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* PerpetualTourist: During ''The Gauntlet'' arc, Mysterio's ultimate goal when he takes over the Maggia is to grab as much money as he can, and "buy an island in the tropics where I can sit under palm trees and drink things out of coconuts".

* AffablyEvil: Tends to be pretty friendly.

* NiceGuy: Known for being very affable and friendly when off the clock.

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-> See Characters/MarvelComicsCarnage and Characters/CarnageCletusKasady

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-> See Characters/MarvelComicsNormanOsborn

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*** One reason this trick works so often is that Mysterio is a well-established [[EvilGenius technical genius.]] His robots are [[MasterOfIllusion incredibly]] [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots realistic]], so much so that in the ''ComicBook/GuardianDevil'' story arc by Creator/KevinSmith, he manages to convince ''Characters/{{Daredevil|MattMurdock}}'', the man who can [[SuperSenses hear heartbeats,]] into believing that Mysterio is dead.

-> See Characters/MarvelComicsMacGargan

-> See Characters/VenomTheSymbiote and Characters/VenomEddieBrock

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Years of inhaling the fumes of his green smoke and using untested latex compounds for his masks gave Mysterio terminal cancer.

* DealWithTheDevil: Mysterio made a deal with a demon to escape from Hell, and now a demon has decided to collect on that debt. Demons tend to not forget when you owe them one, as Mysterio finds out when one decides to collect on the debt Mysterio owes in exchange for coming back to life. Also, because it has been so long Mysterio had practically forgotten about it. Making deals with demons is a very, VERY bad idea. Mostly on account that said deal will more than likely benefit them more than you. Just ask Mendel Stromm. [[spoiler: Oh wait you can’t. Because he’s dead]].

* BlowYouAway: Crosses with MakeMeWannaShout; his Vibro-Shock Gauntlets work by sucking in and compacting air, then vibrating it rapidly inside the gauntlets' interior. Once it's built up the right level of vibrations/pressure, he expels it as a concussive force blast. It's often mistakenly [[AdaptationalSuperpowerChange portrayed as an electrical attack in animated media]], no doubt due to his choice of moniker.

* TheDon: [[spoiler:After the events of ''Superior Foes'', he's became the boss of the Maggia crime family.]]

* RoguesGalleryTransplant: He recently moved to New Jersey and antagonizes [[ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 Ms. Marvel]] after he felt New York had too many superheroes.

* MadeOfIron: Usually Mysterio is shown to be just a normal man hiding behind illusions and special effects, and gets easily beaten by Spider-Man once he's able to close the distance and figure out where the real Mysterio is. [[DependingOnTheWriter Some depictions,]] however, have him able to stand toe-to-toe with Spiderman and, while not able to beat him in a stand-up fight, can take a lot of punishment, usually enough to lure Spiderman into another trap. This has been [[JustifiedTrope explained]] sometimes as his stuntman training lets him roll with the blows and [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom exaggerate]] their effect, making it look like he's taking a lot more damage than he really is.

* FakingTheDead: Before his real death, faking it was something of a favorite tactic of Beck's.

* {{Troll}}: Dan Slott's interpretation of Mysterio seems to realize the fact that he is seen as a HarmlessVillain, and rather than snap and try to prove them wrong, he actually [[BecomingTheMask just takes the ball and rolls with it.]] In ''ComicBook/EndsOfTheEarth'' he's even seen killing time playing ''VideoGame/AngryBirds'' as opposed to aiding the Sinister Six.

* HeelFaceDoorSlam: He was arrested and imprisoned in the Negative Zone during the ComicBook/CivilWar... despite being in retirement, which he promptly came out of.

--> '''Boomerang:''' You know as well as I do I'm not doing any time. I'm either getting witness protection or getting off. So the only way you're getting justice here is to put a bullet in me.
--> '''Jackpot:''' I may fantasize about killing you... I may talk a good game... but, end of the day, I have to go home to her. And I have to be better than myself. I have to be the person I want her to grow into.
--> '''Boomerang:''' That's sweet. But what if one day, I decide it might be fun to find out where you're living now... and pay a visit on that sweet girl of yours--

* CutLexLuthorACheck: Ekes out a meager living at NSU despite inventing cloning technology and DNA re-sequencing on the fly. Later explained as him actually being a former student of the High Evolutionary whose initial experiments resulted the accidental death of his own wife and child, and the Evolutionary growing suspicious of him and his mental instability in general, resulting in his exile. He ''needed'' a job and being a Professor of Biochemistry got him a living wage as well the resources to continue his experiments.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: His dearly departed wife, Oksana, was the first person to get him to actively try to be a better person. After her death, he [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope doubles down on villainy]] and directly worked to end the world. He's since gotten into a better headspace, and even teamed up with ComicBook/CaptainAmerica and [[Characters/UltimateSpiderManMilesMorales the other Spider-Man]] to rescue Oksana's niece to honor her memory.

* NoSell: Rhino is the first person to get hit by [[Characters/UltimateSpiderManMilesMorales Miles Morales]]' Venom Blast and just get up like it was nothing. To elaborate on how impressive this is, even guys like Venom or demons like Blackheart got knocked out for at least a few minutes after a hit like that.

Born in Harlem, Lonnie Lincoln was bullied for his albinism, and in-turn bullied Joe "Robbie" Robertson into becoming his friend. After high school, Lonnie took to crime, becoming a criminal called Tombstone. As Lonnie worked his way up the criminal underworld, Robbie took a job at the ''Daily Bugle''. When Tombstone murdered a New York mob boss, Robbie was terrified at the idea of confronting him, but after twenty years found the courage to testify. When Robbie confronted him, Tombstone snapped Robbie's spine, an act which brought him into conflict with Spider-Man. Breaking out of jail and abducting Robbie, Tombstone acquired superhuman abilities after being exposed to an experimental chemical, Diox-3, at an Oscorp plant during a fight with Spider-Man. Tombstone has since worked for the Kingpin and Hammerhead, has been a member of the Norman Osborn's Sinister Twelve, and a powerful crime boss in his own right based in Brooklyn, where he's caused [[ComicBook/MilesMorales the local Spidey]] some grief.

* FantasticRacism: Turns out, he’s not a fan of mutants and he joins Orchis during ComicBook/FallOfX. There he performs horrific experiments on mutants.

--->'''Mysterio:''' D... Do it, hero... K... Kill me.\\

'''Mysterio:''' A... fraud?! I'm... an artist! I n... nearly drove you... insane!\\
'''Daredevil:''' You drugged me and killed people. There's no talent in that... ''just savagery''.\\
'''Mysterio:''' B... but... my dystopian nightmare...\\

* ADayInTheLimelight: In ''Comicbook/TheSuperiorFoesOfSpiderMan'' along with other C-Listers (and lower) villains Shocker, Speed Demon, Beetle, and Overdrive. Though he's the central character and the story is told from his point of view.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Mysterio is sort of this. In the mainstream comics, he's rarely, if ever, shown any interest in women and has had a few hints over the years (plus the Spidey standard of occasional HoYay). The ''[[Literature/SinisterSixTrilogy Sinister Six]]'' novels dropped the ambiguously part and made him explicitly gay; said novels are dubiously canon at best but pretty much everyone out-of-universe assumes he's gay at this point, even if the comics have yet to actually say it, though in ''Ben Reilly: The Scarlet Spider'' it's revealed that he has a secret daughter named Misty, possibly closing the book on the question of his sexuality, or at least now making him AmbiguouslyBi. Then she was revealed to be a [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots gynoid]] so the ambiguity has returned "Mysterio wanted a daughter so badly, he built himself one."

'''Central Rogues Gallery''' | [[Characters/SpiderManGoblins Goblins]] | [[Characters/MarvelComicsKravenTheHunter Kraven the Hunter]] | [[Characters/SpiderManRoguesGalleryAtoH A-H]] | [[Characters/SpiderManRoguesGalleryIToZ I-Z]]]]]]-]