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Real Name: Cassandra Web
Occupation: Professional medium
Legal Status: American citizen with no criminal record
Identity: Public
Place of Birth: Salem, Oregon
Marital Status: Widowed
Known Relatives: Jonathan Webb (husband, deceased)
Base of Operations: New York City
Past Group Affiliations: None
Known Powers:
Precognition: Because a wide variety of possible alternate futures diverge at any one point, with all leading to different conclusions, it is impossible to be absolutely accurate in divining the future in the Marvel Universe. However, Madame Web has the Incredible ability to scan these alternate futures up to a week in advance; the most probable futures appear more “luminous” than others. She must be in physical contact with the person or object whose future is being read.
Postcognition: She has the Incredible ability to see the recent history of an object or person. Madame Web must attempt a Power Rank FEAT, with the color result determining the length of time scanned:
- Green: Within one day.
- Yellow: Within one week.
- Red: Within one year; more than a year in the past gives only a general “feeling” of the subject’s history.
Telepathy: Madame Web has the Excellent rank power to establish mind-to-mind communication between herself and other individuals, and to read the surface thoughts of such individuals. Willing targets and those with a Psyche lower than hers can be contacted with a green FEAT result. Subjects of equal Psyche require a yellow FEAT result, and those with mental powers or psionic screening require a red result. Those who are unwilling with a higher Psyche are impossible FEATs. Range is limited to 64 areas (or about 1.5 miles). She has developed the Power Stunt of using this ability as a Typical Intensity Mental Probe.
Equipment:
Madam Web is cybernetically linked to a web-like life-support system. This strange device attends to all of her bodily needs by augmenting her weakened autonomic nervous system. Through simple cybernetic commands, she can move her chair to an upright or reclining position and control the machine’s robotic arms, which take the place of her own useless limbs. Madame Web is totally dependent upon her immobile life-support system for her survival.
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Contacts:
She has helped Spider-Man upon occasion.
Role-Playing Notes:
Although Madame Web’s true motivations have never been revealed, she has in the past shown great concern for those who come to her for help. Furthermore, it has been alluded to that she has nurtured the psionic powers of others, but exactly who she has helped and why is as yet a mystery.
History:
After discovering her paranormal abilities as a child, Cassandra Webb strengthened them through rigorous practice. Having been blind since birth, Cassandra was delighted to find that her psychic powers more than compensated for her blindness.
As an adult, Cassandra decided to use her gifts to help others and to support herself by becoming a professional medium. Sadly, decades later she was stricken with myasthenia gravis, a horrible disease that erodes the central nervous system, eventually incapacitating the entire body. Before his death, her husband, an electronics engineer, designed an immobile life-support system to provide for her vital life functions. She is now completely de pendent upon this machine.
A murderous plot to take over the Daily Globe first brought Madame Web and Spider-Man together. A businessman named Rupert Dockery had hired five masked hoodlums to kidnap Belinda Bell, an actress and model he had hired to impersonate Ms. K.J. Clayton, the newspaper’s publisher. In the Globe’s conference room, Dockery introduced Belinda as the real Ms. Clayton. (The Globe staff had never met Ms. Clayton.) After apologizing for being so secretive about herself, Belinda/Ms. Clayton explained that she had come forward to turn control of the newspaper over to Rupert Dockery.
Dockery’s hoods then burst into the conference room and grabbed the phony Ms. Clayton. Spider-Man crashed through the window and pursued the kidnappers, but Dockery blocked his way just long enough for them to escape. Disappointed, Spider-Man discovered a scrap of paper that had been dropped by the victim. On it was a picture of Madame Web.
After web-swinging across town, Spider-Man confronted Madame Web. From the bizarre psychic, Spider-Man learned that the card be longed not to Ms. Clayton, but to an actress and model named Belinda Bell, who was in grave danger. Following Madame Web’s cryptic clue about jumbled railroad trains, Spider-Man arrived at the Hickory Dockery Toy Store in Lower Manhattan. (He realized Madame Web had seen a toy train in her vision.) The web-head saved Belinda, who was about to be killed by one of Dockery’s henchmen. From Belinda, Spider-Man learned that the real Ms. Clayton was also in danger.
Even though the Globe staff had witnessed the phony Ms. Clayton give control to Dockery, his nefarious plan would only be complete when both women were dead. Spider-Man arrived at the penthouse office of the Daily Globe to find it ablaze. After smashing through a window into a smoke-filled room, he saved Ms. Clayton. On the street below, Spider-Man found Rupert Dockery and subdued him by turning over his limousine, tearing off a door, and pulling the terrified man out. Dockery quickly confessed.
Shortly after setting things right at the Daily Globe, Spider-Man received a startling phone call: Madame Web’s powers had revealed to her Spider-Man’s true identity as Peter Parker! Much to Peter’s relief, Madame Web promised to keep this information secret, and has apparently done so to this day.
Not long after their first encounter, Spider-Man and Madame Web met once again. After being roughed up by the Frightful Four, Peter Parker checked into Greenwich Hospital for x-rays and treatment. While there, Peter overheard a trio of goons talking about killing someone in a race. Although he hobbled after them, Peter was too injured to catch the suspects. Also in the hospital, however, was a man who had received a running injury preparing for the upcoming marathon. Peter realized that the three gunmen were planning to kill someone running in the race, but he had no idea who the target might be. Since there would be 16,000 runners stretched over 26 miles of streets, Peter realized he needed help.
Madame Web was expecting his call, but she had bad news: the “psychic vectors” were not in proper alignment for her to peer into the future. She could not say who would be shot or where. However, she promised to contact Peter if she found out.
Although he was injured and had no idea where to start, Peter Parker realized he had to try anyway. As Spider-Man, he went to the starting line of the race. While web-swinging past a pay phone, a young man holding the receiver called out to him, “It’s for you, Spider-Man. Sir.” At first Spider-Man thought the guy was joking, but when he took the phone, he found Madame Web on the other end of the line. The psychic vectors had realigned. Madame Web knew that two men armed with automatic rifles were waiting on a water tower 50 yards from the finish line. Their intended victim was named Barney Wicker, a congressional candidate scheduled to greet the winner of the marathon. Spider-Man suddenly realized that the race the hitmen were referring to was not the marathon but a political race. He arrived at the water tower just in time to stop the assassins.