Jessica Drew, Genetic Experiment
Jessica’s origins got tweaked again decades later in 2006’s Spider-Woman: Origin, removing the High Evolutionary entirely. This time around, her father accidentally blasted Jessica with genetic traits from a Wundagore Widow spider while in her mother’s womb. Jessica’s powers would eventually manifest as a young child, when she discovered that her father had connections to Hydra (and was also an abusive husband, to boot), and years later she herself is recruited into the organization under false pretences by her father’s old associate, General Wyndham—unrelated to the High Evolutionary. Implanted with false memories of her past origin stories by Mentallo to hide her brainwashing, from there Jessica’s origin is largely as it was before: a Hydra assassin who breaks free of her former masters to become a hero.
