Title Character
Miles Morales
Supporting Characters
Supporting Characters
Rogues Gallery
Rogues Gallery
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Miles Morales' Rogues Gallery
Prime Earth Rogues Gallery
Lori Baumgartner / Bombshell Mom
Fifteen years ago, Lori Baumgartner was held up in Rykers Island Prison for 18 years for armed robbery. She was chosen by a clandestine Roxxon Secret Group for an opportunity for freedom if she agreed to undergo an experiment for a super-genetics program. She of course accepted, but the details of the experiment were secret from her. The Roxxon scientists gave her the power to be a human bomb. However during the experiment, it was found out that Lori was pregnant and accidentally revealed to her. Lori precedes to escape the laboratory and presumably never to found out exactly who those people were while birthing Lana. Over a decade later, she returns to crime with her daughter and start robbing jewelry stores and armored cars. They refer to themselves as the Bombshells.
- Book Dumb: Dropped out of high-school and thought Captain America was a professional wrestler.
- Good Parents: As far as a person who raised their daughter to be brought up in a life of crime can be at least. Lori, while still in prison, urges Lana to not follow the same path Lori did and felt remorse for Lana after Lana's boyfriend was murdered in front of her daughter. She even urges Lana to not lose touch of her new friends.
- Subverted when she gets out prison. She immediately tries to recruit her daughter to do crime again now that SHIELD is out of the picture. When Lana refuses, she tries to use Because I Said So as a justification why Lana should obey.
- This is subject to Cerebus Retcon, however; when Lori reappears post-Secret Wars her and Lana's comedically dysfunctional relationship is much, much darker, as Lori is shown to be a controlling alcoholic who abuses her daughter both physically and psychologically.
Lori: Ceres is flying the ship remotely and she'll know if you do anything. What I am saying, darling, is stay here and don't touch anything. Or I will actually @!&% kill you. - Law of Inverse Fertility: Apparently, Lori not only had no idea that she was pregnant, she had no intention of having a child as well.
- Parental Obliviousness: She believes that simply because she is Lana's mother, Lana has to obey her.
- Sir Swears Alot: Not as bad as her daughter, but it is still apparent enough for Spider-Woman to point out.
Tomoe / Techno Golem
Tomoe The Techno Golem
Ceres Goldstein
Ceres Goldstein
- Gadgeteer Genius: She's a master inventor and engineer who actually improved on Iron Man's original Iron Spider suit schematics, and provided Aaron and Jefferson with the new Prowler suit and the weapons they'd need to save Miles.
- Evil Virtues: She keeps her promises to her fellow criminals and values her friendship with Aaron Davis.
- The Man Behind the Man: She and Spider-Man have never met, but through her connections to Aaron Davis, she's had a major indirect influence on his crime-fighting life.
- Mission Control: From her temporary base in Jersey, she helps the Iron Spider's Sinister Six successfully steal a helicarrier and get it all the way to Latveria before any superheroes catch up.
- Ms. Fanservice: In contrast to the Tinkerer, who is decrepit old man, Ceres is an attractive Raven Hair, Ivory Skin Perky Goth with a penchant for rocking outfits that feel more at home on a Dominatrix than your archetypal scientist.
- Older Than They Look: Hammerhead once commissioned her to synthesize a Immortality Inducer that could restore a person to their physical prime. She tested the drug on herself first, and now is physically twenty years younger than she actually is.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: She's one to Phineas Mason AKA the Tinkerer. This is justified as Ceres intentionally created her business to be direct competition to the Tinkerer's racket, providing her clients with far more advanced products at competitive prices while lacking the bouts of insanity that makes Mason difficult to work with.Prowler: You worried the Tinkerer's gonna come down here and choke you the eff out?
Ceres: Ha! No.
Prowler: I would be. I'd be worried about that dude creeping over my shoulder with a big ass knife. This used to be his domain exclusively.
Ceres: Well that was never true. He doesn't own the marketplace. There's plenty of work here for everyone. And if you find better innovation over on his side of the Hudson then you go right ahead, my friend. But what I'm cooking up here makes his best stuff look like Iron Man's roller skates. - Villainous Friendship: She's very amiable with Aaron. Even after he doesn't live up to his end of their bargain, she's genuinely regretful about having to put a bounty on his head, and puts herself on the line by formulating a plan to pretend to capture him herself in order to up negotiations between her gang and Ultimatum.
The Snatcher
Snatcher
- Brainwashed: His power, which he primarily uses on the kids he abducts. He also tries to use it on Spider-Man, Rhino, and Captain America when they track him down, but finds this group (a teenager with Heroic Willpower to spare, a semi-reformed villain in full Papa Wolf — err, Uncle Rhino — mode, and the Determinator of the Marvel Universe) much harder to control than the children, implying that he's nowhere near as strong as Marvel's most recognizable telepaths like Professor X or Jean Grey.
- Children Forced to Kill: Under his hypnosis, the kids are compelled to do whatever he or the person who buys them tells them to do, and at one point forces the kids to hold each other at gunpoint to force the heroes into a Sadistic Choice. Thankfully, Spider-Man, Rhino, and Captain America manage to defeat him before he finds any buyers quite that twisted, and the only crime any of the children are shown carrying out is a robbery.
- Clothes Make the Superman: The kids he targets are all ordinary civilians, so he's invested in several child-sized uniforms that give them superpowers. Little Eduardo Rodriguez, for example, gets electric powers, and Rhino's niece Tanya gets elastic powers.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: He specifically says that kids he abducts come from families that, in his view, "don't belong" in the US — undocumented immigrants, homeless people, pro-vaccination families, and so on. He also has a Neo-Nazi Iron Cross tattooed on his arm, so yeah, we know his political affiliations.
- Superhuman Trafficking: Played with: he kidnaps kids so he can turn them into superhuman minions for the likes of Tombstone.
- Tattooed Crook: Has two visible arm tatted sleeves with one having a Nazi Iron Cross wrapped around barbed wire.
- Would Hurt a Child: As evidenced by the human trafficking. He later tries to force the heroes to stand down by making the kids hold each other at gunpoint.
The Assessor
Assessor
- Ambiguously Human: He looks like a man, but speaks robotically and never shows any kind of emotion. The Iron Man Annual reveals that he's some kind of gestalt AI.
- The Bad Guy Wins: He absolutely succeeds in his endeavor of capturing Miles, examining/torturing him for days, and gets away with it. Whatever his goal was, he succeeded. Sure, Miles escaped but has trauma and is extremely reluctant in finding and trying to stop the Assessor. Even after Iron Man captures the villain and basically obliterates his entire Brooklyn base of operations, a back-up copy of the Assessor's AI is booted up upon his arrest, leaving him still at large.
- Break the Badass: The Assessor's torment of Miles is so severe that it leaves him traumatized enough to stop being Spider-Man for several months. Keep in mind that the only other villain to successfully cause Miles this much distress was Ultimate Venom, his mother's killer.
- Expendable Clone: The reason why he tested Miles’ physical capabilities so rigorously was to create a burner clone that was essentially a shell of Miles. Burner Clones only last a day.
- For Science!: As well as for the Executive Board Review.
- Implied Death Threat: The Assessor doesn’t speak plainly. He uses corporate language and lexicons. Killing is too personal to say. The Assessor threatens to liquidate the test subject to not compromise board security.
- Kaizo Trap: A non-Video game example. Miles wakes up thinking that he caught the entire examination off guard and breaks out of his straps. He defeats the guards including Asset Quantum. And just when he thinks he is homefree, the doors that he thought were his escape only led to a closed room. The Assessor appears again revealing that it was just another test.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: The Assessor thankfully ends up on the receiving end of this trope after Miles eventually confesses to Tony Stark what happened to him while he was the Assessor's captive. Tony, completely horrified and enraged by the revelation, takes it upon himself to singlehandedly annihilate both the Assessor and his illicit operations in Brooklyn for what he did to the kid.
- Killer Game Master: Has this kind of personality.
- Mad Scientist: Has decided that child abduction and blackmail is the most reasonable way to study spider powers.
- Oh, Crap!: In a rare case of Not So Stoic, The Assessor is completely floored by how Iron Man was able to steamroll past his defenses and dispatch his primary enforcer Quantum. And since Tony set up signal blockers ahead of time that prevent the criminal mastermind from digitally transferring himself to safety, the Assessor has nowhere else left to run...Iron Man: Go on. Try to broadcast your persona out and away from this body. To safety. You can't, can you?
Assessor: No. Impossible. Inconceivable.
Iron Man: Wrong. Wrong. Invincible. Remember that. - Royal "We": Only ever uses the pronoun "We", but Miles refers to the Assessor as a "him".
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: He speaks with complicated diction. He never expresses any intent without getting straight to the point or being transparent.
- Sinister Surveillance: Every aspect of his testing area is monitored down to his test subjects vitals.
- Spock Speak: The Assessor speaks in mechanical, technical terms.
- Teleportation: Assessor has a mechanical minion called Asset Quantum. Its unique state allows it to teleport and avoid detection by Spider-Sense.
- Worthy Opponent: In his own disturbing way, he respects his prisoner and regularly states that Spider-Man is exceeding his expectations for his tests.
- Would Hurt a Child: Should "Subject 002-004" not comply with the Assessor's tests, he will direct a punishment either at Miles or his family and friends - pregnant Rio and teenagers Ganke, Judge, and Barbara included.
- You Are Number 6: Only ever calls Miles "Subject 002-004". When Aaron and Jefferson show up to rescue him, they are identified as "Motivational Assets".
Quantum
Quantum
The henchmen or thing of the Assessor. In spite of its humanoid frame, it isn’t human or it's devoid of humanity. It has the ability to phase through contract, and teleport at will. It seems to be tasked at capturing Miles for whatever tasks the Assessor has for him.
- Teleportation: Can teleport at will. Later revealed because he is the host of the space stone.
Ultimatum / Alter Ego UNMARKED SPOILERS
Miles Morales of Earth-616 / Ultimatum
- Adaptational Villainy: Unlike the Ultimate Marvel version of Miles, the Miles of Earth-616 was a member of the Rigoletto gang, is the best friend of the Kingpin and ultimately became a supervillain after a failed attempt to reform himself.
- Age Lift: Unlike Ultimate Miles, the Miles of Earth-616 was already an adult when he helped Fisk in his rise to become the Kingpin, making him older than Peter.
- Bond Villain Stupidity: He wants Miles gone from "his" universe, so he organises the capture of Miles, Aaron, and the entire Morales family. He doesn't succeed at the later, but he does manage to catch Miles, and takes the time to explain his whole history rather than just shove Miles through the damn portal. Naturally, this allows Aaron to save his nephew.
- The Bus Came Back: He disappears at the end of Spider-Men II. He returns in Miles Morales: Spider-Man issue 250.
- Canon Immigrant: He's the classic Marvel Universe's version of Miles and briefly lived in the restored Ultimate Universe.
- Character Tic: Apparently bites his lip when thinking.
- Costume Copycat: As Ultimatum, his outfit is a mix of that of the founding members of Earth-1610's The Ultimates (Captain America, Iron Man, Thor and Giant Man), albeit in a different colour-scheme.
- The Dragon: He was the Dragon for Kingpin, but Fisk treated him as an equal going so far as to have Don Rigoletto kiss his hand. The Don refused.
- Equal-Opportunity Evil: His minions and hired thugs are an incredibly diverse bunch. This becomes plot-relevant when some of them turn out to be Spanish speakers, allowing Spider-Man to pull a Bilingual Backfire on him and get a lead on where Ultimatum is.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He loved his wife and his motive in his introduction was trying to find a way to a universe where she was still alive. His friendship with Kingpin is also totally genuine on both sides.
- Evil Counterpart: Unlike Ultimate Miles, 616 Miles is a supervillain, and friend and former lackey of the Kingpin.
- Evil Power Vacuum: After Starling and Miles took out Tombstone invading Brooklyn, Ultimatum decided to move in on the turf after Miles took a several month break from being Spider-Man due to being captured and tortured by the Assessor.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: He's got some pretty nasty facial scars, gained when he tried protecting Wilson Fisk from an attack.
- In Spite of a Nail: Despite the vast differences between their universes and their histories, both Mileses share several of the same childhood memories, which is how this Miles proves their connection.
- Just a Gangster: Despite being skilled and crafty enough to rob an alternate universe of some of its most famous weapons and technology, all this Miles desires at the end of the day is total control over the underworld of his reality's Brooklyn. He even confesses to being this trope to Aaron's face after inviting him over to his compound for a chat.
- The Lost Lenore: His wife, Barbara. His journey into the recreated Ultimate Universe started with trying to get her back somehow.
- Mythology Gag: His supervillain name is taken from the Ultimatum event, and his gear appears to be compiled from Earth-1610's Ultimates - Cap's shield, Thor's chest plate, and a combination of Iron Man and Giant Man's powers.
- Quirky Miniboss Squad: He's got several groups of minions who wear costumes similar to his. They're looking to establish themselves in the criminal vacuum left behind when Spider-Man and Starling took down Tombstone. Not much is known about them other than that are aggressively pushing the Ultimate Oz formula that created Green Goblin and Ultimate Spider-Man on the people of Brooklyn (sometimes literally, as Miles tries to save a man. when they force the drug down the guy's throat).
- Race Lift: He's much lighter-skinned than "our" Miles.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: His outfit is the reverse of Miles' Spidey suit — mainly red with black designs.
- Sizeshifter: As Ultimatum, he's capable of turning giant like Giant Man.
- Superior Successor: He frequently uses his sizeshifting powers to appear powerful and menacing. It's kind of funny when you see those scenes and remember Ultimate Henry Pym, the first Giant-Man of the Ultimate universe, who was anything but.
- Unperson: There's not a trace of him anywhere in the world. Peter Parker checked, even having Jessica Jones do her thing. She couldn't find a bean. This is because he asked Wilson Fisk to hide all knowledge of him so he could live in peace.
- Villainous Friendship: With Wilson Fisk, of all people. Miles helped him in his rise to power, and Wilson still treats him as a friend, probably one of the few people this can be said of.
- It goes beyond just a mere friendship. They are best friends. Miles' helped Wilson Fisk's rise to power and eventually established him as the Kingpin of crime. Wilson Fisk is known for his greed and avarice gave Miles control of Brooklyn and went as far as to say that he wasn't giving him anything that he didn't already build.
Frost Pharaoh
Frost Pharoah
- Butt-Monkey: Is treated like a joke every time he appears. Miles even seems to be embarrassed that he could be considered a villain of his.Prowler: [in awe that Frost Pharaoh crawled out of a dumpster to stop them] You know this dude, too?
Miles: It's not important. - Captain Ersatz: He’s pretty much just the Pharaoh from Soon I Will Be Invincible. Confusing, pathetic supervillain white guy in non-thematic Egyptian costume wielding an icy weapon? Check.
- An Ice Person: His scepter gives him the ability to shoot and freeze things in ice.
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: He terrorizes a museum with his ice powers, but he's so ridiculous and easy for Miles to take down that he comes across as pitiable more than anything.
- Took a Level in Badass: While he is still a joke, he comes back strong in the Gang War Crossover Arc with his own minisyndicate as well as a giant mech that looks like a Gandam. It took the combined efforts of Miles, Misty Knight, and Colleen Wing to bring him down.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: His real name hasn't been revealed.
Miles Morales's Symbiote
Miles Morales's Symbiote
First Appearance: Absolute Carnage #2, Absolute Carnage: Miles Morales #1
See Carnage
The Bumbler
The Bumbler
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: The second things don't start going his way in a fight, Bumbler will immediately plead for mercy, even if he was the one who instigated the brawl in the first place.
- Atrocious Alias: While his name is meant to evoke the bumblebee, bumbler is also a word for someone that regularly screws up due to incompetence.
- Bee Afraid: He's a supervillain with a bee motif.
- Butt-Monkey: Just like Frost Pharoh, Bumbler is a D-lister who Miles is embarrassed to consider a member of his rogues gallery.
- Chronic Villainy: Discussed. The last time they fought one another, Miles had assumed that the Bumbler heeded his ultimatum to give up being a supervillain and get another hobby that doesn't require breaking the law, so when Miles catches Bumbler trying to pull off a heist, his disappointment is palpable.Spider-Man: I can't believe I'm going a round two with you. Thought we ended last time on such a good lesson!
Bumbler: Street life is hard! I needed the money!
Spider-Man: Damn, that's a shame. - Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Between his chosen alias, his use of honey as a weapon, and his penchant for being an Apologetic Attacker, its clear right out the gate that Bumbler ain't cut out to be a supervillain.
- Took a Level in Badass: After getting one upped by Spider-Man and Miles going a bit too far in their third encounter, Bumbler has garnered his own private military, a secondary henchmen, and new weaponry. He is still somewhat ineffectual, but no longer sympathetic as he is now embracing being a full-on supervillain.
Selim and the Miles Morales' clones
Selim
The de facto leader of Miles' clones.
- Evil Doppelgänger: Of Miles' remaining clones, Selim is the only one who looks just like him. Selim was trained from an early age to kill a man as efficiently as possible and has zero moral compunctions about murder or harming others.
- Sdrawkcab Name: Selim's name is Miles' backwards, representing how he's supposed to replace him and how he completely lacks all of Miles' morals and experiences.
Mindspinner
Selim's right-hand man and a clone of Miles who was modifeid to sprout additional spider legs from his back along with the ability to project painful psychic shocks into his victims.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He is be hellbent on making Miles suffer and has no qualms with hurting Billie, but he's outraged when Selim attacks Shift for protecting Billie. This leads to a brawl between Selim and Mindspinner that ends with both of them being fried by Selim's last Venom Blast.
Shift
This clone of Miles was imperfectly created, resulting in an amorphous, misshapen body that struggles to maintain more than a vaguely humanoid shape.
Raneem Rashad / The Rabble
Raneem Rashad / The Rabble
A lottery Miles Morales won instead.
Infuriated that her entire future was derailed by a single gamble while resenting the boy who won everything she believed should've been rightfully hers, Raneem dedicated the next years of her life plotting to get revenge against Miles. Learning his secret identity as Spider-Man, targeting his loved ones, all while arming his enemies with bleeding edge upgrades that make them even more formidable than before.
- Alliterative Name: Raneem Rashad.
- Arch-Enemy: Of Miles Morales. Unlike some of his other adversaries who largely opposed the wallcrawler because he tried to foil their respective criminal enterprises, Raneem despises Miles on a personal level and is deadset on ruining his life by whatever means necessary.
- The Armorer: She's the one responsible for outfitting Bumbler and Scorpion with more powerful gear, with her price being that they simply use it to kill Miles' as soon as they have the opportunity. She also has been supplying many of the factions in New York such as Madame Masque, Hobgoblin, and Black Onyx to the point that she is technically is the tech supplier of New York's criminal underworld. After the events of Gang War (2023), Miles rallies his allies to locate her and bring her to justice simply because the technology she's arming New York's criminals with is becoming too dangerous to simply react to.
- Attack Drone: Rabble utilizes a swarm of these which serve to both support her in combat and act as improvised platforms for her to surf the skies on.
- Ax-Crazy: Raneem is a highly volatile individual who is guilty of stalking, kidnaping, arson, and premeditated murder, all in the name of terrorizing a single innocent person for something completely out of his control. It gets worse after she starts suffering Power Incontinence as a result of losing her fight with Miles, as she makes deals with Hobgoblin, Madame Masque, and slaughters an entire tech depot full of people so she can steal data that can help her get her powers back in order...all so she can start hounding Miles again.
- Beat Them at Their Own Game: Miles defeats her the first time by developing the ability to create a Venom-Saber out of his bioelectricity to stop her own laser blades and destroy her drones. She turns this around on him by developing cloaking technology that mimics his own camouflage ability, forcing him to use his Spider-Sense to locate her before she can take off his head.
- Better with Non-Human Company: She felt closer to machines than with people, to the point that her parents were practically the only people she cared about.
- Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Subverted. Raneem tried to refurbish used cell phones to sell for cheap in an attempt to make money, but her efforts went unrewarded as people opted to buy the latest models instead. This is Double Subverted by the fact that she could clearly build an Iron Man-esque suit of Powered Armor, seriously upgrade the tech of other supervillains, and hack into school databases on a limited budget but never thinks of trying to apply her skills to get into another technical high school when she loses the Brooklyn Visions lottery to Miles.
- Dented Iron: She survives an enormous explosion at the end of her first climactic battle with Miles that he was certain killed her. But Raneem's overuse of her powers and the injuries she sustained damaged her brain and her technopathic abilities. This makes her gradually more irrational and frustrated at her diminishing abilities, seeking out the aid of Roderick Kingsley to help get her revenge and restore her powers.
- Don't You Dare Pity Me!: A big aspect of her character is that she hates being underestimated and thus has a huge chip on her shoulder and constantly seeks to prove herself and her brilliance. And she absolutely hates when anyone sympathizes with her even when she is at her most vulnerable which leads to the Shut Up, Kirk! moment below.
- Drone Deployer: She is a walking one and this is her MO. She uses drones to ride and manuever around on, to protect and shield herself from direct harm, to physically monitor her surroundings, to blow up on her enemies and firebomb her targets, and to carry items or people. top of her ability to speak to high tech machinery and her Hollywood Hacking skills, she tends to hijack other people's drones and use them against them.
- Entitled Bitch: Raneem's rampage is motivated by Miles winning the lottery to get into Brooklyn Visions instead of her. Rather than raging against a system that decides academic futures on a game of chance, Raneem seeks to make Miles just as miserable as she is for taking and "squandering" what she believes is rightfully hers. Whenever someone calls her out on her Moral Myopia, she claims that she's not insane, she's gifted.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Even at her worst, Raneem still holds a deep, abiding love for her father, who is being taken care of at a nursing home while demonstrating symptoms of dementia.
- Evil Is Petty: Raneem's vendetta against Miles is this in spades. She is a Teen Genius from an impoverished family who needed to get into Brooklyn Visions Academy for a chance at a better education but lost to Miles in the student charter lottery by a single number. But instead of focusing her rage at the system she herself describes as unjust for pitting the futures of children on a literal gamble, she attacks Miles and kidnaps his loved ones for "stealing" what she believes should've been rightfully hers. When Miles resorted to offering his own life in exchange for leaving his family alone, Rabble vehemently refused because that would still make Miles the "Hero" of the story and she won't accept any outcome that doesn't involve him losing everything.
- Expy: Rabble has a very strong resemblance to the Tinkerer from Insomniac's Spider-Man: Miles Morales. Both are young and wrathful Gadgeteer Geniuses adorned in neon lit Adaptive Armor and upgrade various members of Spider-Man's rogues gallery with cutting edge tech. But unlike Tinkerer, who was Childhood Friends with Miles and only came into conflict with him because he kept getting in the way of her destructive crusade against Roxxon, Raneem never got to know Miles as a kid and purely resents him as a recipient of the opportunities she feels entitled to.
- Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Miles tries to be sympathetic to Raneem, hoping against hope to help her turn her life around even after Raneem tries to murder his family over her deluded sense of fairness after he won the Brooklyn Visions lottery instead of her. Tiana, who also came from a troubled household and has a supervillain for a grandfather, is much less sympathetic, calling out Raneem for believing that her trauma gives her the right to hurt others.Tiana: So you had a %&@$ up childhood. My condolences. But welcome to the club. Trauma doesn't give you license to inflict it on others.
- Gadgeteer Genius: Raneem's ability to communicate with machines gives her a natural affinity for tinkering and engineering. This allowed her to construct the Powered Armor and drones she uses as the Rabble as well as upgrade the gear of Miles' various C-list rogues to turn them into major threats.
- Hates My Secret Identity: Inverted. Unlike classic Spider-Man rogues like Venom and Green Goblin, Raneem despises Miles specifically and doesn't really give a shit that he's secretly a superhero.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Her second major defeat comes from her deal with Agent Gao in Issue #19. Miles finds one of the Power Nullifier collars that Raneem took from the PDNY's Cape Busters during his Brutal Brawl with her. He then slaps it around her neck, negating her abilities and causing her drones to fall out of the sky. He then manages to kick her unconscious with her Powered Armor now offline.
- I Just Want to Be You: If you get down to it, this is the core of what drives Raneem’s hatred of Miles. She resents that he has a family that she lost. She hates that he had the opportunity given to him because her lotto number was 41 and not 42. Combined with the grief of losing her only family, becoming an orphan after her father was admitted to a nursing home from the onset of dimentia, and living in squalor, she chooses to focus on Miles as the recipient of all she feels entitled to even if it makes no sense. This is why she isolates his friends and family. Why she has no qualms firebombing his home knowing his baby sister is inside. She wants Miles to lose what she lost.
- Immigrant Parents: Raneem is a first-generation American whose parents immigrated from Jordan.
- In the Hood: Like the character she took inspiration from, she is wearing a hood.
- Logical Weakness: Rabble can only control or override technology that requires an AI or some user interface via vocal command or mental command and appears to be limited to her own homemade tech. Anything else would require Hollywood Hacking on her part as shown when she shut down Starling's wings, but she has shown to effectively shut down most tech immediately. However, if her enemy isn't reliant on technology like Miles, she would have to use brute force. Aside from her technopathic abilities, Raneem is just a normal human in some light armor.
- Love Makes You Evil: The only people she loved were her parents, when she lost them both she snapped and went on a crusade to destroy Miles' life out of a misguided notion of honoring them.Raneem: You don’t know what it’s like. For two people to sacrifice so much, to work so hard to give you a better life. I just wanted to return the favor. I just wanted to be a good daughter.
- Machine Empathy: Raneem has frequently said that her ability is to speak to machines and technology. She has often been shown to speak with them and argue with her drones. This lends to her Wrench Wench capabilities as she said tha she has conversations with machines and have been shown to speak to her or even show concern for her.
- Misplaced Retribution: She wants to make Miles suffer simply because he won the student charter lottery at Brooklyn Visions instead of her. Treating him as emblematic of the system she derides as unjust for literally gambling with the livelihoods of children, regardless of the fact that he himself had no control over the circumstances just like all of the other kids who participated.
- Never My Fault: Raneem never admits responsibility for her actions except when it suits her. When Tiana points out that Raneem's parents would be ashamed of the murderous psycho their daughter turned into, Raneem blames it all on "[the] system" that allowed her to miss out on attending Brooklyn Visions. This is subverted during a private talk with her father in a brief moment of lucidity where she's aware that she's squandered her parents' dream for her in her blind pursuit of revenge. She tells her father that she refused to let Miles help her because that would mean admitting that she had become someone whom her loving parents wouldn't recognize.
- No Social Skills: Indicative of her propensity to talk at people and not with them. She is used to machines taking her commands and doing what she wants. With people, she comes across as unhinged and completely delusional. You have to work to make the Hobgoblin say you need to calm down.
- The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: To a degree. Raneem always knew Miles was Spider-Man, and could have easily shared this information with others who are compelled to act on that information, but in the company of Hobgoblin, Scorpion, Bumbler, and even Madame Masque, she kept this knowledge to herself. She even tells Hobgoblin that "Spider-Man is [hers]." and gets heated if anybody else tries to intervene.
- Power Incontinence: Just like Miles and his Spider-Sense, Raneem has been having trouble using her technopathic abilities due to her fight with Miles. In order to get the full effect of her powers, she has to go through bouts of rage that also drains her.
- The Power of Hate: Is driven by it along with her misplaced grief. Rabble refuses to be redeemed as long as Miles is breathing air.Rabble: I am the Envoy of Death.
- Psychic Nosebleed: She suffers a nosebleed while overusing her Machine Empathy powers, showing the toll that it's taking on her. Tiana remarks that Raneem's is probably hemmoraging with how many machines she's controlling at once.
- The Resenter: And how! She finds enjoyment in hating Miles Morales. It's almost impressive if it did not come from a place of grief.
- Revenge Myopia: Where do we even begin? Raneem is laser focused on making Miles suffer by attacking his friends and family because she sees him as a walking personification of a corrupt system that gambles with the lives of marginalized children... even though Miles was also a marginalized child at the mercy of the very same system she was. If Raneem really wanted to change things, she'd be taking her frustrations out on policy makers or use her gifts to try and tackle the root problems that necessitated the rise of the student lottery in the first place, not attempt to murder a random kid whose only crime is being lucky.
- Sanity Slippage: Despite her assertions that she's fine, it's clear that Raneem's sanity is fading as she gets closer and closer to enacting her revenge on Miles. Even discounting her plan to murder Miles' family out of a petty grudge, she seems to believe that killing Miles' parents is a form of justice, calling it a "fair trade" even though Miles' family didn't know she existed until recently.
- Shadow Archetype: She is Miles' inverse in every way. Both of them are teenagers gifted with great intelligence and powers that enable them to do amazing things. Miles gained his powers through luck, but was surrounded by friends and family who taught him to harness these abilities for the sake of others even if it means sacrificing some of the happiness in his personal life. Raneem was born with her technopathic abilities and had a natural affinity for engineering and machinery from the start. But she lost her loving family and became tunnel visioned about the importance of her gifts, believing they made her better than those around her. After losing her chance to get into Brooklyn Visions, she becomes hyper-focused on the person she sees as the source of her misery, choosing to be selfish and entitled rather than responsible.
- Shut Up, Kirk!: Miles tries desperately to talk her down, but she vehemently denies him because she refuses to let him be the hero in her revenge story.Miles: (pleading with Raneem) You're right. I don't understand. I don't think I ever will. But I know my family isn't to blame. So please don't take it out on them. Take it out on me. I won't fight you anymore, Raneem. Just leave them be.
Raneem: No. No. No. It's not fair. You still get to decide. You still get a shot at redemption. You still get to take the high road and give me your pity. You still get to be the hero. You still win! I can't let that happen.
Miles: Raneem, please don't—
Raneem: [powered up and pissed off] I'm never going to stop coming for you, Miles Morales. Or your family. Or your friends. I'm going to be the thing that keeps you up at night. If you want to stop me, you're going to have to see this through to the end! - Sinister Scythe: Made of electricity coming out of presumably her gauntlets. She has summoned two of them in order to Dual Wield.
- Suicide by Cop: In Issue #17, she goads Miles into trying to kill her to save her friends from Gao and her Cape Killers, whom Raneem is controlling through their Powered Armor to hold them hostage and use them as weapons against Miles' loved ones. She then proclaims that Miles will have to kill her to stop her, knowing full well that doing so would break Miles emotionally and mentally.
- Surveillance Drone: Her Attack Drone Army also serves as surveillance and Orbiting Particle Shield.
- Taking You with Me: Has a "Pyrrhic protocol" set up to try and self-destruct her devices and get Miles caught in the blast. Miles survives, but there is no trace of her. She does come back as an accomplice to both Madame Masque and Hobgoblin in Gang War and she now harbors even more resentment towards Miles because her Technopath powers were hampered due to her trying to kill both Miles and herself.
- Technopath: Raneem possessed technopathic powers since she was a child. She "speaks" to machines somehow and is able to overwrite their software mentally. She is not able to do this too much as overusing her ability causes strain and Power Incontinence.
- Villainous Breakdown: Raneem constantly talks about why her "gift" make her entitled to the things that Miles has, using it to justify her insane vendetta against him and his loved ones. She puts so much stock in her intelligence and technopathic abilities that she has a total meltdown once Miles slaps one of the Power Nullifier collars she took from the PDNY on her, negating her precious gifts. Raneem is paralyzed with shock after the voices of the machines she loves are silenced while asking why he would take away her gift.Raneem: Wh-why did you d-do this? You took away my gift? Why did you do this to me? You took... took away my... gift...? Why?! [ranting in Arabic] WHY DID YOU DO THIS TO ME, MILES MORALES?! WHY DID YOU TAKE MY GIFT FROM ME?! WHY DID YOU TAKE MY GIFT—?
- Ungrateful Bitch: Miles saved her from getting hit by a hijacked bank transport vehicle and she thanks him by carrying out this misplaced vendetta against him.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Raneem has the full tragic backstory suite, and seeks to burn down Miles and his life out of entitlement towards what she believes she's owed after what was lost to her.Rabble: We can call it even, Miles! Just a simple trade! A mother for a mother! A father for a father! What do you say?! Does that sound fair to you?! When you are the only Morales left, then this debt'll be settled!
- Would Hurt a Child: Raneem deliberately targeted Miles' family knowing that he had a baby sister, and her goal was to kill Billie along with anyone connected with Miles.
R'ym'r
R'ym'r
I am the King whose crown cannot be taken! I am R'ym'r the Immortal!
Hobgoblin
Roderick Kingsley / Hobgoblin I
"You feel that? That's the walls closing in, kiddo. You either learn to get a handle on these things, or they'll eat you alive."
"You have a moral compass. You care about others! About yourself! All you Spider-Folk want is to keep people safe! Me? I'm a certified death-dealer. I've peered into the abyss, and the only thing I saw was a job well done!"
A fashion designer turned cutthroat business mogul who decided to take a spin at being a supervillain after discovering the laboratory and arsenal of the original Green Goblin, Roderick Kingsley sought to surpass Norman Osborn as a career criminal mastermind unbound by the petty revenge-fueled motivations of his predecessor. But after suffering repeated defeats at the hands of heroes like Spider-Man and Captain Marvel, Kingsley inevitably hit Rock Bottom and became a shell of his former menacing self. While he joined the Aaron Davis-led incarnation of the Sinister Six as a desperate bid to score a win for himself, their heist to steal a S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier was foiled by Miles Morales and the Champions.
Afterwards, Kingsley was unwittingly dragged into the machinations of the Queen Goblin AKA Ashley Kafka, who brainwashed him as part of an elaborate plot against a reformed Norman Osborn. But in a twist of fate, a remnant of Kingley's true persona was able to resist long enough to reverse what Kafka did to him. Now back to his senses with a reignited purpose, the Hobgoblin has planted his roots in Brooklyn to erect a brand new criminal empire for himself while hunting down his old Queen. And if seeing his grand ambitions realized means fighting tooth and nail against Brooklyn's very own wallcrawler to get it done, so be it.
The Cape Killers
Agent Gao
Agent Julia Gao
The official commanding officer of the PDNY's new anti-super Tactical Unit, Agent Gao is a no-nonsense cop who has very little tolerance for Brooklyn's Spider-Man and his vigilante escapades due to him being in direct violation of the Powers Act ratified by former Mayor Wilson Fisk. While Gao does acknowledge some of the good Miles has done for the city, she is determined to do everything within her power to put the young wallcrawler in cuffs if she catches him swinging through her streets.
- Alternate Company Equivalent: Gao is essentially a Spider-Man centric Expy of Amanda Waller, as a morally dubious Iron Lady in command of a black ops unit that utilizes supervillain convicts as expendible assets. The only real difference between the two is that Gao intentionally designed her "Cape Killers" to be a street-level counterterrorism operation while Waller's racket plays more into international espionage.
- By-the-Book Cop: For as long as the Powers Act is in effect, Gao will come after Miles with the full might of the NYPD backing her, regardless if he's using his abilities to help out his fellow man. Subverted in the Carnage Reigns miniseries, where it's revealed that Gao recruited Scorpion in an off-the-books program where he assists her squad in apprehending other superhuman criminals in exchange for time shaved off of his prison sentence — and Gargan isn't the only villain Gao has roped into her operation this way.
- Cape Busters: Both Gao and the men under her command are specially equipped to combat and apprehend supervillains. Just to drive home how good they are at their job, Gao was able to take out an upgraded Scorpion in a single hit, who at the time had both Miles and Misty Knight on the ropes. During Cletus Kasady's latest rampage, Gao decides to deploy the Cape Killers: a Thunderbolts-esque team of supervillain convicts (Scorpion, Taskmaster, Electro II, and Hightail) she had personally enlisted to provide backup for her men in their mission to apprehend superhumans in violation of the Powers Act, which includes superheroes like Spider-Man.
- Cowboy Cop: What she actually is. Gao is exploiting a law implemented by a Corrupt Politician to carry out a vendetta towards supers due to a misplaced belief that superheroes like Spider-Man are the center of all of the problems in New York. The Carnage Reigns event and Luke Cage: Gang War mini-series establishes that while Cage and his administration know exactly what Gao is doing, she's too effective in her job to take her badge and Cage lacks the political power to completely override her or the Powers Act she operates under. Especially during a time when all of New York is embroiled in a heated Mob War and the regular NYPD is just not equipped to combat it like Gao and her subordinates can.
- Dark and Troubled Past: She was once an ordinary cop trying to keep the safe like any other. But she was traumatized by the events of Maximum Carnage, where she was forced to shoot her own partner to prevent him from becoming a minion of Carnage. From then on, she became convinced of the Superhero Paradox, blaming Spider-Man in particular for bringing Carnage to Earth. After the passing of the Powers Act, Gao founds the Cape Killers specifically to capture as many superheroes and supervillains as she can, believing that the streets of New York will only be safe once all superpowered individuals are behind bars.
- Enemy Mine: There is some major league bad blood between Agent Gao and Miles Morales over the former's personal mission to arrest the latter, but with Cletus Kasady's latest rampage already causing widespread destruction and a rapidly growing bodycount, Gao is willing to shelve her petty grievances and work with Miles so they can hunt down Cletus before any more lives are lost.
- Evil Is Petty: Agent Gao's beef with Miles gradually becomes this over the course of their interactions. Gao is a anti-super bigot who genuinely believes in the Superhero Paradox but was willing to let Miles walk away from a crime scene since he had just rescued a girl from being ran over. But since Miles refuses to stop fighting crime afterwards even after she had threatened to put him behind bars, Gao starts using ANY legal justification she can come up with to arrest or harass him even in situations where he should really be the last thing on her list of priorities. Following the events of Gang War (2023), she's so incensed by Mayor Cage's dissolution of her Cape Killers program that she seeks out Rabble, an Arms Dealer and murderer, for the means to take Spider-Man down.
- Fair Cop: She's a young and attractive Asian woman who rocks a form-fitting Spy Catsuit under her police jacket.
- Fantastic Racism: Hates supers with a passion to the point that she will abuse the law implemented by Wilson Fisk back when he was still the mayor of New York to arrest civilians with powers who just happen to fight or defend themselves. The fact that Orchis is backing her with their technology also suggests that she might be an anti-mutant bigot as well.
- Hypocrite:
- She gets on Miles for being a Destructive Savior in a fight in which Scorpion caused most of the damage but then recruits Scorpion along with several other supervillains in a Boxed Crook arrangement so they can fight other supers on her behalf.
- She is definitely a hypocrite when it is revealed in Red Goblin #5 that Gao and the Cape Killers are being funded by Kelvin Heng aka Feilong, an anti-mutant supremacist mutate who has publicly gotten in squabbles with Iron Man where Kelvin used his power against Iron Man and caused property damage. Kelvin has created Stark Sentinels to accomplish his anti-mutant agenda which is more destructive than any vigilante could hope to be. Feilong is funding Gao with the express purpose of causing disruption and disorder and the fact that Gao isn't aware of this or at least is not looking into her benefactor is hypocritical.
- In Miles Morales: Spider-Man #10-12, she sics Hightail on Miles for no other reason other than to antagonize him. When Miles is helping Blade and his daughter deal with an energy vampire infestation, Hightail intervenes in what is a controlled situation only to become a thrall of the head vampire herself. She then starts biting multiple civilians and infected them thus becoming an example of said public reckless endangerment that Gao berated Miles for just because Gao forced Hightail to illegally stalk Miles.
- Her palpable hatred for supers and thinking they are part of the problem has not stopped her from literally collaring them and using them against other supers as she sees fit. An approach that notably got most of her men killed during the events of Carnage Reigns and would have ended in further tragedy had Iron Man and Spider-Man not intervened to stop Cletus.
- When the aftermath of Gang War (2023) results in the Powers Act finally being repealed and Mayor Cage's pullng the plug on the Cape Killers program, instead of accepting her transfer over to the NYPD's Vice Unit with her rank intact, Gao decides to just circumvent the law entirely to secretly enlist Rabble, an Ax-Crazy Arms Dealer responsible for escalating the Mob War by supplying weapons to both Hobgoblin and Madame Masque's respective factions, to help in her now unlawful pursuit of Miles. This proves without a shadow of a doubt, that for all of her preaching about being a By-the-Book Cop, Gao's beef with the younger Spider-Man is entirely personal and that she doesn't give a damn about the law beyond how it can serve her own spiteful agenda.
- I Control My Minions Through...: The carrot and stick approach. All of the supervillains recruited into her strike team called the Cape Killers (Scorpion, Taskmaster, Electro, and new villain Hightail) are rewarded with time shaved off of their prison sentence and implied financial compensation for their continued cooperation. But if they ever step out of line while in the field, Gao has methods of painfully shutting them down via Shock Collar and will throw their asses back into the Raft if they prove themselves to be too much trouble.
- Inspector Javert: She's set up to be one for Miles. While Gao clearly has no love for costumed-vigilantism in general, its Brooklyn's very own Spider-Man who she's out to nab in particular.
- Iron Lady: Leads her squad with impunity and is not afraid to punish her enslaved supervillains when they don't give her respect.
- Misplaced Retribution: Seems to be under the impression that Spider-Man's vigilante actions created the vacuum that allowed supervillains to exist.
- Gao was forced to shoot her own partner to spare him the fate of being taken by Cletus Kasady during Maximum Carnage, and she blames Spider-Man for even bringing the symbiotes in existence. The problem is that she is antagonizing the wrong Spider-Man, who wasn't even in the same universe when Maximum Carnage went down. It was mainly Venom's/Eddie Brock's fault for the creation of Carnage than either Spider-Man's — and Peter, as soon as he found out that his black and white suit was a living symbiote, immediately tried to destroy it.
- Gao, in the same speech, blames Spider-Man for Scorpion, which is more egregious than the Venom accusation since it was John Jonah Jameson that hired Mac Gargan as a private investigator to track down how Peter Parker was getting the photos of Spider-Man and when that failed, he put Mac in an experiment to create a Spider-Man buster that we see as Scorpion today. Peter did nothing to "make" Scorpion happen other than be too good at his day job — and Gao should know this, as JJJ himself went and took full responsibility for his actions on the front page of his own newspaper. Also, in the incident that she berates Miles for, it wasn't Miles that caused most of the property damage. It was Scorpion and PDNY's pursuit of Scorpion that did so, as Miles simply prevented a casualty.
- Again, she attributes Gang War (2023) to superheroism and vigilantism except that the Powers Act created super criminal safe havens for supervillains in New York because the author of the Powers Act, Wilson Fisk, specifically used his mayoral power to create this environment. It took one wedding attack and power grab from someone positioning themselves to become Kingpin or Queenpin and none of that had anything to do with the New York Street Level Vigilantes and again chooses to antagonize the Spider-Man who had little to nothing to do with the powderkeg.
- Mistaken for Racist: Subverted. When Miles accuses her of disproportionately targeting minorities like himself, Gao retorts that she didn't even know what the wallcrawler looked like under his mask until he brought it up, but she does not deny Miles' claim that they do in fact target people of color. Note that Miles didn't mention what race he was either. In Carnage Reigns, she immediately proves Miles' point when she had Scorpion take down a black woman with wind powers who refused to be a bystander when she was getting robbed.Miles: Oh, I heard all about you guys. Cracking skulls and pushing around folks for looking after their own streets. Heard ones where folks living there who look like me get it the worst. That about right?
Agent Gao: Got no clue what you look like under there, kid, but now I can take a guess. - "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives a rather scathing one to Miles over his Destructive Saviour tendencies.Spider-Man: I'm just saying. Keep that same energy when you're not in Brooklyn. Also, in case you missed it — I SAVED THE DAY!
Agent Gao: At what cost, genius?
Spider-Man: Huh?
Agent Gao: Destruction of private property. Destruction of public property. Destruction of municipal property. Interfering with the public transportation system. This single act of vigilantism has cost the city more than whatever money Scorpion would've gotten from that bank. Money that was insured, by the way. So, again, I ask... at what cost? - Secret Police: Gao herself describes her strike force as "New York's own taxpayer-funded black ops team" created to enforce the Powers Act without Mayor Cage's interference.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Agent Gao effectively supplants Frank Quaid, a prominent cop character from the Bendis-era, as the reoccurring hardass law enforcement officer in Miles' life. Albeit she seems to be taking a far more antagonistic approach in comparison to Quaid since her first major act is to enlist supervillain convicts to assist her efforts in capturing Spider-Man and combat other superhumans regardless of their innocence.
- Ungrateful Bitch: Miles saved her from falling out of a helicopter during the Carnage Reigns event. He then stops Carnage with the help of Iron Man when her Cape Killers failed spectacularly and even ended up as a liability. She chooses to continue antagonize Miles specifically for no apparent reason other than a grudge.
- Vetinari Job Security: Even if Mayor Cage had the ability to shut down Gao's operation and strip the woman of her badge, the radical rise in violent crime in the city brought about by the Gang War (2023) compounded with the regular NYPD being miserably ill-equipped to combat superhuman threats means that Gao is an irreplacable field asset in this time of crisis. It's subverted at the end of the event, as Cage manages to rally enough support to repeal the Powers Act, putting Gao out of a job.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: She seems to genuinely believe that locking up every superpowered individual, superhero or not, is the only way to keep the streets of New York safe. But it's also clear that she has a particular vendetta against superheroes because of the trauma of having to Mercy Kill her partner before he came under Carnage's control back in Maximum Carnage, making her particularly insistent on trying to take Miles and other superheroes in. But even at her worst, it's clear that she genuinely believes her actions will protect others, even with her biases in place.
Sandra Santos / Hightail
Sandra Santos / Hightail
"Y'all are taking entirely too long so I am finishing this."
A pickpocket with superspeed that was apprehended by Agent Gao and has been conscripted to join Gao's special task force, Cape Killers, in order to get time off her sentence.- Berserk Button: She does not like being embarassed or shown up. When Miles tricked her by webbing her face in mock surrender, she has been laser focused on bringing the webslinger in and goes out of her to initiate hostilities just because she can.
- Boxed Crook: In Carnage Reigns, she is under the control of Agent Gao in the latter's personal superhero killing program, Cape Killers.
- Consummate Professional: Usually comes across as this, but throws that out of the window when she gets embarassed which is the focus point of her beef with Miles.Regardless, she routinely berates her teammates for being too slow or not in-synch.
- It's Personal: Hightail usually is more about business, but when Miles shown her up, she has a vendetta against Miles and will happily abuse the No-Powers Act to bring him in.
- Logical Weakness: Hightail is a speedster who relies on having solid footing in order to effectively use her powers. So a Cletus-possessed Kenneth Neely immediately uses his symbiote biomass to assimilate the ground under her, immobilizing Hightail long enough to blast her with a repulsor ray.
- Mutants: In Red Goblin #5, Feilong criticizes Agent Gao for the villains she chose to be a part of her team's roster, taking particular offense to the fact that one of them is a mutant. With Scorpion and Electro being officially classified as human mutates while Taskmaster wasn't born with an X-Gene to explain his photographic reflexes, that leaves Hightail as the only member of the roster who could be the mutant in question.
- Sticky Fingers: She is a thief who uses her Super-Speed to steal.
- Super-Speed: It's her superpower.
Taskmaster
Tony Masters / Taskmaster
"Hiya, kid. Long time no stab!"
A supervillain mercenary born with "photographic reflexes" that grants him the notorious ability to perfectly mimic the movements and skills of those he witnesses. Taskmaster primarily used his talents to serve as a teacher and consultant to various villains, henchmen, and even a small number of heroes. Miles has traded blows with Taskmaster on several occasions, foiling his hustle as a assassin before he was inevitably apprehended by Agent Gao to serve as a member of her Cape Killers.
Scorpion
MacDonald "Mac" Gargan / Scorpion
A private investigator who underwent an experimental procedure financed by J. Jonah Jameson to transform him into somebody strong enough to defeat the original Spider-Man, Mac Gargan is a long-time enemy of Peter Parker who outclasses the webhead in raw physicality but lacks the intelligence to be anything beyond a street level crook. In Absolute Carnage, Miles Morales and Venom saved Gargan's life from a Carnageized Norman Osborn who wanted to murder him for the remaining traces of symbiote matter in his spine. While Gargan recovered from his injuries and inevitably made a return to villainy as the Scorpion, he found himself clashing with Brooklyn's Spider-Man yet again, which resulted in him being arrested by Agent Gao of the New York Police Department. Facing spending the rest of his life locked up in the Raft, Gao offered Gargan the opportunity to shave time off of his prison sentence by joining her Cape Killers.
Electro II
Francine Frye / Electro II
A supervillain fangirl who got herself killed trying to kiss Maxwell Dillon while he was suffering a Superpower Meltdown, Francine Frye was resurrected by the Jackal as an incentive to convince the recently de-powered Electro work for him. But the procedure that was supposed to grant Max his abilities back went to Francine instead, resulting in her killing and replacing him as the brand-new Electro. Frye would go onto join the Sinister Six led by Aaron Davis to steal a S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier to sell to Latveria, which was foiled by Miles Morales and the Champions. In 2023, Frye was captured by Agent Gao and chose to join her Cape Killers initiative instead of rotting in prison. She apparently worked off her sentence and was released after Carnage Reigns since she is back working with Janice Lincoln aka the Beetle and the Sinister Syndicate in Gang War.
Gust
Jade Jackson / Gust
Jade was a bystander during a bank robbery and instead of being a hapless victim, Jade decided to defend herself from her would be kidnappers. Luckily for her, Scorpion was sent in by Agent Gao to put a stop to the robbery and unintentionally assist her. Unluckily for her, Scorpion immediately put her down because she technically broke the law defending herself and the fellow victims in the bank. She was arrested and now she has been conscripted by Agent Gao as part of Gao's Cape Killers to work off her sentence.- Anti-Villain: She is not a supervillain at all or even a superhero. She was just a bystander who just so happened to have powers and decided to defend herself in a bank robbery. Due to the nature of the Anti-Powers Act, she got roped in with villains like Scorpion and Electro, and it's clear that she really does not belong or deserve to be in Gao's custody.
- Apologetic Attacker: Jade does not want to attack Spider-Man and has apologized to him that she is being forced to fight against him. Fortunately, Miles understands and forgives her. When allowed to work on the same team as Miles, however, she is eager to help and ecstatic to be on Team Spidey.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Jade was forced into being a Boxed Crook and just wants to go home to her family. She has no villainous qualities and only fights Miles because she's forced to, lest she be left in prison to rot. Despite her reluctance to fight and kind demeanor, her control over air makes her potentially the most dangerous member of the Cape Killers, as her control over wind is powerful enough to generate tornadoes and even suck the air out of people's lungs as shown when Rabble uses the Powered Armor she gave Gao to force the Cape Killers to push themselves to the breaking point.
- Blow You Away: She is a Wind user who can form tornadoes and essentialy fly and carry other people in the air.
- Boxed Crook: The only member of the Cape Killers who really is not a villain and got pinched because she was trying to stop a bank robbery.
- New Meat: Her inexperience in the Cape Killers is shown as she is often berated by both Scorpion and Hightail when she messes up. Then again, she is being forced to be a member to work off her sentence.
- Reluctant Warrior: Unlike her compatriots who do not need much prompt to attack any hero much less Spider-Man or even Scorpion who somewhat likes Miles because Miles has saved him a few times but has few scruples in attacking him, Gust rather not fight Spider-Man at all or even be part of the Cape Killers. The only reason she is doing so is to work off her bogus sentence.
- Unskilled, but Strong: Gust has a grasp on her abilities in that she knows how to activate them, but she lacks the experience with them to fine tune them and be precise. Because of this, her own team gets caught up or blown away if they are within range of her attacks much to the chagrin of Hightail.
Ultimate Universe Rogues Gallery
Norman Osborn / Green Goblin
Norman Osborn / Green Goblin
Norman Osborn is a corrupt industrialist and CEO of OsCorp. A scientist who was trying to perfect the Super Soldier drug for S.H.I.E.L.D., an obsession that leads to the neglect of his wife and son. Theorizing that if the OZ serum combined with spider DNA gave the first Spider-Man the abilities of a spider, then if Norman were to receive OZ combined with his own DNA, he could become a heightened version of himself.
Norman, however, is transformed into a muscular, grotesque, demonic-looking monster, granting him superhuman strength, reflexes, stamina and durability, and enabling him to leap great distances. He also has the ability to throw flaming balls of destructive power. It also puts his already unstable personality into overdrive.
He has recently been brought back as The Dragon to Ultimatum.
Maximus Gargan / The Scorpion II
Maximus Gargan/The Scorpion
A Mexican crime lord who followed The Prowler up to New York for revenge for a double-cross. Once there, he decided the city needed a new Kingpin, and set out to consolidate his territory and terrorize The Prowler. Possesses nigh impenetrable skin and wields a fearsome chained flail similar to a scorpion's tail.
Dr. Conrad Marcus / Venom II
Dr. Conrad Marcus/Venom II
The third host of the Venom symbiote. He once worked as a scientist for Oscorp but switched to Roxxon, and when he learned Betty Brant was investigating an OZ-infected spider that had given Miles Morales his powers, he stole a sample of the Venom Suit from Roxxon and used it to kill Betty. He confronted and injured Jefferson Morales, who Betty's notes indicated was Spider-Man II, but was driven off by Miles.
Donald Roxxon
Donald Roxxon
Donald Roxxon was born into a wealthy family and became the heir to Roxxon Corporation. After his father died, the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical empire was left to him despite not having any business skills nor the genius of his would be Rival Norman Osborn or business tycoon, Justin Hammer. After losing Captain America, Nick Fury enlisted the help of several corporations that may be interested in finding the next super-soldier program. So he did whatever he could to compete with Osborn and his competitors to gain the next super-soldier formula since it granted contracts from the Military even sinking to child abduction, human experimentation(way before Osborn even considered), and many unethical means.
Roxxon Brain Trust
Roxxon Brain Trust
A group of scientists hired by Roxxon to create genetically powered super beings. They have no moral compass and would gladly suspend ethics for the sake of scientific discovery and money.
