Madame Web’s Spider-Women Have Some Great Ideas For Their Superhero Team Name
As a Marvel movie, Madame Web deviates pretty wildly from the brand’s big-screen norms: It didn’t cost $200 million to make, it was mostly filmed on location rather than on soundstages, it’s got a guy who looks like Spider-Man but he’s evil, and it’s got Marvel Easter eggs but tries to hide them rather than make them obvious. But perhaps the most surprising aspect of Madame Web might be that it focuses on a Marvel Comics superhero team like the Avengers or Guardians of the Galaxy or Web Warriors–but this group has never had a real name.
In the comics, Madame Web is a sort of cryptic mentor to various Spider-folks, and she’s specifically known for teaming up with groups of Spider-Women. In the movie, that group is Celeste O’Connor as Mattie Franklin, Sydney Sweeney as Julia Cornwall, and Isabela Merced as Aña Corazón–with Corazón in the comics being known as Araña. Naturally, I had to ask Sweeney, O’Connor, and Merced if they had any ideas for what to call themselves when I spoke to them together at the Madame Web junket.
“We have our own group name for ourselves. Our group chat name,” Sweeney told me. “We like to go by ’the Boo Crew.'”