Insect-Woman

"Sorry, Wendy's too scared to answer... so you're stuck here with me. Excellent." -Insect-Woman about to fight the cyborg Jack Torrance.

Insect-Woman aka Wendy Torrance is a main character who appears in various titles in the HydroVerse series of comics and is one of the "main three", she was a simple woman who loved her family, especially her son Danny. They all stayed at a hotel known as the Overlook Hotel, where the husband Jack went crazy and attempted to kill Wendy and Danny.

Wendy managed to fight back using a baseball bat. Since then, Wendy has become over-protective of her son and had to take medication for it. The doctor who was treating her then suddenly injected her with spliced insect DNA, causing an alter-ego to manifest within Wendy's mind into what would come to be known as Insect-Woman.

Insect-Woman is a character created by TimeWaster98.

Appearance
Insect-Woman is female in appearance, and sports black hair and purple illuminated sections all over her body. She possesses a dark blue-skinned face with deep purple eyes along with multiple spiked protrusions covering her body. She also sports bio-organic armoured plating around most of her body and two giant, spiked tendrils coming out of her back. Her hands possess long black claws, and her feet are covered in bio-organic plating that resemble high-heels.

Early Life
In the 1990s Wendy Duvall was a simple woman who met and fell in love with a plumber named Jack Torrance, she eventually became pregnant and went into labour early whilst on the way to the hospital. Wendy gave birth to her son Danny and eventually married Jack afterwards. The couple struggled for a few years however and eventually moved into the Overlook Hotel as Jack got a job there, but he eventually went insane and attempted to kill Wendy and Danny but it ended with the insane man being bludgeoned to death by Wendy using a baseball bat.

After the Overlook Hotel was destroyed when the boiler exploded, Wendy and her son Danny are forced to live in a newly rebuilt Overlook Memorial Hotel due to being homeless.

Birth of Insect-Woman
Due to the traumatic events of her husband attempting to murder her and her son Danny, Wendy developed severe PTSD and also became overprotective over Danny. Wendy would get frequent visits from her dead husband Jack, who taunted her whilst brandishing an axe which caused more suffering for Wendy.

Wendy eventually turned to taking medication for her PTSD by a very helpful doctor, only that doctor turned out to be a wanted criminal who specialised in experimentation on humans.

This doctor suddenly injected Wendy with mixed insect DNA, the serum manifested due to her past trauma into a very cruel alter-ego known as Insect-Woman. The first transformation into Insect-Woman happened one night, the creature escaped out into the night and took refuge inside of an abandoned warehouse. Inside, Insect-Woman attacked some members of the Downpour Crime Syndicate who decided to hide there.

After this event, Insect-Woman reverted back into Wendy and she woke up on the rainy streets of Downpour City and noticed her veins were glowing purple, Wendy later learnt that the police had taken Danny to his aunt Susan's after she had vanished.

Attack on Overlook
Whilst living in the Overlook Memorial Hotel, Wendy would get worried if her son Danny went out to get a snack from the vending machine but her son would try and reassure her. During her son's journey, Wendy suddenly began to transform into Insect-Woman again and began attacking people inside the hotel.Making his way back, Danny looked through a door and came face-to-face with his monstrous mother who wanted more blood. Danny ran into the hotel lobby frantically and tried to warn people about the monster he just saw. No one batted an eye. Insect-Woman then made her way into the lobby and slaughtered everyone inside. Suddenly, Jack's ghost appeared and attempted to talk to Danny. Insect-Woman dropped in front of Jack. Insect-Woman ordered the ghost to leave, Jack did so. Insect-Woman turned her head to look at Danny, his aunt Susan then entered and became horrified at the carnage she had discovered. Insect-Woman then disappeared and Danny left the hotel with Susan.

Redemption
Sometime after she attacked the Overlook Memorial Hotel, Wendy had travelled to an unknown area during a blizzard hoping to find refuge somewhere but she was unknowingly being tracked down by the top secret organization known as Corvus. A squad of Corvus agents lead by a woman called Jin ambushed her inside a building, they the proceeded to capture her.

Wendy is taken by Corvus to their research building under command from a cruel man named Dr. Newman and placed inside a small room, it then turns out that her son Danny, who was also captured, has been placed inside the same room. Wendy and Danny reunite a horrific creature referred to as a Skelinsect crawls out of a bath inside the room.

With both Danny and herself in danger, Wendy decides that the only way to save them both is to transform into Insect-Woman.

After telling her son to get to a safe distance, Wendy transforms into Insect-Woman and does battle with the Skelinsect. The ensuing battle results in both Insect-Woman and the creature breaking out of the containment room which allows Danny to sneak out, both Insect-Woman and the Skelinsect are both taken out by a Corvus agent using a taser gun.Insect-Woman reverts back into Wendy and is captured by Jin who suspends Wendy above a meat grinding machine with ropes, in desperation Wendy tries to transform into Insect-Woman again.

Danny then sees his mother in trouble, he then points a shotgun he took from a downed Corvus agent and manages to shoot Jin in her side. Danny delivers another shot which breaks through the ropes attached to Wendy, she falls onto a platform and transforms.

Jin chases Danny outside of the research building and onto some docks, Insect-Woman follows and does battle with Jin who reveals her negative energy abilities. Insect-Woman manages to use her spiked appendages to impale Jin through both her stomach and head. Instead of killing Danny, Insect-Woman advises him to take a small boat and escape the area as she wishes to part ways. Insect-Woman bids Farwell to the brave child as he moves out to sea.

Encountering Hydro-Girl
Insect-Woman was, at some point, captured a second time by Corvus under the orders of multi-millionaire Dennis Schrader and kept inside a containment cell next to Hydro-Girl who was also captured, but Hydro-Girl managed to escape and Insect-Woman soon followed by using her hypnotic stare to force a Corvus agent to set her free. Insect-Woman later targeted Hydro-Girl, seeing her as a threat to her plans to become a figure of authority.

Insect-Woman manages to find Hydro-Girl wandering in Stylite Park and attacks her, using her sharp appendages as a means of assault.The insectoid manages to pin Hydro-Girl with a tree trunk, indicating that she is much stronger. Due to recently losing her dearest friend Kevin, Hydro-Girl's anger helped her fend off Insect-Woman and go into hiding as she was in no mood to fight.

Travelling to a spacious area of Stylite Park, Insect-Woman finds herself surrounded by Corvus agents and manages to dispatch a few of them before getting tased and captured by the alien Korg. Insect-Woman is placed in a containment cell inside Dennis Schrader's building with Korg deciding to go after Hydro-Girl next who has just entered Downpour. Hydro-Girl manages to escape containment and chase after Dennis Schrader, this gives Insect-Woman enough time to break out herself. As Dennis Schrader fights Hydro-Girl atop his building, Insect-Woman encounters Mecha-Girl, a robotic version of Hydro-Girl, and the two get into a very brief fight that ends with Insect-Woman impaling Mecha-Girl through her vital circuitry.

Insect-Woman then makes her way to the roof where Hydro-Girl is and the two get into a second fight as Korg fuses a bunch of scrap into a massive mechanical worm-like creation using the powerful Sikring of Control.

Hydro-Girl gets the upper hand on Insect-Woman and notices the giant device, she proposes that she and Insect-Woman work together. Insect-Woman reluctantly agrees. Both Insect-Woman and Hydro-Girl leap onto the massive mechanical worm and decide on what to do, Insect-Woman finds an opening into the interior of the worm whilst Hydro-Girl goes to the front section.

Together, they take down the massive worm and it crashes into a nearby airport. The stubborn Korg then uses his Sikring to fuse together a mech as a last ditch effort to kill the two.

Hydro-Girl is taken down pretty quick so Insect-Woman attempts to jump the robot, she is struck back into the ground by Korg. Korg then attempts to use the robot's plasma cannon to finish her off, Hydro-Girl uses her bubble shield to block the blast but Insect-Woman insists she does not need help.

Hydro-Girl manages to damage the robot extensively, Insect-Woman then jumps upwards and impales both her spiked appendages into the robot's eyes, causing the robot to then explode, finally defeating the alien.

As Insect-Woman retrieves the Sikring of Control, Korg manages to crawl from a fire pit and mock both Hydro-Girl and Insect-Woman. Insect-Woman uses one of her appendages to strike the ground near Korg, making him lose his grip and fall back into the pit of fire where he then burns to death.

Before they part ways, both Hydro-Girl and Insect-Woman commemorate each other with Insect-Woman being quite cold about it.

Mother vs. Son #1
A few years after the battle with Korg, Wendy was abducted by Darkstar Corporation and injected with an unknown serum that helped oppress Insect-Woman but it also made her into a valuable foot soldier for Darkstar. When Danny infiltrated the Darkstar facility in an attempt to steal the Luciferax, Wendy tases him and straps him to a suspended table before revealing herself.

Danny tries to reason with his mother, but she doesn't listen to him and activates a laser that knocks Danny out once more. Wendy then takes the Luciferax and travels to Devil's Island via Darkstar carrier so she can stop the demon Vortak from rising out of the volcano.

Danny and his accomplice, Shadow, who both hitched a ride on the same carrier manage to get past Darkstar forces so that Danny can be the one to use the Luciferax in order to free Shadow from being imprisoned in Stylite Park forever.

On the side of the volcano, Danny confronts his mother Wendy and demands her to hand over the Luciferax. At first Wendy declines, believing it is her duty to kill Vortak but Danny argues that it is his destiny.

Wendy eventually hands over the Luciferax and watches as her son uses the weapon to banish Vortak who insists that Danny has made a mistake in killing him. Wendy attempts to talk to her son after the ordeal, but Danny doesn't want to hear her speak. As Danny travels back to Downpour, Wendy is left on Devil's Island for the time being.

Mother vs. Son #2
Wendy Torrance had transformed into Insect-Woman yet again due to the oppressing serum given by Darkstar and flew away from Devil's Island, she began hiding within a snowy area in an undisclosed area. Insect-Woman spent her time talking to Wendy within her mind, the two did not get along as always. Danny later found himself in the same area due to hitching a ride on a train after fighting the Brawler, and spotted Insect-Woman resting on the side of a tower.

Using some sticky grenades as well as smoke grenades he found on the train, Danny smokes Insect-Woman out and manages to knock her out which also triggered her to revert back to human. After being dragged into an underground ice cave by her son, Wendy woke up inside a cell but due to his face being hidden, Wendy didn't recognize her son until he revealed himself.

Danny held his mother at gunpoint, acting cold towards her due to all the trouble she and Insect-Woman has caused him. Wendy begs for her life at first but then comes to terms with it, stating that despite Danny's beliefs, killing her won't solve anything. The two are then attacked by a cyborg containing the brain of Jack Torrance, created by Corvus in order to track down and kill Insect-Woman. The cyborg blows its way through the cave, knocking down Danny in the process and going after Wendy.

Danny knocks the cyborg out, believing that he deserves to kill his mother instead, Wendy tries her best to convince her son otherwise. The cyborg then resumes its attack, knocking out both Wendy and Danny at the same time. Wendy escapes into a small building within the cave, giving herself enough time to transform into Insect-Woman.

Both Insect-Woman and the cyborg Jack take their battle out into the snowy area, the cyborg using its plasmacaster to take down Insect-Woman and seemingly gain the upper hand. Danny throws a knife and it impales the plasmacaster, causing it to malfunction.

This causes the cyborg to turn its attention towards Danny, jumping towards him and stomping on his leg, critically injuring him.

Before he can kill his son, the cyborg Jack is impaled through his chest plating by Insect-Woman who then impales him through his brain which ultimately shuts him down for good. Danny tells Insect-Woman that while she can leave, he will find her in the future but Insect-Woman snubs him and flies away once again.

Defending Downpour
Feeling nothing but immense guilt over her fallen relationship with her son, Wendy went into a sudden depression and decided to use her Insect-Woman curse one last time to fly back to Devil's Island, where she planned to stay forever until the day she dies.

Needing a team to battle Corvus who has bonded with a destructive entity known as the Malum, Hydro-Girl travels to Devil's Island and meets with her old friend Wendy Torrance who has since managed to stop Insect-Woman from coming out. At first Wendy refuses, but Hydro-Girl manages to convince her but also tells Hydro-Girl to kill her if Insect-Woman goes out of control.

Hydro-Girl and her team meet up in an undisclosed woodland area, where Hell's Child (Danny) and Insect-Woman begin bickering due to their rocky past.

Hydro-Girl demands the two get along for the sake of Earth, and the two reluctantly agree to work as a team. After Corvus destroys most of Downpour, Hydro-Girl and her team arrive to stop their enemy.

Upon arriving, Insect-Woman suggests to Danny that they try to work together, but Danny suggests they ignore each other instead. Insect-Woman and the others begin ascending up a skyscraper to confront Corvus, and they stand as one. Corvus rises in front of them, with Insect-Woman expressing curiosity towards the "giant floating head".

The team begin their assault, but Corvus manages to stop them all using his telekinetic abilities to keep them suspended in the air. Rukhu attempts to attack Corvus head on, but is put under brief mind control and made to attack his team. Corvus then disappears, leaving Insect-Woman and the rest of the team to quickly disband. Insect-Woman states that the team was a mistake due to all the bad blood, she then gets into a brief dispute with Danny who tells her that she never cared.

After the team disbands, Danny travels to Howlite City where he is then attacked by Insect-Woman who swoops out of the air.

Insect-Woman pins Danny down, expressing her annoyance towards his whiny nature. Danny then tells her that she can kill him, but he cannot kill her. He is cut off by Insect-Woman, angrily declaring that she is not his mother anymore and is her own person.

Danny becomes irritated, blaming Insect-Woman for ruining the relationship he once had with his mother, Insect-Woman laughs this off at first but then her mind begins transforming. As her mind fades away, Insect-Woman angrily tries to fight it off but ultimately gets her mind taken over by Wendy who gains control of Insect-Woman's body.

Wendy notices this in front of a bewildered Danny, who has a change of heart seeing his mother's eyes again and apologizes for all that he attempted in the past. Wendy cuts him off, she apologizes for how she let Insect-Woman control her life and made her distant.

After declaring that he wants to be a family again, Wendy holds out her arms and the two embrace as a smiling Hydro-Girl looks on. As Hydro-Girl travels to Downpour to confront Corvus alone, she is surprised to find that the team followed her to fight alongside her. Wendy also lets Hydro-Girl know of her new state of mind, Corvus then floats overhead.

Hydro-Girl and her team then begin their assault on Corvus, with Wendy briefly encouraging Urban Lizard to play his part in the battle. Believing it's her turn to strike, Wendy flies up towards Corvus' face and impales one of her sharp appendages into Corvus' eye which causes a minor injury.

Danny jumps onto a car and then blows fire at Corvus from behind, the villain turns around to look at his small enemy and charges up a big energy attack as Danny accepts that his time has come. He is then pushed out of the way by Wendy, who tells her son she loves him one last time as she is engulfed in an energy blast that vaporizes her. Hydro-Girl eventually manages to defeat Corvus and avenge Wendy's death.

Legacy
Wendy is briefly mentioned by her depressed son Danny in the comic Hell's Child: Judas Kiss, where he sits out in the rain and expresses disbelief that she's gone. The Sikring of Fire speaks to Danny, calling what his mother did was braver than all of Lucifero put together.

Appearances
Insect-Woman

Insect-Woman: Redemption

Hydro-Girl X Insect-Woman

Hell's Child: Crestfallen

Insect-Woman: Forever Hunted

Battle for Downpour

Personality
Wendy Torrance is a caring and devout mother, going as far as to protect her son Danny at any cost after the Overlook Hotel incident but also became overprotective due to her PTSD. When she was brainwashed by Darkstar Corporation, Wendy became cold towards Danny and even tased him when he attempted to take the Luciferax from Darkstar's HQ. Wendy would eventually snap out of this brainwashing and suffer from guilt towards how Insect-Woman treated her son.

She is also shown to be very determined in dire situations, going as far as to finally combat and triumph over Insect-Woman and take control over her body so that she could finally hug Danny and fight alongside Hydro-Girl and the other heroes against Corvus. Wendy continued to possess Insect-Woman's body, adapting well to the body and fighting skills as she managed to pierce Corvus' eyes with her spiked protrusions. In the end, Wendy would make a noble sacrifice to protect Danny and step in the way of Corvus' energy beam which vaporized her instantly.

Insect-Woman is quite uncaring, being a complete opposite of Wendy who is caring towards her son in every way. Insect-Woman expresses hatefulness towards Danny in later comics, refusing to work alongside him when Corvus attacked Downpour City. In the first Insect-Woman comic, she killed a number of people regardless if they were innocent or criminals.

Insect-Woman is also shown to be a narcissist, showing no empathy towards Danny even when he was a child and believes herself to be superior over Danny and even thought she was stronger than that of Hydro-Girl. However, it's possible that Insect-Woman at least cared a little for Danny, as she chose to not kill him despite having numerous chances at doing so.

Spiked tendrils
Insect-Woman possesses two giant spiked appendages on her back that she chooses to use for brutal combat, she also uses them to kill prey that is trying to escape which shows her pinpoint accuracy. Insect-Woman is also able to use these appendages for other things, such as flight and lifting heavy objects like trees.

Claws
Insect-Woman possesses razor sharp claws that she tends to use when she is killing a defenceless target, or when she believes that her enemy is weak and doesn't take much to kill.

Enhanced healing
When in battle, Insect-Woman rarely feels any pain when she is attacked and can heal quite quickly. Insect-Woman's body is also able to detect nearby danger and thus heals at a quicker rate when necessary.

Trivia

 * Insect-Woman's model is a recoloured Sarah Kerrigan from the StarCraft series games.