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Jessica Drew, Clone

Image: Mark Bagley, Drew Hennessy, Studio F, and Cory Petit/Marvel Comics
Image: Mark Bagley, Drew Hennessy, Studio F, and Cory Petit/Marvel Comics

New universe, new Jessica, new origin! Not our Jessica, but the Spider-Woman of the Ultimate Marvel universe was once again given her own origin story. Unlike her prime universe counterpart, Ultimate Jessica—who was both Spider-Woman and Black Widow in the Ultimate universe, after Ultimate Natasha Romanoff’s betrayal and death—was straight up a clone of Peter Parker, taking on all of his own Spider-abilities rather after being developed by Otto Octavius for the CIA. She broke free however, and helped Peter defeat Octavius before deciding to live her own life away from her “sibling”. After Ultimate Peter’s death and Miles Morales took on the Spider-Man mantle, Jessica became a longtime ally of the young boy and one of his closest heroic confidantes.