MADAME SWARM
Earth-90214
Real Name: (first name unrevealed) Sturm
Identity/Class: Alternate reality
(Earth-90214) human mutate (World War II era) (German)
Occupation: Scientist
Group Membership: The Nazi Party (Adolf Hitler, others)
Affiliations: The Nazi Party (Adolf Hitler, others), Ox
Enemies: Spider-Man (Miles Morales
of Earth-1610), Spider-Man (Peter Parker)
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Manhattan, New
York, USA;
formerly Germany
First Appearance: Spider-Verse III#5 (April, 2020)
Powers/Abilities: Madame Swarm had an insect-like body with large insectoid eyes and small mandible-like growths on her chin. She also possessed insect-like wings capable of flight and claws fingers and toes.
She could mentally control and
command swarms of bees.
Height: Unrevealed (approximately 6'0")
Weight: Unrevealed (approximately 157 lbs.)
Eyes: (pre-transformation) blue; (post-transformation) red
Hair: Black
History:
(Spider-Verse III#5 (fb) - BTS) - In 1933, Madame Sturm was a scientist
serving the Nazi Third Reich. Shortly after the death of the mobster
Goblin, his enforcers Ox and Montana grabbed an ancient idol of the
Spider-God from the scene of Osborn's death and attempted to sell it,
eventually passing it over to Madame Sturm for Adolf Hitler himself.
(Spider-Verse III#5) -
Hooking some of her machinery to the idol, Sturm read the power levels
emanating from the Spider-God idol and opted to find away to have the
idol serve the Third Reich. After learning from Earth-1610's Spider-Man
(Miles Morales) that the Great Web of Life and Destiny was sick and
could possibly be healed by the Spider-God idol from which the spider
that gave him superhuman powers emerged, Earth-90214's Spider-Man opted
to help Spider-Man-1610 track down the idol and they eventually
interrogated Ox, who revealed that he had sold the idol to Sturm and
that she had a hideout right over the bridge. Racing over towards the
bridge, both Spider-Men witnessed a Nazi blimp flying over Manhattan to
meet with Sturm. The Nazis soon emerged from the blimp and yelled for
Sturm, who informed them she was in the greenhouse. The Nazis demanded
Sturm turn over the idol but when they ventured into the greenhouse,
they found Sturm inside a machine filled with bees that was being
powered by the idol. Announcing her plans to combine the idol's totemic
energies with her own scientific knowledge to become a god empowered by
bees, her insect of choice, Sturm activated the machine but the Nazis,
thinking Sturm mad, snatched the idol from the machine. The Nazis were
quickly defeated by the arriving Spider-Men and the machine soon
exploded, revealing a transformed Sturm, who proclaimed herself Madame
Swarm.
Madame Swarm immediately sent her
bees after the two heroes. Spider-Man-90214 attempted the hold the bees
at bay with webbing but the bees easily shredded his webbing, prompting
Spider-Man-1610 to lure Swarm outside the greenhouse, where she
absorbed more bees and grew larger. Noticing that Madame Swarm was
flying near the Nazi blimp full of hydrogen, Spider-Man-90214 asked if
Spider-Man-1610 could project a massive venom blast. After
Spider-Man-90214 confirmed that there was no one onboard the blimp,
Spider-Man-1610 successfully fired a massive venom blast that blew up
the blimp, effectively destroying Madame Swarm and her bees in the
process.
Comments: Created by Christos Gage and Juan Ferreyra.
Despite being seemingly destroyed by the blimp explosion, Madame Swarm could possibly reform herself entirely out of bees much in the way that Earth-616's Swarm often does. I doubt we've seen the last of her...
All characters in this profile are
from Earth-90214 except where noted otherwise.
Profile by Proto-Man.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Earth-90214's Madame Swarm should be
distinguished from:
Appearances:
Spider-Verse III#5 (April, 2020) - Christos Gage (writer), Juan
Ferreyra (art), Devin Lewis (editor)
First posted: 10/31/2025
Last updated: 10/31/2025
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