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Ah man, Screwball go home.

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Our old friend the webhead first encountered the girl calling herself "Screwball" back during the year between the fall of the Kingpin and the events of Ends of the Earth. Hammerhead was making moves to try to take back the criminal underworld and had begun transferring large sums of cash from the Kingpin's own vaults to different locations under his own control, utilizing highly sophisticated self-driving armored cars. Enter Screwball, "the first live-streaming super person." Using her own extensive knowledge of computers and programming, she live streamed herself jumping onto one of these vehicles at a stop light and reprogramming the convoy's routing so the vehicles were no longer traceable by Hammerhead's men and all drove in separate ways.

She pulled a few other pranks on the mob but she didn't really seem to have a goal in all of this beyond just increasing her viewer count. Peter was all for sticking it to Hammerhead, but what she was doing was dangerous and put a huge bounty on her head--he knew he had to stop her before she got seriously hurt. Screwball thought no one knew who she was, but unfortunately for her, word got out on her identity to the wrong people. She was a student at ESU named Terri Davis, and Peter ended up saving her just before Hammerhead's goons could take her out. She came clean and gave up the location of the missing Hammerhead vehicles to the police, and as thanks, Spidey appeared on her stream, and she promised she'd go back to just streaming video games.

Fast forward to after Otto had taken control of Peter's body and become the Superior Spider-man. Otto's pitch for New Horizon to install their security systems all throughout New York City was approved by the city, with Spider-man now acting as an official part of this. This initiative was highly controversial with the citizens, and Peter's closest friends and confidants were worried about him. He wasn't really doing anything *wrong* per se, and the arrangement he had made with his boss to share in their profits meant he was seeing some success. But the way he was deliberately avoiding them... something wasn't right. Aunt May felt that he might have finally seen too much death and destruction and he needed professional help, but he had moved and wasn't returning her calls. It was a difficult time for them.

Otto, however, was reveling in his new life. Finally a chance at the new start he always deserved. He felt himself becoming more human every day, and he'd even opened up the opportunity for romance in his life again, having started dating a fellow researcher at New Horizon. And the security system was working a charm, helping him clean up a lot of Hammerhead's riffraff off the streets. Yep, he'd clean up the streets of crime better than anyone before, he'd reveal his true identity as Spider-man at this zenith, he'd receive all the awards and adulation he was deserved, and he could finally rest instead of breaking his back for people who didn't deserve his intellect.

But it all started to come unglued when Screwball reappeared on the scene. One day Otto's security system started to go on the fritz, briefly showing more potential targets out and about than the security system normally did, and then cut out entirely. Frustrated, Otto attempted to determine what had glitched, but it became apparent that the system had actually been hacked. Someone had managed to outwit him. He started frantically trying to figure out who by working through the system, but it was to no avail. It wasn't until someone showed him Screwball's stream did he find the culprit.

Screwball claimed responsibility, saying that she thought Spider-man used to be cool, but the whole criminal profiling thing? Really lame. She knew the police knew her identity and everything so it was only a matter of time before they got to her, but she dared Spider-man to come and get her. Otto would not stand for this.

Spider-man arrived on Screwball's livestream set on a building rooftop and demanded she return the system to normal. Screwball said nah. Besides, it was a pretty crummy system--there were a bunch of people cloaked to it all over the city! How could he be so proud of a system with such an easy exploitable weakness like that? Spider-man called her a liar, but before he could finish his thought Screwball activated a hidden trap, dousing him in syrup and feathers. Otto tried to keep his cool as Screwball walked over to him with a can of pink spray paint as she drew a frowning face on his chest, and she told him she was already willing to go to jail over this, what was he going to do about it?

Otto beat the shit out of her, leaving her a broken and bloodied, unconscious on the floor. The doctors gave her a fifty percent chance of ever waking up.

Public opinion of Spider-man and New Horizon's systems fell through the floor, and the entire system was officially taken offline by the city of New York. Otto got into a spat with Max Modell, and ended up getting fired. Otto retreated from public life, but unbeknownst to New Horizon, he took the schemata for his system with him.

All the while, Aunt May, MJ, and Gwen knew they had to do something. That wasn't Peter. They knew that wasn't him, and they needed to find the real Peter and right this wrong.

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So yeah so that's Screwball's role here. I wasn't originally going to do her until I realized how perfect her role of getting the pus beaten out of her by the Superior Spider-man was for this particular story. Sorry, Screwball. And I came up with a real name for her--Screwball's never been officially named in the comics or any adaptation (outside of the modern Spider-man cartoon where she's an alter ego of Liz Allan for some reason), so I came up with one of my own as "Terri Davis." Just something really normal and dull to sell her more zany Screwball persona better. And I changed her up to be a kinda seriously misguided superhero fangirl instead of an outright villain.

I was originally going to have her design be pretty close to her original but then decided I wanted to put my own spin on her and make her look more like an attention grabbing live streamer, and her purple pigtailed depiction in Spider-man/Deadpool was the best bet. So I wanted to make her look like someone who's trying to get as many viewers as possible, with the over the top hair, bright colors, and yeah, even the little bit of cleavage there. And I guess her hair is specifically supposed to be dyed in my depiction--you can kinda see some brunette roots there. I have no idea if it's ever been established if she dyed her hair or not. Whatever.

Still can't believe I'm up this high in character entry numbers. 122. Wowzers.

Description

Ah man, Screwball go home.

----

Our old friend the webhead first encountered the girl calling herself "Screwball" back during the year between the fall of the Kingpin and the events of Ends of the Earth. Hammerhead was making moves to try to take back the criminal underworld and had begun transferring large sums of cash from the Kingpin's own vaults to different locations under his own control, utilizing highly sophisticated self-driving armored cars. Enter Screwball, "the first live-streaming super person." Using her own extensive knowledge of computers and programming, she live streamed herself jumping onto one of these vehicles at a stop light and reprogramming the convoy's routing so the vehicles were no longer traceable by Hammerhead's men and all drove in separate ways.

She pulled a few other pranks on the mob but she didn't really seem to have a goal in all of this beyond just increasing her viewer count. Peter was all for sticking it to Hammerhead, but what she was doing was dangerous and put a huge bounty on her head--he knew he had to stop her before she got seriously hurt. Screwball thought no one knew who she was, but unfortunately for her, word got out on her identity to the wrong people. She was a student at ESU named Terri Davis, and Peter ended up saving her just before Hammerhead's goons could take her out. She came clean and gave up the location of the missing Hammerhead vehicles to the police, and as thanks, Spidey appeared on her stream, and she promised she'd go back to just streaming video games.

Fast forward to after Otto had taken control of Peter's body and become the Superior Spider-man. Otto's pitch for New Horizon to install their security systems all throughout New York City was approved by the city, with Spider-man now acting as an official part of this. This initiative was highly controversial with the citizens, and Peter's closest friends and confidants were worried about him. He wasn't really doing anything *wrong* per se, and the arrangement he had made with his boss to share in their profits meant he was seeing some success. But the way he was deliberately avoiding them... something wasn't right. Aunt May felt that he might have finally seen too much death and destruction and he needed professional help, but he had moved and wasn't returning her calls. It was a difficult time for them.

Otto, however, was reveling in his new life. Finally a chance at the new start he always deserved. He felt himself becoming more human every day, and he'd even opened up the opportunity for romance in his life again, having started dating a fellow researcher at New Horizon. And the security system was working a charm, helping him clean up a lot of Hammerhead's riffraff off the streets. Yep, he'd clean up the streets of crime better than anyone before, he'd reveal his true identity as Spider-man at this zenith, he'd receive all the awards and adulation he was deserved, and he could finally rest instead of breaking his back for people who didn't deserve his intellect.

But it all started to come unglued when Screwball reappeared on the scene. One day Otto's security system started to go on the fritz, briefly showing more potential targets out and about than the security system normally did, and then cut out entirely. Frustrated, Otto attempted to determine what had glitched, but it became apparent that the system had actually been hacked. Someone had managed to outwit him. He started frantically trying to figure out who by working through the system, but it was to no avail. It wasn't until someone showed him Screwball's stream did he find the culprit.

Screwball claimed responsibility, saying that she thought Spider-man used to be cool, but the whole criminal profiling thing? Really lame. She knew the police knew her identity and everything so it was only a matter of time before they got to her, but she dared Spider-man to come and get her. Otto would not stand for this.

Spider-man arrived on Screwball's livestream set on a building rooftop and demanded she return the system to normal. Screwball said nah. Besides, it was a pretty crummy system--there were a bunch of people cloaked to it all over the city! How could he be so proud of a system with such an easy exploitable weakness like that? Spider-man called her a liar, but before he could finish his thought Screwball activated a hidden trap, dousing him in syrup and feathers. Otto tried to keep his cool as Screwball walked over to him with a can of pink spray paint as she drew a frowning face on his chest, and she told him she was already willing to go to jail over this, what was he going to do about it?

Otto beat the shit out of her, leaving her a broken and bloodied, unconscious on the floor. The doctors gave her a fifty percent chance of ever waking up.

Public opinion of Spider-man and New Horizon's systems fell through the floor, and the entire system was officially taken offline by the city of New York. Otto got into a spat with Max Modell, and ended up getting fired. Otto retreated from public life, but unbeknownst to New Horizon, he took the schemata for his system with him.

All the while, Aunt May, MJ, and Gwen knew they had to do something. That wasn't Peter. They knew that wasn't him, and they needed to find the real Peter and right this wrong.

----

So yeah so that's Screwball's role here. I wasn't originally going to do her until I realized how perfect her role of getting the pus beaten out of her by the Superior Spider-man was for this particular story. Sorry, Screwball. And I came up with a real name for her--Screwball's never been officially named in the comics or any adaptation (outside of the modern Spider-man cartoon where she's an alter ego of Liz Allan for some reason), so I came up with one of my own as "Terri Davis." Just something really normal and dull to sell her more zany Screwball persona better. And I changed her up to be a kinda seriously misguided superhero fangirl instead of an outright villain.

I was originally going to have her design be pretty close to her original but then decided I wanted to put my own spin on her and make her look more like an attention grabbing live streamer, and her purple pigtailed depiction in Spider-man/Deadpool was the best bet. So I wanted to make her look like someone who's trying to get as many viewers as possible, with the over the top hair, bright colors, and yeah, even the little bit of cleavage there. And I guess her hair is specifically supposed to be dyed in my depiction--you can kinda see some brunette roots there. I have no idea if it's ever been established if she dyed her hair or not. Whatever.

Still can't believe I'm up this high in character entry numbers. 122. Wowzers.