Red Spider
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| The Red Spider | ||||||||||
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| Real Name: | Confidential | |||||||||
| Known Aliases: | Slash | |||||||||
| Gender: | Female | |||||||||
| Species: | Human (normal) | |||||||||
| Ethnicity: | Confidential | |||||||||
| Place of Birth: | Confidential | |||||||||
| Base of Operations: | Confidential | |||||||||
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| Age: | 16 - 25 | |||||||||
| Height: | 5'7" | |||||||||
| Weight: | 117 lbs. | |||||||||
| Eyes: | Green | |||||||||
| Hair: | Brown | |||||||||
| Complexion: | Confidential | |||||||||
| Physical Build: | Dancer | |||||||||
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| Identity: | Confidential | |||||||||
| Years Active: | Confidential | |||||||||
| Citizenship: | United States of America | |||||||||
| Occupation: | Confidential | |||||||||
| Education: | Confidential | |||||||||
| Marital Status: | Confidential | |||||||||
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Red Spider is a Millenium City superheroine. Formerly known as the sword-wielding Slash, Red Spider possibly became more famous for avoiding the spotlight after clips began to appear on YouTube of her crime fighting. She once worked almost exclusively alone, but has emerged as the leader of the Adventurers super team. Little else is known of this young hero because she guards her secret identity carefully. It is commonly believed that she may have no actual super powers.
Secretly, Red Spider is actually Cassandra Olsen, a twenty year old university undergraduate studying performing arts, with a major in dance.
Contents
[hide]Powers, Skills, and Attributes
Powers
Enhanced Musculature - After being cured of an alien virus which transformed her into a hybrid creature, Red Spider retained some powers which she did not have before. Her musculature is more elastic, which gives her greater reflexes, endurance, and acrobatic abilities. This enhancement is completely superficial and does not reveal her when she is out of costume.
Skills
Dance - Red Spider has trained as a dancer since her parents first enrolled her in a class at age 4. She has a master's grasp of the range and economy of human movement.
Fighting - Red Spider uses a blend of her dance skills with some basic fighting techniques to create a unique martial art style. Initially she used this in sword fighting, but she has learned that she is more effective without wielding a weapon.
Investigation - Red Spider has become resourceful in tracking people of interest & experienced at interpreting physical evidence as a result of her crime fighting career.
Escape Artistry - Early in Red Spider's career she was captured a number of times. Out of necessity she learned to escape different kinds of bonds and traps, failure of which would have surely led to her death!
Acrobatics - Through her physical conditioning for dance, and through constant practice with her energy grappler swinging, Red Spider is incredibly agile and capable of amazing feats of movement.
Gear and Equipment
Gear
Beam Grapplers - At some point she acquired beam grapplers worn as metallic bracers on her wrists. They project counter-gravitational beams that exert no pull, but allow Red Spider to dangle or swing on a variable-length beam.
Spider Mics - Red Spider employs one-way audio devices which are disguised as spiders and can be used to do surveillance. She has placed them on fake spider-webs to sell the illusion.
Nanosuit - Lady Justice designed a sophisticated costume to complement Red Spider's feats of agility, that sacrifices no range of movement but adds environmental & kinetic protection, as well as 'hard light' projections of four spider arms intuitively controlled by interpreting subtle impulses from its wearer. The internal battery for the 'hard light' projections is limited, so Red Spider has to be judicious in its use.
General Perception
Red Spider is a mysterious costumed hero (in)famous for avoiding the spotlight. She has been the source of much internet speculation, and the concentration of some private investigations, but so far her true identity has eluded scrutiny.
Relationships
Closest Allies
Blue Wonder - One of Red Spider's best friends and chosen as the second in command of the Adventurers during Red's alien virus crisis.
Illusion - A shape-shifting alien visitor whom Red Spider has taken under her wing and encouraged to embrace humanity.
Fox - One of her longest-standing allies. Fox is an assassin and has proven there is no rule he won't break in keeping Red Spider safe.
Lady Justice - The Adventurers team mate who cured Red Spider of the alien virus, using experimental nanites.
Adrian AKA Moonlighter - Presently Red Spider's boyfriend; a bakery worker and an occasional armored hero.
Enemies
Doctor Killowatt - Former military technology researcher Anthony Kozhan lost the use of his legs in service, but did not feel he was adequately cared for by the government afterwards. He developed a tech suit which allowed him to control electricity and prepared to take revenge. Once the Adventurers were about to capture Kozhan, he subjected himself to a high dose of electricity to his brain rather than be taken alive. He remains in a coma.
Kingsnake - A reptilian former fighter in an entertainment wrestling league, Kingsnake is hired muscle for the mysterious "Chairman". Though lacking in intelligence, Kingsnake is effective based on his strength alone. He has also proven deadly underwater. On several occasions Kingsnake has captured & nearly killed Red Spider.
Selected Stories
Stories
Tales from Caprice #4 First appearance of 'Slash' in a one-off moralistic story about a girl from a well-to-do family who takes on a costumed identity to stop some young men from squandering their potential by scaring them from joining a gang.
Slash #1 - Continuing the story of 'Slash', a girl with a sword, some fast dancing feet, and more bravery than sense. After escaping the first serious prospect of death at the hands of some crooks, she resolves to continue on.
Slash #13 - After a third time being parted from her sword, Slash has to rely on her wits to escape a deadly situation. At the end of the issue, she realizes she doesn't need a sword to be an effective hero. Final issue in this series ends with Cassandra learning to fight hand-to-hand.
Remarkable Red Spider #1 - As her first year at college comes to an end, Cassandra Olsen hasn't dressed up as Slash for six months. A sale at the drama department's costume warehouse gives her access to a few red spandex bodysuits, which she repurposes for her new costumed identity: the Red Spider.
Remarkable Red Spider #11 - Red Spider first meets Guidelight.
Remarkable Red Spider #16 - Red Spider first meets Fox.
Remarkable Red Spider #19 - First appearance of the black nanoweave costume
The Adventurers #3 - The formation of the Adventurers, with Red Spider as the team leader.
Remarkable Red Spider #20 - Red Spider's first fight with Kingsnake
The Adventurers #8 - Red Spider & the Adventurers defeat Dr. Killowatt, her first major supervillain opponent!
Remarkable Red Spider #25 - First meets Daydream and begins investigating leads on the Chairman
The Adventurers #9 - First meets Blue Wonder, Lady Justice, and Mark of Power
The Adventurers #11 - Infected with the experimental alien retrovirus by the evil Dr. Skala
The Adventurers #16 - Cured of the alien virus and its transformative effects by Lady Justice
Remarkable Red Spider #29 - With support from Blue Wonder and Jason Leander, Cassandra reveals to her father that she is the Red Spider
