The DeSantos Family Tree

This family tree is another brief one, but one I find worthy or examining nonetheless. Simone DeSantos was first introduced in Amazing Spider-Girl #1. It wasn't until Amazing Spider-Girl #22 we first met Rene, a man with direct ties to the Goblin Cult. However it wouldn't be until the Amazing Spider-Man Family and Web of Spider-Man Spider-Girl stories (also known as the Spectacular Spider-Girl stories available digitally on Marvel Unlimited) that we would discover that Rene was Simone's father.





Additionally, the Mr and Mrs Spider-Man short story presented in Amazing Spider-Man Family #2 shows us the traumatic murder of a mother and wife named Marlene, who's husband was an assistant district attorney.

This story occurs when Peter was still Spider-Man and Mayday was an infant. At first this seems to be an unconnected event until this scene in Web of Spider-Man (2009) #4, where it becomes clear:

The assistant district attorney was Rene DeSantos and Marlene was his wife.It seems this tragic killing had a profound effect on Rene. His turn to the other side heavily ties him to the Spider-Girl mythos. Rene was Fury, the Goblin Queen's handler for a while, was a member of the Goblin Cult set up by Norman Osborn to enact his twisted revenge plots, was present when Peter was brainwashed into the Goblin God, his daughter is a constant antagonist and rival to Mayday and he is seemingly aware of far more than he lets on.

Until I find a more lighthearted and fun villainous origin, I remain


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