Madame Web's History
Julia was dragged into Sasha Kravinoff's Grim Hunt of Spider-Man as a means to resurrect her husband Kraven the Hunter. After the unsuccessful attempt at resurrection through the sacrifice of Mattie Franklin, the third woman to take the name Spider-Woman, Julia was captured by the Kravinoff family alongside Araña to be further sacrifices. As Spider-Man put a stop to their scheme, the Kravinoffs' most important prisoner, Madame Web was mortally wounded. In her final moments, Madame Web transferred her telepathic, precognitive, and astral projection powers into Julia - making her blind, the new Madame Web, and Weaver of the Spider family.
Julia's first action in this role was to prevent Peter from killing Kraven, explaining to Peter that he was the center of a moral web that would be destroyed if he killed Kraven and advising him that this murder, however justified, would turn him into a ruthless destroyer. After burying Kaine and Madame Web in a potter's field, she explained her new purpose to Spider-Man and Araña before teleporting away. Afterwards, Julia gave her Arachne costume to Anya so she could become the newly christened Spider-Girl.
When the population of Manhattan developed spider-powers, Julia observed the crisis with Shang-Chi, preventing him from intervening until Spider-Man was accidentally attacked by the New Avengers when he tried to help out.
Later, as Anti-Venom worked on curing the individuals affected of their spider-powers, she reflected on the need for both Venom and Anti-Venom to fix the Spider-Island problem. At the final battle of the Spider-Island, she soon realized that Kaine (who had been cured) was the one who was willing to kill, unlike Peter, thus seeing him as the last hope of killing the Spider-Queen.
After the Spider-Island events, Julia aided Spider-Man during a "race against time" mission to stop a catastrophe that could destroy the entire city. She warned him that he had to do this work by himself without the aid from either the Avengers or the Future Foundation. After the danger was averted, Julia congratulated Peter on his efforts.
Shortly before Doctor Octopus swapped his mind with Peter Parker's and temporarily became Spider-Man, Madame Web suffered an overload of her powers as a consequence of presaging the death of Spider-Man, witnessing every point in the future for a split second before falling into a coma. Luckily, she had previously foretold this event, for which she called for an ambulance before collapsing, and was taken to a hospital. Julia remained in a coma for more than a year. Shortly after the Spider-Army defeated the Inheritors and Otto Octavius started damaging the Web of Life and Destiny that connected all spiders, she woke up from her condition, claiming that her connection with the Web of Life and Destiny had been lost.
Not long afterwards, Julia became the victim of stalking from her ex-boyfriend the Shroud, who set up a gigantic surveillance system in Alcatraz Island in order to find her as part of an ill-conceived attempt to fix his life. The Shroud managed to intercept Julia at a local airport since she was on a layover in the middle of a flight to Denver. Daredevil managed to stop the Shroud, but during a subsequent scuffle, Julia was kidnapped by henchmen sent by the Kingpin. After Daredevil rescued Julia, she helped him set up a trap for the Shroud. On the pretense that she agreed to reunite with him, Julia met up with Max and kissed him. However, she had coated her lips with tranquilizer to knock him out so he could be apprehended by the authorities.
With the emergence of a mysterious new company called New U Technologies in San Francisco, Julia put the Shroud's surveillance system to use in order to investigate them. Her attempts to hack into the Jackal's company were trailed back to her, and a clone of the Prowler was sent after her. After shutting down Julia's network, the Prowler attempted to convince her to join the Jackal's cause, but she refused and escaped.
After escaping from an attack from the new Electro, the Prowler was rescued by Julia. He directed her to New U's headquarters so they could retrieve the special pills that Prowler needed to ingest regularly to stay alive. Julia took advantage of this visit to investigate the facility, and she stumbled into the original Madame Web, one of the many subjects New U had cloned back to life. Madam Web refused to take her pills to halt the degenerative process of her body, since she had seen the future and refused to be part of it. Before passing away, Madame Web told Julia to save the Prowler.
When all of New U's clones started degenerating as a consequence of a clone of Doctor Octopus sabotaging the Jackal's plans, the Prowler crossed paths with Julia and accused her of sabotaging the facility. After failing to convince the Prowler she was not at fault, Julia knocked him out. Not long afterwards, the dying Prowler was again attacked by Electro. Julia found him and managed to aid him in fending off Electro, while also informing the Prowler that Spider-Man had managed to figure out a way to stabilize the massive degeneration. When Electro attempted to attack Julia, the Prowler sacrificed himself to protect her and died in her arms. In the aftermath of the crisis, Julia found the real Hobie Brown in cryo-sleep, and informed him of his clone's actions.
Julia's precognition attuned her to a shared vision of Peter Parker suffering and dying by way of a disfigured and bandaged demon with Miles, Cindy, Gwen, Jess, and Anya. After Julia gathered and warned them that an unknown force had brought Spider-Man into conflict with Sin-Eater, her petition to the other spider heroes reached a consensus and they founded the Order of the Web to save Peter from Norman.
Following Sin-Eater's momentary imprisonment, the group boarded his escape pod, but she witnessed Norman's antagonism with Peter over Gwen. As Peter uncharacteristically threw Norman out to be prey for Sin-Eater while they escaped, Julia foresaw this outcome, knowing the horror of what would come next. Like the others, Julia was possessed by a demon sent by Kindred to destroy Spider-Man, whose sacrifice of Norman was a deal sealed with Kindred. Before the complete possession, Julia told Peter there was no avoiding the events to come.
Under the control of Kindred, the Order began wrecking havoc across the city and even battling the New Warriors. Arriving at the Brooklyn Bridge, they attacked innocent bystanders and were also harming themselves, forcing Peter to make a deal with the demon. Kindred accepted the deal and released the spider heroes from his control. The confused heroes were then met by Doctor Strange and Black Cat, as the sorcerer explained that they needed to collaborate in order to help Peter. Julia used her precognition to see the future idea Strange would have in order to expedite their plan of action, and they all ventured into the Astral Plane, leaving Black Cat behind to guard their way back.
After traversing Peter's traumatized dreamscape past a horde of demons to reach a portal to Kindred's cemetery, the group was no match for Sin-Eater augmented by Morlun's powers. Seeing a victory, Julia let the villain kill and take her powers, but went mad with seeing Kindred's truth and committed suicide, reviving Julia back to normal. However, Kindred captured them and forced them into being "dinner guests" for his party. Julia's and everyone's lives were saved by Mary Jane Watson's timely petition of self-sacrifice and Norman Osborn's arrival. With Fisk's successful entrapment of Kindred, Julia and the other were allowed to escape, concluding the ordeal by going home to recuperate. But with confusion on certain facts, Julia and the others voted to continue as a group and find out what else they could about Kindred while apprehending escaped inmates.
