Real
Name: Ryan Thomas Matthews
Occupation: Photographer (New York Now Magazine Co.), crime-fighter
Identity:
Secret
Legal
Status: Citizen of the United States with no criminal record
Other Aliases: Scarlet Arachnid
Place
of Birth: New Manhattan, New York City
Marital
Status: Married
Known
Relatives: Summer Matthews (wife), Kate Matthews Carter (daughter, alias former
Black Widow), Alison James (sister in-law), Bryan James (brother in-law),
Alexander Carter (alias Psyborg, son in-law), Simon Matthews (foster father,
deceased), Nina Matthews (foster mother, deceased)
Group
Affiliation: Former contestant of World Mutant Gladiator Federation (MGF) as the
Scarlet Arachnid
Base
of Operations: New York City
Height:
6 ft.
Weight: 166 lbs.
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Black
Costume: Spider-Man possesses the same costume as the original Spider-Man had. However, Ryan's costume does not include boots, but knee-high socks with padded soles.
Powers:
In the path of a highly-radioactive plasma beam, Ryan Matthews was struck with a great force that knocked him off his feet, only to come down crashing into a glass aquarium containing sixteen laboratory spiders. And somehow due to a physical contact in between the sixteen spiders, instead of dying from the great amount of radiation he had absorbed, there was an energy transfusion of powers. Since the spiders could not accept Ryan's great mass of energy, they died instantly. But for Ryan, he miraculously survived with strange, weird and, fantastic feelings.
His powers did not develop until days later when he found out that he had the strength of 10 elephants, the reflexes of a snake, the magnetic clinging ability of a gecko, the speed of a tiger, the leap of a human-size frog, and the ability to produce webbing like a...spider.
Overall, Spider-Man
possesses superhuman strength, agility, reflexes, equilibrium, enhanced senses ;
the ability to cause parts of his body to magnetize to most
surfaces; and a subconscious premonitional sense which warns him of impending
danger.
Spider-Man's overall metabolic efficiency has been greatly increased, and the
compositions of his skeleton, inter-connected tissues, and nervous system have
all been enhanced to a heightened limit. Spider-Man's musculature has been
augmented enabling him to lift (press) about 15 tons.
His
reflexes are faster than that of an average human by about a factor of 17,
making him capable of dodging bullets and reacting at incredible speeds.
Spider-Man is extraordinarily limber and flexible for his tendons and connective
tissues are twice as elastic as the average human being's, despite their
enhanced strength. His physical change had naturally developed him a unique
fighting style, too, which makes him very deadly up against hand-to-hand combat.
His powerful leg muscles allow him to leap up 20 feet straight up and land
gracefully, hurting himself only if he lands without support.
Spider-Man's transfusion with the spiders induced a mutagenic,
cerebellum-wide alteration of his engrams resulting in the ability to
mentally control a bio-magnetic power
in him that allows him to increase the attraction between the molecules in his
body with those of certain smooth surfaces. However, the strength of this
magnetic ability is determined by the type of surface he clings to.
Surfaces
such as metal, concrete, and bricks have more liability for him to cling
stronger than those surfaces which include glass, plastic and timber. This
magnetic ability can be used if a barrier or an object is in between (for
example, his costume). Limits to this ability seem to be psychosomatic, and the
full nature of this ability has yet unknown. When he is attracted to a
surface, the magnetic field around him makes him resistant to gravity. The
attraction between his molecules and the surfaces are great, meaning that the
magnetism can hold his body weight even only by the tips of his fingers.
Spider-Man also possesses an extrasensory "danger" or
"spider" sense, which warns him of potential immediate or impending
danger by a distracting tingling-like sensation in the base of his skull. The
precise nature of this sense is unknown. It appears to be a simultaneous
clairvoyant response to a wide variety of phenomena, which has given several
hundredths of a second's warning, which is sufficient time for his reflexes to
allow him to avoid injury. The sense also can create a general response on the
order of several minutes: which he can sometimes discern the nature of the
threat by the sensation. He can, however, discern the severity of the danger by
the intensity of the vibration or sensation. Spider-Man's natural fighting style
and skill incorporates the advantage that his "spider-sense" provides
him.
Spider-Man
has biological silk glands similar, but larger than the ones in a spider's
abdomen. These silk glands are located in his forearms that naturally generates,
reproducing organic webbing or web fluid, in a liquid form
.
The real explanation of how the web fluid is produced is precisely unknown. The web fluid
is a shear-thinning white liquid which exact formula is as yet unknown, because
of its organic properties. When a 65-pound pressure is placed on the palms of
his either hands, the nerves inside the skin reacts, triggering the silk glands
to pressurize. His palms are not too sensitive to trigger the silk glands,
though, which is safe for Spider-Man to receive a handshake or clench his fist
without shooting the webbing. When pressurized, the web fluid is forced from the
silk glands through a small tube leading to his wrists, where his biological
spinnerets are located. When the web fluid jets out through the slit, it
contacts itself with air and the long chain polymer knits and forms into an
extremely tough, flexible and stretchable strand of fibre with extraordinary
adhesive properties.
Once contacted with air, the thick web fluid turns semi-transparent. Extraordinarily, it has resistance to temperatures even of up to 10, 000 degrees Fahrenheit. In reality, this web line is similar to a bungee cord and stretching the web line is very sensitive and can be expanded even by a simply tug.
The web line’s tensile strength is estimated to be 120 pounds per square millimetre of cross section and a single strand can hold a weight of a ton, without stretching until it tears. The estimate stretching limit of a single strand of webbing can reach up to four to five times its actual length before straining and damaging its molecular structure. The webbing is 99% fireproof and water resistant but loses its adhesiveness and strength after a time of ten minutes. The highest pressure on the palms can force a stream of the most complex thick web line for an estimated 60 feet. However, the thickness and length of the webbing is determined by the amount of pressure on the palms, once it is shot.
HISTORY
Detailed History coming soon!
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