Blue Team had quickly figured out from the USB drive that it heralded the involvement of a particular cybercriminal who went by the alias of 'Malware'. Her profile was on the screen before him: she was a lizard with blue-green outer scales and a sea-green front, yellow eyes, and few distinguishing features from other members of her species. For that reason, despite her extensive list of crimes – and that was merely the ones that had been linked to her conclusively – she had never been apprehended. He scrolled quickly through the list of warrants out for her arrest, sparing the front of the room only another momentary glance to pretend to pay attention. Far too many to count were for unauthorized access to secured systems, but there were others for variety: grand larceny, insider trading, software piracy, cracking DRM, indecent exposure, identity theft...
-- Excerpt from Malware Defender

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Here we have Code's supervillainous alter-ego (who canonically exists within a tabletop game the real Code plays with her husband Zhen). Credit goes to the artist,  SidSpazTyler, for coming up with the name - she's basically Evil Code, so 'Malware' is a 100% perfect alias.

This is also something of a teaser for an in-progress sequel involving her as it hints at new powers she has acquired since her introduction. Stay tuned to my writing account for whenever I finish it!

Malware and her story are an affectionate parody of the superhero genre - I like it on paper, but the execution usually falls flat. Either superhero stuff takes itself way too seriously, it requires too much suspension of disbelief, or it decides to go over the top dark and edgy. (Or, like Arrow, it has one good season and then messily shoehorns in greater-scope lore, requiring you to believe "Man who can run at the speed of light" and "Regular dude with a bow" are equally-matched friendly rivals.)

Also there's never enough scalies.

So I did my part to remedy this, as well as to play around with a fun character concept. She's more of a Saturday Morning Cartoon Villain in general villainy and demeanor, with grand plans, an army of robotic minions, thematically-appropriate superpowers, and her nemesis, White Hat (Zhen's character). He's a large ham and is also an affectionate parody type of character, complete with the spandex and the eye mask that somehow completely obscures his identity.

Pretty much every type of cyber-crime is on her rap sheet somewhere, made easier due to her primary superpower: the ability to subvert any electronic system within her immediate vicinity and spread her influence through the connected network. The more things she subverts at once the more it strains her, so there is an upper limit to this. She's got some other tricks up her metaphorical sleeves, though, and she's very crafty. Good luck getting your hands on her unless she lets you - and if she does, it's probably a trap.

She's genre-savvy, though, so expect death traps, time bombs, a villainous lair, and other staples of the genre. And don't think she's defenseless in close combat, either; she's got a mean kick and one hell of a tail whip.

Art by  SidSpazTyler /  Spazman.
Malware is my character.