Spider-Girl Vol 1 0

## Appearing in "Legacy..."

**Featured Characters:**

* Spider-Girl

**Supporting Characters:**

* Courtney Duran
* Davida Kirby
* Foggy Nelson
* Mary Jane
* Spider-Man
* Moose Mansfield

**Villains:**

* Normie Osborn

**Locations:**

* Earth-982 (Reality)
	+ New York City
		- Manhattan
			* Avengers Mansion
			* Brooklyn Bridge
		- Queens
			* Midtown High School

**Items:**

* Web-Shooter

## Synopsis for "Legacy ... In Black and White"

This issue asks the following question: "... What if Mary Jane had never lost the baby, and Spider-Man had a Spider-Girl?" It focuses on the outcome of one part of the Clone Saga, in which Mary Jane had apparently miscarried May, though the baby was secretly smuggled by Alison Mongrain to Norman Osborn (see Clone Saga#Act 3 in the Books for more information).

Now at the age of fifteen, May "Mayday" Parker is the captain of
her high school girls basketball team at Midtown High School in Queens,
New York (where her father had gone as well). Exhibiting some wowing
abilities on the court, Mary Jane and Peter begin to worry she may have
inherited some of Peter's Spider-Man abilities. As they congratulate
her, a shadowy figure (the Green Goblin) looks on from the windows. May
then blows off the jocks to hang out with her "nerdy" friends. Mary Jane
 and Peter walk home and Peter recounts how he no longer is Spider-Man
because he had a large confrontation with Norman two years after May was
 born where Norman died and Peter lost the will to continue as
Spider-Man. Without having to be Spider-Man, they never revealed to May
who he had been. Elsewhere, May, Jimmy, and Courtney are attacked by the
 Green Goblin. He wants May to pass on the message to Peter that he will
 be waiting at the bridge the next night.
Peter decides to try to contact Normie Osborn, Norman's grandson.
 He gets through to Normie's stepfather who tells Peter he hasn't seen
Normie since his mother grew ill. He relates this information to Mary
Jane and May, in the process, overhears them talking about him being
Spider-Man. The next day while Peter tries to get the help of first the
Fantastic Five and then the Avengers, May starts to experiment with her
new powers. She later confronts Mary Jane about the conversation from
the previous night and MJ explains everything to her. That evening,
Peter shows up at the bridge to face Normie, who is miffed Peter wasn't
wearing his Spider-Man suit. Mary Jane shows up to try and reason with
Normie, but May shows up as well, wearing Ben Reilly/Scarlet Spiders old
 suit. Fighting ensues and May is able to stop Normie with one of his
own pumpkin bombs. Though he is about to then be hit, and possibly
killed, by an oncoming truck, May saves him anyway. As the cops take him
 away, he raves on and on about Spider-Girl, but no one believes him.
The Parkers' later burn Peter's old costumes and assorted gear, but an
open-ended conclusion shows May's designs for her own suit an a
titillating "The End

## Trivia

* This issue created the Earth-982/MC2 Universe and the series Spider-Girl, as well as others.
* May plays for the Midtown High School. They play against the Holis Crusaders in the beginning pages.
* Peter now works in the Police Laboratory. He was called Doctor Parker by one of May's friends.
* Normie has tattoos one his body, including one on his chest that reads "REVENGE" and one on his back that reads "Honor thy father, kill the spider".

* It is revealed in the closing pages that Daredevil was killed in the Earth-982 timeline.
* This issue of *What if...?* was also reprinted as *Spider-Girl #0* in October 1998 as a lead in to the regular series.

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