WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for Amazing Spider-Man #67 by Nick Spencer, Marcelo Ferreira, Carlos Gomez, Wayne Faucher, Morry Hollowell, Andrew Crossley, and VC's Joe Caramagna, on sale now.
Some of the greatest characters in comics are inspired by their family. And in the case of Spider-Man's sister, Teresa, are motivated by a desire to seek out justice for a wrong committed against their families.
In Amazing Spider-Man #67, Teresa just made a dramatic return to Spider-Man's world in the most surprising way: by confronting the villain Chameleon before breaking him out of prison. Ironically enough, it was the Chameleon who was responsible for a great wrong committed against both her parents and her brother, which makes her motives here dubious and questionable.
Teresa was born in secret, and Peter had no idea she existed until both were well into their adulthood. Teresa was trained as a spy much like her parents, and has emerged as one of the best. Teresa entered Peter's life fairly recently, teaming up with him to uncover a criminal conspiracy in Europe. In the process, Teresa, who had been adopted at birth, learned more about her biological parents and what became of them.
It seems that Teresa has now discovered that the Chameleon was responsible for the creation of Life Model Decoys modeled after the Parkers, and she did not take the news well. Chameleon, ever the perfectionist, managed to make the LMDs so believable that they managed to fool Peter entirely until the moment they chose to reveal their status as fakes. But no matter which way it is examined, the creation of duplicates of dead family members is an extremely personal violation.
The resulting fallout of the deed sent Peter into a nervous breakdown, affecting his work as Spider-Man for a time. The deception was arguably one of the most devastating moments of his life. But whereas Peter was emotionally devastated, it seems that Teresa has been enraged. And she seems angry enough to do the unthinkable and try to kill the Chameleon for his transgression against her family.
Of course, there is another possibility: She may be curious about what her parents were like. The LMDs the Chameleon made were so thorough in their ability to mimic Richard and Mary Parker that it seems likely the Chameleon had access to information about them such as their personalities and emotions.
Still, the LMDs were not perfect. Aunt May suspected that the duplicates weren't who they claimed to be when they failed to recall certain key facts. But regardless, the work put into them was thorough enough to fool Peter and make him think, even if only for the briefest moment, that he had his parents again. And this may be exactly what Teresa wants as well.
Her parents worked for the C.I.A. and it's conceivable that a lot of who they were and what they did are still a mystery to their children. They have the stories that Aunt May can pass down, but beyond that, they only have word of mouth to go on. It isn't the same as knowing actual facts about them. And in Teresa's eyes, the Chameleon just might be the best way to gain access to information about the parents she never knew.