Spider Queen (Marvel)

"Don't find shame in defeat Spider-Man. This is the way of things. You could never have stood against me. This is natures way."

- Queen to Spider-Man before kissing him

Queen (real name Adriana Soria) or Spider-Queen, is an enemy of Spider-Man. She has multiple powers, the most prominent being able to control anyone with the "insect gene."

Biography
Nothing is known about Ana's life until, in the beginning of World War II, she joined the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. She then was drafted into a special unit of the Marine Corps, becoming the first female marine to go into combat. At some point, her unit was lined up along the Bikini Atoll to absorb the radiation from the ongoing weapons tests.

Ana resurfaced in New York in 2004 now calling herself "The Queen" and in full control of her abilities. She wears a beautiful elegant black dress and has retained a young and beautiful look.

She quickly takes control of a large portion of New York citizens with her powers and throws a taxi into a building with her telekinesis for honking at her. Her very presence causes Peter's spider-sense to go crazy, making him bleed from the nose and ears, and he follows it to the source, at the Manhattan Highrise. Spider-Man meets Captain America, who is also investigating The Queen's disturbance, but Spidey ignores his warnings and crawls up the building to confront her. Upon meeting The Queen face to face, Spidey cracks on of his usual jokes, only for The Queen to swiftly kick him in the leg and warn him not to do that again, or his whole city would suffer. The two engage in a brief fight with Spidey tripping Queen and attempting to restrain her legs, only for her to kick him across the face. Spidery jokes that he feels like he's in High School and asks if she is flirting with him, The Queen says he'd be surprised and stuns him with a powerful sonic scream. Spidey drops to the floor in pain and Queen punches him into a wall. Queen's drones restrain Spider-Man and she begins to pull up his mask, saying she likes Spider-Man, respecting him for being a survivor. Cap arrives and tries to save Spider-Man, but is overpowered by The Queen's overwhelming number of drones and is eventually knocked out with his own shield. Spider-Man continued to struggle against her, and she told her drones to release him so she could deal with him herself. Queen then defeats Spidey with a second sonic scream and he passes out from the pain. As he falls unconscious, The Queen catches him in a hug and tells him not to be ashamed of his defeat, because he could have never stood against her, before pulling him into a big wet kiss.

Spidey soon wakes up, finding himself restrained in some webbing, being held captive by Queen. Queen visits Spidey in an attempt to control him. She flirts with him and kisses him again in an attempt to make him fall in love with her, and she almost succeeded. Spidey resists her long enough to force her off him and Queen angrily  slapped him across the face twice and vowed he would love her whether he wanted to or not. Meanwhile, news of the first kiss between The Queen and Spider-Man spread through the city, and everyone thought it was Spider-Man who kissed Queen. Cap meanwhile, managed to free himself and Spidey and the two fought Queen's drones, but Spidey went after Queen for revenge. She however gave him a demonstration of her power and forced several of her mind controlled drones to jump to their deaths to demoralize the hero. Spidey refused to back down, but was easily beaten by Queen's telekinetic powers. Queen almost forced herself on him, but was distracted by a S.H.I.E.L.D attack and knock off the roof by Captain America.

Queen vanished after this and began to build a new lair in secret with her drones. She forced for the scientist in charge of the operation that gave her her powers to build a bomb that would kill everyone in the world that didn't have the insect gene, allowing her to control all the survivors. Spidey meanwhile, could still feel that her kiss had done something to him and couldn't get her out of his mind, even having nightmares about her. He slowly began to mutate into a giant spider mutant with fangs, eight arms and four eyes. The Queen tracks him down and explains that her kiss has slowly been affecting him and he angrily attacked her. She once again defeated him and took him back to her lair, where he eventually mutated into a giant spider, now completely under her control.

However, Spider-Man's new form was unstable and "died" not long after his transformation. Queen was reduced to tears over her dead mate, but missed Spider-Man emerging from his spider body, now with enhanced strength and organic webs. Queen, in a rage began destroying the equipment around her and ordered for the bomb to be detonated immediately. But Spider-Man sabotaged Queen's bomb so it wouldn't detonate. Queen discovered Spider-Man alive, and knowing she couldn't have him as her mate attacked him, saying she'd see if he "could die twice in one day." But Spider-Man finally managed to overpower Queen, leaving her trapped in her own lair as S.H.I.E.L.D attacked it. Queen was caught in an explosion, but her body was never recovered.

The Queen resurfaced years later, and working with The Jackal, created a new plan. She provided Jackal with a DNA sample of when Spider-Man emerged from his spider body and he created a "spider virus" that infected the Web of Life. New York citizens began to develop their own spider powers and slowly mutated into giant spider mutants like Spider-Man did. This allowed Queen to control them and increase her own power as her connection to the Web of Life grew stronger, and she even mutated Captain America, into The Spider King.

Spider-Man, Agent Venom, and Anti-Venom tried to fight the mutating citizens and contain the chaos while Horizon Labs worked on a cure for the virus. Queen learned of the cure and sent Tarantula, a mutated Kaine, to destroy it. Spider-Man stopped him though and regained his spider-sense in the process. The Queen angrily killed Jackal with a sonic scream for failing her, but discovered her powers had now increased as well, gaining all the powers of her mutated drones. She battles Agent Venom when he infiltrates her lair, but he is soon joined by a cured Captain America, and the two appear to fatally wound her. However, she transforms into a giant 28 stories tall tall Spider Monster herself and calls herself The Spider Queen.

Spider-Man and Kaine join the fight along with dozens of heroes but Spider Queen has become too powerful to beat. Spidey takes control of Doc Ocks old Octo-bots to distribute the cure to the citizens of New York. With her drones slowly being cured Spider Queen begins to grow weaker. With her now in a vulnerable state, Ms.Marvel throws Kaine at Spider Queen and using his spider fangs in his wrists, pierces the Queen's head killing her instantly. With Queen dead the mutated New Yorkers return back to normal, happy to be human again.

Personality
During her time as The Queen, Ana showed a desire to be in control of the entire world. She showed a cold demeanor to anyone she couldn't control and would swiftly put them in their place, through either intimidation or murder. She saw herself as Queen over all and showed no remorse over any loss of life she caused, even ordering several of her brainwashed drones to leap to their deaths just to make an example of them to Spider-Man. After her plan to kill all humans she couldn't control failed, she instead tried to infect the world with a "spider-virus" that would allow her to control all humans, not caring about the loss of life this would cause the planet.

She was shown to be unstable and appeared to suffer minor mood swings. When she first met Spider-Man she kicked him for cracking one of his lame jokes and threatened his city if he does it again, only to decide she likes Spider-Man enough to make him her mate shortly after knocking him around. She would also become extremely violent and angry when rejected. After flirting with Spider-Man once again and forcing another kiss on him she angrily slaps him across the face for rejecting her and disrespecting her, even calling him a "worm."

After choosing Spider-Man to be her mate she showed an close obsession for him. She continued to try to break his spirit and make him love her. In their first battle she began flirting with Spidey shortly after beating him up, and after beating him she caught the hero in a hug and assured him not to be ashamed of his defeat before making out with him in public. Her flirting would also invade Spidey's personal space, with her only response being for him to relax and enjoy it. Despite choosing him as her mate though, she continued to beat him when he refused her advances, slapping him across the face for breaking her kiss and slamming a mutated Spider-Man into a brick wall for continuing to resist her and calling her filth.

Powers
Ana was stated to have countless superhuman abilities, but she only ever displayed a handful of them.
 * Superhuman Strength: In her human form Queen was able to lift one ton. She could leave dents in the floor by stomping and punch Spider-Man so hard into a wall it leave cracks.  This strength was presumably multiplied after she transformed into her Spider-Queen form.
 * Telephathy: She could communicate with her drones through a "hive mind" over a vast distance. She could communicate with and control insects and any human with an "insect gene."  Only those with a strong will like Spider-Man could fight her control, but he also suffered from her control, at one point almost falling in love with her after their second kiss and obeying her completely after mutating into a giant Spider.
 * Telekinesis: She was shown able manipulate things around her with hardly any movement on her own part. She sent a taxi flying into a building, crushed a helicopter rotor blades, and was able to control body functions of others who had the insect gene.
 * Mutagenic Enzyme: She passed a mutant compound in her saliva that she could transfer via a kiss. Those infected with the enzyme became connected to her and the Web of Life.  Spider-Man was first exposed to this enzyme after The Queen forced a kiss on him and eventually mutated into a giant spider, but this form quickly died and gave Spider-Man enhanced versions of his powers.  The Jackal managed to improve on this enzyme and created the "spider-flu" that infected all of New York.
 * Sonic Scream: She could produce a powerful blast of sound that was strong enough to cause Spider-Man to drop to the ground in pain and eventually knock him out. This is also what she used to kill Jackal.  However, Kaine was immune to her scream because he was wearing the Stealth Suit that Peter invented, showing the scream could be countered.
 * Transformation: After most of New York was infected with the Spider-Flu Queen's own powers increased as well and she was able to transform into an 28 stories tall spider mutant herself.
 * Military Training: Ana has received military training and is adapt in hand to hand combat. She has shown to be skilled enough to knock out Spider-Man even while wearing an elegant dress not suited for fights, though with her other powers she rarely ever needs to deal with things hand to hand.

Trivia

 * Adriana Soria is the second person to use the alias "Spider-Queen" in the Marvel Universe. The first was Shannon Kane.
 * The role of her original storyline was to give Spider-Man organic webs like he had in his original film series at the time.