Keemia Marko

## Sandgirl

Keemia Marko

**Keemia Marko** a.k.a **Sandgirl** is a recurring villain in *Marvel's Spider-Man*. She is the daughter of Flint Marko, who's failure to Hammerhead led to both of them gaining sand-based powers. Unlike her father, however, Keemia was smart enough to figure out how to keep her human form stable.

## Appearance

### Physical appearance

Keemia is a teenage girl with black hair in a peek-a-boo bang and brown eyes. Her right eye is missing due to the incident that gave her sand powers, and she wasn't able to make it stable unlike the rest of her body.

She usually wears a light blue demin jacket, gold stud earrings, black pants and matching beanie and top. In her debut, her hat and top were green but when she returns in Critical Update, her hat and top become red after striking away from Hammerhead.

## Personality

Keemia originally was a hardworking student, getting high grades in hopes of getting a good life. However, following an incident where she "follows in her father's footsteps", she ends up a victim of the mixture of sand and toxic waste. Upon being rescued by Hammerhead, Keemia became vengeful towards her father for putting her in the state of things. She also wanted revenge on Spider-Man for overwhelming her when he wore his black suit.

Keemia also shows signs of having scapegoating tendencies, for while it was Flint's association with Hammerhead that caused her transformation, she didn't listen to his orders to stay in the car.

## Relationships

### Flint Marko

Flint cared for Keemia very much and did anything he could to make sure she grew up to have a good life. This included working for Hammerhead in other to provide for her. However, when Keemia followed her father and discovered that he was working for Hammerhead, it resulted in her transformation into a sand-person as well. Flint only wanted to save Keemia from Hammerhead, however, Keemia did not want to be saved. She blamed Flint for not being the father she needed, claiming Hammerhead has been a better father than him. Without remorse, Keemia killed Flint by attacking him until his sand molecules could not reform.

### Hammerhead

Keemia was formerly one of Hammerhead's henchman. Despite Hammerhead being the actual reason she became a sand-person, she never blamed him. In fact, she stated that Hammerhead took her in and acted like more of a father than Flint believed he was being to her.

### Spider-Man

Initially, Keemia held no resentment towards Spider-Man until he tried to aid her father in rescuing her from Hammerhead. She told the web-slinger to stay out her and her father's family business, but she decided to end Spider-Man when he continued to interfere. Unfortunately, Keemia found herself overwhelmed when the V-252 symbiote formed around Spider-Man before she could suffocate him in a sand-shaped dome.

### Superior Spider-Man

Still holding resent towards Spider-Man due to their previous encounter, Keemia decided to become the next mob boss of New York after Superior Spider-Man took out Hammerhead, Big Wheel, and Silvermane's gangs. She recruited members of each gang to help her take down *Spider-Man*.

### Spy-D

Keemia only refereed to Miles as a fake Spider-Man, possibly because she has never seen nor heard of him before their encounter in Critical Update.

## Abilities

**Sand Mimicry:** Keemia's body is completely composed of sand. This allows to take on different shapes and forms, in addition to form constructs made out of sand she leaves on the ground.

## Trivia

* In the comics, her full name was **Keemia Alvarado.**
	+ This version of Keemia is a teenager, while in the comics she is depicted as a young child and has no sand-based powers.
	+ It is also possible that she is based on the *Sandwoman* character from the Spider-Man 2099 comic series.
* It's possible that Keemia may have been partially inspired by the character Gaara from the popular manga and anime series Naruto. One the attacks Keemia used on Spider-Man in Sandman involved an attempt to suffocate Spider-Man inside of sand-shaped dome. This is similar to Gaara's battle with Naruto, where he attempted to suffocate the latter with an ability of his called *Sand Coffin.*
* Despite being the teenage equivalent to Sandman in the series, Sandman was used and considered one of Spider-Man's enemies, when he was practicing in Horizon High's Hardlight Hologram Training Room.