Screwball

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Biographical information
Occupation	Internet personality/criminal
Physical information
Gender	Female
Abilities	Expert gymnast
Behind the scenes
Portrayed by	Stephanie Lemelin

Screwball is a minor antagonist in Marvel's Spider-Man and the game's story expansion, The City That Never Sleeps. A mentally unstable Internet personality, Screwball uses Spider-Man and criminals to get more hits on her web channel. She is voiced by Stephanie Lemelin.

History

Early history

Much of Screwball's true identity, as well as her early history, is unknown. At some point, she became an Internet personality, gathering a substantial following.

Marvel's Spider-Man

When Spider-Man accepts the mysterious Screwball Challenge, she contacts him and forces him to play with the location of a kidnapped victim. After finding both of her barcodes across the city, Screwball’s fans attack Spider-Man in person and with bombs as a sign of love for her show and an attempt to get more views. Screwball gives Spider-Man the location of the kidnapped victim but he discovers her waiting for him instead - the threat was a lie but Screwball happily believes she has gained millions of followers because of the hero’s involvement. As more fans attack Spider-Man, Screwball films the fight and him defeating them all beforehand the police come to arrest them and her.

Despite being arrested, Screwball claims nothing will be able to stick against her as all her fans committed the crimes. The arresting policeman sadly agrees.

The City That Never Sleeps

Fresh out of jail, Screwball set up another challenge for Spider-Man to complete which she records and streams online. Her fans are also released from jail and assist in causing as much damage and violence as possible.

Screwball set up many EMP bombs across the city but Spider-Man is able to defeat and defuse all of them. Screwball is undeterred and only focuses on the views she got thanks to Spider-Man’s involvement, eagerly telling him to anticipate season two.

A few weeks later, Screwball return to debut season two of her online streams. She set up her "fans" to capture or attack innocent people so she can continue her streams through combat, gadget and stealth challenges. Although Spider-Man beats them, Screwball was still undeterred by this and went into hiding to start producing season three.

Another few weeks later, Screwball returned to get Spider-Man help her complete her third season. To that end, she sent her fans to fight Spider-Man to complete combat and gadget challenges. She also set up bombs across the city for Spider-Man to defuse. After this, Screwball announces her wrap party and that Spider-Man wasn't invited. Knowing that she was so narcissistic that she wouldn't miss this party, Spider-Man located the party and confronted Screwball. After a long chase, Spider-Man finally caught Screwball and hand her over to the police. While being taken away, she began arrogantly trying to get the cops to not bother due to her "fame", not realizing that she was now openly known for attempted terrorist attacks.

Characteristics

Appearance

Screwball is always seen wearing a white jumpsuit with a white biker helmet, both of with are adorned with fuschia stripes and her logo. She wears opaque golden sunglasses. According to J. Jonah Jameson, she has purple hair.

Personality

Screwball is shown to be a narcissistic and mentally unstable woman who only ever seems to care about getting as many followers and hits as possible. As such, she has no qualms about using Spider-Man or endangering civilians just to increase her, admittedly somewhat successful, popularity. Also, Screwball uses heavy "social media speak" such as "TTYL", "hashtag", "LOL", and "S-M" as an abbreviation for Spider-Man.

Despite possessing a somewhat super-villainous nature, Screwball is more often then not regarded as more of a tiresome annoyance and a severe social media addict by most of New York then an actual threat. She’s highly egotistical - her only concern in life is to gain as many followers as possible even at the risk of human life in her quest for constant validation from strangers who she genuinely believes care for her. Due to this Spider-Man often expresses some pity over Screwball’s constant terrorist actions as only a means to gain attention and notoriety without any foreseeable end to her constant crime wave.

Original appearance

For more background of Screwball throughout comic book history, see all appearances of Screwball and the original appearance of Screwball on the Marvel Database

Screwball first appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #559 (July 2008).

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