Odysseus (ME-13)

'"I didn't ask to get made! I didn't ask to be some crazy fucker's obsession! I didn't ask to be made into some kind of abomination! I didn't ask to be you!" Odysseus shortly after being born and meeting his "Brother"'

The Spider (BetterTheWolverine)
'​"When I was a little girl, I had nightmares. I'd wake up and run to my parents. My father would get angry. "Go back to bed. Face your fears." My grandfather was different. He told me stories about a Tsuchigumo, a friendly Tsuchigumo. He said the Tsuchigumo was strong and kind, and saved his life. He said the Tsuchigumo would save me, too, as I slept in my bed. I couldn't believe him. How could something as sinister as a spider be heroic? My grandfather told me, that sometimes it is the most terrifying of shapes, that house a virtuous character. He encouraged me to judge by actions, not appearances"'

Trivia

 * The name Odysseus is related to the Greek verb odussomai, which usually means "to be angry at," "to hate," or "to be grieved." However, as George Dimock points out, in Homer's Odyssey the verb usually means "to cause pain" or "to bear a grudge against."
 * See more of what inspired this name here: http://faculty.gvsu.edu/websterm/m'onomakluton.html
 * The name was selected in many ways to do the opposite of what the name Kaine presumably does in the Spider-Man mythos. Kaine is likely inspired by the biblical figure Cain, the brother and murderer or Abel. Where Abel is pious, Cain is filled with enough malice to commit what is called the first murder. However in the context of Will and Ody, Odysseus was selected to reflect what who Will is, as much as Ody. Odysseus can be stretched to mean "he who gives and recieves pain." Will recieves the pain of seein his clone live the life he wanted to live and effectively "be better ate being me than I am," and Ody unwittingly delievers this pain. Additionally, Ody endured being created and subjected to immense pain in a madman's hope of replicating a Spider-Totem with science.