- [Scott] How are you doing, you wonderful nerds?
Scott here, and I'm actually away
for a family emergency for the next week or so,
so for the next couple videos,
filling in for me we'll have
some great nerdy YouTubers that you might recognize,
and the first one is Auram from Auram's Comics
here to talk about his favorite superhero, Spider-Woman,
and all of the alternate versions of her
throughout the comic book multiverse.
So take it away, and I will see you guys at the end
for some more of me talking.
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- Spider-Woman is my favorite superhero.
If you meet me for the first time,
you'll probably figure that out pretty quickly,
at least if we start talking about comic books.
She does, however, have some pretty cool
alternate universe brothers and sisters,
so let's take a look at some of them, shall we?
First up, let's talk about
what might be the elephant in the room,
the Spider-Woman of Earth-65, also known as Spider-Gwen.
We're not gonna be talking about her too much here
for a few reasons.
Number one, she's pretty popular
and most of you probably know her story anyway.
Number two, her origin is more closely
an alternate take on Peter Parker's
as opposed to number three, Jessica Drew's.
Jessica Drew is the original Spider-Woman of Earth-616,
and that's who we're going to be focusing on today,
alternate versions of her,
not just the mantle of Spider-Woman.
Make sense? Cool.
Let's move on to our first real alternate Jessica Drew,
who happens to also be from Earth-65, Jesse Drew.
Jesse Drew, also known as Agent 77,
was born to two S.H.I.E.L.D. agents
who were on an assignment on the Moon.
Turns out, his dad was actually
a double agent for the Russians,
causing Mommy to take Daddy out,
traumatizing Jesse and inspiring him
to join S.H.I.E.L.D. himself straight out of high school.
Fast forward until him and some fellow agents
are on a mission fighting acid spitting space spiders
and he got infected.
When he came back to Earth,
he left S.H.I.E.L.D. and joined Earth-65's Cindy Moon,
who, unbeknownst to Jesse for 10 years, cured him.
Cindy told him that he needed to keep taking
a type of medicine that only she could supply.
This medicine would supposedly keep him from dying,
but in reality, it was just giving him superpowers
so that he could work for Cindy as an agent of S.I.L.K.
After making this realization,
Jesse resigned to his home life as a family man
with his wife and two kids.
Now, let's move on to the Earth X storyline,
taking place on Earth-9997.
Here, Jessica Drew's life is basically the same
as it is on Earth-616, up until the point
that she is infected by Norman Osborn's Hydra,
a biological weapon that he created
to persuade the public into liking his presidency.
That's unsettling,
given the current state of things in our world.
Anyway, the Hydra banished her soul to the realm of the dead
where it would eventually come back to do good,
but Spider-Woman's physical body
was now being controlled by Osborn's Hydra.
It came with a cool costume color swap, too,
which is much appreciated when it comes to
Jessica Drew's ever not changing wardrobe.
This next one is a fairly interesting take on Spider-Woman,
seeing as most things have gone
pretty okay for her entire life,
at least when compared to 616's Jess.
This is the Jessica Drew of Earth-58163,
the reality that was created by Scarlet Witch
during the House of M event.
Around 1931, Drew contracted uranium poisoning
and underwent a series of experimental procedures
which granted her special abilities and kept her in stasis
until Magneto started his mutant uprising.
Jessica used her abilities for good
but didn't really get political.
She never pledged to one side of the war,
even though she was technically human.
She was later recruited into
S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Red Guard by Nick Fury
and was declared their leading human super operative.
And last but definitely not least
is the Jessica Drew of Earth-1610, the Ultimate universe.
Now, this is an interesting one,
because she definitely goes by
Jessica Drew and Spider-Woman,
but her true identity is Peter Parker.
No, Peter Parker didn't have a sex change.
He was just cloned.
It was a whole ordeal, a saga even.
That's right.
The Ultimate universe had its own clone saga,
and it's surprisingly well done and cool.
You should check it out.
Anyway, this Jess was created
in a government sanctioned program
headed by a supposedly reformed Otto Octavius
and his assistant, Ben Reilly,
who actually isn't a clone in this universe,
but he sure did help create a bunch of them.
She was birthed, along with four others,
to be a spy for the CIA after undergoing a memory wipe
to get rid of Peter's memories.
Before this happened, however,
all hell essentially broke loose
and the Ultimate clone saga ensued.
At the end of it all,
Jess decided to embrace her new identity
and continue on as Spider-Woman.
She also later took up the Black Widow mantle
with a costume change when she formed the All New Ultimates.
I looked for a while, and I can honestly say
that I couldn't find a reason why she did this in canon.
It just happened between All New Ultimates Issue 1 and 2.
I have a lot more to say
on the subject of Ultimate Spider-Woman,
but it doesn't really fit into this video's subject,
so feel free to head on over to my channel
where I've done just that.
I talk about gender identity,
the state of LGBT characters in comics,
as well as give a little more insight on Jess's personality.
It's a good time.
Go check it out.
But that's all the alternate Jessica Drews
we've got for you this time.
Let us know in the comments
if we missed any super cool alternate Spider-Women,
or you could just talk about the ones I brought up today.
I know this isn't the normal stuff
that you're used to seeing on NerdSync,
but I hope I am somewhat of a familiar face
and you enjoyed what you saw.
So thanks for watching, friends.
- [Scott] Thank you so much for filling in, Auram.
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