History YMMV / SpiderManSpidersShadow

** [[Characters/MarvelComicsTheKingpin Wilson Fisk]], a.k.a. the Kingpin, is a crime lord who managed to run a successful criminal enterprise in spite of interference from the vigilante [[Characters/SpiderManPeterParker Spider-Man]]. Although fearful for his life as Spider-Man [[GainingTheWillToKill begins murdering criminals]] under the influence of [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} a symbiote masquerading as his new black suit]], Kingpin retains a level head and hires Shocker and Scorpion to investigate, indeed confirming that Spider-Man had become a killer. [[SpottingTheThread Deducing Spider-Man's identity as Peter Parker]], Kingpin [[FaceDeathWithDignity refuses to show fear or anger]] and calmly prepares to be killed at the web-slinger's hands, having [[MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning prepared a contingency]] in the form of releasing Parker's identity to the public, ensuring that he would have a target on his back in or out of costume. [[spoiler:Surviving Spider-Man's assault, [[DentedIron albeit with his face badly maimed]], Kingpin waits out the symbiote's attack on New York, dead set on getting his revenge on Spider-Man in spite of his ailing health and poised to do so upon acquiring a symbiote that survived the attack.]]
** [[Characters/MarvelComicsKravenTheHunter Kraven the Hunter]] is once again one of Spider-Man's most cunning and competent foes. After Spider-Man begins killing his enemies, Kraven joins forces with fellow villains and J. Jonah Jameson in a bid to defeat their common enemy once and for all. To that end, Kraven devises a battle plan, using Beetle to lure the web-slinger away from the city and [[PragmaticVillainy avoid involving other heroes]], then exploiting Mysterio's illusions to disorient their enemy. When unable to track Spider-Man through the goggles Mysterio provided him, Kraven removes them to find that his enemy avoided the illusion by hiding underground. Deducing [[Characters/VenomTheSymbiote the alien symbiote]]'s fear of fire, Kraven turns the tables on Spider-Man and helps Jameson trap him in a burning barn, removing the organism from the wall-crawler's unconscious body. A brilliant tactician and one of the few members of the supervillain community to survive Spider-Man's bloody rampage, Kraven [[NearVillainVictory comes close to outright killing the hero before Jameson knocks him out cold]].

* CatharsisFactor: For some, Spider-Man, while under the influence of the symbiote, attacking J. Jonah Jameson and breaking his hand can be seen as this due to how much J. Jonah Jameson hatefully slanders his name. For others, however, it's just DisproportionateRetribution.

** [[Characters/MarvelComicsKravenTheHunter Kraven the Hunter]] is once again one of [[Characters/SpiderManPeterParker Spider-Man]]'s most cunning and competent foes. After Spider-Man begins killing his enemies, Kraven joins forces with fellow villains and J. Jonah Jameson in a bid to defeat their common enemy once and for all. To that end, Kraven devises a battle plan, using Beetle to lure the web-slinger away from the city and [[PragmaticVillainy avoid involving other heroes]], then exploiting Mysterio's illusions to disorient their enemy. When unable to track Spider-Man through the goggles Mysterio provided him, Kraven removes them to find that his enemy avoided the illusion by hiding underground. Deducing [[Characters/VenomTheSymbiote the alien symbiote]]'s fear of fire, Kraven turns the tables on Spider-Man and helps Jameson trap him in a burning barn, removing the organism from the wall-crawler's unconscious body. A brilliant tactician and one of the few members of the supervillain community to survive Spider-Man's bloody rampage, Kraven [[NearVillainVictory comes close to outright killing the hero before Jameson knocks him out cold]].

* MagnificentBastard: [[Characters/MarvelComicsTheKingpin Wilson Fisk]], a.k.a. the Kingpin, is a crime lord who managed to run a successful criminal enterprise in spite of interference from the vigilante [[Characters/SpiderManPeterParker Spider-Man]]. Although fearful for his life as Spider-Man [[GainingTheWillToKill begins murdering criminals]] under the influence of [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} a symbiote masquerading as his new black suit]], Kingpin retains a level head and hires Shocker and Scorpion to investigate, indeed confirming that Spider-Man had become a killer. [[SpottingTheThread Deducing Spider-Man's identity as Peter Parker]], Kingpin [[FaceDeathWithDignity refuses to show fear or anger]] and calmly prepares to be killed at the web-slinger's hands, having [[MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning prepared a contingency]] in the form of releasing Parker's identity to the public, ensuring that he would have a target on his back in or out of costume. [[spoiler:Surviving Spider-Man's assault, [[DentedIron albeit with his face badly maimed]], Kingpin waits out the symbiote's attack on New York, dead set on getting his revenge on Spider-Man in spite of his ailing health and poised to do so upon acquiring a symbiote that survived the attack.]]

* NightmareFuel: Spider-Man while wearing the black suit in the main continuity is frightening enough, but this series kicks the horror factor UpToEleven. Case in point, Spidey is noticeably more brutal and violent towards even common crooks, and considers killing the Hobgoblin for a moment before leaving him in the streets.

*** [[HopeSpot And just when it seems that the threat of the black suit is over]], Peter senses that the symbiote ''survived the fire in the barn before we cut to [[spoiler:the creature in the Baxter Building, having bonded with Mr. Fantastic and [[FromBadToWorse having spawned]] '''[[FromBadToWorse more]]''''' [[FromBadToWorse symbiotes]].]]''

*** [[HopeSpot And just when it seems that the threat of the black suit is over]], Peter senses that the symbiote ''survived the fire in the barn before we cut to [[spoiler:the creature in the Baxter Building, having bonded with Mr. Fantastic and [[FromBadToWorse having spawned]] '''[[FromBadToWorse more]]''''' [[FromBadToWorse ''symbiotes'']].]]

*** [[HopeSpot And just when it seems that the threat of the black suit is over]], Peter senses that the symbiote ''survived the fire in the barn before we cut to [[spoiler:the creature in the Baxter Building, having bonded with Mr. Fantastic and [[FromBadToWorse having spawned]] '''[[FromBadToWorse more]]''' [[FromBadToWorse symbiotes'']].]]

* MagnificentBastard: [[Characters/MarvelComicsTheKingpin Wilson Fisk]], aka the Kingpin, is a crime lord who managed to run a successful criminal enterprise in spite of interference from the vigilante [[Characters/SpiderManPeterParker Spider-Man]]. Although fearful for his life as Spider-Man [[GainingTheWillToKill begins murdering criminals]] under the influence of [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} a symbiote masquerading as his new black suit]], Kingpin retains a level head and hires Shocker and Scorpion to investigate, indeed confirming that Spider-Man had become a killer. [[SpottingTheThread Deducing Spider-Man's identity as Peter Parker]], Kingpin [[FaceDeathWithDignity refuses to show fear or anger]] and calmly prepares to be killed at the web-slinger's hands, having [[MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning prepared a contingency]] in the form of releasing Parker's identity to the public, ensuring that he would have a target on his back in or out of costume. [[spoiler:Surviving Spider-Man's assault, [[DentedIron albeit with his face badly maimed]], Kingpin waits out the symbiote's attack on New York, dead set on getting his revenge on Spider-Man in spite of his ailing health and poised to do so upon acquiring a symbiote that survived the attack.]]

*** [[HopeSpot And just when it seems that the threat of the black suit is over]], Peter senses that the symbiote ''survived the fire in the barn before we cut to [[spoiler:the creature in the Baxter Building, having bonded with Mr. Fantastic and [[FromBadToWorse having spawned]] '''[[FromBadToWorse more]]''' [[FromBadToWorse symbiotes]]]]''.

* MagnificentBastard: [[Characters/MarvelComicsTheKingpin Wilson Fisk]], aka the Kingpin, is a crime lord who managed to run a successful criminal enterprise in spite of interference from the vigilante [[Characters/SpiderManPeterParker Spider-Man]]. Although fearful for his life as Spider-Man [[GainingTheWillToKill begins murdering criminals]] under the influence of [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} a symbiote masquerading as his new black suit]], Kingpin retains a level head and hires Shocker and Scorpion to investigate, indeed confirming that Spider-Man had become a killer. [[SpottingTheThread Deducing Spider-Man's identity as Peter Parker]], Kingpin [[FaceDeathWithDignity refuses to show fear or anger]] and calmly prepares to be killed at the web-slinger's hands, having [[MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning prepared a contingency]] in the form of releasing Parker's identity to the public, ensuring that he would have a target on his back in or out of costume. Surviving Spider-Man's assault, [[DentedIron albeit with his face badly maimed]], Kingpin waits out the symbiote's attack on New York, dead set on getting his revenge on Spider-Man in spite of his ailing health and poised to do so upon acquiring a symbiote that survived the attack.

* MagnificentBastard: [[ComicBook/TheKingpin Wilson Fisk]], aka the Kingpin, is a [[TheDon crime lord]] who managed to run a successful criminal enterprise in spite of interference from the vigilante [[Characters/SpiderManPeterParker Spider-Man]]. Although fearful for his life as Spider-Man [[GainingTheWillToKill begins murdering criminals]] under the influence of [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} a symbiote masquerading as his new black suit]], Kingpin retains a level head and hires Shocker and Scorpion to investigate, indeed confirming that Spider-Man had become a killer. [[SpottingTheThread Deducing Spider-Man's identity as Peter Parker]], Kingpin [[FaceDeathWithDignity refuses to show fear or anger and calmly prepares to be killed at the web-slinger's hands]], having [[MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning prepared a contingency in the form of releasing Parker's identity to the public, ensuring that he would have a target on his back in or out of costume]]. [[spoiler:Surviving Spider-Man's assault, [[DentedIron albeit with his face badly maimed]], Kingpin waits out the symbiote's attack on New York, dead set on getting his revenge on Spider-Man in spite of his ailing health and poised to do so upon acquiring a symbiote that survived the attack]]. As calculating and unflappable as his mainstream counterpart, [[spoiler:as well as being one of the few characters to stand up to a symbiote-possessed Spider-Man and live to tell the tale,]] Fisk demonstrates how he lives up to his moniker of Kingpin of Crime.

* MagnificentBastard: [[ComicBook/TheKingpin Wilson Fisk]], aka the Kingpin, is a [[TheDon crime lord]] who managed to run a successful criminal enterprise in spite of interference from the vigilante [[Characters/SpiderManTheCharacter Spider-Man]]. Although fearful for his life as Spider-Man [[GainingTheWillToKill begins murdering criminals]] under the influence of [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} a symbiote masquerading as his new black suit]], Kingpin retains a level head and hires Shocker and Scorpion to investigate, indeed confirming that Spider-Man had become a killer. [[SpottingTheThread Deducing Spider-Man's identity as Peter Parker]], Kingpin [[FaceDeathWithDignity refuses to show fear or anger and calmly prepares to be killed at the web-slinger's hands]], having [[MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning prepared a contingency in the form of releasing Parker's identity to the public, ensuring that he would have a target on his back in or out of costume]]. [[spoiler:Surviving Spider-Man's assault, [[DentedIron albeit with his face badly maimed]], Kingpin waits out the symbiote's attack on New York, dead set on getting his revenge on Spider-Man in spite of his ailing health and poised to do so upon acquiring a symbiote that survived the attack]]. As calculating and unflappable as his mainstream counterpart, [[spoiler:as well as being one of the few characters to stand up to a symbiote-possessed Spider-Man and live to tell the tale,]] Fisk demonstrates how he lives up to his moniker of Kingpin of Crime.

** Then there's what he does when he [[GainingTheWillToKill starts killing his enemies]] instead of just webbing them up for the cops. He crushes Hobgoblin's head with his bare hands, chokes Scorpion to death by [[OrificeInvasion forcing his symbiote's biomass into his throat]], then ''dismembers both him and Shocker, throwing their limbs at Kingpin's feet before [[OneHitKill killing him with a single bloody punch to the head]]''. The worst part is that he isn't doing this because the symbiote is controlling his body against his will like in Earth-616. Peter is ''willingly'' murdering his rogues gallery and thinks he's doing the right thing.

** The design of his suit after Hobgoblin kills Aunt May is also very terrifying, as he adopts the claws, tendrils, and a bit of the added bulk typically associated with Venom and changes his mask into a more arachnoid visage, with four extra eyes painted on.

*** [[HopeSpot And just when it seems that the threat of the black suit is over]], Peter senses that the symbiote ''survived the fire in the barn before we cut to the creature in the Baxter Building, having bonded with Mr. Fantastic and [[FromBadToWorse having spawned]] '''[[FromBadToWorse more]]''' [[FromBadToWorse symbiotes]]''.

** His massacre of the Sinister Six is also a very frightening moment. To give a rundown, prior to this, Spider-Man killed eleven people, one of whom being the Beetle, whose corpse he leaves hanging in the trees to herald his arrival. When Mysterio tries to distract him with his illusions, Spidey [[NoSell NoSells]] them before forcing the symbiote through his helmet and killing him the same way he did Scorpion. Then he kills Rhino with a bloody punch in the face, delivers a kick that hospitalizes [[spoiler:Eddie Brock]], and smothers Electro by covering his face with symbiote biomass. It takes Jameson wielding a Spider-Slayer and forcing him into a burning barn to just to get the suit off of him.

** When MJ looks for Peter in his apartment, she finds him sleeping in-costume and suspended in midair by the symbiote's tendrils. Needless to say, it's very creepy.

* NightmareFuel: Spider-Man while wearing the black suit in the main continuity is frightening enough, but this series kicks the horror factor UpToEleven. Case in point, Spidey is noticeably more brutal and violent towards even common crooks, and considers killing the Hobgoblin for a moment after leaving him in the streets.