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Yuriko Watanabe: I know what you're going to say, but just hear me out: the system works most of the time. But there are times when it doesn't, and to me that's unacceptable. Some people put their trust in fate, or karma, or whatever. But I, can only trust me.
Spider-Man: You can't kill people, Yuri.
Yuriko Watanabe: Apparently I can. And you know what? It felt good.
~ Yuri embraces vigilantism.

Yuriko "Yuri" Watanabe is a major character in the Insomniac's Marvel's Spider-Man video game series.

Although initially an ally of original Spider-Man, in the add-on DLC that takes place after the base game, she embraces violent vigilantism in the face of the continued murders of the Maggia and the limitations of conventional policing. She returns in Marvel's Spider-Man 2, assuming the identity of Wraith.

She is voiced by Tara Platt, who also voiced Edelgard von Hresvelg in Fire Enblem.

History[]

Yuriko Watanabe is introduced as a long-standing policewoman who has maintained a working relationship with Spider-Man for years. Although often annoyed by his flippancy and in particular his jokes and "Spider-Cop" monologues, Yuri nevertheless appreciates Spider-Man's presence, and the two work together well throughout the game's story, such as helping Spider-Man take down and arrest Kingpin. Yuri even saves Spider-Man's life after he is savagely beaten by the Sinister Six and thrown into the ocean. She was relieved after the city was saved from the Devil's Breath pandemic.

Afterwards, tragically, when Yuri later tried to bring down the Maggia and their leader Hammerhead, he murdered all of her men and then tried to kill her too before Spider-Man saved her. Subsequent murders of police officers by Hammerhead and his men pushed Yuri over the edge entirely, and she took a discarded Sable-tech rifle and went on an independent rampage against the Maggia, effectively going outside police procedures and regulations to get what information she needed and eventually, corner Hammerhead himself. After Spider-Man beat him into submission, Yuri shot him repeatedly in an effort to kill him, but Hammerhead did not die, and Yuri was sent on administrative leave.

Unsatisfied with this, and now having a taste for vigilante justice, Yuri later tracked down and murdered a Maggia hitman who had earlier killed numerous people, including a therapist the hitman had been going to who had actually been a spy for Yuri to get incriminating evidence against him. Spider-Man later found the dead Maggia hitman and admonished Yuri for her actions over the phone, but by now Yuri had embraced vigilantism in full and bade farewell to her old friend before ending the call, leaving the webslinger despondently unsure of what to do now that she's gone rogue. Her current whereabouts are unknown, until she later resurfaces as the ruthless vigilante known as Wraith.

After some time has passed since the ongoing war with the Maggia, with them and Hammerhead being defeated, Yuri now sets her sights on a new target known as the Flame and his Cult of followers with the help of Spider-Man.

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  • Yuriko Watanabe's descent into violent vigilantism also occurred in the comics, where she also took on the costumed identity "Wraith" (an alias held by a few other characters as well).

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