Madame Web(2024)

Submitted by Jeremy

Cassandra “Cassie” Webb (Dakota Johnson)is a medic living in Queens by herself. After an accident on the job where Cassie falls off a bridge while inside a car, long dormant powers within her awaken, allowing her to see visions of the future. She slowly learns that she can control and alter certain visions from happening.

A villain named Ezekiel Sims (Tahar Rahim), empowered by a rare spider, also sees visions of three teenagers – Julia Cornwall, Anya Corazon, and Mattie Franklin (Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced, and Celeste O’Connor) – who will develop spider powers and kill him. He hunts them down, but Cassie intervenes and saves them. While they think she’s crazy at first, they realize Sims is a threat and they follow Cassie, evading the villain more than once.

Cassie learns that Sims worked with her mother Constance in the Peruvian Amazon looking for the rare spider to cure a condition that Cassie was at risk to be born with. Sims stole the spider after killing Constance and her team, but a tribe called Las Arañas, who also possess spider powers, had the rare spider bite Constance and pass the powers down to Cassie. After realizing her destiny, Cassie returns home.

Cassie leaves the girls with her coworker Ben Parker (Uncle Ben), who has to drive his sister in law Mary to the hospital for the birth of her baby along with the girls. Sims goes after them but Cassie saves them and brings them to a warehouse where the showdown takes place. Cassie uses her powers to protect the girls and sends Sims falling to his doom before he is crushed to death. Cassie also suffers a serious injury where she is blinded and paralyzed from the waist down.

Although Cassie is now crippled, she adopts Julia, Anya, and Mattie since they have nowhere else to go. She tells them she has seen a vision of them becoming superheroes. Oh, and Mary gives birth to a son (whose name isn’t spoken but it’s obviously Peter).