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!![[Characters/MarvelComicsSinisterSix The Sinister Six]]
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Five of Spider-Man's most infamous villains, united under the leadership of a sinister figure with grand designs of revenge against Norman Osborn.
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* AdaptationalDeviation: Mysterio, Sandman, and Kraven are all replaced as founding members with Rhino, Scorpion, and Mr. Negative. [[spoiler:Doctor Octopus averts this, remaining the team's founder and leader.]]
* DualBoss: Two of the four confrontations are against two members at once (Electro and Vulture in a trap at [[spoiler:Octavius' base]], Rhino and Scorpion as they attack an Oscorp relief center).
* DwindlingParty: The Six start off with enough members to easily give Spider-Man a CurbStompBattle when he faces them all at once, only to be gradually whittled down throughout the game. Electro and Vulture are apprehended first when they try to ambush Spider-Man, then Rhino and Scorpion, and followed soon after by Mr. Negative in a penultimate fight over the Devil's Breath antiserum, leaving [[spoiler:Doctor Octopus]] as the FinalBoss.
* LegionOfDoom: The Sinister Six consist of four of Spider-Man's greatest foes--along with two new ones, Mr. Negative and [[spoiler:Octavius]]--who have joined up to kill the Wall-Crawler. [[spoiler:Doctor Octopus]] is the BigBad and the EvilGenius, being the ringmaster who sets the whole plan in motion; Mr. Negative is TheDragon and TheHeavy, being the most prominent member and the mastermind's closest accomplice; Rhino and Scorpion are variants of TheBrute (Rhino being DumbMuscle, while Scorpion is an unhinged {{Sadist}}); and Electro and Vulture are their own variants of the EvilGenius (Electro using the landscape, electrical buildings, and pylons to his advantage while Vulture has a tactical approach and fights with a mechanical suit, contrasting Electro's charging in and natural powers).
* {{Leitmotif}}: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hODuXlNLlac The Sinister Six]]", an appropriately creepy and foreboding tune that underlies the sheer danger these villains pose not just to Spider-Man, but to all of New York.
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!![[ComicBook/DoctorOctopus Otto Octavius / Doctor Octopus]]
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/WilliamSalyers (English)[[labelnote:Other Languages]] Victor Covarrubias (Latin American Spanish), Hiroshi Naka (Japanese), Diomid Vinogradov (Russian)[[/labelnote]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''[[Literature/MarvelsSpiderManHostileTakeover Hostile Takeover]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/SpiderManPS4 Spider-Man]]'' | ''VideoGame/SpiderManMilesMorales''

->''"Oh, Parker... if you want to change the world, you have to be the kind of man who can make the hardest decisions."''
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The ringmaster of the Sinister Six, who wants revenge on Norman Osborn for ruining his career.
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For tropes related to him, see his [[Characters/SpiderManPS4OttoOctavius page]].
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[[folder:Martin Li / Mr. Negative]]
!!Martin Li / Mr. Negative
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!!! '''Voiced by:''' Stephen Oyoung (English)[[labelnote:Other Languages]] Marco Guerrero (Latin American Spanish), Creator/MitsuruMiyamoto (Japanese), Gennady Novikov (Russian)[[/labelnote]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''[[Literature/MarvelsSpiderManHostileTakeover Hostile Takeover]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/SpiderManPS4 Spider-Man]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/MarvelsSpiderMan2 Spider-Man 2]]''

The founder of F.E.A.S.T., a network of homeless shelters spread throughout New York City, and a friend of the Parkers for years. But his friendly exterior belies something darker than anyone could have ever anticipated.
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* AdaptationNameChange: Martin Li is his actual name here instead of the name of someone whose identity he stole when he arrived to the US.
* AdaptationOriginConnection:
** In the first game, his powers and [[spoiler:the deaths of his parents were the result of a freak accident]] caused by Norman Osborn's experiment going wrong and he seeks revenge on him, while in the comics they have no personal connection aside from being rival crime-lords.
** Inverted in that he does not play a role in Yuri Watanabe's downfall and becoming the vigilante Wraith in this continuity. That honor goes to [[spoiler:Hammerhead]].
* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Strangely, he gets this treatment with ''himself''. In the comics, Mr. Negative is something of a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, both Martin Li and Mr. Negative being separate entities and being aware that the other existed, but not of what they did. This version of Martin Li and Mr. Negative are one and the same, though it is hinted throughout the first game that Mr. Negative may be a SuperpoweredEvilSide just like in the comics.
* AdaptationalBadass: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. While Mr. Negative in the comics is a powerful opponent, [[SuperStrength strong enough to send Spider-Man flying through a building with a single palm thrust]], he rarely fights himself and mostly relies on his Inner Demons to do the dirty work. This version is more than willing to get his hands dirty. Also, in the comics, Mr. Negative mainly uses his powers to corrupt others, while in the game, he demonstrates a wider range of abilities such as creating illusions, firing energy blasts, SuperSpeed, conjuring {{Living Shadow}}s and a demon-shaped BattleAura.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy:
** Mr. Negative in the comics is the dark persona of Martin Li and more or less your stereotypical CardCarryingVillain, a ruthless crime-lord who seeks to take over New York City's underworld. While this Mr. Negative is every bit as ruthless, his motivations are portrayed in a far more sympathetic light.
** In the comics, Martin Li/Mr. Negative is a cruel Triad member who smuggles Chinese people into the United States; he steals the identity of one of the deceased Fujian slaves (the real Martin Li) and rises to power as a crime lord while posing as a illegal Chinese immigrant who spent the following years building a large fortune and dedicating himself to helping those less fortunate. This version, however, is a real immigrant who came with his parents to the United States in search of a better life, settling in New York City.
* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: His corruptive touch seems to have been hit with this. In the comics, his ability to control someone is directly proportional to their morality. The more good a person had done in their life, the easier they'd fall under his control. This version's touch seems to lack that distinction. However, this ends up making it [[AdaptationalWimp weaker than in the comics]]. In the comics, he was able to easily control Spider-Man and it took outside help for the wall-crawler to break free while in the first game, Peter's able to free himself through sheer HeroicWillpower.
* AdaptationalSympathy: The Mr. Negative of the comics is an identity thief and a vicious crime lord only out for himself. In the game, [[spoiler: he wants revenge against Norman Osborn for the experiments he conducted on a young Li causing the accident that killed his parents and transformed him into Mr. Negative.]]
* AdaptationalVillainy: Sort of. While Mr. Negative is a super villain in the comics, his "Martin Li" persona is a case of DeadPersonImpersonation, as the real Li was intended by the Triad to be sold into slavery, and thus Negative isn't actually the real Li. The game presents "Martin Li" as Negative's real identity.
* AffablyEvil: He's genuinely polite even despite being a super-powered crime lord, as he did enjoy being the head of F.E.A.S.T. and all of the good he did.
* AmbiguousSituation: It's left vague on how much of his actions are his own and how much of him is being influenced by his negative side. Helped by the fact that, as revealed through journals of his, not even Li is entirely sure himself.
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:During his final boss battle, it is evident just how insane Li has become, and even Peter sympathizes with him, as Li screams how he just needs to kill Norman for killing his parents. Right after having a supposed HeelRealization for a second, Doc Ock knocks him out for being "useless"]].
* AscendedExtra: His comic book counterpart is a rather obscure character and a relative newcomer to the Spider-Man mythos, existing for ten years at the time of the first game's release. This version gets to be TheHeavy of the story here.
* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: He's the leader of the Demons and by far the strongest member of the gang.
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:During the first game's climax, he's gone completely off the rails, willing to do absolutely anything if it means getting revenge on Norman Osborn. Spider-Man's attempts to appeal to his better side have no effect.]]
* BadassInANiceSuit: A staple for the character. He's always seen in a stylish business suit that turns white when he's using his powers.
* BattleAura: The second phase of the final battle with him has him create one in the shape of a giant shadow demon that will either rake the ground with its claws or use an giant energy sword in a deadly SpinAttack.
* BeardOfEvil: [[spoiler:It's revealed in the sequel that he's grown one of these since the events from the first game while in prison.]]
* BerserkButton: It's [[TranquilFury subtle]], but it's clear that even when he's still a kind generous character towards the beginning of the story that he has a dislike of Norman Osborn [[spoiler:which becomes full-on rage when he lets his negative side out.]]
* BigBadDuumvirate: PlayedWith. Mr. Negative is the main villain for three-quarters of the first game; the main plot centers around his rise to power in the New York underworld as he wreaks havoc in pursuit of revenge against Norman Osborn, culminating in him trying to release the Devil's Breath. [[spoiler:Once he's apprehended and broken out of prison by Doctor Octopus, Li is DemotedToDragon and begins facilitating Otto's own plans to damn New York to the virus. However, Otto himself acknowledges that it was ultimately Mr. Negative's actions that inspired him to take up supervillainy, and their master plan--aimed at accomplishing their shared end goal of destroying Norman--is in essence just an escalated version of Li's scheme, now backed by an army of convicts and supervillains. So while Octavius ultimately eclipses him as the greatest threat, Li is still responsible for the bulk of the conflict, and he remains the most consistent villain tied to the Devil's Breath crisis up until his defeat in the penultimate fight.]]
* BreakoutVillain: Mr. Negative was well liked in the comics but underused in recent years. His major appearance in this game has made many see him as a new major villain to be ranked among Spidey's classic rogues.
* BrokenPedestal: Once Li's true nature is exposed, both Peter and Aunt May are saddened and heartbroken by what he has turned into. On social media, some people whom Li saved via F.E.A.S.T. react the same way, wondering if all he told them was a lie.
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:He's shown during the Story Trailer in ''Spider-Man 2'', being confronted by Miles.]]
* CastingAShadow: Mr. Negative can generate and manipulate a form of dark, negative energy[[note]]dubbed Darkforce in the comics.[[/note]] that he can use for a variety of purposes such as destructive energy blasts, empowering his minions and weapons, and corrupting other people.
-->'''Li:''' The shadows are sworn to me and I will give them strength!
* ClimaxBoss: The first boss fight with him in the subway serves as this for the first game. [[spoiler:Once Li is arrested, Otto becomes inspired by his vendetta against Osborn and becomes Doctor Octopus, creating the Sinister Six to plunge New York into chaos.]]
* ColorMotifs: Black and White. While Black is the dominate one here, he and his goons still have a secondary white theme.
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: He's referred to as "Mister Negative" in a few subtitles where he's let his dark persona take over completely, but otherwise the only time he's ever referred to by anything other than his real name, is in an off-the-cuff remark by J.J. Jameson contrasting him to the beloved humanitarian he used to be.
* CompositeCharacter: In the comics, Martin Li was really a separate person who the Triad intended to sell into slavery, and Mr. Negative, a member of the Triad, pulled a DeadPersonImpersonation after the real Li was killed. The game presents Li as Negative's real name.
* CoolSword: He wields a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jian Jian, a Chinese straight sword]] in his final boss fight that he can energize with his powers.
* CopKiller: His attack on City Hall sees the deaths of several cops, including [[spoiler:Jefferson Davis]].
* TheCorrupter: Mr. Negative can use his negative energy to corrupt others and bring them under his control by amplifying their negative emotions. He tries to do this to Spider-Man, but his HeroicWillpower saves him.
* CrazyPrepared: His secret room is booby-trapped to destroy evidence and kill anyone inside.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:He was a young child suffering from a disease and was used as an experiment for Oscorp in hopes of finding a cure. However, a freak accident not only gave him his powers, but resulted in the deaths of his parents (inadvertently by his own hand). Li has sworn revenge against Osborn ever since.]]
* DarkIsEvil: Not only is black his main color, he wields a strange dark energy and is the leader of a major gang.
* DegradedBoss: Inverted. The Demon Swordsmen came first; Round 2 vs Mr. Negative is a even stronger version with a bigger moveset.
* ADegreeInUseless: When Peter asks him to take a look at a mask he found he comments this will be the first time he's actually used his degree in art history.
* DemotedToDragon: The first game starts out with him as the BigBad leading the Demon gang. [[spoiler:Once he's arrested around halfway through the plot, he willingly steps aside to act as TheDragon to Doctor Octopus within the Sinister Six.]]
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: More like Deliberately Photonegative. As Mr. Negative, his skin and clothing turns a photonegative black and white. Likewise, when corrupting others, he can bring them into a photonegative nightmare realm.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Li is the main villain for the first half of the first game, kicking off the conflict by taking advantage of the power vacuum from Fisk's arrest to steal the Devil's Breath. However, despite his grand ambitions, he's ultimately beaten and arrested before he can actually release the virus. [[spoiler:Doctor Octopus proceeds to take over as the BigBad, breaking Mr. Negative out of prison to aid him as he puts his own variation of the plan into motion.]]
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:To Doctor Octopus in the second half of the first game. Li shares Otto's personal vendetta against Osborn--unlike the rest of the Sinister Six, who are purely mercenary in their involvement--and his Inner Demons make up a significant portion of their muscle.]]
* DuelBoss: The first fight with him is a one-on-one fight between him and Spidey. When two Mooks show up, he drains them of their powers for a boost.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler: His primary motivation, as he wants to avenge his parents by murdering Osborn]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The note in his office reveals that, despite all the shit he's doing, May is totally off-limits; she and F.E.A.S.T. have done nothing to hurt him, so he intends to spare them.
* EvilCounterpart: To Peter. [[spoiler:Both characters gained their powers as a result of an accident involving Oscorp and both of them have lost loved ones. However, Peter was able to move past his pain and devoted himself to using his powers for good, while Li allowed his hatred to consume him and became a crime lord, [[ShadowArchetype representing what Peter would've been had he followed the same path]].]]
* EvilFormerFriend: He was a friend of the Parkers for years before the events of the first game, only to descend into villainy.
* EvilRunningGood: He is the director of F.E.A.S.T and in a letter to May, assures her that, though he will be guilty of horrific, monstrous acts, his work on the homeless shelter was a sincere expression from his heart and to not let his actions ruin all the work they put into it.
* FlunkyBoss: He can summon LivingShadow mooks during the second phase of his second boss fight.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: [[spoiler:He started out as a young boy suffering from a disease who would eventually gain superpowers. Powers he would use to become a major crime lord and inflict untold damage on New York City.]]
* HandBlast: Another application of his powers is the ability to fire destructive blasts of dark energy powerful enough to send Spidey flying through a room.
* TheHeavy: Mr. Negative is the main villain for the majority of the first game, with his Inner Demons causing chaos throughout the city as he plots revenge against Norman. [[spoiler:Even after he's DemotedToDragon by Doctor Octopus, it was Li's criminal acts that inspired Otto's own actions, and their shared plot is ultimately an escalated version of Li's plans for the Devil's Breath virus.]]
* HeelRealization: It's hinted at several times throughout the first game that Li isn't as fully committed to his vendetta against Osborn as he'd like to be. When snooping around his office, Peter finds a journal entry written on the day of Fisk's arrest where he openly questions if he can actually go through with his plan, knowing full well that even if he succeeds, [[PyrrhicVictory all the good he has done with the F.E.A.S.T. Foundation will be ruined]]. He even contemplates turning back, but feels he can't fight the Demon inside him. Likewise, in the final battle, as Spidey begins to reason with him, Mr. Negative briefly hesitates for a moment before giving into his rage and engaging Spidey in battle.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters:
** In an audio recording found in a hidden room in his office, Li realizes that his actions have undoubtedly made him an even worse monster than Osborn, but he feels that it's too late to turn back.
--->'''Li:''' I can feel my power growing, feeding off my anger. Father would say I've lost the path of balance. But he wouldn't understand: The only way to ''fight'' a monster... is to '''become''' one.
** This exchange with Spidey during their final battle cements it.
--->'''Spidey:''' I know you can beat the Demon, Martin!\\
'''Li:''' ''Beat'' the demon? '''''[[IAmAMonster I AM the Demon!]]'''''
* HiddenDepths: He's the owner of a homeless shelter/terrorist supervillain with a dark, traumatic backstory...[[ADegreeInUseless and he majored in Art History, of all things.]]
* IControlMyMinionsThrough: As well as the Demons, he briefly gets the Shocker involved in his plans. The Demons follow him out of a complicated cocktail of authority, corruption, fear, loyalty, and power; he also has the Corrupted, who are simply driven to a temporary rage and may follow simple orders, but are mostly created to sow chaos rather than to carry out plans themselves. Once subdued, which is easier than with most {{Mooks}}, the Corrupted return to normal. Herman meanwhile is working purely out of fear.
* IveComeTooFar: While snooping around Li's office, Peter finds a journal entry and audio recording where Li questions if he can actually go through with his plan to get back at Osborn and acknowledges that he's [[HeWhoFightsMonsters becoming a monster]], but feels it's too late to turn back.
-->'''Li:''' Wilson Fisk has been arrested. I can barely believe it. The day I've planned for -- dreamed of -- is finally here… but for some reason I hesitate. Can I really go through with this? Things will happen quickly if I give the word. My men will claim Fisk's arms, his explosives... his secrets. We'll use that knowledge to teach Norman ''true'' pain. He'll know what it is to see the things he loves most destroyed by his own hands... But achieving that end will mean giving up so much. Everything I've built here at F.E.A.S.T. -- all the good I've done -- could be wiped out if my plan succeeds. My chance is finally here yet still I hesitate… should I turn back? A part of me wants to... but the Demon is hungry… and I don't think I'm strong enough to hold it back...
* ImpliedDeathThreat: Makes this subtle warning to Peter after he catches him snooping around his office which he follows through by siccing a trio of corrupted bystanders on him.
-->'''Li:''' I'm sure you and May have nothing to worry about... as long as you stay away from places you're not supposed to be.
* KingMook: The final battle has him basically fight like a stronger and faster version of his Demon Swordsmen.
* KnightOfCerebus: Once his true nature is exposed, the game takes a much darker turn. His terrorist attack on City Hall is the moment the game goes from a relatively lighthearted superhero adventure to a full-on drama with frequent life-or-death scenarios. It's telling that in both their fights, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Spidey never cracks a single joke]].
* LightIsNotGood: Downplayed; Although [[DarkIsEvil black]] is his primary color, he also has a secondary white color scheme in his "Negative" mode. Plus, he seems to favor darkness over light.
* LongRangeFighter: The first battle with him has him mostly firing energy blasts at Spidey.
* LightningBruiser: As demonstrated in the final battle, Mr. Negative's powers let him move with inhuman speed, often darting across the room faster than Spidey can react and he possesses enough reflexes to deflect Spidey's web shots with his sword. His attacks also have great range and can tear through a chunk of Spidey's health.
* MasterOfIllusion: When corrupting others, he brings them into a bizarre, photonegative realm populated with {{Living Shadow}}s that he has full control over. It happens again during the second phase of the final battle, implying that as his negative emotions grow, his powers get strong enough to [[RealityWarper affect reality as well]].
* MasterSwordsman: The final battle with him shows that Mr. Negative is quite handy with a sword.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: Played with. This version's real name is Martin Li while his comic book counterpart merely uses "Martin Li" as an alias with his real name being unknown.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: A TragicVillain variant. He is aware that his RoaringRampageOfRevenge as Mr. Negative will almost certainly undermine all the good he has done at F.E.A.S.T. and apologizes for it to Aunt May in a letter.
* ParentalAbandonment: Or so it seems. Before discovering the truth, Peter notes that (as far as he and the world know), Martin Li's parents abandoned him as a child and that he was a RagsToRiches story. Given the nature of his parents' deaths and the degree to which Li openly idolizes them, this was likely a cover story devised by Osborn -- which could not have improved Li's opinion of him.
* PetTheDog:
** From the very moment [[spoiler: Peter brings one of his crew's masks to him]], Li subtly tries to warn Peter and Mary Jane away from interfering with his plans. Aunt May even notes that he seems genuinely worried for them, and his relief that Peter survived the [[spoiler:bombing of the Osborn rally]] appears to also be genuine. He later calmly, but pointedly, makes the above ImpliedDeathThreat, but only throws a few corrupted people at Peter when he could've sent actual Demons after him. As much as he wants [[spoiler: to destroy Osborn]], he truly doesn't want to hurt his friends and coworkers unless they give him no choice.
** He stops one of his men from killing Miles in the aftermath of the City Hall attack.
** When snooping around Li's office, Peter finds a letter Li wrote to Aunt May that attempts to apologize for all the horrible things she'll hear about him on the news and states that for all his villainy, he genuinely believed in all the good the F.E.A.S.T. Foundation did and hopes she'll be able to carry on that good work even after he's arrested.
--->'''Li:''' Dear May. Very soon, you'll hear stories about me. Stories that I'm a terrorist and a murderer. Those stories will be true. But the story we wrote together-- the story of F.E.A.S.T. -- is also true. I want you to know that I always believed in our mission. It wasn't a front, or a show. It was an honest expression of my heart. When you help someone, you truly help everyone. Please don't let my failings shake your belief. You are strong, May; Strong enough to write a new story of F.E.A.S.T., one undaunted by my faults. Thank you for all you've done.
* ThePowerOfHate: His powers are fueled by his negative emotions, particularly his hatred for [[spoiler:Osborn]]. The more he gives in to his rage, the stronger his powers get. However, it's implied that his powers are also creating a SuperpoweredEvilSide within Li that causes him to act on his darker impulses.
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler: The moment he gained his powers as a kid, Li immediately lost control and accidentally killed his own parents. Despite blaming Osborn for their deaths, he holds himself partly responsible as well, and it hasn't helped his sanity.]]
* SeriouslyScruffy: [[spoiler:His brief appearance in the Story Trailer for ''Spider-Man 2'' shows him with longer hair and a beard, a far cry from his clean and neat appearance in the first game.]]
* SheepInSheepsClothing: Played with. He runs a homeless shelter and is well known throughout New York as a humanitarian, and turns out to be the supervillain/crime boss Mr. Negative, causing a ''lot'' of damage throughout the city for the sake of getting back at Norman Osborn [[spoiler:as it was Osborn's experiments that gave him his powers and led to the deaths of his parents.]] However, Martin genuinely enjoyed being the head of the F.E.A.S.T. Foundation, and he makes it clear that his desire to help those less fortunate than himself was sincere; Peter even finds a journal entry where he openly questions going through with his plan because it'll ruin all the good he's done.
* SicklyChildGrewUpStrong: As a child, Martin suffered from an unspecified but serious illness. [[FreakLabAccident One experimental medical treatment]] later and well... look at him now.
* StalkerShrine: Has one of Osborn in a hidden room.
* SuperEmpowering: He can gift his Demons with lesser versions of his powers and when he needs a boost of power himself, he can take it back... though this seems to kill them.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: It's less distinct and less science-fiction than in his comics. Before JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope, he referred to his Mister Negative persona as his inner demon and took medication to avoid lapsing into it but when Norman became mayor, he felt his control slipping despite increasing his dosage.
* SwordBeam: He can fire these by channeling his energy through his sword.
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: A variation. Much of the snippets about his character, especially when he falls further into his VillainousBreakdown, make it clear that Li blames himself for his parents' death as much as Osborn and considers himself a monster. He ultimately chooses to don the Mr. Negative identity not just because of revenge, but because he feels he has no choice and does not deserve to be otherwise.
-->'''Li:''' My parents died because of ''me!''
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Though he speaks some decent bravado during his boss fights, he beforehand gives an expression that mixes OhCrap with exasperation, implying he knows Spider-Man is a foe he can't defeat easily. Not helped by how Spidey has proven able to resist Li's corrupting powers.
* TragicVillain: [[spoiler:Li was initially just a young boy suffering from a disease who gained superpowers via Norman Osborn and ended up accidentally killing his parents because of it. His villainy stems from simply wanting to avenge them by destroying Norman and he does genuinely think he's doing the right thing]].
* UnskilledButStrong: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. While Li is a skilled swordsman and has enough martial arts prowess and superhuman strength to trade blows with Spidey on relatively equal footing, he mostly utilizes large and impractical energy attacks like his BattleAura, which not only leaves him open to attacks but often tires him out quickly, implying that he's never had to use his powers in a serious fight before. This is much more evident in his first fight, which is also Li's first real fight with another superhuman, where his attacks are slow, heavily telegraphed, and easily avoidable. He's also the first boss both requiring no complex strategy to defeat [[note]]as Spider-Man had to pin Shocker under a piece of structure to defeat and had to custom make an antidote to Tombstone's powers to weaken him first[[/note]] and which Spider-Man walked away from neither injured or fatigued [[note]]Kingpin left visible damage on Spider-Man and Spidey is visibly winded after defeating Tombstone[[/note]].
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: He's a mob boss in charge of the Demons, but he's also a big-time humanitarian who runs a homeless shelter. When Spidey sees him on the scene at the New York bombing, not even Yuri, his FriendOnTheForce, believes his claims until he can find concrete evidence against Li.
* VillainousBreakdown: As his hatred for Osborn grows, it begins to take a toll on his sanity. Over the course of the final battle, Li devolves from a sophisticated crime-lord into a screaming, vengeful, hate-filled wreck of a man driven purely by his desire for vengeance.
* WalkingSpoiler: In-Universe at least; nobody was aware he was Mr. Negative. [[spoiler: There is the fact that his fate of becoming a super-villain reveals that Osborn is responsible for a lot of messed up things, however.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: He wants to kill Norman as vengeance for killing his parents. Granted, it was an accident and Li is exaggerating it, but he genuinely thinks he's doing good]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: He completely vanishes from the story after being taken out by Doc Ock. For all we know, the hit from Otto killed him. Lampshaded by the Daily Bugle during the DLC campaign, where a headline inquires about his whereabouts. Moreover, the gameplay trailer for the sequel doesn't list him among either NYC's active vigilantes or the Raft inmates (whereas every other member of the Sinister Six except Scorpion is listed).]] [[spoiler:It is revealed in the Story Trailer for ''Spider-Man 2'', that he survived and is currently imprisoned, finally averting it.]]
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: He's the leader of a violent gang, and as Mr. Negative, his hair turns white.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: On both the giving and receiving end. After corrupting Dr. Isaac Delaney and forcing him to give the name of the doctor who created the Devil's Breath virus, he has Delaney [[PsychicAssistedSuicide kill himself]]. [[spoiler:When defeated by Spidey in the final battle, Octavius calls him useless and tosses him aside.]]
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[[folder:Max Dillon / Electro]]
!!Maxwell "Max" Dillon / Electro
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!!! '''Voiced by:''' Creator/JoshKeaton (English)[[labelnote:Other Languages]] Luis Fernando Orozco (Latin American Spanish), Creator/NobutoshiCanna (Japanese), Stanislav Tikunov (Russian)[[/labelnote]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''[[Literature/MarvelsSpiderManHostileTakeover Hostile Takeover]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/SpiderManPS4 Spider-Man]]''

One of Spider-Man's longtime enemies, Electro has the power to produce and manipulate electricity.
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* AxCrazy: Certainly a cackling maniac who enjoys what he does too much.
* BaldOfEvil: Like the Ultimate version of the character, he's completely bald.
* CopKiller: He's repeatedly noted as having murdered police officers before.
* CostumeEvolution: While his in-game costume is a high-tech suit built by the Mastermind, someone at a Halloween party can be seen wearing a costume based on his original outfit -- and he has scars evocative of his original costume's mask.
* DualBoss: Spidey has to fight him and Vulture at the same time.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Mixes some friendly banter and jokes with Spider-Man as he tries to murder him.
* GetBackHereBoss: Like Shocker before him, Spidey must chase him down during the jailbreak at the Raft.
* GoalInLife: Electro wants to take his power to its logical conclusion and become an EnergyBeing.
* GodhoodSeeker: His ultimate goal is to become a being of pure energy.[[labelnote:*]]'''''WITHOUT PA--''''' wait, sorry, [[VideoGame/SpiderManShatteredDimensions wrong game.]][[/labelnote]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Spidey can damage him by destroying one of the transformers with his webs.
* ICouldaBeenAContender: Villainous version. Spider-Man's in-game bio states that if Electro gets smarter and learns to harness his powers he could be a much bigger threat, and a villain that Spider-Man doubts the Avengers could fully handle.
* InkSuitActor: He's modeled after his voice actor, Josh Keaton.
* LargeHam: Throughout his chase and later during his boss battle.
* NerdInEvilsHelmet: He gets Spider-Man's movie references and even responds with one of his own, to Spidey's delight.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Despite being a sociopath with a god-complex, he happily plays along with Spider-Man's joke in his and Vulture's boss fight by responding with his own.
-->'''Electro:''' "[[Film/RockyIV Spider-Man! I must break you!]]"\\
'''Spider-Man:''' ''[overjoyed]'' ''You got it!'' You got my joke!
* NotWearingTights: His appearance has neither the green spandex nor blue skin, and his clothes look more civilian than anything, with an armored harness on top of them to boost his power. He also keeps his green and yellow color scheme. The star-like scar on his forehead is also a clear reference to the shape of the mask of his original suit. A person wearing his outfit at a Halloween party implies that he did wear that outfit at one point, however.
* PsychoElectro: Befitting the [[TropeNamer trope namer]] himself, he's a deranged supervillain with electrical powers.
* PureEnergy: The trope is name dropped as Electro's ambition to become a being of "pure energy".
* RebelRelaxation: When [[spoiler:Spider-Man corners him on the roof of the Raft, Electro is standing against a cell tower resting on it with one foot against the base of the tower before the rest of the Six gather to beat him up.]]
* ScarsAreForever: Instead of the star-shaped mask, this version has star-shaped scar tissue/burn wounds on his forehead.
* ShockAndAwe: He can control electricity, as usual.
* StarterVillain: Although Vulture was Peter's first villain, Electro was Peter's first ''legitimate'' supervillain. Before them, Peter had only faced regular street criminals and Fisk.
* TokenFlyer: Both Electro and Vulture can fly. However, Electro's powers of flight are an innate part of his [[ShockAndAwe powerset]] while Vulture relies on a JetPack.
* UnskilledButStrong: Described as this in his character bio by Peter. The reason he lost his first fight to Spidey was that he was still getting used to his powers and he burned himself out. Spidey fears that if he ever tapped into his true potential, not even the Avengers would be able to stop him.
* VillainousFriendship: Unlike Scorpion and Rhino, Electro and Vulture seem to get along really well.
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[[folder:Adrian Toomes / Vulture]]
!!Adrian Toomes / Vulture
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!!! '''Voiced by:''' Creator/DwightSchultz (English)[[labelnote:Other Languages]] Sergio Moriel (Latin American Spanish), Creator/HochuOtsuka (Japanese), Ilya Isaev (Russian)[[/labelnote]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/SpiderManPS4 Spider-Man]]''

One of Spider-Man's earliest foes, the Vulture is equipped with a special bird-like suit that allows him to fly and throw razor-sharp metal feathers.
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* AirborneMook: As a boss battle.
* BaldOfEvil: Bald and a murderous old man.
* BeamMeUpScotty: {{Invoked}} In ''Miles Morales'', while voicing a fake Vulture, Peter notes that Adrian loves Shakespeare, but always misquotes ''Hamlet'' while they fight, and constantly refuses to admit it.
* ButtMonkey: He constantly gets his ass handed to him by Spider-Man during the Sinister Six's introduction. While all the others get at least one good hit in, Vulture doesn’t manage to land a single punch and is punched/webbed/kicked in the face at least FIVE times during the fight. Spidey even cuts off his introductory taunt by shooting a web in his face mid-sentence.
* TheComicallySerious: Doesn't understand, nor tolerate Spidey's [[YouFightLikeACow quips]].
-->'''Spider-Man:''' "[[Film/RockyII Yo Adrian! It's me, Spider-Man!]]"\\
'''Vulture:''' What are you babbling about!?
* CompositeCharacter: His appearance evokes his classic look, but he uses a jetpack to fly and his suit is very armored, clearly inspired by his appearance in ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming''. A graffiti mural in Hell's Kitchen also depicts him as a Robin Hood figure, a characterization more in line with the ''Homecoming'' version of the character, who mostly stole from Tony Stark.
* DeathFromAbove: How he attacks Spidey.
* DualBoss: In the first game, Spidey must fight him and Electro at the same time. And in ''Miles Morales'', he gets fought alongside... himself. ItMakesSenseInContext.
* EvilGenius: Peter once describes Adrian as "brainy" compared to his other foes.
* EvilOldFolks: The oldest character in the first game at 76 years old. Still doesn't stop him from putting up a good fight against Spidey.
* FeatherFlechettes: He can fire the razor-sharp feathers of his wings like projectiles.
* HandicappedBadass: He may be a geriatric old man suffering from spinal cancer, but that doesn’t stop him from going toe-to-toe with Spider-Man.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard:
** The power source for Vulture's Wing Suit has apparently given him spinal cancer.
** Also how he can be beaten in his boss fights, throwing his knives back at him.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Gets along really well with Electro, who's several decades his junior.
-->'''Electro''': Amazing what a little teamwork can achieve, isn't it?
-->'''Vulture''': The vigor of youth, the wisdom of experience. A fine pairing.
* LegacyBossBattle: The Vulture hologram in ''Miles Morales'' is pretty much exactly the same fight in the last game, except there's two of them this time.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Spider-Man's improvised dialogue for Toomes during the Holo-Vulture boss fight includes remarks about "Casual racism that isn't worth challenging me on", though it's hard to tell if Vulture actually is prone to racist remarks or if it's just Spidey's classic tendencies to crack jokes at the expense of his enemies.
* StarterVillain: As revealed in ''Miles Morales'', the Vulture was the first supervillain Spider-Man fought, attacking Empire State University at the same time Peter was starting class there.
* StartOfDarkness: According to Peter in ''Miles Morales'', as one of Spider-Man's first villains, Adrian attacked Empire State University to try and take out his old research partner, Greg Bestman, who taught class there. In the comics, Gregory Bestman was the catalyst for Adrian's path to villainy after the former embezzled from and fired Adrian on the spot to assume full credit of his research, which led to Adrian becoming the supervillain, Vulture.
* TalkToTheFist: When he first attacks Spider-Man in the Raft, his threats are cut short before he can get started.
-->'''Vulture:''' Long time no see! We're gonna have so much-- ''[gets a face full of webbing]''
* VillainousFriendship:
** Unlike Scorpion and Rhino, Vulture and Electro seem to get along really well.
** He and Doc Ock, as fellow scientists, seem to get along. Otto addresses him as "my friend" in his message to him and Vulture praises working for a genius like Otto as a refreshing change of pace during his boss fight.
* WickedCultured: He's quite eloquent in his speech.
* WickedPretentious: According to Peter in ''Miles Morales'', Vulture tries to come off as cultured by quoting the works of Creator/WilliamShakespeare, but he always ''mis''quotes ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' and refuses to admit he's wrong when Spider-Man corrects him.
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[[folder:Mac Gargan / Scorpion]]
!![[ComicBook/{{Scorpion}} MacDonald "Mac" Gargan / Scorpion]]
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!!! '''Voiced by:''' Creator/JasonSpisak (English)[[labelnote:Other Languages]] Mauricio Perez (Latin American Spanish), Creator/RyuseiNakao (Japanese), Ivan Litvinov (Russian)[[/labelnote]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''[[Literature/MarvelsSpiderManHostileTakeover Hostile Takeover]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/SpiderManPS4 Spider-Man]]''

A psychopathic killer who was cybernetically enhanced by an experiment funded by J. Jonah Jameson to kill Spider-Man, he has since turned his talents to supervillainy.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: In the comics, Mac Gargan was a low-rent private investigator Jameson hired to find out how Peter managed to get such good news pictures of Spider-Man, and his descent into villainy was largely due to the process that gave him his powers driving him insane. THIS version of Scorpion, on the other hand, was an unhinged lunatic even before getting his powers and outfit, and the process that made him into what he is now has not done any favors for his sanity and sadism.
* AloneWithThePsycho: [[spoiler: After insulting Rhino one too many times; Rhino charges into him, allowing Spider-Man to trap them both in a cargo container. By the sounds of the yelling within the container, Scorpion isn't having the best time in there. Given that he's a ''massive Jerkass'' who deserves it, we'll let Rhino off the hook this time.]]
* AndShowItToYou: Apparently, the last time Spider-Man and Scorpion fought, Gargan threatened to show the web-slinger what the inside of his own skull looked like.
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: He stylizes himself after a scorpion and utilizes poisonous toxins in his attacks. He also hangs off walls and jumps from platform to platform.
* AssholeVictim: After he belittles and mocks Rhino too many times, Rhino decides enough is enough and hits him with what sounds like a pretty fierce NoHoldsBarredBeatdown. Considering how unpleasant Scorpion was being, it's hard to feel sorry for him.
* AxCrazy: Easily the '''most''' deranged of the Sinister Six. To clarify, he takes pleasure in torturing, fighting, and causing destruction, and talks about torture, murder, and killing Spidey in incredibly gruesome ways,. Best shown when he notes that their leader wants to torture Spider-Man, which he respects and appreciates despite wanting to kill him right then and there. Spidey even calls him "Crazy Pants Mc[==]Crazy" in-universe.
* BewareMyStingerTail: A staple for the character. His suit is outfitted with a mechanical tail that can fire off corrosive poison.
* BoisterousWeakling: Mac sure talks a big game about torturing Spider-Man and using his corpse as a toy, but that's where his effectiveness ends. He can only be a threat to Spider-Man by getting the drop on him, has the least health of any of the bosses, and is the only boss in the game affected by Spider-Man's gadgets.
* TheBrute: He and Rhino employ different variations of this trope, with Rhino being a violent thug and Scorpion an AxCrazy {{Sadist}}.
* BullyingADragon: Their mutual loathing notwithstanding, Scorpion continues to mock and insult the much larger, much stronger, not particularly even-tempered Rhino even after Spider-Man has beaten them both, which leads to an already agitated Rhino deciding to beat Scorpion to a pulp.
* CardCarryingVillain: Wears a menacing scorpion costume and unlike [[spoiler:his boss, Doc Ock, [[KnightTemplar who thinks he's doing the right thing]]]], Mac takes delight in his sociopathy.
* ClingyCostume: His stinger tail is grafted to his spine, so odds are it's not coming off anytime soon.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Is shown starting to torture some Sable henchman, stabbing one through the shoulder with his tail, but he's distracted by Miles before anything else comes of it.
* {{Cyborg}}: Jameson mentions that he is one; along with his prehensile tail, he also appears to have three-fingered claws for hands
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Dim as Rhino may seem, Gargan is arguably more so for thinking he could belittle the guy who could easily flatten him into a green paste when pissed off enough. Sure enough, he pushes his luck too far when he hits Rhino's BerserkButton and ends up trapped with him for what was likely an extended pummeling.
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: Scorpion's idea of a clever name for the Sinister Six is "the We Murdered Spider-Man and Used His Corpse For a Blanket Six", which fits with Scorpion's [[AxCrazy personality]], but is so clunky and overly wordy that even [[TheComicallySerious Rhino]] thinks that Scorpion's embarrassing himself.
* EvilKnockoff: The Scorpion persona was crafted to be like Spider-Man, having SuperStrength, being able to cling to walls and even has an arachnid motif of his own. Unfortunately, while Spider-Man is a GuileHero with a strong moral code, Mac Gargan was a PsychoForHire with a sadistic streak and is OnlyInItForTheMoney, resulting in yet another villain Spider-Man has to deal with.
* EvilSoundsRaspy: It makes him even more like a scary scorpion.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Talks to the Sable units that he's torturing like they're good buddies.
* ForTheEvulz: There is no reason or tragic event for his actions. He only does what he does because he enjoys torturing and killing.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: Not himself, but J. Jonah Jameson is the reason he exists as the Scorpion: Jonah funded an experiment to create an "Anti Spider-Man" that would work for good... only to find out too late that Mac was just about the [[AxCrazy least]] [[CardCarryingVillain suitable]] [[PsychoForHire candidate]] for such a procedure.
* HateSink: Scorpion is the most despicable villain in the main game, as he's the only one without a sympathetic trait, only joining the Sinister Six for money and sadism, on top of being an absolute jerk towards anyone, regardless of affiliation. [[note]]The leader of the Sinister Six and Li both hate Osborn for different crimes the latter committed, Vulture is trying to cure his cancer, and Rhino wants to get out of his suit. Even Electro genuinely gets along with his teammates and is humorously NotSoAboveItAll.[[/note]]
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** For all the shots Scorpion takes at Rhino's (supposed) lack of intelligence, he proves that he's no paragon of intelligence himself by repeatedly mocking and insulting Rhino, [[BullyingADragon an eight-foot-tall walking tank who already doesn't like him]].
** One of Scorpion's insults towards Rhino is "freak show"; given that Scorpion himself is an AnimalThemedSuperbeing with a ClingyCostume, just like Rhino, he doesn't have much room to talk.
* {{Jerkass}}: Whether he's taunting Spider-Man or insulting the Rhino, his own teammate, Mac is one massive dick.
* LargeHam: Spends most of his screen time making himself the center of attention and talking in a raspy voice about violence.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Constantly kept berating Rhino during their battle with Spider-Man. He ends up locked in a crate with him at the end of the fight and well, suit or no, [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown it's unlikely he'll come out of that unscathed.]]
* MoreHateableMinorVillain: Mac Gargan/Scorpion is the Sinister Six's resident HateSink. While the Master Planner motivated the other villains by promising them a better life (freeing Rhino from his suit and curing Vulture's cancer) or helping them achieve his goals (giving Electro his wish of becoming pure energy and helping Mr. Negative kill Norman Osborn), Scorpion is motivated only by money and opportunities to indulge his sadism. He poisons Spider-Man and taunts him as he swings around New York finding the ingredients for an antidote. Once the hallucinatory parts of the poison kick in, hallucinations of Scorpion harass Spidey, crossing a line by mocking Uncle Ben's death. To make him even more infuriating, he's completely incapable of backing up any of his tough talk, relying on sneak attacks and Spider-Man being overwhelmed by numbers in their two fights. In his boss fight, his contributions consist of screaming insults at Rhino and throwing easily-dodgeable poison attacks, all the while talking a big game of killing Spider-Man and keeping his corpse as a trophy. All this to say, most players understood when Rhino snapped after one too many insults and turned on Scorpion to deliver a long-due beatdown.
* NeverMyFault: After Spider-Man defeats him and Rhino, Scorpion starts insulting Rhino and tells him [[spoiler:Octavius]] will be displeased with ''his'' failure, even though he's equally at fault.
-->'''Scorpion:''' Do you know what [[spoiler:Octavius]]'ll do if he finds out you failed?!\\
'''Rhino:''' ''I'' failed?\\
'''Scorpion:''' Yes you, [[BerserkButton freak show]]!\\
''[[[TheDogBitesBack Rhino starts charging Scorpion]] [[OhCrap and at the moment, Gargan realizes how badly he screwed up]]]''
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: While the rest of the Six have personal reasons for working together with [[spoiler:Octavius]], reasonable or otherwise, Mac's chief motivation is getting paid a lot of money and having his gambling debts erased. Of course, he also admits that he'd [[PsychoForHire gladly kill Spider-Man for free]] either way.
* PoisonedWeapons: His Tail is equipped with poison that takes Spidey out of the first fight with the Six and later [[spoiler: causes Spider-Man to hallucinate poison in the streets of New York, giant scorpion tails, and multiple versions of himself and Doctor Octopus.]]
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: One of his insults towards Rhino is "red menace", a term for a communist which was used as a slur for Russians.
* PrimalStance: Spends a lot of time on all fours, most notably when [[RunningOnAllFours fleeing from an enraged Rhino.]]
* PsychoForHire: He's openly AxCrazy, joining the Sinister Six for money and sadism. During his BossBattle, he openly admits that he'd gladly "rip Spider-Man's face off" for free, and getting paid for it is "a bonus."
-->'''Scorpion:''' ''[after poisoning Spidey]'' Me, I'd end it here. But [[spoiler:Octavius]] is paying, and he wants to [[ColdBloodedTorture torture you]]... which I respect.
* {{Sadist}}: Mac is by far the most bloodthirsty of the Six, and delights in making violent threats of torture; while the others only go so far to mention frying or trampling Spidey, Scorpion taunts him with descriptions of cracking his skull open and making a blanket out of his skin.
* SmugSnake: Incredibly arrogant whenever he's torturing someone, even going far as to say if he wanted to, he could kill Spider-Man easily. It's mostly bark, however, as he's a complete pushover in the fight with Rhino, possessing less health, being vulnerable to basic web attacks, and can be taken out pretty quick if Spidey gets Rhino to run him over.
* TheSociopath: A low-functioning example. He is {{sadist}}ic, [[FauxAffablyEvil superficially charming]], lacks empathy or a conscience, and as his relationship with Rhino shows, is incapable of forming emotional attachments. His lack of impulse control also bites him in the ass [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown when he realizes too late that constantly belittling, insulting, and talking down to an almost unstoppable tank of a man probably won't end well for him.]]
* StupidEvil: Since he is a sadistic psychopath and a total {{jerkass}} in his interactions with everyone, he is very prone to this, to the point where he's TooDumbToLive. For one, he continually taunts and demeans Rhino until he finally has enough and pummels him senseless. On a small level, he's deplorable at banter, something even Rhino points out.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: With Rhino. They can barely stand to work with each other as they team up to fight Spider-Man. Spidey can exploit this during the boss fight by tricking Scorpion into attacking Rhino with his poison, or getting Rhino to trample him underfoot.
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[[folder:Aleksei Sytsevich / Rhino]]
!!Aleksei Sytsevich / Rhino
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!!! '''Voiced by:''' Creator/FredTatasciore (English)[[labelnote:Other Languages]] Alfredo Basurto (Latin American Spanish), Creator/JinYamanoi (Japanese), Vladimir Antonik (Russian)[[/labelnote]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/SpiderManPS4 Spider-Man]]'' | ''VideoGame/SpiderManMilesMorales''

A former Russian mob enforcer who had an experimental combat suit grafted into his skin and desires to be free, by wreaking havoc and destruction in his wake.
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* AdaptationalBadass: The Rhino is generally treated as a B-level supervillain, bordering on C in the comics. With the increased intelligence he gets in ''Spider-Man'', this one is an unstoppable brute that can easily take two Spider-Men on at once. [[spoiler:He actually defeats Spider-Man in a one-on-one fight, which he's almost never done and is only defeated by Miles due to the latter developing his venom blast.]]
* AdaptationalIntelligence: {{Downplayed}}. This portrayal of Rhino is a little different than most interpretations of the character. In the comics, Rhino was specifically chosen because he had no education and lived in poverty, making him desperate enough to take the suit and was believed to be dumb enough to follow orders without question.
** In the game, Rhino's flaw isn't necessarily his stupidity, but his wrath and desperation because Rhino is quick-tempered and thinks irrationally when angered, something that Peter takes full advantage of by provoking him during the fight and luring him into traps.
** If [[spoiler:Octavius]] is to be believed, Rhino has an artistic side due to taking classes in prison and he specifically has an affinity for poetry, but he doesn't show it very well during the fight due to his irrational anger. [[spoiler: Rhino is also shown to be cunning in ''Miles Morales'' because he's able to manipulate Phin into attacking him and Miles by referencing the death of her brother]]. He even tries to bargain with Spider-Man in the main game by pointing out that he's only interested in getting his suit removed and Spider-Man could be free of him if he lets Rhino have what he wants.
** It's also worth noting that he's one of the two villains in the cast to have learned a second language [[note]] English is said to be quite challenging because of its large vocabulary, tricky grammar, and challenging pronunciations [[/note]] so he might just be having difficulty [[EloquentInMyNativeTongue speaking more fluently in English]] than his native Russian.
* AdaptationalSympathy: All he wants in this game is to be free of the armor that's trapped him for all these years--a promise of which [[spoiler: Otto]] intends to fulfill--rather than stay in it like many of the other Rhinos beforehand.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Comics Rhino has mellowed over the years and actually made a HeelFaceTurn for a while. This Rhino is a brute who kills and causes destruction without a second thought.
* AdaptationalWimp: At the same time, Miles' Venom Blasts are something of a KryptoniteFactor here, whereas in the comics he is one of ''very few'' characters to have shrugged it off [[NoSell without any discomfort whatsoever.]]
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: His suit is directly themed after a rhino and his battle style is to charge into anything that moves and smash it to bits. Coincidentally, Rhino also has anger issues that frequently surfaces during the boss battle with Scorpion against Spider-Man.
* AscendedExtra: In the first game, he was just another member of the Sinister Six and didn't get a lot of time to shine. In ''Miles Morales'', he's the guy who kicks off the plot by escaping confinement and rampaging through the city, nearly killing Peter and awakening Miles' venom powers in the process. [[spoiler:He also becomes Simon Krieger's chief goon in the endgame and kidnaps Miles and Phin for him.]]
* AtrociousAlias: At some point in the past, he tried to use "Santa Clause" as an alias in the United States.
* AxCrazy: Not to Scorpion's level, but Rhino is a violent, foul-tempered brute who's more than happy to bulldoze his way through Manhattan, utterly uncaring of whoever gets in his path of destruction.
* BlessedWithSuck: His suit grants him superhuman strength and durability, but he can’t take the suit off and hates being stuck in it. He joins the Sinister Six because its leader promised to remove the suit from him.
* BerserkButton:
** Making fun of how he looks in the suit is a definite '''do not'''. A conversation between two inmates in the first game during one of Miles' stealth missions reveals that Rhino once crushed a man's skull for making a crack about his suit. Scorpion calling him a "freak show" was the last insult Aleksei could stand before charging at him.
** He also really doesn't like being duped into a WildGooseChase. Mentioning multiple times in both the first game and in ''Miles Morales'' that he hates "Chase of Goose".
---> '''Miles:''' You know man, chasing you through the city, kinda felt like a wild, uh... *beat* What's the word? Wild GOOSE chase.\\
'''Rhino:''' Wild... ''goose''? No. NO! I HATE CHASE OF GOOSE!
* TheBrute: Technically fills the role alongside Scorpion but Rhino plays it straighter. [[DumbMuscle He's big, strong and short in the brains department.]]
* BuffySpeak: Mockingly refers to Miles' venom powers as "zappy pops".
* BullfightBoss: As usual, Rhino attacks by charging at Spidey, though he mixes it up by throwing heavy objects at Spidey if he’s too far away. Spidey has to first stun him using equipment around the construction site before attacking him. This can be used to hurt or even defeat Scorpion if he's tricked into running him over.
* ClingyCostume: His costume is bonded to his skin due to a genetic experiment on him, and his reason for joining the Sinister Six is for its leader to remove it for him. [[spoiler:He also starts working for Roxxon in hopes that they can remove it instead, but Simon Krieger's just stringing him along.]]
* TheComicallySerious: Reacts to Scorpion's "jokes" by telling him that he's embarrassing the both of them. Reacts to Spidey's jokes the same way.
-->'''Spider-Man:''' So you guys and [[spoiler:Octavius]]; you have a name yet? The Scary Six? The Dirty Half Dozen?\\
'''Scorpion:''' How about the "We Murdered Spider-Man and Used His Corpse For a Blanket" Six?\\
'''Rhino:''' Gargan... please. You embarrass yourself.
* CompositeCharacter: His armor appears robotic like his Ultimate counterpart, but it's clear that most of his mass is his enhanced body. His Russian accent also evokes Creator/PaulGiamatti's portrayal in ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2''.
* CursedWithAwesome: He's a walking, talking tank but the suit he wears is bound to his skin and thus he cannot remove it. The leader of the Sinister Six promised to remove it after he helps him in his vendetta against Osborn.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: During the fight, he tells Spider-Man that he's only interested in getting the suit removed and that he'll quit the criminal life once it's taken off.
* DeadpanSnarker: He rarely jokes, but he pulls one out in the opening of ''Miles Morales'' after rampaging through a shopping mall, [[spoiler: beating Peter and moving on to trying to kill Miles.]]
-->'''Rhino:''' This Spider-Man is broken. I would like to exchange for new one.
* DoNotCallMePaul: He ''really'' doesn't like being called Rhino to his face, referring to himself with his real name.
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:For Simon Krieger in ''Miles Morales''. Rather than turning him over to the police, Krieger instead outfits him with better armor and makes him his muscle.]]
* DualBoss: In the first game, he and Scorpion are both fought at the same time.
* DumbMuscle: Not exactly in the traditional sense: [[spoiler:Doc Ock]] claims that he's something of a poet and Rhino himself seems less dumb and more foul-tempered and impatient, but he doesn't put too much thought and strategy into what he does: his fighting style begins and ends with smashing through everything in his path. Since he's nearly unstoppable, it works out quite well for him. His dialect is also a result of speaking a second language as he's shown to be more articulate and fluent in Russian than in English.
* EloquentInMyNativeTongue: Implied, when Rhino is speaking in English, he speaks less fluently and eloquently than he does in native Russian. As he says "It is chase of goose" while hunting Miles but is able to threaten the soldiers more effectively by speaking Russian.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He's appalled by Scorpion's lack of principles and sense of humor.
-->'''Spider-Man:''' Rhino's getting his suit removed... what did [[spoiler:Octavius]] promise you, Scorpion?\\
'''Rhino:''' Money. Gargan has no principles. He fights for profit.\\
'''Scorpion:''' [[IResembleThatRemark Untrue. I'd rip Spider-Man's face off for free. The money's a bonus.]]
* EvilIsBigger: Dwarfs every other character (including Wilson Fisk and Tombstone) in the first game and ''Miles Morales'', and it remains unclear just how much the suit adds to his already very, very large frame.[[note]]Much like Killer Croc in the ''[[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries Arkham]]'' franchise, his profile [[NotDrawnToScale doesn't seem to take into account how big he is]]; his height is listed as 7'5" (a foot higher than his comic book counterpart) and his weight as 710 pounds, but the version seen in-game is at least 10 feet tall and several tons heavier. It's possible his stats are supposed to be without the suit, and it's less form-fitting than it looks.[[/note]] [[spoiler:Only a fully cybernetic Hammerhead could rival his height.]]
* FatalFlaw: '''Wrath''', Rhino is quick-tempered and is prone to explosive irrational anger when provoked. Peter takes full advantage of this during the fight by making jokes and using the environment against him by getting Rhino to charge into him. Peter can even have Rhino knock out Scorpion by charging into him while he's on the ground.
* FreudianExcuse: The fact of turning into Rhino and being trapped for years in that suit could certainly have contributed to his violent behavior. In fact, he wishes for freedom from his suit and his identity as Rhino, and joins [[spoiler:Doctor Octopus]] to do so.
* GutturalGrowler: He constantly sounds like he's snarling while talking, as befitting of a perpetually pissed-off man dressed like a rhino.
* HiddenDepths: In ''Miles Morales'', he claims to enjoy fly fishing on the river Volga when Miles asks if he has any non-violent hobbies. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when his reason for it is [[{{Sadist}} the thrill of controlling life and death.]] Still, he definitely doesn't seem like the kind of guy who'd be patient enough for something like that at first glance.
* HuskyRusskie: He's massive, Russian, and formidable in combat.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: His reason for joining [[spoiler:Doc Ock]] is wanting to get rid of the Rhino suit.
* InformedAttribute: His intelligence is constantly made fun of by Scorpion and Spider-Man but, to his credit, Rhino learned a second language and is said to be taking poetry classes in prison. The insults from Scorpion imply that he is racist as he calls Rhino a "red menace" and Spider-Man is only calling him dumb so Rhino would lose his temper and focus. [[spoiler:In ''Miles Morales'', he succeeds in turning Miles and Phin against each other though emotional manipulation as he talks about how Phin's brother died and how she could only watch as it happened.]]
* TheJuggernaut: He's huge, he's practically invincible, he's insanely strong, and he's got a metal horn that allows him to crash through whatever's in front of him when he charges.
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:Once he's defeated near the end of ''Miles Morales'', he taunts Phin about the death of her brother while blaming it on her, just to be a dick.]]
* LightningBruiser: Fittingly for being based on a rhino, he's really big ''and'' really fast; the only barrier his size presents to his speed is that he's got to brace himself before he runs. As shown in ''Miles Morales'', if he doesn't lose his momentum, he can run at full tilt for minutes without getting even slightly tired, and facing him head-on requires a lot of quick dodging until Miles can charge up a Venom punch.
* TheMafiya: Very Russian and was a mob enforcer before he became the Rhino.
* NoIndoorVoice: He's always angry and shouts every time he speaks.
* NoodleIncident: For anyone out of the loop on the MythologyGag, the alias "Santa Claus" in his bio might raise a few eyebrows.
* PsychopathicManchild: He's basically a walking, talking tank who speaks in broken English and has the mentality of an angry teenager.
* RecurringBoss: In ''Miles Morales'', he's fought twice.
* RhinoRampage: What his suit is based on, which him fight like a berserker.
* {{Sadist}}: While he may want to be freed from his suit, it doesn't stop him from reveling in the death and destruction he causes.
* ShockwaveStomp: He can create a small but powerful shockwave by stomping the ground, injuring Spidey if he gets too close.
* SuperStrength: Thanks to the armored, robotic suit he's bonded to, he's strong enough to rip boulder-sized chunks of concrete out of the ground, and can hurl them dozens if not hundreds of feet.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: With Scorpion. The two of them constantly get in each other's way and insult one another as they try to take down Spider-Man. Spidey can exploit this during the boss fight by tricking Rhino into charging Scorpion.
* UncertainDoom: The last time he's seen on-screen in ''Miles Morales'' is when [[spoiler:the Tinkerer drives a sword right through his chest]]. Alleviated by the second game's trailer, where [[spoiler:Kraven's overview of NYC confirms Rhino survived and was sent back to the Raft]].
* UnrelatedInTheAdaptation: Interestingly, in the comics, Rhino actually has a family and came to the United States to provide for them. In the game, there is no mention of his family.
* UnskilledButStrong: After spending years in the suit, Rhino is complacent with his usual tactic of enduring every hit and attacking anything that moves. As a result of his anger, he fights wildly and relies on overkill tactics that either destroy the environment or leave civilians at risk.
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:He's teaming up with Roxxon so they can get his suit off him, but is oblivious to the fact that Simon Krieger has no intention of doing so and wants to milk his brute strength for everything it's worth.]]
* UpgradedBoss: After Miles defeats him at the start of ''Miles Morales'', he [[spoiler:returns donning armor provided to him by Roxxon which enables him to resist Miles's Venom attacks and see Miles when he's invisible.]]
* VillainHasAPoint: During his boss battle, Rhino accurately points out that if he does manage to get his suit removed, he'll be much less of a headache for Spider-Man.
* WarriorPoet: Subverted; although he's not ''quite'' as much of a mindless brute as most people would assume, he also doesn't seem to have the artistic side he claims he does. Either he's much more poetic and articulate in private or [[spoiler: Doc Ock was just trying to be polite when describing Rhino as such in his taped message to him.]] On the other hand, given his imperfect English, perhaps his poetic side [[EloquentInMyNativeTongue is best heard in his native Russian tongue.]]
* TheWorfEffect: Rhino is already a formidable opponent by the first game, but becomes even stronger in ''Miles Morales'', nearly killing Peter at the beginning and posing certain death to a comparatively inexperienced hero like Miles -- making it a big deal when Miles' newly-manifested Venom punch is able to knock Aleksei on his back and stun him for a moment. Played with, in that Miles clearly took the big guy by surprise and it still takes a lot of those Blasts to wear him down for good once he's back on his feet. Not to mention that Peter was just badly weakened from taking a point-blank gas tank explosion, which Miles was lucky to avoid himself.
* WorthyOpponent: Comes to see Miles as this, and genuinely respects him in his own twisted way.
* WouldHurtAChild: Despite the fact that Miles Morales is more of a teenager than a child, he has absolutely no problem attacking him. He also doesn't give a damn about the baby he's about to run through during his rampage in a mall.
* YouNoTakeCandle: He speaks with imperfect English and mixes his native Russian in his dialect.
-->'''Rhino:''' ''[interrogating two Sable agents]'' Supply routes and schedules. Now! Я сказал-[[labelnote: Trans]]Ya skazal = I said[[/labelnote]]
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!!Other Villains
!!!Introduced in ''[[VideoGame/SpiderManPS4 Marvel's Spider-Man]]''

[[folder:Norman Osborn]]
!!ComicBook/NormanOsborn
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!!! '''Voiced by:''' Creator/MarkRolston (English)[[labelnote:Other Languages]] Alfonso Ramirez (Latin American Spanish), Creator/KenyuHoriuchi (Japanese), Andrey Gradov (Russian)[[/labelnote]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''[[Literature/MarvelsSpiderManHostileTakeover Hostile Takeover]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/SpiderManPS4 Spider-Man]]'' | ''VideoGame/SpiderManMilesMorales'' | ''[[VideoGame/MarvelsSpiderMan2 Spider-Man 2]]''

The owner of [=OsCorp=] and the current mayor of New York City. He's also the father of Harry Osborn, Peter's and MJ's long-time friend.
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* AdaptationalLateAppearance: Green Goblin is one of Spidey's earliest foes, and his most personal ArchEnemy in both the comics and other adaptations. Here, after 8 years into Spider-Man's career, Norman Osborn hasn't even ''become'' the Green Goblin yet. [[spoiler:Though it's heavily hinted that he will, it's still significantly later than usual.]]
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: [[spoiler:This incarnation of Osborn genuinely cares for Harry and his actions are motivated in part to save his son from the disease that took his wife. A stark contrast to his modern portrayal in the comics. Furthermore, he's ''not'' the Green Goblin at this point in time, despite the game being set 8 years into Spider-Man's career as a superhero.]]
* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: In the comics, Norman's sociopathic behavior pushed his wife to fake her death to get away from him and he [[DealWithTheDevil sold Harry's soul to Mephisto]] to ensure that Oscorp would be successful. Here, Norman truly loves his family, Emily Osborn really did die of a genetic disease that Harry inherited, and while Norman certainly doesn't mind the wealth and power the corporation has brought him his primary motivation is to use Oscorp's resources to find a cure for Harry's condition.
* AdaptationalSympathy: Because he has yet to become the Green Goblin, Norman is presented in a much more positive light. He's still mildly corrupt, making backroom deals with the Kingpin, and a full-on {{Trumplica}} to boot, but everything he's doing in the game is to [[spoiler: save his son from a deadly neurological disease that's slowly killing him, and started the game's events because he was trying to save his wife from that same disease.]] This is in stark contrast to previous Normans in other media adaptions, who, at worst, [[spoiler: don't even bother to acknowledge Harry and treat him horribly.]]
* AffablyEvil: He's sleazy and greedy, but polite and [[spoiler:a genuinely loving father, and is kind to Peter]].
* TheAlcoholic: He lives alone, but has an entire room full of wine. Bottles are also all over his penthouse.
* AlternateSelf: In ''ComicBook/SpiderGeddon'' Peter works on a team with the Earth-44145 version of Norman who became Spider-Man.
* AmbiguouslyEvil: Norman definitely engages in some unethical, amoral, and illegal actions both as mayor and as owner of [=OsCorp=], but to what extent he can be considered ''evil'' is unclear. Most of the evil deeds he has performed in the past can be chalked up to character flaws (greed, arrogance, selfishness, etc) than actual malice, and while other characters talk about how he's a BitchInSheepsClothing who is far more sinister than he appears, those characters are all ones with personal reasons to hate him and can hardly be considered unbiased. And unlike most adaptations, [[spoiler:he has ''not'' become the Green Goblin (yet), there's no indication he's used any sort of SuperSerum or has [[JekyllAndHyde an evil alternate persona]], and he genuinely loves his family and is trying to save his son.]] The most villainous thing he does during the game is order Sable International to take out Spider-Man, but his motivations for doing so are vague and may be because he sees Spidey as a threat, or simply wants the costumed vigilante swinging around the city taken out of the equation with things getting dire all-around. [[spoiler:Evidence around his personal lab and TheStinger emphasize he's up to no good and heavily imply he's ''going'' to become the Green Goblin in the future, but if he actually does remains to be seen.]]
* BigFancyHouse: He lives in a palatial penthouse suite that has bathrooms that are bigger than MJ's apartment, as she observes when investigating it. This also gives him a lifestyle far apart from most New Yorkers:
-->'''MJ:''' Ugh, Norman would have a pool. New York is about subway rats and street pizza, not sunbathing and umbrella drinks.
* BreakupBreakout: [[invoked]] The Proto-Oscorp started off as a joint venture between Otto and Norman while they were in college. As Otto grew increasingly more uncomfortable with the more unethical genetics experiments they were doing, he decided to distance himself with the company while Norman pushed forward.
* CreateYourOwnHero: [[spoiler:He is indirectly responsible for Miles Morales gaining his own spider powers. As MJ discovers, Osborn has spent a good deal of time trying to research Spider-Man's abilities and he's worked on genetically altered spiders to find a way to either reverse-engineer or exceed Peter's abilities, and the ones she looks into have abilities engineered such as "bio-electrokinesis" and "optical camouflage," two of Miles's signature moves.]]
* CreateYourOwnVillain: Twice over. He's responsible for [[spoiler:Otto's descent into villainy, as he pulled Otto's grant just to force him to come work with him again. Before that point, Otto was well adjusted and focused on his own matters, and if Norman had just left well enough alone, none of the mess in the latter half of the game would've come about. Norman of course is unrepentant about this. He's also responsible for giving Martin Li his powers and bringing about the death of his parents because of his haste to test a forerunner to GR-27, which created Mr. Negative and was what caused Norman and Otto's friendship to break up in the first place.]]
* ColorMotifs: Green, fitting for the man known in the comics as the Green Goblin. Osborn favors green suits, which someone {{lampshade|Hanging}}s on Spidey's social media account by asking why he always looks like he's dressed for St. Patrick's Day. [[spoiler:During TheStinger, he's seen bathed in green light from Harry's tank, giving him a green "Face" like that of the Green Goblin]].
* ComicBookFantasyCasting: He also visually resembles a mix of his two live-action film actors; Creator/WillemDafoe and Creator/ChrisCooper.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Becoming Mayor hasn't made him any less of one, and he sees no problem with [[CorruptPolitician using his mayoral powers to directly benefit Oscorp]] when it suits him. Just as Otto and Peter have hit a breakthrough with their experimental robotic prosthesis, Osborn swoops in, pulls their grant money due to safety violations (that he'd previously said he would waive) and has their lab shut down while his workers scuttle all of their "unsafe" equipment (as well as Otto's potential client) to Oscorp, leaving Otto with nothing once again.
* CorruptPolitician: Despite being Mayor, [[spoiler:it's revealed that he had dealings with Wilson Fisk, TheDon of the city's underworld, and he's still in touch with Big Willie even when he's behind bars. He's also flamboyantly unethical in refusing to divest his business empire from his political office and he has used his extreme power and influence to expand Oscorp's influence across the city. He also illegally oversees the creation of the "Devil's Breath" which his own doctor calls a war crime, and of course he orders a foreign private security team to police his own citizens]]. It ultimately comes to a head in the end of the main game, as [[spoiler:the "Devil's Breath" crisis forced him to resign from office]]. Even earlier, Yuri mentions the NYPD spent most of its budget (so much so there's no officer's ball this year) on new communication towers. Manufactured by Oscorp.
* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:When Otto has him hanging over a ledge ready to drop him, Osborn despite being in mortal terror keeps insulting Otto and [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech even calls him a loser]] rather than beg for mercy and apologize.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He's more corrupt than evil, but he genuinely loves his son Harry, [[spoiler: and is searching for a cure for his genetic disorder.]] He also loved his wife Emily very much and was heartbroken when she died before he could find a cure. An audio log you can find later in the first game implies he still isn't over Emily's death.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: If you clear all of the Sable outposts, Yuri reveals he's cracked down on Sable arresting civilians without due process. It's also implied that he actually regrets [[spoiler: [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone causing the accident that killed Martin Li's parents]]]] [[SincerityMode and isn't just saying it to save his own skin.]]
* EvilCounterpart: Norman Osborn is the CorruptCorporateExecutive foil to Otto Octavius' HumbleHero. The story implies that Norman has a sordid history with Otto, poaching his ideas and getting rich while Octavius' noble ambitions has left him with little success. [[spoiler: In an interesting subversion, Norman never actually has a heel turn, while Otto ends up becoming the villainous Doc Ock.]]
* EvilRedhead: Evil is debatable, but he does do multiple questionable things over the storyline and has reddish hair.
* {{Foil}}: To Peter. [[spoiler:Both have the opportunity to use a cure to save the last family member they have left. Peter opts to let go with May's blessing, despite the pain it causes him, in order to save as many lives as he can. Norman, meanwhile, causes untold amounts of pain through his actions for the sake of seeing Harry well again.]]
* ForgotFlandersCouldDoThat: The character takes more cues from the original Lee & Ditko/Romita stories than from the modern 616 Norman. He's corrupt but not to the point of CartoonishSupervillainy, and his relationship with his son is strained because of Norman's shortcomings as a father instead of Norman actively hating him. Like with the original, this Norman's love for his son is one of his redeeming qualities -- back in the 60s, when Spidey first found out who Goblin really was, he brought up Harry to see what'd happen; Norman took over Goblin and had a nervous breakdown, because the idea of Harry knowing of Norman's crimes was too much for him. Here [[spoiler:he's genuinely trying to save his only son from what he believes is certain death]].
* GadgeteerGenius: He has [[spoiler:skill in engineering and inventions, as MJ finds out when she comes across a VR mask that reveals structural weaknesses, and the fact that his personal laboratory has him working on his pumpkin bombs.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler: Interestingly enough, despite never becoming the Green Goblin in the game, Norman is still the root cause of the major conflict of the game. He's the catalyst behind the StartOfDarkness for both Mr. Negative and Doctor Octopus. Oscorp's attempt at reverse-engineering the Spider that gave Peter his powers is actually what leads to Miles getting powers of his own. Finally, his experiments with the symbiote is hinted at what will cause Harry to become Venom. All of this might have instead been a case of UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom, if not for his constant recklessness and cruelty in bolstering or covering up his mistakes, resulting in more pain and ultimately causing every problem Spider-Man has to face in one way or another.]]
* HiddenAgendaVillain: Norman Osborn is up to something. [[spoiler:His main motives are hinted at finding a cure for Harry, but MJ discovers prototype pumpkin bombs in his secret lab, an obsessive interest in Spider-Man's powers, and the creation of several mutant spiders with augmented abilities. He also has some [[MissingTrailerScene Missing Trailer Dialogue]] where he apparently tells Spider-Man that he hired Silver Sable's group to put an end to Spidey's VigilanteMan methods. In addition, he has the Venom symbiote in his possession for some reason.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: Norman shuts down Otto's lab because he violated the safety provisions in the federal grant he was given for his research, even coming in-person to unapologetically tell him. [[HypocriteHasAPoint While violation of the safety provisions in his federal grant is a good reason to rescind it]], throughout the game it is revealed that Oscorp itself has broken ''dozens'' of laws involving illegal experimentation (most noteworthy the creation and experimentation of [[ThePlague Devil's Breath]] in the highly populated New York area), negligence in maintaining infrastructure, creating environmental hazards like water and air pollution and knowingly associating with criminal elements like the Kingpin.
* InkSuitActor: Resembles his voice actor, Mark Rolston, albeit with some features that invoke his two live-action actors, Dafoe and Cooper. Namely his eyes are the same size as Dafoe's while his skin is as wrinkled and weathered as Cooper's.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Near the end of the first game, he decides to oversee the antiserum to the Devil's Breath on his own while leaving Sable behind. Sable objects, insisting he'll be completely vulnerable without her, Norman retorts by calling her and her men out as IncompetenceInc; considering that Sable's troops have repeatedly proven themselves to be complete screwups overall and ''never'' succeed at doing much of anything without Spider-Man's help, he's not wrong.
-->'''Norman:''' I seem to be completely vulnerable ''with'' you.
* KickTheDog: Right after pulling the funding from Otto's research, Norman decides to twist the knife further by trying to convince Peter to jump ship and start up the business he was planning with Harry, all in front of Otto. Though perhaps unintentional on Norman's part, [[spoiler: Harry's last entry in his journal pleaded with his father to let Peter and MJ know about what really was happening to him. Norman never did, refusing his son's potential last wish and causing the pair no small amount of horror when they realize just how tied the "Devil's Breath" is as a failed attempt to cure Harry.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Although not truly punished nor incarcerated, he resigns from the mayor's office in disgrace and his company has been publicly shamed due to the Devil's Breath incident and Sable International's civil rights violations. The only thing keeping him out of jail? All evidence of his truly illegal wrongdoings or [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom culpability in making Martin Li and Otto Octavius into villains]] either doesn't exist anymore, are first-hand witness claims from Spider-Man which wouldn't work well (especially not against Norman's lawyers), or were acquired illegally due to breaking and entering in MJ's case.]]
** Then again, he did [[spoiler: hire Sable International, who violated citizens' human rights,]] which would land him in federal prison.
* LikeASonToMe: Downplayed; like his mainstream counterpart, he views Peter like this, and says he pulled Dr. Octavius' funding, in part, to encourage Peter to work with him at Oscorp and even tries to convince Pete he'd only benefit from working here. Unlike his mainstream counterpart, however, Norman doesn't favor Peter over Harry.
* NervesOfSteel: [[spoiler:Despite being threatened and dangled from a rooftop, he basically insulted Doc Ock to his face rather than beg for mercy.]]
* NeverMyFault: [[spoiler:After Doctor Octopus releases the Devil's Breath in New York, Mayor Osborn's response is to deflect blame from the Raft breakout and blame it all on Spider-Man.]] It's implied that he might not actually believe this and is just using it as an excuse to [[spoiler: buy himself time to find a cure, keep his reputation intact, and get rid of Spider-Man's vigilantism.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: He's still no hero, [[spoiler:but the creation of Devil's Breath was probably the most altruistic thing ''any'' Norman has ever done (as low a bar as that is), since it was meant as a cure for fatal genetic disorders. Then the city's supervillains with bones to pick with him get ahold of it in its unfinished and dangerous state and used it to terrorize New York.]]
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler:Implied for the future; his attempts to recreate the spider that bit Peter - and possibly improve upon it - inadvertently leads to Miles receiving spider powers of his own.]]
* PapaWolf: Despite his faults, his main motivation is to [[spoiler: save Harry from succumbing to a terminal disease.]]
* PetTheDog: He has his (if only few) genuine moments. Notably, he personally pays tribute to [[spoiler:Jefferson Davis at his funeral, and offering his condolences to Jeff’s wife, Rio, and their son, Miles.]] The look on his face and his speechlessness implies his condolences are genuine, especially since [[spoiler:he knows what it’s like to lose a loved one.]] Likewise, when he takes over Otto's prosthetics project, he has the veteran volunteer transferred over to an Oscorp equivalent, at no charge.
* PsychoticSmirk: [[spoiler:He lets out a small one after Spider-Man saves him from Dr. Octopus at the end of the game, where after Peter drops him off the roof, he looks back with an evil grin before scuttling to safety.]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler:When held hostage by Doc Ock, and threatened to be exposed as a glory-hound and a fraud Norman instead tells Ock he's always been the worse of the two.]]
* ResignedInDisgrace: [[spoiler: By the end of the first game, Norman Osborn has been forced to resign in disgrace from his position of Mayor of New York, having been undermined by the many civil rights infractions committed by Sable International in his efforts to regain control of the city, his failure to stop the Sinister Six, and his personal role in the creation of Devil's Breath. For good measure, Oscorp has suffered critical damage from the incident, and the only reason why Osborn hasn't ended up in jail is because nobody knows about the integral part he played in the creation of Mr. Negative and Dr. Octopus.]]
* SlaveToPR: Norman loathes the GR-27 being nicknamed "Devil's Breath" since it makes what was supposed to be a cure into something spooky. He especially laments the leaks to the press and the popularization of this branding, noting that it has brought him an 18 month cooldown PR campaign.
* StartOfDarkness: MJ mentions that the Osborns were the ''ideal family'' before Emily Osborn got sick. [[spoiler:It is in trying to save his wife from a terminal illness that Norman tested an experimental cure on Martin Li. This reckless experiment caused the death of Martin's parents when it created his Mister Negative powers and also led to his estrangement from Otto. When his son Harry was diagnosed with the same genetic disorder as Emily was, he accidentally created Devil's Breath in further research for a cure for him.]]
* TooDumbToLive: He verbally abuses [[spoiler:Otto]] while he's holding him off the edge of a building, which doesn't end well for him, [[spoiler:at least until Peter comes and saves him]].
* {{Trumplica}}: Norman is a {{Yuppie}} billionaire with a New York-based corporate monopoly who would go on to develop a career in politics, and he has controversial ties to an Eastern European nation.
* UltimateAuthorityMayor: He's got enough power to [[spoiler: declare martial law and hire a ruthless mercenary army. Although it does end up biting him in the ass by the end of the first game.]]
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Ironically enough, for once he ''isn't'' actually trying to cause problems for New York, but his actions still indirectly lead to havoc. [[spoiler:In his desperate attempts to cure Harry of a genetic disease, he accidentally created a bioweapon and kickstarted the villainy of Mr. Negative (by an ill-considered experiment that ended up killing Martin Li's parents) and Doctor Octopus (whose work he profited off without giving credit), who then proceeded to terrorize New York in the name of revenge against him]].
** And if TheStinger is anything to go by, [[spoiler: he's bonded Harry to the Venom symbiote (and may have possibly ''created'' it) in an attempt to cure him. Two guesses as to how that's going to turn out.]]
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: While not yet known if he'll become the Green Goblin in this continuity, he enjoys some popular support despite [[spoiler:going full dictator]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: Whether he's trying to gain more power and authority or not, his actions are also part of another goal: To save Harry from the same illness that took his wife. The scientific research that lead to the "Devil's Breath" disease was a actually an attempt to create a cure.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Silver Sablinova / Silver Sable]]
!![[ComicBook/SilverSable Silver Sablinova / Silver Sable]]
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!!! '''Voiced by:''' Nichole Elise (English)[[labelnote:Other Languages]] Xochitl Ugarte (Latin American Spanish), Creator/TakakoHonda (Japanese), Varvara Chaban (Russian)[[/labelnote]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/SpiderManPS4 Spider-Man]]''

The head of Sable International and the princess of the tiny European nation of [[FictionalCountry Symkaria.]] She's tasked with hunting down the Demons at Osborn's behest, butting heads with Spider-Man when he sees her men ready to execute members of the gang. She later turns her sights on the web-slinger himself when [[spoiler:Osborn imposes martial law on the city.]]
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For tropes related to her see [[Characters/SpiderManPS4Heroes Heroes]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Wilson Fisk / Kingpin]]
!![[Comicbook/TheKingpin Wilson Fisk / Kingpin]]
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!!! '''Voiced by:''' Creator/TravisWillingham (English)[[labelnote:Other Languages]] Carlos Galindo (Latin American Spanish), Creator/TesshoGenda (Japanese), Mikhail Sushkov (Russian)[[/labelnote]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''[[Literature/MarvelsSpiderManHostileTakeover Hostile Takeover]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/SpiderManPS4 Spider-Man]]'' | ''VideoGame/SpiderManMilesMorales''

New York City's crime lord and Spider-Man's arch nemesis from the earliest days of his superheroing career. Spidey finally manages to bring him down in a climactic showdown at the start of the game, but his absence creates a power vacuum that allows NYC to descend into chaos.
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* {{Acrofatic}}: He's not fat, but his body mass does seem like he's more of a MightyGlacier; As is clear in his boss-fight, [[LightningBruiser he's unusually fast for a man of his size]].
* AdaptationalBadass: Spider-Man's entry on Fisk describes him as his biggest villain at a point where he's already an ExperiencedProtagonist, and Fisk's thugs are numerous and heavily armed enough to openly shoot it out with the city's police force. Neither of these are generally the case in the comics. Applies to his physical strength too; while there's [[StrongAsTheyNeedToBe some inconsistency in his 50+ years of history]], ''officially'' Kingpin is much weaker than low-level superhumans like the Captain Americas, and Spidey can easily thrash him when he stops holding back. In the Insomniac universe he's a solid mid-level superhuman straight-up, being able to perform feats like tackling Spider-Man through a concrete wall and tossing him dozens of feet and through a brick one. He even outright defeated Spidey in their first encounter when armed with just a sword, forcing the hero to flee, and his minions mention in casual dialogue that Fisk oftentimes had the upper hand on a ''teenage'' Spider-Man more often than not.
* AdaptationalWimp: His legal power and influence over New York are actually hit rather hard with this trope, in the sense where most versions of Fisk who've been arrested are typically able to get released out of prison almost as quickly as he's been put in. In this game, it's implied his lawyers are actually struggling to quickly get Fisk out of prison, especially since the police now have decades of evidence regarding his criminal activities, and even the EvilPowerVacuum that occurred from his arrest isn't enough to make people consider releasing him. [[spoiler: It even hits a point where by the time we get to the PlayableEpilogue, he's still behind bars after several months.]]
* ArchEnemy: In universe, he has been Spider-Man's for the 8 years he had been crime-fighting, as Norman Osborn, while still pretty corrupt, hasn't become the Green Goblin (read, ''yet''). This is based on the Ultimate Comics, where Fisk was Ultimate Peter's second most prominent villain and most recurring adversary, again, while Osborn ''is'' the Goblin there, his stints provide a BigBadEnsemble between him and Fisk.
* ArcVillain: [[spoiler:Although still imprisoned, his string-pulling from behind bars causes trouble for a series of side-missions in ''Miles Morales''.]]
* BadassInANiceSuit: Fisk is no coward; he's strong, intelligent and a threat to Spidey himself. And in their boss fight, he wears of a hell of a dapper black suit.
* BadassNormal: Fisk has no powers whatsoever, or even the [[MadeOfIron invulnerability that Tombstone has]] and yet he's able to trade blows with Spider-Man, [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower he's just really strong and durable]]. Mary Jane even implies during her tour of his Art Exhibit that Fisk straight up ''won'' his first fight with Spider-Man by cutting the web-slinger open with a katana, forcing him to retreat.
* BaldHeadOfToughness: He's an incredibly powerful (physically and influentially) mob boss with a hairless scalp.
* BaldOfEvil: As is tradition for Fisk, he's a nasty crimelord and there's not a hair on that shiny head.
* BenevolentBoss: While we never see how he treats his men personally, he does seem to care for their well-being, as he tells Spider-Man that he'll give information on the Demons should Spider-Man keep them safe during the Demon's attack.
* BetterTheDevilYouKnow:
** Discussed. Jonah curses Spider-Man for his takedown and arrest of Fisk, pointing out that a gang war to [[EvilPowerVacuum fill the void]] will inevitably happen; he's proven right when the Demons move in and cause far more damage to the city than Fisk's men ever did. Fisk himself declares as such as he's being taken away, shouting that he kept order in New York and that Spidey will be wishing he was back within a month.
** Spidey will later snark to himself that he is beginning to miss Fisk since he's no longer around to keep his goons in line. [[FromBadToWorse And then]] when the Demons start to become completely unhinged in their attacks on the city, Spidey notes that as bad as Fisk was, he never let his villainy get this out of hand and actually cared about order in the city. That said, MJ points out that he can hardly let Fisk "Godfather" his way around the city, and let him maintain his criminal empire.
** [[spoiler: Defied at the PlayableEpilogue if Spidey completed all the optional missions along with the main storyline. While the villains that tried to take over during the EvilPowerVacuum did do a devastating amount of damage, the city was ultimately about to recover from most of it after said villains were defeated. To a point were three months have passed and Fisk is still in prison and New York was able to get back to normal without him.]]
* BigBadWannabe:
** He was an untouchable crime lord once, and is confident he can return to his former glory once he's out of jail, but after his arrest and imprisonment, Fisk's main focus is ''retaining'' what remains of his power and holdings rather than challenging any newcomers. Meanwhile, his increasingly hard-to-control {{Mooks}} are trying to escalate a MobWar against The Demons, and are sometimes fought in side quests, but it's clear that neither Spider-Man nor the game's plot takes him seriously when compared to [[TheHeavy Mr. Negative]] or [[VillainTeamUp The Sinister Six.]]
** Fisk starts out as the main threat of the prequel novel ''Hostile Takeover'', but his machinations with [[EvilCounterpart Blood Spider]] end up backfiring when the villain turns on him.
* BreakTheHaughty: Surprisingly, something that happens to the Kingpin as one long TraumaCongaLine combined with KarmaHoudiniWarranty. The Kingpin starts off getting arrested after a massive stand-off with the police. He slowly loses one business after another to Spider-Man as well as Mr. Negative. Eventually, he's left unable to get himself off of his many crimes and is still in prison months later.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: As in the source material, he's ostensibly a normal human but is somehow strong and durable enough to give Spider-Man a decent fight, despite the fact that Spider-Man can stop trucks and cars moving at high speed by himself. He casually one-handed tosses Pete forty feet through a brick wall and is unaffected when Spider-Man kicks him throw a glass floor hard enough to break it, which sends him falling through two other glass floors and then on an unimpeded several-story drop onto a hard surface.
* CoolSword: Mary Jane can see a 14th century katana, attributed to the legendary swordsmith Masamune, as part of Fisk's estate sale and remembers he once used it to nearly kill Peter.
* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: Although 'Kingpin' is acknowledged as his title, it's never used as a codename and he's almost always referred to as Fisk.
* CoresAndTurretsBoss: The first phase of his boss fight has him hide behind a glass wall while letting two turrets do the work. After Spidey disables them and smashes his barrier, Fisk decides to get his hands dirty.
* DeathOfAThousandCuts: Wilson Fisk's organization suffers one of these as while his capture is the start of his downfall, he is still massively powerful and able to run his organization from the inside. Spider-Man proceeds to take down his construction sites that contain arms trafficking, designer drugs, counterfeiting, and other operations to raise money for his legal defenses. Spider-Man also puts away most of his organization in the Thug Crimes.
* EmbarrassingNickname: Spider-Man keeps calling him "Willie" just to annoy him.
* EnemyMine: In the mission "Straw, Meet Camel" he begrudgingly agrees to tell Spider-Man who the leader of the Demons is if the web-slinger keeps his men alive.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Discussed; Spidey remarks at one point that as bad as Fisk was, he actually cared about keeping order in New York and would never descend to the depths of depravity the Demons have.
* EvilPowerVacuum: [[DiscussedTrope Openly warns of this while being put into a police car in the tutorial.]] When Fisk is arrested, Mister Negative and his gang of Demons seize control of New York's criminal underbelly for their own nefarious purposes. Without Fisk, they can access his caches and armories of weapons, his resources, his bases and move in, and advance their plan.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Courtesy of Travis Willingham, he has a suitably menacing baritone to befit his size and status.
* EvilVirtues: By Spidey's own admission, for as bad as Wilson Fisk was, he actually ''loved'' New York City and maintained order in the city in his own way.
* EvilWearsBlack: Forgoes his traditional [[BrightIsNotGood white suit]] in favor of an all-black one.
* FatBastard: Fisk is not actually fat, but he's an impressively wide man, and a dangerous gangster.
* GeniusBruiser: Incredibly intelligent and a physical threat that can challenge Spidey.
* TheGlovesComeOff: For most of the tutorial, Fisk takes an offhand approach and [[ThePawnsGoFirst watches Spider-Man fight through his legion of hired goons]], then ambushes the hero with two automated turrets while calmly retreating behind a sheet of bulletproof glass. When Spidey manages to break both the turrets ''and'' the glass, the steadily angrier Wilson goes into a rage and breaks his desk into pieces to hurl at Peter.
* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: The Kingpin's Empire is gradually dismantled throughout the game with attempts to get him off legally and break him out of prison being thwarted by Spider-Man. By the end, he's a man without a kingdom and doomed to a very lengthy prison stay.
* InformedAbility: According to one of his minions, Fisk learned professional sumo techniques in Japan, which is why he's as large and powerful as he is, but he never displays any actual sumo techniques when you fight him, instead relying on ramming and punching his way out.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: A pre-game one. The Kingpin has been untouchable for 8 years of Spider-Man's career but it all comes crashing down at once with Spidey preventing him from weaseling his way out of prosecution by stopping his side-activities.
* KingMook: He basically fights like a regular brute with the added ability of a charging tackle.
* LargeAndInCharge: He's a massive, hulking beast of a man and, until the game's start, is the Kingpin of organized crime in New York.
* LesserOfTwoEvils: Deconstructed in Fisk's case, he may have some lines he won't cross unlike some supervillains, but as far as the authorities (as well as Spider-Man and Mary Jane to a certain extent) are concerned, his lengthy criminal history and the fact he still causes harm to the people of New York makes his status as a "Lesser Evil" irrelevant.
* LightningBruiser: He is crazy powerful, and much faster than any man his size has a right to be.
* MadeOfIron: He takes a ''lot'' of punishment throughout his boss battle, and is still walking under his own power when he's arrested.
* MightAsWellNotBeInPrisonAtAll: Despite being in prison, he still has influence over his gangs and is even able to call them by cellphone, which Spider-Man later intercepts. However, Peter stops an escape attempt and Fisk remains in the Raft even after the end of the game.
** In ''VideoGame/SpiderManMilesMorales'' despite still being in prison, he's set up a line of communications with members of his gang, directing them to ruin businesses and increase crime in Harlem so he can make a land grab to rebuild his empire.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Not Fisk himself but his base of operation, Fisk Tower, is located where [[Creator/WarnerBros The Time-Warner Building]] is in the actual New York City.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: There were times in the past referenced to when Fisk would have Spider-Man at his mercy long enough to hospitalize him, such as with a pair of brass knuckles among the backpack collectibles or the katana in his auction house.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Despite his own claims that his actions have kept order in New York, Mary Jane heavily regards him as this, as she believes Fisk's actions have caused too much harm to the people of New York to justify viewing him as NecessarilyEvil.
* OccidentalOtaku: Much like Creator/FrankMiller's take on the Kingpin, Fisk evidently has a taste for Japanese culture. Fisk himself [[InformedAttribute allegedly]] spent time in Japan training as a sumo, his office in Fisk Tower is heavily furnished with Japanese décor such as bonsai trees and samurai armor and his estate has an extensive collection of Japanese art and antiques, with a particular focus on powerful, [[TheUnfettered unfettered]] warlords and samurai [[WellIntentionedExtremist willing to go to any length for the greater good]].
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In Spider-Man's words, not much spooks Fisk: the fact that he labeled Devil's Breath as "Pandora's Box" is [[{{Foreshadowing}} the first indication of how dangerous it is.]]
* PetTheDog: He does seem to care for his own men, at one point telling Spider-Man he'll give him information if Spidey saves Fisk's men from the Demons first.
* PutOnABus: More or less disappears from the game after the revelation of Martin Li being Mr. Negative.
* StarterVillain: Played with, due to the InMediasRes storytelling. From the player's perspective, he's the guy you beat for the tutorial. But from Spidey's perspective, Wilson's been his ArchEnemy for most of his career and this is the culmination of years of crimefighting.
* StoutStrength: A staple of the character. While he seems merely tall and overweight at first glance, he's got enough muscle to [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower grapple with Spider-Man.]]
* SuperStrength: It's never explained ''why'', but he can crack concrete, cave in steel pipes, and throw Spidey through dozens of feet and through brick walls, all with his bare hands.
* {{Trumplica}}: A wealthy UsefulNotes/NewYork businessman with a rotund physique, arrogant personality, and a long history of legal trouble--who works out of a Manhattan skyscraper named after himself, which bears his name in big gold letters. Said skyscraper is called "Fisk Tower", in case it's not obvious enough.
* UnskilledButStrong: He has about as much finesse as a street thug (i.e., none). He's also strong enough to punch through concrete.
* UnstoppableRage: Once Spider-Man finally manages to break the glass screen that Fisk is hiding behind, he flips his lid, runs out towards his desk, and splits it in half with his fists before throwing it at Spider-Man. He's still seething all the way to the police van afterwards.
* VetinariJobSecurity: Fisk depends on this as he is considered the LesserOfTwoEvils by most New Yorkers. Ultimately subverted by Spider-Man managing to not only get rid of Fisk but his criminal competitors.
* VillainHasAPoint: Fisk is a bad, bad guy, but he is absolutely correct that the vacuum opened by his defeat leads to anarchy. Though MJ rebukes this by noting that letting Fisk continue to run as a crime lord wasn't something the Police or Spider-Man could remotely condone.
* WarmUpBoss: He fights like a Brute enemy with the addition of a charge attack, serving to test how well you've learned the basics of combat.
* WhatTheHellHero: He furiously calls Spidey out for getting him sent to jail.
-->'''Kingpin:''' Idiot! I'm the one who kept [[PragmaticVillainy order]] in this city! One month! In one month, you'll wish you had me back!
* YouHaveFailedMe: While conversing with the head of security for one of his stockpiles in the opening cutscene of "Wheels Within Wheels" he threatens to 'have [the thug's] head' if the Demons set even one toe within the armory.
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[[folder:Herman Schultz / Shocker]]
!!Herman Schultz / Shocker
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!!! '''Voiced by:''' Creator/DaveBMitchell (English; first game), Michael Beattle (English; second game)[[labelnote:Other Languages]] Oscar Flores (Latin American Spanish), Kiyoshi Katsunuma (Japanese), Alexander Hoshabaev (Russian)[[/labelnote]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''[[Literature/MarvelsSpiderManHostileTakeover Hostile Takeover]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/SpiderManPS4 Spider-Man]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/MarvelsSpiderMan2 Spider-Man 2]]''

A thief whose suit is specialized with gauntlets that unleashes powerful sonic blasts.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Spidey mentions that they've talked science together before and they each try to talk the other out of fighting them.
* AffablyEvil: He's not ''nice'' but when compared to the other enemies Spidey goes against in the game, he definitely qualifies. In his first encounter, Herman tells Spidey "I don't want to hurt you! [[PragmaticVillainy That would only slow me down]]!"
* AlternateSelf: He has an alternate counterpart on [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse Earth-199999]].
* BarrierWarrior: He's protected by a vibrational force-field for most of his bank fight. Hurling falling debris at him is the only way to break through it.
* BlowYouAway: What his gauntlets do.
* BossArenaIdiocy: [[JustifiedTrope Kind of unavoidable considering his equipment]], but his blasts cause debris to fall around him which can be tossed at him to destroy his barrier so Spidey can land some hits.
* CostumeEvolution: While his in-game costume is a high-tech suit built by the Mastermind, one of the collectibles is a scrap of his original diamond-patterned costume.
* EmbarrassingButEmpoweringOutfit: Averted for once. His suit looks like it could have been designed by ComicBook/IronMan himself, and Spider-Man openly gushes over how awesome he thinks it looks.
* GetBackHereBoss: When he first appears, you’re forced to chase him down and letting him get away results in a “Mission Failed” message.
* InASingleBound: His suit allows him to jump the length of a city block or leap onto the roof of a ten-story building from street level.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Spider-Man certainly thinks so as he's one of the few villains in the game he has something of a positive relationship with.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Unlike the Sinister Six who commit all sorts of atrocities, or the other supervillains in the main game who are OK with endangering the lives of others, Shocker is merely a destructive bank robber with no interest in hurting people. Even though he comes to blows with Spider-Man, he still makes it clear that he's not interested in fighting him and only does so when Spidey leaves him no choice.
* MadeOfIron: He is seemingly defeated several times in his boss fight, only to get up and keep fighting thanks to his force field and protective padded suit. He only stops after Spidey brings a giant chandelier down on top of him.
* MalevolentMaskedMan: He's a supervillain with a helmet that fully encloses his face. Do the math.
* NonIndicativeName: Despite the name, he doesn't fight with electricity like Electro. His name comes from his main form of attack being shock''waves''.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Spidey notices that Shocker is acting unusually compared to his past confrontations, and that he seems desperate, concluding that he's working for someone. Shocker confirms this and also reveals that the people he's working for ([[spoiler:later revealed to be the Inner Demons]]) have him spooked, and have threatened to kill him unless he cooperates.
* PunchClockVillain: Shocker is a lot more interested in staying alive after [[spoiler: being threatened by the Demons]] or making a quick buck than revenge or mindless destruction, probably why he wasn't picked for The Sinister Six. He even directly states that he doesn't want to hurt Spider-Man during their first chase in the story, albeit for pragmatic reasons, but its a notable contrast compared to every other villain in the game.
* RecoilBoost: He can use his blasters to launch himself across the air.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Lonnie Lincoln / Tombstone]]
!!Lonnie Lincoln / Tombstone
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!!! '''Voiced by:''' Corey Jones (English)[[labelnote:Other Languages]] Dan Osorio (Latin American Spanish), Creator/KenjiNomura (Japanese), Maxim Pinsker (Russian)[[/labelnote]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/SpiderManPS4 Spider-Man]]''

A drug lord and the leader of a biker gang that operates out of Harlem - Spidey and MJ run afoul of him after discovering that his gang is building the [=ATV=]s that the Demons have been using. Exposure to an experimental chemical in his youth gave him super strength and unnaturally hard skin while removing his sense of pain. This turned his skin white in the process, and he later filed his teeth into fangs to add to his ghoulish appearance.
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* AdaptationalJobChange: While he's normally an enforcer or mob boss in most continuities, here he's the leader of a biker gang and a drug lord.
* AffablyEvil: For a giant, preternaturally strong and nigh-invulnerable drug lord, Lonnie's pretty chill. The BossBanter between him and Peter is almost cordial, at one point even suggesting that they could become partners. He even asks, seemingly with complete sincerity, about how Spider-Man is doing with an injury sustained in a previous fight, and is thanked for his concern… while mid-battle. [[spoiler:At the end of the fight, though battered and beaten down, he compliments Spidey on his left hook and tells him that he's looking forward to their next fight.]]
* AllBikersAreHellsAngels: The leader of a criminal biker gang. At the time of the game, they had apparently been in the drug manufacturing business but exited at some point, so their current enterprise is unknown. However, Mary Jane and Spider-Man stumble on their operation to ramp up resources to get back in, using the chemical that gave Lonnie his powers as their new product: "Grave Dust", a methamphetamine that can grant a temporary version of Lonnie's powers to anyone who inhales it.
* BadBoss: Subverted; the first scene with him beating Rick, one of his underlings, has him seem to be one, but Rick is implied to have cut corners when welding [[spoiler:the Demons' armored vehicle]], creating a potential defect that could've jeopardized the entire gang's payday, and tries to defend his actions when called out on it. As such, the big guy is understandably angry, and Rick pulling a gun -- which Lonnie finds harmless but amusing -- only seals his fate. His fight with Spidey shows how much better he treats his other men, on top of being rather affable towards the web-slinger himself.
* BaldOfEvil: He’s bald, unlike most versions of Tombstone (who always sport a flattop haircut), and is a ruthless drug lord.
* BloodKnight: He relishes fighting Spider-Man, especially after [[spoiler:the antidote removes his invulnerability]]. Once Spidey defeats him, Tombstone states that he's looking forward to the rematch.
* BroughtDownToBadass: [[spoiler:The serum that Spider-Man makes Tombstone inhale partway through his boss fight takes away his invulnerability, but it doesn't make him any less dangerous. In fact, it encourages Tombstone to get ''creative'' with his attacks.]]
* ChainPain: The second phase of his fight has him use a chain that's on fire.
* ChefOfIron: In his character bio, Peter ends the list of Tombstone's powers and abilities with [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking "decent cook."]] Just ''how'' Peter knows that, we don't know. [[GoKartingWithBowser Perhaps they had dinner together once]]?
* CombatSadomasochist: [[spoiler:When the antidote begins stripping his invulnerability, he finds that pain -- which he had not felt for years -- adds a new thrill to the fight.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: The only one of Spider-Man's bosses who matches and equals the web-head's quips and jokes during a battle and gives as good as he gets.
* DropTheHammer: He starts the fight with a sledgehammer.
* EvilPaysBetter: His response to Spider-Man offering him to consider redemption and reformation, even opening a soup kitchen, is to tell the wall-crawler that he'd take that offer up [[ShutUpKirk the minute the soup pays better]].
* EvilSoundsDeep: Fitting someone of his size, toughness, and brutality, Tombstone sports a deep, resonant voice.
* GracefulLoser: Doesn't seem to mind his defeat all that much and agrees to lay low for a while. According to his bio, this is regular behavior for him... and Spidey thinks it makes him less satisfying to defeat.
* HiddenDepths: According to his character bio, he's a surprisingly good cook. This is probably why Spidey asks Lonnie to consider opening a soup kitchen or a small buisness, but Tombstone points out that there's money in drugs.
* IAmTheNoun: When Spidey cracks that Tombstone needs a marketing department, he proudly responds, "I ''am'' the marketing department". Given how Grave Dust's selling point is that you'll gain his powers for a brief period, he's not wrong.
* LargeAndInCharge: This version of Tombstone towers over his flunkies and is very muscular.
* LogicalWeakness: While he's nearly impossible to hurt, he doesn't have the stamina to keep fighting indefinitely. During his boss fight, he gets noticeably more tired as the fight drags on. [[spoiler: It's by wearing him down that Peter is able to finally find an opening for him to administer the antidote that makes him vulnerable]].
* ManBitesMan: Tombstone's teeth are razor sharp and one of his attacks is to grab Spidey and bite him on the neck.
* OptionalBoss: Though he makes a memorable appearance in the main game, it's not required to actually fight Tombstone to beat the story, and the chapter with MJ unlocks a series of side missions to take him down.
* PunchClockVillain: He basically admits he's only a criminal because it pays so well.
* RecruitingTheCriminal: He isn't mentioned by name, but an individual fitting his description (a nigh-invulnerable biker gang leader) is listed as an agent of Roxxon in ''Miles Morales''.
* ScaryBlackMan: Albinism and filed teeth aside, he's a tall and imposing black man who happens to be a gang leader and drug lord. And while intimidating and ruthless, he's actually a fairly chill guy underneath it all.
* SuperToughness: By Peter's account, he's "pretty much invincible" due to chemical treatments of Diox-3 giving him abnormally tough skin; when taunting an underling that pulls a sidearm on him, he chuckles and presses the gun barrel against his own forehead before it goes off harmlessly. [[spoiler:Only Peter's antidote makes him temporarily vulnerable to bleeding and cuts, and [[CombatSadomasochist the idea that he could be killed in combat just gives him an even bigger "thrill"]].]] His own goons are capable of rendering themselves temporarily invulnerable to normal attacks by taking a dose of Diox-3.
* VillainRespect: Tombstone shows sincere admiration towards Spider-Man's courage and skill; for Peter's part, Tombstone is notable as the ''only'' villain he feels regret for capturing, as he ''mutually'' respects the crime boss's brutal sense of honor enough to make multiple attempts to turn him straight ''in mid battle.''
* WarriorPoet: Tombstone is a man whose brutal exterior hides a thoughtful and poetic soul. He ''never'' hated Spider-Man for defeating him, warmly musing to his foe that "Every Loss is just Another Great Challenge on The Horizon" when he hands him to the police for the first time. Little wonder that Peter, himself a scholar, comes to grudgingly respect him in return, though Lonnie makes fun of him for thinking so:
-->'''Spider-Man:''' The angry drug lord drank alone. There's a poem in there somewhere.\\
'''Tombstone:''' ''[smirks]'' You'd know better than me. Never was the literary type.
* WeCanRuleTogether: Tombstone gives what amounts to a platonic InLoveWithYourCarnage confession to Spider-Man, stating that the two should be partners.
* WorthyOpponent: He likes Spider-Man because he always gives him a good fight.
* YouHaveFailedMe: He's introduced beating the crap out of a henchmen who evidently cut corners on one of Li's projects. When the henchman pulls a gun on him, Tombstone escalates to viciously murdering him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Screwball]]
!!Screwball
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!!! '''Voiced by:''' Stephanie Lemelin (English)[[labelnote:Other Languages]] Rebeca Gomez (Latin American Spanish), Veronika Sarkisova (Russian)[[/labelnote]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/SpiderManPS4 Spider-Man]]''

The first "live streaming supervillain" and all around narcissist, Screwball likes setting up "events" around Manhattan that star Spidey, whether he likes it or not.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Compared to the malicious prankster in the comics, this version's antics qualify her as an actual supervillain and by the time of ''The Heist'' now commands prisoners from The Raft as her "fans". She also is far smarter and more cunning, as well as a hacker good enough to hack Spidey's suit and counter his attempt to turn her virus against her to track her down.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Screwball in the game is borderline AxCrazy, egging on her more insane fans into attacking Spider-Man and calling in a false abduction and bomb threat. This a far-cry from the relatively HarmlessVillain she is in the comics, who only really engages in public pranks and minor vandalism.
* AndThenWhat: Spidey notes this is Screwball's biggest problem. Unlike most other villains he fights, Screwball doesn't have an end goal she can theoretically reach and then stop being a villain; the attention and adulation she gets from her antics are not only the means, but the ends as well. Therefore he ''has'' to stop her for her own good as much as anyone else's before her constant {{Attention Whor|e}}ing and the SerialEscalation thereof end up getting her and/or lots of other people killed.
* AxCrazy: While a borderline case in the main game, but when you see how far her AttentionWhore tendencies and narcissism take her in ''Silver Lining'', where she threatens to commit a slew of large-scale bombings in order to get Spider-Man to play along with her demented games, all the while completely uncaring of the potential loss of life and collateral damage, then it’s no surprise to all and sundry that she’s completely insane.
* ArtisticLicenseLaw: She claims that she never committed any crimes herself, but the fact that she live-streams crimes that she sets up in advance could pretty easily get her convicted of conspiracy and/or incitement charges. That said, her actions in the DLC are far more blatantly illegal, and Spider-Man outright says she'll be facing prison time when he catches her.
* AttentionWhore: This ''barely'' begins to describe Screwball. She lives in her own little world that revolves around gaining more followers/views for her channel, blind to the rest of reality. Spidey outright calls her a {{Narcissist}}ic social media addict who doesn't so much ''want'' attention as ''need'' attention.
* BadInfluencer: Commits acts of domestic terrorism just to collect subscribers for her blog.
* BrightIsNotGood: She's decked out in a white outfit with pink highlights, and she's every bit as dangerous as she is annoying.
* TheBusCameBack: After getting arrested in her side-mission, Screwball returns in the DLC storylines, now with her own Challenge quest missions just like Taskmaster.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: She's naught but a base human, save for her extreme skills in parkour. Which are good enough that, in the comics, she was able to ''outrun Spider-Man'' even though he's got superhuman speed.
* DisproportionateRetribution: During the ''Turf Wars'' DLC, one of her viewers supposedly leaves a message on her stream saying that [[OnlySaneMan they're calling the police on her]]. She responds by cheerfully threatening to doxx them in retaliation.
* {{Expy}}: In the DLC, her role is similar to The Riddler from the ''Videogame/BatmanArkhamSeries'' as an antagonist whose goal is to annoy the protagonists with side-challenges while badgering them with taunts from afar.
* FameThroughInfamy: Screwball exaggerates this trope in her own attempts to create a high-ratings stream. How high? How about creating her own criminal gang out of prisoners that escaped from "The Raft" (the local super-max prison) and unleashing them onto New York fully expecting the potentially fatal results to make it impossible for Spidey to stay away?
* FatalFlaw: Screwball is a narcissist, she ''needs'' attention. [[spoiler:This is what gets her caught: she [[SanityHasAdvantages can't resist]] attending her own celebratory party in person and when Spider-Man shows up can't resist making a big show of things rather than just hiding or 'attending' via computers. This ends in her being arrested.]]
* FinalExamBoss: Her fight at the end of ''Silver Lining'' tests the player's mastery of her various photobomb microgames.
* FlawExploitation: [[spoiler:Spidey ultimately catches her via exploiting her gigantic ego, as there's no way she wouldn't attend her own party due to her narcissism.]]
* FragileSpeedster: [[spoiler:She's very fast and agile, but otherwise a normal human. Thus while Spider-Man has to work to ''catch'' her, once he does she's off to jail.]]
* FreudianExcuse: Right before [[spoiler:their final encounter]], Spider-Man ponders if the reason Screwball does what she does is simply that [[IJustWantToHaveFriends she's lonely and wants friends]].
* GetBackHereBoss: [[spoiler:Her boss battle consists of her running from Spidey and parkouring across the city, throwing various versions of her challenges at him to slow him down and only attacking with drones.]]
* HateSink: Takes over this position after Scorpion is jailed in the main story, given she outright mocks the player for not doing perfect in her challenges, on top of avoiding karma until ''Silver Lining''.
* IShallTauntYou: In her challenges in the [=DLCs=], she will taunt Spider-Man if he doesn't do well, like missing the Photobomb moments, uses hand-to-hand combat to defeat enemies in a Gadgets-only challenge, and complains that her views are dropping if you go for a while without defeating enemies, and belittles Spider-Man if he failed to get the ''perfect'' rating at the end of the challenges, essentially daring ''you'' to try again and again until it suits her needs.
* ItAmusedMe: The basis of her side-mission, in which she leads Spider-Man on a wild goose chase across the city for the sake of getting more followers online.
* {{Jerkass}}: ''Extremely'' annoying, and belittles Spider-Man at every chance.
* JustGivingOrders: The first time Spider-Man apprehends her, she pleads that the cops have nothing to charge her with since it was her ''fans'' that committed all those crime, not ''her''.
* KarmaHoudini:
** After getting apprehended, the cops imply that Screwball isn't likely to stay in jail very long since technically, she didn't commit any crimes directly, her overzealous fans did.
** In the DLC storylines, she manages to consistently avoid Spider-Man while constantly roping him into doing various tasks for her amusement, at least until ''Silver Lining''. And even then, revisiting her challenges after her arrest reveals that one of the prison's guards is a fan of hers and lets her continue live-streaming without consequence.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: She's finally defeated and arrested in the ''Silver Lining'' DLC. On account of her SerialEscalation in her behavior leaving little doubt that she is to blame for her actions, it is unlikely she will get OffOnATechnicality like in the main game.
* LackOfEmpathy: Doesn't seem to notice or care about those endangered by her crazed fans' antics, so long as her livestream racks up those views.
* LargeHam: She loves being the center of attention, exemplified by her bombastic commentary and overall personality.
* MadBomber: In ''Silver Lining,'' her challenges now include timebombs laid throughout the city for Spidey to hunt down, similarly to Taskmaster. [[LackOfEmpathy She will viciously mock Spidey about the ensuing carnage if he fails to get them in time.]]
* MightAsWellNotBeInPrisonAtAll: Even after completing all her missions in the DLC (resulting in her arrest), players will still be able to revisit her missions and retry them if they want to attempt to get a better score. The capacity to do this (despite Screwball's incarceration) is HandWaved in-game by Screwball herself announcing that guards in her cell block are such devoted fans that they actually allowed her to reestablish her internet show (with all the attendant dangers and violations) from behind bars.
* MoreHateableMinorVillain: Screwball first appears in a side mission in the main story, which sends Spider-Man on a wild goose chase to save a hostage that doesn't exist, all a gambit for her to gain followers on her social media. That's unlikeable, but her sheer contemptibility ratchets to eleven in the DLC. Here, she takes Taskmaster's place in setting up challenges for Spider-Man around the city. Unlike Taskmaster, who either sets up bombs in isolated areas or sends Spider-Man after other mercenaries, her challenges regularly put innocent people in danger, from setting up bombs, using her social media influence to release and arm dangerous criminals, and setting up [=EMPs=] that could leave thousands of people without power. And unlike Taskmaster, a silent observer, Screwball provides a constant stream of obnoxious commentary, mocking Spider-Man if he doesn't get the maximum score and threatening to dox livestream viewers who try to report her crimes to the police. Many a player were happier defeating her than Hammerhead.
* {{Narcissist}}: Spider-Man diagnoses her as such, noting she has a pathological ''need'' for attention. [[spoiler:He [[SanityHasAdvantages exploits this]] to finally catch her, as he knows she is psychologically incapable of not attending her celebratory party and being the center of attention.]]
* LeParkour: She is a genuinely talented parkour artist who forces Spidey to work hard to keep up in a chase.
* PetTheDog: On the social media feed, Screwball gives genuine good advice to an aspiring streamer.
* SanityHasAdvantages: Spider-Man notes that she's a {{Narcissist}} with a pathological ''need'' to be the center of attention. [[spoiler:He exploits this by knowing she psychologically ''can't'' resist showing up in person to her celebratory party no matter how bad of a mistake it would be.]]
* SerialEscalation: The severity of her mayhem escalates with her every appearance. In the main game, while she baits Spider-Man across the city to save a hostage, it all turns out to be fake and she legitimately wasn't responsible for her insane fans getting involved (though she did take advantage of it). In the DLC, she starts recruiting fans among escaped inmates and ''directing'' them to commit crimes to attract Spidey's attention. By Turf Wars, she's actively helping her fans take hostages so she can get views watching Spider-Man attempt to rescue them, leading one of her less rabid fans to call the cops on her. By the time Spidey finally closes in on her, she's setting ''live bombs'' throughout the city to force him to do her shows. Spider-Man notes in ''Silver Lining'' that due to her {{Narcissis|t}}m, she thrives on vindication and so long as anyone pays attention to her, she'll keep doing more and more dangerous stunts to keep getting more.
* SnipeHunt: Screwball's Side Quest, Internet Famous, involves her leading Spider-Man on a wild chase, hunting down QR codes that she tagged on buildings around Manhattan, all so that he can pinpoint the location of a victim she's holding hostage. At the mission's end, you find out there was never actually a hostage and it was all an elaborate prank.
* TheSociopath: A deadly combination of this and a {{Narcissist}}: Screwball's manipulative, self-absorbed, ridiculously destructive, and doesn't give a damn about the many people she could potentially hurt with her dangerous antics. She's driven entirely by an obsessive need of attention and stimulation, and the [[StupidEvil self-sabotaging stupidity]] that leads to her arrest shows that she's got little to no impulse control.
* StupidEvil: In the DLC, she hires armed convicts from the Raft and attending her own public party, giving Spider-Man (and any other law-enforcement for that matter) the opportunity to catch and arrest her. Her attending her own party in person is justified in that she's a textbook narcissist that has a pathological need to be the center of attention.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: In the DLC campaigns, she essentially fills Taskmaster's shoes as the villain responsible for the Challenge Missions.
* {{Troll}}: Her sidequest turns out to be a massive wild goose chase, all for the sake of messing with Spidey. This is continued in her DLC missions.
* TheUnfought: Screwball's "boss fight" in the main game involves having to fight off a series of her over-zealous fans. Since she has no powers herself, she's apprehended with relative ease. Subverted in ''Silver Lining'', where their final encounter has Spider-Man chasing after her in a GetBackHereBoss fashion similar to Black Cat.
* VillainHasAPoint: After Peter completes her "game" and she's arrested, Screwball proclaims they have nothing to really charge her with since she never technically put anyone in danger. It was her fans who recklessly endangered the city (granted, she ''did'' influence them and did nothing to dissuade them). The cops arresting her concede that she has a point and that she'll likely just get off with a slap on the wrist.
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[[folder:Tony Masters / Taskmaster]]
!![[Comicbook/{{Taskmaster}} Tony Masters / Taskmaster]]
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/BrianBloom (English)[[labelnote:Other Languages]] Carlos Hernandez (Latin American Spanish), Yasuhiro Mamiya (Japanese), Mikhail Belyakovich (Russian)[[/labelnote]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/SpiderManPS4 Spider-Man]]''

->''"Sometimes information's worth more than money and I've learned plenty watching you."''

A mercenary who possesses "photographic reflexes", allowing him to perfectly mimic physical movements and copy virtually any fighting style simply from observing it. He places challenges around the city to test Spider-Man and analyze his abilities.
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* AdaptationalBadass: While the comics Taskmaster is no slouch, he's still largely a BadassNormal with the added photographic reflexes, who gets by through being very smart, calculating and CrazyPrepared to battle the Avengers (though CharlesAtlasSuperpower is at play). He has the weakness of not being able to mimic true superhuman abilities (at least not perfectly unless he pushes his normal-human physique to breaking point), thus can't properly replicate Spider-Man's style. This version's portrayed as unambiguously superhuman, and his boss battle has you facing off against him using Spidey's own replicated moves that he learned by watching Spidey in action.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: This version of Taskmaster is a lot less quirky than his comic book counterpart, and not unlike ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}} in terms of being a cold and ruthless mercenary.
* ConsummateProfessional: He regards himself as a true professional in the industry, with the pay rate to match.
* {{Expy}}: His role in the game is very similar to Azrael's in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity,'' as a mysterious masked and cloaked figure who "tests" the protagonist with combat challenges.
* GrapplingHookPistol: Taskmaster has a pair of wrist mounted grappling cables that let him mimic Spider-Man's web skills.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He throws grenades, which Spidey [[CatchAndReturn can catch and throw right back at him]].
* KarmaHoudini: Taskmaster's series of missions ultimately ends with him evading capture from Spider-Man.
* LaserBlade: He wields a lightsaber-esque "photogenic energy sword", which Spidey geeks out about during their fight.
* MalevolentMaskedMen: He wears a white skull-shaped mask and is an amoral mercenary.
* MeaningfulName: You really need to put yourself through the wringer to get the Ultimate ranking in his challenges. Going by the source material, he likely trains his henchmen personally with as much ferocity.
* MirrorBoss: He uses variations of Spider-Man's moves, including web swings (via a grapple), gadgets and even his finishers.
* MovieSuperheroesWearBlack: This version's costume is a lot more utilitarian than most versions of the character. He’s wearing body armor rather than a spandex suit, doesn't have a cape, wields a LaserBlade instead of a broadsword, and his skull-shaped mask is clearly a helmet rather than making him look like he has a SkullForAHead. His hood is also grey rather than white, and the costume has darker colors overall. In short, it's a combination of his standard outfit and the more tactical, practical look from the UDON comics.
* MysteriousWatcher: He can be seen watching Spidey from a distance in several of his challenges.
* NoNonsenseNemesis: After completing a few of Taskmaster's challenges... nothing happens. Then a minute or so later he'll attack you out of the blue while you're swinging around the city.
* NotMeThisTime: Several of his missions involve stopping a group of mercenaries from attacking politicians or taking hostages. Spider-Man assumes that they work for him, but when accused of it Taskmaster claims that he has nothing to do with them, and is only using their presence to his advantage.
* PunchClockVillain: Taskmaster was hired by an anonymous client in order to test Spider-Man to see if he would be worth offering to become one of his hired guns. Outside of that, he never directly menaces Spider-Man, even after the latter refuses the offer.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Though it's not unheard of for him to menace Spidey, Taskmaster debuted in the pages of ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' and more typically tangles with heroes more heavily associated with that team. Though the Avengers exist here, they aren't present, leaving Taskmaster to cause trouble for the wall-crawler instead. However, his history as an Avengers foe is brought up by Taskmaster in their fight.
-->'''Spider-Man:''' Impressed?\\
'''Taskmaster:''' [[BadassBoast I've gone toe to toe with the Avengers. You're nothing.]]
* SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset: His helmet resembles a stylized skull.
* SmokeOut: Every time you beat him, he'll escape via a smoke bomb.
* {{Superboss}}: Taskmaster is completely optional, and only fought at the end of an extended sidequest. He's also one of the most challenging fights in the game.
* TrainingFromHell: He places various challenges around the city in order to test Spider-Man and analyze his moves.
* TheUnReveal: Neither Taskmaster's employer nor those of the mercenaries he takes advantage of (he explicitly claims that he didn't hire them) are revealed before the end of the game.
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!!!Introduced in ''The City that Never Sleeps'' DLC
[[folder:Felicia Hardy / Black Cat]]
!![[ComicBook/BlackCat Felicia Hardy / Black Cat II]]
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!!! '''Voiced by:''' Creator/EricaLindbeck (English)[[labelnote:Other Languages]] Jessica Angeles (Latin American Spanish), Creator/AyahiTakagaki (Japanese), Anastasia Zharkova (Russian)[[/labelnote]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/SpiderManPS4 Spider-Man]]''

A flirtatious cat burglar who enjoys her games of cat-and-mouse with Spider-Man. She's absent in the main game itself, merely challenging Spider-Man to find the various cat dolls she's hidden throughout the city, but makes a full appearance in ''The Heist'' DLC.
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For tropes related to her see [[Characters/SpiderManPS4Heroes Heroes]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Joseph Martello / Hammerhead]]
!!Joseph Martello / Hammerhead
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!!! '''Voiced by:''' Creator/KeithSilverstein (English)[[labelnote:Other Languages]] Yuri Derkach (Russian)[[/labelnote]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/SpiderManPS4 Spider-Man]]''

A powerful Maggia crime boss who seeks to fill the void in the criminal underworld after Fisk's capture.
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* AchillesHeel: [[spoiler: The plate that gives him his intimidating appearance ultimately becomes his undoing; as shown and discussed in the ''Silver Lining'' DLC, it's made of carbon steel, which is weaker than the rest of his cyborg body. Spidey and Sable are able to exploit this in their fight on Sable's weapons hangar by using a laser to heat and soften it so Spidey can punch him effectively.]]
* AdaptationOriginConnection: [[spoiler:He's the one responsible for Yuri Watanabe going down the path to becoming Wraith in this continuity.]]
* AdaptationalBadass:
** The comic book version of Hammerhead got his trademark plated skull after he got his ass handed to him in a brawl and was left for dead in an alley, where a surgeon found him unconscious and decided to operate on him to save his shattered skull. This version got shot directly in the forehead, ''lived'' and then willingly and consciously chose to have the plate implanted into his skull. He's also more cunning than his comic book counterpart overall.
** [[spoiler:His conversion into a {{Cyborg}} in the comics was done by Mr. Negative after an adamantium bullet to the head by an assassin. In this version he not only did it to himself, but comes out of it a massive, hulking monstrosity with more than just the strength and durability he got in the comics from the transformation.]]
* AdaptationalUgliness: While the various iterations of Hammerhead aren't exactly lookers, few if any have scars like the game's iteration. [[spoiler:In the comic after being rebuilt as a cyborg he's externally unchanged. His cyborg form here is a hulking, horrific monstrosity with part of the metal plate in his head exposed.]]
* AnimalMotifs: While his name is obviously a reference to having a metal plate in his skull, both Spider-Man, Jameson, and several social media posts make the obvious reference to the Hammerhead Shark, though unlike the rest of Spidey's rogues, he never dresses in such a way to make it overt. [[spoiler:Even when he ''does'' get a suit of PoweredArmor, it has no actual AnimalMotif.]] One social media post even comments it's more shocking he ''doesn't'' dress like a shark.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:A police officer comments that while she's horrified by what happened to Yuri and what she did, Hammerhead is a monster who she's glad is (seemingly) dead.]]
* AxCrazy: Not as obvious as [[PsychoForHire Scorpion]], but Hammerhead is still a ruthless and sadistic man who is obsessed with power and has no problem using torture, murder, or any other amoral crimes to get what he wants. Even Jameson calls him a "metal-domed lunatic" on his radio talk show, and he's completely lost it after [[spoiler:becoming a {{Cyborg}}]].
* BadBoss:
** He won't hesitate to kill his own men if they failed their jobs. This applies to his high-ranking lieutenants as well, who are more than willing to punish failed underlings in their boss's place. [[spoiler:It's also noted that the Olympus cybernetics resulted in some of his men not surviving conversion, which doesn't seem to bother him at all.]]
** [[spoiler:Once his conversion to a cyborg is complete, he doesn't even bother surrounding himself with goons anymore, essentially ''asking'' Spider-Man and Silver Sable to take them down.]]
* BigBad: Hammerhead is the main antagonist for the three-part DLC ''The City that Never Sleeps''. It's his schemes to take control of the Maggia crime families--first by hiring Black Cat to steal their wealth, then by starting a massive gang war and arming his men with stolen Sable tech--that drive the different conflicts, whether it be instigating Yuri's fall to vigilantism or sending Silver Sable on the warpath after he uses her tech to transform himself into an invincible cyborg.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: He's strong enough to lift a person with one arm and throw them around like a ragdoll despite being a normal human. However, he's still fairly outclassed by Spider-Man in this regard and their first fight largely consists of him being repeatedly punched in the face until he manages to throw Spidey off and escape.
* TheChessmaster:
** Hammerhead is considerably more cunning in this adaptation compared to his comic book counterpart managing to [[spoiler: kidnap the other Maggia Dons and lead Spidey on a wild goose chase while his men went on a rampage at the NYPD Precinct. Even with his eventual defeat at Spider-Man's hands, he just shrugs it off, content with playing the long game for his power grab.]]
** [[spoiler: Severely downplayed in ''Silver Lining'', though somewhat justified. Now that Yuri's reputation has been marred, Hammerhead goes for the relatively simpler plan of "stash the Sable tech in a secret sewer lair and kill anyone in your way", though he maintains his effectiveness.]]
* CompositeCharacter:
** With Silvermane being a Don of the Maggia. [[spoiler:While comics Hammerhead did become a cyborg, being visibly cybernetic is more akin to Silvermane as well, especially the visual of being a head on a cyborg body]].
** His status as a crime boss who manipulates Yuri Watanabe while using his extensive corruption to escape any real criminal conviction that sends Yuri into becoming the vigilante Wraith is taken from Mr. Negative.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist:
** Contrasts the two main villains of the game proper by being a genuinely monstrous human being with few if any redeeming qualities rather than a TragicVillain.
** He's also a lot less charming and attractive than Black Cat, though they're both implied to have gotten some plastic surgery. He's also hard-edged to her graceful curves, and direct where she's subtle and manipulative. Both have {{greed}} as a fatal flaw.
* CopKiller: While all major villains cause the deaths of police, Hammerhead is the only one shown doing so onscreen and ''personally'', which makes things personal with Yuri.
* {{Cyborg}}: [[spoiler:While mostly looking like a suit of PoweredArmor, several comments by his men, Spidey, and Hammerhead himself imply there's an element of this trope to Project Olympus. He makes a full-body conversion to cybernetics in ''Silver Lining''.]]
* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:Doesn't show any fear in the face of being murdered in cold blood by Yuri, though his gang was gonna bring him back after the fact. Also shown in ''Silver Lining'', where he takes a few scowl-faced steps towards Spidey and Sable in the aftermath of the final battle, before ultimately succumbing to his injuries and fainting.]]
* DiscoDan: Hammerhead both looks and behaves like a man still pining for the '70s. A darker take than most, though, since what he misses most about the era is that it was the Maggia's glory days, when New York was TheBigRottenApple under the thumb of wise guys like him.
* DisneyDeath: After Yuri executes him, his body is shocked by a mole he has in the police department, promptly bringing him back to life.
* DegradedBoss: PlayedWith: [[spoiler:his PoweredArmor used in ''Turf Wars'' ends up being donned by a large number of his minions in ''Silver Lining'', though they don't use his exact moveset and Hammerhead himself has upgraded into a gigantic cyborg.]]
* TheDon: One of several dons of the Maggia, but with the know-how to declare open gang war on the other families, enough to make him appear to be ''the'' Don as far as the game is concerned.
* EarlyBirdCameo: He only appeared in person once at the end of ''The Heist'' DLC, [[spoiler:standing in the shadows watching the trap he set up in Black Cat's apartment exploded when she arrives.]]
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: [[spoiler:Dons a suit of PoweredArmor with some cybernetic components to augment his pre-existing CharlesAtlasSuperpower. Come ''Silver Lining'', he's converted into a full on cyborg.]]
* EvilIsBigger: ZigZagged. When he initially showed up, he is about the same height as an average adult male, it's only when he undergone Olympus enhancements that he became an imposing crime boss. [[spoiler:His complete cyborg form is a towering monstrosity dwarfing every other character by a large margin.]]
* EvilReactionary: Never shuts up about how he misses "the good ol' days" and wants to bring them back. Unfortunately for everyone, Hammerhead's idea of "the good ol' days" were when the city was at the mercy of ruthless mob bosses who [[IOwnThisTown practically ran the place]] with an iron fist. [[spoiler: He lampshades this fact in the ''Silver Lining'' DLC, though mainly towards modernizing ''himself'' from being a human with a metal plate into a full-blown cyborg.]]
* ExtremityExtremist: Prefers to crush his opponents with a headbutt from his plated forehead, even after undergoing a partial conversion. [[spoiler:It's only when he becomes fully cybernetic that he starts to throw punches, averting it.]]
* FacialHorror: While he's not absurdly ugly, he still has prominent scars from the incident that led to him getting the plate in his head. [[spoiler:In ''Silver Lining'', his metal plate is exposed from where Yuri shot him.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: Just occasionally, he tries pretending he's a gentleman, scolding Yuri for "bad manners" (read: taking a team to sneak into his hideout) and saying she should have knocked, but this is fairly transparent taunting and does little to hide the grade-A {{Jerkass}} and HateSink he is.
* FinalBoss: Hammerhead is the last opponent for the first game's DLC, fighting against Spider-Man and Silver Sable after he uses the latter's tech to transform himself into a cyborg capable of winning the Maggia gang war.
* {{Foil}}: Contrasting Fisk, who is a BenevolentBoss, Hammerhead [[BadBoss couldn’t give less of a rat's ass about his men]]. Both are [[BadassNormal Badass Normals]] who are just [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower naturally strong]]. [[spoiler: [[EmpoweredBadassNormal Although Hammerhead becomes a full Cyborg]] while Fisk remains human]].
* GeniusBruiser: Brutish as he is, Hammerhead proves to have quite a sharp mind as well: in ''Turf Wars'', he constantly proves to be ten steps ahead of Spider-Man and constantly outsmarts him with carefully applied diversion tactics, takes time to learn about what makes Yuri tick so he can throw her off her game with psychological warfare, and makes absolutely sure to avoid direct confrontation with Spider-Man until he can even the odds with cybernetic enchancements.
* GracefulLoser:
** [[spoiler:He takes his defeat surprisingly well, even when it looks like Yuri is about to execute him. Justified, since he had planned for her to execute him from the start and took precautions to ensure that his men save him. However, a recording reveals that while that ''was'' the case, he wasn't expecting her to actually be ''able'' to kill him even temporarily, and is rather furious with his captive scientist over it.]]
** [[spoiler:Subverted when he's finally beaten for real, as he's left speechless with rage and can only shoot Spider-Man and Sable a DeathGlare before finally collapsing.]]
* GoneHorriblyRight: He knew all about Yuri's backstory and desired to push Yuri off the edge so that she would lose her badge. Given that Yuri is going to become Wraith, who goes on a very large killing spree against criminals in the comics, he set the stage for a lot of death and tragedy to follow.
* HateSink: A far cry from the sympathetic villains in the main game, Hammerhead is a thoroughly unlikeable bastard who goes to horrific lengths to antagonize one cop, and even sinks as low as to steal humanitarian aid from a country that needs it purely out of greed.
* IHaveYourWife: He manages to get Black Cat to work for him by kidnapping her son. [[spoiler:Turns out, however, that this was a lie on Felicia's part, who is actually working for him as part of a scheme to steal the Maggia's loot for herself]].
* {{Jerkass}}: On top of being a total maniac, he's also a nasty, impatient and condescending piece of work.
* KickTheDog:
** He [[spoiler:almost]] kills Black Cat by blowing up her penthouse right as she opens the door.
** He murders two of Yuri's cop buddies right in front of her.
** He steals desperately-needed humanitarian aid supplies from Symkaria, purely out of {{Greed}}.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: The first time he's confronted by Spider-Man and receives a bit of a pummeling, then Yuri starts shooting at him, he books it as soon as possible knowing he's outmatched in a straight up fight with the web-slinger ''and'' a gun wielding police officer at once. [[spoiler:He only ever faces Spidey head on once he's got a suit of PoweredArmor with an implied cybernetic aspect to even the odds.]]
* MadeOfIron: He took a bullet straight to the forehead and lived through it. Note, this was ''before'' he had a steel plate implanted into his skull. [[spoiler:In ''Silver Lining'', it takes getting a jet crashed into him to bring him down for good]].
* NamedByTheAdaptation: In the comics, only Hammerhead's first name Joseph has been revealed. Here, he's given the surname Martello.
* NoNonsenseNemesis:
** In ''The Heist'' DLC, he sends goons with ''rocket launchers'' into a museum and arms his brutish goons with freakin' ''miniguns'' when he learns that Spider-Man is involved, and he doesn't stop there. Near the end, we learn that he's also been smuggling leftover weapons from Sable International as well. [[spoiler:When he learns that Black Cat has stolen the drive containing his crime family's fortune, he doesn't try to bring it back, but instead rigs a trap to blow both Black Cat and the drive up in flames so that she will not mess in his plans again]]. He also never shows up in person [[spoiler:except once near the end of the DLC to personally see that his trap manages to kill Black Cat]]. Needless to say, Hammerhead is shaping up to be Wilson Fisk's replacement and so far he's doing a pretty good job at it.
** In ''Turf Wars'' DLC, he proves to be craftier than usual. Anticipating a surprise police raid, he lets the majority of his men duke it out with the other Maggia mobsters outside the building while he himself prepares to ambush the police raid team led by Yuri. He sneaks inside the building and kills every single one of them but Yuri, who would've been killed too but for Spider-Man showing up just in time. He sets up a large force of mooks on the outside of the hideout where the rival Maggia bosses are gathered and plants bombs around the building, all just to create a diversion for Spider-Man while he uses a Sable drill transport to kidnap the bosses from inside the building while Spidey is busy dealing with his men outside. He lets his men attack Yuri's police forces around the city to keep Spider-Man busy, while he launches an assault on a police precinct to get Project Olympus. He also goes out of his way to avoid confronting Spider-Man directly until he fully assembles the Olympus armor so he can fight Spidey evenly. [[spoiler:Even after he's shot in the head point-blank by the enraged Yuri, he already had one of his men infiltrated the police ambulance to revive him later with nobody none the wiser, showing that it was his plan to fake his death all along, ruining Yuri's reputation and broke her entirely in the process. In short, Hammerhead played ''everyone'' like a fiddle in this DLC part.]]
* NotQuiteDead: Yuri actually did manage to kill him, unfortunately by shooting him in the plate, it likely either sent him into either a brief coma, or cardiac arrest, as all it takes is a minion jolting his chest with a taser to bring him back up.
* OffscreenKarma: All of Hammerhead's posturing about [[NostalgiaFilter wanting the Maggia to be respected and feared again]] ultimately causes their downfall by the time of ''VideoGame/SpiderManMilesMorales.'' Hammerhead's attempted power grab sparked an all-out war between the families that only served to fracture and weaken the Maggia further, and after his defeat the Underground ended up swooping in and crushing the remnants of the Maggia. And given that the Underground embody [[LastDisrespects everything he despises about disrespectful youth gangs]], it's only the most fitting consequence.
* OneManArmy: [[spoiler: While he needed goons to back him up in ''Turf Wars'' despite wearing armor, the full-body conversion performed on him after pretty much turns him into this, able to nearly match Spider-Man himself in sheer strength and mobility.]]
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:In ''Silver Lining'' he converts himself into a hulking cyborg monstrosity.]]
* OutdatedOutfit: Fitting of a gangster stuck in the past, Hammerhead wears a gaudy polyester leisure suit and medallion necklace straight out of the [[TheSeventies '70s]]
* PoweredArmor: [[spoiler:He dons a suit of Sable-tech power armor in his boss fight in the ''Turf Wars'' DLC. Come ''Silver Lining'' and he's upgraded to being a full on {{Cyborg}}]].
* SettingUpdate: Played with. While "being a walking anachronism" has always been part of Hammerhead's shtick, in the comics he dresses and acts like a classic mobster from TheRoaringTwenties, after developing an obsession with the era from fixating on an UsefulNotes/AlCapone movie poster as he was bleeding out from his head wound. Since such a motif would be too implausible and {{camp}}y for the game's late-[[TheNewTens New 10s]] setting, this incarnation of Hammerhead been reimagined as a '70s DiscoDan gangster, shifting his nostalgia to a more recent, yet still bygone, period where [[TheBigRottenApple the Mafia/Maggia dominated New York City]].
* TheSociopath: He has no qualms about igniting a gang war or stealing humanitarian aid for his own benefit, and will resort to whatever means necessary to "get respect" or "bring the good ol' days back".
** Not a direct nod to Hammerhead himself, but a crime scene recording in ''Silver Lining'' reveals that one of the Maggia enforcers was diagnosed as a sociopath by his own therapist.
* StephenUlyssesPerhero: Fitting of his nickname and most distinctive feature, his surname, Martello, means "hammer" in Italian.
* SuperToughness: His skull plate makes attacks to his head, while clearly painful, not do as much damage as one would expect. Spidey even notes that it's probably the hardest head he's ever punched, and given how many people in full body armor he's punched, that's saying something. [[spoiler:It's likely the reason being shot in the face at point blank range only temporarily kills him and he can still be resuscitated. After his upgrade in ''Silver Lining'', he's borderline invulnerable and requires a specialized laser to render him vulnerable to damage, and takes being hit by a jet at high speed to finally bring down.]]
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Invoked; he plans on taking over the void left by Fisk as THE Mob Boss after the latter is imprisoned.
* TisOnlyABulletInTheBrain: He was shot in the head at some point, but survived thanks to surgery. [[spoiler:At the end of ''Turf Wars'', he gets shot in the face at point-blank range by a vengeful Yuri and ''does'' die but gets resuscitated by one of his mooks.]]
* UseYourHead: His metal platelets him headbutt hard enough to kill normal men. [[spoiler:He also likes using rocket-propelled headbutts in his boss fight]].
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:After Spider-Man and Sable manage to actually hurt him, his composure finally breaks and he begins getting genuinely furious. When he's finally beaten, he's left speechless with rage and can only DeathGlare at Spider-Man and Sable before collapsing.]]
-->'''Hammerhead:''' Still no respect! WHAT'S IT GONNA TAKE?!
* VillainTakesAnInterest: Information gathered from doing the Maggia Fronts sidequests in the ''Turf Wars'' DLC that he takes a special interest to Yuri Watanabe, [[spoiler:who's trying to restore her family's name after her DirtyCop father is dishonorably discharged from the police force for taking bribes from the Maggia. This is possibly the reason why Hammerhead goes out of his way to provoke Yuri whenever possible: he wanted Yuri to be disgraced by taking things too far in her vengeance against the mob and himself.]]
* YouMonster: Everyone involved acknowledges and calls him a monster at one point or another.
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!!!Introduced in ''[[VideoGame/SpiderManMilesMorales Spider-Man: Miles Morales]]''

[[folder:Simon Krieger]]
!!Simon Krieger
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!!! '''Voiced by:''' Creator/TroyBaker (English)[[labelnote:Other Languages]] Creator/SatoshiMikami (Japanese), Alexey Myasnikov (Russian)[[/labelnote]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''VideoGame/SpiderManMilesMorales''

Head R&D of Roxxon Energy, a blowhard with very little scruples.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: His comic book counterpart may not have been that much better, orchestrating the assassination of Tony Stark's parents and attempting to frame him for taking world leaders hostage, but this version of him would have caused much more damage by [[spoiler:allowing the unstable Nuform to poison the citizens of Harlem, or arranging to have all of it blown up in the Tinkerer's bombing by adjusting the reactor.]]
* ArchEnemy: The Tinkerer wants nothing more than to destroy Krieger and Roxxon.
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:Despite his calm demeanor, deep down, he is a power-hungry, ill-tempered sadist who snaps and explodes when something does not go his way or if someone says something he doesn't want to hear.]]
* BadBoss: [[spoiler:He knows that Nuform is poisoning his employees and doesn't care.]]
* BerserkButton: Being told he's not as smart as he thinks he is. [[spoiler:When Phin points out that her brother Rick was the real brains behind Nuform, Krieger loses his temper.]]
* BigBadEnsemble: Krieger and the Tinkerer are the main antagonists of the ''Miles Morales'' spin-off game. Phin is the more immediate threat, but Krieger is the more evil of the two as the one mass-producing Nuform reactors that risk poisoning civilians once they're installed worldwide, and Phin's StartOfDarkness was instigated when her brother was murdered for trying to expose Roxxon's corruption. Additionally, [[spoiler:Krieger's adjustments to the Harlem Nuform reactor are what cause Phin's plan to nearly obliterate the neighborhood when she insists on going through with destroying it.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: He seems like a nice guy at first, congratulating Miles for Rhino's defeat and even turns Rhino over to the police. [[spoiler:Then it's revealed that he's a CorruptCorporateExecutive who's knowingly endangering the people of Harlem with an unstable reactor, has Miles subjected to ColdBloodedTorture, and secretly hired Rhino to act as his [[TheDragon Dragon]].]]
* CompositeCharacter: He's Simon Krieger, but is like Donald Roxxon as Roxxon's CorruptCorporateExecutive that Miles as Spider-Man ends up at odds with.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: For a charismatic sociopath, a lot of his acts of villainy only have short-term benefits that almost always backfire against him. Actually a justified example, as being incapable of planning ahead or learning from mistakes are behaviors typical of a sociopath.
** His decision to [[spoiler: murder Rick Mason]] is not only cruel, but ends up being ''monumentally stupid'' in the long run, since [[spoiler: Rick didn't leave any notes about how he created Nuform, forcing Simon's research team to try to reverse-engineer it, something that's complicated by the interference of both the Underground and Spider-Man.]]
** Likewise, going back on his deal with the Prowler [[spoiler:to spare Miles, believing the mercenary would just be looking out for his own self-interest rather than rat on him. He's proven wrong when the Prowler does ''just that'', enough to convict Krieger for his crimes and keep him from becoming a KarmaHoudini]].
** At the start of the game, Simon has his mercenaries capture the defeated Rhino, promising to turn him into the proper authorities. Later, it is revealed that he [[spoiler:never did this, instead hiring him and giving him armor that makes him immune to Miles' [[ShockAndAwe venom powers]] with the promise of getting him out of his Rhino armor once and for all. He later admits that he lied about this ''too'', convinced that Rhino will forget about their agreement after they get Miles. In the event that people question why Rhino is on his payroll, he has a contingency to tell the press that he is part of a rehabilitative work program. While JJJ overlooks Rhino's involvement in Miles' capture at Trinity Church, it was ''still'' public enough for JJJ to find out about it and it is very likely that footage of Rhino working alongside Roxxon troops is public as well. The police could very easily verify that they never had such an agreement regarding Roxxon and Rhino, thus this would only cause him more problems with the law. Not only that, but Rhino would have found out eventually and, unlike Spider-Man, Simon is a fragile non-powered human who would have had a 2-ton "exploding bulldozer" ready to crush him the moment he realizes this]].
** A minor one, but [[spoiler:yelling out IOwnThisTown in his VillainousBreakdown while he's being dragged away by the police (being ''recorded publicly'' by the press nonetheless) likely won't help him against the courts either since that's ''admitting'' his illegal activities]].
** [[spoiler:And finally, ''dear lord'', he was even lying to the '''higher-ups''' of Roxxon about Nuform, which is why the project went as long as it did. So even if Krieger will only be put away in jail for a few months thanks to his wealth and connections, he'll be facing the ''entire'' '''''wrath''''' of his bosses once he gets out.]]
* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed that he never turned Rhino over to the police and instead upgraded him with Roxxon's technology to act as his muscle.]]
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: [[spoiler:He was caught completely off-guard when his associate, the Prowler, did a HeelFaceTurn and confessed Roxxon's crimes to the police, having believed that there was ''absolutely'' no way that Aaron's love for his family would overturn his more selfish desires.]]
* FatalFlaw:
** {{Pride}}. Simon lives his life believing that he is an EvilGenius and that [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney he is immune to consequences by virtue of his wealth]]. Because of this, he has a bad habit of [[BullyingADragon throwing his weight around at individuals that far exceed him physically (Prowler, Rhino, Tombstone, etc.)]] with no regard for whatever longterm.
** {{Greed}}. His biggest motivation for all of his large-scale crimes and plans is [[OnlyInItForTheMoney purely for profit]]. He works his research team half to death to create a new, lucrative power source, and rather than cut his losses when it proves to be too dangerous and unstable to use, he covers up all of its detrimental effects, [[SunkCostFallacy silences and/or kills the research team and pretends it works just to meet his deadline]]. When he sees Miles' venom powers first hand, he has his security team try to hunt him down with the intent of dissecting him like a lab-rat when he sees dollar signs in weaponizing his bioelectric powers.
** [[DidntThinkThisThrough His lack of foresight.]] Simon's pride and greed makes him prone to making decisions impulsively while paying no attention to the consequences of his actions. He believes that because his wealth and power makes him untouchable, he does whatever he wants while oblivious to any long-term actions.
* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler:He acts fairly chummy to Miles after capturing him, but this is before he has him brutally tortured by his men. Recordings show that he does the chummy thing all the time, but no one ever buys it. Even his men are terrified of him.]]
* {{Foil}}: To ''Norman Osborn'' of all people. Both of them are wealthy businessmen who own major corporations in New York and have done [[CorruptCorporateExecutive shady and illegal acts to keep their companies afloat]]. Each are NonActionBigBad antagonists, [[VillainWithGoodPublicity have decent public reputations despite their villainous natures]], have connected origins to the BigBad of both games and illegally oversee potential bioweapons (Devil's Breath and Nuform respectively) that could've destroyed New York. The difference between them is that while Norman (inadvertently) ruined Martin Li and Otto's lives, he felt [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone genuine hints of regret for being responsible for their villainy]]. Simon, however, felt [[TheSociopath no sympathy]] for triggering Phin's StartOfDarkness when he [[spoiler:orchestrated her brother, Rick's, murder]]. While Norman had [[WellIntentionedExtremist good intentions with Devil's Breath]] and is fully aware of the threat it poses, Simon flat out never cared about Nuform's unstable energy that could wipe Harlem as long as it made him more money, and silences anyone who would say otherwise.
* ForScience: Played with. Simon claims that he understands bioengineering enough to be head R&D of the division, [[spoiler:yet it's ultimately proven that he's just [[OnlyInItForTheMoney more interested in money]] than science itself, and doesn't actually know the science behind Nuform like his lead project developer, Rick. He vaguely yet clearly implies that he had lots of interest in the new Spider-Man's powers (a couple which the original Spider-Man does not even possess) and planned to dissect him, though again, just for money and his own amusement to make the kid tick.]]
* GreenwashedVillainy: His aim is to have New York City's Harlem District powered by Nuform, an alternative fuel source he insists is completely safe. [[spoiler:It isn't: anyone exposed to Nuform for an extended period of time becomes sick, as Rick Mason, the former lead of the Nuform project, discovered when he became sick himself. Despite this, Simon decides to go forward with using Nuform because he feels he's sunk too much money into the project to scrap it and kills Rick to hide the truth. This leads to Rick's little sister, Phin, becoming the Tinkerer and joining the Underground with the goal of exposing Simon's corruption.]]
* HairTriggerTemper: He tries to play it cool when interrogating the Tinkerer, but a single remark from her is all it takes for Krieger to jump out of his chair and start ranting at her. He has to take a second to get his composure back, just long enough to let us know how difficult it is for him to keep his anger back.
* HatedByAll: Unless you're only seeing him through a video screen. Simon is a VillainWithGoodPublicity among those who only see his adverts or hear his slogans, but anyone who knows him knows [[spoiler: he's an uncaring sociopath who doesn't have anyone's best interests at heart and is abrasive to work with, including his loyal private police force who gripe in private about how he's playing around with their lives with Nuform. Simon seems aware of this, and takes great effort to obscure his true nature to everyone, even his bosses: an audio file the player can find shows that the Nuform project only went as far as it did because Simon lied extensively to Roxxon top brass about himself and his actions, rather that risk them accepting his failures.]]
* HateSink: [[spoiler:A sharp and rather jarring contrast to a franchise full of {{Tragic Villain}}s, Simon is a sadist who has absolutely no redeeming qualities. The game starts with him being already completely despised by all of Harlem after bulldozing many of their favorite hot spots to begin with, Miles' mother basing her entire campaign around antagonizing him. He even ''knows'' just how unstable and toxic Nuform actually is, but just waves it aside for the sake of reaching a deadline. In some respects, Simon Krieger actually makes Norman Osborn's illegal acts look somewhat more honorable in comparison to the former's, since for all his faults, he is at least conscious of the fact that things are his fault or dangerous in one regard or another.]]
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: For all his charisma, he's ''very'' bad at understanding what motivates people. [[spoiler: He double-crosses the Prowler because he thinks the guy's too selfish to rat him out, not understanding that Aaron genuinely loves Miles and is ultimately willing to go to jail himself for him. He also thinks that Rhino would be happy just with beating up Spider-Man even if he didn't get the armor removed, when in fact Rhino would be happy to leave Spidey alone if he could get the armor off. Rhino never finds out about the double-cross in game, but if he did, he'd definitely want to kill Krieger for the false promise.]]
* ILied: [[spoiler:When the Prowler confronts him over breaking his promise to not harm Miles, Simon casually brushes him off, believing that having leverage over Phin was more important and that there was nothing the Prowler could do unless he was willing to go to prison himself, which he won't (or so he believed).]]
* IncompetenceInc: [[spoiler:Krieger is so obsessed with meeting deadlines that he has no problems overloading a reactor to make the appearance of meeting it, knowing full well that it's highly likely to explode, taking all of Harlem with it. Then there's his continued promotion of Nuform as a clean energy source despite having full knowledge of its ludicrously toxic effects. ''Then'' there's his insistence on basing the unstable energy source in the middle of a crowded city district, instead of having the energy generated from far away like conventional power plants -- not only dangerous, but a completely impractical move (NYC real estate isn't cheap, after all), done just for the sake of publicity. In fact, he'd much rather murder whistleblowers like Rick than actually try to address any of the many, many glaring flaws with Nuform.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: [[spoiler:Everything he's ever committed with Nuform is not for the good of Harlem nor all of Manhattan (or even the world); it's all just for the money, gaining recognition, and reaching a deadline. Phin even points that while her brother, Rick, helped develop Nuform, all Simon has ever done was put his name on the patent and steal other scientists' ideas if it meant making a buck for himself]].
* {{Jerkass}}: Invoked by Phin, which he sadistically takes pleasure of hearing.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: An audio recording has Simon addressing the death of [[spoiler:Rick]], which he actually sounds remorseful for. At least until he starts talking about how to honor his memory, which has him dickishly crack a joke about naming a bench after his deceased employee.
--> '''Miles''': Simon Krieger: [[TheSociopath bastion of compassion]].
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:Harshly snaps about Rick's death in front of Phin, and even betrays the Prowler after he promises to leave Spider-Man alone, believing that Prowler's selfishness outweighs care for the child... just give it four weeks, Krieger, and [[TheDogBitesBack you'll see just how much Aaron's care for his family overcomes his selfish desires]].]]
* KillThePoor: Downplayed. He is not out to actively kill anybody in Harlem, but he makes perfectly clear once he is told that [[spoiler:Nuform will hurt people one way or another if it's used]] that as long as he gets publicity and money out of it, it's acceptable collateral damage and he believes nobody else will care because it's happening in [[WrongSideOfTheTracks Harlem]].
* LackOfEmpathy: [[spoiler:He shows no remorse for killing Rick Mason and even mocks/snaps in front of his own sister, Phin, that he's the one who's still alive, unlike Rick. He even doesn't care if his severely toxic Nuform could infect dozens of human life in Harlem and kill innocent people]].
-->'''Simon:''' No one is going to care about some sick people uptown.
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:By mocking the Prowler for prioritizing his own selfish desires, he guaranteed that they'd both get put in prison for their crimes. Overlaps with TemptingFate since he never expected Aaron to do the right thing]].
* LetNoCrisisGoToWaste: [[spoiler:During the final battle in ''Miles Morales'', Simon mockingly thanks Phin for destroying the Nuform generator at Roxxon Plaza while speaking of his intentions to pave over Harlem's ruins and remake the entire neighborhood [[InTheirOwnImage in Roxxon's image]] after the generator explodes, planning to blame [[TheScapegoat both her and Miles]] for the disaster]].
* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler: Simon is repeatedly referred to as someone with little scientific acumen, but an unsettling charisma that gives him a talent for manipulation: and he does so with ''everyone'' - manipulating his shareholders into believing that Nuform is safe, manipulating his employees into thinking he is actively looking out for them, manipulating Rick Mason into making him Nuform in the first place. After discovering that Krieger is lying about freeing Rhino from his armor, in favor of just turning him into an attack dog, Miles lampshades that Krieger has the gall to manipulate practically ''everyone'' he meets, no matter how unwise. An optional audio file involves him teaching one of his employees how to lie as effectively as he does.]]
* MeanBoss: His conversation with one of his lab technicians reveals that he is this in reality. He treats his employees with little-to-no respect and takes out his anger over losing Roxxon's supply of Nuform on his lab technician (who had nothing to do with that). Some EnemyChatter between Roxxon's private soldiers mention how he's gone through five different assistants in just one month alone.
* MeaningfulName: His last name is derived from the German word for "war". Seeing as how he launched a full out war in the streets of Harlem with the Underground, the name holds up.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: A clear {{Expy}} of Elon Musk, on top of having a similar body shape, head shape, hair and facial features, much of this version's characterization comes from criticism of Musk. Namely that he's a brutal union buster who doesn't treat his employees well, uses his wealth to buy all the good publicity he wants, has little regard for other's property, and seems more concerned with his business ''appearing'' green in order to make him a profit, than whether or not it actually is.
* NonActionBigBad: Like Norman Osborn, Krieger is an unpowered businessman with no skill in combat. As such, he remains TheUnfought and relies on his goons in power armor to see his plans through.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: His comic book counterpart was a TokenMotivationalNemesis for Iron Man and had no connection to neither Peter Parker nor Miles Morales.
* {{Sadist}}: [[spoiler:Simon is clearly amused by his own brutality, [[WouldHurtAChild especially when he allows his men to brutalize Spider-Man to force Phin to tell him the whereabouts of the last Nuform]].]]
* SmarterThanYouLook: [[spoiler:Phin points out that Simon has no such knowledge of the bio-engineering behind Nuform without Rick to begin with and he just put his name on the patent while taking all the credit. Despite his lack of knowing bio-engineering in general, however, Miles tries to point out to Phin that Simon is actually smarter than she cares to admit (having modified the reactor to have stronger output), as he had plans on twisting their battle into a senseless terrorist attack for good publicity and expanding their company with their insurance]].
* SmugSmiler: His photo mode chibi sticker portrays him as one, complete with shooting a cocky pointer finger at an unseen onlooker.
* SmugSnake: Played with. Despite being extremely smug, he's actually one of the most dangerously competent villains in the story. It's only after his VillainousBreakdown that he [[spoiler:loses for real]].
* TheSociopath: [[spoiler:Holds no guilt for cutting corners and committing illegal activities just to gain more power and money]].
* SunkCostFallacy: [[spoiler:He's well aware that Nuform is actually toxic and unstable, but insists on still making it available to the public, due to all the money Roxxon put into developing it. He'd rather let people get poisoned by this "clean" fuel then receive zero money back for his efforts.]]
* TheUnfought: Being a businessman without any powers, Krieger is a NonActionBigBad who is both incapable and uninterested in personally fighting Spider-Man, instead leaving such work to his private army and Rhino.
* VillainHasAPoint: As sadistic and sociopathic as he is, Simon points out [[spoiler:in the final battle between the Tinkerer and Spider-Man]] that even if the former's attempt [[spoiler:to destroy Roxxon Plaza]] worked, it would be AllForNothing. Krieger himself is [[spoiler:safely hiding out in a bunker so he won't die in the blast]], his company is already well-insured, and (without solid evidence Simon was responsible for [[spoiler:Rick's murder]] and illegally cutting corners) [[spoiler: the bombing of just one of Roxxon's office buildings would just make the company look like victims of a senseless terrorist attack caused by two teenage vigilantes, which Krieger could just as easily spin for good publicity.]] The only reason Simon was [[spoiler: arrested and charged for his crimes was because Aaron Davis confessed his wrongdoings]].
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Clearly suffers one when Aaron confesses all of Simon's crimes and even shouts out IOwnThisTown to all of Harlem while the police carelessly shove him into a police car.]]
-->'''Simon Krieger:''' [[spoiler: C'mon - those are clearly deep fakes! They're ''deep fakes''! You understand me? Do you have any idea who I am? I will own you! I will- ''Ow!'' I will ''own'' you! ''Do you hear me?'']]
* VillainousGentrification: His company already had to bulldoze several Harlem hotspots for the Nuform plants, [[spoiler:and he plans on building on top of the ruins of the neighborhood after the generators explode]].
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:Simon has no qualms allowing his men and an upgraded Rhino to kidnap and brutally torture two teenage vigilantes if it means keeping all of New York from uncovering his hidden agendas. He even implied that he had plans on dissecting Miles like a lab rat to uncover his bioelectric powers, just for money]].
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[[folder:Phin Mason / Tinkerer]]
!!Phin Mason / Tinkerer
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!!! '''Voiced by:''' Creator/JasminSavoyBrown (English)[[labelnote:Other Languages]] Creator/AyaHirano (Japanese) [[/labelnote]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''VideoGame/SpiderManMilesMorales''

The Underground's leader and Miles' old best friend since middle school.
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* AdaptationNameChange: From Phineas to Phin, courtesy of the character's GenderFlip.
* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Mostly due to her AgeLift and partially due to her GenderFlip. In the comics, the Tinkerer is Rick Mason's father, not younger sister.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: The Tinkerer is typically portrayed as an old bald man in the comics; here, she's an attractive young woman.
* AdaptationalBadass: A non-combatant in the comics, she makes use of her tech to lead the Underground personally in the field. Even going toe-to-toe with her old friend, Miles, who has powers beyond an average teenager.
* AgeLift: The Tinkerer in the comics is usually an adult man or an old man. Here, she's the same age as Miles and a teenager.
* AllYourPowersCombined: As the inventor of the Underground's programmable matter weapons, the Tinkerer can do everything that all of the various Underground units can, along with a number of much more advanced tricks unique to herself. Fortunately, mimicking the fighting style of an Underground unit also makes her vulnerable to the same type of Venom Strike that works on them.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: It's a simpler task to identify her brother's ethnic background than hers.
* AntiVillain: Phin truly wishes to end a notorious plot of a shady corporation [[spoiler:that could knowingly infect New York with a similar deadly disease, just like what happened during the Devil's Breath Crisis. Her reasons why she wants to put an end to them in the first place are justified since they killed her brother Rick, who tried to put an end to their toxic Nuform project]], yet her methods of doing so are much less honorable and more ruthless than Spider-Man's. [[spoiler:She just wants to destroy a plaza with their own Nuform (stubbornly denying the fact that it'll take all of Harlem with it), and is willing to work with/use the Underground to reach her goals, despite knowing how destructive, callous and dangerous they are. After renouncing Miles as her family, she becomes much more cold towards her childhood friend and it takes her witnessing what she's done to help her see the error of her ways. In the end, she sacrifices herself to save Harlem's residence from Miles' Nuform-induced Venom Blast.]]
* AwesomeButImpractical: While Phin's programmable matter is an extremely flexible power that lets her make any manner of equipment that she wants, making her mask out of it is an act of excessive flair given the programmable matter instantly breaks on contact with electricity. It takes only a few seconds of her first skirmish with Miles for the mask to break and expose her identity.
* BadassNormal: She's a completely normal human who proves herself to be a very deadly foe to Miles with her [[BadassBookworm intellect]], [[{{Nanomachines}} programmable matter]], and ThePowerOfHate.
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: In her quest to bring down Simon Krieger, she ends up becoming a lot like him in many ways. Like Krieger, she charges ahead with her plans in spite of mounting evidence that doing so would harm lots of people. She also shows some BadBoss tendencies; when some of her subordinates in the Underground tell her that several of their members have gotten sick from the Nuform she stole and hid at their headquarters, she sharply dismisses their concerns by saying that "They knew the risks" in a manner eeriely reminiscent of how Krieger downplayed the health risks of [=NuForm=].
* BigBadEnsemble: Krieger and Roxxon are the more nefarious villains in ''Miles Morales'', but the lengths that Phin is willing to go in order to get revenge on them make her just as much of a threat to Harlem. The advanced weaponry she creates for the [[NotInThisForYourRevolution Underground]] empowers the gang to wreak havoc on the city; her crusade against Roxxon results in senseless violence that, however unintentional it may be, endangers countless innocents; and her adamant refusal to deviate from destroying Roxxon Plaza--stubbornly ignoring Miles' warnings that Krieger has sabotaged its reactor to destroy Harlem should such an attack occur--causes her to repeatedly almost kill Miles, becoming the FinalBoss as she callously clings to vengeance over reason [[spoiler:until it's too late to stop the detonation from occurring.]]
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Much like Otto Octavius, Phin's an old friend of Spider-Man, a genius scientist, engineer, and inventor who used to be a good person, but [[spoiler:was driven to madness by a wrong committed by an evil corperate executive]]. The main difference here is that she's female, and unlike Otto, her motives are [[spoiler:to avenge her brother rather than out of pride]]. Also, unlike Otto, who chose to remain a villain and destroy all of New York in his [[spoiler:vengeful quest for bringing Oscorp down, even betraying Peter big time]], [[HeelRealization Phin fully realizes]] that her own desire to [[spoiler:bring down Roxxon nearly destroyed Harlem and sincerely apologizes to Miles for almost killing him]]. And at the last minute when Miles [[spoiler:absorbs all of the Nuform reactor's energy, she sacrifices herself to allow him to unleash the explosion in the sky, which costs her life]].
* DeadlyDisc: One of the many tricks that Phin kept for herself is hurling gigantic buzzsaws along the ground. She's not limited to one at a time either: after sending out several individual ones, she'll throw enough at once to fill the entire width of the room.
* DealWithTheDevil: By providing advanced weapons to the Underground, she gets their manpower to help her bring down Roxxon.
* DeathByIrony: A RedemptionEqualsDeath version. Phin's idea of blowing up Roxxon plaza ends with getting ''herself'' blown up.
* {{Determinator}}: Her boss fight is one of the longest of the series going into three phases. Even when it look like Miles has the upper hand in cut scenes, she pushes back just as fierce and takes virtually everything Miles has to burn through her arsenal before she finally goes down [[spoiler: and concedes when she realizes the unstable reactor is sending shockwaves through Harlem and that the radius is a lot bigger than she wanted.]]
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Phin commits numerous crimes, [[spoiler:tries to kill Miles multiple times and renounces him as her surrogate brother, and nearly vaporizes Harlem;]] all in the name of [[spoiler:overloading the Nuform reactor at the base of Roxxon Plaza to destroy it]] as an act of revenge [[spoiler:for her brother's death]]. She never even considers throughout the game that this will only [[spoiler:come off as a terrorist attack, that there will still be no evidence of how Rick died (meaning no one will be held accountable), and that she could've been smart enough to actually try and ''find'' said evidence instead of going straight with her plan to blow up the plaza senselessly.]] [[RevengeBeforeReason This shows just how clouded her mind has become by her lust for vengeance]]. Both Miles and Simon Krieger himself call her out for this.
* DontMakeMeDestroyYou: How she feels during her final battle with Miles.
--> '''Phin''': ''[While beating up Miles]'' I gave you EVERY chance to leave! Don't make me kill you. You can't win. [[EvilCannotComprehendGood Why do you keep fighting?!]]\\
'''Miles''': Because... I'm... ''Spider-Man!''
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Phin's entire plan to get back at Roxxon through violent means was flawed from the start, with Miles continually pleading for her to find another solution to stop Roxxon. During the climax, she takes this as her friend lying to her and ''defending Rick's murderer'' when in fact it's the opposite and Miles tries to stop her cause it'll destroy Harlem.
--> '''Phin''': You loved Rick too, How can you defend his murderer?!\\
'''Miles''': I'm not, but I can't sacrifice Harlem to take down Kreiger.\\
'''Phin''': That's not what I'm doing!\\
'''Miles''': It is! Even if you won't see it!
* EtTuBrute: After learning that Miles had been lying about wanting to join the Underground, had [[spoiler:accidentally destroyed all of the evidence of Roxxon's wrongdoing, unwittingly sold her out to the Prowler, and stopped her from murdering Rhino, who had mocked her brother's death]], Phin feels so betrayed that [[spoiler:she renounces all ties with him and threatens to kill them the next time they meet, even leaving him for dead in the subway after she beats him into a pulp.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: As much as she wants to get back at Roxxon through unhonorable means, Phin ultimately tries to ensure that there are no casualties as her only priority is Roxxon Plaza (which is not fully opened yet). Unfortunately for her, Kreiger tampered with the settings which would also damage most of Harlem.
* FatalFlaw: {{Pride}}. She's a smart girl but ''extremely'' stubborn to the point she becomes very narrow-minded in her goal. Granted [[spoiler:Miles messing up some of her plans and lying in his pursuit of his goals do contribute. But by end of the game, she's fully convinced her calculations are right despite both Miles and ''Krieger'' telling her to the contrary and undeniable proof that the reactor is about to go critical, destroying all of Harlem rather than just simply around the Roxxon building. Miles has to literally knock some sense into her to help her finally see reason.]]
* FinalBoss: She's the final fight of ''Miles Morales'', dueling Miles as he tries to stop her from accidentally destroying Harlem.
* {{Foil}}: To Miles. Both are very smart and creative kids from a similar background. Both were forced to witness the murder of a family member and the event drastically changed their lives. However, while Miles was motivated to help others and eventually became a hero, Phin fell in with the Underground and eventually became a villain by seeking revenge.
* GadgeteerGenius: Invents an army's worth of high tech weapons and armor that can go toe-to-toe with Spider-Man and the Roxxon Corporation.
* GenderFlip: Her comic book counterpart is male.
* GuestStarPartyMember: Even though she's in the midst of a RageBreakingPoint, she and Miles work together to fight back against an upgraded Rhino and several Roxxon guards.
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:She dies with a sad smile as she comforts Miles and tells him to "let go," disintegrating her when he releases all the Nuform energy he absorbed.]]
* TheHeavy: While Phin is just one half of the BigBadEnsemble in ''Miles Morales'', her friendship with Miles leads to more frequent interactions with her compared to Krieger. Phin personally drives the majority of the game's conflict through arming the Underground and instigating destructive attacks against Roxxon, and while Krieger's sabotage of the Nuform reactor at Roxxon Plaza endangers all of Harlem, it's Phin's insistence on destroying it that risks its detonation in the first place. Given that Krieger is a NonActionBigBad, Phin also acts as Miles' primary physical opponent and the FinalBoss.
* HeelRealization: After she caused [[spoiler:the reactor to nearly demolish most of Harlem instead of just the Roxxon Plaza as she first intended]]. She genuinely apologizes to Miles for not listening to him in the first place.
-->'''Phin:''' [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone This shouldn't be happening!]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Sacrifices herself to allow Miles to unleash his Mega-Mega Venom Blast in the sky after he absorbed all of the Nuform reactor's energy and saves all of Harlem from the explosion.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** [[spoiler:Phin rightfully calls Miles out for impulsively destroying her chances of proving Roxxon's wrongdoings and not thinking his plans through]]. Before and after that, however, she's actually done no better than Miles when he tries to warn her about [[spoiler:the Nuform reactor]]. Simon points out that even if her plan worked, it would be AllForNothing; she never considered that [[spoiler:her attack on Roxxon Plaza would look like a senseless terrorist act without solid evidence against the corporation, and she never even thought about going back for her phone she accidentally dropped in one of their labs.]]
** She's angry that Miles [[spoiler:lied to her about wanting to join the Underground and secretly being Spider-Man, even though she lied to him just as much by not telling him she was leading the Underground and committing terrorism]].
* HypocriteHasAPoint: Even if she did no better, she's justifiably pissed at Miles' constant screw-ups throughout the game that results in [[spoiler:them having little to no evidence to use against Roxxon left]]. The fact that she [[EtTuBrute already feels betrayed by him]] only worsens this point to where she [[spoiler:renounces all ties to him and is completely consumed by revenge]].
* ImaginationBasedSuperpower: Phin's programmable matter can transform into any kind of weapon she can provide the specs for, and unlike her minions who can only use the preset arrangements she's given them, Phin is more than smart enough to create new weapons at will.
* InkSuitActor: She's visually modeled after Jasmin Savoy Brown, who provided her voice and motion capture.
* InNameOnly: The only things she has in common with the Tinkerer of the comics are their codename, her name being a female version of Phineas, being related to Rick Mason, and their ability to invent lots of high-tech equipment and weapons. Other than those details, she's essentially a brand new character.
* InTheHood: As The Tinkerer, she wears a purple hoodie.
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: As ruthless as she is, her opponents Simon Krieger and Roxxon are much worse. [[spoiler:Krieger's plan would endanger all of New York, and they show no remorse for it. Her plan, while misguided, ultimately had good intentions, even if it she refused to listen to reason and accept that she should just stop.]]
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Phin admits that losing Rick wasn't as hard as it could've been because she had Miles to lean on. [[spoiler:Near the end of the game, she dies in a similar manner to her brother in order to save those they loved.]]
* NeverMyFault: [[spoiler: She puts the blame for her plans going wrong on Miles, blaming his alter ego for what happened on the bridge and his mother getting injured despite the fact that she chose to lead her army to interrupt one of her rallies for a distraction. Phin also forgets her own part in the bridge's destruction by carelessly knocking Miles into the Nuform Reactor Truck, which leads to the explosion that devastates the bridge.]]
* NotEnoughToBury: [[spoiler:Her body is completely annihilated when she carries Miles into the air to release all of the energy he absorbed from the critical Nuform reactor.]]
* TheNotLoveInterest: Phin matches a lot of criteria needed for a DatingCatwoman scenario between her and Miles, the two even at several points joking about going out. But by the end of the game it's made very clear that these really are nothing more than jokes and the two only see each other as brother and sister. [[spoiler:Any romantic possibilities are rendered moot with her death]].
* NotWearingTights: Her own vigilante outfit is just street clothes and a high-tech mask.
* ObliviouslyEvil: Can overlap with DidntThinkThisThrough and RevengeBeforeReason. For her plans to take revenge on Roxxon, Phin joined a criminal organization and provided them with high-technology equipment, unwittingly enhancing their plans outside of her crusade. It took Miles confronting her just to realize she's done anything wrong.
* OhCrap: When Phin realizes that Miles was telling the truth and that [[spoiler:the Nuform reactor was going to destroy all of Harlem,]] Phin is taken aback and yells that this shouldn't be happening.
* PuppetKing: Underground EnemyChatter implies that they're only following her because she makes advanced weapons for them, and don't really care about her beef with Roxxon. They also understand the real consequences of her plan much better than she does: [[spoiler:blowing up the reactor will devastate the surrounding housing while leaving Roxxon as a company intact and equipped to further destabilize the region, both factors that they intend to use to expand their criminal empire.]]
* PurpleIsPowerful: Her tech has purple highlights, and she's almost always seen with purple on her clothing.
* RaceLift: Phineas Mason is Caucasian in the comics, while ''Phin'' Mason is African-American.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:She sacrifices herself immediately after realizing just how much she screwed up.]]
* RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:She is Rick's younger sister. Her comic counterpart was Rick's father.]]
* RevengeBeforeReason: Her primary motivation is to avenge [[spoiler:the death of her brother, Rick, whose murder was orchestrated by Simon Krieger when he tried to destroy all of the Nuform prototypes and discontinue production.]] Phin does not want to stop until [[spoiler:Simon and Roxxon]] is brought to justice, even if she has to fight her own best friend when he tries to help her. Miles is genuinely sorry for his constant screw-ups that cost [[spoiler:Phin's solid evidence against Roxxon]] and tries to warn her what [[spoiler:the reactor would do to all of Harlem]], but she's too angry and feeling betrayed to listen, instead attacking him with everything she's got out of spite against him. [[HeelRealization She later came to realize the full consequences of her quest for vengeance]] when [[spoiler:she witnesses the unstable reactor nearly destroying Harlem and apologizes to her best friend]].
* TragicVillain: She's a good person at heart, but too wracked with grief and rage against Roxxon to realize how destructive her actions are. [[spoiler:When she realizes she was unintentionally about to level Harlem by blowing up the Nuform reactor, she sacrifices herself so that Miles can discharge the energy he absorbed safely.]]
* UngratefulBastard: [[spoiler:Miles saves Phin from Rhino and Roxxon, but how does she repay him? She beats her own best friend into a pulp because of all his past lies, how his mistakes ruined her evidence against Roxxon, and because she was under the influence of her own thirst for vengeance that was boosted by Rhino himself. She even threatens to kill Miles if he got in her way again, coldly renouncing him as her surrogate family and leaving him for dead in the subway badly injured]].
-->'''Phin:''' Come near me again... and I'll kill you.\\
'''Miles:''' But... we're family...\\
'''Phin:''' My family's ''dead''.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Ultimately, Phin is just trying to [[spoiler:avenge the senseless death of her beloved brother and his team]], as well as bring [[spoiler:Simon Krieger, her brother's killer]], to justice. Unfortunately, rather than trying to prove [[spoiler:Krieger's guilt]] to the authorities, she wants violent revenge in the form of [[spoiler:destroying Roxxon headquarters]], and is willing to do things like [[spoiler:supplying a criminal gang with high-tech weapons and brutalize her best friend to accomplish her goals.]]
* WhipSword: Her tech allows her to program her primary weapon into any shape she wants, transforming from a whip into a sword sharp enough to penetrate Rhino's armor, [[spoiler:nearly leading to Rhino's death if not for Miles.]]
* YouKilledMyFather: All of her actions are motivated by [[spoiler:the death of her brother, Rick, which was all orchestrated by Simon Krieger in an attempt to cover up Nuform's unstable flaws and continue production]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Aaron Davis / Prowler]]
!!Aaron Davis / Prowler
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!!! '''Voiced by:''' Creator/IkeAmadi (English)[[labelnote:Other Languages]] Shinshu Fuji (Japanese), Dmitry Polyanovsky (Russian)[[/labelnote]]
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''VideoGame/SpiderManMilesMorales''

A retired thief/mercenary, Jefferson Davis' estranged brother, and Miles' uncle who tried to work as a subway conductor until he discovers his nephew's vigilantism and returns to his Prowler suit to protect him.
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For tropes related to him see [[Characters/SpiderManPS4Heroes Heroes]].
[[/folder]]

!!!Introduced in ''VideoGame/MarvelsSpiderMan2''

[[folder:Sergei Kravinoff / Kraven the Hunter]]
!!Sergei Kravinoff / Kraven the Hunter
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JimPirri (English)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/MarvelsSpiderMan2 Spider-Man 2]]''

A Russian hunter who travels to New York solely to look for a greater challenge from the city's superhumans and has no regards with the destruction nor innocent people who get in his way.
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* AlternateSelf: Has one on [[Film/SonysSpiderManUniverse another Earth]].
* BloodKnight: As shown in the Gameplay Reveal trailer, Kraven is shown ruthlessly pursuing the Lizard and the Spider-Men. He doesn't slow down when countless lives get caught in the crossfire and shows no regards to the collateral damage he leaves behind; all he cares about is [[EgomaniacHunter hunting for sport]].
* ChallengeSeeker: Lives for the thrill of the hunt and seeks out the Spider-Men and The Lizard in hopes of finding a worthy adversary.
--> '''Kraven''': Light the fires. The Great Hunt begins...
* DisappointedInYou: As Kraven's EstablishingCharacterMoment in the Gameplay Reveal, he [[NeckLift strangles]] a potential rival for not being able to track him well enough when he was able to track said rival for hours, thus not qualifying as his WorthyOpponent.
* EgomaniacHunter: For him, the hunt is everything. When one of his mercenaries points out the large number of superhumans in New York City that could be worthy prey, he unhesitatingly accepts the idea and promptly turns the city into his hunting ground.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: He has a long scratch running from his forehead to his right eye.
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: He's specifically in New York to hunt various superhumans[=/=]vigilantes, whether it be the Spider-Men or the Lizard, in an effort to find someone that would finally challenge him.
* WorthyOpponent: In the teaser, Kraven claims that he's spent his entire life looking for one, only to be met with disappointment. Furthered in the Gameplay Reveal trailer, which opens with his decision to move his hunt to New York after killing someone who claimed to be his equal. He seems to find this within the first Spider-Man after their encounter at the Trinity Church.
--> '''Kraven''': I see a man, but... I sense a beast.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Venom '''(Unmarked Spoilers)''']]
!![[ComicBook/{{Venom}} Venom]]
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TonyTodd (English)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/SpiderManPS4 Spider-Man]]'' | ''VideoGame/SpiderManMilesMorales'' | ''[[VideoGame/MarvelsSpiderMan2 Spider-Man 2]]''

An alien substance initially bonded to Harry Osborn in an attempt to save his life. It surfaces in ''VideoGame/MarvelsSpiderMan2'' and, through unknown circumstances, ends up bonding with Peter Parker; for tropes on the symbiote as the Black Suit, see [[Characters/SpiderManPS4PeterParkerSuits Peter Parker's Suits]].
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* AlternateSelf: It has variants across several alternate Earths, including [[Film/SpiderManTrilogy Earth-96283]], [[WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan Earth-26496]], and [[Film/SonysSpiderManUniverse Earth-688]].
* AmbiguousSituation:
** Whether it's reacting to Harry's emotions as an extension of himself, or the symbiote is its own separate entity, is currently left to wild guessing.
** While the sequel's gameplay reveal suggests Venom has no prior history with Spider-Man (given how neither Peter or Miles make note of the black suit), whether or not Venom is an already existing character in this universe is still a bit unclear. The symbiote is never directly referenced in the first game and Eddie Brock ''seems'' to be an AdaptationalNiceGuy, but Spidey also has a visible reaction to being told to wear a "black suit", [[MythologyGag albeit in a completely different context]]. The first teaser obscured enough of Venom to make it impossible to tell if he has his ChestInsignia; though it was later confirmed he does have it, whether he always had it, gained it after an unseen event in the backstory or gains it during the game is still unknown.
* BigBad: Setting up to be the main antagonist of the game as the symbiote becomes both a deeply personal threat to both Spider-Men and the greatest threat to New York since the Devil's Breath outbreak
* TheCameo: Appears in the second Stinger inside the healing tank with Harry and reaches out to touch Norman's hand against the glass. Appears again in ''Miles Morales'', when he's finally about to be set free.
* CastAsAMask: Much like with his role on ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'', Tony Todd's booming voice seems to be implemented to hide the identity of the symbiote's host.
* CombatTentacles: In the "Be Greater. Together." trailer, Venom smashes a building with his arms, generating a mass of tentacles to chase Peter.
* TheCorruptor: Like in most media, the symbiote makes whoever's bonded to it more aggressive. When Peter is bonded to the symbiote in the gameplay reveal trailer, his usual jokester behavior is gone, and he's instead aloof and very aggressive.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Was first teased at the end of ''Spider-Man'', with ''Miles Morales'' reminding the audience that it exists and it's about to be set loose...
* EmergencyTransformation: Harry's condition is so bad that the symbiote is acting as nothing more than a life support system, warding off his death while Norman seeks a cure. Either this is the symbiote's first appearance and Norman was so desperate to buy Harry time that he turned to something he knew virtually nothing about just as a stopgap measure, or this ''isn't'' its first appearance and Norman was so desperate that even turning his son into ''Venom'' was an acceptable risk.
* EvilIsBigger: As shown in concept art, the official statue, and Story Trailer, this could easily be the tallest and largest Venom to date, looking easily to be two or three stories tall absolutely towering over both Spider-Men and handling them both like ragdolls. He looks to be even taller than [[TheJuggernaut Rhino]], making him easily the tallest character in all three games.
* EvilSoundsDeep: As featured in the teaser, Venom's voice is delivered in this fashion in a way that only Tony Todd can deliver.
* IAmLegion: His sole line in the teaser confirms that Venom will speak for himself and his host in this way.
* WindowLove: When Norman, on the verge of an emotional breakdown, places his hand to the glass of Harry's healing tank, the symbiote covering Harry reaches out to the glass to seemingly return the gesture. Norman seems completely unaware.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dr. Curt Connors / Lizard]]
!!Curtis "Curt" Connors / Lizard
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!!! '''Voiced by:''' Mark Whitten
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''VideoGame/SpiderManMilesMorales'' | ''[[VideoGame/MarvelsSpiderMan2 Spider-Man 2]]''

A scientist who mutated himself into a lizard-based creature who fought Peter's Spider-Man before. While he doesn't appear in the first game, he does show up in TheStinger for ''VideoGame/SpiderManMilesMorales'', working for Norman Osborn to keep Harry alive, and later resurfaces as his Lizard persona in ''VideoGame/MarvelsSpiderMan2''.
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* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: Downplayed; in the gameplay trailer, Miles and Peter find a shed skin of his, reaching the unnerving conclusion that the Lizard is ''getting bigger''. The comics counterpart could never grow in size like that.
* AnArmAndALeg: Like many of his incarnations, Curt has a missing right arm. In the past, one of his motives that [[GoneHorriblyWrong inadvertently led to his mutation]] was to grow his arm back using lizard DNA.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Connors protests against releasing Harry with a symbiotic alien substance that's implied to be keeping him alive.
* TheFaceless: In ''Miles Morales'', he is only seen from the back and his face is never seen.
* TheGhost: Mentioned briefly in the first game, but doesn't appear except as someone's Halloween costume. Subverted in ''Miles Morales'' when he makes an appearance in TheStinger, but [[TheFaceless his face is never shown]].
* MythologyGag: The more feral and monstrous ScaledUp version of the Lizard seems to draw from the ''Shed'' storyline from [[ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManDanSlott Dan Slott's run with the character]].
* ScaledUp: The Gameplay Reveal trailer for the sequel reveals that Dr. Curt Connors has been mutated into his monstrous reptilian form, which rampages through a fish processing facility and into the East River while being pursued by Kraven's hunters and both Spider-Men.
* SpikesOfVillainy: As the Lizard, his back is covered with nasty-looking spikes.
* TragicMonster: Peter mentions that while they were able to reverse his mutation, the cure didn't last... Or so he thought. In the ''Spider-Man 2'' gameplay reveal, he resurfaces as the Lizard and goes on a hungry rampage, all while being targeted by Kraven and his team of hunters.
* UnseenNoMore: He appears in human form in the post-credits scene of ''Spider-Man: Miles Morales'', as one of the scientists that Norman Osborn has recruited to try to help fix his son's illness. He also resurfaces as the Lizard in ''Spider-Man 2''.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Quentin Beck / Mysterio]]
!!Quentin Beck / Mysterio
!!! '''Voiced by:''' TBA
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Velocity'' | ''[[VideoGame/MarvelsSpiderMan2 Spider-Man 2]]''

A criminal illusionist.
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* TheGhost: Mentioned briefly, but doesn't appear except as a partygoer's Halloween costume. A self-help book by a "Dr. Ludwig Rinehart," one of Mysterio's classic recurring aliases, can be found in one of the backpacks. Beck does make a brief appearance in the ''Velocity'' comic as a psychic, indicating that either Beck [[DecompositeCharacter isn't Mysterio]] or that he maintains a secret identity.
* MasterOfIllusion: Like always.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Flint Marko / Sandman]]
!!Flint Marko / Sandman
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!!! '''Voiced by:''' TBA
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/SpiderManPS4 Spider-Man]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/MarvelsSpiderMan2 Spider-Man 2]]''

A thief who has the power to become and control sand.
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* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: During the trailer for Spider-Man 2, Sandman attacks Peter and Miles in a giant sand form.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Peter outright forgets he was there, stuck in a vial, for at most '''eight''' years.
* TheGhost: Doesn't actually appear in the first game--unless you count the vial he's trapped in as an appearance. No longer the case as of the sequel.
* NobleDemon: Implied; he once tried robbing the F.E.A.S.T. shelter, but immediately left after Aunt May told him that there was nothing for him to steal (though he may have just been that intimidated by May).
* SealedEvilInACan: At some point, Peter imprisoned him inside a small vial, which he then left in a backpack webbed to the top of Avengers Tower for (apparently) several years. The game doesn't say if the Sandman has been [[AndIMustScream conscious the entire time.]]
[[/folder]]

!!Enemy Factions

[[folder:Fisk's Criminal Empire]]

A powerful criminal syndicate led by Wilson Fisk, known as the Kingpin.
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* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Purple.
* ImplausibleDeniability: Fisk's lawyer insists that Fisk is an innocent man, didn't do anything wrong, and do not have evidence against him... this is despite the mountain of evidence presented against him which prevented said lawyers to break him out the Raft easily. The same lawyer also said that the men engaged with a shoot-out with the police had nothing to do with Fisk, again, this is despite them visibly '''wearing''' a uniform that clearly says "FISK". This is even pointed out in Spider-Man's own social feed.
* TheRemnant: [[spoiler:Over the course of 2 years, with Fisk Hideouts being dismantled, and the Fisk Tower being taken over by the Underground, Fisk's goons now wear plainclothes like ordinary street criminals (some of them don't wear ski-masks, and will sport a distinct mohawk that no other street criminals would have). The difference being that they still own a cache of rocket launchers, and as well as having recruited brutes to their ranks.]]
* StarterVillain: They are the first enemies that Spider-Man fights.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: After Fisk's incarceration, there will be undercover Fisk hitmen who wear the same plainclothes as bystanders and blend-in with them accordingly, and, as such, there is no way for Spider-Man to identify them until they start pulling out a handgun. They either work solo or in pairs.
* UniqueEnemy: Fisk goons donning black, operative-style uniforms, and without the company logo are only fought at the very start of the game, afterwards, all of the goons fought wear purple security uniforms with the "FISK" brand on it.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Inner Demons]]
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Mr. Negative's flunkies and foot soldiers.
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* AntiAir: The whip users can yank Spidey out of the air, which is a problem given air attacks are a significant portion of his fighting style. Taking them out is thus a key priority.
* AwesomePersonnelCarrier: Once Osborn brings in Sable International to crack down on the Demons, they respond by hiring Tombstone's gang to build a huge, military-grade [[https://www.igcd.net/vehicle.php?id=175559 armored truck]] to further escalate their attacks. [[spoiler:They later use to it plow through Dr. Michaels' Sable protection detail and abduct him and the Devil's Breath sample with ease.]]
* BadassInANiceSuit: They all wear slick black suits, and are fierce fighters, going toe-to-to with the cops and Sable troops, and even Spidey.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: It's heavily implied that a good chunk of the Demons you fight are people who have been brainwashed by Mister Negative.
* CastingAShadow: They can all wield weaker versions of Mr. Negative's powers.
* DualWielding: Some of them wield twin whips. These are easily among the most dangerous Demons, due to their AntiAir abilities.
* EliteMooks:
** In general, the Inner Demons are even stronger than normal criminals and Fisk's thugs, with only Sable Units being as strong. However, Sable doesn't have the same effectiveness, resources and coordination that they do.
** The Whip-men, [[MasterSwordsman Demon Swordsmen]], and the [[TheBrute Heavy-weight]] versions are harder to defeat than the ordinary variants, and require two focus bars to use a Takedown on them instead of just one.
* FarEastAsianTerrorists: The Demons are an Asian criminal gang whose only real goal is getting revenge on Mayor Osborn for their boss Mr. Negative, and are willing to commit full-scale terrorism on the whole city to bring him down. [[spoiler:They start by perpetrating a suicide bombing at an award ceremony at City Hall, then later attempt to unleash a bioweapon at Grand Central Terminal.]]
* FromNobodyToNightmare: When they first appear in the story, the Demons are an unknown gang of super-powered criminals. After their devastating attack on City Hall, all of New York becomes afraid of them, to the point Norman hires Sable International to deal with the threat they pose.
* MalevolentMaskedMen: They're criminals who wear menacing black-and-white Chinese opera masks that resemble demons.
* MasterSwordsmen: The demon swordsmen are not only faster than normal swordsmen, they can dodge a lot more and have stronger attacks than their normal counterparts. They're also ''very'' good at countering web attacks. The only way to get an opening is to dodge their attacks and counter, and even then they recover ''much'' faster than other enemies.
* MobWar: They're initially seen clashing with what's left of Kingpin's gang, supposedly to take over Fisk's territories and assert their dominance, but in reality they're only after Fisk's arsenal and leverage on Norman Osborn. Once they have those, they abandon their war with Fisk to focus on their ''real'' objectives.
* {{Mooks}}: Spidey spends many missions beating these guys up.
* NoNonsenseNemesis: From the first moment they appear in the story, the Demons demonstrate utter ruthlessness in whatever they do, as when they bomb City Hall and more show up to slaughter a decent portion of the survivors.
* RuthlessForeignGangsters: They speak Mandarin Chinese (translated in the subtitles) and are trying to take over Wilson Fisk's vacated criminal niche. Their leader is explicitly an immigrant from China, albeit one who arrived in New York as a young child, and completing one of the Demon bases reveals that they use business fronts to illegally smuggle members in to avoid scrutiny over their past criminal records.
* TheTriadsAndTheTongs: Superpowers and [[GangOfHats spooky masks]] aside, the Demons initially appear to be just an upstart Chinese criminal syndicate trying to muscle in on Kingpin's territory (and EnemyChatter confirms that some of them used to be actual Triads before Mr. Negative corrupted them to his side). However, they're quickly revealed to be [[FarEastAsianTerrorists something much, much worse]].
* TheWorfEffect: In ''Spider-Man: Miles Morales'', it is revealed the last remaining members of the Inner Demons were taken out by The Underground, which establishes them as a new and tougher threat. They even have Demon masks organized as trophies in their Fisk Tower base.
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[[folder:Sable International]]
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Silver Sable International, or simply Sable International, is the strike team owned and operated by Silver Sable, hired by Norman Osborn to deal with the Inner Demons and their terrorism through any means necessary. This inevitably ends up infringing on civil liberties when they begin detaining and interrogating innocent civilians, which makes them only marginally better than the people they were hired to stop. They've also received priority orders to take out Spider-Man, though not even they're sure why.
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* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: White. Their laser sights also emit blue, as opposed to the other factions' red.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Their main tactics work perfectly well in situations where flexing their power is enough to make people submit. In an urban environment like New York, where the thugs are either not impressed or can match them easily, alongside civilians that can't do anything, they're woefully inept. Even against Spider-Man they're lacking, and they only end up making things worse just by existing in the city.
* EnemyMine: With the Demons and Mr. Negative causing terror in Manhattan, the Sable company is more than ready to deal with Spider-Man, but only barely lets him go because he's helping the police with the current threat. Once that gets handled, however, [[{{Irony}} they suddenly become a lot more deadly and competent when dealing with Spider-Man himself.]]
* EpicFail: They fail to do ''anything'' right in New York, and end up looking like a major embarrassment.
* IncompetenceInc: For a highly professional mercenary group armed to the teeth with military-grade weaponry and gear, Sable's company is filled to the brim with incompetent troops.
** They can be easily fooled and eluded by MJ and Miles, a reporter with Spider-Man on call and a tech-smart kid that can hack their security with a ''phone app'', respectively. Naturally, even in direct firefights with Demons, they never have the competence to win a fight without Spider-Man's help, and they also jeopardize the entire city over PoorCommunicationKills by completely disregarding Yuri and the police forces that hold important information that could've prevented a lot of problems - ''also'' handily provided by Spider-Man. [[spoiler:This is at least somewhat justified with the Sinister Six, as Otto explicitly has been researching their tech for weaknesses and vulnerabilities.]] Osborn himself lampshades it near the end of the game, when he decides to supervise production of the antidote to the Devil's Breath on his own and orders Sable to stay behind.
--->'''Sable:''' You will be completely vulnerable without me!\\
'''Norman:''' I seem to be completely vulnerable ''with'' you.
** In addition, despite having a specific code for Spider-Man, the most they ever accomplish against him is just annoying him. This is even represented in gameplay, where the jetpack enemies dropping their mines can short-circuit Spidey's web-gadgets... for roughly five seconds. Even the jetpack enemies themselves, while dangerous, are in ''the air,'' where the game actively tells you that your attacks are stronger.
** By the events of ''Turf Wars'', Sable's technology has ended up in the hands of the Maggia and Hammerhead's goons, giving them an unprecedented ability to wreak havoc on New York City. Said goons make ''far'' better use of Sable's technology than Sable's soldiers themselves did (up to including arming their brutes with Sable miniguns, which Sable mooks can't operate, because they lack a BigGuy of their own to utilize it), mainly because they don't care about collateral damage or capturing people alive.
* TheLopsidedArmOfTheLaw: Despite struggling to defeat the Demons and being overall ineffective against the Sinister Six, they become a lot more competent and dangerous when they start gunning for Spider-Man.
* TheMillstone: Not only does Sable International prove itself to be far too incompetent to deal with the Demons' terrorism, it also creates more problems than it solves in the end.
* OnlySaneMan: Eavesdropping on idle chatter among them has some of them acknowledge that Spider-Man is fighting the same groups as them, he doesn't seem to cause any trouble on his own, and it makes no sense to make him a priority target above others who are far more disruptive and dangerous. These conversations almost universally end with the Sable officer in question shutting up because they don't want to be punished for insubordination by questioning their orders.
* PoliceBrutality: While the local cops in this game are consistently portrayed as good-natured allies, Sable soldiers are portrayed as bullies with guns who are willing to kill unarmed foes, silence protestors with excessive force, performing asset seizure on regular citizens and a host of other things. Even before they started gunning for Spider-Man, they treat his help like more of a hindrance.
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: A large group of well-equipped, well-trained ([[InformedAttribute supposedly]]) mercenaries who fight for whomever pays them.
* {{Plunder}}: In one of the Sable checkpoints, the soldiers there are flat out ''robbing'' New Yorkers under the pretense of "asset seizure". Two of the {{Mooks}} even gloat with each other over what spoils they've "seized".
* SkewedPriorities: Since Spider-Man has been labeled their prime target, they will drop ''everything'' to catch and/or kill Spider-Man, even with heavily armed escaped convicts from Rykers prowling the streets. Spidey even lampshades how absurd this is, but they insist on following their orders.
* UngratefulBastard: Unlike the police, who openly appreciate Spider-Man's interference in fighting gangs, Sable officers tend to react to Spider-Man's presence with anger and annoyance, never once thanking him for defeating the gangs after dealing with them and finding him to be nuisance instead of an assist.
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Strategically speaking, this is why they're so inept. They're used to fighting for governments or rebellion groups in unstable nations, but their tactics that they use in conventional warfare are of no use for upholding law and order in an urban environment. They set up pointless checkpoints and patrols and assume that if they just make a show of force people will fall in line. Unfortunately for them, the criminals of New York are ''not'' an organized lot and don't care about such things, and larger organizations like Fisk's men and the Demons are well-equipped and organized enough to stand up to Sable and know the city and terrain better than them.
* WorfEffect: All this PMC manages to prove is how ineffective it is against the Demons when compared to the one and only Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man.
* WorfHadTheFlu: It's implied that a reason why they're so ineffective is because they were mobilized and brought into New York quickly, and Sable didn't have the time to vet her men as well as she usually would nor make sure they were all properly prepared. Sable is also being utilized as Norman's personal bodyguard, preventing her from leading her men properly aside from giving orders over her phone.
* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: Since Sable is a private paramilitary operation, they have played both as hired guns fighting against tyrannical governments and hired guns fighting ''for'' tyrannical governments.
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[[folder:Inmates]]

Inmates from Rykers and the Raft that have escaped, and made a move to Manhattan to act as their playground, and are still running loose as of "The City that Never Sleeps", this time, acting as fans for Screwball. At the start of ''Miles Morales'' all of them have been rounded up and en-route back to the Raft until Rhino unwittingly released them due to Miles' mishap.
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* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Some of the Inhuman[=/=]Mutant inmates have blue or red skin. Strangely enough, they are absent in ''Miles Morales''.
* CoolBike: Some of the inmates will arrive on motorbikes during Crime events, making them the only faction, other than the Tombstone's Bikers, to make use of them.
* CostumeEvolution: Subtle, but in ''Miles Morales'', some of the inmates are worn without their prison jackets, revealing their prison shirt. In addition, the Power Nullifier harness that a superpowered inmate wears is now limited to neck and wrist cuffs.
* EliteMooks: They're much more threatening than common thugs, as they lob molotovs, which are much more dangerous and cannot be swung back at them. Like the Demons, they also employ Plasma Whip users (though these are limited to inmates wearing power limiters).
* {{Nerf}}: Due to their status as the starting enemies in ''Miles Morales'', they don't throw molotovs, lack a Brute on their ranks, and they don't come with Plasma Whips, making them slightly easier to handle.
* NeverGoingBackToPrison: Some of their EnemyChatter make it very clear that they will never, ever going back to the Raft and actually enjoy their newfound freedom.
* PowerNullifier: The inmates from the Raft, who are implied to be captive Inhumans[=/=]Mutants, wear a special device that prevents them from using their superpowers, allowing Spider-Man to fight them like any other thug.
* StarterVillain: They serve as this in ''Miles Morales''.
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[[folder:Tombstone's Bikers]]

A group of one percenter motorcycle gang led by Tombstone. They are first seen commissioned by the Inner Demons to construct a giant armored truck, and, later, plan on selling Diox-3 drugs to New York.

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* AllBikersAreHellsAngels: They are an outlaw biker gang based on New York.
* CoolBike: Befitting their biker lifestyle, their members ride on Harley Davidson-esque bikes when arriving in combat (which Spider-Man will get knocked around, but humorously take zero damage, if they run him over).
* NoodleIncident: According to Danika Hart, they used to work together with an unnamed delinquent gang (who would later join the Tinkerer's Underground) on a criminal activity, before the latter turned on the former by offing one of their members (gaining their boss, Tombstone's wrath in the process). The exact reason for their fallout remains unknown.
* SuperSerum: Later on, some of the bikers will pull out an inhaler and breathe on an imperfect Diox-3 that gives them SuperToughness ({{No Sell}}ing blows, including objects thrown at them), and SuperStrength (as Spidey will take massive damage if hit), with the side-effect of turning their skin white-gray. They also plan on marketing these designer drugs on New York, with their boss as the sole supplier.
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[[folder:Mercenaries]]

A group of trained professionals who are fought exclusively in Stealh and Combat Challenge Maps.
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* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Blue. And much like Sable, their sniper rifles emit a blue laser light.
* EliteMooks: Behind the ''Turf Wars'' and ''Silver Lining'' Hammerhead mobsters, they are the best equipped of all enemies, their mundane-looking assault rifles are loaded with modified clips that fire the same energy cartridges as Sable's automatic rifles, and are even armed with the same batons and grenades as them. Mercenaries that fight in hand-to-hand utilize the same martial arts as the Inner Demons, reflecting their advanced, spec-ops level training. And most of all, they come with a Brute (that neither Sable or Fisk's goons have).
* FacelessGoons: They all wear balaclavas, reflecting their clandestine operation.
* HiredGuns: PlayedWith. They are usually hired by Taskmaster and are often tasked with testing Spider-Man's skills, however, in some Challenges, they are hired by someone else (with Taskmaster only playing along to observe Spider-Man's abilities).
* PowerNullifier: They are equipped with the same shock batons and grenades like Sable, and whenever Spider-Man gets struck, he is unable to use his gadgets for a short time.
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[[folder:The Maggia]]

A crime syndicate that controlled New York years ago, reemerging now to take advantage of the power vacuum from Fisk's arrest.
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* AdaptationalWimp: Frank Costa's a two bit mobster who is completely powerless against Hammerhead, and almost dies an undignified death when he and the other dons are set up to drown in cement. It's safe to say that in this universe, he's very much ''not'' a [[ComicBook/ThePunisherPurgatory demon lord masquerading as a human.]]
* DemotedToExtra: In the comics, Silvermane was a major player among the Maggia and is one of Spider-Man's more prominent (if somewhat obscure to the mainstream) supervillains. While he's confirmed to exist in this universe by way of EnemyChatter, he isn't anywhere near as powerful and seems to be more of a standard Maggia boss (and a low-ranking one at that, since he isn't among the dons that Hammerhead wants to kill as a part of his power play).
* DistressedDude: The dons are kidnapped by Hammerhead during "Turf Wars", and the climax of the chapter tasks Spider-Man with saving them before Hammerhead's men drown them in cement.
* EvilVsEvil: The first two chapters of the DLC show that Hammerhead's faction is at war with the Maggia at large, and several random crimes during "Turf Wars" are shoot-outs between Hammerhead's guys and rank-and-file Maggia goons.
* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: The Maggia seemingly had great control over NYC decades ago. But in the modern day, these old-fashioned gangsters just cannot compete against the likes of the Kingpin's giant of an empire as well as the new generation of super criminals. This is largely in part why Hammerhead's faction is so intent on bringing back the glory days where the name of the Maggia carried fear and respect.
* TheMafia: An international crime syndicate based off of the Italian mob.
* MythologyGag: Several of the mentioned Dons -- Frank Costa, Vincente Fortunato, and Caesar Cicero -- are minor members in the comics. Silvermane, who's more of a proper supervillain in the vein of Hammerhead is also mentioned.
* NobleDemon: During "The Heist", one of Jameson's broadcasts has him discuss the Maggia and how people view them as an "acceptable" criminal faction in the vein of this trope, since they have "standards" and "play by the rules" unlike, say, the Inner Demons or the Sinister Six. [[JerkassHasAPoint Jameson rightfully points out]] that they're still dangerous criminals who want to crush innocent people under their boot, and that they immediately throw their "moral code" out the window the second it becomes inconvenient for them to follow.
* WhiteGangBangers: While technically a mafia themselves, they are distinct from mobsters loyal to Hammerhead as they wear the same outfit as common criminals, but without their ski-masks, giving them a gangbanger-esque look.
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[[folder:Hammerhead Thugs]]

One of the Maggia families, who set themselves apart from their peers by following along with Hammerhead's far greater ambitions.
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* CrooksAreBetterArmed: Downplayed as they start out as using only standard assault rifles, handguns, rocket launchers, and various blunt weapons. But, starting with ''Turf Wars'' (as per Hammerhead's plan to modernize his mobsters), they now utilize Sable weaponry, jetpacks, and drill tanks, and, by ''Silver Lining'', almost all of them have undergone enhancements and now employ Sable [=APCs=].
* CoolBike: While they never use it on-screen like the Inmates and Tombstone's bikers, they own two types of motorcycles, a Harley Davidson-like motorcycle (''Turf Wars'') and sports bikes (''Silver Lining'').
* EliteMooks:
** Minigun Brutes are definitely this, since they're even more durable and powerful than bog-standard Brutes and are immune to almost all of your gadgets.
** Shield-wielding mobsters are more dangerous than other shield wielders, as they have the ability to barge Spider-Man with a shield with the use of a thruster pack.
** In ''Silver Lining'' some of them are now equipped with Plasma Whips, giving them the same performance as their Inmate and Demon counterparts.
* EvilEvolves: They get increasingly more powerful in each segment of the storyline by kitting themselves out with more and more of Sable's technology, which they combine with their superior combat skills to become far more dangerous than Sable's own soldiers ever were.
* JetPack: Starting in ''Turf Wars'', they start equipping jetpacks. By ''Silver Lining'', it's a standard feature of the PoweredArmor they're decked out in.
* LaughablyEvil: While they're easily the most bloodthirsty and dangerous chapter of the Maggia, the EnemyChatter you can eavesdrop on during hideout infiltrations and random crimes shows that at the end of the day, they're still comically dumb thugs, with an emphasis on comical. Whether it's wanting to make sure that their counterfeiting operation is still economically friendly or bickering over whether "sorrier" or "more sorrier" is correct grammar, they feel like {{Mooks}} taken straight from the ''Batman Arkham'' universe.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Once they get their hands on Sable technology, one of their favorite pieces becomes energy shields that they can use for ramming attacks.
* PoweredArmor: By the time of ''Silver Lining'', they start wearing full suits of armor provided by Sable's Project Olympus.
* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: The Minigun Brutes in ''The Heist'' are an immediate sign that while they look like the rest of the Maggia, Hammerhead's goons are a cut above their peers. By the time of ''Silver Lining'', they're by far the most powerful common enemies that Spider-Man has ever faced, with enormous strength and durability courtesy of their armor and a plethora of abilities that are fast and difficult to dodge.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Underground]]
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A high-tech criminal army run by the Tinkerer that goes to war with Roxxon Energy.
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* AttentionWhore: As an organization, one of the Underground's goals is to attain notoriety. They frequently tag their territories and call attention to themselves by hacking billboards, [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard both actions allow Miles to track them down and defeat them and/or cannibalize their resources.]] When Miles infiltrates the group, one of the members flat out admit that they should [[SlaveToPR be focusing on PR]].
* BullyingADragon:
** Some of their members question their decision to team up with the Tinkerer, doing so having put them on Spider-Man's radar. Others see this as another stepping stone to building up their reputation.
** While digging through their history, Danika reveals that the Underground's rise to power was built on a number of these moments that were only averted by lucky circumstances. Their working partnership with Tombstone's organization went sour after a member of the Underground killed one of his crew, which happened before Tinkerer was a member and was able to strengthen them by supplying them with tech, and they only avoided having an invulnerable crime boss with a grudge out for their heads because Spider-Man happened to take down Tombstone during the Devil's Breath incident. Their clash with the Maggia similarly only avoided turning into a rout of the Underground due to Hammerhead's actions leading to the destruction of the Maggia before they could turn their arsenal of looted Sable weaponry on the young upstarts. Their background banter indicates the Underground themselves don't realize the role that sheer luck has played in their success in the slightest.
* CanonForeigner: An original creation for the game.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Purple. This extends to their sniper rifles where they emit a purple laser sight.
* EliteMooks: Underground Brutes are huge, heavily armored thugs that wield massive shields and warhammers that protect them from most of Miles' attacks while letting them dish out horrifying damage in return. They can also really book it when they want, which makes them incredibly dangerous once they start showing up in the endgame.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: Their members consist of both men and women and include people of different ethnicities. One conversation you can eavesdrop on even reveals that at least one female member has a girlfriend.
* EvilPowerVacuum: With Kingpin, Tombstone and Mr. Negative all locked up, and Hammerhead's gang war leading to the Maggia getting weakened, the Underground ended up stepping up to take claim of New York with no real opposition.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: The group itself, despite their claims of being a “young Mafia,” they only started to get taken seriously once the Tinkerer took charge.
* GrapplingHookPistol: Their unarmed members will employ a wrist-mounted wirehook launcher on Spider-Man, which, if it connects, will pull them over to him and strike them in the face, not unlike that of a web-strike.
* InASingleBound: Many of their soldiers are equipped with jump boots that let them jump several stories into the air or from building to building. They will use those to rejoin rooftop fights if Spider-man tosses them off.
* LackOfEmpathy: One Underground goon is disgusted by her girlfriend leaving the group due to being unwilling to murder someone, and dismisses her as a weakling for it.
* LastDisrespects: Downplayed as Wilson Fisk is not actually dead, but with him locked up in the Raft, the Underground ended up taking his base, Fisk Tower, for their own and completely defaced his mural.
* MilesGloriosus: The Underground deserves some credit for taking out the remnants of The Inner Demons, The Maggia, and Tombstone's gang, but as Danika Hart reveals, these organizations were already on the verge of collapse. This is especially egregious with the Demons: they disbanded on their own without Mr. Negative there to corrupt them, the Underground pretty much just had to claim their territory.
* NotInThisForYourRevolution: They do not care about the Tinkerer's actual goals. They are simply aligned with her because she provides them weapons and gear, and helping her will build their reputation. Their goal is to become New York's dominant crime syndicate. Ultimately a downplayed trope however as, while they have their own motives for allying with the Tinkerer, they're still loyal to her because her tech has allowed them to usurped the other gangs of New York.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: They're fully on board with helping their leader wage war against Roxxon not because of any legitimate grievances, but because they're destructive fame-hungry assholes who view it as a good way to boost their reputation.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome:
** They apparently were the ones who wiped out what was left of the Inner Demons, and did so while keeping a low profile.
** Similarly they crushed the remnants of the Maggia and took over all of their remaining operations.
* OrderVersusChaos: In their conflict against Roxxon, they are disorganized criminals who [[ChaosIsEvil spread chaos and disorder wherever they go]]. And unlike Roxxon’s security force, who are made up of trained, private contractors who operate like a paramilitary group, The Underground is mostly made up of undisciplined and untrained delinquents.
* PiratesWhoDontDoAnything: A SubvertedTrope, while at first glance the Underground just seems like a group of rebels fighting against the Mega Conglomorate Roxxon further digging reveals they are just as bad as other gangs you have encountered in the game. In addition to [[EvilPowerVacuum taking over the criminal operations of other former gangs]] a couple of members can be heard planning to threaten and even kill Danika Hart in retribution for her expose on the gang in her podcast.
* PowerFist: Their signature unit is the Brawler, who construct bulky programmable matter gauntlets. The gauntlets are so thick that they double as shields which can't be yanked, requiring them to be shattered with a Venom attack instead.
* PurpleIsPowerful: Like their boss, their members incorporate the color purple in both their outfits and weaponry.
* RefugeInAudacity: Not only are they set up in Fisk Tower, but one of their bases is ''right outside Avengers Tower!''
* SmarterThanYouLook: Background chatter reveals that while the Underground have vastly inflated egos, they also have the Tinkerer much more under their thumb than she realizes. This includes being much more aware of the real consequences of her plan than she herself is, which they intend to use for their own ends.
* SmugSnake: They constantly boast about their strength to Miles, who they belittle and demean for being a wimpy wannabe. And the taunting never stops, even while Miles is in the process of kicking their collective shit in with his amazingly strong Venom powers.
* SpontaneousWeaponCreation: They use the Tinkerer's programmable metal technology. This basically allows them to create their weapons out of thin air. In-game, it means they can't be easily disarmed. If their weapon is shattered or taken from them, they will simply create a new copy. However, any Venom attack will shatter their weapons for an extended period, leaving them vulnerable until they can recreate it.
* TeensAreMonsters: A lot of them are still in high school, and they're not above causing havoc and mayhem just to make a name for themselves. They're also heartless towards their own members whenever someone displays weakness, including the ones that get sick from exposure to Nuform.
* TookALevelInBadass: In-universe, they were previously a self-proclaimed “young Mafia” but in actuality a low level street gang, until the Tinkerer took charge of the group and outfitted them with her inventions.
* WhipSword: One of the weapons the Tinkerer makes for them midway in the game specifically to counter the new Spider-Man, large two handed swords that can extend into cables to wrap around Miles and toss him.
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[[folder:Roxxon Energy]]
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A corrupt major energy corporation that goes to war with the Underground.
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* AttackReflector: Shield-wielding Roxxon troops are not only immune to Miles' Venom Punch and Venom Dash, but using those moves against their shields allows them to absorb the electricity and fire it back as a powerful energy wave.
* CorporateWarfare: Roxxon has their own private army of soldiers equipped with power armor and military-grade weapons which they send against Spider-Man and the Underground. They also have a fleet of tanks and [[BlackHelicopter Black [=VTOLs=]]].
* EvilInc: In classic Roxxon fashion, its public face in New York is a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive corrupt, delusional sociopath]] willing to violate other people's rights with [[CorporateWarfare heavily armed mercenaries]] acting as its own private police force, hire supervillains to do its dirty work, kidnap and vivisect Miles for his mutated genetics, kill its own research employees when they behave in ways non-beneficial to the company and nearly destroy one of the most populated cities in the world with what is essentially a nuclear time-bomb waiting to go off for nothing more than profit. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking They also have a nonexistent healthcare plan]].
* FlunkyBoss: Back up the Roxxon-enhanced Rhino with mooks in his boss fight. [[BossArenaIdiocy Unfortunately they also keep sending in tanks, which are the only things that can break Rhino's new armor.]]
* GogglesDoSomethingUnusual: Later on in the game, some of their mooks start wearing goggles which not only lets them see Miles while he's invisible, but release an energy wave that disrupts it.
* NoHonorAmongThieves: Once Krieger is arrested, his bosses have no problem throwing him to the wolves, even handing over every bit of information he had they could find, including personal stuff.
* OrderVersusChaos: In their conflict with the underground, they’re a private, paramilitary security force that represents [[OrderIsNotGood oppressive order]] and they use censure and the law to shield themselves from the consequences of their crimes.
* PetTheDog: Late-game random crimes task you with saving Roxxon [=VTOLs=] from being hacked by the Underground, and when you save them, the pilots are genuinely grateful for Miles' help and pay him back by leaving him alone (in sharp contrast to Sable troops where, at best, they berate Peter for saving their bacon or order their troops to temporarily not engage him out of pragmatism). It's small, but goes a long way in showing that not every Roxxon troop is a raging asshole.
* PoliceBrutality: Much like Sable International, Roxxon's security forces serve as a stand-in for militarized policing in contrast to the more idealistic PDNY, and they're consistently shown to be cruel and abusive.
* PowerNullifier: Their main distinction from the other faction of the game (aside from their coloring) is that they have grenades and abilities that temporarily disrupt Miles' bioelectric powers.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Roxxon unironically ''revel'' in this motif, and everything designed by them, from their labs and facilities, to their private army's armor and tanks, to the sleek and imposing EvilTowerOfOminousness being built at Roxxon Plaza, are jet black with red accents or [=LEDs=]. A user on Miles' social-media feed even [[LampshadeHanging throws some shade]] on this:
-->'''[=TheNotSoDailyBugle=]:''' Report confirms Roxxon executives unaware of colors other than red
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Roxxon Energy in the regular Marvel-616 continuity started in the pages of ''Captain America'', but are primarily an enemy to ComicBook/IronMan (with stints dealing with [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] and the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]]) and was a general enemy to everyone in the Ultimate continuity before focusing on Miles exclusively towards the end of the Ultimate Comics run. This game establishes Roxxon squarely as a nemesis for Miles, threatening not just him, but his entire neighborhood.
* ShieldBearingMook: Some of their soldiers carry high-tech riot shields which allow them to block and redirect Miles’ Venom attacks.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Like Sable International from the first game, Roxxon makes use of soldiers wearing power armor who they send into a MeleeATrois against the game's villains and Spider-Man. Their soldiers also reuse many of Sable's gimmicks, with gun turrets on their vehicles and weapons that disrupt many of Spider-Man's special abilities, with the difference being that they don't have troops issued with {{Jet Pack}}s and restraining cables. They are also conducting shady experiments like Oscorp. This is all in line with Roxxon in the comics, however.
* VillainousValor: While normally they're happy to engage in three-way battles, helicopter rescue crimes, where a Roxxon VTOL is caught by Underground forces, will end with the Roxxon soldiers letting Miles go without a fight as thanks for saving them.
* WeCare: Their adverts come with the corporate slogan "here for you". Naturally, they aren't there for anyone but themselves, which Miles hangs a lampshade (when their troops nearly shot him).
-->'''Miles:''' What happened to Roxxon being "here for us"?!
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kraven's Hunters]]
A violent team of hunters led by Kraven the Hunter and utilize technology designed to assist them in dangerous hunts.
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* AnimalMecha: Part of their hunter motifs. The hunters possess robotic hounds that [[KillerRobot attack targets]], as well as hawk-like drones for surveillance.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Yellow.
* DualWielding: Some of the hunters wield glowing dual blades.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: Similar to the Underground from ''Miles Morales'', Kraven's hunters consists of men and women.
* MildlyMilitary: They possess military vehicles, such as an L-ATV, VTOL gunships, and a military PT boat. As for their crew, while they perform professional military tactics, their behavior is very gung-ho and do not wear anything that resembles a military uniform, befitting their nature as paramilitary hunters.
* PeltsOfTheBarbarian: A brute wears a bear pelt that covers his head and back. Peter, being the wisecracker that he is, makes a quip about his choice of get-up.
-->'''Spider-Man (Peter Parker):''' I didn't know there were bears in these woods.
[[/folder]]

!!Off-screen Villains

[[folder:Dmitri Smerdyakov / Chameleon]]
!!Dmitri Smerdyakov / Chameleon

A criminal who can impersonate almost anyone.
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* EvilDoppelganger: Has apparently impersonated Spidey before.
* TheGhost: Mentioned briefly, but doesn't appear.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Advanced Idea Mechanics (A.I.M.)]]
A shady organization known to specialize scientific corporations with their resources.
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* EvilInc: Peter described their reputation as "shady" and believed that Otto making a deal with them [[DealWithTheDevil wasn't a good idea]]. [[spoiler:And how right Peter was...]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:After losing grant funding with the city, Otto made a deal with AIM and acquired tech parts that would lead to his transformation into Doc Ock.]]
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: [[spoiler:They are normally a force either the Avengers, Hulk or Iron Man deal with. But they're indirectly responible for funding Otto, which lead to him making his arms.]]
[[/folder]]

!!Tie-in Villains

!!!Introduced in novels

[[folder:Michael Bingham / Blood Spider]]
!!Michael Bingham / Blood Spider
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''[[Literature/MarvelsSpiderManHostileTakeover Hostile Takeover]]''

Appearing in the prequel novel ''Literature/MarvelsSpiderManHostileTakeover'', an anti-social mercenary hired out to Wilson Fisk to ruin Spider-Man's reputation. Bingham was born a nobody from Binghamton with a dark past, Bimgham's actual agenda is due to his own warped worldview, how he believes he deserves to be the true Spider-Man and seeks not only to ruin Spider-Man's reputation, but usurp his legacy all together.
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* AttentionWhore: Wants to be the center of everyone's world and take Spider-Man's spotlight for himself.
* AxCrazy: As "The Blood Spider", is a very violent and unstable individual.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Just about the only time he thinks positively of others is when they are nice to him, in which case he tries to be nice back to them.
* BigBad: He serves as the main villain for the ''Hostile Takeover'' prequel novel. Though he's brought in to help Fisk, Bingham's insanity and drive to usurp Spider-Man ultimately pushes him to become a far more dangerous, uncontrollable threat.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: His humble beginnings shows he was a mentally and socially awkward young boy, whose mother was one of the few people who cared for him. After she died from a sickness, Bingham didn't know what to do and went to New York without a dime in his pocket hoping to make it big. He ended up homeless as the result of not understanding that living in the city is expensive. To find somewhere warm, he joins a group of patients being subjected to medical experiments, where Bingham develops Spider-Man-like skill and agility. He also befriends a patient who dies as a result of these experiments, at which point Bingham realizes he feels nothing for other people.
* DragonInChief: To Fisk in "Hostile Takeover''. Downplayed as while Fisk is a big enough threat on his own and Spider-Man's arch enemy, Bingham proves to be more dangerous and out of Fisk's control, with the bulk of his crimes being independent of Fisk.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: Fisk hired him to sully Spider-Man's reputation. Bingham wants to take it a step further and usurp Spider-Man and his legacy all together.
* EntitledBastard: His primary motivation in life is that he believes the world owes him everything. He had this attitude as a child as well.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Is introduced as the Blood Spider killing a teenager who thought he was Spider-Man. As Bingham, he introduces himself as an eccentric loner to Fisk's foster daughter Maya Lopez, revealing himself to be more clever and cunning than he initially lets on. He introduces himself to New York by blowing up a restaurant full of innocent people while pretending to be a heartless version of Spider-Man.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: In flashbacks, he had fairly fond memories of his mother and how she was one of the few people in his life to genuinely care for him.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Doesn't understand why Spider-Man cares for and protects people, rather than abusing his power to lord over and terrorize the city. He sees that as proof that Spider-Man in unworthy of his power.
* EvilDoppelganger: Costume only. He dresses in a way to mimic Spider-Man but not everyone falls for it ("[[RunningGag The web pattern's all wrong, any idiot can see that]].")
* FrameUp: He was hired by Fisk to do this to Spider-Man and ruin his reputation. He also blackmails a guy to pose as The Shocker in a hostage scheme to blow up a restaurant.
* HijackedByGanon: Inverted. Despite ''Hostile Takeover'' featuring a number of Spider-Man's well known villains, they are mostly regulated to minor cameos. Fisk is the BigBad of the novel, but the Blood Spider ends up pushing him to the wayside, despite the Blood Spider being a more obscure villain in the comics.
* IRejectYourReality: Bingham has a bad tendency to try to rework the world through his own perspective. Case in point, he doesn't consider Spider-Man worthy of his power and title, hence he himself is the ''the'' Spider-Man and the hero of New York is an imposter. Also he makes up claims that his mother neglected him despite the fact she was one of the few people in his life to be genuinely kind to him.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Michael Bingham is the center of his own world and wants to be the center of everyone else's.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: His VillainousBreakdown while Spider-Man tries to expose Fisk as the Kingpin and him as the false Spider-Man, blowing his chances of framing the web-head. This is also what gives the police the evidence they need to create a warrant to arrest the Kingpin, due to his exposed association with him. This effectively sets up the beginning of the game.
* PragmaticVillainy: At one point when he's terrorizing New York, he considered killing a baby and the only reason he didn't go through with it is because it would get him into more trouble with Fisk than it's worth.
* PsychoForHire: He has no loyalty nor is he officially a henchman to Fisk. The scene where he's properly introduced has him explain that he's a contract killer.
* PsychoPrototype: Since Bingham gained Spider-Man-esque powers from experimentation at Oscorp, Blood Spider can be considered this to Miles Morales.
* PsychopathicManchild: Not immediately noticeable but chapters written in his POV and flashbacks into his past shows he has a very childish entitled mindset that the world should always cater to his needs. This was a thought process he had since childhood.
* ARealManIsAKiller: He believes that what should make him worthy of being the "true" Spider-Man is that he is is willing to push everyone around and kill innocent people.
* SelfServingMemory: He prefers remembering people and versions of events the way he wishes too as opposed to reality. It's noticeable regarding his mother; in his childhood flashbacks, he has fond memories of how she'd take care of him and she was one of the few people who was genuinely kind to him; as an adult, to go along with his WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds narrative that he made up in his head, he now likes to imagine his mother was negligent.
* StupidEvil: Downplayed as he is capable of planning and pragmatism, Bingham is also rather impulsive and lets his emotions get the better of him. Also he's on a power trip as the Blood Spider and thinks Spider-Man should use his power to lord over others.
* VillainousBreakdown: Absolutely loses it when Spider-Man shows up in public to expose him and Fisk. Bingham immediately rushes to the scene (blowing every chance he had of actually framing Spider-Man) and attempts to fight Spider-Man to the death, far more angry and violent than what he's shown before.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Would like to believe himself as this, operating by this narrative while acting as the Blood Spider, making up a narrative of how long suffering he is. No one actually buys this and Bingham's "hard life" can be attributed to not taking responsibility for his life choices and [[EntitledBastard thinking everything]] should bend and cater [[ItsAllAboutMe to him]].
* WouldHurtAChild: He is introduced killing a teenager. At one point he considers murdering an infant. He opts out of it because he didn't think it'd be worth the trouble he'd get into.
[[/folder]]

!!!Introduced in comics

[[folder:Fritz von Meyer / Swarm]]
!!Fritz von Meyer / Swarm
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!!! '''Voiced by:''' N/A
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''City at War'' | ''Velocity''
A Nazi war veteran who is composed entirely of bees.
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* TheCameo: While he doesn't appear in the game proper he does make a brief appearance in the comic book adaptation ''City at War''. He has a slightly-larger role in the ''Velocity'' comics, though [[ZeroEffortBoss he gets dealt with effortlessly]] later on thanks to Peter suffering from some [[TimeStandsStill super speed complications.]]
* TheGhost: He doesn't appear, but was offhandedly mentioned by J. Jonah Jameson as one of the dangerous villains the city has to put up with.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Jameson accurately describes him as a "[[ThoseWackyNazis NAZI]] [[TheWormThatWalks MADE OF BEES]]!"
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Parker Robbins / The Hood]]
!!Parker Robbins / The Hood
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Spider-Man 2 prequel comic''

A new crime Lord with apparent mystical abilities.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: The comics Parker became a power hungry crime boss after becoming the Hood and even before regularly lied to his hospitalised mother about his jobs. Here he is motivated solely to save her life.
* AntiVillain: Motivated to save her mother’s life but when his efforts failed; she asks him to let her die peacefully and give up his life of crime.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: A more general villain in the Marvel Universe who never took on Spider-Man directly.
[[/folder]]
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* ArchEnemy: Of all the enemies and threats throughout the years, Venom is the greatest and most deeply personal threat that Peter has ever faced before.

!!Curtis "Curt" Connors / Lizard

!!! '''Voiced by:''' N/A

!!! '''Voiced by:''' N/A

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* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: During the trailer, Sandman attacks Peter and Miles in a giant sand form.

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* TheGhost: Doesn't actually appear in the first game--unless you count the vial he's trapped in as an appearance.

!!! '''Voiced by:'''

* TheGhost: Doesn't actually appear in the game--unless you count the vial he's trapped in as an appearance.

!!!'''Appearances:''' ''[[Literature/MarvelsSpiderManHostileTakeover Hostile Takeover]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/SpiderManPS4 Spider-Man]]''

!!! '''Voiced by:''' Creator/DaveBMitchell (English)[[labelnote:Other Languages]] Oscar Flores (Latin American Spanish), Kiyoshi Katsunuma (Japanese), Alexander Hoshabaev (Russian)[[/labelnote]]

[[folder:Dr. Curt Connors / Lizard]]
!!Curtis "Curt" Connors / Lizard
!!! '''Voiced by:'''
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''VideoGame/SpiderManMilesMorales'' | ''[[VideoGame/MarvelsSpiderMan2 Spider-Man 2]]''

A scientist who mutated himself into a lizard-based creature who fought Peter's Spider-Man before. While he doesn't appear in the first game, he does show up in TheStinger for ''VideoGame/SpiderManMilesMorales'', working for Norman Osborn to keep Harry alive, and later resurfaces as his Lizard persona in ''VideoGame/MarvelsSpiderMan2''.

* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: Downplayed; in the gameplay trailer, Miles and Peter find a shed skin of his, reaching the unnerving conclusion that the Lizard is ''getting bigger''. The comics counterpart could never grow in size like that.
* AnArmAndALeg: Like many of his incarnations, Curt has a missing right arm. In the past, one of his motives that [[GoneHorriblyWrong inadvertently led to his mutation]] was to grow his arm back using lizard DNA.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Connors protests against releasing Harry with a symbiotic alien substance that's implied to be keeping him alive.
* TheFaceless: In ''Miles Morales'', he is only seen from the back and his face is never seen.
* TheGhost: Mentioned briefly in the first game, but doesn't appear except as someone's Halloween costume. Subverted in ''Miles Morales'' when he makes an appearance in TheStinger, but [[TheFaceless his face is never shown]].
* MythologyGag: The more feral and monstrous ScaledUp version of the Lizard seems to draw from the ''Shed'' storyline from [[ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManDanSlott Dan Slott's run with the character]].
* ScaledUp: The Gameplay Reveal trailer for the sequel reveals that Dr. Curt Connors has been mutated into his monstrous reptilian form, which rampages through a fish processing facility and into the East River while being pursued by Kraven's hunters and both Spider-Men.
* SpikesOfVillainy: As the Lizard, his back is covered with nasty-looking spikes.
* TragicMonster: Peter mentions that while they were able to reverse his mutation, the cure didn't last... Or so he thought. In the ''Spider-Man 2'' gameplay reveal, he resurfaces as the Lizard and goes on a hungry rampage, all while being targeted by Kraven and his team of hunters.
* UnseenNoMore: He appears in human form in the post-credits scene of ''Spider-Man: Miles Morales'', as one of the scientists that Norman Osborn has recruited to try to help fix his son's illness. He also resurfaces as the Lizard in ''Spider-Man 2''.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Venom '''(Unmarked Spoilers)''']]
!![[ComicBook/{{Venom}} Venom]]
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TonyTodd (English)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/SpiderManPS4 Spider-Man]]'' | ''VideoGame/SpiderManMilesMorales'' | ''[[VideoGame/MarvelsSpiderMan2 Spider-Man 2]]''

An alien substance initially bonded to Harry Osborn in an attempt to save his life. It surfaces in ''VideoGame/MarvelsSpiderMan2'' and, through unknown circumstances, ends up bonding with Peter Parker; for tropes on the symbiote as the Black Suit, see [[Characters/SpiderManPS4PeterParkerSuits Peter Parker's Suits]].
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[[folder:Flint Marko / Sandman]]
!!Flint Marko / Sandman
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!!! '''Voiced by:''' N/A
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/SpiderManPS4 Spider-Man]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/MarvelsSpiderMan2 Spider-Man 2]]''

A thief who has the power to become and control sand.

* FateWorseThanDeath: Peter outright forgets he was there, stuck in a vial, for at most '''eight''' years.
* TheGhost: Doesn't actually appear in the game--unless you count the vial he's trapped in as an appearance.
* NobleDemon: Implied; he once tried robbing the F.E.A.S.T. shelter, but immediately left after Aunt May told him that there was nothing for him to steal (though he may have just been that intimidated by May).
* SealedEvilInACan: At some point, Peter imprisoned him inside a small vial, which he then left in a backpack webbed to the top of Avengers Tower for (apparently) several years. The game doesn't say if the Sandman has been [[AndIMustScream conscious the entire time.]]

!!Enemy Factions

[[folder:Fisk's Criminal Empire]]

A powerful criminal syndicate led by Wilson Fisk, known as the Kingpin.

* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Purple.
* ImplausibleDeniability: Fisk's lawyer insists that Fisk is an innocent man, didn't do anything wrong, and do not have evidence against him... this is despite the mountain of evidence presented against him which prevented said lawyers to break him out the Raft easily. The same lawyer also said that the men engaged with a shoot-out with the police had nothing to do with Fisk, again, this is despite them visibly '''wearing''' a uniform that clearly says "FISK". This is even pointed out in Spider-Man's own social feed.
* TheRemnant: [[spoiler:Over the course of 2 years, with Fisk Hideouts being dismantled, and the Fisk Tower being taken over by the Underground, Fisk's goons now wear plainclothes like ordinary street criminals (some of them don't wear ski-masks, and will sport a distinct mohawk that no other street criminals would have). The difference being that they still own a cache of rocket launchers, and as well as having recruited brutes to their ranks.]]
* StarterVillain: They are the first enemies that Spider-Man fights.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: After Fisk's incarceration, there will be undercover Fisk hitmen who wear the same plainclothes as bystanders and blend-in with them accordingly, and, as such, there is no way for Spider-Man to identify them until they start pulling out a handgun. They either work solo or in pairs.
* UniqueEnemy: Fisk goons donning black, operative-style uniforms, and without the company logo are only fought at the very start of the game, afterwards, all of the goons fought wear purple security uniforms with the "FISK" brand on it.

[[folder:Inner Demons]]
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Mr. Negative's flunkies and foot soldiers.

* AntiAir: The whip users can yank Spidey out of the air, which is a problem given air attacks are a significant portion of his fighting style. Taking them out is thus a key priority.
* AwesomePersonnelCarrier: Once Osborn brings in Sable International to crack down on the Demons, they respond by hiring Tombstone's gang to build a huge, military-grade [[https://www.igcd.net/vehicle.php?id=175559 armored truck]] to further escalate their attacks. [[spoiler:They later use to it plow through Dr. Michaels' Sable protection detail and abduct him and the Devil's Breath sample with ease.]]
* BadassInANiceSuit: They all wear slick black suits, and are fierce fighters, going toe-to-to with the cops and Sable troops, and even Spidey.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: It's heavily implied that a good chunk of the Demons you fight are people who have been brainwashed by Mister Negative.
* CastingAShadow: They can all wield weaker versions of Mr. Negative's powers.
* DualWielding: Some of them wield twin whips. These are easily among the most dangerous Demons, due to their AntiAir abilities.
* EliteMooks:
** In general, the Inner Demons are even stronger than normal criminals and Fisk's thugs, with only Sable Units being as strong. However, Sable doesn't have the same effectiveness, resources and coordination that they do.
** The Whip-men, [[MasterSwordsman Demon Swordsmen]], and the [[TheBrute Heavy-weight]] versions are harder to defeat than the ordinary variants, and require two focus bars to use a Takedown on them instead of just one.
* FarEastAsianTerrorists: The Demons are an Asian criminal gang whose only real goal is getting revenge on Mayor Osborn for their boss Mr. Negative, and are willing to commit full-scale terrorism on the whole city to bring him down. [[spoiler:They start by perpetrating a suicide bombing at an award ceremony at City Hall, then later attempt to unleash a bioweapon at Grand Central Terminal.]]
* FromNobodyToNightmare: When they first appear in the story, the Demons are an unknown gang of super-powered criminals. After their devastating attack on City Hall, all of New York becomes afraid of them, to the point Norman hires Sable International to deal with the threat they pose.
* MalevolentMaskedMen: They're criminals who wear menacing black-and-white Chinese opera masks that resemble demons.
* MasterSwordsmen: The demon swordsmen are not only faster than normal swordsmen, they can dodge a lot more and have stronger attacks than their normal counterparts. They're also ''very'' good at countering web attacks. The only way to get an opening is to dodge their attacks and counter, and even then they recover ''much'' faster than other enemies.
* MobWar: They're initially seen clashing with what's left of Kingpin's gang, supposedly to take over Fisk's territories and assert their dominance, but in reality they're only after Fisk's arsenal and leverage on Norman Osborn. Once they have those, they abandon their war with Fisk to focus on their ''real'' objectives.
* {{Mooks}}: Spidey spends many missions beating these guys up.
* NoNonsenseNemesis: From the first moment they appear in the story, the Demons demonstrate utter ruthlessness in whatever they do, as when they bomb City Hall and more show up to slaughter a decent portion of the survivors.
* RuthlessForeignGangsters: They speak Mandarin Chinese (translated in the subtitles) and are trying to take over Wilson Fisk's vacated criminal niche. Their leader is explicitly an immigrant from China, albeit one who arrived in New York as a young child, and completing one of the Demon bases reveals that they use business fronts to illegally smuggle members in to avoid scrutiny over their past criminal records.
* TheTriadsAndTheTongs: Superpowers and [[GangOfHats spooky masks]] aside, the Demons initially appear to be just an upstart Chinese criminal syndicate trying to muscle in on Kingpin's territory (and EnemyChatter confirms that some of them used to be actual Triads before Mr. Negative corrupted them to his side). However, they're quickly revealed to be [[FarEastAsianTerrorists something much, much worse]].
* TheWorfEffect: In ''Spider-Man: Miles Morales'', it is revealed the last remaining members of the Inner Demons were taken out by The Underground, which establishes them as a new and tougher threat. They even have Demon masks organized as trophies in their Fisk Tower base.

[[folder:Sable International]]
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Silver Sable International, or simply Sable International, is the strike team owned and operated by Silver Sable, hired by Norman Osborn to deal with the Inner Demons and their terrorism through any means necessary. This inevitably ends up infringing on civil liberties when they begin detaining and interrogating innocent civilians, which makes them only marginally better than the people they were hired to stop. They've also received priority orders to take out Spider-Man, though not even they're sure why.

* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: White. Their laser sights also emit blue, as opposed to the other factions' red.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Their main tactics work perfectly well in situations where flexing their power is enough to make people submit. In an urban environment like New York, where the thugs are either not impressed or can match them easily, alongside civilians that can't do anything, they're woefully inept. Even against Spider-Man they're lacking, and they only end up making things worse just by existing in the city.
* EnemyMine: With the Demons and Mr. Negative causing terror in Manhattan, the Sable company is more than ready to deal with Spider-Man, but only barely lets him go because he's helping the police with the current threat. Once that gets handled, however, [[{{Irony}} they suddenly become a lot more deadly and competent when dealing with Spider-Man himself.]]
* EpicFail: They fail to do ''anything'' right in New York, and end up looking like a major embarrassment.
* IncompetenceInc: For a highly professional mercenary group armed to the teeth with military-grade weaponry and gear, Sable's company is filled to the brim with incompetent troops.
** They can be easily fooled and eluded by MJ and Miles, a reporter with Spider-Man on call and a tech-smart kid that can hack their security with a ''phone app'', respectively. Naturally, even in direct firefights with Demons, they never have the competence to win a fight without Spider-Man's help, and they also jeopardize the entire city over PoorCommunicationKills by completely disregarding Yuri and the police forces that hold important information that could've prevented a lot of problems - ''also'' handily provided by Spider-Man. [[spoiler:This is at least somewhat justified with the Sinister Six, as Otto explicitly has been researching their tech for weaknesses and vulnerabilities.]] Osborn himself lampshades it near the end of the game, when he decides to supervise production of the antidote to the Devil's Breath on his own and orders Sable to stay behind.
--->'''Sable:''' You will be completely vulnerable without me!\\
'''Norman:''' I seem to be completely vulnerable ''with'' you.
** In addition, despite having a specific code for Spider-Man, the most they ever accomplish against him is just annoying him. This is even represented in gameplay, where the jetpack enemies dropping their mines can short-circuit Spidey's web-gadgets... for roughly five seconds. Even the jetpack enemies themselves, while dangerous, are in ''the air,'' where the game actively tells you that your attacks are stronger.
** By the events of ''Turf Wars'', Sable's technology has ended up in the hands of the Maggia and Hammerhead's goons, giving them an unprecedented ability to wreak havoc on New York City. Said goons make ''far'' better use of Sable's technology than Sable's soldiers themselves did (up to including arming their brutes with Sable miniguns, which Sable mooks can't operate, because they lack a BigGuy of their own to utilize it), mainly because they don't care about collateral damage or capturing people alive.
* TheLopsidedArmOfTheLaw: Despite struggling to defeat the Demons and being overall ineffective against the Sinister Six, they become a lot more competent and dangerous when they start gunning for Spider-Man.
* TheMillstone: Not only does Sable International prove itself to be far too incompetent to deal with the Demons' terrorism, it also creates more problems than it solves in the end.
* OnlySaneMan: Eavesdropping on idle chatter among them has some of them acknowledge that Spider-Man is fighting the same groups as them, he doesn't seem to cause any trouble on his own, and it makes no sense to make him a priority target above others who are far more disruptive and dangerous. These conversations almost universally end with the Sable officer in question shutting up because they don't want to be punished for insubordination by questioning their orders.
* PoliceBrutality: While the local cops in this game are consistently portrayed as good-natured allies, Sable soldiers are portrayed as bullies with guns who are willing to kill unarmed foes, silence protestors with excessive force, performing asset seizure on regular citizens and a host of other things. Even before they started gunning for Spider-Man, they treat his help like more of a hindrance.
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: A large group of well-equipped, well-trained ([[InformedAttribute supposedly]]) mercenaries who fight for whomever pays them.
* {{Plunder}}: In one of the Sable checkpoints, the soldiers there are flat out ''robbing'' New Yorkers under the pretense of "asset seizure". Two of the {{Mooks}} even gloat with each other over what spoils they've "seized".
* SkewedPriorities: Since Spider-Man has been labeled their prime target, they will drop ''everything'' to catch and/or kill Spider-Man, even with heavily armed escaped convicts from Rykers prowling the streets. Spidey even lampshades how absurd this is, but they insist on following their orders.
* UngratefulBastard: Unlike the police, who openly appreciate Spider-Man's interference in fighting gangs, Sable officers tend to react to Spider-Man's presence with anger and annoyance, never once thanking him for defeating the gangs after dealing with them and finding him to be nuisance instead of an assist.
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Strategically speaking, this is why they're so inept. They're used to fighting for governments or rebellion groups in unstable nations, but their tactics that they use in conventional warfare are of no use for upholding law and order in an urban environment. They set up pointless checkpoints and patrols and assume that if they just make a show of force people will fall in line. Unfortunately for them, the criminals of New York are ''not'' an organized lot and don't care about such things, and larger organizations like Fisk's men and the Demons are well-equipped and organized enough to stand up to Sable and know the city and terrain better than them.
* WorfEffect: All this PMC manages to prove is how ineffective it is against the Demons when compared to the one and only Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man.
* WorfHadTheFlu: It's implied that a reason why they're so ineffective is because they were mobilized and brought into New York quickly, and Sable didn't have the time to vet her men as well as she usually would nor make sure they were all properly prepared. Sable is also being utilized as Norman's personal bodyguard, preventing her from leading her men properly aside from giving orders over her phone.
* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: Since Sable is a private paramilitary operation, they have played both as hired guns fighting against tyrannical governments and hired guns fighting ''for'' tyrannical governments.

[[folder:Inmates]]

Inmates from Rykers and the Raft that have escaped, and made a move to Manhattan to act as their playground, and are still running loose as of "The City that Never Sleeps", this time, acting as fans for Screwball. At the start of ''Miles Morales'' all of them have been rounded up and en-route back to the Raft until Rhino unwittingly released them due to Miles' mishap.

* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Some of the Inhuman[=/=]Mutant inmates have blue or red skin. Strangely enough, they are absent in ''Miles Morales''.
* CoolBike: Some of the inmates will arrive on motorbikes during Crime events, making them the only faction, other than the Tombstone's Bikers, to make use of them.
* CostumeEvolution: Subtle, but in ''Miles Morales'', some of the inmates are worn without their prison jackets, revealing their prison shirt. In addition, the Power Nullifier harness that a superpowered inmate wears is now limited to neck and wrist cuffs.
* EliteMooks: They're much more threatening than common thugs, as they lob molotovs, which are much more dangerous and cannot be swung back at them. Like the Demons, they also employ Plasma Whip users (though these are limited to inmates wearing power limiters).
* {{Nerf}}: Due to their status as the starting enemies in ''Miles Morales'', they don't throw molotovs, lack a Brute on their ranks, and they don't come with Plasma Whips, making them slightly easier to handle.
* NeverGoingBackToPrison: Some of their EnemyChatter make it very clear that they will never, ever going back to the Raft and actually enjoy their newfound freedom.
* PowerNullifier: The inmates from the Raft, who are implied to be captive Inhumans[=/=]Mutants, wear a special device that prevents them from using their superpowers, allowing Spider-Man to fight them like any other thug.
* StarterVillain: They serve as this in ''Miles Morales''.

[[folder:Tombstone's Bikers]]

A group of one percenter motorcycle gang led by Tombstone. They are first seen commissioned by the Inner Demons to construct a giant armored truck, and, later, plan on selling Diox-3 drugs to New York.

* AllBikersAreHellsAngels: They are an outlaw biker gang based on New York.
* CoolBike: Befitting their biker lifestyle, their members ride on Harley Davidson-esque bikes when arriving in combat (which Spider-Man will get knocked around, but humorously take zero damage, if they run him over).
* NoodleIncident: According to Danika Hart, they used to work together with an unnamed delinquent gang (who would later join the Tinkerer's Underground) on a criminal activity, before the latter turned on the former by offing one of their members (gaining their boss, Tombstone's wrath in the process). The exact reason for their fallout remains unknown.
* SuperSerum: Later on, some of the bikers will pull out an inhaler and breathe on an imperfect Diox-3 that gives them SuperToughness ({{No Sell}}ing blows, including objects thrown at them), and SuperStrength (as Spidey will take massive damage if hit), with the side-effect of turning their skin white-gray. They also plan on marketing these designer drugs on New York, with their boss as the sole supplier.

[[folder:Mercenaries]]

A group of trained professionals who are fought exclusively in Stealh and Combat Challenge Maps.

* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Blue. And much like Sable, their sniper rifles emit a blue laser light.
* EliteMooks: Behind the ''Turf Wars'' and ''Silver Lining'' Hammerhead mobsters, they are the best equipped of all enemies, their mundane-looking assault rifles are loaded with modified clips that fire the same energy cartridges as Sable's automatic rifles, and are even armed with the same batons and grenades as them. Mercenaries that fight in hand-to-hand utilize the same martial arts as the Inner Demons, reflecting their advanced, spec-ops level training. And most of all, they come with a Brute (that neither Sable or Fisk's goons have).
* FacelessGoons: They all wear balaclavas, reflecting their clandestine operation.
* HiredGuns: PlayedWith. They are usually hired by Taskmaster and are often tasked with testing Spider-Man's skills, however, in some Challenges, they are hired by someone else (with Taskmaster only playing along to observe Spider-Man's abilities).
* PowerNullifier: They are equipped with the same shock batons and grenades like Sable, and whenever Spider-Man gets struck, he is unable to use his gadgets for a short time.

[[folder:The Maggia]]

A crime syndicate that controlled New York years ago, reemerging now to take advantage of the power vacuum from Fisk's arrest.

* AdaptationalWimp: Frank Costa's a two bit mobster who is completely powerless against Hammerhead, and almost dies an undignified death when he and the other dons are set up to drown in cement. It's safe to say that in this universe, he's very much ''not'' a [[ComicBook/ThePunisherPurgatory demon lord masquerading as a human.]]
* DemotedToExtra: In the comics, Silvermane was a major player among the Maggia and is one of Spider-Man's more prominent (if somewhat obscure to the mainstream) supervillains. While he's confirmed to exist in this universe by way of EnemyChatter, he isn't anywhere near as powerful and seems to be more of a standard Maggia boss (and a low-ranking one at that, since he isn't among the dons that Hammerhead wants to kill as a part of his power play).
* DistressedDude: The dons are kidnapped by Hammerhead during "Turf Wars", and the climax of the chapter tasks Spider-Man with saving them before Hammerhead's men drown them in cement.
* EvilVsEvil: The first two chapters of the DLC show that Hammerhead's faction is at war with the Maggia at large, and several random crimes during "Turf Wars" are shoot-outs between Hammerhead's guys and rank-and-file Maggia goons.
* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: The Maggia seemingly had great control over NYC decades ago. But in the modern day, these old-fashioned gangsters just cannot compete against the likes of the Kingpin's giant of an empire as well as the new generation of super criminals. This is largely in part why Hammerhead's faction is so intent on bringing back the glory days where the name of the Maggia carried fear and respect.
* TheMafia: An international crime syndicate based off of the Italian mob.
* MythologyGag: Several of the mentioned Dons -- Frank Costa, Vincente Fortunato, and Caesar Cicero -- are minor members in the comics. Silvermane, who's more of a proper supervillain in the vein of Hammerhead is also mentioned.
* NobleDemon: During "The Heist", one of Jameson's broadcasts has him discuss the Maggia and how people view them as an "acceptable" criminal faction in the vein of this trope, since they have "standards" and "play by the rules" unlike, say, the Inner Demons or the Sinister Six. [[JerkassHasAPoint Jameson rightfully points out]] that they're still dangerous criminals who want to crush innocent people under their boot, and that they immediately throw their "moral code" out the window the second it becomes inconvenient for them to follow.
* WhiteGangBangers: While technically a mafia themselves, they are distinct from mobsters loyal to Hammerhead as they wear the same outfit as common criminals, but without their ski-masks, giving them a gangbanger-esque look.

[[folder:Hammerhead Thugs]]

One of the Maggia families, who set themselves apart from their peers by following along with Hammerhead's far greater ambitions.

* CrooksAreBetterArmed: Downplayed as they start out as using only standard assault rifles, handguns, rocket launchers, and various blunt weapons. But, starting with ''Turf Wars'' (as per Hammerhead's plan to modernize his mobsters), they now utilize Sable weaponry, jetpacks, and drill tanks, and, by ''Silver Lining'', almost all of them have undergone enhancements and now employ Sable [=APCs=].
* CoolBike: While they never use it on-screen like the Inmates and Tombstone's bikers, they own two types of motorcycles, a Harley Davidson-like motorcycle (''Turf Wars'') and sports bikes (''Silver Lining'').
* EliteMooks:
** Minigun Brutes are definitely this, since they're even more durable and powerful than bog-standard Brutes and are immune to almost all of your gadgets.
** Shield-wielding mobsters are more dangerous than other shield wielders, as they have the ability to barge Spider-Man with a shield with the use of a thruster pack.
** In ''Silver Lining'' some of them are now equipped with Plasma Whips, giving them the same performance as their Inmate and Demon counterparts.
* EvilEvolves: They get increasingly more powerful in each segment of the storyline by kitting themselves out with more and more of Sable's technology, which they combine with their superior combat skills to become far more dangerous than Sable's own soldiers ever were.
* JetPack: Starting in ''Turf Wars'', they start equipping jetpacks. By ''Silver Lining'', it's a standard feature of the PoweredArmor they're decked out in.
* LaughablyEvil: While they're easily the most bloodthirsty and dangerous chapter of the Maggia, the EnemyChatter you can eavesdrop on during hideout infiltrations and random crimes shows that at the end of the day, they're still comically dumb thugs, with an emphasis on comical. Whether it's wanting to make sure that their counterfeiting operation is still economically friendly or bickering over whether "sorrier" or "more sorrier" is correct grammar, they feel like {{Mooks}} taken straight from the ''Batman Arkham'' universe.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Once they get their hands on Sable technology, one of their favorite pieces becomes energy shields that they can use for ramming attacks.
* PoweredArmor: By the time of ''Silver Lining'', they start wearing full suits of armor provided by Sable's Project Olympus.
* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: The Minigun Brutes in ''The Heist'' are an immediate sign that while they look like the rest of the Maggia, Hammerhead's goons are a cut above their peers. By the time of ''Silver Lining'', they're by far the most powerful common enemies that Spider-Man has ever faced, with enormous strength and durability courtesy of their armor and a plethora of abilities that are fast and difficult to dodge.

[[folder:The Underground]]
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A high-tech criminal army run by the Tinkerer that goes to war with Roxxon Energy.

[[folder:Quentin Beck / Mysterio]]
!!Quentin Beck / Mysterio
!!! '''Voiced by:''' N/A
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Velocity''

A criminal illusionist.

* TheGhost: Mentioned briefly, but doesn't appear except as a partygoer's Halloween costume. A self-help book by a "Dr. Ludwig Rinehart," one of Mysterio's classic recurring aliases, can be found in one of the backpacks. Beck does make a brief appearance in the ''Velocity'' comic as a psychic, indicating that either Beck [[DecompositeCharacter isn't Mysterio]] or that he maintains a secret identity.
* MasterOfIllusion: Like always.

[[folder:Dmitri Smerdyakov / Chameleon]]
!!Dmitri Smerdyakov / Chameleon

A criminal who can impersonate almost anyone.

* EvilDoppelganger: Has apparently impersonated Spidey before.
* TheGhost: Mentioned briefly, but doesn't appear.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Advanced Idea Mechanics (A.I.M.)]]
A shady organization known to specialize scientific corporations with their resources.
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[[folder:Fisk's Criminal Empire]]

A powerful criminal syndicate led by Wilson Fisk, known as the Kingpin.

* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Purple.
* ImplausibleDeniability: Fisk's lawyer insists that Fisk is an innocent man, didn't do anything wrong, and do not have evidence against him... this is despite the mountain of evidence presented against him which prevented said lawyers to break him out the Raft easily. The same lawyer also said that the men engaged with a shoot-out with the police had nothing to do with Fisk, again, this is despite them visibly '''wearing''' a uniform that clearly says "FISK". This is even pointed out in Spider-Man's own social feed.
* TheRemnant: [[spoiler:Over the course of 2 years, with Fisk Hideouts being dismantled, and the Fisk Tower being taken over by the Underground, Fisk's goons now wear plainclothes like ordinary street criminals (some of them don't wear ski-masks, and will sport a distinct mohawk that no other street criminals would have). The difference being that they still own a cache of rocket launchers, and as well as having recruited brutes to their ranks.]]
* StarterVillain: They are the first enemies that Spider-Man fights.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: After Fisk's incarceration, there will be undercover Fisk hitmen who wear the same plainclothes as bystanders and blend-in with them accordingly, and, as such, there is no way for Spider-Man to identify them until they start pulling out a handgun. They either work solo or in pairs.
* UniqueEnemy: Fisk goons donning black, operative-style uniforms, and without the company logo are only fought at the very start of the game, afterwards, all of the goons fought wear purple security uniforms with the "FISK" brand on it.

[[folder:Inner Demons]]
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Mr. Negative's flunkies and foot soldiers.

[[folder:Flint Marko / Sandman]]
!!Flint Marko / Sandman
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!!!'''Appearances:''' ''[[VideoGame/SpiderManPS4 Spider-Man]]''

A thief who has the power to become and control sand.

* FateWorseThanDeath: Peter outright forgets he was there, stuck in a vial, for at most '''eight''' years.
* TheGhost: Doesn't actually appear in the game--unless you count the vial he's trapped in as an appearance.
* NobleDemon: Implied; he once tried robbing the F.E.A.S.T. shelter, but immediately left after Aunt May told him that there was nothing for him to steal (though he may have just been that intimidated by May).
* SealedEvilInACan: At some point, Peter imprisoned him inside a small vial, which he then left in a backpack webbed to the top of Avengers Tower for (apparently) several years. The game doesn't say if the Sandman has been [[AndIMustScream conscious the entire time.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Quentin Beck / Mysterio]]
!!Quentin Beck / Mysterio
!!! '''Voiced by:''' N/A
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Velocity''

A criminal illusionist.
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* AdaptationalSympathy: Because he's not the Green Goblin [[spoiler: for the moment, anyway]], Norman is presented in a much more positive light. He's still mildly corrupt, making backroom deals with the Kingpin, and a full-on {{Trumplica}} to boot, but everything he's doing in the game is to [[spoiler: save his son from a deadly neurological disease that's slowly killing him, and started the game's events because he was trying to save his wife from that same disease.]] This is in stark contrast to previous Normans in other media adaptions, who, at worst, [[spoiler: don't even bother to acknowledge Harry and treat him horribly.]]

* ColorMotifs: Unsurprisingly for the man famous for his comic alter ego of the ''Green'' Goblin, it's Green. Osborn favors dark green suits. [[spoiler:During TheStinger, he's seen bathed in green light from Harry's tank, giving him a green "Face" like that of the Green Goblin]]. Amusingly, someone on Spider-Man's social media account actually asks [[LampshadeHanging why their mayor always looks like he's dressed for St. Patrick's Day.]]

** And if TheStinger is anything to go by, [[spoiler: he might have created Venom in his attempts to cure Harry. Two guesses as to how that's going to turn out.]]

* BigBad: Setting up to be the main antagonist of the game as the symbiote becomes both a deeply personal threat to both Spider-Men and the greatest threat to New York since Devil's Breath

* IAmTheNoun: When Spidey cracks that Tombstone needs a marketing department:
-->'''Tombstone:''' I ''am'' the marketing department.

An alien substance initially bonded to Harry Osborn in an attempt to save his life. It surfaces in ''VideoGame/MarvelsSpiderMan2'' and, through unknown circumstances, ends up bonding with Peter Parker; for tropes on the symbiote while bonded to Peter Parker, see [[Characters/SpiderManPS4PeterParkerSuits Peter Parker's Suits]].

* BigBadEnsemble: Krieger and Roxxon are the more nefarious villains in ''Miles Morales'', but the lengths that Phin is willing to go in order to get revenge on them make her just as much of a threat to Harlem, and a far more proactive one at that. The advanced weaponry she creates for the [[NotInThisForYourRevolution Underground]] empowers the gang to wreak havoc on the city; her crusade against Roxxon results in senseless violence that, however unintentional it may be, endangers countless innocents; and her adamant refusal to deviate from destroying Roxxon Plaza--stubbornly ignoring Miles' warnings that Krieger has sabotaged its reactor to destroy Harlem should such an attack occur--causes her to repeatedly almost kill Miles as she callously clings to vengeance over reason until it's too late.

* EvilIsBigger: As shown in concept art, the official statue, and Story Trailer, this could easily be the tallest and largest Venom to date, looking easily to be two or three stories tall absolutely towering over both Spider-Men and handling them both like ragdolls. He looks to be even taller than [[TheJuggernaut ''Rhino'']], making him easily the tallest character in all three games.

* EvilIsBigger: As shown in concept art, the official statue, and Story Trailer, this could easily be the tallest and largest Venom to date, looking easily to be two or three stories tall absolutely towering over both Spider-Men and handling them both like ragdolls. He looks to be even taller than ''Rhino'', making him easily the tallest character in all three games.

* EvilIsBigger: As shown in concept art, the official statue, and Story Trailer, this could easily be the tallest and largest Venom to date, looking easily to be two or three stories tall absolutely towering over both Spider-Men and handling them both like ragdolls. He looks to be even taller than 'Rhino', making him easily the tallest character in all three games.

* EvilIsBigger: As shown in concept art, the official statue, and Story Trailer, Venom absolutely ''towers'' over both Spider-Men, with his hands looking to be easily the size of Peter's head.