Madame Web is out and fans are wondering how she got her powers in the movie compared to how she got them in the TV shows and comics. Was she bitten by a spider? Were her powers always there? Here is everything you need to know.
How did Madame Web get her powers in the movie?
Madame Web aka Casandra Webb got her powers after falling from a bridge into the river below.
Cassandra Webb’s psychic powers were unlocked after she fell into the river from a bridge while on her usual paramedic duties with her paramedic colleague, Adam Scott’s Ben Parker. While she was underwater, she started experiencing psychic visions of the future and continued experiencing the visions after escaping the river.
These psychic visions drove the main plot of Madame Web, which saw Cassie try to find and protect Julia Cornwall, Mattie Franklin, and Anya Corazon from an adversary she saw in her visions. This is revealed to be Ezekiel Sims, her late mother’s old colleague.
How did Madame Web get her powers in the TV Show and comic books?
In the comics and the TV shows she has appeared in, Madame Web did not receive her powers from an external source. She was instead born with them as a mutant (via her genetics, similar to the one that gave the X-Men and other mutants like Magneto their powers).
As depicted in the comics, Madame Web was originally stricken with the disease myasthenia gravis which led to her being connected to a life support system designed by her husband, Jonathan Webb. This life-support system included a series of tubes shaped like a spider web.
Madame Web possesses precognition and psychic abilities. She can also perform psychic surgeries and also project astral forms of her body away from her physical self whenever she wishes. She can also sense psionic energy within beings.
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