The live-blogger, Super Villain Screwball has made a name of herself on the world wide web and beyond. While she is an internet celebrity, she also possesses cunning to manipulate her audience, and even Super Heroes, into getting the attention she seeks.
Criminal Entertainer
Screwball is a relatively recent New York criminal who specializes in recording her crimes and broadcasting them live over the Internet. Trained in parkour, Screwball performs her crimes with aplomb, using smart quips to endear herself to her audience. On one of her crimes, Screwball held up an off-track betting parlor. While escaping with the money, Screwball was pursued by Peter Parker, AKA Spider-Man, who foiled her escape when he planted one of his spider-tracers on her. Aware of the string of deaths committed by the “spider-tracer killer,” Screwball frantically dislodged the device and surrendered herself to the police.
Parkour Expert
Screwball is an adept traceur, i.e. a practitioner in the discipline of parkour, the art of swiftly moving through an environment. She is an all-around excellent gymnast as well.
As for gear, Screwball wears a protective crash helmet and maintains a hidden web camera to record her crimes for her followers.
Trolls
Spider-Man often gets the best of Screwball though she often evades him with her Parkour skills. When her subscriber numbers go up any time they have a tussle, she feeds the demand and challenges him to fight though it leads to her defeat.
Super Villain Alliances
While Screwball is typically a one-woman show, she teams up with Mad Hacker to trick her audience into thinking a kidnapped child is in danger, and in so doing has Spider-Man help her. When the child turns out to be her first cousin once removed, James, she breaks her deal with Mad Hacker and denies him access to his payout.
She joins Doctor Otto Octavius, AKA Doctor Octopus, in helping him track down Norman Osborn, AKA Green Goblin’s newborn baby, who may have the cure for his illness, though is defeated by Spider-Man. He later attempts to control her mind.
Criminal Score Card
Shortly after, Screwball’s bail was posted by Johnny Ladue, AKA Bookie. In exchange for his aid, Screwball agreed to dress up as Spider-Man and put in an appearance against an obscure villain called the Basher. However, the plan imploded when the real Spider-Man also put in an appearance. Screwball fled, but Spider-Man captured and unmasked her. Cornered, Screwball confessed to the swindle and directed Spider-Man to the Bar With No Name where she was supposed to have met up with the Bookie. Screwball was then set free.
Later, Screwball arranged a mock battle with the Mad Hacker, a hired criminal who took a child hostage. Screwball teamed up with Spider-Man to defeat the Mad Hacker, but afterward reprimanded the Hacker for choosing her cousin's son, James, as his hostage.
Once Spider-Man caught up with her after she stole 10 million dollars’ worth of bearer bonds from an investment firm. By this time, Screwball installed a camera in her helmet to record her nefarious exploits. Their fight, which results in Screwball getting away, went viral to Screwball’s benefit who saw her site’s hits shoot up 85 percent, more traffic than she could get for the M.O.D.O.K. cosplay that she once did. She then hacked into New York’s cab fleet entertainment system, and in so doing, called Spider-Man out to fight. Screwball was then lured to a confrontation, unaware that she was only a distraction, and when Spider-Man showed up, he knocked her out.
Screwball later joined Doctor Octopus’s Super Villain team to go after Green Goblin’s newborn baby who he thought could cure him of his illness. Though when Spider-Man was led to believe the infant had died by another villain, his rage drove him down on a path to take out every villain involved and when the villain Norton G. Fester, AKA Looter, caught up with Screwball to warn her, it was too late and she was taken out.
Though Screwball always seems to land a get out of jail free card, she found herself being chased down by Anya Corazon, AKA Spider-Girl, for attempting to steal Han Dynasty figurines from the Met. Spider-Girl disabled her cameraman, and Screwball was again arrested. After this blunder, she somehow managed to land exclusive streaming rights in Las Vegas with Arcade, who also trained her with the exchange that she does his bidding. She helped him manage his Murderworld, a contest game pitting celebrities and heroes against one another and Screwball eventually battled Elektra Natchios, AKA Elektra, and defeated her. She later joined with Jester in a prank against J. Jonah Jameson, though Spider-Man defeated her once again, but this time his mind was under the control of Doctor Octopus.
