In 2021, Marvel Strike Force developer Scopely announced Kestrel, the first all-original character in the massive roster of its hero-collecting mobile RPG, designed in collaboration with Marvel. Kestrel is the long-lost founder of STRIKE, the in-universe organization for which the game is named. Later in that same year, the studio revealed Deathpool, a second original character that imagined what a child of Deadpool and Death would look and act like. While Deathpool originated as a part of Deadpool's 30th anniversary, the studio's third original character comes as a result of Spider-Man's 60th anniversary.
«With Spider-Man's 60th anniversary happening, Marvel came to us and they asked us, 'Hey, could you come up with a new, original Spider-Verse character?' – no pressure there,» Marvel Strike Force creative director Sean Dugan says with a chuckle. «There's this big responsibility because not only is it a Spider-Verse character, it's a Marvel character. So how do you come up with something that is new, fresh, innovative, something you haven't seen before in the Spider-Verse? So our team started gathering ideas and one of the things that came up was the notion of this Navajo figure, the Spider Woman Na'ashjeii Asdzáá.»
Scopely has revealed, exclusively through Game Informer, that Spider-Weaver is the third original character coming to Marvel Strike Force as a part of a new Tangled Web team, which also features other new additions, Spider-Man (2099) and Spider-Man (Noir). Scopely is intentionally leaving this new team as a trio, allowing players to figure out who works best in the fourth and fifth spots.
«Tangled Web is going to be the new force in Cosmic Crucible, our PvP game mode,» Dugan says. «They're going to be a
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