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Do not help me. I haveseen the future, and it is one I would prefer not to live through.

Early Life[]

Cassandra Webb was born and raised inSalem,Oregon. She was born blind and suffered from a neurological condition known asmyasthenia gravis. This however had a side effect: she developed powerful psychic abilities and used them to become a medium.^[1]

Spider-Man[]

Debra Whitman showedPeter Parker Madame Web's advert, which he thought of her as nothing but a charlatan. However during an attack on theDaily Globe, Peter as Spider-Man found a clue that only Madame Web could help with. He went to visit her and she used her powers to help him locate the criminals. He soon began to believe her power when she came to Peter's apartment revealing that she knew that he was Spider-Man.^[5]

Spider-Man contacted Madame Web when he learned of two people attempting an assassination. While trying to stop them during a marathon she contacted him on a pay phone and told him there were two assassins by a water tower. Their target was politician Barney Wicker, presiding at the Finish Line. Spidey stopped the assassins by tipping the water tower's roof onto them.^[6]

Juggernaut[]

Black Tom Cassidy sent theJuggernaut to kidnap Madame Web, but thanks to her abilities she knew he was coming and contacted Spidey to help stop the Juggernaut. However the Juggernaut succeeded and took her captive. Juggernaut unknowingly took her off her life-support system, and when she fell unconscious and began to die, he dropped her, seeing no use in her. She was taken to the hospital and was saved. Spidey later visited her in the hospital, but discovered she was suffering from amnesia.^[7]

Still in hospital and with memory loss she thanked Spider-Man for helping her. She also helped him with a clue to findHobgoblin when he was blackmailing various companies when she asked him to turn on the radio where they heard a news report. But after he left questionable if she truly had lost her memory.^[8]

Gathering of Five[]

Madame Web attended the ceremony known as theGathering of Five, a ritual wherein five people bring together five arcane relics. These relics, when brought together, allow the five who possess them to be blessed or cursed with either power, knowledge, immortality, insanity, or death. The catch, however, was that these powers didn't seem what they were at first: what first seemed like madness was in fact knowledge, what seemed like power was madness, and death seemed like immortality. Madame Web received "immortality",Norman Osborn, received "Insanity",Morris Maxwell received "Knowledge",Gregory Herd received "Death", andMattie Franklin was granted the gift of power.^[9][10]

Spider-Women[]

Looking much younger, a rejuvenated Madame Web called uponJessica Drew andJulia Carpenter, the first two Spider-Women, along with Mattie Franklin, who had also taken part in the Gathering of the Five ritual, to aid her in subduing her granddaughterCharlotte Witter,^[11] who had become a third Spider-Woman at the hands ofDoctor Octopus.^[12][13]

Charlotte was defeated, but later siphoned Madame Web's telepathy, re-aging her in the process. With the help of Spider-Man and Franklin, Madame Web determined how to drain Charlotte's power, leaving Witter unconscious in a dormant state. Madame Web, now youthful again, performed psychic surgery to sever her link to Charlotte and removed Charlotte and Mattie's memories of Spider-Man's identity.^[14] Madame Web continued to assist Mattie during the rest of her time as Spider-Woman. The Spider-Women team eventually disbanded. Madame Web has since appeared elderly again, however she presumably has retained her immortality.^[15]

Jessica Jones[]

Jessica Jones met with Madame Web. She told her about the origin of Mattie Franklin, whom Jessica had recently had a run in with. Web explained that she had used her psychic abilities to help Mattie, but that she had lost contact with her, but as she talked with Jessica, she claimed to see Mattie again in a vision in which Jessica and Mattie fought to the death. As Jessica attempted to understand Web's prognostications, the old woman experienced a vision of Jessica's own tortured past. Jessica became enraged at the intrusion into her history, and stormed out.^[16]

Animal Villains[]

She helped Spider-Man investigate a strange grouping of animal themed villains. She revealed that it was all part of a plan byStegron to re-make New York into a prehistoric paradise with the help of a crystal from the arctic.^[17] Working together they stopped his plans.^[18] She has also helped Peter speak with a comatoseAunt May after she was shot by one of the Kingpin's assassins.^[19]

Grim Hunt[]

Some time later, Madame Web was captured by the Kravinoff family to help them to defeat Spider-Man and resurrectKraven. With her involuntary help,Sasha,Ana, andAlyosha Kravinoff killed Mattie Franklin in order to resurrectVladimir Kravinoff, the Grim Hunter).^[20][21] The hunters then killedKaine and used his blood to bring Kraven back to life, but because the ritual wasn't made with the blood of the true Parker, Kraven wouldn't die except if Spider-Man killed him.^[22] Angry because of this failure, Sasha cut Madame Web's throat. In the last moment of her life, Cassandra transferred her powers to Julia Carpenter (the second Spider-Woman), leaving her the mantle of Madame Web.^[2]

Dead No More[]

Several years later, Madame Web was brought back to life by theJackal, and started to work for him atNew U Technologies.^[3] Cassandra was tasked with the mission of tracking down the location of a hacker who tried to breach into New U's system to expose the Jackal. Even though she wasn't able to discover the hacker's exact location due to telepathic feedback, Madame Web managed to describe its appearance to another of the Jackal's operatives, theProwler, who eventually pinned down the hacker's toAlcatraz Island, and discovered it was Julia Carpenter.^[3] Later, the newElectro went to Madame Web to find the Prowler, since he had gone missing during his mission. Knowing that Electro would try to kill him, Cassandra refused to answer, who electrocuted Webb to get an answer out of her.^[23]

Madame Web possessed psychic abilities including telepathy, clairvoyance, and prescience. She can also perform astral projection and appear to others in spirit form.

• Telepathy: ability to read minds and project thoughts.
  • Astral Projection: ability to project her consciousness outside her body and travel
  • Psychic Surgery: ability to perform psychic surgery on others minds
  • Mind Alteration: generally affect the minds of those around her.
    
• Clairvoyance: sensitivity to psychic energies in her environment allows her to see her immediate area and events taking place far away.
  • Precognition: ability to perceive aspects of the future.
• Immortality: After theGathering of Five ceremony, she apparently has the gift of immortality.^[24]

• Paralysis: Madame Web is disabled, lacking most function in her limbs. Since the Gathering of the Five, her health had greatly improved and confined to a special chair. However her health appears to have declined again, as she has returned to her more elaborate chair.^[25]
• Blind: Madame Web is legally blind, however she is able to compensate for this by using her psychic powers.^[25]

• Madame Web's Wheelchair: She was formerly reliant on a life-support system designed by her late husband.^[26]

• Madame Web is featured in Deadpool Roasts the Marvel Universe.^[27]

• She appeared to have been named after the mythological precognitiveCassandra of Troy.
• Madame Web's apartment is 8-G.^[28]
  • Her apartment building was later located on43rd Street and 11th Avenue apartment 30-D, with a great view of theHudson River.^[29]
• The character "C. Weber" who appears inSpider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse as a guidance councilor, may be a reference to the character.

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