A protege child born with autism, Pedro, at an early age, was able to look at complex formulas and problems and find the solutions within minutes. At the age of five, Pedro's madre, an overachieving, workaholic, business executive was considered the greatest corporate "assassin" on the continent. Specializing in corporate espionage among pharmacological manufacturing corporations, Slādé Kaine taught her gifted hijo at home to be the best he could be and to be ruthless in his process.

Pedro's madre used non-approved psychotropic drugs in order to shape her hijo to do her will. When Pedro turned ten years old, he had already been tested and proven to be at the high school senior level in mathematics and science. His mamá, seeing an opportunity, used her drugged hijo to manipulate data and codes to allow her easier access to company secrets. This activity was red flagged by the government who stepped in and arrested them both, placing Pedro in juvenile hall before sending him to live with his tía, Maia, a genetic scientist studying animals.

Pedro quickly became interested in the study of genetics, and especially in unlocking the codes necessary to pass animal abilities onto human subjects.

At the age of nineteen, Pedro had become a scientific genius who had spent his young life studying how to use the abilities of spiders and bats for the good of mankind...and a profit for the company, Osborn Industries. When the investors started to pull away, he made a gamble and injected himself with the test serum being developed for the military to improve night vision, hearing, and agility in soldiers. The serum worked far more than even he believed, and he became altered.

Today, young Muraña uses his intellect at his new day-job, working at the Ciudad de México branch of the Reeds Research Institute, and his powers to patrol the vast metropolis at night, becoming a terror to criminals while the President of the new Imperio Mexicano Unido, Juan Jonás "J.J." Arrendahijo seeks to capture him in hopes of coercing him to be a tool for the Imperio Mexicano Unido.

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Spider Physiology:

Muraña possesses the proportionate powers of a Nephila spider (Trichonephila inaurata) and an Eastern Red Bat (Lasiurus borealis). The radioactive, complex mutagenic enzymes in the serum that was transferred at the time of the injection triggered numerous body-wide mutagenic changes within Muraña, granting him superhuman strength, speed, toughened flesh, and numerous bat and arachnid-like abilities. That mutation granted him an "enhanced chromosome pattern."

Contaminant Immunity: Due to his accelerated metabolism, Muraña has a higher tolerance for drugs and diseases than normal humans now, and he can recover from the effects of larger doses rapidly. During one encounter with Swarm Mother Muraña was incapacitated by thousands of bee stings but recovered in less than 24 hours. His resistance and recovery time to other toxins and diseases varies, but is typically significantly higher than normal. Muraña's unique physiology even allowed him to recover from the effects of vampirism as stated by Almaeisha Almawt, his radioactive blood would kill the enzymes responsible for his transformation and revert him to normal. Muraña was able to recover completely from acid being spat into his eyes by Scavenger although the extent of the damage may have been restricted due to his superhuman durability; however, Muraña has the normal human tolerance for alcoholic beverages.

Dexterity: Enhanced: Muraña's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are all enhanced to levels that are far beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete. Muraña is extraordinarily limber, and his tendons and connective tissues are twice as elastic as the average human being despite their physical strength. He has the combined agility and acrobatic prowess of the most accomplished circus aerialists and acrobats. He can also perform any complicated sequence of gymnastic stunts such as flips, rolls, and springs. He can easily match or top any Olympic record at gymnastics apparatus such as flying rings, climbing ropes, horizontal bars, trampolines, and even comparable to the likes of Hellion.

_____Equilibrium: Superhuman: Muraña possesses the ability to achieve a state of perfect equilibrium in any position imaginable. He seems able to adjust his position by instinct, which enables him to balance himself on virtually any object, no matter how small or narrow.

Durability: Limited Regeneration: Muraña's body is physically tougher and more resistant to some types of injury than the body of a normal human. His body is more resistant to impact forces than anything else. He can withstand great impacts, such as falling from a height of several stories or being struck by an opponent with super-strength. Events which would severely injure or kill a normal human, leave him with little to no discomfort. In the past, he has survived multiple blows from the likes of Wrath, as well as surviving a point-blank missile explosion. Muraña's body is durable to the point where tensing his super-strong muscles while being punched in the torso by a trained heavyweight boxer caused the attacker's wrists to break. Muraña has stated that he must roll with punches thrown by people without similar strength or durability, in order to avoid breaking their wrists. Muraña is durable enough to survive getting beaten down by Ironclad. His arm was strong enough to block Silverstreak while the speedster was in motion.

_____Limited Regeneration: Muraña can rapidly heal and regenerate from harm faster and more extensively than normal humans are capable. After getting his powers, he soon found that his eyesight was repaired, discarding his glasses. During one encounter, Muraña was rendered completely blind. However, after about two hours, his sight was perfect, albeit sensitive for nearly an hour after. He also healed a broken arm, in just one night. And, in his encounter with Fusion Burn, Muraña suffered severe third-degree burns, but completely recovered in a little over two days. Although, he privately admitted that he cannot heal "Robinpool-quick." Despite all these feats, Muraña himself does not consider he has a healing factor.

Reflexes: Predictive: Muraña's reflexes are similarly enhanced and are currently about forty times greater than those of an ordinary human. In combination with his Passive Sonar, the speed of his reflexes allows him to dodge almost any attack, or even gunfire, given sufficient distance. Muraña has even been shown in some cases, to be able to dodge gunfire using just his reflexes without his Passive Sonar.

_____Passive Sonar: Muraña possesses a precognitive danger or "passive sonar" which warns him of potential or immediate danger by the manifestation of a tingling sensation in the back of his skull, and links with his superhuman kinesthetics, enabling him to evade most any injuries unless he cognitively overrides his automatic reflexes. The precise nature of this sense is unknown. It appears to be a simultaneous clairvoyant response to a wide variety of phenomena (everything from falling safes to speeding bullets to thrown punches), which has given several hundredths of a second warning, sufficient time for his reflexes to allow him to avoid injury. The sense also can create a general response on the order of several minutes: he cannot discern the nature of the threat by the sensation. He can, however, discern the severity of the danger by the strength of his response to it. Muraña's Passive Sonar is directional and can guide him to or away from hidden weapons and enemies. Sudden and extreme threats can cause his Passive Sonar to react with painful intensity. Muraña can also sense, and dodge attacks directed randomly or by artificial intelligence. Using his Passive Sonar to time his enhanced reflexes, Muraña can casually dodge attacks up to and including automatic-weapons fire, provided there is sufficient distance. His Passive Sonar is sufficiently well-linked to his reflexes to the point that a threat can trigger them even when Muraña is asleep or stunned. His Passive Sonar has helped him preserve his secret identity since it alerts him to observers or cameras when changing into or out of his costume. The Passive Sonar does react to those who Pedro does not consider to be a threat, such as Tía Maia, or when a fellow hero makes a bluff while playing poker. Muraña can choose to ignore his Passive Sonar, and distraction or fatigue diminishes its effectiveness. Muraña's fighting style incorporates the advantage that his Passive Sonar provides him. His body begins to produce more adrenaline after the sense is triggered, an extension of the "fight or flight syndrome." Even when he does not have the use of his eyes, Muraña can still use his Passive Sonar in a similar fashion to Hellion's Radar Sense to help him see by sensing the direction the danger is coming from by listening on the loudest noise around him. This was first used after Muraña was temporarily blinded by a device, but was recently used again to help locate Scavenger after his acidic breath blinded him.

_____Radio Frequency Detection: Pedro's Passive Sonar also enables him to track certain radio frequencies, which he has used to his advantage by creating tracers for tracking vehicles.

Speed: Land: Subsonic: Muraña is capable of running and moving at speeds that are far beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete. Muraña is fast enough to catch up to an accelerating car while on foot, but prefers to travel by webs. Muraña moves faster than the eye can follow, he has even moved so fast he appears as a blur. Muraña was able to easily outrun multiple enemies on gliders, and outmaneuver their ranged attacks at the same time. In close combat, he was even able to dodge an all-out assault from Sabrestrike for an extended period of time.

Stamina: Alt-Enhanced: Muraña's advanced musculature produces fewer fatigue toxins during physical activity than an ordinary human. This allows him to exert himself physically for much longer periods of time before fatigue begins to impair him. At his peak, Muraña can physically exert himself at his peak capacity for several hours before the build-up of fatigue toxins in his blood begins to impair him. Several accounts depict Muraña as able to hold his breath for eight minutes or more.

Strength: Level-10: Muraña possesses superhuman strength enabling him to press lift many tons. He was shown to easily swing a 3-ton wrecking ball using steel chains. Muraña's physical strength is sufficient enough to enable him to lift and throw objects as heavy as a big rig semi-truck with ease. He must also pull his punches and kicks unless fighting someone of similar or greater physical durability. Otherwise, his blows would prove fatal to a normal human being. He has demonstrated that he is strong enough to knock out people with normal durability with as little as a tap to the head. As such, he rarely lets himself use all of his strength. Muraña's physical strength also extends into his legs, enabling him to be able to jump to a height of several stories in a single bound. Muraña demonstrated this when he leaped over thirty feet vertically into the air when he first leaped out of the way of an oncoming car.

Wall-Crawling: Muraña's mutated chromosome pattern induced a mutagenic, cerebellum-wide alteration of his engrams resulting in the ability to mentally control the flux of interatomic attraction (electrostatic force) between molecular boundary layers. This overcomes the outer electron shell's normal behavior of mutual repulsion with other outer electron shells and permits the tremendous potential for electron attraction to prevail. The mentally controlled sub-atomic particle responsible for this has yet to be identified. This ability to affect the attraction between surfaces is so far limited to Muraña's body (especially concentrated in his hands and feet) and another object, with an upper limit of several tons per finger. At one point, Muraña was able to prevent Éadóchas from taking his mask off by making it stick to his face.

Muraña has also shown the ability to use his wall-crawling abilities in a more offensive manner, by making his fingertips cling to an opponent's face and tearing them away, digging five deep wounds in their face. Despite the obvious offensive potential of such an ability, Muraña claims that it is unlikely he will use it, as it is a move born out of anger and desperation. He has also been able to use this ability to rip armor off of opponents, piece by piece. Limits to this ability seem to be psychosomatic, and the full nature of this ability has yet to be established.

Outside of his Gifts granted to him by his physiology, Muraña also has the following Gifts/Abilities:

Acrobatics

Fighting: Enhanced: Muraña is schooled in all known and many unknown assassin techniques such as pressure points, killing techniques and stealth to name a few. Due to his lifelong training, Muraña has a master level knowledge of all fighting arts known and unknown and continues to learn with every new opponent he faces. He was trained by his madre, Slādé Kaine. Upon taking the codename Muraña, he was trained further by Vigilante and Fibre. He has also invented her own styles and techniques. His methods are volatile, enabling him to rival practically all types of combatants. Some fighting techniques he knows include:

_____Dragon Style Kung Fu

_____The Dragon Sting Technique: A nerve pinch invented by O-Sensei in the 16^th Century. Pedro, his madre and Vigilante are the only people who know how to use it.

Indomitable Will: Muraña has a strong force of will, completely free of evil and temptation. For years, he has struggled to overcome his forced-addiction on psychotropic drugs by his madre. He is able to emerge from defeat even stronger. Through the psychological profiles conducted by Doctor Day, she has stated that nobody has as strong an ingrained identity as Muraña, further demonstrating the extent of his willpower.

Intelligence: Extraordinary Genius: Pedro Kaine possesses a natural talent for science, standing out as a top employee at Osborn Industries and now at Reeds Research Institute. He developed inventions such as his Web-Shooters and his signature web formula, and the Beta-wave Amplitude Trackers (B.A.T.'s) he is still developing. Pedro's intellect has earned him a place among the think tank Reeds Research Institute, as well as an acknowledgement by some of the Eden's most brilliant minds. In addition, Pedro's college IQ scores were the same as those posted by Michael Reed at the same age. At present, Pedro Kaine's official IQ is 251.

_____Expert Inventor/Engineer: With his knowledge and expertise in mechanics, robotics and engineering Pedro has been able to use his amazing intellect and resources at Reeds Research Institute to create many inventions such as his famous Web-Shooters and the noise reduction implants.

_____Multilingual: In addition to speaking Spanish and English, Pedro has also learned Mandarin.

Master Acrobat: Thanks to his great strength and phenomenal equilibrium, Pedro is an excellent athlete, excelling in all gymnastic fields and being able to perform every acrobatic stunt ever performed, including others that can never be performed by even an Olympic acrobat.

Precognition/Body Reading Ability: Pedro has the advanced ability to read body language enabling him to read what people are thinking and tell what they are going to do next before they do it. He has been shown able to read opponents far faster than himself, along with non-humans and even alien lifeforms once he is given a chance to learn their body language. This enables him to identify disguised and transformed people as well.

Skilled Photographer: Pedro is a very skilled photographer and enjoys taking pictures whenever he is on a date with his partner, Jonás Acosar.

Stealth: Due to his excessive training and abilities he is also a master of stealth.

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Web-Shooters: Pedro's brilliance at physical science allowed him to create web-shooters for use when he became Muraña. The twin devices worn on his wrists can shoot thin strands of a special "web fluid" at high pressure.

Web Fluid: A shear-thinning liquid, virtually solid until a shearing force is applied to it, rendering it fluid; whose exact formula remains unknown, but is rumored to be related to nylon. The web line's tensile strength is estimated to be 750 pounds per square millimeter of cross section.

Utility Belt: Muraña keeps a utility belt holding extra web cartridges.

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Autistic: Pedro has autism. He's able to solve complex equations with a glance but is uncomfortable in social situations and large crowds.

Ethyl Chloride: Perhaps as a side effect of gaining his powers, Muraña is susceptible to the pesticide ethyl chloride.

Mental Suggestion: He is vulnerable to mental suggestions via some foreign narcotics, particularly psychotropics.

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Hidden Personality: When Pedro puts on his Muraña costume his personality opens up and he becomes a fast-talking wise-ass, spouting "Dad Jokes" as he engages criminals.

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Alter-Ego: His superhero name is from "bat" and "spider" in Spanish (murciélago and araña) combined.

Birthday: Pedro's birthday is January 26^th.

Chemical Imbalance: He possesses high levels of serotonin.

Eyes: One of his physical changes after being injected with the serum, was his eyes. They metamorphed and now are multi-faceted. This allows him to track movement in more than one direction, but also leaves him sensitive to bright lights.

Favorite Drink: His favorite tea is Assam.

Favorite Flavor: His favorite flavor of ice cream is chocolate.

Favorite Flower: He tends to his roses around his apartment.

First Kiss: Pedro's first kiss was Isuma Juarez.

First Word: His first spoken word was "Stop".

Partnership: Pedro has told only one person about his powers and masked persona; his life-partner, Jonás Acosar.

Phone Number: His work phone number is 1-877-764-2539 then press 6.

Voice: If the Amalgam Universe 2.0 were to become a cartoon, the voice of Muraña should be Lionel Messi.