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* <span style="color:#FFFFFF; font-size:13pt; font-weight: bold">Determined</span> - Her willpower causes Webcrawler to be dogged in pursuit of goals. Physical injury or emotional distress rarely keeps Webcrawler down.
 
* <span style="color:#FFFFFF; font-size:13pt; font-weight: bold">Determined</span> - Her willpower causes Webcrawler to be dogged in pursuit of goals. Physical injury or emotional distress rarely keeps Webcrawler down.
* <span style="color:#FFFFFF; font-size:13pt; font-weight: bold">Honest to a Fault</span> - Webcrawler says what she means, and means what she says. She gives the benefit of the doubt; sometimes, this makes her too trusting.
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* <span style="color:#FFFFFF; font-size:13pt; font-weight: bold">Honest to a Fault</span> - Webcrawler is often direct and forthright, and tends to take people at their word. This might make her a bit too trusting.
 
* <span style="color:#FFFFFF; font-size:13pt; font-weight: bold">Compassionate</span> - She has an abundance of empathy and compassion - but that won't stop her kicking a villain in the face.
 
* <span style="color:#FFFFFF; font-size:13pt; font-weight: bold">Compassionate</span> - She has an abundance of empathy and compassion - but that won't stop her kicking a villain in the face.
 
* <span style="color:#FFFFFF; font-size:13pt; font-weight: bold">Introverted</span> - Cassandra prefers to spend quality time with a small number of friends.
 
* <span style="color:#FFFFFF; font-size:13pt; font-weight: bold">Introverted</span> - Cassandra prefers to spend quality time with a small number of friends.
 
* <span style="color:#FFFFFF; font-size:13pt; font-weight: bold">Paranoid</span> - Webcrawler is anxious about the public discovery of her secret identity, and she goes to some lengths to preserve the integrity of it.
 
* <span style="color:#FFFFFF; font-size:13pt; font-weight: bold">Paranoid</span> - Webcrawler is anxious about the public discovery of her secret identity, and she goes to some lengths to preserve the integrity of it.
* <span style="color:#FFFFFF; font-size:13pt; font-weight: bold">Smirking Crime Fighter</span> - Webcrawler displays a sense of humor to allay her anxiety in dangerous situations.
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* <span style="color:#FFFFFF; font-size:13pt; font-weight: bold">Light-hearted Hero</span> - Webcrawler employs levity in superhero fights, mostly to combat her own anxiety.
 
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Webcrawler
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Webcrawler
Biographical Data
Real Name: Confidential
Known Aliases: Slash, Red Spider
Gender: Female
Species: Human (normal)
Ethnicity: American (English); ¼ Chinese
Place of Birth: Millennium City, MI
Base of Operations: Millennium City, MI
Relatives: Confidential
Characteristics
Age: 20
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 117 lbs.
Eyes: Green
Hair: Brown
Complexion: Confidential
Physical Build: Dancer
Physical Features: Confidential
Status
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Identity: Cassandra Olsen
Years Active: 2013 - Present
Citizenship: United States of America
Occupation: Self-employed Dance Teacher
Education: University Graduate
Marital Status: Single
Known Powers and Abilities
Enhanced musculature, fast reflexes, minor regeneration ability
Equipment and Paraphernalia
Beam grapplers, tangleweb capsules, enhanced vision lenses
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Webcrawler is a Millenium City superheroine.

Formerly known as the sword-wielding Slash (2012-2013), and later as Red Spider (2013-2022), Webcrawler possibly became more famous for avoiding the spotlight after clips began to appear on YouTube of her crime fighting.

She once worked 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.


Biography
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Secret Identity

Webcrawler is actually Cassandra Olsen of Millennium City. This fact is known only to a few family members and trusted allies.

Formative Years

A privileged life was always Cassandra's destiny from birth. Her father had made his fortune investing in companies which manufactured construction implements and materials in the wake of the destruction of Detroit. But Bill and his wife Marie had their first and only child several years after their peers, and learned that a privileged life, without proper guidance, can lead to spoiled, entitled, selfish children. Bill brought up his daughter to recognize that her status gave her a responsibility to the community.

From the age of 3, Cassandra trained in dance. Her parents worried that they were putting too many demands upon her when she begged to also be allowed to take part in gymnastics, but gave in because she showed undeniable talent.

While other children at her private school and her church might be sent abroad for mission trips, Bill Olsen impressed upon his daughter that there was enough people in need of help close to home in their recovering city, which too many were too willing to overlook.

Cassandra volunteered at homeless shelters, city clean-ups, and other local relief projects.

First Adventure

Cassandra completed grades 1 through 8 in a private school. Cassandra asked to be sent to public school at Millennium City High School. Her time spent helping in the more needy areas of Westside made her feel more at home in the school.

Where early on some students detected the whiff of her wealthy upbringing and tried to intimidate her, she managed to hold her own and impress many with her resolve. While she tended to hang out with the athletics crowd, she had acquaintances across many cliques.

In senior year two of Cassandra's friends seemed to be falling in with a gang. She sought her father's advice, but he suggested she stay out of it, for fear that she might get hurt. Inspired by colorful costumed crime fighters in Millennium City, Cassandra made a simple costume and used all of the money she had to buy a Japanese sword. Her idea: scare the gang, and give her friends pause to think twice about joining. The scheme worked, although foreshadowing her future career, Cassandra was nearly in over her head.

Cassandra learned to carefully surveil crooks rather than confront.

A Costumed Crime Fighter

Buoyed by success Cassandra kept trying to fight crime in Westside. Her weekend volunteering in shelters and free clinics let her learn about some of the crooks hurting people in that part of town, and as the costumed crime fighter Slash she was able to intimidate the bad guys back.

Being shot at, or being unmasked on one occasion, didn't deter Slash. She took care to practice her skills, and focus on sneaking and gathering evidence, rather than confrontation. She also stopped using the sword, because it had a way of slowing her down, and she had no desire to wound people very deeply with it - a fact her enemies had come to realize and exploit.

Once she started using a cable grappler, she changed her costumed identity to Red Spider. It made sense since she was ostensibly travelling on threads, and one of her friends remarked that when hitting a punching bag during a workout, that she seemed to have eight arms.

As the Red Spider

Main article: Red Spider

Red Spider did her best not to draw attention to herself. She had three main tactics:

- Surveil criminals and gather evidence
- Call in the cops when it was time, let them take credit
- Size up opponents carefully, and only join fights she could win

In this way Red Spider managed to stay under the radar, relatively unknown to the criminal underworld of her home city, and to the public in general.

Emerging from Amnesia

In March 2022, Cassandra Olsen recovered from amnesia, rediscovered that she was the superhero Red Spider, and that her crime fighting life was what really caused her injury, not a skiing accident as she had been told. This marked a new beginning for her. Samantha, her sister, indicated that she was not going to share the Red Spider identity any longer as she was joining a classified project, and so Cassandra decided to take on the name Webcrawler.

Alternates and Aliases

Red Spider

From 2013 - 2021, Cassandra Olsen had been known as Red Spider. She changed her costumed code name when she recovered from severe injuries and amnesia in early 2022.

Red Wonder

When then-Adventurer Blue Wonder was killed by the villain Bedlam, it started a chain of events that were eventually undone by time travel decades later. In this alternate timeline, Cassandra revealed her identity publicly and took on the identity Red Wonder to honour her slain friend, but later paid a price for doing so. A boyfriend, her parents, and later, Cassandra herself, were all assassinated in targeted killings to retaliate against Red Wonder. Decades later, this aberrant timeline was averted when Lady Justice - later having dominated the world - revived Blue Wonder and sent her mind back into her past self to avoid being killed by Bedlam.

Red Spider - Jesse Weaver

In an alternate timeline created by the death of Blue Wonder at the hands of Bedlam, Lady Justice came to power with a brutal plan to save the world through conquering it. Twenty years later, a new Red Spider was appointed by surviving Adventurers: an athlete named Jesse Weaver. Weaver was given some of the original Red Spider's equipment. The aberrant timeline was undone when future Lady Justice sent a revived Blue Wonder's mind back to her younger self to avoid being killed. It cannot yet be said that Jesse Weaver ever became the Red Spider in the new timeline, though it was later revealed that Red Spider (Olsen) earned back-channel access to the MCPD secure server to aid her crime-fighting after rescuing the daughter of an MCPD IT administrator, Sandra Weaver.

Dread Spider

A parallel reality version of Webcrawler casts Cassandra as the daughter of a mob accountant. She was raised to be the secret assassin who might someday eliminate her father's rivals and allow him to claim the syndicate's throne. Apart from her deadly & serious masked persona Dread Spider who is wanted for numerous violent targeted killings, Cassandra is a well-known party girl and bon vivant. Despite her family's well-known connections to organized crime, Cassandra is regarded as one of Millennium City's most eligible bachelorettes.

Samantha Olsen

Source Biotech Enterprises obtained a sample of Red Spider's blood following a mission when Red Spider was shot and bled out. Over a period of months, they cloned Red Spider from her cells. When the clone's accelerated maturation to Red's approximate age completed, the SBE lab in charge of the project was able to use the clone's face to track down that of the real Red Spider, and abduct her. The clone was to be programmed with Red Spider's memories, but the process was stopped just short of completion when the clone mutated - the SBE scientists had not accounted for the mutagenic virus in Red's system which had given her powers. The clone transformed into the Spider Monster and attacked Millennium City. Defeated by the Adventurers, the clone was turned over to UNTIL for treatment. A court hearing determined that she was not culpable for her actions in her monster form. Named 'Samantha' by Red's parents, the clone was embraced by the Olsen family and has begun to start a life for herself separate from the memories with which she was programmed.

From late 2018 until early 2022, Samantha and Cassandra shared the name Red Spider. But when Cassandra decided she wanted a new identity, Samantha revealed she, too, was about to pursue a solo code name as Dragonfly.

"Shannon"

A Red Spider hailing from a possible future visited Millennium City and stayed with Night Star for a time. She claimed to be - and most likely is - the daughter of Cassandra Olsen, and her successor as Red Spider. She was displaced in time by an enemy that the future Adventurers faced. Shannon was careful to avoid her mother for fear of contaminating the timeline. She and Cassandra did accidentally meet, knew who one another was, hugged, but didn't linger - Cassandra left the matter to Night Star to deal with, and Shannon was eventually returned to her proper time.

Spyder

Jessa, the daughter of Webcrawler, came back in time to 2021 as a seventeen year old to rescue her mother from her old enemy Edgar Cryderman, who had been sent back by Future Aurum to eliminate her. For several months, Spyder took her mother's place on the Adventurers team, while her mother was in the future for her own safety. Jessa even dressed in the Red Spider suit to give the world the sense that Red Spider was still around.



Allies
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In alphabetical order (by last name / code name).

Bluebird

When Webcrawler witnessed a young costumed crimefighter get in over her head with the Cresse gang, she followed along and waited for the right moment to enact a rescue. The crimefighter, Bluebird, was new on the scene - and it turned out, was the younger sister of Web's Adventurer team-mate White Star. Web agreed to train Bluebird behind her sister's back at first, but convinced Bluebird to come clean to White Star about her activities.

Catfight

Eva Banks and Cassandra Olsen are business partners at the Olsen Academy of Movement but have long been Adventurer teammates as Catfight and Webcrawler. With Eva wanting to branch out into fitness training, the Olsen Academy made sense as a facility with the space and client base that would help propel her into business.

Dreamweaver

Dreamweaver has been around since the early days of the Adventurers. She possesses some empathic and psionic abilities. While Dreamweaver was compromised and used against the team during the "Missing Plane" crisis, Webcrawler never held that against her. Now Dreamy seems to have retired from heroics, but visited Cass during her recovery from injuries and amnesia in early 2022 to use her powers to help.

Night Star (Ellison)

Sarah Ellison AKA Night Star helped the Adventurers investigate Source Biotech Enterprises, and then joined the team full-time. The Night Star considered Webcrawler (as Red Spider) one of her best friends. In a possible future timeline, Ellison assured 2021-era Cassandra could carry her baby safely to term in 2037. In late 2021, Ellison died at home during an apparent assassination attempt upon her sister Olivia. Red Spider was shaken by the sudden death, but soon became ensnared herself in a plot by a mysterious cabal to put the blame for Ellison's killing on crime lord Cosmo Liddell.

Bill Olsen

Cassandra's father Bill has proven a reliable ally since he first learned that his daughter was the Red Spider. A wealthy VP at an investment firm, Bill has the financial means to provide for his daughter, as well as give her access to the city's elite. Bill & his wife Marie may also be credited for instilling strong civic & humanitarian virtues in Red Spider.

Oni

Oni was an early ally of Red Spider's, first known to her as Fox. She was drawn in by his wry humor, and with his help & support, they founded the Adventurers. He has put himself in harm's way to help Red Spider several times. Fox's disappearances are frequent, but even when he disappeared and was thought dead in late 2016, she was sure he was still out there - and she was proven right when he turned up undercover in late summer 2017! In 2021, he actually did die, and returned to life as Oni with the help of the Adventurers.

Sombra

Webcrawler befriended the young crime fighter Sombra while visiting the Club Caprice. After earning the teenager's trust, they mutually shared their secret identities. Web provided training in a variety of crime fighter tradecraft, and materials for Sombra to build new costumes. In exchange, Sombra often brings Webcrawler cookies & new clothing.

Dr. Herman J. Witt

A dedicated academic with several degrees, Dr. Witt is knowledgeable in areas of life sciences, chemistry, nanometrology, and a special emphasis on genetics and biotechnology. He teaches grad students at Millennium City University working with state of the art gene editing, as well as human genome studies. Cassandra became aware of him as a student at MCU, but has only approached him while in costume as Red Spider. Dr. Witt has a scientific curiosity, but as a 'by the book' academic, he feels uncomfortable working with a costumed crime fighter. However, the cases Red Spider brings to him are too curious not to study them. Witt is divorced and has two teenaged children, a son and a daughter.


Ray DeCosta

Webcrawler rescued this inventor in her earlier days of crime-fighting, before she had powers. In gratitude, he gave her a pair of prototype beam grapplers he had developed for NASA, so that astronauts could hook on to distant objects using a beam of pure energy that did not exert a pulling force. The concept was abandoned because its battery was cost-prohibitive for the space program, but DeCosta had just enough of a rare isotope, that could make a battery that could remain operable for several hundred years.




Enemies
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Real Name: Rodney Wolfe
Abilities:

  • Weaponry
    • Power armor
    • Laser blasters
    • seeking missiles
    • Pulse Cannon
  • Skills
    • Expert mechanic
    • Basic computer programming


Status: At large
Bio: Rodney Wolfe has been a part of some high-profile thefts all over the world. Often brought in as a ringer on heists, his role is to run interference for any meta-human interveners. His Millennium City capers have often been interfered with by the Webcrawler, costing him money and standing in the criminal community. He once participated in a failed attempt to eliminate Webcrawler in the past.


(Img) COSMO LIDDELL


Real Name: Cosmo Liddell
Abilities:

  • Skills
    • Master businessperson
    • Basic pistol marksman
  • Qualities
    • Feared
    • Brutal
    • Untouchable
    • Smooth talker


Status: At large; not indicted
Bio: One of Webcrawler's key enemies is the crime up-and-coming crime boss Cosmo Liddell and his ever-growing crime network of thugs. Liddell's headquarters is fortified within his Horizon Casino. His Liddell Shipping Co. has a sizeable share of commercial shipping in the Midwest, enabling his network to smuggle contraband in and out of the city. Insulated from the law by layers of subordinates, Liddell courts the ire of law enforcers by entertaining their questions, and revelling in his plausible deniability. The one thing that's a risk to him: masked crime fighters. The repeated intrusions of Red Spider into his operation have caused Liddell has put a price on her, dead or alive.


(Img) BOGEYMAN


Real Name: Morgan Cotter (Secret)
Abilities:

  • Skills
    • Hand-to-hand fighting
    • Expert psychology
    • Master neurology
    • Computer programming
  • Powers
    • Gliding
    • Short-range teleport
    • Hypnotic attack
  • Qualities
    • Genius
    • Psychopathic
    • Focused


Status: At large
Bio: Morgan Cotter was a disgraced psychologist, stripped of professional accreditation for performing mental experiments on patients without informed consent. But the trials taught him the secrets of hypnosis, secrets which he carefully guards - and has used to design a device that can plant potent hypnotic suggestions. Dressed in his terrifying Bogeyman costume, Cotter has used this to perform robberies in which victims and hostages willingly aid him, or he creates a panicked frenzy so he can steal undetected. His ultimate aim? Unclear, but he continues to refine his hypnotic devices, and needs money for the components. Bogeyman has posed a challenge for Red Spider; her strong will has given her resistance to his mental domination attempts in past encounters. Cotter continues to refine the technology with the goal of specifically bringing Red Spider or other strong-willed crime fighters under his sway.

Gear
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Beam grapplers
BEAM GRAPPLERS - Wrist-worn counter-gravitational beam projectors are a unique invention. They were crafted for Webcrawler by Ray DeCosta, after she saved him and his son's live during a super battle on the Ambassador Bridge. Webcrawler was already skilled at using a cable grappler to move quickly along rooftops, or make a quick escape, yet the act of using it often caused injury to the arm or shoulder when the line would go from slack to taut. The beam grappler's advantages are in both dramatically reducing strain on the user's shoulder and arms, as well as lessening damage to property by having no tangible impact on the structure being grappled upon. Webcrawler has become skilled at using a beam swing to drive into enemies.

The classic red costume
RED SPANDEX COSTUME - The classic costume originated from Webcrawler's secret identity life. A surplus sale at her university's theater costume shop led her to buy several red bodysuits at a time when she was transitioning from her former 'Slash' identity to the 'Red Spider' one in 2013. She created a simple web pattern for the upper body, and made some special eye coverings that were large and would help conceal the shape of her face. The form-fitting costume didn't restrict her range of movement, and lacked accessories like a cape that she felt would only encumber her.

The black costume
BLACK NANOWEAVE COSTUME - This costume has nanoweave armor, environmental filters for airborn toxins, protection from temperature extremes, kinetic dispersal, and enhanced visual modes. The most recent version of this was assembled by fellow Adventurer Lady Justice. This suit addresses some of Red Spider's key vulnerabilities when she is fighting super-powered adversaries, while avoiding being encumbering.

Spider Mics
SPIDER MICS - Red Spider uses small microphones disguised as tiny spiders to perform surveillance on crooks. This suits her preferred style of gathering evidence and avoiding confrontation unless absolutely necessary.


Powers
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  • Acrobatics - A mix of dance & gymnastic training, with physical enhancements; enables Webcrawler to swing impressively on a beam grappler.
  • Super Strength - Webcrawler can lift a small car with ease.
  • Movement master - She can observe/repeat movements of others with brilliant accuracy; she can also read muscle movements & anticipate next actions.
  • Faster healing - Webcrawler has noticed since her ordeal with the engineered retrovirus that she heals faster than average. By no means is this healing instantaneous.
  • Wall sticking - With concentration, Webcrawler can adhere to surfaces via microscopic hair-like projections found all over her body. This only works through skin or thin fabric. She can also use it to stick objects to herself for carrying.



Personality
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  • Determined - Her willpower causes Webcrawler to be dogged in pursuit of goals. Physical injury or emotional distress rarely keeps Webcrawler down.
  • Honest to a Fault - Webcrawler is often direct and forthright, and tends to take people at their word. This might make her a bit too trusting.
  • Compassionate - She has an abundance of empathy and compassion - but that won't stop her kicking a villain in the face.
  • Introverted - Cassandra prefers to spend quality time with a small number of friends.
  • Paranoid - Webcrawler is anxious about the public discovery of her secret identity, and she goes to some lengths to preserve the integrity of it.
  • Light-hearted Hero - Webcrawler employs levity in superhero fights, mostly to combat her own anxiety.


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