Anya Corazon

Anya Sofia Corazon is a fictional Latina (half Puerto Rican, half Mexican) superheroine appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She initially went by the pseudonym Araña, but later changed to using Spider-Girl.

Origins
On her first day at Milton Summers High School in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, Anya Corazon was caught in a skirmish between two mystical clans called The Spider Society and the Sisterhood of the Wasp, and was mortally wounded. To save her life, Miguel, a mage from the Spider Society, performed a ritual on her by giving her a spider-shaped tattoo that endowed her with spider-like powers, and recruited her to be a Hunter for the Society. WebCorps offered Araña various costumes, but Araña decided to make her own costume. She designed a costume with red and blue sneakers, blue track pants, red backpack, red gloves with many pockets, and large yellow-lensed goggles. As part of her powers an insectoid exoskeleton covered most of her body with a bug-like bluish skin. In place of equipment like web-shooters or spider tracers, Araña created her own modified bolas out of discs which are about the size of her palm and have eight red legs able to grip objects. Araña fought a Hunter from The Sisterhood of the Wasp, adversaries of the Spider Society.

Heart of the Spider
While interrogating a spy for the Sisterhood of the Wasp, Anya and Miguel discovered that the Sisterhood has recruited a fifteen-year-old boy codenamed Amun, a descendant of Egyptian assassins who believed he was skilled enough that he does not need to conceal his identity. Anya soon met Amun, who has enrolled at her school under the name Jon Kasiya. The two soon deduced the other's dual identity.

Later, during a fight with Anya, Miguel, and the Sisterhood, Amun told her that he would attack her loved ones if she opposed him. Noting her father was filming the fight, Anya took him to safety. In her absence, Amun seriously wounds0ed Miguel. The encounter left Anya doubting her duty due to the danger it posed to her loved ones. However, in a chance encounter, Spider-Man arrived and, after discussing her origins and adventures, told her, "With great power comes great responsibility" and that in every age, people are called to be heroes.

Soon afterwards, Anya fought Amun and, in anger, nearly strangled him to death. She was stopped by Ted, who told Amun to run. Ted told her that she had released "the Spirit of the Hunter" and warned her not to do it again without Miguel with her. Back at WebCorps, Miguel was revived upon being reunited with Anya, and he told her the history of the organization which would eventually split into Wasps and Spiders.

After an encounter with a gunman in a coffee shop, in which Anya saved Lynn and Amun without revealing her secret identity, Amun promised to respect her double life and to stop targeting her friends and family.

As Araña
Araña originally possessed superhuman strength (able to lift three tons), speed, stamina, reflexes/reactions, agility, coordination, balance, and endurance. She had the ability to cling to walls, and to sprout a spider-like exoskeleton around her body which enhanced these abilities and protected her from damage. When her exoskeleton was ripped out by Doomsday Man, she retained her primary powers. Araña invented spider-like grappling hooks, which she uses to swing from buildings and as whip-like weapons, though she has found these to be harder to use since losing her abilities.

As Spider-Girl
In an interview with Newsarama, writer Paul Tobin stated that as Spider-Girl, the character initially lacks superpowers, but Tobin will be "staying away from having her feel crippled by any power loss; it's for sure on her mind, but Anya is a character that wants to focus on what she can do." Tobin revealed that she regains her powers in the "Spider-Island" storyline. Jackal copies Spider-Man's powers into the entire non-superhuman population of New York, including Anya. Anya submits to the mass cure, but retains her copy of Spider-Man's powers nonetheless.