ANANSI

 Anansi the Spider in human form. Anansi is the Yoruba god of stories. He is a trickster god who enjoys causing trouble for people. Not out of maliciousness, but just because he thinks its funny.

His human form is that of a harmless old black man who works a little softshoe, puts a hat down to sing some Old School Blues, and if he can find a card game after that's just fine with him.

As a supervillain, he's mostly an irritation; he'll take some wealthy person for a lot of money, or for some amazingly valuable item in a long and detailed confidence scheme, or make off with the precious daughter of some overprotective parent who, when "rescued", will deny they ever needed saving.

Anansi has enormous charisma. No, more charisma than that. He's capable of attracting and seducing women -- multiple at a time -- seemingly at will and never spends the night alone. But he never sticks around. As a result, he's left a long trail of illegitimate children, most of which have similar abilities to his own, across the US. He's mostly active in New Orleans and the beach communities along the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Especially anywhere he can find a casino.

You *want* to like this guy, even as he's lifting your wallet from your pocket and leaving you with the bar tab.

In his other form, Anansi appears as a black jeweled spider that can be anyhing from normal sized for a jumping spider to being nearly ten feet across.