History Fanfic / UltimateSpiderWoman

* AffablyEvil: Well, the Constrictor isn't exactly ''nice'', but when he sees that Spider-Woman is a teenage university student he advises her to consider just why she had decided to become a costumed heroine in the first place, pointing out that the super-powered world is far more dangerous than she probably initially thought.

* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: Although Mary Jane is a "girly girl", she's also an expert martial artist and ActionGirl who's taken down dozens of supervillains as Spider-Woman.

* BrokenBird: Poor, poor Maddie Watson...at least at first. It's later subverted when she starts getting the help she needs and repays Mary Jane for everything her daughter's gone through to help her. It also turns into a case of [[LikeFatherLikeSon Like Mother, Like Daughter]] when CharacterDevelopment helps Mary Jane overcome many of her own personal issues.

* EvilPlan: Jack O'Lantern triggers one of these when he orchestrates a city-wide gang war; a neccesary condition for his real objective.

* MaliciousSlander: An especially bloodcurdling variation exists with Vincent Gonzalez, whose sister Michelle was murdered by StalkerWithACrush Supercharger because she maintained a Spider-Woman hate site. In return, Vincent blamed Spider-Woman and organized an online hate campaign against her. He's also gathered some of his fellow spider-haters into a gang of sadistic thugs who viciously beat Spider-Woman supporters that have criticized him. This, of course, is all part of Vincent's plan to further defame Spider-Woman by pointing out that if she was a "real" hero, she wouldn't have let these attacks happen in the first place!

* ResentfulGuardian: Phillip felt this way about Mary Jane from the moment she was born, since she was the daughter he actually got instead of the son he always wanted. He also blamed little Mary Jane for being another mouth to feed when he was struggling to improve his business.

* StressVomit: Mary Jane does this more than once after particularly traumatic events, notably when she's ForcedToWatch as the Constrictor murders Phil Urich or when Jack O' Lantern gives her a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown after she sees him kill her father.

** More generally, this trope is {{Deconstructed}} to a point when Mary Jane sees how some of the people posting in Vincent Gonzalez's online hate campaign express their desire to sexually assault Spider-Woman. She's reminded of the crude sexual remarks some of her supervillain enemies made when they first met her. These remarks are painful and disturbing for the people who actually receive them. Mary Jane is especially embittered by the fact that as a woman hero she gets much more of this than male heroes like Spider-Man or Daredevil typically would.

** When [[ComicBook/XMan Nate Grey]] appears in an arc guest-starring the ComicBook/XMen, he's struggling with PowerIncontinence and is fleeing both from the X-Men (because of what he thinks is an AccidentalMurder) and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (who want to exploit him for his power.) The arc was inspired by Jared's interpretation of Music/PhilCollins' classic song ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG9Ei-HyymE Don't Lose My Number]]''. When he's on the run, Nate uses the alias "Billy Collins" as a reference to both the song's main character and the man who wrote it.

** When ComicBook/XMan appears in an arc guest-starring the ComicBook/XMen, he's struggling with PowerIncontinence and is fleeing both from the X-Men (because of what he thinks is an AccidentalMurder) and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (who want to exploit him for his power.) The arc was inspired by Jared's interpretation of {{Music/PhilCollins}}' classic song ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG9Ei-HyymE Don't Lose My Number]]''. When he's on the run, Nate uses the alias "Billy Collins" as a reference to both the song's main character and the man who wrote it.

** When ComicBook/XMan appears in an arc guest-starring the ComicBook/XMen, he's struggling with PowerIncontinence and is fleeing both from the X-Men (because of what he thinks is an AccidentalMurder) and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (who want to exploit him for his power.) The arc was inspired by Jared's interpretation of {{Music/PhilCollins}}' classic song ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG9Ei-HyymE Don't Lose My Number]]. When he's on the run, Nate uses the alias "Billy Collins" as a reference to both the song's main character and the man who wrote it.

* AdaptationalBadass: A staple of the series. Villains that are C- and D-list background fodder in the comics are given a chance to shine here.

* ComicBookTime: Averted. The series has a consistent timeline and continually mentions when a given story is happening. Many of the cultural references are also of the time they're set, such as Randy and Mary Jane attending a Music/LadyGaga concert while she was still an up-and-coming New York singer, Mary Jane enjoying the {{Literature/Twilight}} books or UsefulNotes/BarackObama becoming President.

* GirlyBruiser: Mary Jane is an ass-kicking Action Girl as Spider-Woman, but she's also a ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' and ''Literature/HarryPotter'' fangirl, has a massive crush on the likes of Creator/RobertPattinson and Music/JustinBieber, [[TheFashionista enjoys fashionable clothing]], [[AllWomenLoveShoes collects shoes like a madwoman]], [[GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals loves the teddy bear her boyfriend Randy gave her]] and is otherwise proud to be a "girly girl."

* TakeThat: Given the incredibly negative reaction to the ''[[{{Literature/Twilight}} Twilight]]'' series among people outside its target demographic, you'd expect the series to be depicted negatively, right? Wrong-this trope is subverted in that a TakeThat is ''not'' directed against the series. Since Mary Jane is more or less in its target demographic, she actually ''enjoys'' the books.

An offshoot of ''FanFic/UltimateSleepwalker'', ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4655553/1/Ultimate_SpiderWoman_Change_With_the_Light Ultimate Spider-Woman: Change With the Light]]'' stars [[Characters/MarvelComicsMaryJaneWatson Mary Jane Watson]] as the title heroine, with no connection to [[ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Jessica Drew as a female clone of Peter Parker]].

!!Provides Examples Of:

* AlternateUniverseFic: Earth-2706 is an alternate version of the MarvelUniverse of Jared's own creation.

* InfoDump: An unfortunate necessity of the series. Since this version of the MarvelUniverse is in many ways drastically different from the real one, this trope becomes the quickest and easiest way to get the readers up to speed.

* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: According to WordOfGod, ComicBook/IronMan, Comicbook/DoctorStrange, ComicBook/TheMightyThor and ComicBook/TheAvengers are not based in New York the way they are in the comics. This trope also applies due to the sheer number of supervillains, meaning that each hero usually has their hands full with their own RoguesGallery. Not that some of Spider-Woman's enemies don't take precautions, of course. The Brothers Grimm threatens to murder all his hostages if anyone but Spider-Woman tries to stop him, while Jack O' Lantern arranges it so all of New York's other heroes are tied up with the Tomorrow Legion and can't stop him.

Set in the same universe as ''Ultimate Sleepwalker'', ''Ultimate Spider-Woman'' came about in part because of Jared's attempting to subvert the traditional expectations of Franchise/SpiderMan fans and make [[TheGwenStacy Gwen Stacy]] Peter Parker's one true love. Eventually, he came up with the idea of doing a spider-themed series with Mary Jane as the star. The series ended up going in an entirely new direction, particularly about the nature of identity and how people step into different roles at different times.

* MythologyGag: Mary Jane occasionally sarcastically observes to herself that "the old Watson luck is running true to form." This is a reference to the original Franchise/SpiderMan comics, when Peter Parker would say the same thing about "the old Parker luck."

* WorthyOpponent: The Constrictor is a cold-blooded assassin, but he'll commend the fighting skills of anyone who beats him. He even compliments Spider-Woman on having come a long way since the first time they fought, and ranks her with the likes of Franchise/SpiderMan and ComicBook/CaptainAmerica for winning their rematch.

* {{Hurting Hero}}ine: Spider-Woman is definitely one of these.

* OverprotectiveDad: {{Gender Flip}}ped with Ben Reilly's father Andrew, who loathes Mary Jane and isn't shy about letting her know that. He bluntly warns her to stay away from his son, before threatening to make her life miserable if she doesn't listen to him. Ben is not pleased when he hears about this.

* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: Done with both with Spider-Woman (who has a modified version of Jessica Drew's pheromones that function as a sort of spider-tracer, as well organic webbing to go along with Jessica's HandBlasts), other heroes (the X-Man Thunderbird was a FlyingBrick in the comics, but has ShockAndAwe powers to differentiate himself from his super-strong brother Warpath) and many of the villains (the Crimson Commando's powers effectively stopped his aging process and let him stay at peak capacity even as an old man in the comics, but this version of the Commando has PowerMimicry allowing her to duplicate other people's physical skills, much like Characters/MarvelComicsTaskmaster.)

** In the comics, Characters/MarvelComicsTaskmaster has "photographic reflexes", which allow him to [[PowerCopying mimic other people's physical feats.]] The comics don't really explain how he has this ability, but this series explicitly describes him as a mutant whose power is his photographic reflexes. His sister shares those abilities, and she uses them as this universe's Crimson Commando as part of her AdaptationalSuperpowers.

* AdaptationalSuperpowers: Done with both with Spider-Woman (who has a modified version of Jessica Drew's pheromones that function as a sort of spider-tracer, as well organic webbing to go along with Jessica's HandBlasts), other heroes (the X-Man Thunderbird was a FlyingBrick in the comics, but has ShockAndAwe powers to differentiate himself from his super-strong brother Warpath) and many of the villains (the Crimson Commando's powers effectively stopped his aging process and let him stay at peak capacity even as an old man in the comics, but this version of the Commando has PowerMimicry allowing her to duplicate other people's physical skills, much like Characters/MarvelComicsTaskmaster.)

* GeniusBookClub: Philippe Bazin's library continues erudite tomes like ''Literature/ThePrince'' and ''Literature/TheArtOfWar'', which guide his tactics as a crime boss.

* TheSocialExpert: Mary Jane is this. She's very skilled at endearing herself to people, making small talk at large parties, and even faking being a DistressedDamsel so she can escape and suit up as Spider-Woman without blowing her SecretIdentity.

* SpinOff: A Type 11 version of this trope for Fanfic/UltimateSleepwalker. While it's set in the same universe, Ultimate Spider-Woman has an almost entirely new cast of characters.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Mary Jane is musing on how well things are going, when [[RoadsideWave she's suddenly drenched by a passing car]], and remembers that she's [[ButtMonkey Mary Jane Watson]].

* SwappedRoles: Randy hates seeing the toll superheroing takes on Mary Jane's mental health. He's considered asking her to consider hanging up her webs and retiring as a hero, but he can't bring himself to do it. He realizes it'd be hypocritical of him, since he'd probably be doing the exact same thing as Mary Jane if he was the one with superpowers and she was the one comforting him.