Jackpot (Marvel)

Jackpot is the codename shared by two fictional superheroes, Sara Ehret and Alana Jobson, appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, usually in stories featuring Spider-Man. Created by writer Dan Slott and artist Phil Jimenez, Jackpot's very first appearance was in the Free Comic Book Day giveaway Spider-Man: Swing Shift, released on May 5, 2007 and set in the "Brand New Day" storyline.

Origin
Sara Ehret, a pregnant scientist at Phelcorp (a subsidiary of Oscorp) works on gene therapy to cure Parkinson's disease when she is accidentally exposed to "Lot 777". The virus rewrote the DNA in her cells leaving her in a coma for 4 months. Coming out of her coma Ehret went on to have her child Madeline with no complications, however when her family came under threat by falling debris she displayed superhuman strength to save them.

Jackpot went on to train and become a government sanctioned Initiative superhero for New York City. Though she served as a crimefighter for a while, Sara Ehret had no desire to remain one, preferring to her normal life and family. When another woman, Alana Jobson, recognized Sara and showed genuine enthusiasm at paying her for the use of Sara's Jackpot identity and license, Sara took the offer and gave up costumed crime fighting.

Alana Jobson
Alana buys Sara's identity, and while the latter goes in hiding, the former starts using a cocktail of enhancement drugs, including Mutant Growth Hormone to grant herself the powers of super-strength, stamina, and invulnerability associated with the Jackpot identity. In denial of her own sexuality, Alana developed a crush on Spider-Man, whom she emulated. She later was revealed to be a lesbian. She had been attracted to Sara but never revealed this to her.

Alana/Jackpot teams up with Spider-Man on a search for the villain Menace. They eventually find her after she attacks a council meeting and kidnaps a councilwoman. Jackpot interferes with the fight between Spider-Man and Menace, pulling Menace from her glider. However, as a result of this action, the glider slams into the rescued councilwoman, killing her. Menace blames Spider-Man for the woman's death and escapes. Jackpot blames herself, as does Spider-Man, as seen in his internal monologue. Still, he attempts to comfort her but Jackpot, who is distraught and angered by the experience, takes it all out on Spider-Man by pushing him away and storming off.

During the 2008 "Secret Invasion" storyline, Jackpot is libeled by Dexter Bennett, current owner of the Daily Bugle and endorser of a series of slanderous articles about her activity as a superhero after she accidentally attacks a meeting of pharmaceutical sales executives whose company has connections to Walter Declun.

Jackpot is furious when she discovers the articles and goes to the Daily Bugle, along with a publicity representative supplied by the Initiative. While there, the newspaper is attacked by a Super-Skrull, who is searching for Spider-Man, and who harbors all of the superhuman abilities of Spider-Man's adversaries the Lizard, Rhino, Electro, Hydro-Man, Sandman, and Venom, Jackpot battles Super-Skurll in order to allow the Bugle staff to escape, but she is then attacked by Menace. All three combatants are injured by the impact of Jackpot's personal glider vehicle, before Menace escapes. Jackpot defeats the Super-Skrull by freezing him to death inside a freezer.

While fighting Commanda and Blindside, Alana is pumped with the blindness serum used by Blindside to defeat his enemies. Spider-Man comes arrives and administers an antidote to Alana, restoring her vision, but the serum's interaction with the drugs that gave her superhuman powers, results in a fatal side effect in Alana, who dies shortly.

Sara Ehret reclaims the identity
Investigating Jackpot's identity, Spider-Man goes to what he believes is Jackpot's house only to find Sara Ehret, who tells him she is not the superheroine Jackpot (Alana Jobson), and sends Spider-Man away, saying he "really should keep out of this."

Later, Spider-Man, having already discovered the whole truth about Alana and Sara, goes to notify Sara about Alana's death, blaming Sara for evading her responsibilities and allowing the otherwise powerless and untrained Alana to go to her doom. Sara is left clutching Jackpot's costume, while Spider-Man walks away, after telling her that people with powers do not have a choice of giving up their responsibilities.

Distraught, Sara reclaims her heroic identity and later comes into conflict with Boomerang and, a new Rose, who learn her identity. Under Rose's orders, Boomerang tracks Sara down at her house and murders her husband in front of her and her daughter.

Sara gets revenge and unmasks the Rose, but is forced to change her, and her daughter's, identity, taking the name Alana Jobson.

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 * The Alana Jobson incarnation of Jackpot appears in A Marvel Christmas Carol and Marvel's Superhero Adventures: Infinity War (two Disney+ TV films which share continuity with Marvel's Spider-Man: Webbed Champion), voiced by Peyton List. This version is Max Modell's paternal niece, and a 23-year-old college student who (one year before Peter Parker became Spider-Man) earned her metahuman powers due to exposure to a Super-Soldier serum which was accidentally infused in her by Monica Rappaccini during a fight against Iron Man. Despite terrified with her condition, Alana became inspired to become Jackpot. Also as in the comics, she is a openly Lesbian young woman, but she is not attracted to Sara Ehret, and is instead romantically involved with Peter Parker's older cousin Jessica Reilly, who became Spider-Woman through similar circumstances. Living together in a townhouse, Jessica and Alana also raised Jenna (a genetically engineered child who was created by Raymond Warren with Jessica's and Alana's combined blood samples) as their own daughter. Along the years, Spider-Woman and Jackpot also formed a bond with several heroes who became their friends; those include Captain Marvel and She-Hulk, who became their respective mentors, as well as married superheroes Hulkling and Wiccan. Along with her powers and abilities from the comics, Jackpot also has photographic memory (similar to Captain America), and the ability to sense weak points (similar to the Inhuman Karnak).
 * Alana first makes a non-speaking appearance in A Marvel Christmas Carol, on which she along with Jessica and Jenna attend to a Christmas party being held on F.E.A.S.T., where her uncle Max is amusing children in his Santa Claus costume.
 * Alana / Jackpot makes her full major appearance as a main character in Marvel's Superhero Adventures: Infinity War. It is revealed that sometime after the superheroes defeated the Regent and his army from the Negative Zone (as depicted in the climax of the "Legendary Universes" arc), Spider-Woman, Jackpot, Hulkling and Wiccan joined the Avengers under Captain Marvel's request. They were also offered by Tyler Hayward a membership on his Thuderbolt Program, but they refused, critical of Hayward's use of metahumans (both heroes and villains) as living weapons for wars and battles they would not be expected to survive in. After the Thunderbolts were decimated by Thanos's armies, Jackpot accompanied Spider-Woman, Hulkling and Wiccan in searching for the Infinity Amulet before the Regent (who defected from the Thunderbolts to join Thanos's rising empire) did. Defeating the Regent, the four hid the Amulet to a safe place away from Thanos's sigh, and faked its destruction. Three months later, she and Jessica continue their superhero duties and their relationship after graduating from college, while making plans for their marriage, which is scheduled to be held on New Year's eve. After overhearing of Thanos's plans about the Infinity Stones, Spider-Woman and Jackpot are among the heroes who search for the remaining Infinity Stones before Thanos's Black Order members do. The two are selected to lead Thor, Anya Corazon / Spider-Girl, Wolverine, Drax the Destroyer, and Hulk on the search for the Reality Stone in Knowhere, where they clash with Taneleer Tivan the Collector, before a brainwashed Vulture and a pack of Klyntauri attack the city. She and the group manage to distract both villains enough for Cloak and Dagger to teleport Anya safely back to Earth with the Stone. After the Infinity Stones are placed back in the Amulet, Jackpot joins the heroes on Earth to hold down against the invading Klyntauri during the final battle while Jessica accompanies the others on a direct assault against Thanos himself in the Sanctuary X. Later in the epilogue, Alana marries Jessica in a ceremony attended by their friends and families, as well as their fellow heroes and Avengers. She is later seen watching the New Year fireworks during the wedding reception.
 * Alana / Jackpot also appears in the Disney+ sequel miniseries Marvel's All-Star Multiverse, voiced again by Peyton List. In the first episode "Return of the Legends", she and Jessica return from their week-long honeymoon (following their marriage in Superhero Adventures: Infinity War), and rejoin the Avengers on a mission to stop Thane. They put their daughter Jenna on the care of Peter Parker and his friends in the Horizon Star (where the Avengers' children were invited for a play-date), while Alana (as Jackpot), Jessica (as Spider-Woman) and their fellow Avengers work alongside Fantastic Four and Peter's partners from the Legendary Universes (Rey Skywalker, Sonic the Hedgehog, Leonardo, and Optimus Prime) to stop Thane.