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Wilson Fisk / The Kingpin

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The main villain of the series, the Kingpin operates a criminal empire with its headquarters in New York City. He is The Man Behind the Man to many of the villains in the series, including all the incarnations of the Insidious Six and the Spider-Slayers.

Abusive Parents: He both had an abusive dad and is one. His father let him take the blame for one of his robberies, and Fisk later repeats this with his own son Richard. At the very least, unlike Fisk's own father, he's aware of just how low he has sunk by abandoning Richard and laments that Richard will likely return to kill him just as he did with his father.
Adaptation Name Change: While he, like in the comics, is still named Wilson Fisk, his real surname, Moriarty, is original to the cartoon.
Adaptational Badass: This version of the Kingpin had Super-Strength. When the Kingpin, Rhino, Spider-Man, and others could be restrained by bonds they couldn't break out of, Kingpin could.
Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: While still a villain to Spider-Man and one of his more iconic enemies, after moving to becoming a main foe of Daredevil they've interacted less and less. This version of the Kingpin is essentially Spider-Man's Arch-Enemy, being his most reoccurring foe while Kingpin despises the wallcrawler far more than he does in canon.
Adaptational Sympathy: While he still loses them due to his being a crime boss, this version of Fisk is legitimately upset to lose Vanessa and Richard.
Amoral Attorney: Not the main Kingpin (who pretends to be a businessman and philanthropist), but the version of Fisk in the Iron Spider-Man's world definitely qualifies.
Spider-Man: The Kingpin is my lawyer?
Arch-Enemy: While this role is usually given to the Green Goblin or Doctor Octopus, Kingpin serves as the most recurring villain of the series, with most of his plots having either attracted Spidey's attention or tried to take him out. Once Peter becomes aware of Fisk's criminal activities, he becomes much more involved in trying to stop his schemes.
- He can also be considered the archenemy to Daredevil due the role he played in blinding him as a child and the death of his father.
Authority Sounds Deep: Fisk is the reigning Kingpin of New York's criminal underworld, who speaks with the deep cultured tones of Roscoe Lee Browne.
Bad Boss: Fisk has a tendency to execute henchmen who have screwed up or slighted him in some way. He also repays Peter Parker for saving his life by hiring him to a very well-paying job, only to frame him.
Badass Normal: Bordering on Charles Atlas Superpower. This is an unpowered human who can swallow blows from Spider-Man and topple giant robots with only his raw brute strength.
Bald of Evil: His clean-shaven pate is intended to be a sign of his malevolent nature.
Being Evil Sucks: As a result of his obsession with running his criminal empire and maintaining his status as the Kingpin, his wife Vanessa ended up leaving him after being kidnapped in a revenge scheme by Silvermane and his son Richard ended up taking the fall for a botched crime operation and going to prison like Fisk did for his father. Fisk sadly wondered how long the vicious cycle would take before his son would come back to kill him like Fisk did to his father.
Berserk Button: When Daredevil mentions that the police have his son, he flies in a rage.
Daredevil: I'm taking your family. The police have your son, and I have you!
Fisk: My son?!
Big Bad: As the man behind the Crime Cartel and the Insidious Six, he features as the main villain of numerous individual arcs and is the overarching villain of the entire show, even though he's not personally fought by Spider-Man until around Season 3.
Charles Atlas Superpower: Fisk doesn't have any superpowers, yet he is capable of easily crushing Spider-Man with his bear hug and lift up Red Skull's Humongous Mechas because of his "650 pounds of muscles".
The Chessmaster: He's always this, but in his prime in particular, he controlled nearly all organized crime on the East Coast and even had a general in his pocket.
Composite Character:
- He's Spider-Man's Arch-Enemy in the series as opposed to the Green Goblin or Doctor Octopus.
- In this series, he is the man who has Daredevil's father killed. In the comics, that role belonged to Roscoe Sweeney aka The Fixer.
- He also takes Jameson's role from the comics as the one who funds the creation of the Spider-Slayers.
Create Your Own Hero: While not responsible for creating Spider-Man, whom the Kingpin sees as the main threat to his criminal empire, he is responsible for creating two other superheroes, Daredevil, as not only killed his father but also had the radioactive waste that gave his powers illegally transported in the city, and the Black Cat, by making Felicia the guinea pig for the improved super soldier serum.
Diabolical Mastermind: He occasionally lurches into this archetype.
The Dog Bites Back: In the past, Wilson Moriarty became an accomplice to his petty crook father in order to earn his acceptance, only for his father to abandon him to the police. After Moriarty got out of prison and built his criminal empire as Wilson Fisk, he had his father tracked down and disposed of him, not only to erase all evidence of his old identity but to get revenge for having been abandoned all those years ago.
The Dreaded: Overlaps with Bad Boss; everyone from super-powered goons like the Rhino to common gunmen are too terrified to reveal anything about him, even under interrogation or threat.
Enemy Mine: When an Omnicidal Maniac or someone who harms Kingpin's business interests shows up, Kingpin can allow himself to side with Spider-Man.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: His wife Vanessa and son Richard. Though that didn't stop him from making the latter take the fall for his own crimes.
Even Evil Has Standards: He is willing to help Spider-Man if the planet is in danger.
Landon: Why would you help them?
Kingpin: There is no profit to be made in the destruction of the planet, it's very bad for business.
- Even before he learned what Spider-Carnage's plan was he was still disturbed by him and said he was more evil than anybody he had ever worked with.
Evil Brit: He has a very British accent, even though he's self-admittedly a native New Yorker.
Evil Genius: In the episode detailing his origins, he mentions that he has a "mastery of technology" that allows him to effortlessly hack into any computer system. He's also extremely clever in terms of cooking up schemes, and possesses the social intelligence to know how to manipulate everyone around him, even villains with superpowers. It's downplayed somewhat in that he always has a Mad Scientist on hand to develop new tech for him to use, but that seems to be a case of Pragmatic Villainy—if there are people genuinely smarter than him, he'd rather have them on his staff than as a rival.
Eviler than Thou: He knows how to establish the pecking order, even against villains with more impressive abilities. Some of them don't like working for him, but almost all of them know better than to openly cross him.
Kingpin: Your choice, Octavius: either fall in line or fall 70 stories. [activates the plane's trap door]
Fat Bastard: Subverted; he appears to be this, and apparently weighs around 650 pounds, but all that extra mass is actually muscle, not fat.
Freudian Excuse: As a child, he was ostracized and bullied for his weight, and his father was a small-time crook who neglected him. Eventually, he joined his father's gang to finally get acceptance, only for his father to let him take the heat for a botched robbery and let him get sent to prison. Both this and his experiences in prison left him the hardened, ruthless criminal he is today.
From Nobody to Nightmare: He started out as the overweight son of a small-time crook. Now, he is one of the most powerful crime lords on the planet.
Had to Come to Prison to Be a Crook: Once an overweight boy who tried to earn his father's acceptance, Kingpin gained his ambitions and skills necessary for becoming a criminal lord in prison.
Hates Their Parent: The Kingpin once tried to earn his father’s approval by joining him in crimes. However, when his father abandoned him to take fall when his son couldn’t escape from the police with him then left him to rot in prison, after becoming a powerful crime lord, the Kingpin had his father killed as revenge.
Horrible Judge of Character: While Fisk isn't a good piece of work himself, he fails to understand Spider-Carnage's omnicidal agenda in two alternate universes and thinks that he is a trustworthy character.
Hypocrisy Nod: He ends up leaving Richard at the law's mercy, the same way his own father abandoned him. Fisk laments that he's following in his hated father's footsteps and that Richard will probably plan his own revenge.
It's All About Me: Summed up in his very first appearance, when Norman Osborn gives him a report about their latest criminal enterprise:
Kingpin: Does anyone suspect I am involved?
Osborn: No. No one at all.
Kingpin: Good. That is how it should be.
- Seasons later, he has no problem throwing his own son to the wolves so that he can escape.
Karma Houdini: He is this for the longest time due to his high status and power. He's finally brought to justice at the end of the "Six Forgotten Warriors", although it's doubtful he'd stay locked up for very long.
Kevlard: Going by the sheer amount of damage he's able to No-Sell, yes.
Kick the Morality Pet: Despite loving his son Richard, at the end of "The Man Without Fear" Fisk made Richard take the fall for his crimes.
Killer Bear Hug: His go-to move when brought to the level of fisticuffs, mostly due to the show's brutal censorship mandate. It's not a laughing matter, either; on one occasion, Spider-Man's internal monologue has him legitimately afraid that Fisk is going to break him in two.
Kingpin in His Gym: As befits The Trope Namer, at least one scene in the series shows his effortlessly kicking the shit out of multiple sparring partners.
Large and in Charge: He stands taller and wider than the Rhino.
Lightning Bruiser: Looking at him would cause you to believe that he'd be a Mighty Glacier, but he physically catches the very quick and agile Spider-Man and Daredevil with his own bare hands a LOT.
Light Is Not Good: His white clothes invokes this.
Made of Iron: He can tank a massive amount of punishment for someone who's officially not super-powered.
The Man Behind the Man: He's the Big Bad to the Insidious Six, the Crime Cartel, and almost every other major supervillain on the show, but he keeps to the shadows and Spider-Man does not meet him face-to-face until the third season.
Morality Pet: His son Richard, whom he deeply loves.
Never My Fault: Blames Smythe for Richard ending up in prison, even though Fisk was the one who made him take the fall for his crimes in the first place.
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: The Kingpin was so successful at hiding his hand that Spider-Man had no idea that he even existed for three seasons. Then Fisk enacted a scheme to frame Peter, which inadvertendly caused his identity to beceome known to Spider-Man. After that point, Spider-Man became a far more potent threat to Fisk's operation, which was already severly crippled by Spidey's mere presence.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: You can clearly see how Vanessa's leaving affected Kingpin when he rejects to take the Tablet of Time from Hammerhead, in spite how valuable it is, even if seeking profit is his main purpose.
Orcus on His Throne: A very justified example. While the Kingpin is shown to easily match Spider-Man in a fair fight, he takes great care to limit his exposure so as not to incriminate himself with the authorities. Fisk is so successful at this that Spider-Man *had no idea that he even existed* until the third season.
Papa Wolf: He totally loses it when Daredevil taunts him with his son's arrest. In "Ultimate Slayer", the following episode, he finishes his rant at Smythe by pointing out how his "bungling" got Richard put in prison.
Percussive Therapy: He wrecks electronic devices around him when he's angry or wants to demonstrate determination to crush an enemy.
Kingpin: Spider-Man is [punches the screen displaying Spider-Man] FINISHED!
Pragmatic Villainy: Shows this when he helps Spider-Man often when the alternative would be letting New York (or the world) be destroyed. As he tells Landon:
Kingpin: There is no profit to be made in the destruction of the planet. It is very bad for business.
Self-Made Orphan: He is as strongly implied to be this as the censors would allow. After being left for the police by his father in a robbery gone south, he walked out of prison with the physical strength, connections and mentality needed to build his empire, and used all of his new resources to track his father down to erase the last piece of evidence of his old life. Even Smythe is shocked that even he could be so ruthless.
Shout-Out: His previous surname was Moriarty.
The Social Darwinist: That which is weak is worthless, as his father taught him long ago.
Stout Strength: One of the largest, heaviest, and most physically imposing people in the series, as well as one of the strongest. He claims to only be 2% body fat, making a Badass Boast about showing Spider-Man what "350 pounds of muscle" can do. Considering how fast he moves, he's probably not lying.
The Syndicate: He's the leader.
Take Over the World: Would love to do so, although he's fairly practical about it, focusing more on spreading his influence than crazed schemes — although he certainly has a few of those up his sleeves.
Spider-Man: World domination? Kingpin, now you sound like a Saturday morning cartoon villain.
Turn Out Like His Father: He ended up taking the fall for his father after he ditched him. Years later after becoming the Kingpin, he kills his own father to both remove evidence of his own existence and get payback, repeating what his father said ("Sacrifices must be made."). Later in life, he forced his son to take the fall for him, while repeating the line. Now he fears his son will one day pay him back like he did his own father.
Ungrateful Bastard:
- Peter Parker saved Fisk's life from an assassination attempt by the Hobgoblin. That didn't stop Fisk from framing Peter for selling government secrets. Somewhat subverted when he apologizes to Peter for the "misunderstanding" and pays for his wedding to Mary Jane, though he claims he's only doing it for the good publicity.
- Spider-Man saves Fisk and other Oscorp stockholders from the Green Goblin. Fisk still tries to kill Spider-Man and the Goblin. Note that at this point Spidey doesn't even know Fisk is the Kingpin.
- Hobie Brown saved Richard Fisk from one of Kingpin's enemies while they were both doing time. At first it seems like Fisk will avert this trope for once when he gives Hobie the Prowler suit so he can take revenge on his former boss Iceberg. However, it turns out that Fisk was taking advantage of Hobie to remove Iceberg as a rival and the suit is actually wired to shock or kill Hobie if he disobeys Fisk.
Unknown Rival: Up until the third season, Spider-Man never knew who the Kingpin was or that he was unknowingly interfering with his criminal empire. However, once Spider-Man finally becomes aware of him, he becomes a much bigger threat as Spider-Man makes his goal to take the Kingpin down.
Unwitting Pawn: Two of his counterparts wind up being this to Spider-Carnage. The first of these doubles knew not to blindly trust Spider-Carnage, but he had no idea how far his "ally" intended to go.
Kingpin's second counterpart: Destroy us all?!
Spider-Man: You were tricked, Fisk! And not for the first time!
Villain Cred: He initially antagonizes Spider-Man because of this, feeling that a superhero constantly wrecking operations in his own backyard damages his reputation, position, and profits. Silvermane points this out in Season 2, and it's a big factor in him challenging the Kingpin for dominance.
Villain in a White Suit: A crime lord who is almost always seen wearing a white business suit.
Villain with Good Publicity: He's the president and owner of a number of legitimate businesses and appears to the public as a successful businessman and philanthropist.
"Well Done, Son" Guy: In the backstory. He is pleased that his relationship with his son is nothing like the one he had with his father.
Who Dares?:
Daredevil: Right here, Kingpin. And the name is Daredevil.
Fisk: You'd have to be a daredevil, to dare to challenge me!
Would Hit a Girl: Has no problem using his Killer Bear Hug to try and squeeze the life out of Black Cat.
Xanatos Gambit: Part of his Establishing Character Moment in his first appearance. Because Norman Osborn fell in debt to the Kingpin while funding the Spider Slayers, he has to conclude a deal that either Black Widows kill Spider-Man or Fisk takes control over Oscorp. Needless to say, both options would be favorable to the Kingpin.
You Have Failed Me:
- Midway through the third season, in the episode "Ultimate Slayer", he turns on Alistair Smythe for having not only repeatedly failed to defeat Spider-Man, but having been involved in ploys that both exposed the Kingpin's existence to Spidey and got Fisk's son imprisoned as a traitor. He promptly recruits Herbert Landon as his new Mad Scientist and has Smythe mutated into the titular Ultimate Spider-Slayer.
- When Hammerhead switched sides, Kingpin was willing to give him a chance, but he threatened to send him back to Silvermane in pieces in the event of failure. Luckily for Hammerhead, he did well-enough to stay on Kingpin's good side.
You Killed My Father: Killed Daredevil's father and, technically, Alistair Smythe's father too.

Spencer Smythe

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Voiced by: Edward Mulhare

An inventor who was forced to build the original Spider-Slayers for the Kingpin.

Adaptational Heroism: Zig-zagged. In the comics, Spencer started out as a concerned citizen who built the Spider-Slayers to bring the "menace" of Spider-Man to justice. It was the repeated defeats (and the realization that he was dying) that ended up pushing him over the edge, into full-blown villainy. This version of Spencer has no real problem with Spider-Man, only going after him at Norman Osborn's behest.
Adaptational Sympathy: He is more sympathetic than his comic book counterpart and only wants to help his son, even if it meant working for Norman Osborn.
Alliterative Name: Spencer Smythe.
Anti-Villain: He only went after Spider-Man so he could afford to build his son a high-tech wheelchair.
Demoted to Extra: Plays a far more prominent role in the comics.
Decomposite Character: Due to his role being reduced for the show, his son Alistair received his prominence and enacted some of his plans from the comics. Notably, attaching a bomb to both Spider-Man and J. Jonah Jameson was something his father did in the original comic story.
Evil Genius: Spencer specializes in robotics, and built a variety of machines designed to kill Spider-Man.
Evil Old Folks: Well, you can argue about whether he's "evil" because all he really wants is to build a hoverchair to help his crippled son, but he is willing to try and kill Spider-Man in order to get the funds he needs.
Love Makes You Evil: Works for Norman Osborn in hopes of gaining enough resources to build the hoverchair he has designed for his son.
Mad Scientist: A remarkably sympathetic one.
My Greatest Failure: He blames himself for the accident that crippled Alistair.
Never Found the Body: He's never found in Osborn's factory after the explosion that apparently claims his life. That's because Kingpin has him and he's still alive, though in suspended animation.
Punch-Clock Villain: He doesn't personally hate Spider-Man, but he works for Osborn to gets funds for building an advanced wheelchair for his son.
Robot Master: Built the original Black Widow Spider-Slayer.
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Averted, which is why he was put into suspended animation. Kingpin knew Spencer would never willingly work for him, but he still recognized that "a genius is a terrible thing to waste" and that the guy would be a useful bargaining chip to use on Alistair if need be.

Alistair Smythe

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as the "Ultimate Slayer"

Voiced by: Maxwell Caulfield

Spencer Smythe's wheelchair-bound son, Alistair becomes the Kingpin's right-hand man for much of the show, serving as his chief inventor and confidante. He is later transformed into a living Spider-Slayer by the Kingpin and Landon.

Anti-Villain: At first, he's being played by the Kingpin; later he's trying to save his father.
Ascended Extra: In the comics Alistair is a fairly minor villain. In TAS he's an Evil Genius-for-hire whose inventions play a vital role in the schemes of half the crime lords in New York.
Avenging the Villain: Seeks revenge for Spencer Smythe's apparent death.
Brainwashed and Crazy: By Landon, in "Ultimate Slayer", although he eventually manages to break his programming.
Composite Character: Since Spencer's role is reduced in the show, Alistair was given more prominence and even enacted some of his father's plans from the comics. Notably, attaching a bomb to both Spider-Man and J. Jonah Jameson was something his father did in the original comic story.
Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: Well, technically he's a bio-borg mutate and not a cyborg, but he's still noticeably colder and more ruthless after his upgrade.
Cyborg: Technically, when he becomes the Ultimate Slayer, although it's rather ambiguous; Landon's specialty is genetic mutation and he comments on how "metal is the way of the past" and "flesh, remolded, restructured and enhanced, holds the key to the future" before altering Smythe, which suggests that the Ultimate Slayer is a mutate or bio-borg rather than the cyborg of the comics. However, he does have retractile "screens" in his eyes after his transformation, which do display a typical "robotic screen vision" when seen through Eye Cam, so there's arguably some mechanical components in him.
Deadpan Snarker: Particularly towards the Kingpin.
Disabled Snarker: Being paraplegic in no way impedes his taste for sarcastic quips on the ineptitude of those around him.
The Dragon: He's the closest thing the Kingpin has to one until Landon replaces him.
Enemy Mine: In the Secret Wars arc in the final half of season 5, he surrenders to Spider-Man's heroes and joins forces with them, because he knows that the Red Skull and Doctor Doom will happily spend eternity waging war over this planet, whilst all he wants to do is get back to Earth.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: All of the evil he does is to avenge his beloved father.
Even Evil Has Standards: He reacts with shock when Kingpin heavily implies that he had his own father killed for abandoning him to the police when he was young.
Smythe: I knew you were ruthless, but this...
Evil Brit: Like the Kingpin, he has a very British accent.
Evil Cripple: He was unable to walk and wheelchair-bound. Averted after his transformation, when he becomes able to walk.
Evil Feels Good: It didn't take long for him to start enjoying his position as the Kingpin's lieutenant, to the point where he actually showed jealousy when the Hobgoblin seemed to be gaining Fisk's favor.
The Evil Genius: Fills this role for The Kingpin, Silvermane, Harry Osborn, The Red Skull, and anyone else who will fund his attempts to save his father.
Evil Sounds Deep: Alistair's voice is already pretty low. As the Ultimate Slayer it drops another octave and gains mechanical distortion.
Genius Bruiser: Post-upgrade, he retains all of his formidable intelligence, but is now a super-strong bruiser to go with it.
Genius Cripple: Alistair is a genius robot inventor who has leg paralysis after an accident. This stops to be an issue when he becomes the Ultimate Slayer.
Hired Guns: Will work for anyone so long as they are willing to provide him with the technology he needs to avenge and then save his father.
Hypocrite: During his battle with Scorpion in "Partners", Alistair called his opponent a "freak of nature". Spider-Man is quick to call him out on this.
Spider-Man: Great line coming from a Cyborg!
Irony: The Robot Master is forced to become a Cyborg.
Love Makes You Evil: In a non-romantic sense. His entire criminal career is motivated first by revenge and later by the desire to save his father Spencer.
Mad Scientist: Just like his father, Alistair is a brilliant engineer, roboticist and physicist.
Nothing Personal: Even though he doesn't go after Spider-Man for revenge after finding out his father is alive and cutting ties with the Kingpin, Symthe still goes after the hero after joining with Silvermane and Miles Warren. Though it's more to refund research to get his father out of cryo-stasis.
Pragmatic Villainy: After learning that his father is alive but sealed in cryo-stasis, he loses interest in trying to destroy Spider-Man for revenge.
Robot Master: Repairs the Black Widow and constructs a variety of other Spider-Slayers and robots to use against Spider-Man.
Servile Snarker: Again towards Kingpin.
Shoulder Cannon: As the Ultimate Slayer, he mounts a laser on each shoulder.
Super-Strength: As the Ultimate Slayer.
Super Wheelchair: His hoverchair. He continues to use it for transportation even after his legs are fixed by Landon.
Took a Level in Badass: Forcibly takes one at the hands of Landon and the Kingpin.
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: After Alistair's failure resulted in Richard Fisk's imprisonment and reveal of his identity to Spider-Man, Kingpin fully dismissed Smythe and turned him into a cyborg.

Herbert Landon

Voiced by: David Warner

A fanatical scientist with an anti-mutant agenda, he is later transformed into a freak of nature by one of his own experiments. He eventually replaces Alistair Smythe as the Kingpin's Number Two.

Adaptational Superpower Change: Here, his mutated form can absorb and fire electricity. In the comic miniseries he debuted in, Spider-Man: The Mutant Agenda, his mutated form was a super-strong rock creature more akin to The Thing and Korg.
Ascended Extra: In the comics, he's an extremely obscure comic villain who only appeared in a Beast/Spider-Man team-up miniseries. In TAS, he was made into a re-occurring villain who works for the Kingpin after the two-part adaptation of said miniseries.
Combat Tentacles: In One-Winged Angel form.
Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To Alistair Smythe, as they're both Evil Brits second in commands to the Kingpin. But unlike Smythe who became evil because he thought Spider-Man was the reason for his father's "death", Landon was always evil from the start. Also Symthe is into robotics while Landon is a geneticist that doesn't like mutants.
Didn't Think This Through: He ends up being exposed to his own mutant-destroying chemical and mutates into a monstrous-looking half-human/half-lizard creature. As Beast points out, Landon was so fixated on making a formula toxic to mutants that he never stopped to think about the effect it would have on ordinary humans.
The Dragon: Takes Smythe's place as the Kingpin's right-hand man.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: In "The Spot", he openly questions why the Kingpin would engage in an Enemy Mine with Spider-Man, even to stop The End of the World as We Know It.
Evil Former Friend: To Hank McCoy/Beast of the X-Men.
Evil Genius: He's easily as smart as Smythe, just focused on biology over robotics.
Evilutionary Biologist: He's a brilliant geneticist with a specialization in genetic mutation. Initially, he wants to use this to engineer a murderous "cure" for all mutants on Earth, but after being mutated himself, he seems more interested in genetically engineering new life forms.
Fantastic Racism: Towards mutants, including his old partner, Hank McCoy.
Final Solution: His chemical concoction destroys mutant cells, ultimately killing the victims. He plans to use it on every mutant in the world, killing them all.
Irony: Exposure to his own chemicals transforms him into one of the very mutants he so despises.
Kaiju: The best way to describe his One-Winged Angel form. Its a towering monster with Psycho Electro powers and Combat Tentacles.
Karmic Transformation: He gets transformed by his own chemicals into the one creature he hates the most: a mutant.
Mutants: Ironically turned into one, given that he despised mutants.
One-Winged Angel: Transforms into a rampaging monster after exposure to his own chemicals; the aftermath leaves him permanently Two-Faced.
Politically Incorrect Villain: Of the Fantastic Racism variety, but still, he's a man whose racism leads him to try and commit genocide, all under the marketing of a cure for mutation.
Psycho Electro: Briefly, following his mutation: he absorbs electricity, has an insatiable hunger for it, and can expel blasts of electrical energy at anything that angers him.
The Sociopath: One of the biggest in the series, rivaling Carnage. He's a remorseless and genocidal mad scientist. After his failed attempt to wipe out all mutants, he became the Kingpin's henchman and willingly engaged in such atrocious actions as turning Alistair into a cyborg and performing experiments on Felicia Hardy. He even seems worse than his boss in a certain regard, as he questioned why the Kingpin would help Spider-Man even in an apocalyptic scenario.
Two-Faced: Post-mutation, his body is split vertically down the middle between his original body and a more grotesque form akin to his fully mutated state, with a wide, yellow eye, sickly gray-green skin, and inhumanly clawed digits.

Dr. Otto Octavius / Dr. Octopus

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Voiced by: Efrem Zimbalist Jr..

"Science is all that matters."

Once a respected scientist, Dr. Otto Octavius was Peter Parker's mentor at a science camp when he was ten. Following an accident that bonded his tentacles to his body, Octavius has become a criminal mastermind, though he still has a soft spot for his former students. He is a core member of the Insidious Six and acts as their field leader.

Adaptational Attractiveness: Octavius in the comics is a fat, ugly man with a bad haircut. This version retains the bad haircut and square face, but has the physique of a body builder.
Adaptational Nationality: This version of Doctor Octopus is German as opposed to his comic book counterpart and other versions (who are usually portrayed as being American).
Adaptational Wimp: If not in terms of ability then definitely in terms of status. In the comics, Doc Ock is up there with Green Goblin as one of Spidey's all-time greatest enemies and is feared and/or respected by much of New York's criminal element, with the Kingpin once preferring to relocate his entire operation rather than deal with him. Here he is a B-tier bad guy and The Dragon for Fisk instead.
Adaptation Origin Connection:
- Both Doc Ock and Peter knew each other as he was a mentor to Parker at a science camp when they were younger. In the comics, they never knew each other until Octavius became Doctor Octopus.
- He also has a vendetta towards the Hardys as they stopped the funding for his science research, which caused his accident to be infused with his tentacles. Both Doc Ock and Black Cat hardly knew each other in the comics.
Affably Evil: He is very polite and friendly towards Peter and Aunt May.
Alliterative Name: Otto Octavius.
Animal-Themed Superbeing: As his moniker suggests, octopi.
Arch-Enemy: Averted. While he's usually in competition with the Green Goblin for the title of Spider-Man's greatest enemy in the comics, Spider-Man doesn't see Doctor Octopus as anything more than a dangerous villain, even if they have a closer relationship with each other pre-costume than in canon. That being said, Doc Ock remains Spidey's most recurring adversary in the series, due to Kingpin being The Man Behind the Man for most the early seasons.
Badass Bookworm: Despite being a nuclear physicist, he's surprisingly adept at combat.
Badass Teacher: Badass ex-Teacher actually, as he was a mentor of Peter.
Broken Pedestal: To Peter; Doctor Octavius was Peter's science teacher and hugely instrumental in shaping Peter's own love of science, but when he turned into a maniac willing to risk destroying New York to prove his theories are correct, Peter lost all respect for him.
Combat Tentacles: Four of them, each ending in crushing pincers.
Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: The accident that welded his tentacles to his spine drove him more than a little nuts.
Decomposite Character: Doctor Octopus is typically seen as Spider-Man's greatest enemy, while the Green Goblin is Peter Parker's greatest enemy. The role of being his Arch-Enemy is instead given to the Kingpin in this version.
Dude, Where's My Respect?: His gigantic ego and sense of entitlement cause him to lose it when he thinks he isn't getting his due credit for being such a brilliant scientist.
For Science!: Even before he went crazy, Octavius firmly believed that scientific advancement was its own justification.
Herr Doktor: While most versions of Octavius are American, this version has a classic mad scientist’s German accent.
Insufferable Genius: Octavius never misses an opportunity to remind people of his intelligence or put down others for (what he perceives to be) their stupidity. When Scorpion wants to seek out Peter Parker because he might be able to locate Spider-Man, Octavius takes over the plan and decides to go to the Parker home himself, saying that it was a job too delicate for Scorpion to handle, despite it being Scorpion's idea in the first place.
It's All About Me: Heaven help those who stand in the way of him being recognized for his contributions to science. In one episode he tries to steal a machine called the Argon-Matrix Laser which could revolutionize medicine and one that he and a Hardy Foundation scientist worked on together. That the machine could save lives was irrelevant to Octavius who was angry that he got no credit for it. Judging by his words to a young Peter, there was a time when Octavius truly believed in using science solely to benefit mankind but after the accident that resulted from his funding by the Hardy Foundation being cut, he only seeks to be known for his greatness.
Made of Iron: Octavius can take a beating from the likes of Spider-Man, despite not having superpowers and nor a protective costume.
Mad Scientist: Octavius just wants to expand the frontiers of science. If that ends up hurting people in the process, or requires him to commit robbery to attain needed equipment and materials, so be it.
Never My Fault: Doc Ock blames the Hardy Foundation for his Start of Darkness. He could have found a safer alternative to his fusion battery experiment, but was too desperate to continue.
Ret-Canon: The Adaptation Origin Connection of him being a mentor-figure to Peter has since been incorporated in a number of future Spider-Man comics and adaptations.
Revenge: The Hardy Foundation promised him grant money and then reneged on the deal. He's not real happy about this, and takes it out on Felicia.
Sinister Shades: He constantly wears thick, squared-off, tinted classes. They likely double as light-filters for when he's working on his energy-related experiments.

Mac Gargan / The Scorpion

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Voiced by: Martin Landau (Season 1 and 2), Richard Moll (Season 4 and 5)

"I wanna be plain old Mac Gargan again."

A former private investigator who went mad after Jameson had him transformed into a weapon to use against Spider-Man. He alternates between working as a mercenary for the Kingpin and other crime lords (most notably Silvermane) and wanting to return to normal. A member of both incarnations of the Insidious Six.

Acid Attack: He can shoot acid from his tail.
Animal-Themed Superbeing: Scorpions, obviously.
Be Careful What You Wish For: It's implied that he always wanted to be a "big shot" and this is what Jameson used to convince him to go along with the idea of using neogenic radiation to splice scorpion DNA into his own. Then it turns out the powers come with mutating into a form he loathes, and he wants to be normal again.
Berserk Button: Spidey quickly learns that calling him names and making fun of him is a good way to make him start fighting more carelessly.
Beware My Stinger Tail: It sprays Hollywood Acid and can be used to smash, pummel, constrict and squeeze things.
Body Horror: In Gargan's first episode, he starts to spontaneously mutate further. His upper torso swells (in a manner that is implied to be very painful) with muscle until he looks ridiculously top-heavy, he grows to be about twelve feet tall, he develops green skin and yellow eyes, and his fingers start forming into claws. In subsequent appearances, he looks like his pre-mutation form (a tall, muscular but normal man in his trademark costume).
The Brute: Shares this role with The Rhino as a member of the Insidious Six.
Chronic Villainy: No matter how hard he tries, or what he promises Sarah, Mac just can't seem to keep out of the underworld, inevitably falling back into crime whenever he is short of cash.
Dumb Muscle: He's not out and out stupid like The Rhino, but Mac is still hot-tempered, impulsive, and dangerously short-sighted.
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Yells at Spider-Man about not dragging his mother into things when the latter cracks a "your mom" joke. This is especially notable, because Spidey had tried to press his Berserk Button (as above) in the process, but it's only the comment about his mother that riled him up. In the past, just insulting him would have been enough on its own.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Later episodes reveal he has a fiancée named Sarah, who he loves and who helps hide him from the law, and he wants to go back to being Mac Gargan so he can get married to her.
Evil Counterpart: Created through the same process that made Spider-Man what he is, and is also based upon an arachnid in terms of both costume, name and abilities.
Fatal Flaw: Being called names is a major Berserk Button for Scorpion, but Spider-Man has successfully exploited that as a way to distract him during a fight or goad him into attacking another villain.
From Nobody to Nightmare: Courtesy of Jameson. He goes from weaselly private eye to bulky thug in a matter of minutes.
Hair-Trigger Temper: Scorpion goes berserk very easily, which usually brings about his downfall.
Hellish Pupils: His pupils become vertical slits as his mutation progresses.
Hero Killer: Subverted. He's dangerous certainly, but despite the build-up, isn't significantly more threatening than other members of the Six (and less so than some).
I Just Want to Be Badass/I Just Want to Be Normal: Starts out as the former, but progresses to the latter. It's implied the change-over has something to do with the painful body-warping freak-out he undergoes in his first episode, but he reverts back to his "normal" Scorpion form afterwards (which, honestly, is better looking than his human form) and never seems to be at risk of mutation afterwards.
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: He was a private eye with poor self-esteem who was manipulated into undergoing an illegal science experiment. Even after his transformation, being insulted is still a sore spot for him and by the end of his debut episode he just wants his old life back and suffers setback after setback in regaining it. About the only other villains who have it as bad or worse than him are the Prowler and Venom.
Killer Bear Hug: He tried to crush Spider-Man this way in his first appearance. Spidey was only saved by Jameson's intervention.
Morality Pet: His girlfriend, Sarah, in her only appearance.
Save the Villain: One of the few occasions Spidey did it knowing he was saving a villain.
Scary Scorpions: Chosen for the symbolism; Scorpion was created to defeat Spider-Man, and scorpions are natural predators of spiders.
Super-Reflexes: As Spider-Man's evil counterpart, he can move and react with great speed; in his first appearance, he actually claims (and is shown to be) faster than Spidey — however, he lacks Spider-Man's precognitive Spider-Sense.
Super-Strength: Officially stronger than Spider-Man is.
Villain Decay: In his first appearance, he easily overpowered Spider-Man. While later appearances still depict him as a threat, he never comes close to achieving such a victory again.

The Rhino

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Voiced by: Don Stark

"You should have stayed in black, because I'm gonna dirty you up bad."

A supervillain-for-hire his motivations and past are never explained. He frequently works for the Kingpin and provides the Insidious Six with their heaviest muscle.

Animal-Themed Superbeing: As always, he's a super villain named after a rhinoceros.
The Brute: Plays this role in the Insidious Six, being the most physically powerful yet incredible stupid member.
Dumbass Has a Point: After retrieving the Prometheum X, he notes that it looks like a normal rock, which Kingpin waves off dismissively with an insult to Rhino's intelligence. It's later revealed that the Prometheum X has, in fact, changed from being akin to plutonium into nothing more than a regular rock due to its extremely short half-life.
Evil Duo: Forms one with The Shocker in one episode, nearly defeating Spider-Man before Venom intervenes.
Hired Guns: The Rhino is a mercenary who works for anyone who can pay money.
Immune to Bullets: Well, given the nature of the series, it's technically "Immune to Lasers", but the effect is similar.
Mysterious Past: He and Shocker are the only members of the Insidious Six to not have their backstories or their identities revealed.
Only Known by Their Nickname: No name other than the Rhino is ever provided, while in the comics, his name was Aleksei Sytsevich.
Only in It for the Money: The Rhino only cares about doing stuff because it gets him paid. There's nothing personal about it.
Rhino Rampage: A mob-owned super-enforcer with a rhino theme to his costume and powers.
Super-Strength: The Rhino is far stronger than Spider-Man, and uses this to his advantage.
Use Your Head: Does an amazing impression of a Battering Ram.
Weaponized Headgear: The massive horn on the top of his costume.

The Shocker

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Voiced by: Jim Cummings

"This time it's maximum voltage at minimum range."

A mercenary in the Kingpin's employ, Shocker fires vibrational waves from his gauntlets. He is a member of the Insidious Six and tangles with Spider-Man as part of the group and on his own.

Achilles' Heel: Downplayed. Water can cause his gauntlets to short out, but it's only a serious problem for him if his insulated suit is also damaged. This convenient alignment of factors happens once in the entire show.
Adaptational Badass: In the comics, Shocker is treated as a joke, regardless of his (not unimpressive) track record. This version managed to give the black-suited Spider-Man a run for his money and is given the appropriate amount of respect.
Adaptational Superpower Change: In the comics he uses "vibro-smashers" that fire high pressure air blasts. Here's his powers are more Electro-lite.
Clothes Make the Superman: His insulated suit allows him to channel his attacks and conduct electricity safely.
Evil Duo: Forms one with The Rhino in one episode. During the "Forgotten Warriors" arc he and Scorpion form one within the Insidious Six. In both cases, he's the calm and collected one.
Evil Sounds Deep: He has a very deep, growly voice.
The Faceless: He's never shown without his mask. Even in jail he's apparently allowed to keep it on.
Goofy Print Underwear: Revealed in one episode where he had to remove his short-circuiting suit before it exploded.
Hand Blast: His gauntlets can function as either this or Power Fist, depending on the situation.
Hired Guns: Like Rhino, he works for anyone who's willing to pay for his talents and has little interest in committing crimes on his own initiative.
Mysterious Past: He and Rhino are the only members of the Insidious Six to not have their backstories or their identities revealed.
No Name Given: He's the Shocker. No other name is ever provided. In the comics and most versions, his real name is Herman Shultz.
Only Known by Their Nickname: Even if he has any personal name, he is only called the Shocker in the cartoon.
Only in It for the Money: Easily the most professional member of the Six.
Professional Killer: Smythe and the Kingpin use him for kidnappings and assassinations — the kind of jobs they wouldn't trust The Rhino to do.
Psycho Electro: Fires concentric rings of electricity from his gauntlets.
Pungeon Master: Makes at least one pun related to the word 'Shock', in EVERY episode he appears in.
Soft-Spoken Sadist: Generally speaks in a quiet tone, even when he's threatening someone.

Quentin Beck / Mysterio

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Voiced by: Gregg Berger

"Time for me to resume my leading role as Mysterio!"

A former Hollywood stuntman turned illusionist and thief, Mysterio serves as a member of the Insidious Six before being seemingly killed in a fire.

Adaptational Attractiveness: He's far better-looking than his comic book counterpart, whose looks prevented him from getting leading roles in movies.
Adaptation Dye-Job: In the comics, he had black hair. Here, he's a blonde.
Badass Cape: Deliberately invoked in his super-villain costume.
Clothes Make the Superman: Most of his illusions are concealed within his suit.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He very clearly cares about his girlfriend Miranda, regardless of her appearance.
Evil Genius: He may not be a scientist like Doctor Octopus, but a man who can create super-realistic hologram projectors and conceal them in capsules the size of 6-sided dice clearly knows a thing or two about special effects.
Face Death with Dignity: He chooses to stay by Miranda's side and die in an explosion rather than leave her.
Killed Off for Real: Commits suicide with his girlfriend in his final episode.
Large Ham: He's certainly quite theatrical.
The Load: He temporarily becomes a villainous example in the Villain Team-Up. He has no powers to contribute to anything, only crates of stuff their quarry can knock down to block the villains' way when they are chasing a de-powered Spider-Man.
Master of Illusion: To the point that he can flat out make virtual reality projections.
Never My Fault: His careless use of explosives caused a big accident and got him one year in prison, but he blames it all on Spider-Man because the web-head intervened and caught him. If anything, Spidey saving people from the explosion prevented Beck from serving a larger prison term.
Mysterio: It's payback time.
Spider-Man: Payback? For what?! You did it all to yourself!
Mysterio: Yes, that's what my psychiatrist said, but you know what? His sessions never made me feel this good.
Rivals Team Up: He ended up teaming with Spidey in his last appearance to save Mary Jane.
Taught by Experience: The first time around, Spider-Man took him down by seeing through his illusions. While with the Insidious Six, Mysterio demonstrates he learned from this by including a Knockout Gas as part of a trap. It left Spidey at his mercy, only for Doc Ock to call dibs.
Together in Death: He died with Miranda Wilson as he still wanted to be with her, regardless of her appearance.
Unholy Matrimony: Eventually develops a crush on a badly disfigured (and totally unhinged) actress. It ends... tragically.
Vocal Evolution: When he first went after Spidey, Beck's Mysterio voice was heavily modified, but afterwords, while still dramatic, it was far less audibly deepend. Justified since he no longer had any reason to disguise his voice.

Adrian Toomes / The Vulture

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Normal, elderly form

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Youthful form

Voiced by: Eddie Albert/Allen Johnson (young)

A failed businessman with a grudge against Norman Osborn, the Vulture is an old man who eventually develops a way to feed off of his victims' youth in order to temporarily become young again. By stealing the rejuvenated Silvermane's youth he is able to make the process permanent; he then joins the Insidious Six as Mysterio's replacement.

Adaptational Late Appearance: Vulture was Spider-Man's second villain, but shows up later in season 2 after the likes of Shocker and Venom appear.
Ambiguous Situation: In the season two finale, he was given the Man-Spider mutation and was under the burning building. But it was later revealed he was rescued by Scorpion and was held hostage at his apartment. The only thing that was never explained is how he recovered from the mutation.
Animal-Themed Superbeing: Obviously, the vulture.
Assimilation Backfire: At one point, he absorbed Spider-Man's youth to rejuvenate himself. In the process, he also ended up absorbing Spider-Man's Man-Spider mutation.
Bald of Evil: In his old form.
Clothes Make the Superman: Without his flight suit, Toomes is a nobody.
Corrupt Corporate Executive: Ran Toomes Aerodynamics into the ground researching anti-gravity and ways to turn back aging, and doesn't mind killing people to prevent them from taking over his company.
Cut Lex Luthor a Check: The idea of showing the results of his anti-gravity research to the executives to persuade them not to let Norman Osborn take over has never been discussed in-universe. His comic book counterpart would feel disappointed.
Dual Age Modes: Toomes designs a suit that lets him drain the life force from people, turning them old and making him young, though this is usually only temporary. When he absorbs Spider-Man's life force, he also sucks out Spidey's spider mutation. He goes to Doctor Conners for help and he agrees, but Conners double-crosses Vulture, giving Spider-Man his youth back, but leaving Vulture with the mutation. The next time we see him two season later, Toomes is trapped switching back and forth between his old self and his young self at random, with no explanation what happened to the spider mutation.
Evil Redhead: As a young man.
Evil Old Folks: He's somewhere in his eighties.
Final Boss: After he uses the Tablet of Time to create his Vulture suit, becomes the last main threat of the Neogenic Nightmare arc.
Hoist by His Own Petard: Toomes drains Spider-Man's youth and gains his super powers as a bonus. Unfortunately, Spider-Man was suffering from a disease that was mutating him beyond human at the time and Toomes contracted it as well.
Liquid Assets: Drains the youth from his victims.
Mad Scientist: To the point his research on anti-gravity and youth rejuvenation has nearly bankrupted his company.
Older Than They Look: His youthened form is still technically a very elderly man, it just has the appearance and physical capabilities of a young man.
Powered Armor: His flight suit.
Power Parasite: Steals youth and strength from his victims.
Razor Wings: They can slice through trees.
Revenge Before Reason: Osborn was attempting to buy out Toomes Aerodynamics by claiming that Toomes' research was never going to pay off and that it'd bleed the company dry. Toomes could have just shown off the fully functional anti-gravity personal flight suit he'd developed, thus proving his research was a success, humiliating Osborn, and attracting wealthy buyers who'd soon have the corporation rolling in money — and all of it achieved legally. Instead, he took his working prototype suit and tried to assassinate Osborn instead, resulting in him losing everything.
Shapeshifter Mode Lock: For a while his power was on the fritz, causing him to shift between old and young at the drop of a hat. He eventually managed to freeze himself at young by stealing Silvermane's newly acquired youth.
Sixth Ranger: To the Insidious Six, after Mysterio dies.
Unexplained Recovery: It's never explained how he recovered from his Man-Spider mutation he absorbed from Spider-Man between those appearnces.
Villainous Cheekbones: Especially in his younger form.

The Chameleon

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Voiced by: Jim Cummings (grunts in "The Price of Heroism", uncredited)

A nameless, faceless, shapeshifting spy, found most often in the Kingpin's employ. He is later revealed to be The Red Skull's foster son and his mole within the Kingpin's organization.

Adaptational Late Appearance: Chameleon was Spider-Man's first villain, but shows up later in the season 1 finale after Spider-Man dealt with Venom and Hobgoblin.
Bald of Evil: In his true form, he's completely hairless.
The Blank: In his native form, his face is pretty much non-existent; he has eyes and a mouth, and a hint of a nose, but they're vague and undefined, emphasizing his ability to appear as anyone.
Clothes Make the Superman: His illusion belt. Averted later in the series, where the Kingpin had him "modified" so he could look like others without the belt.
Co-Dragons: He and and his adoptive brother work together to bring about the return of their father, the Red Skull, so he can fulfill his world domination plans.
Cyborg: What he becomes after the Kingpin's modifications.
The Dreaded: The Chameleon is considered to be a dangerous threat, given the destruction he has caused in other countries before meeting Spider-Man. As such, after his second arrest S.H.I.E.L.D. takes custody of him to keep him out the wrong hands.
Evil Gloating: Does it a lot, but only when in morph.
Hidden Agenda Villain: In the "Six Forgotten Warriors" arc of season five, where it is revealed that he is conspiring against the Kingpin, with foster brother Rhienholdt to free their father the Red Skull, from the vortex he is trapped and use the Doomsday weapon to the Red Skull’s dream of World Domination a reality.
Master of Disguise: His illusion belt helps.
Mid-Season Upgrade: After his second arrest Herbert Landon gave the Chameleon a techno organic virus is which allows to transform into others naturally without any need of his belt.
The Mole: Is a spy for the Red Skull in the Insidious Six and turns on them when times is right.
No Name Given: He is never referred to by his real name from the comics, which is Dmitri Smerdyakov.
Related in the Adaptation: In the series, he's now the adoptive son of the Red Skull and adoptive brother of Electro, while unlike his comic book counterpart he has no familial ties with Kraven the Hunter.
Ret-Canon: The ability to change on his own, without a belt, was created for the series but adapted into the comics.
Siblings in Crime: With his foster brother Rheinholt Schmidt.
Those Wacky Nazis: Being Red Skull's stepson, it's a given.
Undying Loyalty: To the Red Skull.
Unrelated in the Adaptation: While he's now related to the Red Skull and Electro, he's no longer Kraven's half-brother.
The Voiceless: Only ever speaks while in morph, though he does make some grunts while being beaten in "The Price of Heroism".
Voice Changeling: Whenever he's in disguise, he'll change his voice to match that person.

Eddie Brock / Venom

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Voiced by: Hank Azaria

"From now on, we're poison to you, Spider-Man! That's why we call ourselves VENOM!"

A washed-out Daily Bugle reporter turned violent criminal, Eddie Brock becomes Venom after bonding with the alien symbiote that was once bonded to Spider-Man.

Achilles' Heel: Sonics and intense heat. Only the former is ever used against him, though.
Adaptation Dye-Job: This version of Eddie has brown hair instead of the comics' blond. He won't be the last.
Adaptational Jerkass: In the comics, Eddie's grudge against Spider-Man was caused when he published an article incriminating a man he thought was the serial killer Sin-Eater, only for Spider-Man to catch the real culprit. This publicly shamed Eddie, causing his company to fire him, his father to disown him, and his wife to leave him. Here, Eddie screws himself over by outright lying to Jonah about the theft of Prometheum X from John Jameson's shuttle, claiming that Spider-Man was the thief when it was actually the Rhino, and Spider-Man's actual role in the event was fighting the Rhino to save both; Eddie saw the whole thing but deliberately withheld the Rhino's presence and took advantage of Jonah's hatred of Spidey to get his job back, making his grudge against Peter Parker much pettier as a result.
Arc Villain: Venom is the main antagonist of the "Alien Costume" arc in season 1. The symbiote bonds to Peter and fuels his aggression to drive him to murderous rage, while Eddie frames Spider-Man for stealing Prometheum X. Once Spider-Man removes the symbiote and Eddie is disgraced, he takes up the alien himself to seek revenge.
Berserk Button: Being reminded of being fired. Spidey pushes this button in order to lure Venom into his trap.
Big Bad Slippage: Initially just a scummy rival to Peter, Eddie's growing hatred for Spider-Man drives him to embrace the Venom symbiote and become the Final Boss for the "Alien Costume" three-parter, the biggest arc of season 1.
Brooklyn Rage: In human form.
Cassandra Truth: While in prison, Eddie kept talking about Venom and how he would one day be reunited with the symbiote. Dr. Ashley Kafka thought it was in his head.
Venom: Do you believe us now, Doctor?
Clingy Costume: The symbiote does not like letting go of a host, and in fact the reason it hates Spider-Man so much is because of how close they came to being permanently bonded before he rejected it and forced them apart.
Clothes Make the Superman: The symbiote can bestow superpowers on mundane hosts, mainly patterned after Spider-Man's due to its absorption of his DNA, and can also drastically boost the powers of superpowered hosts.
Clothes Make the Maniac: Sharing a mind with the wrathful symbiote really didn't help Brock's already-tenuous sanity.
Curb-Stomp Battle:
- His first act as Venom is to mop the floor with Rhino and Shocker to have Spider-Man all to himself.
- Virtually every time he and Spidey fight directly, Spidey gets clobbered.
Deadpan Snarker: Part of being Peter's Evil Counterpart.
Spider-Man: Brock, the more you hate me, the more the symbiote can control you!
Venom: Who said we hate you? Fact is, we're your biggest fan!
[Venom throws a fan blade at Spider-Man, who dodges it and shoots a web at Venom]
Venom: Look, streamers! Now it is a party!
Enemy Mine: With Spider-Man, following Carnage's kidnapping of the doctor he has a crush on.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He sincerely loves and cares for Ashley. The feeling is mutual.
Evil Counterpart: To Peter Parker.
Evil Is Petty: Everything he does is because he unfairly blames Spider-Man for his failed career as a journalist, ignoring the fact that it happened because he took advantage of Jonah's hatred of Spider-Man to frame him for the theft of a rare mineral to get his job back; when it comes down to it, Eddie's downfall was entirely his own damn fault.
Evil Sounds Deep: As Venom, he has an extremely deep, reverberating tone.
Fangs Are Evil: Even with no host, the symbiote often manifests a huge maw full of fangs.
Fighting from the Inside: When Eddie grows to care about someone other than himself and starts fighting its impulses, the symbiote tries to take him over. He manages to suppress it long enough for Dr. Connors to remove it.
From Nobody to Nightmare: Went from a lame reporter who couldn't even pay his own rent to a frightening badass capable of easily overpowering Spider-Man in a fight.
- In his introduction, he beat up both Rhino and the Shocker in less than a minute.
Genetic Memory: When he first fights Spider-Man, Venom states bonding with the symbiote has given him access to memories dating back eons.
Heel–Face Turn: After he makes his return, thanks to Ashley. He's apparently done articles with Peter doing photos as seen in X-Men '97, indicating it sticks.
Hellish Pupils: Venom's eyes are drawn so that they have black pupil-like slits, a look which was briefly adapted into his appearance in the mainstream comics' 1995 Christmas Special The Venom Claus.
Heroic Sacrifice: When Carnage attempts to drag Dr. Kafka through the portal, Venom sacrifices himself to rescue her and take Cletus out once and for all.
I Am Legion: Always uses plural pronouns, because both he and the symbiote have their own minds.
Immoral Journalist: He's a sleazy hack, plain and simple. Not only was Eddie fully prepared to expose Curt Connors as the Lizard and ruin his life to benefit his career, he also takes advantage of Jonah's hatred of Spider-Man to frame him for the theft of a rare mineral in order to get his job at the Daily Bugle back; this bit him in the ass when Jonah's son woke up and confirmed Spidey's story that it was the Rhino who attacked him and stole the mineral.
It's All About Me: Eddie's selfishness and arrogance are what cost him his livelihood, but he fails to see this.
Lightning Bruiser: He's faster and stronger than Spider-Man thanks to the symbiote.
Loss of Identity: Given that he's last seen falling into another dimension with no way of suppressing the symbiote, he will almost certainly suffer this.
Love Redeems: Eddie falls in love with Dr. Ashley Kafka, enabling him to pull a Heel–Face Turn.
More Teeth than the Osmond Family: Eddie has the classic gaping maw full of fangs.
Names to Run Away from Really Fast: He chose the name Venom to invoke this trope.
Never My Fault: Eddie Brock blames Spider-Man for his failed career as a journalist. Sure, Brock may blame Spidey for being unable to expose Curt Connors as The Lizard, but it's not Spidey's fault that he mistakenly exposed Flash Thompson as Spider-Man; lost a recently-gotten job as a result of a Spider Slayer attacking him; or that he destroyed his reputation by framing Spidey with the theft of a rare mineral.
Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: He even invokes it during his first battle with Spider-Man.
Venom: You know nothing about us, but we know everything about you. You'll see us every where, even in your nightmares!
The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: He beats up both Rhino and Shocker when they go after Spider-Man, and later personally intervenes when Carnage has Spidey at his mercy, all because he wants to be the one to take down Spider-Man.
Venom: Spider-Man is ours, and ours alone!
Overly-Long Tongue: As Venom, he has a prehensile serpentine tongue.
Power Nullifier: He's immune to Spider-Man's Spider-Sense. This is a problem.
Ret-Canon: In the original comics, the Venom symbiote did not affect Peter's personality at all; it just made him tired because it took his body out crime-fighting while he was asleep, and Peter simply tried to kill the symbiote when he found out that it was alive and trying to bond with him. This series introduced the idea of the Venom symbiote slowly corrupting Peter and making him more aggressive and violent, thus giving Peter a more legitimate reason to want to get rid of it, and this was adapted into the comics; all subsequent adaptations have followed suit. That said, it was shown in a What If? issue in 1989 (5 years before the premiere of the animated series) that if Spider-Man had kept the Venom symbiote, it would have possessed him mentally and physically, and eventually would have killed Peter.
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: In addition to Spider-Man, he also once took a shot at Jonah for firing him.
Redemption Equals Death: Venom saves the Dr. Kafka by sacrificing himself to stop Carnage.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After retrieving the portal device, Venom ditches Baron Mordu and Carnage to resume his quest for vengeance. Carnage was not impressed.
Secret-Keeper: A villainous example, as he's fully aware of who Spider-Man is, but keeps it to himself to prevent anyone else from going after him.
Slasher Smile: As Venom.
Super-Reflexes: Inherited from the Spider-Man DNA patterning in the symbiote; Venom is roughly as agile as the far smaller and less bulky Spider-Man.
Super-Strength: Inherited from the Spider-Man DNA patterning in the symbiote; Venom is significantly stronger than Spider-Man, though, perhaps because of Brock's greater size or his weight-lifting hobby.
The Symbiote: Arguably the Trope Namer, and certainly the Trope Codifier.
Talking to Themself: We! Are! Venom!
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Eddie took an instant dislike towards Cletus Kasady that only escalated when they were Venom and Carnage, despite them both working for Dormammu.
That Man Is Dead: "Stop calling us [Brock]! We are Venom now!"
Unexplained Recovery: X-Men '97 shows that at some point he managed to return from his Heroic Sacrifice, even being rehired at the Daily Bugle.
Unreliable Narrator: When describing his troubles to Dr. Kafka, he makes it sound like he's a crusader for justice and that Spider-Man was the bad guy.
Voice of the Legion: As Venom.
With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Neither member of Venom was all too sane to begin with, of course, but combining increased both their madness and their ability to hurt those around them.

Cletus Kasady / Carnage

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Voiced by: Scott Cleverdon

"Come on! What are you waiting for? I'm yours, man! Together, we're gonna wreak glorious Carnage throughout the land!"

A criminal lunatic, Kasady had the cell next to Eddie Brock. Baron Mordo offered him the chance to gain the same kind of power that Brock had, granting him one of Venom's offspring as a gift and transforming him into Carnage.

Achilles' Heel: Sonics and intense heat, but Spidey never has the chance to actually use either.
Adaptational Wimp: While by no means weak, being a match for Venom, Carnage in the comics is all but unstoppable, to the point where Spider-Man and Venom can barely handle him while working together.
Adaptation Origin Connection: The comic version of Carnage has no affiliation with either Baron Mordo or Dormammu.
Antagonistic Offspring: Not initially, as Carnage didn't mind teaming with Venom during the fight against Spider-Man and War Machine. However, when Venom prevented him from killing Spider-Man, Carnage grew to hate his "dad" and wanted to tear him apart as well.
Ax-Crazy: Even before becoming Carnage, Cletus was a deranged madman who was willing to blow himself up with a suicide bomb for kicks. After becoming Carnage, he took great delight in terrorizing people.
Been There, Shaped History: If Season 6 had been produced, Word of God is that a time-displaced Cletus would have been revealed to have been Jack The Ripper.
Blade Below the Shoulder: Carnage could transform his arms into scythe-like blades and an axe.
The Brute: While Baron Mordo is preparing the ritual to summon Dormammu, Kasady is left to do the grunt work in gathering the needed life force. Not that he minds, anyway.
Clothes Make the Superman: Kasady's super-powers all extend from being melded with the symbiote, and if he were stripped of it, it'd revert him to a normal lunatic.
Clothes Make the Maniac: Well, they make him more dangerous anyway.
Combat Tentacles: Often extends his symbiote to make these.
Empowered Badass Normal: Cletus Kasady held off the NYPD and Spider-Man using his own cunning and liberal doses of high-explosives. Needless to say, he becomes an even more serious problem after he turns into Carnage and completely averts From Nobody to Nightmare. When it's discovered that it's Kasady behind Carnage's mask, everyone becomes more frightened.
Evil Counterpart: He's an Ax-Crazy Serial Killer who is Venom's Eviler Counterpart. Think about that for a minute.
Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: As Carnage, Cletus would occasionally crack sadistic jokes and snark at Eddie's expense.
Carnage: We've done our job, but we want a bonus. Daaaaaad... heh heh... ready for some father-son quality time?
Evil Is Visceral: While all symbiotes are slimy amorphous masses that turn their hosts into fanged reptilian monsters with flailing tongues, Carnage takes it an extra step further by looking like a flayed human body.
Evil Laugh: His psychotic giggle sounds unhinged even before the symbiote's vocal scrambling makes him sound more menacing.
Evil Redhead: He has red hair and he's evil. Nuff said.
Fangs Are Evil: Even more so than Venom; his "face" is more skull-like, permanently exposing his serrated teeth.
For the Evulz: He was an Ax-Crazy murderer before he became a supervillain. After he became Carnage, he happily agrees to help bring Dormammu into the universe because he wants to see the destruction that he will unleash.
Giggling Villain: Cletus was already prone to random fits of creepy giggles but he really indulges himself as Carnage.
The Hyena: A villainous character who's constantly laughing.
Interdimensional Travel Device: He steals one from Stark Enterprises on Baron Mordo's orders in order to free Dormammu. He is later sucked through the portal along with Venom.
Jagged Mouth: Carnage's teeth are black, blending in with his mask.
Lack of Empathy: Kasady doesn't care about anyone, even himself.
Laughing Mad: Said fits of giggles highlight how disturbed he was, and graduate to full blown maniacal cackles after he becomes Carnage.
Lean and Mean: As both Kasady and Carnage.
Legacy Character: Carnage is sucked through an inter-dimensional portal, however in the final arc of the show, a version of the Carnage symbiote from an unknonw dimension bonds to a nihilistic version of Peter Parker to form Spider-Carnage, the series' final antagonist.
Lightning Bruiser: Carnage may lack Venom's bulk, but he moves as fast or faster and hits just as hard.
Lighter and Softer: This is mostly the reason why he was brought in as part of a Mordo/Dormammu plot so that he would spend his time "draining life energy" from his victims rather than going Ax-Crazy on them in a more... direct manner. Didn't make him any less creepy and, credit to the writers, they kept that aspect of his character as close as they could for children's TV show.
Lovecraftian Superpower: Initially to a greater degree than Venom, as it enables its hosts to freely transform their limbs into weapons.
Loves the Sound of Screaming: Kasady's a murderous criminal lunatic who loves his "job".
Mad Bomber: As Kasady. He was willing to blow up an entire city block, himself included, just for kicks.
Misanthrope Supreme: Baron Mordo states that Cletus' hatred of humanity makes him a worthy host for the Carnage symbiote.
More Teeth than the Osmond Family: Like "father" like "son".
Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Dude calls himself Carnage, and lives up to it.
Omnicidal Maniac: His loyalty to Dormammu appears to be less about gratitude for the symbiote and more because he knows exactly what will happen when Dormammu is freed from the Dark Dimension.
Psycho for Hire: While in the employ of Baron Mordo.
Psycho Supporter: Cletus swore fealty to Dormammu in exchange for a symbiote, and kept his oath with a surprising display of loyalty, partially out of genuine gratitude for giving him the symbiote, and largely because he wanted to watch Dormammu burn the world.
Baron Mordo: Do you dare go back on your word?
Carnage: [snarls] The heck with my word, man! I'm gonna bring this back. I can't wait to see the horrors Dormammu's gonna commit when he gets here! Hehehehahahaha!
Put the "Laughter" in "Slaughter": When fighting, Carnage was prone to fits of maniacal laughter.
Red and Black and Evil All Over: As Carnage, Cletus was red with black markings and stripes, and like usual he was a deranged maniac.
The Rival: Cletus and Eddie butted heads the moment they met, and that rivalry only intensifies after he becomes Carnage.
Eddie: Hey, you! SHUT UP!
Cletus: Hey, man... [giggles] I could eat you for breakfast!
Eddie: Oh yeah? I'd give you indigestion, man!
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Attempts this on Spider-Man before Venom intervened. He later drains the life-force out of Detective Terri Lee for arresting him, but she ultimately got better.
Royal "We": Initially, Carnage refers to himself using the first-person plural, though he later began referring to himself as "I", meaning Kasady and the Symbiote have bonded so well, they're effectively one and the same.
Shape Shifter Weapon: Frequently stretches out his symbiote or turns his hands into weapons.
Slasher Smile: Frequently shows one as Kasady; gains a permanent one as Carnage.
The Sociopath: The clearest-cut example on the show. Kasady likes to hurt people, has a Hair-Trigger Temper, expresses no remorse for his actions, and has no regard whatsoever for human life, his own included.
Soul Jar: For Dormammu, in a certain way: the power Dormammu gave Carnage prevents the portal to his universe from being closed as long as Carnage is around. Venom sacrifices himself to knock Carnage into the portal, thus enabling Spider-Man to close it and trapping them both in the interstice between worlds.
Spike Shooter: Carnage could fire his claws like bullets.
Super-Reflexes: Inherent with the symbiote, courtesy of inheriting some of Spider-Man's DNA.
Super-Strength: Inherent with the symbiote, courtesy of inheriting some of Spider-Man's DNA.
The Symbiote: The Carnage symbiote is the offspring of the Venom symbiote, and is even more vicious than its progenitor.
Taking You with Me: When his link to Dormammu pulls him through the portal, Carnage grabs Dr. Kafka, intending to drag her with him, but Venom sacrifices himself to save her.
Talking to Themself: Averted. Kasady and the Carnage symbiote are so closely linked that he refers to himself as "I."
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Carnage and Venom did not get along, with Cletus dismissing Eddie as a "sentimental old fool" due to his attraction towards Ashley Kafka.
Carnage: [to Venom after Mordo breaks up a fight] You were lucky this time... Mordo won't always be around to save your hide...
That Man Is Dead: "Kasady is gone, there is only Carnage!"
Totally Radical: Cletus liberally seasoned his sentences with 1990's slang, often ending his sentences with "man".
Transhuman Treachery: Cletus eagerly embraced the symbiote.
Cletus: Come on! What are you waiting for!? I am yours, man! We're gonna wreak glorious carnage throughout the land!
Vampiric Draining: Setting him apart from other versions of Carnage, Dormammu bestowed Carnage with the ability to drain Life Energy via physical contact.
Verbal Tic: "Yeah, man!"
Voice of the Legion: As Carnage.
Willing Channeler: Kasady is eager to receive the power of Carnage from the beginning.
With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Averted. Kasady was batshit insane long before he got his hands on the symbiote.
Your Soul Is Mine!: Gains this power while working for Dormammu.

The Hobgoblin

The Hobgoblin / Jason Phillip Macendale

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"Dig a hole, Fisk. Wide enough for your final resting place."

Voiced by: Mark Hamill

"For centuries, the hobgoblin has been a symbol of irrational fear and terror. I want this face to be the last thing my enemies see."

A killer created and retained by Norman Osborn for the purposes of assassinating the Kingpin, the Hobgoblin eventually turned freelance criminal. Who was behind his mask remained a mystery for much of the show; it was eventually revealed to be Jason Phillip, Felicia Hardy's fiancé.

Adaptational Early Appearance: Whereas the Hobgoblin in the comics was a Big Bad Wannabe imitator of the earlier introduced Green Goblin, in this TV series, Hobgoblin was introduced before the longtime Spider-Man archenemy Norman Osborn took up the identity of the Green Goblin. The reason for Green Goblin's later appearance in the show was that he, and also Sandman and Electro, were considered for being featured in a Spider-Man film that never got made by James Cameron and the creators of the show were denied by Marvel executives from being able to use the Green Goblin. Hobgoblin was used for the TV show in his place. Showrunner, John Semper, who hated the character, has stated he was forced to include the Hobgoblin due to previous toy contracts set up by his predecessor.
Adaptational Badass: The series had him to be far more formidable and fearsome, since he basically took over the role of Roderick Kingsley (who didn't exist in that show). He even was the first Goblin in that continuity, long before Norman became the Green Goblin.
Adaptation Origin Connection: While the Hobgoblin is made to be connection with the Green Goblin, the tech made for Hobgoblin in the show was done by Osborn directly, rather than being found in a secret lair like in the comics while Norman was dead for a while.
Adaptational Wimp: Played with. He's one of the pre-eminent threats to Spider-Man in the early part of the series due to being a Badass Normal (and Norman's supply of weaponry), but this Hobgoblin lacks the Super Serum the Kingsley Hobgoblin had in the comics or the formal military training the comics version of Macendale had, and is thus a lot more strategic about battling Spider-Man, as he can't hang with him in a one-on-one fight. He manages to be a major thorn in Spidey's side, but ends up thoroughly outclassed when the Green Goblin finally makes his debut, Psycho Serum and all.
Badass Cape: Which also includes a sinister hood.
Badass Normal: He has no any superpowers, in contrast to the Green Goblin.
Big Bad Wannabe: As the Hobgoblin was once a low level criminal, he seeks to become powerful in the criminal underworld, but things always revert him back to square one. While he was able to briefly take over the Kingpin’s organization once, the Kingpin was able to take it back with unwitting help from Spider-Man.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: As Jason Phillips, he comes across as a fairly normal and well-adjusted young man, if a bit of an Upper-Class Twit. He drops the facade the moment he unmasks himself in front of Felicia and gleefully tells her that he will kill her if she spills his secret and doesn't marry him.
"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word: Blackmails Landon after he discovers the latter's genocidal intentions.
Card-Carrying Villain: He makes no bones of the fact that he's a ruthless crook.
Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: He backstabs Norman Osborn, The Kingpin, Landon, and anyone else who crosses his path over the course of the show. Special note should go to his introductory two-parter. He doesn't just double-cross, he doesn't just triple-cross, he goes for the very rare quadruple-cross.
Composite Character: His character mixes in elements from multiple Hobgoblins from the comics, such as having his identity be a mystery like Roderick Kingsley as well as Kingsley's high society life. He also has Jason Macendale's identity and work as a mercenary. Additionally, he has traits of the comic Hobgoblin's dupes: he started life as a petty crook like Lefty Donovan, and had a similar revelation scene to Felicia as Ned Leeds did to Betty Brant.
Evil Laugh: Does this more frequently than his comic book counterpart, if only in large part as something of an Actor Allusion to Hamill's role as The Joker in the DC Animated Universe (beginning with Batman: The Animated Series).
Evil Sounds Raspy: Whenever he’s in his Hobgoblin persona, he talks in a deeper, raspier version of Hamill’s Joker voice. Without his mask, he uses a smooth, pretentious tone of voice.
Eviler than Thou: With the Kingpin and the Green Goblin.
The Faceless: Invoked in his first appearance when the viewer sees him put on his mask from behind.
From Nobody to Nightmare: He was a petty street thug and legbreaker before Osborn got his hands on him. Now he's a Psycho for Hire who is a genuine threat to the likes of Spider-Man and the Kingpin.
Greed: His main motivator is money.
Gold Digger: Plans to marry Felicia for her money.
Hypocrite: Resentful that he isn't rewarded for Harry's kidnapping when he wants to, the Hobgoblin calls Kingpin a double-crosser... exactly what he proves himself to be.
The Hobgoblin: The Kingpin's a double-crossing snake.
Osborn: You're a lying opportunist!
The Hobgoblin: Naturally.
I Have You Now, My Pretty: Is about to try this on Felicia when the Green Goblin crashes the party.
In Love with Looks: Admits that one of the things that he loved about Felicia was her beauty, rather than Felicia herself.
In the Hood: Sports a medieval-esque orange hood and cape over his goblin mask.
Only in It for the Money: The only thing he truly cares about is money, and so all his schemes, from Blackmail to taking control of Fisk's criminal empire, boil down to him trying to turn a profit. Downplayed though, since he's clearly having fun along the way.
Psycho for Hire: He's in it for the money, but is clearly getting a kick out of blowing up anything that's even remotely explodable.
Put on a Bus: After his true identity is revealed in the third season, he is sent to prison and doesn't return for the rest of the series. A version of him from an alternate reality makes an appearance in the Grand Finale though.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: On his mask.
Sky Surfing: Set the standard for all Goblins by flying the very first bat-themed one-man power-glider.
The Sociopath: He's a money-obsessed psycho who sees everyone else as disposable pawns. Hammered in when Felicia asks if he ever really loved her; Jason is genuinely unsure and replies that he loves superficial things about her, such as her wealth and beauty.
Smug Snake: When revealed as Jason.
The Starscream: To Kingpin in his introductory two-parter.
Superhero Packing Heat: Inverted since he's a villain. He always keeps at least one laser pistol on him.
Villain Decay: He was revealed to be nothing more than a petty crook in his last appearance, and he turns into a wuss when face-to-face with The Green Goblin.
Was It All a Lie?: Felicia asks him this, and if he ever really loved her, after he's unmasked and captured. With nothing to lose, he answers honestly, that he isn't sure, that there were things about her he loved: her wealth, beauty, and refinement. Felicia quickly decides that that definitely wasn't love.
You Don't Look Like You: When the Hobgoblin first appeared unmasked before revealing his identity to Felicia, he was depicted bald, in contrast to his later appearance.

Norman Osborn / The Green Goblin

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"The Goblin plays for keeps!"

Voiced by: Neil Ross

The father of Peter's friend Harry, Norman is a crooked businessman who starts the show almost completely under the thumb of the Kingpin. A lab accident eventually results in him developing a split personality; donning an altered version of the Hobgoblin's gear he becomes the Green Goblin and seeks revenge on everyone who has ever made his life difficult.

Adaptation Origin Connection: Osborn already had connections with the Hobgoblin in the comics, but it was only someone found his tech after his death and tried to replicate it. In the show, he was alive and made the equipment for the Hobgoblin to kill Wilson Fisk, only to triplecross over Osborn. In fact, the Green Goblin states that his costume was actually the Hobgoblin's, but was formed from the gas explosion that also created him.
Adaptational Late Appearance: Usually one of Spider-Man's earliest foes, it took Norman three seasons to finally become the Green Goblin, with the Hobgoblin debuting before the Green Goblin.
Adaptational Nice Guy: He's by far the most sympathetic version of Norman in any media, more a victim of circumstance than the brutal monster of the comics. He's also merely an absentee father to Harry (something he's shown to regret), rather than being outright abusive like in the comics.
Norman: You think I don't care about Harry? The fact is I do. But my work was all consuming. I was always away. Do you know what that's like? Missing his birthday parties, his baseball games, never being there when he was sick and needed me. But none of that meant I didn't care about him. It was just a matter of making choices. Maybe, I made the wrong ones.
Adaptational Sympathy: Related to the above "Adaptational Nice Guy", the show presents Norman as someone who regrets his neglect of Harry, a pawn under the thumb of the Kingpin, and the circumstances of his becoming the Green Goblin being the result of the stress of working for Fisk (and initially, the backlash of working on a project for Fisk) finally getting to him.
Always Someone Better: To the Hobgoblin. Green Goblin not only has a more devastating arsenal, but is also much stronger and more ruthless than the Hobgoblin ever was.
Anti-Villain: Norman's a fairly nice, if weak-willed guy who's in way over his head with the Kingpin. Even the Green Goblin persona can be seen as something of a Knight Templar rather than the Ax-Crazy loon he's normally portrayed as.
Arch-Enemy: Subverted, while he does become Peter's most hated foe after the "death" of Mary Jane, this is moments before he falls into an unstable portal himself. Osborn being an Adaptational Nice Guy and Anti-Villain in this version means they never had the same relationship they had in the comics anyway. Instead it's actually Wilson Fisk who takes on the role of Spider-Man's main villain.
Arc Villain: He serves a major secondary villain next to the Kingpin for the Sins of the Fathers arc of season 3. Though the Goblin persona only appears in three episodes in the season, he always manages to overshadow Fisk in threat while targeting whomever he deems to be enemies to Norman. This culminates in the Goblin becoming the Final Boss as he targets both Peter and Mary Jane, stranding the latter in limbo.
Beware the Silly Ones: The Green Goblin may seem goofy, between his appearance, his Halloween-themed arsenal and his constant maniacal laughter, but he's incredibly dangerous.
Big Bad Slippage: Beginning as a ruthless corporate executive involved in shady business right from the start, he gradually loses control of his life as his illegal dealings catch up with him, and finally becomes a supervillain when cracking under the pressure resulting from this.
Corrupt Corporate Executive: More sympathetic than most.
Crazy-Prepared: After giving the Hobgoblin his gear, he kept his identity stored on a computer as leverage so that if anything happened to him, Hobgoblin's secret identity would be released to the public.
Curb-Stomp Battle: Against the Hobgoblin, whom he beats into the ground in a matter of minutes.
Decomposite Character: The Green Goblin is typically seen as Peter Parker's greatest enemy, while Doctor Octopus is Spider-Man's greatest enemy. The role of being his Arch-Enemy is instead given to the Kingpin in this version.
Disproportionate Retribution: The Green Goblin wants to hurt anyone who he thinks has hurt Norman, and is quite willing to dish out lethal punishment for even minor offenses.
Evil Laugh: Higher-pitched than the Hobgoblin's, and even more effective.
Evil Mentor: The Goblin persona to Harry.
- An alternate version of him is something of a mentor of the Hobgoblin's counterpart, vowing to make "a real goblin" out of him.
Eviler than Thou: To the Hobgoblin, which he considers an upstart unworthy of the title of Goblin. Given that the Green Goblin has superior technology, superpowers and the "sincerity" and "freedom" of madness on his side, he proves it in practice.
Final Boss: After several other recurring opponents, namely Kingpin (as per usual) and Dormammu, the Goblin persona resurfaces in the finale of season 3 to take revenge on Peter and MJ for hurting Harry.
Foil: The Knight Templar Green Goblin persona is a foil to both Norman (whose desires it embodies) and the Hobgoblin, who cares only about himself.
Giggling Villain: The Green Goblin has a surprisingly high-pitched laugh.
Hand Blast: The Green Goblin fires lasers from the fingertips of his gloves.
The Hyena: Even more so than the Hobgoblin, the Green Goblin is constantly laughing uproariously at his own evil.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In contrast to his evil Jerkass comic book counterpart, Norman was this for two seasons before going off the deep end.
Knight Templar: The Green Goblin will attack anyone who has ever made Norman's life difficult.
Love Makes You Evil: The accident that turned him into The Green Goblin happened because he rushed to get an experiment done after Kingpin threatened his life and Harry's. Later, while he's struggling to control his Goblin side, he learns that Peter is Spider-Man and believes that he only became friends with Harry to get to him and accuses him of hurting both him and his son.
The Man Behind the Man: He supplied the Hobgoblin with his first batch of weapons.
The Mentally Ill: Played for tragedy. Norman's descent into villainy is played as a man who inadvertently gives his own worst demon and said demon ultimately consumes him, leaving a cruel, vindictive shell of the man he once was.
Morality Pet: Harry to Norman, Norman to the Green Goblin persona.
Pretender Diss: The Green Goblin regards the Hobgoblin as an impostor of a goblin and himself as the real deal.
Hobgoblin: How did you lift that?
Green Goblin: Because I’m the real deal you cheap imitation!
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: While firing the Hobgoblin for failing to assassinate Fisk, Norman points out that he became a supervillain only because of the equipment he provided. He also says that he can bring the Hobgoblin down with the knowledge of his true identity. When Norman becomes the Green Goblin a second time, he defeats and captures the Hobgoblin with his knowledge and modified Goblin equipment.
The Hobgoblin: You can't talk to me like I'm some punk!
Osborn: Before the wing and the weapons, you were just a punk! An ambitious hood in a mask. I made you the Hobgoblin, and now I'm unmaking you. Don't forget; I know your real identity, and I've stored it where it will come out if anything happens to me!
Right for the Wrong Reasons:
- The Green Goblin calls Jameson a hypocrite for claiming to be Norman's friend while writing an expose on Oscorp creating chemical weapons. Ignoring that it is Jameson's job as a journalist to inform the public of such things, the real reason Jameson should be considered a hypocrite is because he created the Scorpion and neither confessed to it nor faced any legal consequences for it. Jameson is a hypocrite not because he exposed Norman's illegal dealings but because Jameson refused to air his own dirty laundry.
- The Goblin also accuses Anastatia Hardy of hypocrisy by claiming that she was the one who funded Dr. Octopus. However, Otto became Dr. Octopus after Anastatia stopped funding his legal experiments. Anastatia is later revealed to be the wife of the notorious thief knows as the Cat which would bring a great deal of embarrassment to her family and company if it became public... kind of like how Norman's reputation suffered when knowledge of his creating chemical weapons became public.
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: A big part of his initial appearance, as the Goblin personality aims to get back an anyone who's ever crossed Norman, regardless of whether they deserve it or not.
Sanity Slippage: Over the course of several seasons, until he develops his split personality and becomes the Green Goblin, who then takes over Norman completely.
Sealed Evil in a Can: Becomes trapped in one of Ohn's vortices in "Turning Point" and never gets out.
Sky Surfing: With his Goblin Glider.
Smug Snake: Quite an arrogant and unpleasant individual, once he turns into the Goblin.
Sour Supporter: The Green Goblin persona hates Osborn's "weakness", but dedicates himself to destroying anyone who threatens him, and even states that his goal is to "make a man" out of Osborn.
Split Personality: Big time. The Green Goblin persona in this version of the story is a protector personality who seeks to protect Norman from anyone who has ever done him wrong.
Superpowered Evil Side: The Green Goblin. Duh.
Super-Reflexes: Not quite as much as Spider-Man, but he's a lot more agile than the ordinary human.
Super-Strength: The gas that turned him into the Green Goblin gave him tremendous physical strength.
That Man Is Dead:
- When Spider-Man unmasks him in "Enter the Green Goblin", the goblin says that Norman was destroyed in the explosion that created the Green Goblin.
- He also declares that Osborn is dead during his final confrontation with Peter.
Green Goblin: There's no Osborn anymore, Parker! There is only the Green Goblin!"
Took a Level in Kindness: As the series progressed he became a more pleasant individual... Then he became the Green Goblin.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Despite this Norman being more of a nice guy compare to the comics, some of his actions prior and during the series would cause ramifications towards others and himself:
- Being a workaholic father caused him to neglect his son Harry at times, which caused him to be of a party guy and desperate to be in loved.
- Working with Wilson Fisk caused not only Alistair Smythe to join sides with him after Spencer "died" from the explosion, but this caused Norman to create the Hobgoblin to murder Fisk, which backfired as he crossed him multiple times.
- On top of that, the mixture of the two problems would create the Green Goblin due to Norman being pressured and overworked, and the gas transforming both Norman and the spare Hobgoblin gear into the Green Goblin.
With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: The gas that gave him super-powers also seems to have been the final push Norman Osborn's fragile mind needed to snap.

Silvio "Silvermane" Manfredi

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Voiced by: Jeff Corey (Silvermane as an old man), Townsend Coleman (young man), Cannon Young (as a kid)

A member of the Crime Cartel and a rival of Wilson Fisk's, Silvermane is governed by two obsessions — to seize control of the cartel from the Kingpin, and to regain his lost youth.

Be Careful What You Wish For: He wished to be young again, but was then turned into a baby. In his final appearance, he wished to regain his adult body—and was aged to an even older state than beforehand by The Vulture. Feel free to laugh.
Butt-Monkey: He gets screwed over by Fisk, The Scorpion, and The Vulture (not to mention Spider-Man), and all of his schemes backfire horribly. You'd feel sorry for him if he weren't such a dick.
Charles Atlas Superpower: When he regains his youth, he's able to beat up The Lizard with his bare hands.
The Don: Head of the Silvermane branch of the Maggia.
Enfante Terrible: Played for Laughs when his anti-aging magic backfires, leaving him as an infant.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: His daughter supports his endeavours to regain his youth. When the Tablet of Time backfires she escapes with baby Manfredi, and tries to destroy everyone in the lair to avenge him.
Evil Old Folks: Despite being as old as Toomes, at the least, he's still a ruthless mobster out to dethrone Fisk as the Kingpin of Crime.
Light Is Not Good: As Spidey observed, he seems like a sweet old man on the surface.
Spared by the Adaptation: In the original Tablet of Time comic story, Silvermane de-aged himself back to nothing. This version of the story has him survive, but aged as a baby - which still is capable of thinking and talking like an adult, and so he returns in a later episode for further Laser-Guided Karma.
The Starscream: He's not exactly discreet in his belief that he could run the cartel better than Fisk.
A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: Manfredi and his daughter, hasty to make him young again, force Dr. Connors to activate the Tablet of Time and then throw him off the project despite it being incomplete, dismissing all his warnings as stall tactics. Naturally Manfredi's daughter inflicts a tall order Never My Fault when the tablet expectedly does backfire.
Ungrateful Bastard: Still tries to kill Spider-Man after the latter saved him from the Insidious Six. Spidey says to himself that had he known who Silvermane truly was he'd have handed him over to the Six wrapped up in a bow.
Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Successfully pulls one on Spider-Man when he's attacked by the Insidious Six.

Alisa Silver / Alisa Silvermane

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Voiced by: Leigh-Allyn Baker

Silvermane's daughter and the only person in the world he cares about besides himself. She is aware of her father's criminal career and aids him in it.

Canon Foreigner: She was created for the show. The closest thing to a comic book counterpart she has is Joseph Manfredi, aka Blackwing, who is Silvermane's son, making her something of a Gender Flip as well.
Daddy's Little Villain: She takes to running her father's criminal empire while he is turned into a baby.
Dating Catwoman: Averted. She and Peter initially have a mutual attraction to each other but after he learns who she really is any interest he had in her is gone.
Foil: To Felicia Hardy. Both are love interests to Peter who are the daughters of criminals. However, they diverge in a few ways. Felicia's father disappeared when she was a child and she never knew he was a criminal until she was an adult; Alisa was raised by her father as Daddy's Little Villain. Whereas Alisa aided her father's crimes knowingly and willingly, Felicia was only a crook because of Kingpin holding her father hostage and ceased being his lackey once her father was out of danger. Alisa was attracted to Peter Parker but despised Spider-Man; Felicia was attracted to both Peter and Spider-Man, though the latter more than the former.
- She can also be viewed as one to Vanessa Fisk. Both are morality pets to otherwise ruthless crime lords, with Alisa being Silvermane's daughter while Vanessa is Kingpin's wife. However, while Alisa is loyal to her father and aids in his career of crime, Vanessa wants Kingpin to abandon his life of crime. Vanessa ultimately leaves Kingpin after his feud with Silvermane puts her in danger while Alisa remains loyal to her father. That Alisa basically looks like a younger version of Vanessa without the skunk stripe is probably not a coincidence.
Never My Fault: Tries to destroy the lair with Spider-Man and Curt Connors inside to avenge her father being de-aged into a baby despite Connors begging her to convince her father not to go through with the de-aging procedure.

Hammerhead

Voiced by: Nicky Blair

Another member of the Crime Cartel, Hammerhead is initially one of Silvermane's henchmen, before defecting to Fisk.

Badass in a Nice Suit: Always dresses up in a very nice suit, but can still kick ass.
The Dog Bites Back: Silvermane chews him out for failing to get the Tablet of Time, even deriding him as a pathetic joke. Hammerhead immediately went to work for Kingpin and got in his good graces by kidnapping Silvermane's daughter.
The Dragon: To Silvermane. Initially.
Dumb Muscle: He's very strong, but he's not very bright.
Hot-Blooded: Has a rather short temper.
Man of Wealth and Taste: Tries to conduct himself this way.
Only Known by Their Nickname: He is never referred to by his real name from the comics, Joesph.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: He sells the Tablet of Time to one Adrian Toomes, who uses it to create his youth-draining technology.
Use Your Head: Thanks to his adamantium skull, Hammerhead favors headbutting and head-first ramming as his attacks of choice.

Lonnie Lincoln / Tombstone

Lonnie Lincoln/Tombstone

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Voiced by: Dorian Harewood

Robbie Robertson: Lonnie...? I thought you were...
Tombstone: Don't be so sure I'm not.

A childhood friend of Robbie Robertson's, Lonnie Lincoln was forever changed following a mishap at a chemical plant. He now operates as an underworld hitman, taking jobs for the likes of Silvermane and Richard Fisk.

Adaptational Badass: Originally in the comics, Tombstone was just a shrewd criminal mastermind and later was written to have some degree of Super-Strength. Here, he's The Brute for Silvermane, but is portrayed as much stronger than Spider-Man and curb-stomped him twice.
Adaptational Backstory Change: In the comics, Tombstone had albinism, giving him pale skin and hair from birth. Him being ostracized for his condition is what led him down the path of crime. In the animated series, he was a normal-looking Black guy to start off with who became a criminal after getting arrested for trying to rob a grocery store as a child, only getting his pale skin and hair from falling into a vat of chemicals.
Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: He and Robbie Robertson knew each other in the comics, but that was after Lonnie became Tombstone. In the cartoon, the two knew each other before as children.
Adaptational Villainy: Lonnie was always a bad guy in the comics, but that was because he was born with albinism and bullied, which resulted him turning into Tombstone. In the cartoon, he was always a bad person as far back as a child stealing from stores.
Alliterative Name: Lonnie Lincoln.
Composite Character: This portrayal of Tombstone is much closer to minor Spidey villain Man Mountain Marko, especially since Tombstone in the show was primarily Silvermane's lieutenant (just like Marko was in the comics) instead of being of a crime lord just like his comic book counterpart. Gets a Lampshade Hanging in one episode where Tombstone is referred to as a "mountain man."
Delinquents: Was one as a child and leads a gang of them later on.
Forgotten Friend, New Foe: To Robbie.
Evil Sounds Deep: He's a violent criminal with a deep voice, though this was after he fell into the vat of chemicals.
Fangs Are Evil: His transformation also made his teeth turn into fangs.
Hired Guns: He's a muscleman, criminal, and killer for hire.
Implacable Man: One of the few characters that give Spidey a run for his money.
The Juggernaut: Not particularly fast, but there's basically nothing that Spidey can do to him in a straight fight.
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: He may just be a human mutate or he may actually be some sort of revenant. While the show strongly hints at the latter, it never makes a definitive statement one way or the other.
Mighty Glacier: He's superhumanly strong but not quite agile.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: His transformation also made his eyes red.
Revenge: When they were kids, Robbie left Lonnie in the lurch following a corner store robbery; Lonnie went to juvie. As an adult he tried to frame Robbie for a crime he didn't commit in order to get back at him.
Revenge by Proxy: Following his transformation into Tombstone, Lonnie tries to frame Robbie's son in order to get back at him.
Super-Strength: Easily in the running for strongest character in the show. Madame Web has to point out to Spider-Man how futile it is to fight him hand-to-hand.
The Undead: Very, very heavily implied.

Morrie Bench / Hydro-Man

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Voiced by: Rob Paulsen

An ex-boyfriend of Mary Jane's who later gained the power to manipulate water. Defeated by Spider-Man and MJ, he evaporates. A clone of him later returns to cause havoc in his place.

Abhorrent Admirer: He was Mary Jane's high school ex-boyfriend, one she regretted because of how terrible he was. Thinking she left him because he had "nothing", once he got powers, Morrie thought he could use them to finally give Mary Jane everything she ever wanted. Unfortunately, this made him even more unappealing for her, especially when she realized he was robbing banks for her.
Adaptational Badass: He is far more of a threat here than in the comics (mostly due to his single-minded obsession with Mary Jane).
Adaptational Jerkass: He was a normal person before getting his powers in the comics. Prior to his transformation, this Morrie Bench was Mary Jane's unstable ex-boyfriend and a troubled kid who got expelled from school. His parents made him enlist in the Navy in hopes of straightening him out, which didn't work out.
Clone Degeneration: The clone dissolves into nothingness after its defeat.
Domestic Abuser: Mary Jane mentions he was jealous, controlling, and made her life miserable while they dated.
Entitled to Have You: Despite insisting that he doesn't want to own Mary Jane, his exact words when Spider-Man comes to save her are that she belongs to him.
Exact Words: When he returns for Mary Jane is season 5, he insists that they were made for each other. As it turns out, he and Mary Jane are actually clones of the originals that Miles Warren created. When the Hydro-Man clone, retaining the memories of the original, insisted on a clone of Mary Jane when the real one disappeared, the Mary Jane clone also retained the memories of original and reunited with Peter out of the love the two had. As Warren said, they were literally made for each other.
Expy: Due to rights issues at the time with an unfilmed James Cameron Spider-Man film, he was used in place of Sandman as the shapeshifting villain made of a non-organic material of the series.
Interim Villain: Hydro-Man's clone appears as the villain of a two-parter in the middle of season 5, set between Red Skull's ambitions to conquer the world and the cosmic clashes of Secret Wars and Spider Wars. His actions result in a major emotional gut punch for Spider-Man and have massive retroactive implications for the hero's personal life, but the threat he poses is much smaller when compared to the carnage sought after by the other villains, and the two-parter mostly serves as a way to raise the stakes going into a new major arc.
Making a Splash: He has the power to manipulate water.
Never My Fault: Thinks Mary Jane broke up with him because he was loser with no money or car. Even after she explains how he was an awful person who didn't care about her feelings, he refuses to see his attitude was a problem.
Not Good with Rejection: Willing to flood New York if it means Mary Jane will be his, despite her repeated refusals.
Stalker with a Crush: The guy only ever shows up to chase Mary Jane around. He was so obsessed over her that after his clone heard she may have died, he forced Dr. Miles Warren to create a clone of her based upon his abilities. Didn't really work out for him; as she still loved Peter and they both died anyway.
Uncertain Doom: Mary Jane wonders if him evaporating means he's dead, though Spidey says that isn't necessarily true given how H₂O works. However, since what was thought to be him later in the show's run was in fact a clone, it's possible the real Hydro-Man really is dead.
Unwitting Pawn: The clone is an unwitting pawn of Miles Warren. He knew he was a clone, but he didn't know Miles was testing the process with him.

Baron Mordo

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Voiced by: Tony Jay

An evil sorcerer with ties to the netherworld, Baron Mordo works tirelessly to free his master, the dread Dormammu from his extradimensional prison. To that end he has brainwashed innocent people, stolen souls, and even conspired with Venom and Carnage.

Bastard Understudy: Was once a student of the Ancient One, whom he tried to kill.
Beard of Evil: Sports a full black beard.
The Dragon: To Dormammu.
Evil Counterpart: To Dr. Strange.
Evil Sorcerer: Uses his magical powers for evil.
Evil Sounds Deep: Courtesy of none other than Tony Jay.
Karma Houdini: His Villain: Exit, Stage Left is the last we see of him.
More than Mind Control: His powers allow him to brainwash the members of his sect.
Villain: Exit, Stage Left: After Dormammu and Carnage are trapped in the Dark Dimension, Mordo quietly flees.
Your Soul Is Mine!: Can grant this power to others, most notably, Carnage.

Dormammu

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Voiced by: Ed Gilbert

An evil entity imprisoned in another world, Dormammu seeks his freedom—and the souls of everyone in the world.

Eldritch Abomination: A human shaped variety.
Flaming Hair: His head is covered in flames.
Sealed Evil in a Can: Is trapped in an extradimension prison. He enlists Baron Mordo to help release him.
Voluntary Shapeshifting: In his first appearance, where he changed into Mary Jane's father, and a dragon.
Your Soul Is Mine!: He can drain souls to power himself.

Miles Warren

Voiced by: Jonathan Harris

A biologist with a penchant for clones, Warren causes a lot of trouble in both our Spider-Man's world, and the alternate reality belonging to Spider-Carnage and the Scarlet Spider.

Evilutionary Biologist: Is a master of genetics, and doesn't seem to have much regard for whether or not his experiments should even be realized.
Greater-Scope Villain: He created the clone Mary Jane that appears in the fourth and fifth seasons, and his alternate universe counterpart plays a role in the creation of Spider-Carnage. Despite all this, Warren barely gets involved with Spider-Man, and never in a major capacity; his mainline version's only appearance is as the co-antagonist of "The Return of Hydro Man" (which is labeled as a standard two-part episode instead of a major "chaptered" arc like Six Forgotten Warriors, Secret Wars and Spider Wars in the same season).
Karma Houdini: Our Warren never receives any comeuppance for performing cloning experiments that were banned by the government. However, whether the alternate Warren perished in the apocalypse triggered by Spider-Carnage is left unanswered.
Mad Scientist: Is definitely sniffing around the periphery of this, if he's not already there...
Metaphorically True: He introduces himself as Mary Jane's father when she meets him. Specifically, this Mary Jane's father, or more accurately her creator that used hair samples to make a clone to be cloned Hydro-Man's lover.

Rheinholt Kragov / Electro

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Voiced by: Philip Proctor

The son of the Red Skull, Schmidt spent most of his life trying to free his father from the vortex. Manipulating the Kingpin and Silver Sable into doing his bidding, Kragov ultimately freed his father who "rewarded" him by transforming him into his ultimate weapon, Electro.

Adaptational Badass: Technically, zigzagged. In the comics, Electro is actually a huge powerhouse... but he's so psychologically screwed up that he continuously thwarts himself, which has even been lampshaded in the comics. This version of Electro has all of the power and none of the psychological hang-ups. He brings down all of S.H.I.E.L.D. with a gesture, and is too powerful for Spider-Man to confront directly. It probably helped that the cartoon version was literally a different person from the comics incarnation.
Adaptation Name Change: His name is Max Dillon in the comics. Here, he is named Rheinholt Kragov.
Adaptational Late Appearance: Electro in the comics was notably one of the first villains Spider-Man faced, while this incarnation doesn't show up until the fifth and final season.
Adaptational Nationality: The TAS version of Electro is the Russian-born son of the German Red Skull, rather than the American Max Dillon as in the comics.
Arc Villain: He and his father share the main villain role for the "Six Forgotten Warriors" arc that makes up the first half of Season 5, with Kragov working to free the Red Skull in order to uncover his doomsday weapon. Once this is accomplished and Kragov is transformed into Electro, he swiftly betrays his father to enact his own world domination plans.
Ax-Crazy: Given the man wanted to bring back the Red Skull and conquer the world with him, this goes without saying. Post powerup, it becomes even more prominent, as he realizes his immense powers means that global conquest as solo project is now within his grasp.
Beware the Silly Ones: Let's be honest; the costume, with its star-shaped facial mask and stylized "lightning bolt" gloves and boots, looks absolutely ridiculous. It does not make him any less of a world-shaking threat.
Canon Character All Along: While he has a few nods to some minor comic villains, he seems to be an otherwise original creation who's the son of the Red Skull. Then it turns out he's the cartoon's incarnation of Electro.
Co-Dragons: Initially serves as this to his father alongside the Chameleon, only to betray them and pursue his own goals.
Commie Nazis: Downplayed; he's a Russian-born villain with Nazi roots/beliefs, due to being the son of the Red Skull.
Composite Character: While his costume comes from Max Dillion, his origin as a Russian agent who was in an experiment to battle Captain America is influenced by the second Electro, named Ivan Kronov. He also has much of the character of Albert Malik, by being a Russian agent masquerading as the real Red Skull and has involvement with the cover-up of what happened to Peter's parents, though he wasn't directly responsible for their deaths like Malik was.
Disc-One Final Boss: He's one of the main threats of the first half of season 5, with the return of the Red Skull and Kingpin's search for the doomsday weapon all stemming from his activities. After his defeat, the plot shifts to the Beyonder's cosmic machinations, with even his father returning to play a major antagonistic role.
Dirty Cop: Initially worked as a police chief in Moscow. Later we find out he's intent on releasing one of the world's worst war criminals.
The Heavy: The Red Skull is the mastermind behind the doomsday weapon and the only one who knows how to operate it, but the fact that he's trapped with Captain America in the vortex means he's incapable of posing a threat for most of the story. Kragov therefore drives the plot through his schemes to free his father, setting off the hunt for the weapon's keys that ropes in both Kingpin and Spider-Man into the conflict. Once the Red Skull turns his son into Electro, Kragov even betrays his father to take over the world himself, and ends up the final villain of the arc after the Red Skull is trapped once again in the vortex.
In Name Only: Literally the only things that this Electro has in common with his comic book counterpart are the super-villain alias, Psycho Electro powers, and the costume — and the costume itself has been out of vogue for some time. The comics version of Electro is an Average Joe American named Maxwell Dillon, who got his powers through a freak accident where lightning struck him whilst he was working on an electrical high-wire. This version of Electro is a Russian-German named Rheinholt Kragov, son of the Red Skull, who was deliberately experimented upon by his father to turn him into a living doomsday weapon.
Psycho Electro: Has the ability to control immeasurable amounts of electrical energy, including controlling machines with his mind, flight and hurling electrical blasts.
Related in the Adaptation: Unlike the comic book incarnation of Electro, this version of Electro is related to the Red Skull and Chameleon.
Siblings in Crime: With his foster brother, The Chameleon.
The Starscream: He ultimately betrays his father when he grows sick of his father's arrogant cruelty and realizes that his father was willing to use the empowering machine on him despite knowing it could have killed Rheinholt.
Super-Soldier: The device that empowered him and turned him into Electro was a creation of the Red Skull's intended to turn a loyal Nazi soldier into a world-conquering super weapon.
Those Wacky Nazis: The son of the Red Skull and loyal to his father's cause... at least, at first.
"Well Done, Son" Guy: Truly loved his father and worked for years in order to free him from his extradimensional prison. Even allowed his father to use an untested empowering device on him. Downplayed in that when he realizes his father neither knew if the machine would work nor cared if Rheinholt died in it, he turns on his father.

The Red Skull

Voiced by: David Warner ("The Cat", uncredited), Earl Boen ("Six Forgotten Warriors" and "Secret Wars" arcs), Cedric Smith (X-Men: The Animated Series)

"Do not despair, Chameleon. The Red Skull anticipates everything."

A Nazi spymaster, and archfoe of Captain America and the American Six, The Red Skull was trapped in the vortex alongside Cap. He is eventually released by his son, Rheinholt, whom he transforms into Electro; following Electro's betrayal, he and Cap are once again trapped in the vortex.

Arch-Enemy: He is the main enemy Captain America.
Arc Villain: Red Skull and his son, Electro, are the main villains of the "Six Forgotten Warriors", the first major arc of Season 5. Electro is The Heavy for most of the story, but the Red Skull instigated the entire conflict by being the one responsible for creating the doomsday weapon everyone is after, with his machinations ultimately resulting in the deaths of Peter's parents. Even after Electro betrays him, stopping the Red Skull from reasserting control over his wayward son is just as important a priority for the heroes as defeating Kragov.
Bald of Evil: No denying that this crimson chrome-dome is evil.
Black Eyes of Evil: His design in X-Men: The Animated Series features black sclerae.
The Chessmaster: He plans for everything, a fact that is acknowledged by Captain America.
Crazy-Prepared: Had the vortex built as a safety measure in case Electro turned on him.
Didn't Think This Through: The Red Skull’s attempt to force John Hardesky to betray his country and get the super soldier formula that created Captain America goes south in 1943. When the boy was in what he thought was a Nazi base, he over hears the apparently Nazi super soldier being referred to as “Captain America” and then Hardesky realizes what was going on and fled without revealing the formula to the Red Skull and his henchmen, despite the Skull's attempt to stop the kid.
The Dreaded: Even decades after World War Two, the Red Skull’s reputation as a Nazi war criminal have made him one of the most feared supervillains in history.
The Family That Slays Together: He's a Nazi spymaster, his foster son is a Master of Disguise, and his real son is a Nazi sympathizer turned supervillain.
Greater-Scope Villain: Red Skull predictably turned up in the Captain America crossover arc—but also turned out to be behind a whole lot of trouble that was not directly related to that, including the fate of Peter Parker's parents, the origin stories of several supervillains and (indirectly) even that of the Black Cat.
Manipulative Bastard: As always with the Red Skull, he manipulates people to get his way.
Older Than They Look: Being trapped in the vortex kept him from aging so he looks as young as he did in the 1940s.
Related in the Adaptation: Unlike the comics, This Red Skull is related to Electro and The Chameleon.
Sealed Evil in a Can: He was trapped in a time vortex for several decades.
Sealed Evil in a Duel: He spent those decades imprisoned in a time vortex fighting Captain America.
Skull for a Head: His skull-like head is pretty much where he gets his name from.
The Spymaster: He has trained several agents to further his agenda.
Super-Reflexes: He has quick reflexes.
Super-Strength: A physical match for Captain America. Kingpin himself even implied that the Red Skull would've broken out of a bearhug from him, unlike his impostor, Rheinholdt (his son).
Those Wacky Nazis: He's a high-ranking Nazi, and even masterminded projects where his men would infiltrate the US, and develop massive war machines right in the heart of New York, to better conquer America with.

Victor Von Doom / Doctor Doom

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Voiced by: Tom Kane

"This is what I have always wanted — absolute power and control!"

The brutal ruler of the tiny nation of Latveria, Dr. Doom is the archfoe of the Fantastic Four, and a major antagonist during the Secret Wars arc. Combining local technology with his own genius, he carves out an empire for himself, and plots to steal the Beyonder's powers for his own.

Arch-Enemy: Of the Fantastic Four.
Arc Villain: Though the Beyonder is responsible for the events of Secret Wars, the second major arc of season 5, his lack of direct involvement and benevolent intentions of testing Spider-Man leaves Doom as the main villain of the arc. He's only prominent in the third and final episode, but of the major villain warlords, Doom is clearly the most competent and has the greatest overarching presence, as it is his offscreen victory over Doctor Octopus that forces the rival doctor to ally with Red Skull in the second episode. Doom's theft of the Beyonder's power leaves him the last man standing, and even when it turns out he doesn't truly control the powers, his refusal to give them up makes him the ultimate antagonist.
Badass Cape: One of the most famous villainous versions.
Big Bad Wannabe: In the greater scope of the series. Doom steals the power of the Beyonder, but has no real control over it. After the arc, it is revealed that even if Doom did manage to control that power, he would have ultimately doomed the multiverse, since using up the Beyonder's power would have exhausted it and allowed Spider Carnage to destroy virtually all of reality.
The Chessmaster: While most of the other villains are busy playing Evil Overlord and turning their portions of the planet they find themselves on into brutal crapsack empires, feuding over their land like mad dogs, Doom spends his time wisely: Doom easily creates a utopia for his own isolated corner of the world where his subjects actually want to worship him because he saved them from the other villains, and makes himself out to be a Big Good. When the heroes show up, rather than start a fight with them he uses traps, trickery and false promises that either remove or totally placate them before they become problems. If not for attempting to bite off more than he could chew by stealing the Beyonder's power, the heroes might never have been able to wrest control from him.
Eviler than Thou: With The Red Skull, Dr. Octopus, and the rest of the villains the Beyonder brought to the planet.
Evil Overlord: Though he for a time pretends not to be.
The Faceless: Subverted. He's able to use the alien's technology to repair his ruined face and so promptly ditches his concealing mask.
Facial Horror: Zigzagged. As he's clearly supposed to be the same Doctor Doom from Fantastic Four: The Animated Series, he normally would have a hideously deformed face between the explosion that ruined it and putting on his mask whilst it was still red-hot. However, during his appearance in this show, he's able to use alien super-tech to repair all the damage to his face.
A God Am I: He is worshipped as a benevolent god during the Secret Wars arc.
Herr Doktor: Much like Doctor Octopus, Doom was given a Germanic accent. Still, Doom was not only also able to harness enough power to repair his own face and return it to its original, handsome appearance, but finally outdo Richards by curing Ben Grimm. Plus, Doom does come from Latveria, which is somewhere in Eastern Europe.
In the Hood: As per usual, Doom has a hood that is part of his costume.
Physical God: Briefly during the Secret Wars arc. He plans to steal the powers of the Beyonder and partially succeeds.
Power Incontinence: After seizing control of the Beyonder's power. As smart as he is, Doom simply isn't equipped to control the strength of a veritable god.
Powered Armour: The armor that he wears.
Ruritania: He rules over one of these in the form of his homeland of Latveria.
Utopia Justifies the Means: Maybe. Given how good a liar he is it's hard to tell.
Villain of Another Story: He's the Arch-Enemy of the Fantastic Four, but in this series he's just an Arc Villain.
With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: It's arguable just how sane he was to begin with, but after stealing the Beyonder's powers, it really comes back to bite him, as his own nightmares and subconscious fears spring to life as living demons that begin destroying his kingdom.

Miriam

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Voiced by: Nichelle Nichols

A.K.A. the Vampire Queen. She's Blade's mother who was turned into a vampire not long after giving birth to him.

Adaptation Name Change: In the comics, Blade's mother was originally Tara Cross, but had her name legally changed to Vanessa Brooks.
Arch-Enemy: To her son, Blade. As she has become the queen of Vampires, even after Blade finds for himself it changes nothing as he continues to wage war against her.
Evil Matriarch: In this series, she's virtually Blade's arch nemesis.
Industrialized Evil: She is a normal, supernatural vampire rather than the genetically engineered type Morbius unwittingly created, but uses his procedure to create large armies of mook vampires more easily and efficiently than she could on her own.
Psychic Powers: She can hypnotize people, uses telekinesis and read the minds of other vampires.
Spared by the Adaptation: In the comics Vanessa died without becoming a vampire. She was brought back as a vampire after Miriam was introduced, but was destroyed soon after.
Transhuman Treachery: Initially had gave away Blade to keep him from the vampire lifestyle. However, when he sees her again after having grown into an adult, she flat out states she loves being a vampire.
Undeathly Pallor: Rather than conventional stark white, turning into a vampire made her dark skin ashy gray.
Vampire Monarch: Supposedly. She tries to create a coven using the Neogenic Recombinator to make vampires, but was foiled and forced to flee. Next time we briefly see her, it seems she went back to making vampires the old fashioned way.
We Can Rule Together: Really wants this with Blade to rule the night as mother and son. But she sees his human half as a hindrance.

Dr. Jonathan Ohnn / The Spot

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Voiced by: Oliver Muirhead

A scientist who created the Time Dilation Portal technology whilst working for Tony Stark. When this technology was nearly stolen by Venom and Carnage, Stark shut down the project, outraging Ohnn, who took his tech and went to work for the Kingpin. During his first test under the Kingpin, he was accidentally sucked into the portal and found himself in the interstial dimension, where he became bonded to portals. Now able to generate portals at will, he sought to free himself from the Kingpin's control, but things don't work out as he'd hoped.

Adaptational Badass: Stupid name aside, the Spot has actually always been a pretty potent threat in potential. But the comics version of the Spot is a D-lister due to never using his portals inventively. This version of the Spot, despite not wanting to hurt anyone, shows just how dangerous he can be by adeptly managing to outmaneuver Spidey through all of their initial encounters despite having no real combat skill.
Adaptational Heroism: The Spot here was recast as a Punch-Clock Villain whose episode shows him going through a Heel–Face Turn after committing a few ill-advised bank robberies. His comic book counterpart, by contrast, is an unrepentant petty criminal with a sideline in contract killing.
Barrier Warrior: A variant — the Spot can use his portals to intercept enemy attacks, either trapping the attack in the interstitial dimension or letting it back out again. Right against the original attacker, if he feels like it.
Beware the Silly Ones: The Spot may sound goofy, and In-Universe even Spidey notes he's having a hard time taking him seriously, but he's a potentially very dangerous foe.
Big Bad Wannabe: When the Spot realizes his abilities made him all powerful, he decides to upstage the Kingpin: "I am the new Kingpin now!". Until the next scene where his girlfriend is held hostage and the Kingpin orders him to go after Spider-man again.
Confusion Fu: The Spot's typical approach to combat; creating a swirling cascade of portals around a victim, from which he can completely or partially manifest himself as he sees fit. This means the victim, shy incredible luck or precognitive power, finds fists or feet flying out of nowhere at seemingly completely random intervals and positions. For added measure, if he wants, the Spot can even knock a victim into a portal, spitting them out anywhere he wants.
Dimension Lord: After bonding with the portals inside of the Void Between the Worlds, Jonathan can control the portals in any manner that he likes, allowing him to exploit its unique abilities for any purpose he can imagine.
Extradimensional Shortcut: This is how the Spot's portals work; they use an interstitial dimension to link two spots in this dimension irregardless of the conventional space and time differential, creating black swirling vortexes that act as linked doors.
Heroic Sacrifice: Ends up leaping into the "super-portal" he accidentally created in order to close it down, apparently casting himself through time and space to an unknown location in the process.
Monster of the Week: His only appearance is as the villain of his eponymous episode.
Portal Network: The Spot can create these, linking up multiple different portals to anywhere he pleases.
Punny Name: His name not only references the general turn of phrase "on the spot", but the specific term "Johnny on the spot"
Small Role, Big Impact: Despite the man himself only appearing in a single episode, his portal device becomes a major factor in the remainder of the third season, as the Green Goblin used it for crime and ended up sucking both himself and Mary Jane into the other dimensions. This also counts for his Spider-Carnage counterpart, as that incarnation uses Ohnn's device to destroy all reality.
Teleport Spam: As he can create any number of portals in any configuration he desires, it goes without saying that the Spot's main approach to combat involves teleporting all over the place.
Thinking Up Portals: What makes the Spot's power so unique and dangerous; he doesn't need to rely on outside sources for his portals, he can make use of them at will.
Weaponized Teleportation: Beyond using portals to empower his Confusion Fu or let him serve as a Barrier Warrior, the Spot can easily use his portals to teleport people away and potentially into danger.
Willfully Weak: In his episode, it's shown that the Spot could easily use his powers in lethal ways — for example, creating a portal under you that then drops you into the open sky... a couple of miles straight up. However, comments he makes, and confirmed by later episodes, shows he's also capable of creating Portal Cuts by opening and closing portals with particular speed. Meaning that, if he wasn't such a nice guy, he could effortlessly conjure a portal around your head and then slam it shut, decapitating you with a thought...

Prowler / Hobie Brown

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Voiced by: Tim Russ

A small time crook with dreams of becoming a major crime boss. Hobie becomes the Prowler to overthrow his former boss, Iceberg and avenge a defeat at the hands of Spider-Man. However, Kingpin, whom he thought was helping him, betrays him and Hobie turns to Spider-Man for help.

Adaptational Badass: The Prowler in the comics is a Badass Normal Gadgeteer Genius. Prowler in the cartoon was granted all sorts of super abilities from his costume, including Super-Strength, flight, and power blasts, and easily handed Spidey his rear the first time they fought.
Adaptational Dumbass: The Prowler suit was entirely an invention of Hobie's in the comics. In this series, it was created by Kingpin's scientists and this version of Hobie shows no skill in engineering at all.
Adaptational Villainy: In the comics, Hobie stole items in his Prowler persona and returned them as Hobie Brown to accept rewards but never did anything excessively evil. The Hobie of this show was a career criminal even before he became the Prowler and had ambitions of becoming a major crime lord. That said, he still pulls a Heel–Face Turn like his comic book counterpart.
Being Evil Sucks: Let's count the ways. Hobie's boss Iceberg discovers he is stealing from him and tries to have him killed. His life of crime has taken a strain on his relationship with his girlfriend Angela. He makes the unfortunate mistake of mugging Mary Jane Watson which pisses off Spider-Man and gets Hobie sent to prison for violating his parole. He thinks he's caught a break when Kingpin gives him the Prowler suit and he defeats Spider-Man and overthrows Iceberg, only for Kingpin to reveal that the suit needs to be recharged frequently by Kingpin and is rigged to shock Hobie or explode if he doesn't follow Kingpin's orders. Finally, when he turns to Angela for help she reveals that she moved on with another man while he was in jail.
Big Bad Wannabe: Hobie has dreams of attaining power but lacks the cunning to hold on to it. Kingpin's betrayal is a very brutal wake-up call to him.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: His ex-girlfriend Angela.
Fatal Flaw: Hobie has ambition but his lack of cunning frequently gets him in danger.
From Nobody to Nightmare: Subverted. He wanted to rise up in the criminal underworld but accepting a gift from Kingpin only results in him being put under the thumb of another ruthless crime boss.
Heel–Face Turn: Hobie swears off crime completely after his experiences with Kingpin.
Monster of the Week: His only appearance is as the secondary threat of his eponymous episode before redeeming himself to fight Fisk.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: He saved Wilson Fisk's son from one of Fisk's enemies while in jail. Fisk does reward him the power to take revenge on Spider-Man and Iceberg but still uses the opportunity to put Hobie under his thumb and reveals he was only using Hobie to get rid of a rival.
The Starscream: Is this to Iceberg who ironically was a Starscream to Kingpin. When Kingpin heard of Hobie's desire to take down Iceberg, Kingpin saw it as an opportunity to remove a dangerous rival.

Richard Fisk

Voiced by: Nick Jameson

Richard Fisk is the son of Wilson Fisk and a criminal mastermind in his own right. He was in charge of the company Fisktronics. He gets involved in a scheme with his father to frame Peter Parker for treason.

Adaptational Villainy: In the comics, Richard was initially unaware of his father's criminal activities, and upon learning the truth, tried to bring down his entire empire. Here, Richard is well aware of what his father is, and gladly goes along with it.
Adapted Out: His masked identities from the comics (The Schemer and Rose) are absent here. However, in the Rose's case, it's actually an example of What Could Have Been, as, according to Word of God, Richard would have returned as the Rose to seek vengeance on his father in the unproduced Season 6.
Antagonistic Offspring: What Wilson fears his son will become to him after the events of "The Man Without Fear". Wilson himself took revenge on his father for leaving him to rot in prison, and he appreciates the cyclical turn of events that caused his own son to do the same for him.
Battle Couple: Inverted with him and Susan Choi. They work together, and even fight against the heroes together, but there are no hints at all that they are a couple.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: When he first meets Peter, he appears to be kind, polite and friendly. This is all merely a charade to cover up the fact that he is evil, cunning and deceitful.
Corrupt Corporate Executive: Much like his father, Richard is the head of his own company, Fisktronics. Also like his father, he is an evil and malevolent man.
Overlord Jr.: What he turns out to be, being just like his crime-lord father.
Parental Betrayal: Continuing the cycle in the family, the Kingpin betrays his son to save his own skin.
Silent Scapegoat: A villainous example. Richard willingly keeps his mouth shut by order of his dad and takes the fall for the whole business involving Peter being framed and Daredevil. He doesn't reveal Kingpin's involvement in any of it despite the judge promising an easier sentence if he did.

Susan Choi

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Voiced by: Amy Hill

Susan Choi is a federal agent of the United States of America. She secretly used her position to help the criminal Richard Fisk.

Battle Couple: Inverted with her and Richard Fisk. They work together, and even fight against the heroes together, but there are no hints at all that they are a couple.
Canon Foreigner: Was created exclusively for the show.
Double Agent: She's a federal agent for the United States, but is working as a mole for the Fisks in a plan to sell secrets of to the enemies of their country.
Evil Counterpart: To Terri Lee.
Faux Action Girl: She wears a soldier's uniform, she talks tough and she handles a firearm, but she doesn't prove to be all that good in a physical altercation, being quickly overpowered and defeated in a fight with Terri Lee.
Magic Skirt: This happens briefly when Lee flips her across the room in their brief scuffle.
Palette Swap: When in her casual wear, she basically wears the same clothes as Terri Lee, but they're yellow and red instead of purple.
The Squadette: She's a female federal agent.

Characters / Spider-Man: The Animated Series - Villains

Wilson Fisk / The Kingpin

Spencer Smythe

Alistair Smythe

Herbert Landon

Dr. Otto Octavius / Dr. Octopus

Mac Gargan / The Scorpion

The Rhino

The Shocker

Quentin Beck / Mysterio

Adrian Toomes / The Vulture

The Chameleon

Eddie Brock / Venom

Cletus Kasady / Carnage

The Hobgoblin / Jason Phillip Macendale

Norman Osborn / The Green Goblin

Silvio "Silvermane" Manfredi

Alisa Silver / Alisa Silvermane

Hammerhead

Lonnie Lincoln/Tombstone

Morrie Bench / Hydro-Man

Baron Mordo

Dormammu

Miles Warren

Rheinholt Kragov / Electro

The Red Skull

Victor Von Doom / Doctor Doom

Miriam

Dr. Jonathan Ohnn / The Spot

Prowler / Hobie Brown

Richard Fisk

Susan Choi

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Alistair Smythe

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The Rhino

The Shocker

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The Chameleon

The Hobgoblin / Jason Phillip Macendale

Silvio "Silvermane" Manfredi

Alisa Silver / Alisa Silvermane

Hammerhead

Lonnie Lincoln/Tombstone

Morrie Bench / Hydro-Man

Baron Mordo

Dormammu

Miles Warren

Rheinholt Kragov / Electro

Miriam

Dr. Jonathan Ohnn / The Spot

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Richard Fisk

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