Calypso, and Shay returned the Amulet to the Natural History Museum, but a young girl in middle school saw the Amulet a week later, and it glinted when she reached for it.

Shortly after this, Shay and Ren would fight proto-robots known as The Big Steppers, created by Dynamic Industries, and learned that the CEO of Dynamics was Ren's father, Connor Carter. Shay also learned that Dynamics made the compound that Calypso used to take away his powers.

#### Torment

After fighting Dynamics, Shay learned of a serial killer draining victims of their blood. Against the idea of vampires, even though Ford was a werewolf, Shay investigated. Here, he learned that Derek Tepes was the cause of the deaths, as Calypso poisoned him to have an extreme addiction to blood.

Seeing this as a certifiable and scientific explanation of the blood drainings, Shay and Jane synthesized a cure for Derek utilizing Shay's DNA. However, after failing to inject him the first time, Derek bit Shay, and he discovered that vampires were very real as he was turned into one. Thankfully, Jane found that Shay's healing factor was flushing out the vampirism virus from his system, and he would return to normal in 24 hours.

Thankful but staving off a craving for blood, Shay would find Derek and inject him with the cure. Freed from his extreme bloodlust, Derek thanked Shay, and the two talked about vampires as Shay's mental state broke from this revelation and the trauma of being Tarantula. When he returned to Jane at Hooligans HQ, he had his first mental breakdown, and when Jane awoke the following morning, Shay was somberly playing the piano in torment.

#### I Remember You // Reach The Citadel

One day as Shay was playing basketball with Hendrix, they were interrupted by an old friend of Shay's, Owen Morgan. Owen was a friend of Shay's when he played on the Spring Valley High School basketball team but sadly moved away. The two would catch up, but Owen revealed that he needed help as he was searching for something. After a brief research day, Owen, Shay, and Ren discovered the location of what was known as The Ebony Blade, which resided within the lower levels of The Hoover Dam.

The group would travel to The Hoover Dam to discover that a religious group known as The Knights Templar was also searching for The Ebony Blade. The trio would stop the Knights, and Owen would gain the blade, becoming Black Knight. The three now heroes and saviors of The Hoover Dam, Shay, would crack a joke about how none of them had been to The Hoover Dam before as they stared at the sun.

#### Sin-City

After Owen returned to Colorado, Alexis told Shay about a rising situation in West Vegas where a man in a green mask killed people with a shotgun. Hendrix discovered that the man was targeting people's sins, and Shay joked about the movie Se7en. Shay and Ren would track down the man, but not before he killed a judge who was taking bribes. When they thought they had cornered him, he opened fire into a crowd of people which caused a commotion, leading to his escape.

    Shay reached out to his contact at the LVMPD, who told him about the masked man, and Shay and Ren broke into the man's apartment while he was gone. The man was Leonard Jordan, a death worshipper who praised The Penitent One and hunted people for their sins. After discovering the next target, Shay and Ren showed up, and when the two heroes and the LVMPD had Leonard cornered, he killed himself and promised to be back to stop Vegas' blasphemous deeds.

Mentally harmed by this, Shay began to see The Pentient One, but Alexis could walk Shay through these trauma-based hallucinations until they stopped altogether. Meanwhile, the statue of The Penitent One in Leonard's apartment had vanished, and Epitaph told Ren that this would have unforeseen consequences.

### 2020 - 4eva Is A Mighty Long Time

#### [adult swim]

Shay would be called to Hooligans HQ by Alexis, who reported that Ford had gone missing during a mission he was running for SHIELD. When they finally contacted Tony Stark, he told them he got lost somewhere in New Mexico but told them to stay out of it, which they did the exact opposite. Alexis tracked Ford's movements, and Shay researched Hydra control in New Mexico. Here they discovered that Hydra had a former base in New Mexico and that Ford's last digital footprint was three miles away.

With a mission, Hooligans went to New Mexico and invaded the underground Hydra bunker. Here, they discovered Hydra was using Ford as a test subject for their interest in the occult. With Ford freed and the Hydra base shut down, Alexis sent the files to Tony, who was initially pissed that they did the opposite of what he told them not to but thanked them for the information.

Returning to Vegas with Ford, he would reveal to the group that Madame Hydra collected his DNA to be used in the Weapon Plus program. Everyone was confused, but after asking Tony Stark what Weapon Plus was, he told them that the program created Steve Rogers and hung up the phone.

#### DARKFUTUREWAR, or Future Imperfect

The following year, Shay's life would begin to dismantle slowly. At the beginning of the year, Jane leaves Vegas and is believed killed during a plane crash. Then Bernard would disappear suddenly and not be found on Earth, leading to a general conversation about aliens. Regardless, Shay would be called to action by Alexis, who reported that there was a robbery at the Stark Industries Vegas building.

When he got there, he discovered a young goth woman named Kang, The Conqueror, who was stealing a device that dealt with chronology. The two would fight, but Kang would send them both to the 31st Century, where Earth was locked in a war against someone known as The Maestro. Shay tracked down Kang, but it was revealed that Kang was attempting to stop The Maestro from spreading his influence overall time and the multiverse. This led to Shay joining Kang and The Resistance and a final confrontation with The Maestro, who was revealed to be Bernard. In this possible future, Hooligans died, and Bernard became a mad scientist.

Shay defeated The Maestro and destroyed his machine. After thanking him for his help, Kang returned Shay to the exact moment he left, and when asked by Alexis what happened, he made a joke about Back to The Future and stated that this adventure was going into his mental vault of things that freaked him out.

#### MULTIVERSELOVESOUNDS

The day after graduating high school and having an adventure in New Orleans with Hooligans, Shay was invited by a friend of his, Earnest Marks, to come to his science demonstration at UNLV. Earnest had seemingly found a way to develop teleportation technology and hoped it would get him a scholarship. When Shay arrived, Earnest was activating the machine, but Shay's Spider-Sense went off as the machine worked but released an extra-dimensional energy wave.

Just then, the machine began to suck things into it, and Shay was one of them, but he destroyed the device on his way in to protect the other civilians. When Shay woke up, he was on a different Earth and in a different Vegas. Shay donned his suit and headed to UNLV, but it looked different, and this was when Shay encountered The Slingers of Earth-505. After explaining what happened, they took him to Evan Edwards, who told him he was in a different reality and granted him a suit to protect him. He asked for his help as he and Shay's alternative self tracked down an evil version of Shay from Earth-67.

Deciding to help, Shay met two versions of himself and granted each other nicknames to differentiate. The trio went to Earth-0, a reality with no superheroes, and they had their showdown with 67-Shay. After he was defeated and evaporated into the multiverse, all three Shay's returned home but not before calling themselves brothers and exchanging numbers. When Shay got to his home reality, he told Earnest that his machine worked, and when asked what had happened, Shay told him that he had found his brothers.

#### Atrocity Exhibition

After his multiverse romp, Shay returned home to discover that his friend Tyler Price was acting odd. He was flaking on hangouts, he wasn't too keen on talking about colleges, and then he vanished for two weeks without a word or a mention. Then his mother was found dead in his house, and when Hendrix investigated, it seemed like Tyler's mother had been dead for a week.

Then suddenly, Tyler appeared at Dawn Studios with a costume and a glider. He ranted and raved about how he has powers now and that he has powers. Attempting to calm him down had no avail as Alexis inched closer, and ultimately, Tyler accidentally stabbed Alexis in the stomach with his suit's arm blades, killing her. Shay began to fight Tyler to get him to stop, and Hendrix shot out Tyler's glider, causing them to crash and rendering Tyler unconscious.

Ford had Tyler arrested by SHIELD and transferred him to The Vault for psychological attention. Before he was shipped off, Tyler told Shay someone was writing all this. On the day of Alexis' funeral, Shay somberly clung to the Coke Bottle on The Strip and looked unnaturally in front of him, staring and thinking about what Tyler said, thinking that maybe he was right.

#### Late Registration

As the time to enroll in college began to roll around, Shay needed more clarity about his choice of university. Manny had returned to New York to protect that city with Rescue, and Shay knew that Manny needed help, but Vegas needed him more. Regardless, he couldn't work on this as Manny sent out an SOS on Hooligans channel. When Hooligans arrived in New York - thanks to Ford - Manny explained that his ex-fiance was planning to invade Manhattan with the evil death-worshipping ninja cult The Oniwaban.

After a brief reactionary conversation, The Oniwaban invaded Manhattan, and Hooligans sprung into action. During this, it was revealed that Manny's ex-fiance had employed Shriek and Tommy Barone, now going by Hammerhead. Here, Hooligans and The Defenders met for the first time and worked together to stop the onslaught. The two teams stopped Hammerhead, Shriek, and Oni and saved Manhattan. However, Manny told Shay that he should stay in Vegas because that was his home but thanked him for thinking of him regarding college applications.

Shay returned home confident in his abilities, and when he entered the UNLV Admissions office, he turned in his application. However, the woman told him he would be late for registration and would have difficulty picking classes. When asked what was available, the woman chuckled and walked away.

#### The Time We Faced Doom

Two weeks into being at university, Shay met another person who had the same abilities he had who was visiting Vegas from Seattle named Jay Foxx. Jay revealed he was in Vegas to help a friend, but the two quickly learned that Jay's friend had her mind taken over by MF Doom.

When they encountered MF Doom, they were intercepted by The Wild Pack, who were given intel that Weaver and Tarantula were working with MF Doom. After learning they weren't, they took the two injured heroes to their family home in Marseille and explained the situation. The group was given mental blockers to prevent MF Doom's ability and return to Vegas.

In Vegas, MF Doom had taken control of civilians to rob banks and gain government secrets. The Wild Pack, with Shay and Jay, defeated MF Doom before he could get his hands on nuclear launch codes. However, The Wild Pack offered them both jobs as agents for their parent organization, Rainbow. Jay declined and returned to Seattle, but Shay accepted, wanting to be a freelance operative and have them ally with Hooligans.

#### cold.

During his first semester at UNLV, Shay would take a biology class and meet his professor, Dr. Henry Warrin, who was a cryogenicist. Shay was failing the course as he was still relatively new to university life, but Henry took pity and offered him extra credit.

The two worked on a suit that would slow the spread of disease by using cold technology, but the experiment went array when Henry's wife and daughter entered the laboratory. The suit reacted negatively to the change in temperature and exploded, giving Henry an extreme case of hypothermia but freezing his wife and daughter instantaneously, killing them.

When Shay checked on Henry a week later, he was grieving but utilized his failed suit to stay alive. However, the next day, Henry stole the bodies of his wife and daughter and locked himself in the destroyed lab for two weeks. With his newfound abilities, he killed any poor fool who stumbled into the room by freezing them to death. When Shay finally caught onto what was happening, Shay found Henry and the people who went missing. Henry didn't fight but surrendered as he realized nothing would bring his wife and daughter back, telling Shay that he just felt cold.

### 2021 - So Appalled

Due to the efforts of Hooligans during the Oniwaban invasion of Manhattan, they were awarded the key to the city. **Shay**, Ren, and Ford traveled to New York and met with Manny to prepare for the ceremony. They would don their costumes and arrive, but a group of their respective villains attacked during the ceremony—villains such as Madame Hydra, Calypso, Flask, Hammerhead, and Shriek. Unprepared, Hooligans retreated to Vegas as the group dubbed themselves The Squadron Supreme.

In Vegas, each of them called their respective contacts, but the only one who answered the SOS was The Wild Pack, and Ford learned that he was disavowed from SHIELD. After drawing out The Squadron Supreme in Vegas, the two teams plus The Wild Pack squared off with each other, resulting in a massive fight along The Las Vegas Strip.

It ended with the Squadron Supreme's defeat, but this marked the first time that the modern superhero community had been documented in defeating a problem as a whole. Ren gave a rousing speech at the scene, and this day became known as V-Day, and virtually overnight, Hooligans became international superstars. In the end, Shay joked about what a time it was to be alive.

### 2022 - Nothing Was The Same

#### Telegraphs in The Negative

At the beginning of the new year, Manny would return to Japan to fix his ex-fiance's mistakes with the Oniwaban, and Ford went off the grid. Shay would reside in Manhattan and switch to online school at UNLV to take over Manny's heroic responsibilities in Manhattan.

In Manhattan, Shay would encounter the DA of Manhattan, Haru Michaels, who has been on a campaign to arrest villains. The two would work closely together until Shay discovered that Haru was doing this to become the biggest villain in Manhattan under the name Mister Negative. Confronting Haru, the two would battle both words and fists as Haru attempted to appeal to Shay by using race as an excuse to do evil deeds.

Shay would defeat Haru and have him arrested. While Haru was hauled away, Shay called Hendrix, and the two talked for a while about morality and life, and Shay asked if he even won as the sunset over Manhattan.

#### Sins Past

After Ren decided to move to Manhattan after being tired of having no one else other than Hendrix and Andre around, she enrolled at Chelsea High School. However, she called Shay to the school one day, where they learned that a subset of students were in the basement, performing a ritual from a book they had obtained called The Codex Gigas. Unfortunately for the students, they accidentally summoned a Grim Reaper.

The Reaper attacked Shay and Ren as he saw them as insults to the natural order. He was unsuccessful, as Shay stole his scythe, and as a result, he retreated and took his scythe with him. Confused, Shay began researching the occult and learning more about Grim Reapers. Meanwhile, The Reaper resurrected Leonard Jordan to enact his revenge on Shay and Ren, as they were the ones who forced him to kill himself.

Now revived and given supernatural abilities, Leonard hunted down Shay and found him at the public library. He opened fire with his shotgun, but when Ren arrived, the duo defeated Leonard, and Shay utilized a scripture from the Codex Gigas to send The Reaper back to where he came from. Leonard was arrested but vowed to return to kill Shay and Ren, which led to Shay making a Scooby-Doo reference.

### 2023 - God Don't Make Mistakes

#### A Negro Spiritual Outro

Shay spent his twenty-first birthday the following year in Manhattan but didn't plan anything too big. He wanted to stay home and not have to do anything relating to Tarantula. However, Ren, Hendrix, and Andre had other plans. They flew into Manhattan, and when Shay returned from grocery shopping, they were already in Manny's apartment with a cake.

The group stayed up and played music and enjoyed each other's company. However, Hendrix gave Shay a gold chain gift, but what confused Shay was what was happening as the group cleared out. Here, Shay opened the note with the chain that told him he had five minutes, and the spirit of Alexis May appeared before him.

After crying and hugging, the two talked and held each other. They spoke of life, the afterlife, and what had happened on Earth. Ultimately, she requested for Shay to play The Tempest on the piano. He began to play, and as the two smiled and laughed as he played, she told him that she would be there, radiant with open arms waiting for him when he finished saving the world. And Shay knew their time was up, and Shay somberly finished the song.

#### Operation: Zero Tolerance

The superhuman war with SHIELD began whenever Ford Easton came to Manny's apartment while Shay was still living in New York. Having been gone for a year, Ford surprised Shay, who greeted him happily. However, Ford needed Shay's help in uncovering the truth as to why he was disavowed from SHIELD. Agreeing, Shay and Ford traveled to Chelsa High School to collect Ren, who was stuck inside her locker. With a newly liberated Ren, the group planned to break into the Manhattan SHIELD Helicarrier to discover what was happening.

When the group broke in, Shay found the cryogenically frozen body of Steve Rogers and a bill called "Operation: Zero Tolerance," which would force superhumans to register with SHIELD or face extinction. Noting that they would use Steve as the poster child for this bill with Congress, Shay downloaded the files to the Rainbow database and stole Steve's cryo-pod. Escaping with Steve, Shay wrote on the pod Manny's apartment address, created a web-parachute, kicked the cryo-pod off of the Helicarrier, and then dived after it. However, when Shay landed on a rooftop, SHIELD arrested him and planned to use him as a replacement for Steve Rogers.

Shay was extradited to the supervillain supermax in Washington, D.C., known as The Vault. It was here that the villains Shay put away brutally beat him. However, he encountered a forgotten Greek God named Areus. He healed Shay and informed him of a choice Shay could make the following day; he would be tried in court for being a vigilante. Determined, Shay went to court the next day, and after a rigged trial, Shay revealed his identity to the world and that Steve Rogers was alive. With the court case ending on that note, Shay was being transported back to The Vault, but the combined efforts of James Barnes and Ren Carter attacked it. Bucky became involved after hearing Steve Rogers was alive and was sent from Myth, Africa, to find Steve.

With the trio reunited, they made a pit stop in New York so that Steve and Bucky could have a moment to reconnect, then traveled to Paris to meet up with Valerie St. Lauren and Rainbow. Valerie, already knowing what had occurred, assisted the group by giving them shelter and intel on a possible explanation for the bill in Madripoor. After training briefly with Bucky, Shay called Hendrix Shays and Andre Lucas to orchestra faking his death. Unable to be Tarantula, Shay was gifted a new suit and title, becoming Daredevil. The trio dubbed themselves The Thunderbolts and traveled to Madripoor to learn more about the bill, but instead, they found that Connor Carter was recreating the Super Soldier Serum and had restarted Weapon Plus with a masked man named Baron Zemo.

Following the revelation that Baron Zemo was still alive, the trio traveled to Myrth and met King Dakari Onasi, an old war friend of Bucky's who took Zemo into custody. Here, Dakari gave Bucky the deed to his old family home in Brooklyn, gave Ren more information about Epitpah, and gave Shay an updated version of his suit, returning him to Tarantula. After asking Areus to send a message to Ford, the trio traveled to Japan to end the war. In Japan, The Thunderbolts, Rainbow, Hooligans, and Dawn FM came together to fight SHIELD, which destroyed SHIELD, the ending of the war, the stopping of Operation: Zero Tolerance, and the disbandment of The Thunderbolts. However, in the end, Shay asks Areus to fix his identity problem, which he agrees to.

#### I Might Be Wrong

##### The Return of The OGs

After the superhuman war, Shay returned home to discover that Alexis May had returned as a casualty of Areus speaking with the fates to reverse his identity. However, Alexis does not remember their relationship, which profoundly hurts Shay. However, other members of Hooligans begin to see the darker aspects of Alexis and reveal a few of them to Shay. Past this, Shay helps Ren set up to go to Japan for the next two weeks. Happy that she will get to see more of her heritage, Shay expresses worry over her going there with people she doesn't know.

However, Ren reassures Shay but asks him what he will do about Alexis. Shay doesn't give her an answer as he doesn't know, but takes her to the airport. As Ren enters the airport, she tells Shay he'll figure it out; he always does, and catches her flight shortly after that. Returning to Dawn Studios, Hooligans plan a breakfast celebration for Levi King, who was welcomed to the group for his efforts during the superhuman war. However, during the breakfast celebration, the conversation becomes awkward as Alexis tries bringing up her failing memory.

With the dining room quiet, there is a knock on the front door, and one of the TV screens lights up. Andre checks it, and when Shay asks who it is, Andre chuckles and looks down, smiling after seeing Jane Harper and Bernard Smith, alive and well, at Dawn Studios' front door. After a few moments, Andre turns to Shay and states it's for him.

##### Rise

With the return of Jane and Bernard, Hooligans naturally throw a party. It is the first time the original group has been together in over three years, but Shay and Jane are attached to the hip during the party. As they joke and laugh, Alexis watches from a distance and grows increasingly jealous and upset as Shay has begun to shut her out of his life, along with the fact that she never liked Jane. However, Bernard pulls Jane and Shay to the side and tells them that in many of the realities in the multiverse he traveled to, Alexis is a significant problem in them all. Jane agrees that she has always kept close tabs on Alexis, even stating that she found a series of files on all of the team members on her computer, but it was locked by encryption.

Shay sits on this information, but Jane kisses him, telling him she wants him to consider the possibility that Alexis isn't the girl he thought she was. However, Shay kisses her again, and they begin their relationship. Just as the party ramped up, Owen Morgan stepped out of a magical portal in Hooligans HQ in his Black Knight suit. Confused, Shay asked if everything was okay, but that was when Owen revealed that he needed his help, and Manny McClain stepped out of the portal. Seeing that it was severe, Shay looked at Jane, and she kissed him again, telling him that she'd go on the next one. Shay donned his costume, dapped up Bernard, and jumped through the portal.

At the Hoover Dam, Owen explained that a woman named Morgan Le Fay was seeking a book called The Darkhold in Denver. Owen expressed that Shay was a fantastic historian and that Manny had handled supernatural threats before, stating they were the best people for the job. Owen dubbed them The Midnight Sons, and the group traveled to Denver. However, when they arrived at DU, they were too late as Morgan had attacked the Occult Studies Professor, whom Shay saved but had obtained The Darkhold, which the Professor was safeguarding. After dispatching Owen and Manny, Morgan teleported the entire group, safe the Professor, to the mystical land of Avalon.

In Avalon, Morgan began to utilize The Darkhold to manipulate the energies of Otherworld to destroy Avalon and end the reign of the Black Knight. However, Shay distracted Morgan by singing "Drill Music In Zion" by Lupe Fiasco which led to Owen being able to attack Morgan and Manny to follow up, which made Morgan drop the book. Shay then utilized Fukushū to stab The Darkhold, which made it vanish after sustaining damage. With The Darkhold gone, Owen imprisoned Morgan in the depths of Castle Camelot and sent Shay and Manny home to Las Vegas and New York, respectively.

However, Owen ventured into the catacombs of Castle Camelot and encountered a series of murals. Here, he learned that he unwillingly fulfilled a prophecy as a secondary mural and claimed it would need The Midnight Sons again but in a bigger capacity. However, what made Owen begin to worry is that he saw a mural of Shay with an inscription:
"Western trees bearing strange fruit; with blood on the root and blackened bodies underneath; ItWasntEnough." This led to Owen leaving Shay a concerned voicemail in hopes of a callback.

##### Shay's Interlude

A few days after helping Owen, Shay finds a series of designs created by Ren Carter before she left for Japan. It was for a new suit, and Shay inspected the structures, finding it exciting; having gained insight on Alexis, Shay made a choice. Not wanting to be connected to Alexis anymore and ready to let go of the guilt he carried for her death, Shay hung up his black and white suit. That day, Shay, Jane, and Dakari created a new Habit from Ren's designs. Shay donned the costume the same night and swung out into the city. Liberated from harboring guilt from the death of Alexis and freed from his identity out to the world, Shay soars across The Strip. While Shay Daniels remains unknown to the larger world, Tarantula lives on.

Elsewhere, Imani and Cameron Daniels, aunt and cousin of Shay, move into town after losing her husband and plans to reconnect with their family. Simultaneously, two villains, Doc Ock and Electro, began to attack Dynamics Industries facilities. Then, Monica Eden and Connor Carter unveiled their joint venture of "The Droid Program" onto the city, and lastly, Jordan Knight warned Shay of someone named Bruce Calloway and Vince Naper.

##### Four Walls and A Roof

After spending too much time as Tarantula, Jane Harper began implementing a system within Shay's life. It's a relatively new concept called "Work-Life Balance." While as sarcastic as that may have seemed, Shay didn't have this, but Jane forced Shay to stay home for the night with her. They intended to watch movies Jane missed while she was gone, but she also had a secondary objective. Jane had learned from Ren that Shay changed, which she began to pick up on. Whereas Ren Carter grew into this trusting and confident person, Shay became a hardened and borderline ruthless vigilante, which worried them.

However, during the first movie, Shay's phone went off with a call from Pastor Ray, who called Shay to help him as The Knights Templar attacked churches in Vegas. Hoping she could see Shay in action to witness the change visibly, Jane agreed to go with Shay, and the two arrived at Pastor Ray's church in West Vegas. Sadly, The Knights Templar got there first and were already raiding the church with plans of burning it down and killing Ray. However, Shay and Jane snuck in before they did anything and cornered the group, using the darkened chapel as cover.

Shay and Jane took out the outliers and left three around. However, Shay broke rank and told them to kneel after revealing himself. While the group leader and the other did, one attempted to pretend like he had the upper hand, which led to Jane appearing from the darkness. Outmatched, the man kneeled. The leader claimed there must've been a reason why Shay or Jane didn't take him down immediately when they first walked in. However, as the leader spoke, Shay recognized him and remembered that he was the one who beat him in combat whenever Owen first became Black Knight at the Hoover Dam. His name was Martin. Then, Shay remembered a promise that was made to Martin that if he saw him again, stitches wouldn't fix what he was going to do to the man. Coldly, Shay told him he didn't want to waste the webbing, which shocked Jane.

Martin begged about how he would quit the Knights Templar and that prison would reform him, then stated that their paths would never cross again. While Shay did contemplate killing him, he told him that he would cross someone else's path and then said to him that it didn't matter because he already made him a promise. Without hesitation, Shay unsheathed his claws and scratched Martin's face, blinding him in one eye and then rendering him unconscious. Jane beat the other two to unconsciousness but was horrified by Shay's change. When Pastor Ray saw what Shay had done and how blood seeped into the floorboards, he sadly commented on how this was the Lord's house. Grimly, Shay responded that it wasn't, telling Ray it was just four walls and a roof.

##### Dramamine

In the dark future of 2100, Diego Perez finds himself reading stories about the heroes from the past after being given access to Matthew's notes. However, he finds one hero particularly interesting as he is the progenitor of why Diego is who he is: Shay Daniels, The Spectacular Tarantula. Though Diego's reading is halted by a ping on his netlink about a Dynamics-Stark convey being attacked by Jack O'Lantern. Springing into action, Diego and Matthew fight Jack O'Lantern, but during the fight, Diego discovers that Dynamics-Stark was moving Phalanx-based psionic disrupters, and due to Jack O'Lantern's negligence, one of them goes off. The disrupter sends Matthew's abilities into overdrive, and he accidentally transports himself, Diego, the disruptor, and Jack O'Lantern to the past.

In 2023, Shay was taking a quiz for one of his history classes when a bright blue light flashed off-campus. Immediately, Shay got up to leave, but when the teacher asked if he was done, Shay quickly finished the exam and slammed it on the professor's desk while leaving. The professor went to speak, but Shay shouted that question three was wrong, and when the door closed, he lunged into the air and began to swing to the light, changing on the way. When he got there, in full costume, Shay saw Diego and Matthew waking up. Confused, Shay asked what happened, and when the two saw Shay, Matthew shouted an exploitive while Diego asked for the year.

After a brief conversation and all of them moving to a rooftop, Diego and Matthew settled into the past while explaining who they were. Shay joked about Back to The Future, which made Diego frown. However, it was here that Matthew finally realized that Jack O'Lantern wasn't near them, and Diego commented on how the disruptor wasn't there either. Just then, Diego and Shay's Spider-Sense went off and synced up with each other, and they both turned to The Strip. Shay asked Diego what the disruptor was made out of, and he explained that it was made by an alien race that wouldn't show up for a few more years in the past. Immediately, the three sprung into action after an explosion occurred at the Stratosphere.

When they arrived, the trio discovered that Jack O'Lantern had fused with the Phalanx technology and was overtaken by the Techno-Organic Virus. Diego warned them both from getting too close to Jack O'Lantern, but for Matthew, it was too late as he was already fighting. This led to Matthew becoming infected with the virus. As it began to spread, Diego told Matthew to use his telekinesis to hold it back, which worked and allowed Matthew to stay alive but forced him to retreat to maintain focus. Down to two, Shay and Diego utilized their webbing to fight Jack O'Lantern. The fight ended triumphantly as Shay and Diego uppercutted Jack O'Lantern while activating an EMP.

With Jack O'Lantern subdued and webbed, Diego and Matthew thanked Shay for his efforts. However, Diego explained that what causes his future is the death of the superheroes. When asked if they will meet again, Diego makes a Back to The Future reference, stating that he guarantees it. As Diego and Matthew return to 2100, Matthew asks Diego if he believes that they could help stop the cataclysmic event that killed the heroes. At first, Diego doesn't respond but then tells Matthew that he wants to be a hero, so he will try to help, even if it means they are erased.

#### ItWasntEnough

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## Personality

 Due to some... Child experiences, his ability to feel has been fractured. People around him have claimed that he has to manufacture them because he thinks logically first, emotion second; so sometimes, interactions seem transactional. Emotional intelligence is his building block so most of his emotions are based in logic which logically doesn't make sense and you're guaranteed an aneurysm trying to understand it. A bit of a loner, a wallflower at social gatherings. But ironically... He's very caring. Very caring. He just... Cooks it differently. He doesn't use as much sugar so it may not be as sweet as some people want it to be. Shay is... Unique, to say the least. His contention... Well, Shay has good intentions but everyday he prays that his intent comes off that way... Short of a long story? Shay Daniels' pages are a little tattered but... He's an interesting read. Recruitment assessment for Rainbow: Shay Daniels, The Spectacular Tarantula is a yes.
—**Revenant (Selena Carter)**[src]
Shay is a typically calm, intelligent jokester, an outlandishly loyal friend, and a dedicated vigilante. Initially, Shay clung to a moral code that his stepfather told him, which was "Don't start nothing, won't be nothing." However, this has led Shay down a path that has nearly gotten him killed several times and has put the people he loves in danger. Shay's most significant fault, seemingly, is his savior complex, which is born out of being unable to save Patrick Knight, Alexis May, and Tyler Price. Despite his savior complex, Shay's willingness to leap headfirst into danger and his care for the people he considers family has led to him being looked up to as the leader of Hooligans. Yet, Shay doesn't see himself as the leader because it is more of a democracy than anything; each member points to Shay as the leader.

However, after having gone through life-changing and dark periods, Shay has devolved into a battle-hardened hero who fiercely protects those within his group without question or remorse. In many ways, Shay has become like the villains he fights. Whereas before, Shay would jump headlong into battle and let people see who they were fighting but has since begun to utilize shadows and methods that are questionable. He has even adopted a few of the ideologies (unknowingly) from some of his more organized villains, such as his willingness to destroy a threat to his group without hesitation and rarely trusting new people. However, unlike his villains, Shay has retained his humanity and personality, still making jokes and pop culture references and looking to his found family for guidance and opinions.

However, there have been moments when Shay loses it. The first was after his fight with Alucard, Shay had a mental breakdown, which Jane Harper witnessed and helped him through. The second was when Alexis May died. While Shay didn't have a mental breakdown, he did go out into the night and savagely beat criminals to the point that they would be on life support for the rest of their lives. More recently, Shay discovered that it was Connor Carter who made Tyler Price lose his mind and - at the time, Shay was Daredevil - this sent him down a spiral that almost led to him killing Baron Zemo. All of these events merged into the night whenever Pastor Ray asked Shay for help. It was here that Shay partially blinded a Knights Templar member without hesitation, which mortified Jane.

After his time as Daredevil and the superhuman war against SHIELD, Shay began to move differently. While Bucky's training was meant to help Shay survive the war, it ended up being a detriment as it made Shay more critical of his surroundings. Hendrix claimed that Shay has started to look at areas as if he sees things that others don't, which is true as Shay began to see places to escape, where people can enter, and other tactical advantages. His physical combat has changed dramatically as well, becoming more ruthless and vicious before. Before, Shay fought to incapacitate enemies, but since the war, he has no qualms about breaking bones, causing permanent damage, or even leaving enemies in a coma.

While Shay still stands by "Don't start nothing, won't be nothing," he has become a darker vigilante by way of the world. He is hopeful and hopes that Vegas becomes a place where people like him don't exist; Shay understands the reality of the situation and knows that his violent tendencies are needed. The war gave Shay serious trust issues, but they won't entirely put to the test until Alexis May returns to life and Shay begins to learn all of what Alexis has done. These revelations have led to "not taking chances anymore" with people he doesn't know. This is a direct contrast to his surrogate sister, Ren Carter, who has become a trusting, confident, and caring person. At the same time, Shay devolved into an untrusting, combatively savage, and cold toward enemies individual that worries almost all of the members of Hooligans.

### Religious View

 The last time I asked God for a favor and stopped to enjoy life, I got powers and my father got killed. I try not to mix it up with the almighty anymore.
—Tarantula
Shay is strongly non-religious as an adult, but as a child, he was a Methodist Christian by extension of his parents. However, they stopped going to church after an incident occurred when Shay's transgender aunt (formerly a man), Imani, went with them one time. The pastor would single out Imani and state that the world was an abomination and that Imani was to blame. This incident hurt Imani, and while Jennifer and Patrick disagreed in private, Shay and Jordan were the ones who stood up for Imani.

Shay angrily threw back what the pastor was preaching in his face about how they should "love thy neighbor" and then asked, "The laws of the land or the heart, what's greater?" While this event was the right thing to do, Jordan and Shay were looked at differently in the church, but that didn't matter because Imani thanked them both in tears. Shay cites this moment as both the time he took Patrick's saying to heart and when he chose humanity over religion. This event is why Shay isn't religious anymore, but he believes that there is a higher power out there, though it transcends words that they can give it.

However, Jane Harper's influence on Shay was more than she intended. He read the Hagakure and, through that, began to believe in a menagerie of religious concepts but cites himself as a Ronin, which has led to him creating his own Bushido that both he and Jane believe in and practice. Formally, Shay would be labeled as Agnostic but follows an adaption of the Samurai Bushido.

### Relationships

Shay has a complicated track record with women. The first girl he ever got into a relationship with was Alexis May, and Shay believed he would've married her. However, Shay harbored solid feelings for Jane Harper before he dated Alexis and even during the relationship. After Alexis died and Jane was believed to be dead, Shay didn't date anyone else. However, he would eventually date Valerie St. Lauren for a very long time, from the end of 2020 to 2023, and Shay found himself wanting to marry Valerie.

However, due to Areus reversing his identity reveal, Valerie forgot their relationship, and thus, Shay was single and alone again. While Selena and Sophia attempted to help Valerie remember, they learned that it resulted from magic and couldn't do anything to restore those memories. They helped because they liked who Valerie was with Shay, but since she didn't remember their relationship, Valerie returned to her battle-hardened, objective, no-nonsense ways.

When Jane returned and revealed herself to be alive, Shay's thought-to-be-forgotten feelings resurfaced, and the two began the relationship both believed should've been in from the beginning. Despite Shay's drastic personality shift, his friends claim that Shay is much happier and feels this is the better relationship between Valerie and Alexis.

## Attributes

### Powers

**Zinchari Biology:** Shay developed spider-like abilities after being eaten by a giant gamma-mutated spider that was a holdover from The Nevada Nuclear Testing Site, almost to an alarming rate. Studied by Alexis, Shay discovered that more than half of his DNA had become spider-like, and the worst part of it is that it is actively mutating. This means that there is an eventuality that he may become more spider than man; on the other hand, this could also mean that he will develop new abilities. Due to his young age, it is hard to tell as both are possibilities. However, after encountering alternative versions of himself, 505-Shay asked him which came first, the spider or the gamma mutation, but Shay dismissed this out of hand during the superhuman war. Shay traveled to the hidden African Kingdom of Myrth. Here, he met King Dakari Onasi, who presented Shay with a book that detailed what 505-Shay talked about: the Zinchari, and the book, described Shay's origins, but the book was written four decades ago by an unknown source. With this newfound information, Shay learned that he was not only a Zinchari Avatar, but there was more science behind his origins than he realized. The Zinchari that ate him had no special abilities. Still, it wasn't until it was exposed to the gamma radiation of The Nevada Nuclear Testing Site that it activated its powers but made it aggressive and, in turn, ate Shay on his 16th birthday. However, the book details that there was another that the spider bit, but the story ends there.

* **Superhuman Physiology:** Shay has considerable strength. While he may not be as strong as his peers, he can lift freight containers and cars and even hold two grown men over his head. However, the most authentic display of his strength is during the fight against the Squadron Supreme when Shay was forced to catch and hold The Coca-Cola bottle over his head with both hands to ensure that civilians could get away. Manny theorized that his current strength is 20 tons but stated that he is actively mutating, so it could increase. Shay's speed is unnatural. He has caught up to speeding cars on highways, chased flying enemies, and, most notably, dodged bullets. His overall speed is unknown, but his crowning achievement of speed is whenever he catches up to a helicopter by foot on rooftops in Manhattan. Shay’s equilibrium, agility, and bodily coordination were enhanced to superhuman levels to the point that he could balance on anything and everything, coupled with his wall-crawling ability makes him one of the most agile heroes in his community, allowing him to perform complex stunts and tricks, some of which are not humanly possible. Shay’s reflexes are too fast (not as fast as Jay's, who can augment himself), so he can catch flies in mid-flight. He has showcased this by making snap decisions in seconds. A testament to his reaction time is whenever Ren, Manny, and Shay are training, and they both attack him. He made the swiftest dodge, and they hit each other instead. Shay generates fewer fatigue toxins during physical activity than the musculature of an average human. He can physically exert himself at his peak for at least several hours before the build-up of fatigue toxins in his blood begins to impair him. Shay's body is more complex and more resistant to certain types of physical injury than the body of an ordinary human, though Shay's far from invulnerable. His bodily tissues are conditioned to allow him to withstand significant impact forces, and he has resisted impacts, such as falling from a height of many stories and being repeatedly struck by superhuman opponents, that would severely injure or kill an average human with little to no injury to himself. He once fell off a tower and effortlessly walked to a hospital, where a doctor said that with broken ribs and massive fractures, it was amazing that he could even stand up.

* **Spider-Sense:** A base ability granted to all Zinchari Avatars is their ability to sense danger around them within a 365-degree radius of their physical area. However, unlike other Zinchari Avatars - the notable exception being Lexi McFarlane - Shay's operates a bit differently. While it does simply detect danger, it is more advanced. Shay has showcased the ability to sync his Spider-Sense with technology to expand his sense reach further. Its base range is 365 degrees, localized entirely around himself, but when synced up with radar and sonar technology, Shay has been able to scan the entire city of Las Vegas, but this took a huge mental toll on his mind. His Spider-Sense also doesn't just detect danger, as he has been able to use it to find items and individuals near him. When scanned, the objects are highlighted a bright yellow, people like his friends are highlighted green, and villains and enemies are highlighted red. This ability was developed further whenever Shay began to train with Bucky, who showed him that he could lock onto an individual and maintain their colorful outline for as long as Shay focused on them, granting him a sort of "headhunting" ability. Furthermore, Shay gained a deeper understanding of this ability during his fight with Montage. As she was attacking him, Shay could see the colors move before Montage moved, alerting him to where she could be before she was. While not full precognition as he couldn't' predict her attacks, he could almost predict where she was going. The color identifier is subconscious, as once Shay mentally identifies someone as an ally or a friend, their color becomes green, and once someone attacks him, their color turns red. However, this is interesting as Shay has been assaulted by friends like Benard, who was not there mentally. When Benard attacked Shay, he still had Benard as a friend, so his color never changed as it was still green and not red. This leads Shay to believe that the color scheme is based on how he either A. feels about the person or B. if he knows the person's reasoning behind it. Another example is when Ford turned into his werewolf form for the first time in front of Shay. At first, Ford was highlighted red, but once Shay realized who it was, they quickly turned green, and his Spider-Sense did not go off again when Ford began to fight alongside him. However, Shay doesn't have a color for Ren, and he believes that it is because Epitaph interferes with his Spider-Sense so that Ren can't be detected. This was proven true as Ren is the only person in Hooligans to be able to sneak up on him, and this scares Shay further because in the event of Ren becoming mind-controlled, Shay would have no defense against her or Epitaph and he prays this never happens. Now that Shay has gained a handle on it, Shay can activate the ability on command, but as it still actively and passively detects danger, it will start on its own. A distinctive noise is heard in his ears, and a sharp chill sensation shoots up his spine and stops at the base of his skull if it is activated unwillingly.

* **Accelerated Healing Factor/Longevity:** Shay has an incredibly potent and fast healing factor. It is unnatural even for superhuman levels, as he can heal from cuts and bruises in a matter of seconds, and more significant wounds that would need stitches or casts are healed within the hour they were dealt out. However, the problem is that if he is relentlessly attacked, his body won't heal correctly because it is trying to recover previous wounds while Shay gains new ones. Thus, for his healing factor to truly kick in, Shay needs to be out of combat, but in extreme cases, Shay's healing factor has kicked into - what he dubbed - "overclock," where his body will force himself to heal all parts of himself rapidly while fighting. This has only happened twice; the first time was whenever Shay first fought The Radioactive Man and was exposed to mass amounts of radiation, and the second time was whenever Areus visited him in The Vault after he got jumped by his villains. After briefly seeing The Zinchari Conclave, Shay saw a future in which Shay was over 300 hundred years old but looked like he was a man in his late thirties and still Tarantula. After doing some personal research, Shay learned that his cells decay at a prolonged rate, to the point that if Shay retired, he would live longer than most people, including those with The Super Soldier Serum. The book explained that this ensures that Zinchari Avatars can have prolonged lives to continue being their avatars.

* **Retractable Talons & Fangs:** Something is fascinating about how most Zinchari Avatars have talons and/or fangs. Shay can unsheathe five talons on each hand, protruding from his fingertips. Each talon has a tensile strength of one ton and is sharp enough to cut through various metals up to Chromium and break multiple layers of skin. Because of this, he can attack viciously but historically chooses not to. This was shown when Shay dispatched a convoy of SHIELD Agents with nothing but his talons, car door, and physiology. This also supplements his need for wall crawling as he uses his talons to scale walls, buildings, and more. For some reason, his talons are subconsciously unsheathed and are connected to his Spider-Sense. If his Spider-Sense is triggered, his talons will unsheathe and be ready for fighting. More recently, Shay's talons have become more durable after he came in contact with Levi King, as he has shown the ability to leave scratches on his Vibranium claws, which was never thought possible. Similarly, Shay has fangs as well. While they have not been tested to the fullest extent, they are seemingly benign and there as a predatory mutation. However, they are sharp enough to pierce the skin and draw blood.

* **Photographic Memory:** While this would be considered an ability, it isn't, as Shay didn't have this until after the spider ate him. Before this, Shay was only able to remember things as people usually do, but after the spider ate him, Shay could remember everything about his life. Such as the first time he walked as a baby. This ability is a beautiful gift for Shay as it works differently than typical photographic memory. While Shay does remember everything with accurate detail without any alterations, it works as Shay describes, "First I read something, then I understand it. When I understand it, I never forget it." This allows Shay to read any document for any length of time and remember it with perfect clarity. This also works with faces and locations, but sometimes, it can be a curse. Shay remembers every detail of Alexis dying, down to even the most minor elements, such as how her hair moved before she died and more. He remembers everything from their first interaction to the look of fear on her face when she died. But it isn't just her; it is everyone. He remembers the first time he saw Patrick and then the last time he saw Patrick, he remembers the situation where his mother kicked him out, he remembers finding out Ren's father was Citizen V, and more importantly, he remembers the face of his father leaving after he was born. While this ability may be considered a gift as it can help Shay out of situations and help him with classwork, it is a curse because he can't forget the exact details of the worst days of his life.

### Abilities

* **The Historian Supreme:** From a very young age, Shay loved lore. Regardless of what it was. Shay would spend hours reading about his favorite franchises and video games. However, after Patrick and Jane showed him Raiders of The Lost Ark and Jurassic Park, Shay's love for lore turned into a deep love of history. When it comes to the subject of history, there is no rival. While Shay is intelligent in math and science, as he was able to create his Web-Formula and his web-shooters, he pales in comparison to his contemporaries such as Bernard, Alexis, and Ren. However, The subject he has a leg up in is history. Before gaining his abilities, Shay lacked the memory capacity to remember all of it; Shay continued to mass-absorb new information, taking the place of old unless he was reminded. However, Shay remembers it all since gaining his abilities and photographic memory. He has shown this unique ability to understand and identify what part of history something is from and regale individuals about the topic. This ability was demonstrated to significant effect whenever Shay found himself in Myrth. While he didn't openly state it, as other things were occurring then, Shay identified the books that Dakari owned along with how old the city was. His historian abilities extend so intensely that he can estimate when things were built based on limited information. A great example of his knowledge was when his history teacher at UNLV, Professor Liam Grayson, challenged Shay's knowledge. He told Shay to keep it to the year and asked him a series of questions about essential events, but Shay wanted to show him up after he failed a student for no reason, so Shay told him not only the year but the day, hour, and location of the event. The pinnacle of his knowledge is Edo Period Japan. He became infatuated with Samurai during middle school and, thus, learned about it en masse. His expertise on the subject shocked Manny as Shay could identify menpōs and explain what The Oniwaban were. His research skills don't stop at Earth history; he recently began researching magic en masse. His research was done to assist Ren and help her with Epitaph. Another darkly exciting thing is that Shay began researching The One Below across all cultures when Bernard returned. The problem was that Shay only discovered that The One Below All, in most cultures, was simply The Devil or Satan. However, Shay discovered an old secret death cult that worshipped beings like The One Below All and began to attempt to find a manuscript about these otherworldly beings that was written by seemingly his grandfather, Dr. Elliot Daniels, who lost his mind as a result of writing his manuscript and died at sea. Because of Shay's wealth of history knowledge, Evan Edwards of Earth-505 and Apollyon of The Nightosphere granted Shay the title "Historian Supreme." Their rationale for doing so was that if Shay knew of The Nightosphere and The Eighth Gate, he would become powerful not in terms of abilities but in knowledge. Whereas Evan and the other Shay and, by extension, his friends are intelligent by way of science, math, and engineering, Shay's mastery over history allows him to understand and interpret things that others would have a hard time comprehending. Evan even theorized that due to Shay's historian abilities, he could arrive at the answer to the infinite mystery that is the multiverse without using science or math but instead finding throughlines by way of history. Even Shay's "Last Donut of The Night" theory is based on history as Shay crafted it after being given access to research Earth-505 and Earth-47. According to Evan, there is no telling what Shay will do as a historian, but he is excited to see Shay's future.

* **Shogun Fighter:** While Shay was gifted with powerful abilities, Shay had no concept of combat. He just copied moves from video games he played as a kid. Still, as things got more serious than just "villain of the week," Shay needed to get better, so - using his history skills - Shay discovered Ren's aunt, Jade Dragon, who had become a lawyer in Las Vegas. The two agreed that Jade would train Shay if Shay didn't tell Ren that Jade was there, as she wanted to be the one to reveal herself to Ren. After Shay agreed, Jade began to teach him parts of different fighting styles so he could create an amalgam of it all and condense it. Jade's mantra was for Shay to be light on his feet but strike hard, which Shay began to do over time. While not a master in anything, Shay began to lean more towards boxing as Patrick boxed. Jade noticed this and began to specifically train him in boxing techniques, coupled with similar martial arts styles to complement it. Later, Shay would be trained by Bucky Barnes, who expanded on these base concepts further by revealing to him where his openings were and forcing him to use his pheromone reading to predict danger ahead of time instead of being reactionary. All of this coalesced into his fight with Montage, whom Shay defeated using boxing techniques and his natural abilities. It doesn't matter for Shay if he is using his combat abilities to fight even simple thugs; Shay will perform boxing moves to dispatch all individuals as it has become his go-to stance. He even dodges as if he is boxing someone, swaying and avoiding attacks. Shay can handle it because of his boxing stance, regardless of whether the opponent is fighting dirty. Shay's stances are that his hands are lifted slightly above his waist as fists, allowing him to see all directions to his left, right, and center. Whereas this would be a problem for standard boxers, Shay can react fast enough to put his hands up to block or deflect jabs thrown at him and counter with ease. However, it is fair to be scared whenever Shay's hands are at his sides because, in this stance, Shay will not block or deflect but instead dodge and tank hits but respond before the opponent can retract their arm after their attack. Jade described this as the "Shogun Style" and dubbed him "The Shogun Fighter," as Shay leaves himself open for attacks but can retort without consequence or being left open, much like a Shogun who is available to attacks but is quick to respond. He has used this stance on a few occasions; the first was with Jade during their sparring session, the second was with Takuma Tanaka, who became scared at this stance, and the last was against Montage, who was terrified.

* **Indomitable Will:** Shay most likely should have given up long ago. His life has been problematic since Day One. Between losing friends, villains, being gifted powers, crippling guilt, heartbreak, family relationships being ruined, being routinely hurt every time he dons the suit, having to fight off the feeling of snapping, having the world crush him at every chance it gets, and lastly, trying to live up to his stepfather's mantra, Shay should have stopped by now. But he doesn't. Shay never stops. He's the first one in that burning building and the last out. Shay's greatest superpower isn't his ability to take punches but to keep going, even when the world is crushing him, even when the villain's attacks hurt a little more, even if it would be easier to throw the costume away. He keeps going, and that's why Hooligans look to him for leadership. While he does struggle with confidence when it comes to more serious endeavors such as Operation: Zero Tolerance, even in these moments, Shay forces himself to detach emotionally to focus on the task at hand, such as whenever he redirects Ren from her jealous feelings about him and Valerie by reminded her that the world needed Voodoo and Tarantula instead of Ren Carter and Shay Daniels. On occasion, Shay can deliver speeches that inspire those around him, even garnering a compliment from Bucky himself. Regardless, Shay's will have been tested to the point of giving up, which Areus has commented on as he has described Shay as "the Job of superheroes."

* **Talented Writer:** Since he was young, Shay has been writing stories of fiction and the fantastical. Many of the descriptive entries in Hooligans Database are written by Shay. However, he never thought about doing this seriously until Front Line opened. He wrote a fictional Op-Ed for his mother's friend, Caroline Powers, who loved it and stated that he had a future in writing if he ever wanted to diversify from history. Years later, when Caroline opened Front Line, she reached out to Shay and offered him a full-time webcomic writing position for a fictional story that mirrors the events of superheroes, not knowing Shay is one himself. At first, he was skeptical, but when Ren's excitement kicked in, he accepted the position under the condition that Ren be his artist, which Caroline - after seeing her portfolio - readily agreed to. The story Shay began to pen the comic strip known as "*Depression Cherry*" which is a story about a young woman with chronically bad luck who gains luck-based abilities. It follows the hijinks and adventures of her, her boyfriend, and her dog in Las Vegas as they try to stop crime and live as ordinary people. Metatextuality, the story mirrors the adventures of Hooligans, Tarantula, and many other heroes in America. It deals with themes such as existentialism, being lost in your 20s, coming of age, adult relationships, politics, pop culture, consequences of secrets, and surrealism. The comic strip garnered critical acclaim and won Ren and Shay the Dwayne McDuffie Award.

* **Musicianship:** During his youth, Jennifer got Shay a tutor - Mrs. Moriah Brand - who taught him piano. The two would spend hours poring over different musical pieces, and Shay learned how to play overtime, but after middle school, he would stop going. However, after gaining his abilities and, subsequently, his photographic memory, he could recall the sheet music and his tutor playing Beethoven's Sonata No. 17. He would later begin to play on his own to test out his memory. Still, the most harrowing times he played the piano were the morning after his mental breakdown. Jane awoke in Shay's bed to find Shay playing a slower depiction of Shirō Sagisu's *Never Meant to Belong*. Jane has stated that it was one of her life's most beautifully horrifying events and that it was the moment she fell in love with him.

### Weaknesses

* **Sulfur Trioxide:** For some ungodly reason, Shay's "kryptonite" is a compound that only Dynamics creates called Sulfur Trioxide. It is an oxygen-based compound that includes sulfur. While it does not halt gamma-radiation (what his powers are based on), there is something genetically with Shay that alters and cuts him off from his spider-like DNA, ergo, his powers. It has been theorized by Shay himself that if he injected himself with enough of this compound in liquid form, he could either A. lose his powers forever or B. commit accidental suicide. The ladder has tempted him.

* **Spider-Sense/"System Overload":** There are certain things that Shay can and cannot detect, but there are far more things that can overload his Spider-Sense, which has dark and nasty results. First, Shay cannot see mystic danger. For some unknown reason, mysticism and Shay do not mix, as he cannot detect Calypso's presence or her attacks, forcing him to rely on his other abilities. Secondly, Shay cannot see Vampires, but he can detect danger from vampires. This was shown when he could detect Dakari's message when they entered Myrthian Air Space but could not detect who or what was relaying it. Another example of this was whenever he was fighting Alucard, and he could not highlight him but could highlight his attacks. The top of this list is The Big Steppers. Shay cannot detect the Big Steppers as they are coated in Sulfur Trioxide, meaning that he can't not only catch them, but he also can't highlight them, he can't see what attacks they are going to do, and he can't even sync his Spider-Sense up with their radar technology to see who is controlling them. On the topic of "System Overload," Shay can be overloaded by the amount of danger in one concentrated area or if he is tricked into thinking there are numerous threats at once. What happens is as follows: Shay will begin to feel the sensation he gets from his Spider-Sense, but then his mind will attempt to ascertain what the danger is as the threat becomes more significant and the red highlight counts grow, and it will cause physical pain to Shay, to the point that he will become immobilized and if the danger persists, he will begin to have an aneurism and eventually, if not rendered unconscious, will begin to die.

* **The Daniels Family Curse:** According to varying historical reports, The Daniels Family is cursed. A family of wildly intelligent individuals, they are cursed with a repeated history of mental health problems. It has been a reoccurring thing across the entire family, ranging from minor mental health problems like ADHD to extreme cases like schizophrenia and psychosis. Shay has ADHD, depression, and PTSD, which are common in his position. However, Dakari, who knew Dr. Daniels personally and who knew of his family history, sees this as a vulnerable point for Shay as he is more susceptible to the darker and more extreme aspects of being a vigilante. A case in point is when Shay had a nervous breakdown after discovering that vampires were real. While on the surface, most individuals wouldn't have a nervous breakdown on the scale that Shay did when discovering that vampires were real, Shay's instance was unique as he had gone through a traumatic year, and vampires were the breaking point.

* **Nicotine Addiction:** A few days after his stepfather's death, Shay took up Patrick's smoking habit. At first, he did it because he didn't realize that he was wearing his father's suit jacket, which had a pack of cigarettes and a lighter in it. Shay did it out of solidarity but has since done it as a habit. Later, as he got older, Shay switched to vapes to remove the smell and Alexis' allergic reaction to being near the smell of cigarettes. However, there have been a few times that Shay had smoked cigarettes since, such as when Alexis died and he smoked over her grave, and others.

## Paraphernalia

### Equipment

* **Tarantula Suit:** Shay's suit was originally created out of anti-radiation fabrics by Ren Carter and Alexis May. Shay would go on to keep the same suit through different iterations, only having a single change of suit but this was due to outside circumstances. Recently, Shay would receive a more advanced suit from Dakari after his time in Myrth.

* **Web-Shooters:** Shay had developed Web-Shooters and a synthetic Web-Fluid the day of Patrick's funeral. Shay's web-formula is a highly coveted secret that not even Hooligans know about and the only person to have managed to crack it was Bernard who did it by taking a piece of Shay's webbing before it dissolved. Later, Dakari would grant Shay a new set of web-shooters to coincide with the new suit.

* **White Cement Air Force IVs:** While typically, shoes aren't considered equipment, this specific shoe has a deeper meaning for Shay, and thus, it earns a spot on this list. Before Patrick died, his gift to Shay on his birthday was a pair of White Cement Air Force IVs, and it was the last thing he got from Patrick. They have no unique capabilities, but they are wildly crucial to Shay, and he never leaves home without them. He even learned how to cobble to maintain the shoe. During the superhuman war against SHIELD, Shay had these shoes with him across all the countries and cities he was in. However - momentarily - Shay wore these shoes with his costume whenever he traversed the multiverse.

* **Patrick Knight's Gulf War Dog Tags:** After Patrick died, The Daniels Family was given all the items he had on his person. This included - outside-of-the-ordinary things, i.e., wallet, phone, etc. - his badge, dog tags, and a police ID. Jordan would get his badge, and his mother gifted Shay Patrick's Gulf War dog tags. Shay never took these off and wore them even in costume. There have been only two recorded times when Shay took off the dog tags. The first was when Ford needed to use a set of dog tags to identify as somebody else to sneak into a defunct SHIELD base, and Shay lent them to him. The second time, they were "stolen" off of him during his fight with Phantom Menace, but Andre retrieved them.

* **The Historian Archive:** As Shay is a historian and has extensive notes on history, both past and present, he worked with Dakari Onasi to create a digitized and holographic database for the knowledge he has gained over the years. The database houses several different resources about a litany of topics. It has since been labeled as one of the most dangerous items in the world as it is an expansive library of information on everything from detailed schematics of The Iron Man Armors to the secrets of the multiverse.
	+ **The Historian Archive Data-Watch:** After realizing he could utilize The Historian Archive in his everyday life, Shay worked with Hendrix Shays to outfit a watch that allowed him to access the database without putting on the costume. The device functions the same as his Spider-Emblem would but is still an actual timepiece.

### Weapons

* **Fukushū:** Fukushū (translated to "Vengeance" in English) is a legendary blade wielded by Shay's alleged ancestor, Yasuke. The blade was housed within The Haizen Ancestral Home, but when Shay noticed the blade as it strangely interacted with his Spider-Sense, it was given to Levi, who then gave it to Shay. According to the lore Shay could find about it, it was given to Yasuke by Nobunaga, who was the Daimyo at the time. However, Levi warned Shay that the blade had mystical properties as it held the essence of Yasuke within it. When Shay asked Dakari about it, he told Shay that the blade was not a Blade of Power but warned him against using it often as he sensed that the sword had a lust for punishing the wicked lethally.

### Transportation

**Web-Swinging & Web-Wings:** While on the surface, Las Vegas doesn't seem like the optimal place to swing from, Shay has proven this false. Shay utilizes his web-shooters to swing throughout the urban chasms of Las Vegas. Later, Shay would gain Web-Wings to help his traversal, allowing him to use the complete totality of his surroundings.

## Notes

* Shay Daniels (Earth-30), 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 and exist within solely within The Donuts Multiverse.

## Trivia

* He has stated that he has a deep love for Star Wars, somewhat likes Star Trek, but truthfully adores Indiana Jones.
* Shay is right-handed.
* Even though he has lived in Las Vegas for his entire life, he has been a lifelong Brooklyn Nets fan.
* Shay typically wears a backpack with all of his clothes in it so that he can change on the fly. It comes in handy. He still does this well into adulthood.
* While Shay's villains are an assortment of individuals, it is hard to state which one is his arch-nemesis.
	+ Ren believes that Shriek is Shay's arch-nemesis because of how many times they have fought. Shay disagrees because Shriek- frequently - attacks Shay because she doesn't know how to control her powers fully but has stated that she is a contender because she was the first villain to figure out his identity instead of being told.
* Shay's full name, Shay J. Daniels, has the same initials as Steve J. Ditko, the artist for the original Spider-Man comics. Stay strong, True Believers! - Creator
* The nickname "Space Cowboy" was primarily used by Alexis when they were together.
* Shay has been known to wear White Cement Air Jordan IVs consistently. According to Evan, all Tarantulas across the multiverse wear Jordan's, and it has become a multiversal constant in all realities.
* While Shay is often the one to make plans, it is "'imperative'" to know that most - if not all - of Shay's plans are from movies or tv shows he has seen. Funny enough, only Jane and Areus have figured this out. Areus learned from being omniscient, and Jane figured it out after being involved in one of these plans. Below are a few notable examples:
	+ During the Torment storyline, Shay planned to sit down with Derek Tepes in his civilian outfit but purposely showed up late with Jane for Derek to drink at a restaurant. After blowing him off, Shay and Jane take his glass for his DNA to attempt to reverse-engineer the Vampirism Gene. Here, Jane realized that the plan was taken from 1988's *Mississippi Burning* and Shay stated upon completion, "Seems like the rattlesnakes are starting to commit suicide," to which Jane realized, "Holy shit, this whole thing is from Mississippi Burning."
	+ When Shay and Alexis fought The White Queen, Shay created a situation in which anything she did would be the wrong move and result in her losing all of her money or her status as The White Queen, forcing her to surrender. Alexis never realized this, but Shay got the idea from Stark Trek's *Kobayashi Maru*.
	+ During Shay's rematch with Hammerhead, Shay decided to go against the conventional idea of a showdown - as he was injured at the time - and instead began dismantling his organization by calling the cops on specific locations where Hammerhead operated out of. Then, when Shay was healed, he confronted Hammerhead, and instead of punching him, he broke down all of the reasons why Hammerhead should give up, and he did, surprisingly. This was a reference to Harvey Spector in the TV Show Suits who often said, "Don't play the odds, play the man," which Shay took to the extreme.
	+ During his first fight with Calypso, Shay researched the totem she was after inside the Natural History Museum. Unbeknownst to Calypso, the totem harmed the user if used, and when he and Ren arrived to try to stop her from getting it, Shay threatened to destroy it, but Calypso captured both Ren and Shay. This went to plan, however, as Calypso used the totem, and Shay instructed Ren to close her eyes as Calypso was blinded - momentarily - and was swiftly defeated after that. Shay got the idea for this plan from *Raiders of The Lost Ark* when Indy knew of the Ark's power and let the Nazis get melted near the movie's end.
* When Shay doesn't know what to say, he often says he misses old Meek Mill.
* Shay is a huge hip-hop nerd. He blasts rap music all day and often quotes bars at random. He also frequently raps songs which he claims helps him focus on a task.
* Shay's favorite book is F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby." He has also claimed that he prefers the 2013 movie over the original.
* While Shay's identity is a coveted secret, there have been times when people have figured it out or have been told.
	+ This complete list of individuals who know that Shay Daniels is Tarantula is quite long, but primarily, it is people he trusts. This list is Bucky Barnes, Ren Carter, Ford Easton, Andre Lucas, Hendrix Shays, Jennifer Daniels, Selena Carter, Valerie St. Lauren, Sophia St. Lauren, Jay Foxx, Tyler Price, Areus, Jane Harper, Alexis May, Manny McClain, Bernard Smith, Jordan Knight, Dakari Onasi, Pepper Potts, Tony Stark, Monica Eden, TMNT, Roland Harris, 505-Shay, 47-Shay, Steve Rogers and Evan Edwards.
* While Shay is a Nevadian through-and-through, his second favorite city is Lower East Side, Manhattan where Manny's apartment resided.
	+ Funny enough about him feeling this way, revealed in the story here (*Nevadatonin*), had Dr. Daniels stayed with Jennifer, Shay would've been born in Manhattan as that was where Dr. Daniels and Jennifer lived beforehand, specifically Lower East Side.
* Shay met Demetrius Jackson and are good friends with him. It was purely an accident and through the Multiverse but they keep in contact by using a multiverse phone. They call once or twice a month.
* As later noted by Aslan, Shay's birthday is a canon event that cannot otherwise be changed. This means that, cosmically, magically, and statistically, Shay was destined to become Tarantula, whether he liked it or not.

## See Also

* 6 appearance(s) of Shay Daniels (Earth-30)
* 2 mention(s) of Shay Daniels (Earth-30)
* 5 image(s) of Shay Daniels (Earth-30)
* 9 quotation(s) by or about Shay Daniels (Earth-30)
* 1 item(s) used/owned by Shay Daniels (Earth-30)

## Links and References

### References

1. ↑ Operation: Zero Tolerance #2
2. ↑ Operation: Zero Tolerance #4
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Web of Tarantula #2
4. ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 Web of Tarantula #1
5. ↑ Hooligans #5
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Atrocity Exhibition
7. ↑ And On The Day You Were Born...
8. ↑ Web of Tarantula #0
9. ↑ Torent
10. ↑ A Day At The Races
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Operation: Zero Tolerance
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 OZT Epilogue: Pornography
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Donuts
14. ↑ Tarantula #1
15. ↑ Dummy
16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Hooligans One Shot #1
17. ↑ Day At The Races
18. ↑ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 Torment
20. ↑ I Remember You
21. ↑ Reach The Citadel
22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 Sin-City
23. ↑ [adult swim]
24. ↑ DARKFUTUREWAR
25. ↑ Scaring The Hoes
26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 26.2 MULTIVERSELOVESOUNDS
27. ↑ Late Registration
28. ↑ Cold
29. ↑ So Appalled
30. ↑ Telegraphs in The Negative
31. ↑ Sins Past
32. ↑ A Negro Spiritual Outro
33. ↑ 33.0 33.1 33.2 33.3 33.4 Operation: Zero Tolerance
34. ↑ Donuts vol 1
35. ↑ It Won't Be Soon Before Long
36. ↑ ItWasntEnough
37. ↑ Six Inch Heels
38. ↑ Rise