Jean DeWolff's History
At the Delvadian Embassy on Earth-194, the NYPD is acting as security and some officers ask Detective Jean DeWolff if they should keep guarding the golden Tarantula Idol. Jean is unsure herself as the owner is the Delvadian Ambassador, Anton Miguel Rodriquez, currently preoccupied with his date,
Felicia Hardy, who Jean swears she'd hate if they weren't best friends. Anton comments that he'd have brought out the Tarantula Idol if it meant getting
Felicia to be in his arms, but
Felicia jokes that the idol isn't what is on display. Although Anton agrees, he suggests their pairing amid the dance and then asks why he feels like he isn't leading the dance.
Felicia answers that she was leading him to Jean DeWolff who'd been seeking a chance to talk to Anton.
Felicia then slips away and into her cat burglar gear. Having affixed a micro-transceiver to Anton's clothes and lifting his fingerprint off her gown sash,
Felicia hears Anton tell Jean about the infrared laser system and is able to bypass it as she tries to steal the real Tarantula Idol hidden away.
Under her breath,
Felicia apologizes for sometimes feeling like the worst "best friend" but notes that Jean has mistaken
Felicia's efforts to "scratch her back" as Jean unknowingly scratching
Felicia's. Using the lifted fingerprint to enter the vault, the real idol bites
Felicia and she trips the alarm. When the NYPD find an empty vault,
Felicia escapes with the idol and soon realizes she now has Spider powers from the idol's bite. The next night,
Felicia sees Jean on the news calling her "Spider-Thief" and doesn't like it. So after a reporter asks about Wilson Fisk's concerns over his clay tablet, Jean announces that she will be guarding it, giving
Felicia the desire to steal that too. Donning a new look,
Felicia dubs herself
Night-Spider and infiltrates Fisk Tower easily with the use of her new spider-sense. Reaching the safe,
Night-Spider uses her new spider-strength to rip off the door and procure the tablet. At the precinct, Jean is infuriated that the thief was able steal the tablet and humiliate the NYPD. Captain George Stacy tells orders Jean not let the thief continue to embarrass the NYPD. Over the following week, more heists occur and forensics locates unfamiliar prints on the ceilings and walls with notes left by
Night-Spider at each scene. At the bar, Jean gets a call from
Felicia who invites her over for a chat, but draws her weapon upon seeing the Tarantula Idol in
Felicia's living room.
Down the hallway, in the master bedroom, Jean comes upon
Felicia sitting amongst the treasure trove of stolen items she'd attained over the last week. A confounded Jean asks why
Felicia why she did it.
Felicia tells her she was a cat burglar for the thrill of it, but that the thrill vanished once she attained her new spider powers making it all too easy. No longer feeling that thrill,
Felicia wants to give her friend the arrest to at least make her somewhat happy and maybe get a new thrill by escaping the world's best prisons. Jean is dismayed but still upholds her duty as a police officer and cuffs
Felicia. At that moment, a web shaped portal opens just a few steps away. Through the cosmic portal appeared
Araña asking for
Felicia's help in a completely "hopeless" cause as the Spider-Verse is in danger and in need of
Felicia to pull off the greatest heist in history. Intrigued by a "completely hopeless cause",
Felicia instantly escapes her cuffs to jump through the portal while apologizing to an irate Jean and promising to bring her something nice. The now bemused Jean stands in the room alone with all the loot, uncertain by what happened, and having no idea what to write in her police report.
