Art by Kostmeyer.
 

Written by Kostmeyer, June 2003.
Updated, December 2006.

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Code Name: Spider Queen
Real Name: Unrevealed
Nicknames: None.
Occupations: Inapplicable. The Spider Queen claims to be a Goddess.
Legal Status: Inapplicable
Identity: The general public is unaware of the Spider Queen's existence.
Aliases: None known
Place of birth: Unrevealed
Age: Unrevealed. However she claims to have lived for centuries.
Marital Status: Unrevealed.
Sexual Orientation: Unrevealed.
Known Relatives: None known.
Group Affiliation: None.
Base of Operations: Currently beneath the London Underground tunnels.
First Appearance: Voice heard in Spitfire #5 "Buckingham". First full appearance in Spitfire #7 "Arachnophobia".
Origin: Unrevealed.
Height: 7 foot tall
Weight: 220lbs (15 stones and 10 pounds)
Eyes: Black, no pupils.
Hair: Unknown.
Distinguishing Marks: Other than her eyes and height, the Spider Queen has long fanged teeth and her skin is extremely pale.
Strength Level: The Spider Queen has exhibited greater strength than Spitfire, who can routinely lift/press 10 tonnes. During this encounter the Spider Queen was in a weakened state and the upper limits of her strength have not been observed.
Known Superhuman Powers: The Spider Queen claims to be a goddess, and to have been living in the caverns beneath the world for millennia. If this is true, then one of her powers must be extraordinary longevity, if not immortality. In addition to this, she is superhumanly strong, and resistant to injury. She has also exhibited psychic abilities, able to communicate with telepathy and blast an opponent's mind with a psychic attack. The Spider Queen can communicate with spiders, and command them to obey her wishes. Her fangs exude poison with which she coats the talons and spikes of her armour. She can spin webs. Also she can mutate other organisms, creating spiders of monstrous size, and mutating Richard Reston into the Arachnid. This process has not been observed and how she accomplishes this has not been revealed.
Abilities/Special Skills: None known.
Weapons Used: The Spider Queen wears a suit of armour of unknown origin which can be used both defensively and offensively. It is covered with spikes and the gauntlets have long clawed fingers, which she uses when fighting at close quarters to impale an opponent. The Spider Queen sometimes coats these claws with poisons, which can incapacitate or kill.
Personality: Even if her claims of godhood are not to be believed, the Spider Queen is an ancient being of incredible power. She has spent many years hiding in the tunnels under London, not daring to go back to the surface, fearing for her life. She dreams of her former greatness, and longs for the day when she can return and rule the surface world.
Personal Interests: The Spider Queen had all but given up on returning to the surface world, and was motivated by an overwhelming hunger - a desire to feed both herself and her spiders. Assuming that she has survived, and is no longer in hiding, it remains to be seen what she will do.
History: Much of the Spider Queen's past is still a mystery. She claims to be a goddess, who has lived on Earth for many hundreds of years. If her story is to be believed, at some point she made an enemy of the immortal mutant known as Apocalypse, and fearing his retribution, she hid from him under the ground, living in tunnels beneath Britain. What she did that earned Apocalypse's enmity has not yet been revealed.
It would seem that the Spider Queen has been living beneath London for a long time now, surviving by eating rats and any people unfortunate enough to stray into her lair. Her life changed when a man named Richard Reston accidentally found his way into her caverns. He convinced her that he could be of use to her and she mutated him into the Arachnid, sending him back to the surface to bring her victims to feed her hunger. Reston was aware that Apocalypse was no longer alive, but did not tell the Spider Queen while she gave him the power to pursue his vendetta against people that had opposed him in the past.
When the costumed adventurer known as Spitfire fought the Spider Queen, Reston's deception was exposed and the Queen made her way up to the surface to feed. She took an entire tube train hostage intending to eat the occupants, but was stopped by Spitfire and the psychic private investigator Matthew Buckingham. The Spider Queen was electrocuted and apparently crushed between two carriages, but no body was found and it seems unlikely, given her power, that the Spider Queen is dead.