Yuriko Watanabe

Yuriko "Yuri" Watanabe (ユリコ・”ユリ”・ワタナベ, Yuriko "Yuri" Watanabe), also better known as "Wraith" (レイス, Reisu), is fictional character and one of the deuteragonists of the Marvel series. She was a police captain for the New York Police Department who serves as a source of intel for Spider-Man, assisting him in his crime fighting. After the incidents with Tombstone, Yuri becomes rogue vigilante and severs contact with Spider-Man.

"The [justice] system works most of the time. But there are times when it doesn't, and to me, that's unacceptable. Some people put their trust in fate, or karma, or whatever. But I can only trust me."
 * —Yuri Watanabe.

Appearance & Biography

 * Voice Actor: Tara Platt (English), Ayumi Tsunematsu (Japanese), Not Known (Arabic), Not Known (Brazilian), Not Known (Chinese), Not Known (Dutch), Not Known (Finnish), Not Known (French), Not Known (German), Not Known (Italian), Not Known (Hebrew), Not Known (Hungarian), Not Known (Finnish), Not Known (Korean), Not Known (Norwegian), Not Known (Poland), Not Known (Polish), Not Known (Portuguese), Not Known (Romanian), Not Known (Russian), Not Known (Serbian), Not Known (Spanish), Not Known (Swedish), Not Known (Thai), Not Known (Brazilian Portuguese), Not Known (Canadian French), Not Known (European Spanish), Not Known (European Portuguese), Not Known (Latin American Spanish), Not Known (Latin Spanish), Not Known (Spain-Spanish)

As Yuri Watanabe
Yuri is a slender Japanese-American woman, with chin-length black hair and an athletic build. She is often seen wearing a black leather jacket over a red and black flannel shirt.

As Wraith

 * Hair Color: Black
 * Skin Color: Not Known
 * Eye Color: Black
 * Age: 38
 * Birthday: Not Known
 * Height: 5'7"
 * Weight: 135 lbs. (61 kg)

Personality
Yuri is a tough, no-nonsense individual with a strong justice and moral code and low sense of humor. Yuri is also a very harsh person, having little sense of humor and being frequently annoyed with Spider-Man's "Spider-Cop" jokes, often backing out of her conversations with him whenever he brings it up. However, she eventually accepts it and uses it in an attempt to cheer him up, only to quickly regret it when he goes further with the joke. Despite that, she seems to regard her relationship with Spider-Man as little more than partners, but though she shows more than once that she does care for his well-being, such as taking him to the hospital when he is injured.

During the Maggia gang war instigated by Hammerhead, Yuri is pushed to her limits by the infamous gangster. After Hammerhead attacks the NYPD precinct, Yuri loses control, giving into a rage-fueled brutality and throwing aside her partnership with Spider-Man, while also turned into a ruthless vigilante upon her suspension from being a police officer. As the story progresses, Mary Jane Watson discovers not only has Yuri been disciplined several times for police misconduct, her father was a corrupt police officer who was convicted of taking bribes from Hammerhead and the Maggia.

This makes her sometimes act with irresponsibility as a cop, going far enough to face entire gangs alone and even to kill who she thinks that deserves without any hard feelings. This is exemplified when she executes Hammerhead at point-blank with a bullet in the head.

Friends/Allies

 * Jefferson Davis (deceased)
 * May Parker (deceased)
 * Sable International
 * Silver Sable

Family

 * unnamed paternal grandparent
 * unnamed mother
 * John Watanabe (father, deceased)

Neutral

 * Earth Protection Force
 * John Bishop
 * S.HI.E.L.D. Trainees
 * Spider-Man
 * White Tiger
 * Nova
 * Iron Fist
 * Power Man
 * Avengers
 * Iron Man
 * Giant-Man
 * Splinter Hamato
 * Leonardo
 * Raphael
 * Donatello
 * Michelangelo
 * April O'Neil
 * Casey Jones
 * S.M.A.S.H.
 * Deadpool
 * Black Cat

Enemies

 * HYDRA
 * A.I.M.
 * Ultron
 * Taskmaster
 * Doctor Doom
 * Green Goblin
 * The Maggia
 * Tombstone
 * Hammerhead
 * Sinister Six
 * Doctor Octopus
 * Electro
 * Sandman
 * Rhino
 * Vulture
 * Shocker
 * Kraven the Hunter
 * Mysterio
 * Scorpion
 * Kingpin
 * Inner Demons
 * Mister Negative
 * Foot Clan
 * Shredder
 * Baxter Stockman
 * Foot Mystics
 * Purple Dragons
 * Hun
 * Triceratons
 * Federation

Abilities

 * Police Training: Yuri is a police captain.
 * Master Combatant: Yuri is shown to be able to handle firearms, such as pistols, and is also described by Peter as a extremely good fighter with skilled hand-to-hand combatant, being able to take out quickly a room full of henchmen alone.
 * Firearm Proficiency: Yuri is shown to be able to handle firearms, such as pistols.
 * Helicopter Pilot: Yuri is shown to be able to pilot helicopters.

Equipment

 * Police equipment: Yuri has access to law enforcement equipment such as firearms and helicopters.

Past
Yuri was born in Astoria, New York City. Coming from a family of police officers, Yuri always believed on justice, aspiring to be an officer just like her grandfather and her father John Watanabe afterwards. When she was young, her father, a second generation cop, was convicted to be accepting bribes from the Maggia, but was killed before he could be arrested. Her father's fall from grace made Yuri swear with the goal of taking down the Maggia once and for all, also pushed her to joining the police force.

Notes & Trivia

 * Wraith first appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #600 (September 2009).