Fictional Character Biography
Leila is at first the wife of the Ringer (Anthony Davis). After Anthony is manipulated by Abner Jenkins (the original Beetle) into a life of crime (which included multiple conflicts with Spider-Man), he is eventually killed by the anti-hero Scourge. Leila swears revenge on all three of them. She joins the Sinister Syndicate (a team led by Jenkins), in order to get close to him. She also serves as the group's getaway driver.
Once Boomerang was captured by Spider-Man on the group's first mission, she began dating Speed Demon. Eventually, the Shocker engineers a breakout for Boomerang and the team fractures, with Boomerang, Rhino, and Leila (using her husband's old weapons) battling the Beetle, Speed Demon, and Hydro-Man in the middle of New York City.
After attempting to kill the Beetle, Leila is disarmed by Spider-Man and arrested along with Jenkins and Boomerang.
Sometime later, she is paroled from prison and immediately went back to her old ways. Donning a new red and black suit of weaponize armor and referring to herself as Hardshell, she allies herself with Boomerang, Rhino, and the Vulture. The group became involved in a massive fight that also involves Stegron, Doctor Octopus, Swarm, the Answer, Jenkins, and Spider-Man, with each party trying to gain control of a highly experimental gun. Spider-Man eventually stood victorious and most of the costumed criminals are taken into custody. Leila is teleported away by her husband Anthony, who had been turned into the cyborg Strikeback by the criminal organization 'Advanced Idea Mechanics'.
She reappears years later taking on the Thunderbolts (the superhero team a reformed Jenkins helped found), ironically now referring to herself as 'the Beetle'. She is wearing a tank-like exoskeleton painted in the same paint scheme as both of Jenkins' previous Beetle costumes—a new iteration of the Beetle armor which Jenkins himself had designed while working for the Commission on Superhuman Activities.
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