Lady Spider
May Reilly, also known as Lady Spider, is the Spider Woman of Earth-803. Although she wasn't a Spider Totem, she joined all of those who were, in the fight against the Inheritors in the Spider-Verse. She has recently joined the Web Warriors.
Name:
Lady Spider
Publisher:
Real name:
May Reilly
Aliases:
- May Reilly
Birth date:
None
Gender:
Female
Powers:
- Agility
- Intellect
- Power Suit
- Unarmed Combat
- Wall Clinger
- Webslinger
First issue:
Origin
May Reilly was a woman born during the Industrial Revolution in a different reality and made herself a steampunk spider suit with 18th century looking machinary. She started calling herself Lady Spider and tried to be a hero in her own reality.
Creation
Lady Spider was created by Robbie Thompson and Denis Medri and first appeared in Spider-Verse Vol.1 issue 1 (2015).
Major Story Arcs
Spider-Verse
May lived her life, but was eventually recruited by Spider-UK and the Spider-Army to fight against Morlun and his family. May Reilly fought bravely and even gained a few new friendships. After Morlun was defeated, May joined a number of former Spider-Army members in becoming the guardians of the great Web, also known as the Web Warriors.
Web Warriors
May appears in the series Web Warriors and assists the various other spiders throughout the multiverse. She is not considered a totem like the rest but does still possess a genius-level intellect and skills that are valuable to her allies. She helps them in saving the universe.
Powers & Abilities
May possesses no powers but with a genius-level intellect, she has developed mechanical technology capable of allowing her to perform similar feats to that of most Spider-men. Her equipment includes a harness of four mechanical spider arms, lenses that seem to function similar to infrared, and webbing that is identical to that of other Spider-men. She has also demonstrated expert-level acrobatics/gymnastics and unarmed combat skills, making her skills most likely similar/on par with Daredevil or Elektra.
