Layla Abdallah El-Faouly is an archaeologist and the wife of Marc Spector. As Spector was missing for months, El-Faouly discovered that he had dissociative identity disorder and encountered his Steven Grant alter. Together with Spector and Grant, El-Faouly took on a mission to stop Arthur Harrow and his followers from unleashing Ammit upon Earth, during which El-Faouly found out that Spector was present for her father's murder. In the final battle against Ammit and Harrow, El-Faouly made a deal with Taweret to be her Avatar and became the Scarlet Scarab, fighting Harrow in Cairo alongside Moon Knight and Mr. Knight.