| 1 | %% As per Administrivia/HowToCreateACharacterPage, every character must have at least one listed trope that's not a Administrivia/ZeroContextExample. All characters who don't meet this requirement have been commented out. Add more tropes or add more context to any existing ZCE tropes before uncommenting them. |
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| 3 | [[WMG:[[center:[-''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' '''[[Characters/SpiderMan Main Character Index]]'''\ |
| 4 | '''Title Character'''\ |
| 5 | [[Characters/MarvelComicsPeterParker Spider-Man]]\ |
| 6 | '''Supporting Characters'''\ |
| 7 | [[Characters/MarvelComicsSpiders Other Spiders]] | [[Characters/SpiderManSupportingCharacters Spider-Man's Allies]]\ |
| 8 | '''Rogues Gallery'''\ |
| 9 | [[Characters/SpiderManCentralRoguesGallery Central Rogues Gallery]] | [[Characters/SpiderManGoblins Goblins]] | [[Characters/MarvelComicsInheritors Inheritors]] | [[Characters/MarvelComicsSymbiotes Symbiotes]] | [[Characters/SpiderManRoguesGalleryAtoH A-H]] | '''I-Z'''-]]]]] |
| 10 | |
| 11 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 12 | |
| 13 | !Rogues Gallery I to Z |
| 14 | |
| 15 | [[folder:Iguana]] |
| 16 | !!Iguana |
| 17 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/iguana.png]] |
| 18 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man'' #32, (July, 1979) |
| 19 | ->''"For nothing will stand in the way of the incredible Iguana!"'' |
| 20 | |
| 21 | [[Characters/MarvelComicsPeterParker Peter Parker]]'s former mentor, Dr. Connors, had another experiment gone awry, resulting in the Iguana. Dr. Connors bestowed a normal iguana with his memories and empowered him with the super powers of the Lizard creating the mutated reptile Iguana. The Iguana then went on to fight Spider-Man at Doctor Connor's lab at Empire State University. |
| 22 | ---- |
| 23 | * BackForTheDead: [[spoiler:He's the first of the few animal-themed rogues killed during ''Hunted'' after not being seen in some time]]. |
| 24 | * TheBeastmaster: The Iguana can command other reptiles. |
| 25 | * HypnoticEyes: He could hypnotize humans. |
| 26 | * ImmuneToBullets: The Iguana is bulletproof. [[spoiler:It doesn't save him from being beaten to death by one of Kraven's powersuit-empowered hunters.]] |
| 27 | * InASingleBound: His physical strength has extended into the muscles of his legs allowing him to leap about 18 feet into the air. |
| 28 | * PrehensileTail: His tail can be used to grab objects. |
| 29 | * SuperSpeed: Can run and move at speeds greater than that of the finest human athlete and can reach a top speed of about 45 miles per hour. |
| 30 | * SuperStrength: Possesses sufficient superhuman strength to lift about 12 tons. |
| 31 | * TailSlap: He is capable of whipping his tail at speeds of at least 70 miles per hour. Considering his strength and physical toughness, he can generate enough force to shatter concrete. |
| 32 | * WallCrawl: The Iguana can scale walls. |
| 33 | * UpliftedAnimal: Once a regular iguana that was given Connors' memories and powers. |
| 34 | * WeakenedByTheLight: Iguana was extremely sensitive to light. |
| 35 | * WolverineClaws: Has claws. |
| 36 | [[/folder]] |
| 37 | |
| 38 | [[folder:Itsy Bitsy]] |
| 39 | !!Itsy Bitsy |
| 40 | [[quoteright:301:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/itsy_bitsy_earth_616_from_spider_man_deadpool_vol_1_9_001.jpg]] |
| 41 | |
| 42 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Spider-Man/Deadpool '' #8 |
| 43 | |
| 44 | A woman who was a test-subject of Patient Zero. She received DNA from both Spider-Man and Deadpool, which caused her to turn into a spider-like psychotic creature. |
| 45 | ---- |
| 46 | * AllYourPowersCombined: Patient Zero's procedure granted Itsy Bitsy the combined abilities of Spider-Man and Deadpool, and some other extra powers. |
| 47 | * AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Itsy-Bitsy repeatedly bests Spider-Man and Deadpool in combat. |
| 48 | * AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Has blue skin. |
| 49 | * ExtraEyes: Like an actual spider she has six eyes. |
| 50 | * FluffyTheTerrible: She is decidedly ''not'' as cute as her name sounds. |
| 51 | * FromNobodyToNightmare: Itsy-Bitsy was a recovering drug addict who lamented not being able to change the world until [[spoiler:Patient Zero]] gave her her powers. |
| 52 | * KnightTemplar: Itsy-Bitsy desires to use her new powers to finally bring true change to the world after feeling powerless for so long, and essentially goes on repeated killing sprees to make it happen. |
| 53 | * MultiArmedAndDangerous: Has six arms armed with guns and organic webbing sharp. |
| 54 | * NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:Deadpool seemingly killed her (pushing her body through a plasma breeder). However, Itsy Bitsy turned out to have survived and began to slowly grow back, being stuck in the form of a small spider for the time being]]. |
| 55 | * RazorFloss: Itsy-Bitsy can produce organic webbing sharp enough to slice someone into pieces. |
| 56 | * SexIsViolence: Itsy-Bitsy has a mad hard-on for Spider-Man and Deadpool, and actively tries to ''get'' Spidey to give in to his murderous urges. |
| 57 | * SpiderPeople: She possesses eight limbs, six eyes and chelicerae in her mouth. She also has only three fingers on each hand. |
| 58 | * [[WasOnceAMan Was Once A Woman]]: She was a normal human before to be turned in "spider-woman". |
| 59 | [[/folder]] |
| 60 | |
| 61 | [[folder:Jackal II]] |
| 62 | !!Jackal II |
| 63 | [[quoteright:243:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jackal_ii.jpg]] |
| 64 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' [[spoiler:Ben Reilly]] |
| 65 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' Free Comic Book Day Vol 2016 Captain America (May, 2016) |
| 66 | -> ''"Villain"? Ms. Frye, I don't think you understand... we're the good guys."'' |
| 67 | |
| 68 | After a break from his previous failures in cloning, this new version of the Jackal returned to the field, but now believes that he's perfected the process of making his clones stable. Working under the company New U, Jackal has recruited several of Spider-Man's old foes along with reviving a few people he's known throughout his crime-fighting years. There is a certain mystery behind this new Jackal or rather what lurks underneath the mask... |
| 69 | See [[spoiler:[[Characters/MarvelComicsScarletSpider Scarlet Spider]] for more info]]. |
| 70 | ---- |
| 71 | * BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler:Ben]] originally was a hero. But, after coming back from death, Miles Warren used him as his main guinea pig to resurrect, which unfortunately meant being killed in pretty much every way imaginable, a total of 27 times. He snaps, almost kills Miles, and becomes the new Jackal. |
| 72 | * BigBad: The major villain in ''[[ComicBook/DeadNoMoreTheCloneConspiracy Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy]]''. [[spoiler:Although the story really revolves around preventing him from unwittingly bringing about the ZombieApocalypse.]] |
| 73 | * CoolMask: He wears a mask resembling Anubis to match his alias. |
| 74 | * DamagedSoul: In his follow-up solo series Death itself, in the form of Marlo Chandler, tells him this. Due to the trauma of being killed and resurrected 27 times his soul, represented as a white orb, is full of cracks. She estimates one more death and rebirth would damage it permanently, driving him insane. |
| 75 | * DrivenToMadness: [[spoiler:Being killed and revived a painful twenty-seven times will do that to you]]. |
| 76 | * {{Expy}}: Former hero/sidekick who was polarizing when alive returning from the dead as an antagonist with a motif based on his torturer and enemy, Jason Todd/Red Hood II says hi. |
| 77 | * FallenHero: [[spoiler:It is easy to see why Peter is shocked that a former clone of himself could end up adopting the name of one of his most hated enemies or why he's trying to revive the dead]]. |
| 78 | * SharpDressedMan: He wears a red suit with a mask of Anubis, Egyptian God of Death. |
| 79 | * ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: To the first Jackal. [[spoiler:After almost killing Miles, he creates four clones of him and puts them in a position where nobody knows who is the original.]] |
| 80 | * VillainProtagonist: Of [[spoiler:''Ben Reilly: Scarlet Spider'']]. |
| 81 | * VillainousBreakdown: When Spidey delivers a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the Jackal, he turns everyone against Spidey. [[spoiler:It gets worse when Doc Ock causes all the clones across the world to fall apart and he decides he'll just revive the world.]] |
| 82 | * WalkingSpoiler: Like you see, most of the tropes are related to his real identity. |
| 83 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: He certainly doesn't see himself as a villain, the clones under his control are usually put in line by his remarks, and [[spoiler:being a former Spider-Man himself makes him believe that he is in the right]]. |
| 84 | * WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:Ben Reilly. Being killed and resurrected 27 times by Miles Warren drove Ben mad. He decided to do better than Miles that he (supposedly) killed Miles and had him cloned multiple times, all of them unsure of who was the real one and who wasn't. He decided to improve the cloning process and wants Peter by his side to keep going, not knowing that doing so will unleash an army of Carrion clones]]. |
| 85 | [[/folder]] |
| 86 | |
| 87 | [[folder:Jonas Harrow]] |
| 88 | !!Jonas Harrow |
| 89 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/899798_harrow.jpg]] |
| 90 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #114 (October, 1972) |
| 91 | ->''"Thanks to Jameson's unwitting help, I have last gained the power over humanity I have sought for so long! After years of experimenting, Jonas Harrow has developed a device which will drive men mad!"'' |
| 92 | |
| 93 | Jonas Harrow is a criminal doctor who is responsible for Hammerhead's implant and the powers of Kangaroo, Megawatt and Will o' the Wisp. |
| 94 | ---- |
| 95 | * BaldOfEvil: He's a bald MadScientist. |
| 96 | * GreaterScopeVillain: Hammerhead, Kangaroo, Megawatt and Will o' the Wisp can thank their modifications to him. |
| 97 | * MadDoctor: A disgraced surgeon, he began his unconventional surgery to give powers to amongst others Hammerhead and Kangaroo. |
| 98 | * MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Jonas Harrow was a former surgeon that would lose his medical license and practice for performing unsanctioned and illegal experiments on some of his patients. |
| 99 | * ScaryShinyGlasses: His glasses never show his eyes and he's a MadScientist. |
| 100 | * SuperEmpowering: Hammerhead, Kangaroo, Megawatt and Will o' the Wisp can thank their modifications to him. |
| 101 | [[/folder]] |
| 102 | |
| 103 | [[folder:Jonathan Caesar]] |
| 104 | !!Jonathan Caesar |
| 105 | [[quoteright:211:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jonathan_caesar.gif]] |
| 106 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Amazing Spider-Man'' #304 (September, 1988) |
| 107 | |
| 108 | Jonathan Caesar was the owner and resident of the spacious Manhattan apartment building Bedford Towers, in which [[Characters/MarvelComicsPeterParker Peter Parker]] and his wife [[Characters/MarvelComicsMaryJaneWatson Mary Jane Watson]] came to live. However, this was no accident, as Caesar was obsessively in love with the famous model Mary Jane and had arranged it so she would move in to the building he owned and lived in. He kidnapped Mary Jane and hired Styx and Stone to oppose anyone who tried to investigate, such as Spider-Man, who was secretly Mary Jane's husband Peter. Arrested, Caesar uses his influence to ban her from the modeling world as revenge. He is killed by another stalker when trying to kill her. |
| 109 | ---- |
| 110 | * BeardOfEvil: Has a full beard. |
| 111 | * CorruptCorporateExecutive: In the sense that he used his wealth and influence to ruin Mary Jane's modeling career. |
| 112 | * IfICantHaveYou: Caesar was quite willing to literally throw Mary Jane to the sharks, or torture and kill her, if she rejected his advances. |
| 113 | %%* {{Jerkass}} |
| 114 | * KarmicDeath: After getting out of jail, Caesar tried to kill Mary Jane, but was killed at the hands of Hal Goldman, another obsessive stalker who also wanted to possess Mary Jane. |
| 115 | * NonActionGuy: He is normal human who prefers to use his money and influence. |
| 116 | * StalkerWithACrush: He was obsessively in love with Mary Jane and kidnapped her in the sincere conviction that because he wanted to marry her, little things like her not agreeing or already being married shouldn't stand in the way. |
| 117 | * {{Yandere}}: His first attempt to kidnap Mary Jane failed, leading to his arrest and imprisonment, but even while behind bars, he was able to use his money and influence to make her life miserable, blacklisting her among the modeling profession until she managed to gain a role in the Secret Hospital soap opera. |
| 118 | [[/folder]] |
| 119 | |
| 120 | [[folder:Joystick]] |
| 121 | !!Joystick |
| 122 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/joystickspidey_3870.jpg]] |
| 123 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Janice Olivia Yanizeski |
| 124 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Amazing ComicBook/ScarletSpider'' #2 (December 1995) |
| 125 | -> ''"Why take a man out when he's already down? A man bends, and you get what you want... but if a man breaks—that gets you what you need. Anyone can crush a body, but crushing a spirit... that's when you know you've really won."'' |
| 126 | |
| 127 | The daughter of a gambling addict whom she later betrayed, Janice Yanizeski grew up being told "always have a card to play". During her college years, she claims to have had a near-death experience that convinced her to live life on the edge, and so she disappeared, resurfacing three years later as superpowered adrenaline junkie and mercenary. Initially a contestant in the Great Game, she later joined the Masters of Evil, and then was inducted into the ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}. |
| 128 | ---- |
| 129 | * BloodKnight: Refers to everything as a game, and is willing to handicap herself to make fights and jobs riskier and more challenging, once radioing [[Characters/MarvelComicsHydra Hydra]] to tell them that she was sabotaging one their vehicles, just so they would send someone to try and stop her. |
| 130 | * ComboPlatterPowers: Joystick apparently possesses superhuman strength (sufficient to press roughly ten tons), speed, agility, dexterity, reflexes & reactions, coordination, balance, and endurance roughly equivalent to that of Spider-Man. |
| 131 | * DarkActionGirl: Is said to be about as strong as Ben Reilly, who can lift 10 tons. |
| 132 | * DatingCatwoman: Had this with Phil Urich[=/=]Green Goblin IV. |
| 133 | * DepravedBisexual: Leers at the girls in a strip club, and after hearing Radioactive Man reference that one of gang wearing old suits of Beetle armour was a woman, Joystick tries to open up the armor stating "Buddha said it's a chick in here... Just wanted to see if she was cute..." |
| 134 | * DualWielding: Her energy batons. |
| 135 | * EnergyWeapon: Her gauntlets can produce energy batons, which can be combined to form a staff. By striking her batons against one another, Joystick can project a powerful concussive force beam at a target. |
| 136 | * FatalFlaw: Admits that she cannot resist being dared or challenged, no matter how stupid it would be to go along with it. Reed Richards once got her to fight alongside the ComicBook/FantasticFour just by saying "I don't think you ''can''". |
| 137 | --> '''Characters/SpiderWoman:''' Did you come to steal something? Is this a grudge-thing against Spider-Man? |
| 138 | --> '''Joystick:''' Oh, lighten up--I was pounding shots with Speed Demon and he dared me to break into your tower. |
| 139 | --> '''Spider-Woman:''' Yeah... coming from you... I actually buy that! Please... for my knuckles, if not your face--don't get up again. |
| 140 | --> '''Joystick:''' No... thing of it is... now I have to... |
| 141 | --> '''Spider-Woman:''' So that I can hit you ten more times? |
| 142 | --> '''Joystick:''' Gnnm... mostly... to show you... fftt... that I can take ten more hits... |
| 143 | * GoingCommando: Jolt notices this after taking her clothes to disguise herself. |
| 144 | * InHarmsWay: She really loves being a supervillain and all the challenges that come with that. She also enjoys taking extreme risks. |
| 145 | * MysteriousPast[=/=]NoodleIncident: The accident that convinced her to become a supervillain, not to mention the source of her powers and technology. |
| 146 | * StevenUlyssesPerhero: Chose her super name based partially on her initials: '''J'''anice '''O'''livia '''Y'''anizeski. |
| 147 | * SuperReflexes: Joystick's reflexes are also enhanced, though to a greater degree than even her agility. Joystick's reflexes are almost instantaneous, since she has to be able to maneuver efficiently while moving at superhuman velocities. |
| 148 | * SuperSpeed: Joystick's primary power is the ability to run, move and think at speeds beyond the natural physical limit of the finest human specimen. She is able to move at speeds sufficient to make her look as if she's little more than a blur over short distances. While the upper limit of her speed isn't known, she has proven capable of matching and possibly exceeding Speed Demon, another superhuman speedster that was originally augmented by the Grandmaster. As a result, Joystick can reach speeds of at least 175 miles per hour. |
| 149 | * SuperStrength: Capable of [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150910082539/http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/11/117763/2881861-thunderbolts__109___page_22.jpg one-finger push-ups]]. |
| 150 | * SuperToughness: Joystick's bodily tissues are tougher, more resilient and more resistant to various forms of injury than those of a normal human. Specifically, she is able to resist impact and blunt force to a much greater degree than ordinary humans. She can withstand impacts, such as falling from several stories or being repeatedly struck with superhuman force, that would severely injure or kill a normal human with little to no injury to herself. |
| 151 | * TheMole: Betrayed the Thunderbolts for the Grandmaster. |
| 152 | * ThrowingTheFight: Purposely lost a college basketball game she had secretly bet on, angering the criminals she was in league with. To save her own skin, she sent them after her father, who she knew had a hidden cache of cash that would appease the thugs. |
| 153 | * VaporWear: Was MuggedForDisguise by Jolt, who notes that the costume does not include underwear. |
| 154 | [[/folder]] |
| 155 | |
| 156 | [[folder:Judas Traveler]] |
| 157 | !!Judas Traveler |
| 158 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/judastravel_2113.jpg]] |
| 159 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Web of Spider-Man'' #117 (October 1994) |
| 160 | ->''"You're right, of course. I'm not God. I can't catch a soul or resurrect the dead. No, I'm not God -- but I'm close."'' |
| 161 | \ |
| 162 | After his family was killed, psychologist Judas Traveler suffered a psychotic break that activated his latent mutant abilities, granting him a range of psychic powers. Convinced that the illusions he created were real, Judas deluded himself into believing that he was an ancient God-like being whose purpose was to study humanity. Via the covert manipulations of [[Characters/MarvelComicsNormanOsborn Norman Osborn]], Judas took an interest in Spider-Man, tormenting throughout ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga''. |
| 163 | ---- |
| 164 | * TheBusCameBack: After a two decade absence, he finally made a return to the Marvel universe in the pages of [[ComicBook/XMen2019 Jonathan Hickman's X-Men run]]. |
| 165 | * CategoryTraitor: Became a species traitor to Homo Superior by joining the anti-mutant coalition Orchis. |
| 166 | * CurbStompBattle: Judas effortlessly defeated Carnage by ripping the symbiote right off of him. |
| 167 | * DoingInTheWizard: His powers were originally presented as magical in nature, but were later retconned to mutant illusions. |
| 168 | * AGodAmI: He became convinced he was an ancient dimension-walking entity. |
| 169 | * MakeWayForTheNewVillains: In his debut issue, he messes with and intimidates the Chameleon, Shriek, and Carnage. |
| 170 | * MeaningfulName: Not in his original run (though there was some implication that he might have been intended to be ''the'' Judas), but his return in Hickman's run gets a lot of mileage from the fact that he's a self-hating mutant named "Judas" who works with anti-mutant activists. |
| 171 | * MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: He was a psychiatrist. |
| 172 | * {{Mutants}}: For all of his bluster, in the end he turned out to just be a crazy mutant who thought he could do anything due to believing his own illusions were real. |
| 173 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Seriously, what kind of parents would name their boy after the most infamous traitor of them all? |
| 174 | * OutsideContextProblem: |
| 175 | --> '''Glenn Greenberg:''' No one – not the writers, not the editors – seemed to know who or what the heck Judas Traveler was. He was seemingly this immensely powerful, quasi-mystical being with amazing abilities, but what was the real deal with him...? But to be honest, a character like Traveler didn't really fit into Spider-Man's world. |
| 176 | * PowerBornOfMadness: His powers were activated by a psychotic breakdown. |
| 177 | * PsychicPowers: He can alter peoples' perceptions of reality, read minds, and cast illusions. |
| 178 | * {{Retcon}}: The revelation that he was a delusional mutant rather than an all-powerful wizard made a lot of his earlier appearances nonsensical and wasn't originally planned; one author involved in it even later described it as a "retcon bomb" intended to remove him from the story as quickly as possible. |
| 179 | * TheQuisling: He at some point joined the anti-mutant organization Orchis, and has been called their "pet Judas." |
| 180 | * SadisticChoice: Posed Spider-Man one: if Peter failed, the inmates of Ravencroft would all die; if he succeeded they'd be set free. |
| 181 | * UnwittingPawn: He and his Host were being manipulated by Norman Osborn. |
| 182 | [[/folder]] |
| 183 | |
| 184 | [[folder:Kangaroo]] |
| 185 | !!Kangaroo I |
| 186 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/92525_1538_kangaroo.jpg]] |
| 187 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Frank Oliver |
| 188 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #81 (February 1970) |
| 189 | ->''"I don't care who makes the law! No one's pushing me around again!"'' |
| 190 | |
| 191 | Frank Oliver with his superhuman leaping abilities was the criminal better known as the Kangaroo. |
| 192 | ---- |
| 193 | * AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Has the abilities of a kangaroo. |
| 194 | * ArtisticLicenseBiology: Originally, Oliver was said to have gained his powers by living with kangaroos and eating what they ate. As kangaroos eat grass, this seems highly improbable. It was later {{retcon}}ned as him being a {{mutant|s}} and this triggering his mutation. |
| 195 | * AwesomeAussie: He sure was Australian. |
| 196 | * BackFromTheDead: Twice. First he was resurrected by Arnim Zola along with several other lesser known villains, only to be killed by Deadpool. A few years later he was brought back via cloning by the Jackal along with several other characters, only to later succumb to CloneDegeneration. |
| 197 | * CaptainEthnic: An Australian guy with super-jumping abilities goes by Kangaroo, who would have guessed? |
| 198 | * CListFodder: The guy has the unfortunate honor of being a lesser known villain that has died, revived and killed again, twice. |
| 199 | * GoodOldFisticuffs: Frank was a skilled boxer and kickboxer. |
| 200 | * InASingleBound: His jumping abilities are what made him choose the kangaroo as alias. |
| 201 | * UnnecessaryRoughness: Was a boxer but was banned after seriously injuring another fighter. |
| 202 | |
| 203 | !!Kangaroo II |
| 204 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2384317_kangaroo.jpg]] |
| 205 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Brian Hibbs |
| 206 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Spectacular Spider-Man'' #242 (January 1997) |
| 207 | ->''" Oy! Shutcha gobbah, yeh bun-bakin bahstahds!"'' |
| 208 | |
| 209 | ---- |
| 210 | * AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Wears a suit of armor that allows him to leap great distances and increases his strength, agility, and endurance. |
| 211 | * BadassNormal: He's actually a good fighter even outside the armor. |
| 212 | * ButtMonkey: Yes, the guy is not taken seriously very often. |
| 213 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He was actually useful and helped Mysterio and Mary Jane to repel the Savage Six. |
| 214 | * HairTriggerTemper: He’s got a bad temper. |
| 215 | * HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Hibbs started a superheroic career in Australia, but returned to his villainous (or at least mercenary) way |
| 216 | * HeelFaceTurn: After gaining freedom, Hibbs started a superheroic career in Australia. There, he was among the global group of heroes to answer Spider-Man's call to destroy Doctor Octopus's facilities in order to thwart Octavius's scheme to use his technology to raise the Earth's temperature by artificially accelerating the greenhouse effect. |
| 217 | * HeroWorshipper: He idolizes the original Kangaroo. |
| 218 | * InASingleBound: The Kangaroo is able to leap up to great distances thanks to his armor. |
| 219 | * LegacyCharacter: After the death of Frank Oliver, he took the codename of Kangaroo. |
| 220 | * NotQuiteDead: After being presumably killed by Lady Deathstrike during ''Ends of the Earth'', he later turned up alive and back to his criminal ways. |
| 221 | * PoweredArmor: Instead of jumping by his own means, he has a mechanical suit that gives him the abilities of the kangaroo. |
| 222 | * PrehensileTail: The armor has a semi-prehensile tail |
| 223 | * StatusQuoIsGod: He tried to go straight for a time, but it failed when his criminal past came back to haunt him and went back to being a crook. |
| 224 | [[/folder]] |
| 225 | |
| 226 | [[folder:Kindred]] |
| 227 | !!Kindred |
| 228 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/6984129_kindred1.jpg]] |
| 229 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' [[spoiler:Gabriel and Sarah Stacy]] |
| 230 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man'' #12 (November 2006)[[note]]Via Retcon, mention[[/note]]; ''Amazing Spider-Man'' Vol. 5 #5 (September 2018)[[note]]Full Appearance[[/note]] |
| 231 | -> ''"Quentin, Quentin, Quentin...Gotta admit, I'm really disappointed in you, man. I mean, trying to run? You're smarter than that. I've read your screenplay, remember? Real potential. You of all people know it's already too late--you're being chased by the thing that catches us all."'' |
| 232 | |
| 233 | The focal villain of ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderMan2018''. Kindred is an enigmatic demon with an unknown connection to Peter's past life, who insists he should pay for a great sin committed in the past. |
| 234 | ---- |
| 235 | * ArcVillain: While Kindred is the primary villain of the entire run, he personally steps up to face Spider-Man in ''Last Remains.'' |
| 236 | * BerserkButton: ''Do not tell anyone his real name, or even admit that you know it.'' Kindred is obsessed with keeping his identity secret until he chooses to reveal it to Peter. |
| 237 | * BodyHorror: Kindred is ''not'' easy to look at. His face looks like a decrepit mummy and his body is filled with gaping holes underneath his cloak, through which rats freely travel through. |
| 238 | * CameBackWrong: This arguably applies to Kindred himself, but he also has the ability to resurrect other people this way. He not only revived [[spoiler:Stan Carter, alias the Sin-Eater, but forcibly imbued him with the Sin-Eater persona again]]. |
| 239 | * CollectiveIdentity: Kindred turns out to be [[spoiler:Gabriel and Sarah Stacy from the infamous ''ComicBook/SinsPast'' -- and retconned that they're actually clones created by Harry Osborn and the Jackal with the "relationship" between Gwen and Norman having been made up by them and MJ and Norman brainwashed into thinking it happened by Mysterio]]. |
| 240 | * CreepyCentipedes: His motif. He is always accompanied by a centipede. |
| 241 | * DemonOfHumanOrigin: Kindred is a mummified centipede-themed demon who says he was once human but was sent to Hell and became a demon, and has a potent grudge against ComicBook/SpiderMan. [[spoiler:''Amazing Spider-Man'' Vol. 5 #50 reveals that his true identity is Harry Osborn.]] |
| 242 | * TheDreaded: Anyone who knows it exists is utterly terrified of it, including Mysterio and Kingpin. |
| 243 | * EarlyBirdCameo: As a result of ArcWelding, it is Mysterio's unnamed but inferred employer from the afterlife back when Mysterio invaded Midtown High as a RevenantZombie during the timeframe of ''Civil War''. |
| 244 | * HeWhoMustNotBeNamed: Speaking his actual name is enough to make him show up and immediately kill whoever said it, as we see with a poor sap Mysterio got to say it. It's implied that his name will remain this until he gets Peter to guess it. |
| 245 | * HiddenAgendaVillain: Kindred wants revenge on Peter for something he says Peter did to him, but he also a larger plan involving other spider-powered heroes like Spider-Gwen and Miles Morales. Exactly what he has planned remains to be seen. |
| 246 | * KnightOfCerebus: Kindred brings the comedy in ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' down immensely, as he looks terrifying and has some of the creepiest imagery. |
| 247 | * TheManBehindTheMan: In ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderMan2018'', the Kingpin's idea to get to Boomerang by going after his roommate Peter Parker is nixed by an unknown, giant-centipede-carrying third party, who forces Fisk to kneel and remember "who really runs things around here". A second attempt to get Boomerang has his forces back off at the sight of "The Roomate". This mysterious third party, Kindred, is revealed to be [[spoiler: Harry Osborn, the ''other'' Green Goblin]]. |
| 248 | * MindRape: Kindred has shown the ability to do this, torturing people ranging from the minor villain Overdrive to Peter himself through visions and dreams. |
| 249 | * NonActionBigBad: His acts of villainy are largely manipulative, pulling the strings of both Mysterio and Kingpin for his own means. He also doesn't intend to harm Mary Jane while Peter was off dealing with [[ComicBook/{{Hunted}} Kraven's hunt]], as he believed nobody could do more harm to her [[DoomMagnet than Peter himself]]. |
| 250 | * ShoulderPet: He has has an enormous centipede that fills this role. |
| 251 | * WasOnceAMan: It claims to have been a human who was sent to hell and worked his way up the demon ranks. It is strongly implied it was a close associate of both Peter Parker and [[Characters/MarvelComicsNormanOsborn Norman Osborn]]. [[spoiler:They're Gabriel and Sarah Stacy -- and revealed to be clones created by Harry and the Jackal, not the actual children of Gwen and Osborn.]] |
| 252 | [[/folder]] |
| 253 | |
| 254 | [[folder:Living Brain]] |
| 255 | !!Living Brain |
| 256 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_living_brain.jpeg]] |
| 257 | !!!'''First Appearnce:''' ''Amazing Spider-Man #8'', (January, 1964) |
| 258 | -> ''"Whrr--click-ick--ow! Query: Why was unit programmed with pain receptors? Whyyyyy?"'' |
| 259 | |
| 260 | Intended to be the ultimate mobile supercomputer capable of answering almost any question, the Living Brain was brought to Midtown High by its creator for a demonstration of its abilities; two workmen, thinking they could make a fortune by using the Brain to predict the outcomes of sporting events, attempted to steal it, damaging it in the process, and causing it to go haywire until it was shut down by Spider-Man. The Living Brain project was subsequently scrapped, and the prototype was placed in storage, where it fell into disrepair. |
| 261 | |
| 262 | Years later, a bullied youth uncovered the Brain, upgraded it, and sicced it on the jocks who had been bullying him. Spider-Man, who was visiting Midtown High as Peter Parker, fought the Brain again, this time defeating it via electrocution. Afterward, the Brain changed hands several times, going from a pair of thieves, to the [[ComicBook/{{Nextwave}} Beyond Corporation]], to the Grandmaster, and finally to Boomerang, who inducted it into his Sinister Six. After defeating the Sinister Six, the Superior Spider-Man confiscated the Brain, and employed it as an assistant up until Peter Parker reclaimed his hijacked body from [[Characters/MarvelComicsOttoOctavius Doctor Octopus]]. The restored Peter kept the Brain around as an assistant, not realizing it contained a backup of Doctor Octopus's mind. |
| 263 | ---- |
| 264 | * AIIsACrapshoot: It was short-circuited after its first introduction in the school and went hay-wire until Peter readjusted the machine back to normal. Was later reprogramed it villainy by Doctor Octopus. |
| 265 | * AwesomenessByAnalysis: Is able to think so fast it is able to second-guess Spider-Man's actions. |
| 266 | * TheBusCameBack: Has a habit of returning after long absences. |
| 267 | * {{Flight}}: The "souped-up" later version had the ability to hover or fly. |
| 268 | * HealingFactor: The Living Brain is able to use the nanites stored in itself, to self-repair its body when it is damaged. |
| 269 | * InstantAwesomeJustAddMecha: It's become famous among robotics aficionados. When a Doctor Octopus-possesed Peter brought it to Horizon Labs, one of his coworkers called it the "Super Nintendo of robots." |
| 270 | * NonIndicativeName: Is neither alive nor does he have a brain inside him. He's just a machine with a minor level of artificial intelligence. |
| 271 | * SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids: Exactly why the Living Brain, a machine created for the sole purpose of answering questions after being fed the appropriate data, needed arms, let alone clubbed ones that were strong enough to rip a door off of its hinges for use as a weapon, is unrevealed. |
| 272 | * SuperStrength: The Living Brain was able to analyze the strength of Spider-Man's webbing, deciding how much pressure to apply, and then ploughed right through it. |
| 273 | * SuperToughness: The Living Brain was able to withstand multiple energy attacks from the Parker Industries S.W.A.T.-Bots. |
| 274 | * TinCanRobot: Even for 1964, that design was pretty boxy and clunky. Now it's something beyond retro. |
| 275 | * VerbalTic: "Whrr--click-ick". In the ''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan2018'' series, this tic was intentionally added into his voice function because by that point the creators found the old tic endearing. |
| 276 | [[/folder]] |
| 277 | |
| 278 | [[folder:Lobo Brothers]] |
| 279 | !!Lobo Brothers |
| 280 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2654181_scarspider2012013_cov.jpg]] |
| 281 | !!! '''Alter Egos:''' Carlos and Eduardo Lobo |
| 282 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' The Spectacular Spider-Man #143 (October 1988) |
| 283 | |
| 284 | The Lobo Cartel was founded in the late 1980s by the mutant brothers, Carlos Lobo and Eduardo Lobo. The mobs of South Texas were in a brutal gang war over drugs and smuggling which had cost the lives of many and then the Lobo Brothers arrived. They put a stop to the war and united the gangs, with the former gang leaders gone and the Lobo Brothers heading the new syndicate. It was the charisma of Carlos Lobo which had convinced the gangs to end the war and unite under the Lobo Brothers. |
| 285 | ---- |
| 286 | * AccidentalMurder: Eduardo once dated Glory Grant and during a fight between him and Spider-Man she accidentally shot him dead. Grant was aiming for Spider-Man but got Eduardo instead. |
| 287 | * BackFromTheDead: Eduardo was revived by the Jackal during the ''Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy''. |
| 288 | * MeaningfulName: Lobo means wolf in Spanish. |
| 289 | * OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Similarly to Rahne Sinclair from the X-Men, they are mutants who can transform into werewolves. |
| 290 | * SavageWolves: They are a Cartel family of ''werewolves''. |
| 291 | * SiblingsInCrime: Carlos and Eduardo founded the Lobo cartel together until Eduardo's death. Later Carlos was joined by their younger sister Esmeralda Lobo, who is also a werewolf mutant. |
| 292 | * WerewolfThemeNaming: Their surname is 'Lobo': Spanish for 'wolf'. |
| 293 | [[/folder]] |
| 294 | |
| 295 | [[folder:Looter]] |
| 296 | !!Looter |
| 297 | [[quoteright:234:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/148182_72678_looter.jpg]] |
| 298 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Norton G. Fester |
| 299 | !!! '''Noable Aliases:''' Meteor Man |
| 300 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #36 (May 1966) |
| 301 | ->''"This means good-bye to Norton G. Fester, professional failure! and it means hello to-- to-- what?"'' |
| 302 | |
| 303 | Norton Fester gained superhuman powers when gases from a small meteor seeped into his body. He then became a one-man crime wave known as the Looter. |
| 304 | ---- |
| 305 | * AntiClimacticUnmasking: Peter gets his mask off in their first clash, but doesn't know the guy behind it. |
| 306 | * {{Balloonacy}}: Wears a backpack-like device containing a rapidly -inflating helium balloon capable of carrying about 400 lbs aloft for short periods of time. |
| 307 | * BlindedByTheLight: Wields a 'dazzle gun' that produces an intense flash of light, allowing him to briefly blind an opponent. |
| 308 | * ButtMonkey: Nothing he does goes right for him, and all of his efforts are met with failure. When he actually manages to turn himself into a serious threat, it ends with him getting brain damage and being left an unhinged and pathetic lunatic for a while. Even after he regains his sanity, he’s still a complete joke desperately trying to not be a failure anymore, and still failing. |
| 309 | * CantCatchUp: Looter was initially a legitimate threat to Spider-Man, who was still starting out as a hero, but afterwards, the more experienced Spider-Man became able to easily trounce Looter, who, unlike Spider-Man, had not improved at all. |
| 310 | * ChronicVillainy: The Looter's ego makes him constantly try to outmaneuver Spider-Man, and this culminates in his being brutally beaten by the "Superior Spider-Man". Later, at a [[TropaholicsAnonymous villain support group meeting]], he acknowledges that he [[ReluctantPsycho may have a problem]], because even though he logically knows that he will be beaten even worse or killed if he encounters Spider-Man again, he can't stop himself because he "knows" he's superior to everyone else and has to show it by committing crimes. |
| 311 | * InsaneTrollLogic: According to him, he's "too smart to work -- to clever to hold down a job! Everyone's jealous of me!" Sure, Norton, sure. |
| 312 | * KnowNothingKnowItAll: Repeatedly shills himself as a genius whose brilliant mind is waiting to be discovered, despite the fact that he freely admits he failed science class in school, and his idea of studying the meteor is "randomly hit it and hope I find something". He actually did find something, but that's not the point. |
| 313 | * MagicMeteor: He got his powers from gas contained within a meteor, and his whole schtick is stealing more meteors for their yummy power-granting abilities. At one point, he actually ditched his Looter moniker, instead calling himself the Meteor Man. |
| 314 | * SanitySlippage: An attempt to give himself a power boost wound up going wrong and leaving him with brain damage, resulting in him becoming a lunatic who eventually starts talking to the meteor that gave him his powers and attaching it to a gun. He manages to recover eventually. |
| 315 | * SmallNameBigEgo: He has a gigantic ego, in spite of being a complete joke. |
| 316 | * VillainDecay: He started off as a legitimate threat in his first appearance. Afterwards, however, he became a total joke. |
| 317 | [[/folder]] |
| 318 | |
| 319 | [[folder:Mad Jack]] |
| 320 | !!Mad Jack |
| 321 | [[quoteright:180:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mad_jack.jpg]] |
| 322 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Maguire 'Terry' Beck |
| 323 | !!! '''Notable Aliases:''' Jack O'Lantern |
| 324 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Spider-Man: Mysterio Manifesto'' #1 (January, 2001) |
| 325 | ->''Greetings, one and all--the name is Jack--Mad Jack to some--but you can call me the Jack O'Lantern!"'' |
| 326 | |
| 327 | Maguire Beck was the cousin of Quentin Beck, the original Mysterio and enemy of Spider-Man. After Quentin's suicide, Terry devoted her life to eliminating anything that in some way "wronged" her cousin. Originally as the Jack O'Lantern, she took the identity and re-established herself as Mad Jack. |
| 328 | ---- |
| 329 | * AvengingTheVillain: Her original motivation for becoming a supervillain was to avenge her cousin Mysterio. |
| 330 | * MasterOfIllusion: Uses the same techniques and technology as her cousin. |
| 331 | * MechanicalAnimals: When Quentin Beck originally adopted the Jack O'Lantern identity, Maguire provided him with tech support and recon through a robotic cat that Berkhart jokingly called "Maguire". when she adopted the Mad Jack identity, she kept the cat. |
| 332 | * RightHandCat: Has a robotic black cat. |
| 333 | * RobotMaster: Capable of building sophisticated robots. |
| 334 | * SkySurfing: Rides Jack O'Lantern's one-person disc-shaped hovercraft. |
| 335 | * StingyJack: Her helmet is designed as a jack o'lantern. |
| 336 | * SweetPollyOliver: Wears an armoured costume that is padded to make her appear masculine. |
| 337 | * WeNamedTheMonkeyJack: When Quentin Beck originally adopted the Jack O'Lantern identity, Maguire provided him with tech support and recon through a [[MechanicalAnimals robotic cat]] that Berkhart jokingly called "Maguire". |
| 338 | [[/folder]] |
| 339 | |
| 340 | [[folder:Magma]] |
| 341 | !!Magma |
| 342 | [[quoteright:327:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/magmadarque8.jpg]] |
| 343 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Jonathan Darque |
| 344 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Marvel Team-Up'' #110 (July, 1981) |
| 345 | |
| 346 | Jonathan Darque was the chief executive officer of a mining company investigating new and cheap sources of energy. His investigations were opposed by environmental activists, who held demonstrations at his trial bore sites. His wife died in a car crash when attempting to evade the activists' blockade. Darque used his engineering skills to design a battle suit allowing him to become Magma. He then developed an underground crime organization. |
| 347 | ---- |
| 348 | * ArmCannon: Magma has a blast gun implanted in his right arm that is able to fire balls of lava, which are created by a generator worn on his back. |
| 349 | * AmmunitionBackpack: Magma's primary weapon is his magma projector, which fits over his right hand and is connected to a large tank on his backpack which contains molten lava. |
| 350 | * DrillTank:The supervillain also has various vessels, including huge burrowing machines. |
| 351 | * ElaborateUndergroundBase: Becoming Magma, he established an underground headquarters and practiced various methods of releasing "dormant tensions within the earth." |
| 352 | * FireBreathingWeapon: His magma gun fires both liquid lava and red-hot rocks "faster than the speed of sound". |
| 353 | * HistoricalRapSheet: The eruption of Mt. St. Helens was a "little experiment" of his. |
| 354 | * OneSteveLimit: Shares a codename with a member of the ComicBook/NewMutants. |
| 355 | * PoweredArmor: Magma's body armour is strong enough to survive a freefall from a ten-story building and is able to withstand 1200 degrees Celsius (the temperate of the magma under the Earth's crust). His armour is also able to protect him from intense nuclear radiation. |
| 356 | * PowerfulPick: Magma sometimes wields a special miner's pickaxe. |
| 357 | * SpikesOfVillainy: Magma wears a spiked vest made of the same material as his armour. |
| 358 | * TrickedOutGloves: Magma wears a power glove on his left hand that enhances it's strength. |
| 359 | * WeaponizedHeadgear: Magma's helmet fires destructive blasts of "geothermal energy". |
| 360 | [[/folder]] |
| 361 | |
| 362 | [[folder:Man-Mountain Marko]] |
| 363 | !!Man-Mountain Marko |
| 364 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/man_mountain_marko.jpg]] |
| 365 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Michael Marko |
| 366 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Amazing Spider-Man'' #73, (June, 1969) |
| 367 | ->''"Well, when the meat wagon comes to pick up what's left of you -- tell 'em it was Man Mountain Marko who stomped you into the floor!!"'' |
| 368 | |
| 369 | A small time thug who gained super-strength, and eventually terminal illness, through abusing an experimental horse steroid. |
| 370 | ---- |
| 371 | * AlliterativeName: '''M'''ichael '''M'''arko |
| 372 | * DisappearedDad: Marko claimed to have a son who's birth mother has hid from him for multiple years. |
| 373 | * DrugsAreBad: Remember, kids: prolonged steroid abuse will destroy your liver! |
| 374 | * DumbMuscle: Marko is often hired by other villains as muscle. |
| 375 | * EyeScream: In ''Devil's Reign: Moon Knight'', Marko's ex-wife seeks out ComicBook/MoonKnight for help, terrified that Marko will kill her and corrupt their daughter. Moon Knight tells Marko that he's never going to see them again. When Marko ignores the warning, Moon Knight [[ExactWords uses his thumbs to ensure it's true]]. |
| 376 | * HowTheMightyHaveFallen: An appearance in ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderMan2018'' shows Marko being reduced to robbing a book fair alongside perennial D-lister Ringer. |
| 377 | * ILoveTheDead: Marko at one point implies he has committed (or would at least be willing to engage in) necrophilia; while trying to fatally strangle Jessica Jones, he exclaims: |
| 378 | -->''"Best part of these work-for-hire gigs? Is that after I'm done with you here--I don't have to hand you over... after I'm done with you, I can take your lifeless body out somewhere remote and I can do whatever I want with you. Then you'll really find out why they call me Man Mountain Marko."'' |
| 379 | * MusclesAreMeaningless: He once tried to accost Peter Parker in the street. Peter, being caught up in his personal issues, barely acknowledged this and casually brushed him aside with his super strength. This experience traumatized him and even gave him nightmares because a scrawny kid could so easily sweep him into a wall. |
| 380 | * SuperStrength: Marko's strength was increased to superhuman levels. He could almost hold his own against Luke Cage in his early days. |
| 381 | * SuperToughness: Marko's skin and his muscle and bone tissues are considerably denser than the tissues of an ordinary human, granting him much greater resistance to physical injury than an ordinary human. |
| 382 | * TemporaryBulkChange: For an issue, experimenting with horse steroids bulked him up considerably until he was [[WeightTaller eight feet tall]]. Spider-Man was completely shocked by his transformation. |
| 383 | [[/folder]] |
| 384 | |
| 385 | [[folder:Massacre]] |
| 386 | !!Massacre |
| 387 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2703157_supsm2012004_cov_col.jpg]] |
| 388 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Marcus Lyman |
| 389 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #655 (April 2011) |
| 390 | ->''" And that, Spider-Man, is how I win. One life. One random person on the street below. That's all I need to get away. And body after body, they'll give me what I want. Because you're weak. All of you. Because you're stupid enough to care."'' |
| 391 | |
| 392 | A new villain whose dangerous methods and utter disregard for human life prompt Spider-Man to don a new armored costume. Marcus and his wife were accidentally harmed during an attack on his Wall Street trading company for losing client's money. Marcus survived, but his wife did not. Shrapnel was fixed within his brain, causing him to feel virtually no human connection whatsoever. |
| 393 | ---- |
| 394 | * AssholeVictim: His execution was applauded by all the people he held hostage. |
| 395 | * BackFromTheDead: Following his death at the hands of the Superior Spider-Man, he was revived by the Jackal during ''ComicBook/DeadNoMoreTheCloneConspiracy''. |
| 396 | * BaldOfEvil: Originally had a full head of brown hair. Following the attack that left shrapnel in his brain and destroyed his ability to feel human connection, he was bald with a metal plate over part of his skull. |
| 397 | * BoomHeadshot: The Superior Spider-Man executed him with a shot to the head. |
| 398 | * EmotionSuppression: His head injury severely damaged the parts of his brain that dealt with how he relates to others, his morals, and ethics. |
| 399 | * FeelNoPain: A head injury rendered him unable to feel anything. |
| 400 | * LackOfEmpathy: Unable to feel emotions for his fellow man, Marcus had no problem killing innocent people. |
| 401 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Massacre |
| 402 | * [[SuperheroPackingHeat Supervillain Packing Heat]]: Uses guns and bombs. |
| 403 | [[/folder]] |
| 404 | |
| 405 | [[folder:Master of Vengeance]] |
| 406 | !!Master of Vengeance |
| 407 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dwight_faron_28earth_61629_from_spider_man_vol_1_33_0001jpg.jpg]] |
| 408 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Dwight Faron |
| 409 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Spider-Man'' #32 (March, 1993) |
| 410 | ->''"Vengeance is mine!"'' |
| 411 | |
| 412 | Dwight Faron was a bio-chemist that was hired by a mobster named Barnett to create designer drugs and adrenal enhancers. Spider-Man took down the distribution ring but Barnett covered his tracks. Barnett walked but Faron went to prison and he blamed Spider-Man for everything. Faron's wife filed for divorce while he was in prison and his family deserted him. Faron became obsessed with Spider-Man and cursed the wall-crawler for costing him all he held dear. Faron was eventually released and he created a super solution that increased his strength exponentially and built a suit that fired force blasts by pulling electric ions from the air. Faron dubbed himself the Master of Vengeance and set in motion his plans to bring down Spider Man. |
| 413 | ---- |
| 414 | * ClothesMakeTheSuperman: The Master of Vengeance's suit enables him to manipulate electricity to some extent. He can form a static field enabling him to cling to or climb surfaces. He can discharge powerful electrical blasts. The suit apparently draws on ambient electrical activity to recharge itself. |
| 415 | * CostumeCopycat: Initially posed as Spider-Man and beat criminals to death in order to draw the real Spider-Man into a confrontation. |
| 416 | * TheMentallyDisturbed: Suffers from some form of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. His unstable mental state makes him an unpredictable foe. |
| 417 | * PsychoactivePowers: His powers are dependent on his mental state and his chemicals. He is a deadly combatant when his confidence is maintained. However, when things turn against him, or if he is startled, he may slip into a panicked state, losing his cool and fleeing. |
| 418 | * ShockAndAwe: His suit pulls electrical ions from the air to create his force blasts. |
| 419 | * SuperSerum: Concocted a super serum that grants him superhuman strength, durability and resistance to injury. |
| 420 | * SuperStrength: Can lift between 10 to 25 tons. |
| 421 | * WallCrawl: He can form a static field enabling him to cling to or climb surfaces. |
| 422 | [[/folder]] |
| 423 | |
| 424 | [[folder:Mendel Stromm]] |
| 425 | !!Mendel Stromm |
| 426 | [[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/84358_105883_professor_stromm.jpg]] |
| 427 | !!! '''Notable Aliases:''' Robot-Master, Gaunt |
| 428 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #37 (June 1966) |
| 429 | |
| 430 | Mendel Stromm is a chemist and robot expert. He was Norman Osborn's business and scientific partner until Norman betrayed him. His consciousness operates out of a robotic body. |
| 431 | ---- |
| 432 | * BackFromTheDead: Stromm has been believed killed multiple times. However, the Green Goblin serum in his body invariably keeps him alive and eventually revives him. |
| 433 | * CutLexLuthorACheck: It has been pointed out that Stromm could have made a fortune from his inventions if he wasn't [[RevengeBeforeReason obsessed with revenge]] on [[Characters/MarvelComicsNormanOsborn Norman Osborn]] and Spider-Man. |
| 434 | * {{Cyborg}}: Stromm has been gradually replacing his body with robot parts. |
| 435 | * MinorMajorCharacter: Stromm is the man who designed the Goblin formula, meaning he's essentially one of the most important figures in Marvel history for paving the way for Norman Osborn's villainy. Despite this he remains a very obscure foe and barely ever gets adapted into other mediums. |
| 436 | * PsychoSerum: Developed the Green Goblin serum. |
| 437 | * RevengeBeforeReason: Is driven by a psychopathic desire to take revenge on Norman Osborn and Spider-Man. |
| 438 | * RobotMaster: Is one of the foremost roboticists in the Marvel Universe. |
| 439 | * SerialProstheses: Every time Stromm has come BackFromTheDead, he has replaced more of his body with robot parts. He was eventually reduced to being a human head on a robot body. |
| 440 | * {{Technopath}}: By combining his brainwaves with a computer of his own creation, he could utilize remote technological control over computers and robots. |
| 441 | [[/folder]] |
| 442 | |
| 443 | [[folder:Mephisto]] |
| 444 | !!Mephisto |
| 445 | [[quoteright:349:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mephisto.png]] |
| 446 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Silver Surfer'' #3 (December 1968) |
| 447 | |
| 448 | ---- |
| 449 | See [[Characters/MarvelComicsDemons here]] for more info. |
| 450 | [[/folder]] |
| 451 | |
| 452 | [[folder:Mindworm]] |
| 453 | !!Mindworm |
| 454 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mindworm_marvel_comics_spider_man_c.jpg]] |
| 455 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''': William Turner |
| 456 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Amazing Spider-Man'' #138 (November, 1974) |
| 457 | ->''"All I’ve ever wanted is to live here--with all these people, all of them feeding me with their minds--their souls. Then you had to come along--and I could hear you, so loud in my mind."'' |
| 458 | |
| 459 | William Turner could always sense the emotions and thoughts of those around him as he was growing up. What he didn't know was that as he was reading these thoughts and emotions he was stealing their life essence as well. William killed his own mother by accident and was placed in an orphanage after his father died. He was a victim of bullying at the orphanage until he realized he had the power mentally to hurt others back. |
| 460 | |
| 461 | As an adult William, lived in a secluded part of town where he could quietly live of the psychic essence of his neighbors without notice. He encountered Spider-Man who put an end to his feeding and caused him to be thrown into prison. In prison, Mindworm was cut off from emotional and mental contact from others and slipped into a coma-like state. In this state, he could enter the dreams of others and eventually realized that he was the cause of his parents death. |
| 462 | ---- |
| 463 | * DreamWalker: While in a coma-like state, he could enter the dreams of others. |
| 464 | * EmotionEater: Feeds on the thoughts and emotions. This also [[VampiricDraining drains their life essence]]. |
| 465 | * GeniusBruiser: Growing up he developed his mind and body to peak condition. |
| 466 | * MasterOfIllusion: Able to cast vivid illusions. |
| 467 | * MyBrainIsBig: A mutant with mental powers an over sized forehead due to the experimental compound opened by the government near town. |
| 468 | * PsiBlast: Can fire destructive "mind waves" at his enemies. |
| 469 | * SelfMadeOrphan: He unintentionally drained his mother to death and his father committed suicide in grief shortly after. |
| 470 | * ShoutOut: His name and abilities are a direct reference to a short story about a psychic vampire. |
| 471 | * {{Telepathy}}: Can read minds and is mildly telepathic. |
| 472 | * VampiricDraining: Feeds on the thoughts and emotions of others, but also drains their life essence as he does. He takes too much, his donor will die. |
| 473 | [[/folder]] |
| 474 | |
| 475 | [[folder:Mirage]] |
| 476 | !!Mirage |
| 477 | [[quoteright:212:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mirage_8.jpg]] |
| 478 | !!!'''Alter Ego:''' Desmond Charne |
| 479 | !!!'''First appearance:''' ''Amazing Spider-Man'' #156 (May, 1976) |
| 480 | ->''"You may easily have defeated my underlings, but it won’t be as easy to combat the Mirage!"'' |
| 481 | |
| 482 | Desmond was a hologram technician who was in love with his girlfriend Amy. One day the two of them were caught in the middle of a battle between the Avengers and Fin Fang Foom. Iron Man saved Amy from Fin Fang Foom and Amy developed an infatuation with the armored Avenger. Eventually, Desmond and Amy fell apart and he decided to become the super-villain using his skill as a technician to create and project 3-D holograms. He carried a handgun and soon became the villain better known as Mirage, the Master of Illusion. Mirage was one of the villains murdered by the Scourge of the Underworld at the Bar with No Name. Using his demonic power, Characters/{{the Hood}} resurrected various dead super-villains, including Mirage, to serve in his Masters of Evil and help him hunt [[Characters/MarvelComicsFrankCastle The Punisher]]. The Hood left Mirage to die again when the spell ran out after 30 days, but Mirage instead fell into a coma that lasted months before he revived: seemingly alive again. |
| 483 | ---- |
| 484 | * TenMinuteRetirement: After having died two times, he decided to turn his life around and retire as a super-villain, and joined the Super-Villains Anonymous program. However, the Owl persuaded him to join Boomerang's Sinister Sixteen team. |
| 485 | * BackFromTheDead: Was murdered by Scourge, but later resurrected by the Hood. Although this resurrection was supposed to be temporary, it somehow became permanent. |
| 486 | * ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Mirage's powers all derive from a special costume he wears which is filled with small devices which he uses to create holograms. |
| 487 | * CostumeCopycat: Can use his holograms to disguise himself as others, such as Venom or Spider-Man. |
| 488 | * CutLexLuthorACheck: His hologram technology should have been worth much more than he could ever make robbing weddings. |
| 489 | * MasterOfIllusion: Expert at holographic projections. |
| 490 | * WeddingSmashers: Mirage's first crime was robbing the wedding of Betty Brant and Ned Leeds. |
| 491 | [[/folder]] |
| 492 | |
| 493 | [[folder:Molten Man]] |
| 494 | !!Molten Man |
| 495 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/moltenmanspidey_9673.jpg]] |
| 496 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Mark Raxton |
| 497 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #28 (September, 1965) |
| 498 | |
| 499 | --> '''Molten Man:''' Hi. I'm Mark Raxton, Liz Osborn's step-brother. |
| 500 | --> '''Ben Urich:''' You're--you're the Molten Man! |
| 501 | --> '''Molten Man:''' Yeah, that too. |
| 502 | |
| 503 | Mark Raxton wanted to get rich. Working hard, he developed a special liquid metal alloy, but his partner, Spencer Smythe, wanted it to be tested more. In a brief scuffle, the container holding the alloy broke, spilling the liquid over Raxton. Instead of poisoning him, his skin absorbed the alloy, making Raxton strong enough to buckle a car hood. While he started off as a criminal, he eventually accepted his transformation, and even reconciled with his sister Liz Allan. |
| 504 | ---- |
| 505 | * BigBrotherInstinct: After his initial villainous tendencies end, he becomes very protective of Liz. |
| 506 | * BroughtDownToNormal: He was finally cured post-''ComicBook/OneMoreDay''. |
| 507 | * TheBrute: When his temper gets the better of him. |
| 508 | * GeniusBruiser: He has both science smarts and superhuman strength |
| 509 | * HeelFaceTurn: Went from being a Jerkass Anti-hero/villain to accepting his change and apologizing to Liz. |
| 510 | * {{Jerkass}}: Gave a lot of crap to Liz back in the day. He got better at least. |
| 511 | * KungFuProofMook: Spider-Man's webs did not stick to him. |
| 512 | * MadeOfIron: Literally. |
| 513 | * SuperStrength: Strong enough to crush a car hood. |
| 514 | * UnskilledButStrong: For all his smarts he is not a very good fighter. He once tried to throw a punch and a kick at the same time. |
| 515 | [[/folder]] |
| 516 | |
| 517 | [[folder:Morlun]] |
| 518 | !!Morlun |
| 519 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/morlun.png]] |
| 520 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' None |
| 521 | !!! '''Other Notable Aliases:''' Vlad, Devourer of Totems, The Lion |
| 522 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Amazing Spider-Man'' Vol. 2 #30 (June, 2001) |
| 523 | ->''"Three times. Three times I have fought the Spider-Man of this world. He has defeated me three times. It is three times too many. He is food. Food doesn't "win." He has been lucky. That luck runs out today. Today I feed. Every second he lives is an insult to me and my family. He must be shown his place. And I will confirm my place... at the top of the food chain."'' |
| 524 | |
| 525 | A member of the Inheritors, a race of beings that feed on totems, a fusion of humans and animals with powers of both. He is instrumental in Spider-Man's transformation, where he eventually "embraces the Other". |
| 526 | ---- |
| 527 | -> See [[Characters/MarvelComicsInheritors The Inheritors]] |
| 528 | [[/folder]] |
| 529 | |
| 530 | [[folder:Nocturne]] |
| 531 | !!Noctune |
| 532 | [[quoteright:176:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nocturne.jpg]] |
| 533 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Angela Cairn |
| 534 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' (Angela) ''Spectacular Spider-Man'' #190 (May, 1992), (Nocturne) ''Spectacular Spider-Man Annual'' #13 (July, 1993) |
| 535 | ->''"I have been...listening to your pain, Spider-Man. Something has broken...your spirit. You helped me...when Zemo's machine...mutated me. Now I...want to help you."'' |
| 536 | |
| 537 | Cairn was first introduced as a New York City police officer. Later she was transformed by a mutate of Baron Helmut Zemo into a mute bat-winged entity known as Nocturne. Following her transformation she had several encounters with Spider-Man. At one point she met, cared for and allied herself with the sometime-villain Puma. |
| 538 | ---- |
| 539 | * BuryYourGays: Angela's lover Jackie Kessler was killed by Vermin. |
| 540 | * TheEmpath: Able to sense and project specific emotions. |
| 541 | * HealingHands: Can draw the pain of others into herself, and accelerate the healing of others. |
| 542 | * OneSteveLimit: A far more famous Nocturne in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse is Talia Wagner of the ComicBook/{{Exiles}}. |
| 543 | * PrehensileHair: Can control her own hair, using to grasp or ensnare objects and people. |
| 544 | * SpeechImpediment: Nocturne can only speak with significant pain. |
| 545 | * SuperStrength: Has greater than human strength, although its exact extent is unknown. |
| 546 | * TwoferTokenMinority: Angela is lesbian of African, cuban and Native American heritage. |
| 547 | * WingedHumanoid: Nocturne has bat wings, enabling her to fly. |
| 548 | * WolverineClaws: Her fingernails are razor sharp talons. |
| 549 | [[/folder]] |
| 550 | |
| 551 | [[folder:Overdrive]] |
| 552 | !!Overdrive |
| 553 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/overdrivespidey_1978.jpg]] |
| 554 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' James Beverley |
| 555 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Amazing Spider-Man: Swing Shift'' (July 2007) |
| 556 | -> ''"Because that moment, I realized--the world is my getaway vehicle!"'' |
| 557 | |
| 558 | Introduced as a minion of Mr. Negative and later appearing as one of the (five member) Sinister Six of ''ComicBook/TheSuperiorFoesOfSpiderMan'', Overdrive was empowered by his boss with [[{{nanomachines}} "nanobacteria"]] and has the power to transform any vehicle at will, a power well suited to his [[BadassDriver skills as a motorist]]. Overdrive is a rather incompetent supervillain who happens to be a major super''hero'' {{fanboy}}, and he sought superpowers and pursued supervillainy to fight the Avengers and impress them with his skills so that later on, when he pulled a HeelFaceTurn, he'd be welcomed onto the team. Needless to say, this didn't work, and Overdrive is stuck in the role of getawayman/mook. |
| 559 | ---- |
| 560 | * AffablyEvil: Overdrive is a really nice and friendly guy despite being a villain. Depending on how you look at it, the fact that he only got into supervillainy as part of a plan to become a superhero either shows that Overdrive isn't a villain at all or proves he's a bad person. |
| 561 | * BadassDriver: In addition to his powers, Overdrive is very skilled at operating a range of vehicles. |
| 562 | * TheCharmer: Described by Boomerang as a "pretty boy", Overdrive is good-looking and friendly and is introduced in ''Superior Foes'' sitting at a table with [[ALadyOnEachArm an attractive woman on either side of him]]. In the same series, Janice/Beetle is attracted to his good looks, cool car, and badass driving skills. However, things turn out in a way that emphasize that Overdrive is a loser (see TheLoinsSleepTonight). |
| 563 | * CripplingOverspecialization: While Overdrive is [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower very skilled at using his powers on vehicles]], they ''only work on vehicles'' and has no other skills to speak of, which makes him useless in circumstances where there are no vehicles around. |
| 564 | * HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Taken at face value his power is pretty unimpressive. However he can transform any motorized vehicle in any he wishes as shown when he turned a remote controlled toy helicopter into a full size and fully functional gunship to clear a way into the Owl's hideout. |
| 565 | * TheLoinsSleepTonight: Overdrive is impotent for some time after using his powers. Conversely, after having sex, he needs to wait for a bit before being able to use his powers again. |
| 566 | * LoonyFan: In their first encounter, Spidey is creeped out to discover Overdrive's car is filled with pictures of him. Similarly, Luke Cage is weirded out when he shows up to stop the Sinister Six and Overdrive starts fanboying him. |
| 567 | * ManChild: Despite his charmer appearance and persona, he's pretty childish at times. |
| 568 | * {{Nanomachines}}: His "nanobacteria" allows him to alter vehicles at will. |
| 569 | * PersonalityPowers: A likely example of this given the combination of Overdrive's obsession with vehicles and corresponding restriction on his power to vehicles. |
| 570 | * RealityWarper: A low-level example of this, as while Overdrive can only manipulate a select type of object, his powers allow him to alter matter he touches. For example, he's able to turn a small, non-motorized cart into a gigantic motorized backhoe. |
| 571 | * RequiredSecondaryPowers: He and Speed Demon discuss the trope in terms of [[DefiedTrope defying]] FlyingBrick. Noting the norm of a superpower coming with additional perks like super strength and durability, the two note how that isn't true for either of them. Overdrive is worried that a hero (specifically ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules) will assume that because Overdrive has one superpower, he must have others, and will kill him with a single punch. |
| 572 | * {{Technopath}}: One aspect of Overdrive's powers involves controlling vehicles, although he goes beyond technopathy since he can also ''alter'' vehicles and create more matter than initially existed. |
| 573 | * TokenGoodTeammate: For Boomerang's Sinister Six and Spidey's rogues gallery in general. |
| 574 | * VillainyFreeVillain: Although he participates in crime as a mook, for the most part, Overdrive doesn't do anything evil. Probably his worst act is how in ''Superior Foes'' he helps the team bury Shocker alive for supposed treachery. |
| 575 | [[/folder]] |
| 576 | |
| 577 | [[folder:Panda-Mania]] |
| 578 | !!Panda-Mania |
| 579 | [[quoteright:218:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/panda_mania_earth_616_from_amazing_spider_man_vol_3_1_001.png]] |
| 580 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Amazing Spider-Man'' Vol 3 #1 (June, 2014) |
| 581 | ->''"Um, Panda-Mania? I'm...uh...new."'' |
| 582 | |
| 583 | Panda-Mania was a member of White Rabbit's new criminal group The Menagerie who were trying to pull off a heist but ended up being chased and ultimately stopped by Spider-Man. |
| 584 | ---- |
| 585 | * AnimalEaredHeadband: Has panda ears on top of her hood. |
| 586 | * AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Of pandas, if you couldn't tell. |
| 587 | * BitPartBadguys: She's a nameless and origin-less crowd filler character who very rarely gets lines and is never seen doing anything other than henching for other villains like the White Rabbit. [[GoldfishPoopGang Yet she keeps popping up]], seemingly mainly due to her absurd gimmick and eye-catching design. |
| 588 | * TheBusCameBack: After not being seen in a few years after her defeat at the hands of Spider-Man, she reappeared as an inmate of Ravencroft Institute. |
| 589 | * JokeCharacter: She's not taken very seriously by Spider-Man. |
| 590 | * MostCommonSuperpower: She appears to be pretty busty. |
| 591 | * MysteriousPast: Nothing is known about her, her past or her real name. |
| 592 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: She's only known as Panda-Mania. |
| 593 | * SuperStrength: While her maximum strength is unknown, she's strong enough to lift a car with ease. |
| 594 | [[/folder]] |
| 595 | |
| 596 | [[folder:Paperdoll]] |
| 597 | !!Paperdoll |
| 598 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/paperdoll_1.jpg]] |
| 599 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Piper Dali |
| 600 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Amazing Spider-Man'' #559 (May, 2008) |
| 601 | ->''"We're so good for each other, Bobby. We're so good on paper."'' |
| 602 | |
| 603 | Piper's powers first manifested when she fell into her father's dimensional compressor machine, causing her parents to freak out. Piper's only escape was watching Bobby Carr movies. One night as she was watching a Titanic style movie, she believed that he spoke to her through her television by way of a character named Piper and said they were meant to be together. Since then, she has been doing everything in her power to protect Bobby's dignity in an effort to have him be with her. She has even gone so far as to killing a waitress who was bringing a frivolous lawsuit against him. |
| 604 | ---- |
| 605 | * AbsurdCuttingPower: While in her compressed form, Paperdoll becomes razor sharp along the edge of her form which has the cutting power sufficient to cut through Spider-Man's webs, which are stronger than steel. |
| 606 | * ChameleonCamouflage: Paperdoll is able to blend into her surroundings. These effects were so extreme that it causes her to be virtually invisible. |
| 607 | * FreakLabAccident: Piper Dali gained her powers in an lab accident involving her father's work. |
| 608 | * InconsistentSpelling: Writers are inconsistent about whether Paperdoll is one word or two. |
| 609 | * LiquidAssets: Has the power to envelop a person completely and suck them dry of all fluids, leaving them as flat as she is now. |
| 610 | * PaperPeople: Paperdoll was able to become two-dimensional, resulting in her being as flat as a piece of paper. |
| 611 | * RubberMan: She can stretch her body. |
| 612 | * StalkerShrine: Has a room wallpapered withh articles about Bobby Carr. |
| 613 | * StalkerWithACrush: she is violently obsessive and delusional about actor Bobby Carr and the relationship she believes they share. Piper found nothing wrong with stalking him and killing anyone she deemed to be damaging to Bobby's life, reputation or their 'relationship'. |
| 614 | * StevenUlyssesPerhero: Piper Dali becomes the supervillain Paperdoll. |
| 615 | * VampiricDraining: Has the power to envelop a person completely and suck them dry of all fluids, leaving them as flat as she is now. |
| 616 | [[/folder]] |
| 617 | |
| 618 | [[folder:Puma]] |
| 619 | !!Puma |
| 620 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pumaspidey_2037.jpg]] |
| 621 | |
| 622 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Thomas Fireheart |
| 623 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #256 (September, 1984) |
| 624 | |
| 625 | --> ''"When the tribe call--Puma must answer!"'' |
| 626 | |
| 627 | Puma is a powerful Native-American Werecat. Puma was raised to fight the Beyonder and became an ally to Spider-Man. |
| 628 | ---- |
| 629 | * AnimalMotifs: Guess which one. |
| 630 | * BadassNative: Fireheart is skilled in martial arts and possesses superhuman powers. |
| 631 | * BirdsOfAFeather: For a while he was dating the Black Cat. |
| 632 | * TheChosenOne: Back before The Beyonder, who orchestrated the Secret Wars storyline, was {{retcon}}ned into a comparative wimp he was almost Omnipotent and literally nothing else in the Marvel Universe could hurt him except Puma, who was part of a BreedingCult to produce such an individual. Puma's cosmic power only manifested when Beyonder was around him though. |
| 633 | * {{Depower}}: Briefly lost his powers, after having gone against his tribe's wishes. |
| 634 | * [[CatGirl Cat Boy]]: He's a Puma man. |
| 635 | * HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Has been a foe and an ally of Spider-Man on different occasions. |
| 636 | %%* MagicalNativeAmerican |
| 637 | * MustMakeAmends: After he attacks Spider-Man for a theft he was framed for, Puma sets out to clear his name, and buys The Daily Bugle to help him do it. |
| 638 | * OddFriendship: With ComicBook/CaptainAmerica villains, Armadillo and Deadly Nightshade, after [[Characters/MarvelComicsAIM M.O.D.O.K.]]'s 11. |
| 639 | * PantheraAwesome: Of the puma variety. |
| 640 | * ProfessionalKiller: Something he does on the side. |
| 641 | * SuperStrength |
| 642 | * ThenLetMeBeEvil: After he is framed for a felony regarding a bribe and has his assets frozen he ends up working for M.O.D.O.K. to get his fortune back. |
| 643 | * TooDumbToLive: Made fun of Thor for holding back in their fight. Had Thor actually stopped holding back Puma would have been a stain on the ground. |
| 644 | %%* TykeBomb |
| 645 | %%* VoluntaryShapeshifting |
| 646 | * WorthyOpponent: Considers Spider-Man to be one. |
| 647 | [[/folder]] |
| 648 | |
| 649 | [[folder:Raptor]] |
| 650 | !!Raptor |
| 651 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/raptor_0.jpg]] |
| 652 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Damon Ryder |
| 653 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Amazing Spider-Man Annual'' #36 (July, 2009) |
| 654 | |
| 655 | Damon Ryder was a scientist at Portland, where he met Ben Reilly (the clone of Spider-Man, who was at the time self-exiled), and hired him as his assistant, but they also became friends. Ryder was experimenting with dinosaur DNA, wanting to gain superhuman powers. One day Kaine appeared to kill Reilly, after searching for him many months. The fight started a fire and Reilly instructed Damon to get his wife and son out of his house, but he failed and they died. This drove Damon insane and he swore revenge on Ben, who would die years later at the hands of the Green Goblin while saving his genetic template, Spider-Man. In the present, Damon found Peter Parker, believing that Ben changed his name after the tragedy. |
| 656 | ---- |
| 657 | * AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Alters his DNA to develops velociraptor-like powers and attributes. |
| 658 | * DeathByOriginStory: Ryder's wife and son were killed in a fight between Ben Reilly and Kaine that drove Ryder to become a supervillain. |
| 659 | * GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: Altered his DNA to gain dinosaur superpowers. |
| 660 | * HealingFactor: Has highly developed healing powers, similar to most reptiles. It even allows for quick regeneration of missing limbs and organs. |
| 661 | * MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: He can transform into a more Raptor like appearance where his jaw extends and he grows long upper and lower fangs. |
| 662 | * OneSteveLimit: At least four other characters in the Marvel Universe use the alias 'Raptor'. |
| 663 | * SuperStrong: Raptor has enhanced strength, allowing to lift approx. 5 tons. |
| 664 | * SuperToughness: Raptor has durability beyond normal people, being able to survive a fall from a high building. |
| 665 | * ThoroughlyMistakenIdentity: Is convinced that Peter Parker is really Ben Reilly. Although, given Ben was a clone of Peter, this is an understandable mistake. |
| 666 | * WolverineClaws: Damon has two retractable bones blades in his forearms. |
| 667 | [[/folder]] |
| 668 | |
| 669 | [[folder:Razorback]] |
| 670 | !!Razorback |
| 671 | [[quoteright:280:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/buford_hollis_earth_616_004.jpg]] |
| 672 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Buford T. Hollis |
| 673 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Spectacular Spider-Man'' #12 (November, 1977) |
| 674 | |
| 675 | Razorback was a mutant with the innate ability to drive any vehicle instinctively. He was de-powered as a result of M-Day. He employed many gadgets in his crimefighter career. |
| 676 | ---- |
| 677 | * AnimalThemedSuperbeing: A razorback is a type of wild pig, although his powers have nothing to do with the animal. |
| 678 | * DePower: He was one of the many mutants who lost his powers of M-Day, and so far nothing indicates he has recovered them. |
| 679 | * FightsLikeANormal: His powers didn't give him any edge in fighting, hence his use of gadgets. |
| 680 | [[/folder]] |
| 681 | |
| 682 | [[folder:Red Skull III]] |
| 683 | !!Albert Malik |
| 684 | [[quoteright:205:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/red_skull_ii_001.jpg]] |
| 685 | [[caption-width-right:205:The third Red Skull]] |
| 686 | |
| 687 | Albert Malik was a Communist agent who used the identity of the Red Skull. He ordered the deaths of Peter Parker's parents. |
| 688 | ---- |
| 689 | See Characters/CaptainAmericaCentralRoguesGallery |
| 690 | [[/folder]] |
| 691 | |
| 692 | [[folder:Regent]] |
| 693 | !!Regent |
| 694 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2_71_9.jpg]] |
| 695 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Augustus Roman |
| 696 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows'' #1 (August 2015) |
| 697 | ->''"Let whoever's left come! Send them all! It won't be enough! I am power incarnate! I am the only savior humanity needs! I... am... Regent!"'' |
| 698 | |
| 699 | Augustus Roman was a corrupt businessman who became one of the Barons of Battleworld during the Secret Wars. After the Secret Wars were over, he got carried over to the primary continuity. |
| 700 | ---- |
| 701 | * AllYourPowersCombined: Uses advanced technology to use the powers of metahumans, as long as their corpses are stored in his databank. That being said, there seems to be a limit to the amount of powers he can use at once, and overusing his powers will cause the corpses to "burn out". |
| 702 | * CanonImmigrant: An in-universe example. He originally belonged to an alternate universe before getting transferred to the main universe at the end of ''Secret Wars''. |
| 703 | * CorruptCorporateExecutive: Uses his position as CEO of Empire industries to develop his Meta-human collection. |
| 704 | * CreateYourOwnVillain: He became motivated to imprison Metahumans and use them to power himself after his family was killed during a superhuman battle(from the flashback, it seems to be the battle between The Masters of Evil and the Avengers that happened during ''The Avengers#277''). |
| 705 | * FreudianExcuse: The loss of his family during a superhero/supervillain clash has left him with a strong hatred of all super-powered beings, and a need for control. |
| 706 | * HeKnowsTooMuch: He imprisons both Betty Brant and Harry Osborn when he realizes they have discovered his secret identity. |
| 707 | * LargeAndInCharge: As MJ notes when she helps him during the Ghost's assault, the guy is freaking huge, even without his PoweredArmor. Augustus just says he works out. |
| 708 | * PoweredArmor: Aside from the standard package of flight and SuperStrength, they allow him to use the powers of the superhumans imprisoned in his prison. |
| 709 | * StoryBreakerPower: After absorbing the powers of enough metahumans, he can take on ''Thor'' in a straight fight and win. That's several orders of magnitude greater than what most of Spidey's opponents are capable of. Eventually, he has absorbed the powers of almost Marvel's ''entire A-List Superhero Community'', at which point Spider-Man and Iron Man don't stand the slightest chance against him. |
| 710 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: He genuinely believes the world would be better off if he were the only superhero around to protect it. |
| 711 | [[/folder]] |
| 712 | |
| 713 | [[folder:Ringer]] |
| 714 | !!Ringer I / Strikeback |
| 715 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/3159481_strikeback.jpg]] |
| 716 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Anthony "Tony" Davis |
| 717 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Defenders'' #51 (September 1977) |
| 718 | ->''"My freeze-ring will slow you down long enough for a contracting ring to '''wring''' your neck! Hah-ha!"'' |
| 719 | |
| 720 | Anthony Davis was the super-villain known as Ringer who, following a near-death experience, re-established himself as Strikeback. |
| 721 | ---- |
| 722 | * AntiVillain: He was this as Strikeback. He did some mercenary work to pay A.I.M. back for saving his life, but after that he just wanted to put his criminal life behind him. He intervened to get Leila out of her life of crime, and his dying wish was for her to turn over a new leaf. She later became a hero in her own right, but was unfortunately CListFodder to Graviton. |
| 723 | * {{Cyborg}}: As Strikeback, A.I.M. scientists cybernetically enhanced his body, giving him enhanced strength, speed and durability. |
| 724 | * HumiliationConga: Davis's entire career as the Ringer was one long conga. First he tried robbing Nighthawk, who smashed his teeth and forced him to go through weeks of having a prison dentist rebuild them. When he escaped and gained his new Ringer outfit, he was beaten up by the Beetle and unwillingly forced to fight Spider-Man. Spidey then kicked his ass, smashing his teeth again all while mocking him for his ring gimmick before handing him over to the police while he whined about how unfair it was. When he got out of jail a second time, his efforts to redeem his SuperLoser reputation led to him getting shot by the Scourge. |
| 725 | * HandBlasts: His wrist blasters were his main method of offense as Strikeback. |
| 726 | * HappilyMarried: To his wife Leila Davis. |
| 727 | * ImprobableWeaponUser: Used a series of interlocking rings that could be used as a whip, lasso or for climbing. |
| 728 | * LegacyCharacter: After becoming Strikeback the Ringer costume and codename was taken by Keith Kraft. |
| 729 | * NotInTheFace: He's indignant when Spider-Man punches him in the jaw, whining about how Spidey destroyed all the dental work he had to go through after Nighthawk destroyed his teeth in his first outing. |
| 730 | * NotQuiteDead: He was the lone villain to survive the Scourge's massacre. He was very nearly dead when he was found by a group of A.I.M. agents who were investigating the massacre to try and get info about the murdered villains' tech. |
| 731 | * RingsOfDeath: His rings can do everything from constrict an opponent to serve as a lasso or a rope ladder, explode or even freeze an opponent. Unfortunately, Davis was too much of a schmuck to use them effectively. |
| 732 | * RoguesGalleryTransplant: He started out fighting [[ComicBook/TheDefenders Nighthawk]] before later being forced to fight Spider-Man. |
| 733 | * SecondaryColorNemesis: His Ringer costume was green and orange. |
| 734 | * {{Teleportation}}: Aside from his wrist lasers, Strikeback's main superpower was his ability to teleport. He could also take other people with him, as he did when he removed Leila from the supervillain battle she was caught in. |
| 735 | * TookALevelInBadass: Davis was much, ''much'' more effective as Strikeback than he ever was as the Ringer. He took down Boomerang, Stegron, the Vulture and Swarm one after another before teleporting away with Leila. |
| 736 | * TrickArrow: Ringer used an armored suit with various ring-based weapons including exploding rings, freezing rings, constrictor rings that could crush a victim, and a series of interlocking rings that could be used as a whip, lasso or for climbing. |
| 737 | * WeCanRebuildHim: The A.I.M. agents who found Davis converted him into a cyborg with the codename Strikeback. He repaid them by doing several operations before going out on his own. |
| 738 | [[/folder]] |
| 739 | |
| 740 | [[folder:Rocket Racer]] |
| 741 | !!Rocket Racer |
| 742 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/robert_farrell_earth_616_from_amazing_spider_man_vol_1_172_001.jpg]] |
| 743 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Robert Farrell |
| 744 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #172 (September, 1977) |
| 745 | |
| 746 | Robert Farrell was a misguided youth, stealing to feed his hungry family. After several confrontations with Spider-Man, he has since learned the errors of his ways. |
| 747 | ---- |
| 748 | * AntiVillain: At the end of the day, Robert just wanted to do right by his family. He calmed down quite a bit once he got a fairer shake in life, even joining Silver Sable's Wild Pack. He's later forced back into crime working for M.O.D.O.K., but it's shown he had no choice. |
| 749 | * CoolBoard: His signature weapon is his mechanized skateboard. It can go at super high speeds and even ride straight up walls. |
| 750 | * GadgeteerGenius: He doesn't have any inborn superpowers. His abilities come from his PoweredArmor and super-fast skateboard, all of which he built himself. |
| 751 | * HandBlasts: His gauntlets are equipped with mini-rocket launchers that he can fire as offensive weapons. |
| 752 | * MegatonPunch: He can increase the strength of his punches by hitting his targets while riding at high speed on his skateboard. |
| 753 | * PoweredArmor: This is his main equipment along with his mechanized skateboard. |
| 754 | * WeHelpTheHelpless: Used his equipment to make money as a hired superhero, particularly when working for Silver Sable as part of her Wild Pack. |
| 755 | [[/folder]] |
| 756 | |
| 757 | [[folder:The Rose]] |
| 758 | !!Rose I |
| 759 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/615929_rose4.jpg]] |
| 760 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Richard Fisk |
| 761 | !!! '''Notable Aliases:''' Blood Rose, Richie Fisk, The Schemer |
| 762 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' Vol 1 #83 (April, 1970) |
| 763 | ---- |
| 764 | See Characters/DaredevilRoguesGallery |
| 765 | |
| 766 | |
| 767 | %%!!Rose II |
| 768 | %%[[quoteright:334:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rose_blume_earth_616.png]] |
| 769 | %%!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Sergeant Blume |
| 770 | %%!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Spectacular Spider-Man'' Vol 1 #173 (February, 1991) |
| 771 | |
| 772 | %%The second Rose was Sergeant Blume (first name unrevealed), a police officer seeking revenge on the Kingpin for the death of his brother, another policeman. While Blume allied himself with Richard in hopes of doing good by breaking the Kingpin's hold on the city, he ended up implicated in several crimes while in the Kingpin's service. He ultimately was shot and killed in a confrontation with Richard's men in the Catskills after he had kidnapped Peter Parker (Spider-Man)'s Aunt May and wife Mary Jane Watson, mistakenly thinking that Peter had discovered information that would blow the lid off of the Kingpin's organization, thus revealing Blume as a double agent. |
| 773 | %%---- |
| 774 | |
| 775 | %%!!Rose III |
| 776 | %%[[quoteright:244:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jacob_conover_earth_616.png]] |
| 777 | %%!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Jacob Conover |
| 778 | %%!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Daredevil'' Vol 1 #131 (March, 1976) [[note]]As Jacob Conover[[/note]]; ''Amazing %%Spider-Man'' Vol 1 #414 (August, 1996) [[note]]As Rose III[[/note]] |
| 779 | |
| 780 | %%The third Rose was Jacob Conover, a reporter at the Daily Bugle, who took up the identity as payment for saving the life of crime lord Don Fortunato many years earlier. This Rose was loyal solely to Fortunato, as at the time the Kingpin had not returned to power, and his principal enforcer was the cyborg powerhouse known as Delilah. Conover faced a repeated threat to his territory from the Argentinian crime lord known as the Black Tarantula, eventually being present without his Rose disguise when the Tarantula launched a direct assault on Fortunato's home. Preparing to gun down the Tarantula and a roomful of witnesses, Conover was stopped by Spider-Man and carted off to jail. |
| 781 | %%---- |
| 782 | |
| 783 | %%!!Rose IV |
| 784 | %%[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/phillip_hayes_earth_616.png]] |
| 785 | %%!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Phillip Hayes |
| 786 | %%!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Amazing Spider-Man Presents: Jackpot'' Vol 1 #1 (March, 2010) |
| 787 | %% |
| 788 | %%The fourth Rose was Dr. Phillip Hayes. He took up the Rose persona after he lost his funding in gene-therapy research after an accident in the Phelcorps laboratory, a result of which was the new heroine Jackpot. He deals in "Ebony" shipments, a synthesized drug created from Corruptor's sweat glands. He managed to slip under the superhero radar for a while, but Jackpot was getting closer to discovering his involvement. After he discovered the secret identity of his opponent (through a coincidence resulting from being Sara Ehret's co-worker), he hires Boomerang to track Sara down at her house and murders her husband in front of her and her daughter. He is later arrested and unmasked, much to Sara's shock. |
| 789 | %%---- |
| 790 | [[/folder]] |
| 791 | |
| 792 | [[folder:Scorcher]] |
| 793 | !!Scorcher |
| 794 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/steven_hudak_earth_616_from_avengers_standoff_assault_on_pleasant_hill_alpha_vol_1_1_001.jpg]] |
| 795 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Steven Hudak |
| 796 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Untold Tales of Spider-Man'' #1 (September 1995) |
| 797 | ->''"Fine, Spider-Man. You get your jollies hounding me--victimizing me like all the others--that's just fine! Hust don't go begging for mercy when you're going up in flames--because there's not going to be any!"'' |
| 798 | |
| 799 | After being wrongly fired for embezzlement, Steven Hudak designed an armored suit containing flame-thrower equipment and attacked his former company as the Scorcher. |
| 800 | ---- |
| 801 | * BaldOfEvil: He's completely bald. |
| 802 | * BeardOfEvil: He has the classical goatee too. |
| 803 | * FireBreathingWeapon: Hudak's suit uses powerful flamethrowers. |
| 804 | * JetPack: The suit incorporates a jet pack for flight. |
| 805 | * NeverMyFault: Refuses to take any responsibility for his actions. |
| 806 | * PlayingWithFire: His armor allows him to shoot fire. |
| 807 | * PoweredArmor: Fireproof power armor. |
| 808 | %%* PyroManiac |
| 809 | [[/folder]] |
| 810 | |
| 811 | [[folder:Scorpia]] |
| 812 | !!Scorpia |
| 813 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/scorpia.jpg]] |
| 814 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Elaine Coll |
| 815 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Spider-Man: The Power of Terror'' #2 (February 1995) |
| 816 | -> ''"I'm gonna tear your &^%$@ heart out!"'' |
| 817 | |
| 818 | Elaine Coll's family, as far back as anyone could tell, was comprised entirely of criminals and psychopaths, and she was no exception, first popping up on the superhero community's radar when she was caught singing and dancing around while [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanged,_drawn_and_quartered hanging, drawing, and quartering]] police officers by [[Characters/MarvelComicsMattMurdock Daredevil]]. After a stay in the psychiatric ward of Bellevue Hospital, which misdiagnosed her as cured, Elaine was contacted by an acquaintance of her late grandfather, Silvermane, and offered a job as one of his enforcers, with one of the perks of the position being powered armor based on the suits worn by the then-retired Scorpion. Donning the exoskeleton, Elaine loyally served Silvermane as Scorpia, though things fell apart when Silvermane betrayed her upon possessing Deathlok. |
| 819 | |
| 820 | After a brief retirement following unsuccessful bouts as a member of supervillain gangs like the Sinister Seven and the Rogues, Scorpia became a free agent, hiring herself out to figures like druglord Manuel Ortega, and sorceress Caroline le Fay. |
| 821 | ---- |
| 822 | * AmazonBrigade: Has joined Lady Beetle's all-female Syndicate. |
| 823 | * AxCrazy: Enough to be committed to a mental institution. |
| 824 | * BewareMyStingerTail: The tail of her Scorpion suit can fire energy blasts. |
| 825 | * ButtMonkey: Being a DistaffCounterpart of an at the time C-list loser, Elaine never had a graceful supervillain career. Spider-Man and Black Cat once teased her from her cell window. |
| 826 | * DistaffCounterpart: Of the Scorpion, although the two don't really have much of an InUniverse connection. |
| 827 | * GreenAndMean: Just like Gargan her costume is green and she's not very nice. |
| 828 | * HandBlast: Her forearm “pincers” can also fire energy blasts. |
| 829 | * PoweredArmor: Her skills come from armors based on those of the Scorpion. |
| 830 | * PowerPincers: her costume has forearm “pincers” that have razor sharp edges for slashing. |
| 831 | * PrehensileTail: Her suit is equipped with a version of the original Scorpion’s tail that can be used to slice, crush, strangle, or fire energy bursts at her foes. |
| 832 | * ScaryScorpions: Uses this aesthetic, at least. |
| 833 | * TailSlap: Her suit is equipped with a version of the original Scorpion’s tail that can be used to slice, crush, strangle, or fire energy bursts at her foes. |
| 834 | [[/folder]] |
| 835 | |
| 836 | [[folder:Screwball]] |
| 837 | !!Screwball |
| 838 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/388156_26805_screwball.jpg]] |
| 839 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' Vol. 1 #559 (July 2008) |
| 840 | ->''" There's nothing here I can't trick off of. This whole city's my playground! Just be sure... We're still going out live."'' |
| 841 | |
| 842 | The world's first "[[BadInfluencer live streaming super-villain]]." She commits crimes to get more hits on her webpage. |
| 843 | ---- |
| 844 | * AttentionWhore: Money is a secondary concern to her, what she really cares about is viewership. |
| 845 | * BadInfluencer: The world's first "live streaming super-villain". |
| 846 | * {{Bifauxnen}}: Screwball started out with BoyishShortHair and a padded costume that usually concealed her figure, so she sometimes looked like an effeminate man (which she once used to her advantage by impersonating Spidey). She got a GirlinessUpgrade in ''Spider-Man[=/=]Deadpool'', and now has GirlishPigtails and a more formfitting suit in which her curves are more apparent. |
| 847 | * BreakoutVillain: The only ''ComicBook/BrandNewDay'' baddie besides Mr. Negative and Overdrive to stick around. |
| 848 | * CoolHelmet: It contains a hidden camera, and allowed her to control Murderworld in ''ComicBook/{{Elektra}}.'' |
| 849 | * CharlesAtlasSuperpower: She's a baseline human, but her acrobatic skills are so exceptional that she's somehow capable of keeping up with and pulling ahead of Spider-Man. When Spidey points out the incredulity of this, Screwball chalks it up to "the Parkour Luck." |
| 850 | --> '''Spider-Man:''' She-she did not just say that. |
| 851 | * TheDragon: To Arcade in the 2017 ''Elektra'' series. |
| 852 | * FameThroughInfamy: She was an Internet personality and social-media attention monger to such an extent that she commited crimes on camera. |
| 853 | * GirlishPigtails: Her current hairstyle. |
| 854 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: While Screwball usually didn't care if people were endangered by her antics, she never went out of her way to hurt anyone until the 2017 ''Elektra'' series, where she TookALevelInJerkass and murdered several innocent people for Arcade's {{Snuff Film}}s. |
| 855 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Her real name hasn't been mentioned, but she's been arrested several times, so it's probably not a secret in-universe. |
| 856 | * OutlawCouple: With Jester, though the two did little more than annoy and prank people and come off as a LighterAndSofter version of Characters/{{Harley Quinn|TheCharacter}} and [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]]. |
| 857 | * LeParkour: Her gimmick, along with live streaming her stunts. |
| 858 | * RoguesGalleryTransplant: She harassed [[Characters/MarvelComicsSpiders Spider-Girl]] for a bit, and went toe to toe with Characters/{{Elektra}} in her 2017 series. |
| 859 | * SocialMediaBeforeReason: She was an Internet personality and social-media attention monger to such an extent that she committed crimes on camera. |
| 860 | [[/folder]] |
| 861 | |
| 862 | [[folder:Shathra]] |
| 863 | !!Shathra |
| 864 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shathra_3832.jpg]] |
| 865 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' Vol. 2 #46 (December, 2002) |
| 866 | -> ''"Little spider... little man... does not understand... Shathra does not tire, does not stop. Shathra can play with the spider forever. But sooner or later, the man in the spider has to sleep. Then Shathra will take the spider. Take the man. Take everyone and everything he has ever loved. We are natural enemies. I will never go away. Will the spider play... until death?"'' |
| 867 | |
| 868 | After having ComicBook/DoctorStrange send him to the Astral Plane in order to fight a new supervillain named Shade, Spider-Man made the mistake of [[StayOnThePath straying from the path]], which led to him encountering the [[Characters/MarvelComicsSpiders Great Weaver]], and being detected by Shathra. The avatar of the spider wasps, Shathra decided that Spidey would make the perfect meal for herself and her offspring, and thus she followed him back to Earth. Shathra was seemingly killed when Spider-Man lured her to the Great Weaver's temple in Ghana, and she was eaten by the spider-god, but she was resurrected to target Kaine, and was killed by his Other form. |
| 869 | ComicBook/SpiderVerse reveals she was originally from Earth-001 and was the sister of [[Characters/SpiderVerse Neith, the Great Weaver.]] |
| 870 | ---- |
| 871 | * AnimalJingoism: She's the totemic incarnation of Spider Wasps but her backstory also establishes that her envy over her sister is the reason wasps prey on spiders in the first place. There's a Sisterhood of the Wasp that opposes and threatens the Spider Society that empowered Aña Corazon with trained assassins. It's also implicit knowing these details that her mythical influence is why [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Janet and Hope van Dyne both initially held irrational animosity towards Peter Parker.]] |
| 872 | * BackFromTheDead: She was seemingly killed by a swarm of spiders at the Great Weaver's temple, but was resurrected thanks to Mephisto's meddling with the time stream and pursues Kaine. |
| 873 | * BedTrick: She shape shifts into Annabelle Adams and has sex with Kaine, then reveals her true form to him afterwards. |
| 874 | * BioluminescenceIsCool: She has glowing blue lines on her body. |
| 875 | * CainAndAbel: Plays the Cain to her sister Neith's Abel. |
| 876 | * TheCorrupter: After Spiderling accidentally frees her, Shathra turns her into Nestling. |
| 877 | * TheDreaded: An EnforcedTrope. Her mere appearance on Earth immediately causes Peter's Spider-Sense to ''flip out'' even though he's never met her before and she hadn't even found him yet. Her entire nature boils down to her being a relentless and lethal threat to Spider-Man. |
| 878 | * EvilIsPetty: Set out to hunt all Spiders because she’s jealous that her sister, Neith, had a better idea than her. |
| 879 | * FoodChainOfEvil: Like Morlun, she is a supernatural entity that desires to eat Spider-Man due to him being the avatar of the Great Weaver. |
| 880 | * AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Takes on a human form as Sharon Keller, and later impersonates Kaine's love interest Annabelle Adams. |
| 881 | * GlowingEyesOfDoom: She has glowing blue eyes. |
| 882 | * GreenEyedMonster: Her envy of her sister, Neith, twisted her into the monstrous being she is now. |
| 883 | * HealingFactor: It is powerful enough for her to survive Kaine stabbing her through the head. |
| 884 | * HumanoidAbomination: She is a humanoid supernatural spider-wasp-like entity from another dimension and a metaphysical enemy of the Great Weaver. |
| 885 | * InstantSeduction: She manages to get Kaine in bed with her in the span of one page. Admittedly, she was impersonating Annabelle, his love interest, wearing [[ModestyBedsheet only a bedsheet]], however, she caught him mid-rant about how he was a monster and Annabelle couldn't really be with him. |
| 886 | * IShallTauntYou: Pisses Spider-Man off to get him to act on instinct. |
| 887 | * JustDesserts: She's eaten by a swarm of supernatural spiders, though she later shows up alive. She is also "prey" when she pushes Kaine too far and [[SuperPoweredEvilSide the Other takes over]]. |
| 888 | * LiteralManeater: She sleeps with Kaine in the form of his love interest, Annabelle Adams. |
| 889 | * LouisCypher: |
| 890 | --> '''Reporter:''' I'm sorry, what did you say your name was again? |
| 891 | --> '''Shathra:''' Sha[[{{Beat}} ...]] that is, Sharon. |
| 892 | * ManOfKryptonite: As a spider wasp, she's armed with venomous stingers that can paralyze Spider-Man and others like him. |
| 893 | * MonsterIsAMommy: She is the mother of a tribe of supernatural wasps. |
| 894 | * MundaneSolution: The ancient embodiment of the spider wasps enrages her prey and lures him out into the open by... going to the media, and claiming to be the ex-lover of the insatiably kinky Spider-Man. |
| 895 | * OrderVersusChaos: Originaly the order to her sister Neith's chaos, believing in a planned out multiverse. |
| 896 | * PsychopathicManchild: She's extremely infantile and her treatment of Spidey is that of a small child playing with its food before eating it. She can successfully pose as a mature adult, but this is merely an act to get close to her prey. |
| 897 | * RefugeInAudacity: She gets Peter's attention by going on television disguised as a human woman and claiming to be Spider-Man' secret lover, precisely because she knows he is married (even though he and MJ were estranged at the time) and correctly deduces that this will ''infuriate'' him. As soon as he arrives and attacks her, she resumes her true form and tries to kill and eat him. |
| 898 | * SealedEvilInACan: Was this after her second death, but was accidentally released by Spiderling. |
| 899 | * SexyShirtSwitch: Wears one of Kaine's after sleeping with him, but before the reveal of who she is. |
| 900 | * SuperStrength: She's strong enough to beat Spider-Man to a pulp and can effortlessly tear through his webs. |
| 901 | * ThirdPersonPerson: Frequently refers to herself this way. |
| 902 | * WickedWasps: She is a massive supernatural wasp goddess. |
| 903 | * WingedHumanoid: She has four massive black insect wings. |
| 904 | * WomanScorned: As Sharon Keller, she claims to have been a former lover of Spider-Man in order to draw him out. |
| 905 | [[/folder]] |
| 906 | |
| 907 | [[folder:Shriek]] |
| 908 | !!Shriek |
| 909 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/absolute_carnage_vol_1_2_cult_of_carnage_variant_textless.jpg]] |
| 910 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Frances Louise Barrison |
| 911 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Spider-Man Unlimited'' #1 (May 1993) |
| 912 | -> ''"Look at what your star patient's done, doctor! Look at the madness I've spread! You said you wanted me to reach my full potential, look what I'm capable of! Look! They're just getting warmed up... they haven't boiled over into murderers yet. Open your eyes! It'll be beautiful when it happens."'' |
| 913 | |
| 914 | As a child, Shriek was abused by her parents, especially her mother, whose cruelty drove her to drugs, overeating, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and heavy metal]]. Shriek's mental stability was further damaged when she was shot in the head during an altercation with the police, and when she had a run-in with heroes Characters/{{Cloak and Dagger|MarvelComics}}, whose powers did ''something'' to Shriek, giving her various superhuman abilities of her own. Now fully capable of taking revenge on the world she blames for her misery, Shriek found soul mates of sorts in the form of her "husband", Carnage, and "son", Doppelganger. |
| 915 | ---- |
| 916 | * AbusiveParents: She was abused physically, psychologically, and sexually by her parents. |
| 917 | * TheAggressiveDrugDealer: Her original occupation. |
| 918 | * AxCrazy: She's almost as insane as Cletus Kasady. |
| 919 | * BadassFamily: Intent on creating one with Carnage and any other villains they "adopt" into their little family. |
| 920 | * BrownNote: She can send off psychic waves of bloodlust. |
| 921 | * ClingyJealousGirl: Beats Tanis Nieves up for "carrying [Carnage's] baby". |
| 922 | * CreateYourOwnVillain: One flashback suggested that she was a normal drug dealer and only gained her powers when Cloak and Dagger attacked her. |
| 923 | * ConvenientComa: Placed in one by Scorn, though she later recovers. |
| 924 | * DarkActionGirl: She has the ability to project psychic waves of hatred and bloodlust, and can blast people with sonic screams. |
| 925 | * DarkMistress: For Carnage, in a Characters/{{Harley Quinn|TheCharacter}}[=-=]and-[[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]] fashion. [[Characters/MarvelComicsDeadpool Deadpool]] refers to her as Carnage's "hot [[PowerFloats levitating]] girlfriend". |
| 926 | * ADayInTheLimelight: ''Shriek, Rattle, and Roll'' and ''Shrieking''. |
| 927 | * DomesticAbuse: Suffers this from Carnage, due to his MoodSwinger tendencies. |
| 928 | * EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: She has black hair and extremely pale skin. |
| 929 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Doppelganger regards her as his mother, and she's possibly the only other human being that Carnage has ever felt anything even close to genuine affection for. |
| 930 | * EvilCostumeSwitch: Upon returning to "normal" in the ''Carnage'' miniseries, she trades in her regular clothes for a hastily assembled facsimile of her old costume, her skin goes back to being unhealthily pale, and her eyes become completely white. |
| 931 | --> '''Shriek:''' I wanted to look good for my boyfriend. |
| 932 | * EvilMatriarch: During the ''Maximum Carnage'' series she was Carnage's "wife" and the "mother" of Doppelgänger, Carrion, and Demogoblin. |
| 933 | * EvilMeScaresMe: Tanis Nieves almost succeeded in returning her mental stability. Nice job breaking it, Michael Hall. |
| 934 | * {{Expy}}: Looks like a DistaffCounterpart of Lobo. Also since Carnage is an Expy of [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]] that would make Shriek his Harley Quinn (the two were even introduced around the same time). And there's the comparisons to Characters/{{Domino|MarvelComics}}. |
| 935 | * FacialMarkings: She has a black stripe over her left eye. |
| 936 | * FashionableAsymmetry: Her costumes tend to be an eclectic assortment of various pieces of clothing. |
| 937 | * FluffyTamer: Tamed the Doppelgänger, which views her as its mother. |
| 938 | * FormerlyFat: She mentions that she was overweight in her childhood. |
| 939 | * FreudianExcuse: She was horribly abused by her parents. |
| 940 | * GlassCannon: Spider-Man once knocked her out with little more than a flick. |
| 941 | * GlowingEyesOfDoom: Just one, for some reason. |
| 942 | * HandBlast: Her main method of attack. |
| 943 | * HatePlague: She can induce temporary insanity in others; the exact mechanics of this are never explained, but it's presumably an extension of her sonic powers. |
| 944 | * HeelFaceDoorSlam: Her witnessing the love Carrion had for his real mother, coupled with Doctor Nieves's treatment, goes a long way towards rehabilitating her ("No! I need my doctor! You don't know how I get without her!") Unfortunately, being held captive by Hall Industries, exposure to the Carnage symbiote, and witnessing Doppelganger being attacked caused her snap, and completely regress ("I forgot how much '''fun''' that was...") |
| 945 | * HellBentForLeather: Once acquired a new costume by raiding a fetish clothing shop. |
| 946 | * [[ImTakingHerHomeWithMe I'm Taking Him Home With Me!]]: Carnage was set to kill Doppelgänger when it attacked them, but Shriek wanted to keep it. |
| 947 | * InLoveWithYourCarnage: She once tried to make Spider-Man her lover upon sensing his inner darkness. |
| 948 | * IRejectYourReality: She once irrationally blamed Spider-Man for Doppelganger's [[UnexplainedRecovery temporary]] death, even though she was right there when Carnage attacked him. |
| 949 | * IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure: When Carnage gets pissed at Shriek for whatever reason in ''Maximum Carnage'' and tries to attack her, Doppelganger steps in. Carnage then decides killing Shriek's "baby" will be punishment enough (though he gets better... after a few years). |
| 950 | * LoonyFan: Carnage's groupie. |
| 951 | * MadLove: Shriek is to Carnage what Harley Quinn is to the Joker. |
| 952 | * TheMentallyDisturbed: She really is mentally disturbed and genuinely needs help. Whenever she gets caught, she's sent to mental health institutions like Ravencroft Asylum rather than prisons like the Raft. |
| 953 | * MessyHair: Especially early on, her hair was very poofy and very untidy. |
| 954 | * MetalHead: According to a line in ''Maximum Carnage''. |
| 955 | * MindOverMatter: She's telekinetic, but has never been shown using the ability offensively, just to make herself and (much more rarely) others levitate. |
| 956 | * MommyIssues: Horrible abuse at the hands of her mother caused her to develop a twisted fixation with family and motherhood. |
| 957 | * MonochromaticEyes: When she goes back to being evil in the ''Carnage'' miniseries. |
| 958 | * MostCommonSuperPower: She's very busty, and most of her outfits accentuate this. |
| 959 | * MsFanservice: Likes to dress in provocative gothic and [[BondageIsBad S&M-inspired]] clothes, and wears a NaughtyNurseOutfit at the end ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} vs. Carnage''. |
| 960 | * NightmareFetishist: She fell in love with a guy calling himself ''Carnage''. |
| 961 | * TheOphelia: She was driven insane by her parents' abuse. |
| 962 | * PerkyGoth: Well, manic-depressive. |
| 963 | * PromotionToParent: For [[HumanoidAbomination the Doppelgänger]]. |
| 964 | * PsychoSupporter: She fell in love with Carnage at first sight and hasn't really looked back. |
| 965 | * SatelliteCharacter: Rarely appears without Carnage. |
| 966 | * {{Stripperiffic}}: Possibly justified; she's "showing off" after a lifetime of being overweight and unattractive. |
| 967 | * SuperScream: She can project a sonic scream using her voice, which has caused her to be used against Carnage in some instances. |
| 968 | * TragicVillain: Especially since Tanis Nieves nearly succeeded in rehabilitating her. |
| 969 | * UnexplainedRecovery: Cameoed in ''Fearless Defenders'' as a member of the Doom Maidens, without it being explained when or how she came out of the coma Scorn put her in ''Carnage''. |
| 970 | * UnholyMatrimony: With Carnage. |
| 971 | * WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: "The white hats. The good guys. Heads stuffed with dreams and ideals. Every day they save the world. But tell me this, my little spider--why weren't they there to save me?!" |
| 972 | [[/folder]] |
| 973 | |
| 974 | [[folder:Silvermane]] |
| 975 | !!Silvermane |
| 976 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/silvermane_6.jpg]] |
| 977 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Silvio Manfredi |
| 978 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #73 (June 1969) |
| 979 | -> ''"Ha! You think I'd a'trusted any one of those no-good good-for-nothings? That family stuff's just one more way you keep 'em in line. Only saps buy it. You want rewards for loyalty, get yourself one of them Wegmans Cards. You wanna stay alive in this biz--you make 'em fear you."'' |
| 980 | |
| 981 | An Italian immigrant, Silvio Manfredi joined [[TheMafia the Maggia]] as a teenager and quickly rose through the ranks, becoming one of their dons, organizing a "family" centered around intense loyalty. Arrested due to tax evasion, when he got out of prison he found that his family's power had waned and that other crime lords like the Kingpin had arrived to fill the vacuum. Manfredi started a gang war to reclaim power, and took on the nickname Silvermane due to his hair turning white. Silvio realized he was growing old, and became obsessed with finding a means of restoring his youth, blackmailing Curt Connors into developing one that de-aged him. He became the Supreme HYDRA for a while, and after being expelled tried to organize New York's crime lords under himself. During a fight with the third Green Goblin and Spider-Man, Silvermane fell to his apparent death. He survived, but after an assassination attempt the shock caused him to revert to an elderly man. After being mortally wounded by Cloak and Dagger, Silvermane had his head transplanted to a cybernetic body and sought revenge. |
| 982 | ---- |
| 983 | * CoolOldGuy: Subverted. Since he fell out of the business he's developed a nostalgic reputation for being New York's last good don, but according to Boomerang he's actually a cranky old jerk who nobody except Hammerhead liked. |
| 984 | * {{Cyborg}}: His body is almost completely made up of cybernetic parts and he is almost like a human robot. |
| 985 | * DeathByDeaging: Feared death due to his age and blackmailed Dr. Curt Connors into making a serum with the aid of a special tablet that was discovered. It worked too well and he ended up being de-aged out of existence temporarily. |
| 986 | * TheDon: He's a classic mafia-style crime lord who keeps pace via technology. |
| 987 | * EvilMentor: He served as this to Shocker in Superior Foes, getting him to grow a backbone and becoming a more ambitious villain. |
| 988 | * EvilOldFolks: Is an elderly crime lord. |
| 989 | * FullConversionCyborg: His human head and brain and some vital organs (heart, lungs, etc.) are housed in an otherwise completely robotic body. |
| 990 | * GeniusBruiser: He was a vicious physical fighter in his youth, in addition to being a criminal mastermind. When he temporarily regains his youth, he effortlessly manhandles Man Mountain Marko, despite Marko being twice his size. He even holds his own against Spider-Man. |
| 991 | * LivingMacGuffin: Silvermane's head is a major Macguffin in Superior Foes, since anyone who possesses it controls the Maggia. [[spoiler:As it turns out, his head befriended a young boy whose mother owned the junkyard where he was found, and is later found by the Shocker.]] |
| 992 | * LosingYourHead: In ''The Superior Foes of Spider-Man'', Silvermane lost his cyborg body but he's still alive as his head is where his power source is. |
| 993 | * [[TheMafia The Maggia]]: One of the key players. |
| 994 | * PetTheDog: After losing his cyborg body, he ended up befriending a young boy and his mother and enjoyed his time with them far more than he did as head of the Maggia. [[spoiler:He also ends up installing Shocker as the new head of the Maggia.]] |
| 995 | * PoweredArmor: In his advanced age he wears a suit of powered armor to help him match superpowered foes. Later on, he turned himself into a cyborg. |
| 996 | * SuperMobBoss: He's a crime lord who keeps up with others via cybernetics. |
| 997 | [[/folder]] |
| 998 | |
| 999 | [[folder:Sin-Eater II]] |
| 1000 | !!Sin-Eater II |
| 1001 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/80dbf4af9a26c3f7404c0cd6291a3f3a.jpg]] |
| 1002 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Stanley Carter |
| 1003 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man'' #107 (October 1985) |
| 1004 | -> ''"Do not be afraid, you without sin, for I shall not cast the first stone. Only those who have misused their power need fear the Sin-Eater's wrath!"'' |
| 1005 | |
| 1006 | While a member of ComicBook/{{SHIELD}}, Stanley Carter took part in a program that saw him being administered an experimental drug (presumably an attempted recreation of the [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Super Soldier Serum]]) that was supposed to increase the strength and endurance those given it to near-superhuman levels. The drug succeeded in its intended purpose, but also caused severe mental instability in Carter and other test subjects, which led to the program being discontinued. |
| 1007 | |
| 1008 | Carter subsequently resigned from S.H.I.E.L.D. and became a police detective, which unfortunately led to his severely strained mind snapping when he witnessed his partner's death at the hands of a gang of young criminals. Becoming obsessed with punishing those he believed allowed injustices to take place due to abusing or ignoring their authority, Carter became a shotgun-wielding serial killer calling himself the "Sin-Eater". (Acting independently from his neighbor and orginal Sin-Eater, Emil Gregg.) Carter's murderous rampage (which he himself was placed in charge of investigating) claimed the lives of several, including Police Captain Jean [=DeWolff=], his secret lover, and an ally of Spider-Man. |
| 1009 | |
| 1010 | Carter was eventually apprehended by Spider-Man (who, in a fit of rage, unintentionally crippled him, and nearly allowed him to be lynched by an angry mob) and placed in psychiatric care, while also having the drug that drove him to homicidal mania purged from his system. A repentant Carter was soon released, which turned out to be mistake, as he was tormented by visions of the Sin-Eater. Overcome by stress and an inability to readjust, Carter donned his old costume, took a hostage, and was shot to death by the police; immediately afterward, Spider-Man, who had been conflicted about Carter, discovered that his shotgun was not even loaded; he had "beaten" the Sin-Eater by committing SuicideByCop. |
| 1011 | |
| 1012 | Years later, Carter's body was recovered and infected with the Carrion virus by the Scriers. The new "Carrion-Eater" engaged Spider-Man in several battles before Carter's consciousness asserted control, which led to him sacrificing himself to thwart the Scriers' plan to summon [[EldritchAbomination Chthon]]. After that, Kindred brought him back again to be the antagonist of ''ComicBook/SinsRising''. |
| 1013 | ---- |
| 1014 | * AllYourPowersCombined: Kindred gave him the power to steal the powers of villains he kills. |
| 1015 | * BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Revived by the Carrion virus. Later on revived again by Kindred]]. |
| 1016 | * BigBad: Of ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfJeanDeWolff''. |
| 1017 | * CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:When Kindred resurrected him he also implanted the Sin-Eater persona into him]]. |
| 1018 | * TheHeavy: For ''ComicBook/SinsRising'' under [[spoiler:Kindred]]. |
| 1019 | * HeelFaceBrainwashing: Villains whose powers he steals become meek and guilt-plagued. |
| 1020 | * InsanityDefense: A rare example of one being used correctly; Stan's violent impulses are the result of a drug he tested and manifest as a murderous split personality. Stan Carter's committal allowed him to get the help he needed to return to sanity. In any case, he wasn't actually a threat to anyone, as Spider-Man had permanently crippled him in an earlier NoHoldsBarredBeatdown. |
| 1021 | * PowersAsPrograms: His power-stealing works on powers regardless of origin, as shown when he shoots [[spoiler:the Juggernaut]]. |
| 1022 | * PsychoSerum: Stanley volunteered for an experimental drug, developed by S.H.I.E.L.D. R&D basing on phencyclidine and aimed to increase strength and stamina. The project was interrupted because it was considered too dangerous, and Carter, who considered this an affront and an abuse of authority, violently resigned. There were no traces of drugs in his system, being totally purified, but nevertheless the drugs had already driven him crazy. |
| 1023 | * SecondaryColorNemesis: His costume stands out for being purple and green. |
| 1024 | * SinEater: Carter was once a SHIELD agent that participated in an experiment to test the effects of phencyclidine on human strength and endurance. The experiments affected Carter psychologically and he resigned after the program was shut down. It was presumed the effects of the experiments were gone until Carter suffered a mental breakdown after his partner was killed, resulting in a murderous obsession with cleansing the world of people he saw as sinners. |
| 1025 | * SplitPersonality: Eventually the Sin-Eater persona became one. |
| 1026 | * SupervillainPackingHeat: Used a shotgun as his weapon. |
| 1027 | * VillainWithGoodPublicity: The Sin-Eater quickly gets public support after his public murder of the Lethal Legion, with the immediate onlookers actually ''applauding'' him. One such onlooker claims that her friend got killed before her eyes by Whirlwind, so ''of course'' she was happy to see him get his comeuppance, while another describes Sin-Eater as being "Like the Punisher, except he has powers, so he can get the job done." This eventually reaches the point where many people are willing to join him in his quest to cleanse the world of sin after he releases an online video where he requests their assistance. |
| 1028 | [[/folder]] |
| 1029 | |
| 1030 | [[folder:Skinhead]] |
| 1031 | !!Skinhead |
| 1032 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/skinhead.jpg]] |
| 1033 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Edward Cross |
| 1034 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Web of Spider-Man'' #56, (November, 1989) |
| 1035 | ->''"They destroyed Eddie the Cross, boys--melted him the crucible of pure white fire. Eddie is dead, but from his moribund flesh a new avenging spirit was born: Skinhead, the White Redemmer."'' |
| 1036 | |
| 1037 | Edward Cross joined a white supremacist group as a young man. Eddie and his gang came into conflict with Spider Man and Rocket Racer. When a failed experimental web fluid covered Eddie up, he changed into a shapeless, formless mass of flesh called Skinhead. |
| 1038 | ---- |
| 1039 | * AcidAttack: Cross exudes corrosive bodily fluids, and can use his body to engulf and devour the flesh of his victims, leaving behind only a pile of bones. |
| 1040 | * BlobMonster: Cross can transform his body into a ten-foot diameter amoebae-like mass of flesh. |
| 1041 | * BoomerangBigot: Cross is a Jew who became a neo-Nazi. |
| 1042 | * CombatTentacles: Can stretch pseudo-pods of his flesh. |
| 1043 | * FreakLabAccident: Gained his powers after being doused in Peter's experimental corrosive web fluid. |
| 1044 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: A superpowered neo-Nazi who calls himself "the White Redeemer". |
| 1045 | * SizeShifter: His formless mass can increase in size. |
| 1046 | * StrippedToTheBone: Dissolves the flesh of his victims, leaving nothing behind but bones. |
| 1047 | * SuperToughness: His body can withstand small firearms and explosives including Rocket Racer's micro-rockets. |
| 1048 | [[/folder]] |
| 1049 | |
| 1050 | [[folder:Slyde]] |
| 1051 | !!Slyde |
| 1052 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/slyde.gif]] |
| 1053 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Jalome Beacher |
| 1054 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #272 (Jan 1986) |
| 1055 | ->''"Thus Slyde was born and super heroes everywhere bit their nails a little more each day."'' |
| 1056 | |
| 1057 | Jalome Beacher was a chemical engineer working on a coating that could eliminate any friction between an object and other surfaces. When the company Beacher worked for was taken over by a man named Rockwall, Beacher's lab was closed and he was fired. He later wanted to make his own company to develop the chemical he had been working on but didn't have enough money to fund it. He decided that the only way to start his new company was to steal it. Beacher created a suit coated with his non-friction chemical. He was now able to move at high speeds by sliding. With his new suit and codename, Slyde, Beacher was now ready to go steal the money he needed. |
| 1058 | ---- |
| 1059 | * BadInfluencer: As of 2023, he's become a villainous live-streamer, meaning he not only commits crimes, he live-blogs the whole time. |
| 1060 | %%* ButtMonkey |
| 1061 | * ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Slyde's costume is covered with an experimental substance that eliminated friction between it and other surfaces. Most adhesives (including Spider-Man's webbing) would not stick to him and it was virtually impossible to grasp him barehanded. |
| 1062 | * IneffectualSympatheticVillain: He doesn't even use real weapons, preferring to bluff with toy guns. |
| 1063 | * SlipperySkid: Yeah, he's not easy to catch. |
| 1064 | * SmallNameBigEgo: Just because you can't be caught by Spidey's webbing, it doesn't mean he actually sees you as threat. |
| 1065 | * UnexplainedRecovery: Despite being shot in the head by Underworld for protesting against Hammerhead's plan, he turned up alive several years later as an inmate of Pleasant Hill. |
| 1066 | * UnknownRival: To Spider-Man. |
| 1067 | * WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: His suit makes him super slippery and gives him the ability to run 30 m.p.h. |
| 1068 | [[/folder]] |
| 1069 | |
| 1070 | [[folder:Speed Demon]] |
| 1071 | !!Speed Demon |
| 1072 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/speeddemon_6504.jpg]] |
| 1073 | !!! '''Alter Ego''': James Sanders |
| 1074 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Avengers'' #69 (October 1969) |
| 1075 | -> ''"Pushing my buttons, risky move, considering I can break the speed of sound on one leg."'' |
| 1076 | |
| 1077 | A chemist granted super-speed by the Grandmaster, James Sanders used his powers for criminal ends, both solo and as a part of various villain teams. Starting out as the Whizzer, he later changed his nom de guerre to the slightly less embarrassing Speed Demon. |
| 1078 | ---- |
| 1079 | * AbusiveParents: According to him, his mother sold his dog for drug money. |
| 1080 | * BigDamnHeroes: Of a ''very technical'' sort. He helps thwart the Grandmaster's plan in ''Thunderbolts'' by showing up to bludgeon Joystick senseless, as repayment for breaking his legs. |
| 1081 | * BoxedCrook: [[spoiler:In ''Avengers, Inc.'', he's one of the many villains "recruited" by Hank Pym to try and fight Ultron]]. |
| 1082 | * DirtyCoward: When danger breaks out, there's a good chance that Speed Demon will run. |
| 1083 | * EvilKnockOff: Of the heroic Whizzer from the ComicBook/SquadronSupreme Universe, which means he serves as a double knock-off, since that Whizzer is also a CaptainErsatz of Franchise/TheFlash. |
| 1084 | * FreudianExcuse: It's implied that his mom was a real asshole. |
| 1085 | * {{Jerkass}}: Kind of comes with the territory, but Speed Demon is still a jackass. He spent a good portion of ''The Deadly Foes of Spider-Man'' limited series trying to hit on Boomerang's girlfriend, even when Boomerang was in jail. |
| 1086 | * LaserGuidedKarma: After spending the entire book as a {{Jerkass}}, in the pages of ''Thunderbolts'', Speed Demon gets his leg broken by Joystick just because [[DisproportionateRetribution he bet her she couldn't]]. |
| 1087 | * ManChild: Tends to throw childish fits when he doesn't get his way and acts incredibly immature at times, once getting into a petty argument with a little girl. |
| 1088 | * MilesGloriosus: He talks big, but he's always the first person to run for the hills when fights start. |
| 1089 | * PetTheDog: In ''Superior Foes of Spider-Man'', Speed Demon ends up growing attached to a puppy [[KickTheDog he stole from a girl]]. When said girl's family put a reward for the puppy's return, he reluctantly returned the dog, but not before making sure that the dog is well-supplied. |
| 1090 | * PokeThePoodle: A lot of his crimes come off as this. |
| 1091 | * RoguesGalleryTransplant: Started out fighting ComicBook/TheAvengers and ComicBook/TheDefenders, before moving into Spidey's RoguesGallery. |
| 1092 | * SinisterShades: The goggles on his outfit. |
| 1093 | * SmugSuper: Early in his career, due to his super speed, he acted very smug and tended to pick fights with people knowing they could never land a hit on him. |
| 1094 | * SoreLoser: Tends to throw fits over being one-upped. |
| 1095 | * SuperSpeed: His main power is to run at extreme speeds. |
| 1096 | * UnderestimatingBadassery: Challenged Joystick to a fight, thinking his super speed made it a surefire victory. She proceeded to defeat him handily, using his temper against him causing him to strike blindly at her, giving her the [[KneeCapping opening she needed]]. |
| 1097 | [[/folder]] |
| 1098 | |
| 1099 | [[folder:Spencer Smythe]] |
| 1100 | !!Spencer Smythe |
| 1101 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/smythespidey_3906.jpg]] |
| 1102 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #25 (June 1965) |
| 1103 | -> ''"Look at him. Blithely ignorant of his impending demise! Yet, when he breathes his last, I want to know who is responsible! I want him to suffer even as I've suffered--for, after too many attempts--Spencer Smythe will finally crush the Web-Slinger--forever!"'' |
| 1104 | |
| 1105 | An expert in robotics, Spencer Smythe repeatedly approached J. Jonah Jameson with his Spider-Slayers, machines design to hunt down Spider-Man. Numerous humiliating defeats at Spider-Man's hands eventually caused Spencer to lose his mind, and he became obsessed with killing the hero, abandoning his scientific career in favor of a life of crime. Eventually, the toxicity of the materials used to create the Slayers caught up with Spencer, and he died after sticking an explosive shackle on Spider-Man and Jameson, which they barely escaped. |
| 1106 | ---- |
| 1107 | * AlliterativeName: Just like so many other characters associated with Spider-Man. |
| 1108 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: Smythe's first spider-slayer was fairly silly-looking, and Peter actually talked Jameson into letting it come after him for a laugh. He was shocked when it turned out to be more effective than he expected. |
| 1109 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: In his first two appearances he was more of a scientist who was doing a good deed by trying to stop Spider-Man. In the 1970s, after a long absence, he was a card-carrying criminal. |
| 1110 | * DeadGuyJunior: His son, Alistair, who also fits GenerationXerox and AvengingTheVillain. |
| 1111 | * DeathTrap: Before dying from cancer Spencer makes one last attempt at revenge; he puts a bomb on Spidey and Jameson's wrists. |
| 1112 | * EvilGenius: Spencer specializes in robotics, and built a variety of machines designed to kill Spider-Man. |
| 1113 | * KilledOffForReal: Most likely due to cancer. |
| 1114 | * RobotMaster: A variation, in that none of his robots possessed [[ArtificialIntelligence A.I.s]], instead being either piloted or controlled remotely. |
| 1115 | * SanitySlippage: The material he used to create the Spider-Slayers rendered him mentally and physically frail, and made him believe (among other things) that Jonah "forced" him to create the Slayers. |
| 1116 | [[/folder]] |
| 1117 | |
| 1118 | [[folder:Spidercide]] |
| 1119 | !!Spidercide |
| 1120 | [[quoteright:247:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1325277_spider_man_11__spidercide__freakface.jpg]] |
| 1121 | |
| 1122 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Peter Parker |
| 1123 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Amazing Spider-Man'' #399 (March, 1995) [[note]]As Spider-Man[[/note]]; ''New Warriors'' #61 (July, 1995) [[note]]As Spidercide[[/note]] |
| 1124 | |
| 1125 | Spidercide is a clone of Spider-Man created by the Jackal (who has created the majority of the Spider-Man clones) who made Spidercide believe he was the true Peter Parker. Spidercide's insistence that he was the true Peter Parker led him down a road of violence and villainy. |
| 1126 | ---- |
| 1127 | * AxCrazy: As Spidercide, he lives up to the name, being far more brutal and keep to violence than most other versions of Peter. His "Maximum Clonage" incarnation in particular is basically Carnage sans cannibalism. |
| 1128 | * BigBad: He is the main villain in the mini-series ''Ben Reilly: Spider-Man'', hounding Ben Reilly during the time he was wearing his Spider-Man costume. |
| 1129 | * TheBusCameBack: He resurfaced in the comics only in the 2022 mini-series ''Ben Reily: Spider-Man'', which is an {{Interquel}} that is set at some point during the 1990s ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga''. |
| 1130 | * CloneAngst: Initially believed himself to be Peter Parker, until he became Spidercide he suffered from the dread and confusion surrounding learning that he's a clone. |
| 1131 | * CloneDegeneration: He's UnskilledButStrong compared to his clone-brothers, which Kaine puts down to being produced with inferior effort and materials, and seemingly less than 24 hours after he's been released from containment poor Spidercide is already starting to melt. The Jackal seemingly weaponized this via VoluntaryShapeshifting. |
| 1132 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: His creator apparently originally intended for him to be called "Freakface," which is what his clone-brothers almost exclusively refer to him as during his original run. |
| 1133 | * RedemptionEarnsLife: In the last issue of the mini-series ''Ben Reilly: Spider-Man'' (2022), he has a HeelFaceTurn and helps Ben Reilly in fighting the escaped inmates from Ravencroft. He has a heart attack, but is saved by Ben, and is placed under Dr. Ashley Kafka's care. |
| 1134 | * TomatoInTheMirror: In what was not exactly the most original plan ever, Jackal set him upon Peter and company with without letting him know he was a clone, spreading confusion over who is a clone and who was the original. In fairness though, ''this'' time the clone had a few extra powers, and seems to have been programmed to convince himself that destroying all of the Jackal's enemies would somehow heal his mutating body. |
| 1135 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: Since he was created to not just be confused for Peter, but also to kill him, he has been genetically engineered to have additional powers. The most impressive is that he can alter his molecular makeup at the cellular level, changing shape or even state at will. He can impersonate others or turn into water to flee a rough situation. |
| 1136 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: At the end of the "Maximum Clonage" story arc (1995), he is seen falling from a great height to his apparent death. |
| 1137 | [[/folder]] |
| 1138 | |
| 1139 | [[folder:Spider-Clones]] |
| 1140 | !!Spider-Clones |
| 1141 | |
| 1142 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Amazing Spider-Man'' #404 (August, 1995) |
| 1143 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/clones_4.jpg]] |
| 1144 | |
| 1145 | The Spider-Clones were a disposable army of clones of Spider-Man created by the Jackal to kill Ben Reilly. |
| 1146 | ---- |
| 1147 | * CloneDegeneration: All of these guys are significantly less stable than any of Jackal's other clones, as they all rapidly decay into fleshy mush over the course of their battle with Ben and Kaine. |
| 1148 | * ConservationOfNinjutsu: A veritable army of unstable Spider-Clones proves to be less threatening than a single successful clone like Ben or Kaine. Justified due to CloneDegeneration. |
| 1149 | * ZergRush: Their only tactic. |
| 1150 | [[/folder]] |
| 1151 | |
| 1152 | [[folder:Spider-Queen]] |
| 1153 | !!Spider-Queen |
| 1154 | [[quoteright:253:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/spider_queen.jpg]] |
| 1155 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Adriana 'Ana' Soria |
| 1156 | !!! '''Notable Aliases:''' Queen |
| 1157 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Spectacular Spider-Man'' Vol. 2 #15 (August, 2004) |
| 1158 | ->''"The metamorphosis has begun. I feel you, all of you, reaching out along the web we all share. Whatever you were yesterday, that was another time. A different life. You are all my children now. My colony. My kingdom. And I am your queen."'' |
| 1159 | |
| 1160 | Adriana Soria was the first female Marine in combat during World War II. Adriana and a number of other soldiers were exposed to radiation at Bikini Atoll in an attempt to create more super-soldiers like Captain America. All but Adriana died during this experiment. Eventually she was deemed a failure when she showed no signs of powers and was committed to an asylum, but she eventually managed to escape by using her awakened powers. She went into hiding and swore she would have revenge on the government that betrayed her, including Captain America. |
| 1161 | ---- |
| 1162 | See [[Characters/MarvelComicsSpiders Spiders]] for more info. |
| 1163 | [[/folder]] |
| 1164 | |
| 1165 | [[folder:Spider-Woman IV]] |
| 1166 | !!Spider-Woman |
| 1167 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/charlotte_witter.jpg]] |
| 1168 | !!! '''Alter Ego''': Charlotte Witter |
| 1169 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Amazing Spider-Man'' Vol 2 #5, (May, 1999) |
| 1170 | |
| 1171 | The granddaughter of the clairvoyant Madame Web, Charlotte Witter was a reputable fashion designer who also dealt in illegal markets, which brought her into contact with Dr. Octopus. Sensing latent psychic powers in Witter that could further his plans, Octopus kidnapped her and conducted genetic testing using spider DNA, altering Witter's physical appearance and transforming her into a spider-human hybrid. Witter despised what Octopus had done to her and tried to kill him several times, but Octopus conditioned her through torture, sensory deprivation and starvation until she obeyed his every command, so long as he provided her with a steady diet of human blood. Taking the name "Spider-Woman," Witter orchestrated attacks on other women who had previously used that name and absorbed their powers, with orders to kill Spider-Man once the powers of all the other Spider-Women had been absorbed. |
| 1172 | ---- |
| 1173 | See [[Characters/SpiderWoman Spider-Women]] for more info. |
| 1174 | [[/folder]] |
| 1175 | |
| 1176 | [[folder:Spot]] |
| 1177 | !!Spot |
| 1178 | %% |
| 1179 | %% Image kept on page with upgrade per Image Pickin thread: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=16984006060.68847000 |
| 1180 | %% Please don't change or remove without starting a new thread. |
| 1181 | %% |
| 1182 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/johnathon_ohnn_29_and_peter_parker_29_from_amazing_spider_man_vol_1_589_002.png]] |
| 1183 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Doctor Jonathan Ohnn |
| 1184 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man'' Vol. 1 #98 (January 1985) |
| 1185 | ->''"“I suspect that these spots allow me to defeat anyone!”'' |
| 1186 | |
| 1187 | A lowly scientist employed by [[Characters/MarvelComicsTheKingpin The Kingpin]], Doctor Jonathan Ohnn was given the assignment of creating a replacement for the Answer, a superhuman minion of the Kingpin who had seemingly perished in a battle with Cloak and Dagger. By studying Cloak's abilities, Ohnn was able to tear open a portal to the Darkforce Dimension, though the amount of power required to sustain the portal proved to be too great, and it began to warp and flicker (changing it's destination, unbeknownst to Ohnn) due to the strain it was putting on New York City's electrical grid. Before the portal could close completely, a desperate Ohnn leapt through it, and was brought to Spotworld, a white void full of black spots, which could act as gateways to other places. Ohnn found a portal back to Earth, and emerged from it as a pure white humanoid covered in the black spots, which he could control and use for transportation. |
| 1188 | |
| 1189 | Drunk on power, Ohnn renamed himself the Spot, and engaged Spider-Man, walking away victorious in their first battle, but not their second. After that, Spot popped up all over the Marvel Universe as a minor villain, either working solo, or for crime lords like Tombstone, Mr. Negative, and the Hood. Spot's unglamorous life as a glorified getaway vehicle took a turn for the worse when he was captured by a Mafia family and was hooked up to a machine that copied his powers onto an individual known as the Coyote; this event warped Spot, turning him into a nearly incoherent mess of twisted and warped body parts... that's still stuck doing grunt work for others. |
| 1190 | |
| 1191 | The character made his theatrical debut in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse'', acting as a main antagonist. |
| 1192 | ---- |
| 1193 | * AtrociousAlias: Spidey laughed his head off when he first heard Ohnn's alias. |
| 1194 | * BodyHorror: |
| 1195 | ** After having his powers hijacked by the Coyote, he now has multiple hands and feet protruding from every portal on his body. |
| 1196 | ** Even when he in his relatively normal state, Daredevil comments that they way his radar sense perceives Spot is unsettling to put it lightly. |
| 1197 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: Despite his AtrociousAlias, silly costume and the gimmicky nature of his abilities, when properly applied his abilities can be [[LethalHarmlessPowers very deadly.]] |
| 1198 | * ExtraDimensionalShortcut: His portals lead through a dimension he calls Spotworld. |
| 1199 | * GoMadFromTheIsolation: He betrayed M.O.D.O.K.'s Eleven to the Mandarin II, who [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves subsequently betrayed him by trapping him in one of his own portals]], he became stuck for an unknown amount of time in his dimension but with no way to know which portal was the way back. After his return he no longer speaks, is much more ruthless, and only communicates in a written language made up of spots. |
| 1200 | * ICantSenseTheirPresence: He does not trigger Spider-Man's SpiderSense when he attacks using his portals. |
| 1201 | * IneffectualSympatheticVillain: After his first battle with Spider-Man, he became a minor villain to the point that Spidey feels a little bad for himself that he actually took a few punches from guys like The Spot. |
| 1202 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain[=/=]TookALevelInBadass: |
| 1203 | ** During ''Brand New Day'', he relentlessly hunted down a Russian mobster who had shot his son. Despite Spidey trying to stop him, the Spot actually ''succeeded'' in carrying out his vendetta, brutally killing the mobster. |
| 1204 | ** Subverted in Creator/MarkWaid's ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'' run where was someone else with the same powers, but who was much more ruthless and inventive in using them. Also he was using the Spot as a power source and DD had to rescue him. |
| 1205 | * PortableHole: He has power over interdimensional portals, which he could place and remove as if they were solid objects. |
| 1206 | * PapaWolf: Ohnn was ''[[TranquilFury not happy]]'' when his son was shot and left in critical condition by a Russian mobster. Needless to say, said mobster is dead now, in spite of Spider-Man's interference. |
| 1207 | * PowerfulButIncompetent: He has the ability to create portals anywhere, including over his own body. These portals allow him to place anyone or anything anywhere he wants at any time, could potentially make himself untouchable, and could allow him to blindside or ambush his opponents from anywhere. Fortunately for the Wall-crawler, however, Spot is a complete idiot and never realizes the full potential of what his powers are capable of. Thus, while his abilities may annoy and inconvenience Spidey for a time, the hero will usually adapt and defeat Spot without too much trouble. This is revealed to be [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity incompetent]] ''[[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity because]]'' [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity he's powerful]] and once he figures out a workaround, his threat level elevates to multiversal. |
| 1208 | * PunnyName: Mr. '''Johnny Ohnn''' is '''the Spot'''. |
| 1209 | * StopHittingYourself: As in the image when somebody hits him, he can make their fist go through one of his portals and out another so they punch themself. |
| 1210 | * ThinkingUpPortals: How his powers work. The spots allow him to create portals between places. |
| 1211 | * UnexplainedRecovery: |
| 1212 | ** After the incident with Coyote, Spot has been menacing Jessica Jones and Miles Morales, looking like his old self. He can talk normally again too. |
| 1213 | ** In Carnage #3 he is killed again, however, before he disappears he says he cannot die because he has the Spot dimension. Meaning he has ResurrectiveImmortality even if it takes him out for a bit to get back to his feet. |
| 1214 | ** This finally gets explained in the Spider-Man Unlimited Infinity Comic. His mental ability varies with how many literal holes he has throughout his brain, and when he is killed his body dissolves to reconstitute in the Spotted Dimension. |
| 1215 | * WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: The ''Spider-Man Unlimited Infinity Comic'' has Johnny state that the reason he's usually not as competent as he should be is because his mind is impaired from there being spots throughout his brain. |
| 1216 | [[/folder]] |
| 1217 | |
| 1218 | [[folder:Squid]] |
| 1219 | !!Squid |
| 1220 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/spideysquid_9412.jpg]] |
| 1221 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Donald "Don" Callahan |
| 1222 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Peter Parker: Spider-Man'' Vol. 2 #16 (April 2000) |
| 1223 | -> ''"Like ink, Spider-Man? That is exactly what it is. Courtesy of... the Squid!"'' |
| 1224 | |
| 1225 | After his wife died, "Big" Mike Callahan channeled his grief into his business, causing him to neglect his troubled son, Donald. Don soon fell in with bad crowds, eventually working his way up to becoming a member of a criminal syndicate which mutated him and his girlfriend, Laura, into the Squid and Ms. Fortune, respectively. In their first outing as members of the Wicked Brigade, Squid and Ms. Fortune were soundly beaten by Spider-Man, which caused Laura to retire, and dump Don. Undeterred by this, his humiliating defeat by the webhead, and subsequent reconciliation with his father, Don continued his supervillain activities, sometimes working solo, but most often offering his services to bigwigs like the Hood, or the Owl. |
| 1226 | ---- |
| 1227 | * AnimalMotifs: He named his gang "the Tentacles". |
| 1228 | * AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Has powers based on a squid, including tentacles and the ability to squirt ink. |
| 1229 | * BullyingADragon: While holding hostages after a botched robbery, Squid picks a fight with ComicBook/{{Carnage}}. Fortunately for him, Cletus was feeling ''[[HeelFaceTurn very]]'' merciful. |
| 1230 | * CombatTentacles: He has four prehensile tentacles protruding from his back. |
| 1231 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: A lot of people think he's a wuss, but Squid's actually killed people before and can be surprisingly dangerous in combat when he wants to be. |
| 1232 | * CurbStompBattle: Always finds himself on the receiving end of these, which is why he's never taken seriously. |
| 1233 | * EvilSmellsBad: With the foul-smelling ink he emits from his body. |
| 1234 | * LargeHam: Really likes yelling "... the Squid!" |
| 1235 | * LegacyCharacter: He's so looked down upon that Roderick Kingsley enfranchised his identity despite Callahan still being alive. |
| 1236 | * LovecraftianSuperpower: He can turn into a mouthless, green anthropomorphic squid-creature that squirts foul-smelling ink from his hands and tentacles. |
| 1237 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: He's killed several people, a few in just plain disgusting ways, yet is still regarded as a joke by many. |
| 1238 | * OnlyInItForTheMoney: He doesn't have big ambitions; he just goes in, gets his money, and gets out. |
| 1239 | * RubberHoseLimbs: In his squid form he either has no bones or is ''very'' flexible, enough to travel through plumbing. |
| 1240 | * SecondaryColorNemesis: His Squid form is mostly green. |
| 1241 | * UnholyMatrimony: Used to be in a committed relationship with Ms. Fortune, but they split up when she wanted to retire while he wanted to continue being a supervillain. |
| 1242 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: He can shift from human to cephalopod form at will, though this isn't brought up much. |
| 1243 | [[/folder]] |
| 1244 | |
| 1245 | [[folder:Stegron]] |
| 1246 | !!Stegron |
| 1247 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/5608999_stegron_spider_man_marvel_comics_h1.jpg]] |
| 1248 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Vincent Stegron |
| 1249 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/MarvelTeamUp'' #19 (March 1974) |
| 1250 | ->''" Once, again, the time comesss for... dinosaurs to rule this Earth!"'' |
| 1251 | |
| 1252 | A former assistant to Curt Connors, Vincent Stegron used stegosaurus DNA to augment his body. |
| 1253 | ---- |
| 1254 | -> See ''[[Characters/MarvelComicsSavageLand The Savage Land]]'' |
| 1255 | [[/folder]] |
| 1256 | |
| 1257 | [[folder:Street]] |
| 1258 | !!Street |
| 1259 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1109d86a_248c_450b_9761_fb3c6795df3a.png]] |
| 1260 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Henry Kramer |
| 1261 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Marvel Adventures: Spider-Man'' #4 (August, 2005) |
| 1262 | ->''"Nobody ever remembers STREET! Ever since I fell into the mixer on that faithful day..."'' |
| 1263 | |
| 1264 | An employee of Industrico, he was working on a new weather and stress resistant asphalt when he fell into the mixer. He became a super villain and started wrecking New York, telling everybody his backstory, and battled Spider-Man and the Human Torch. |
| 1265 | ---- |
| 1266 | * BornInTheWrongCentury: His over-the-top speeches and classic chemical bath origin story would have made him an excellent Silver Age villain. |
| 1267 | * CanonForeigner: Has only ever appeared in the ''ComicBook/MarvelAdventures'' continuity. |
| 1268 | * JokeCharacter: He's such an incompetent villain that Spidey actually ''apologizes to tourists'', noting that New York's villains aren't usually this bad. |
| 1269 | * RoguesGalleryTransplant: While mostly facing Spider-Man, he has also fought the Fantastic Four. |
| 1270 | [[/folder]] |
| 1271 | |
| 1272 | [[folder:Stunner]] |
| 1273 | !!Stunner |
| 1274 | [[quoteright:282:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/stunner_5.jpg]] |
| 1275 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Angelica Brancale |
| 1276 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Amazing Spider-Man'' #397 (January, 1995) |
| 1277 | ->''"There is only one mission now. One goal. What I do now, I do in the memory of the only man I ever loved... Otto Octavius. I'm doing this for you, dearest. In your name I swear vengeance... on this so-called Superior Spider-Man!"'' |
| 1278 | |
| 1279 | A former lover of Doctor Octopus and enemy of Spider-Man who uses virtual reality to become her alter-ego. |
| 1280 | ---- |
| 1281 | * AmazonianBeauty: Her appearance when she's Stunner. |
| 1282 | * TheBusCameBack: Ended up in a coma during the nineties and only woke up during the arrival of ''Superior Spider-Man''. |
| 1283 | * DevotedToYou: She became completely devoted to Octavius for allowing her to become thin and beautiful. |
| 1284 | * FashionableAsymmetry: Her legs and arms are only covered on one side opposite of each other (right arm and left leg). |
| 1285 | * IJustWantToBeBeautiful: Being morbidly obese, she wanted to be beautiful and was eternally grateful towards Octavius for allowing her to become Stunner. |
| 1286 | * LovelyAngels: Had this type of partnership with Lady Octopus. |
| 1287 | * RemoteBody: What the Stunner body essentially is, since she controls it from a machine. |
| 1288 | * RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Her outfit as Stunner is red and black. |
| 1289 | * SuperStrength: When in Virtual Form, Stunner possesses great superhuman strength, able to lift approximately 50 tons. |
| 1290 | * StatuesqueStunner: She's literally a ''Stunner'' and she's statuesque at 7'2". |
| 1291 | [[/folder]] |
| 1292 | |
| 1293 | [[folder:Styx and Stone]] |
| 1294 | !!Styx and Stone |
| 1295 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/spider_man_and_deadpool_vs_styx_and_stone_1.jpg]] |
| 1296 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Jacob Eishorn (Styx) and Dr. Gerald Stone (Stone) |
| 1297 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Amazing Spider-Man'' #309 (November 1988) |
| 1298 | |
| 1299 | Gerald Stone, an idealistic young scientist, attempted to cure a homeless man named Jacob Eishorn of his cancer by using an untested procedure. The procedure backfired, turning Jacob into a living cancer that needed to kill to survive. Racked with guilt, Gerald had them become mercenaries in hopes of raising the funds needed to find a cure for Jacob (now calling himself "Styx"), which led to them facing off with Spider-Man several times. |
| 1300 | ---- |
| 1301 | * TheBusCameBack: They were semi-recurring foes of Spider-Man during the late 80s and early 90s, then vanished for two decades, eventually returning in the 2016 ''ComicBook/SpiderManDeadpool'' series. |
| 1302 | * CreepyLongFingers: Styx can stretch his fingers and extend his reach. |
| 1303 | * MotiveDecay: Stone had the pair become mercenaries so Styx wouldn't kill innocents. But as time went on, he become willing to kill anyone who threatened Styx. By ''Spider-Man/Deadpool'', he and Styx had become the leaders of the ''Cult of Entropy'', who were dedicated to ending the world. |
| 1304 | * NoSell: Styx's touch has no effect on inorganic materials, meaning that Spider-Man's costume, made of synthetic fabric, rendered him effectively immune to it. |
| 1305 | * NotAsYouKnowThem: When they returned in ''Spider-Man/Deadpool'', they had radically different appearances; Styx looked far more ghoulish, with claws and a JaggedMouth, while Stone had become a {{Golem}}-like creature with TakenForGranite powers. |
| 1306 | * ShoulderCannon: Stone has two, which fire a variety of ammo, from lasers to knockout gas. |
| 1307 | * TakenForGranite: In ''Spider-Man/Deadpool'', Stone has gained the ability to turn any inorganic substance he touches into a fragile, rock-like material. |
| 1308 | * TouchOfDeath: Styx's touch can kill any living creature, and disintegrate organic matter. |
| 1309 | [[/folder]] |
| 1310 | |
| 1311 | [[folder:Supercharger]] |
| 1312 | !!Supercharger |
| 1313 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/superc1.jpg]] |
| 1314 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Ronald "Ronnie" Hiliard |
| 1315 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Amazing Fantasy'' #17 (January 1996) |
| 1316 | ->''"My name is Supercharger! I'm a living battery -- I can absorb, store and release unimaginable amounts of power!"'' |
| 1317 | |
| 1318 | A criminal with electrical powers, chronologically he is the first supervillain Spider-Man ever fought. |
| 1319 | ---- |
| 1320 | * BoomerangBigot: He hates super powered people even though he is one. |
| 1321 | * EnergyAbsorption: Can absorb electricity like a living battery |
| 1322 | * FreudianExcuse: The FreakLabAccident that gave him his powers also killed his father, a person obsessed with superheroes. |
| 1323 | %%* PsychoElectro |
| 1324 | * ShockAndAwe: Supercharger is a living battery of electrical energy, enabling him to absorb and release vast amounts of electricity. |
| 1325 | [[/folder]] |
| 1326 | |
| 1327 | [[folder:Swarm]] |
| 1328 | !!Swarm |
| 1329 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/625439_swarm.jpg]] |
| 1330 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Fritz von Meyer |
| 1331 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Champions'' #14 (July 1977) |
| 1332 | -> ''"Yes, flee in terror, Los Angeles...lest you feel the sting of the mighty Swarm!"'' |
| 1333 | |
| 1334 | Fritz von Meyer is a Nazi scientist who experimented on the queen of a mutated bee colony. The colony in turn consumed his body, but his mind merged with the bees, forming the supervillain Swarm. The Swarm originally fought the Champions, but is primarily a Spider-Man foe, though he has also fought the ComicBook/XMen and the ComicBook/{{Runaways}}. |
| 1335 | ---- |
| 1336 | * AchillesHeel: Even though von Meyer is in control of the bee colony, separating or incapacitating the queen bee will cause the bees to stop following his orders. |
| 1337 | * ArgentinaIsNaziland: Von Meyer escaped to Argentina after World War II, which is where he discovered the bee colony. |
| 1338 | * BadassLongRobe: The only piece of clothing Swarm wears (not that he needs to even wear it) is a long purple cloak. |
| 1339 | * BeeBeeGun: Swarm's primary attack is controlling his bees to attack others. |
| 1340 | * DeathIsCheap: He's been killed and / or dispersed a couple of times. Heck, one time Venom ate his entire skeleton, but he comes back sooner or later. Somehow. |
| 1341 | * DemBones: All that's left of von Meyer's original body is his skeleton, which the bees swarm around, giving him a human form. |
| 1342 | * HiveMind: Von Meyer's mind, which has somehow merged with the queen bee. |
| 1343 | * InformedAttribute: A big deal is made about how he is a Nazi, even though he is never really shown doing or even saying anything particularly Nazi-ish. |
| 1344 | * NinjaPirateZombieRobot: He's a reanimated Nazi scientist skeleton [[Creator/SuzyEddieIzzard COVERED IN BEEEEEES!]] |
| 1345 | * RoguesGalleryTransplant: While mostly a Spider-Man rogue, he debuted fighting the superteam The Champions, and his insect nature means he has also faced Ant-Man and Wasp. |
| 1346 | * StupidJetpackHitler: A Nazi scientist who was consumed by a mutated bee colony he was experimenting on. |
| 1347 | * ThoseWackyNazis: Can't get much wackier than "evil sentient bee colony". |
| 1348 | * TheWormThatWalks: An entire colony of bees controlled by one Nazi mind. |
| 1349 | [[/folder]] |
| 1350 | |
| 1351 | [[folder:Tarantula]] |
| 1352 | !!Tarantula |
| 1353 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fa26b16d5058c0b065544aa71ac5750f.jpg]] |
| 1354 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Anton Miguel Rodriguez |
| 1355 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #134 (July 1974) |
| 1356 | -> ''"And no one can survive the Tarantula's sting!"'' |
| 1357 | |
| 1358 | Going from anti-government revolutionary to brutal enforcer for the same regime he fought against, the man known as Tarantula eventually fled his home country of [[BananaRepublic Delvadia]] altogether to become a mercenary in the U.S.A. Lacking any actual superpowers, Rodriguez relied on his martial arts skills and a pair of nasty boots that ended in steel spikes. |
| 1359 | ---- |
| 1360 | * ArmedLegs: His trademark weapons are his spiked boots. Said spikes can be coated with various poisons if Tarantula feels like it. |
| 1361 | * BackFromTheDead: He was revived by the Jackal during ''ComicBook/DeadNoMoreTheCloneConspiracy'' and survived the CloneDegeneration that killed many others. |
| 1362 | * BadassNormal: He had no actual superpowers until he was transformed into a monster. |
| 1363 | * BananaRepublic: Delvadia, where Rodriguez hails from. |
| 1364 | * BloodKnight: He went from a revolutionary to a despotic goon to an assassin. |
| 1365 | * BodyHorror: His transformation into a Man-Spider. No wonder he committed SuicideByCop in response. |
| 1366 | * DrivenToSuicide: His ultimate fate. |
| 1367 | * EvilCounterpart: "Tarantula" was a title assigned to him by the government, and was intended to be the Delvadian equivalent to ComicBook/CaptainAmerica. |
| 1368 | * EvilKnockoff: Later in his career, Rodriguez tried to gain powers similar to Spidey's. Look at GiantSpider to see how that ended up. |
| 1369 | * ExtremityExtremist: Almost all of Tarantula's fighting style relied on kicking with his spiked boots. |
| 1370 | * EveryoneHasStandards: What led to him being kicked out of his revolutionary group. While the other members of the group regularly used violence and murder to advance their cause, Rodriguez's lust for violence was so extreme it endangered the rest of the group. As a result, he was forced out. |
| 1371 | * GiantSpider: A botched experiment intended to give Rodriguez powers similar to Spider-Man's resulted in him mutating into a giant spider-monster. |
| 1372 | * LegacyCharacter: Various individuals have utilized his costume and/or moniker, including Jacinda Rodriquez, Luis Alvarez, Maria Vasquez, an unnamed individual, and Kaine Parker. |
| 1373 | * MistakenForGay: He had a daughter named Jacinda, who tried to follow in his footsteps, and teamed up with the daughter of [[Characters/CaptainAmericaCentralRoguesGallery Batroc the Leaper]]. Their existence came as a shock to the [[Characters/MarvelComicsTaskmaster Taskmaster]]. |
| 1374 | --> '''Taskmaster:''' Listen, I knew both your fathers, and I must say, with all due respect to those brave and talented men... you cannot imagine my surprise at finding out they were heterosexual. |
| 1375 | * PsychoForHire: He was a sadistic mercenary who sold his talents. |
| 1376 | * SmallNameBigEgo: During the ''ComicBook/SinisterWar'' storyline, he complains about never getting the respect he "deserved", and how he was never held in the same regard as the other "clowns" in Spidey's rogues gallery. |
| 1377 | * SmugSnake: Rodriguez always had more cruelty and confidence than actual skill, and (barring a few lucky breaks) could never really stand up to Spider-Man in a straight fight. A particularly humiliating defeat left him looking to enhance his powers, which ultimately lead to his doom. |
| 1378 | * SuicideByCop: Horrified by his worsening transformation into a Man-Spider, Anton threw himself at a police barricade, and was riddled with bullets. |
| 1379 | * {{Turncoat}}: After leaving the rebel group, Rodriguez joined up with the government forces, and took great pleasure in hunting down and killing his former partners. |
| 1380 | |
| 1381 | !!Tarantula II |
| 1382 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/luis_alvarez_earth_616_from_official_handbook_of_the_marvel_universe_a_z_update_vol_1_3_001.jpg]] |
| 1383 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Luis Alvarez |
| 1384 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Web of Spider-Man'' #35 (February 1988) |
| 1385 | The second man to call himself the Tarantula. Aspired to be a South American Captain America. |
| 1386 | ---- |
| 1387 | * KilledOffForReal: He was captured by the Jury and executed. |
| 1388 | * RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Just like the original Tarantula, his outfit was red and black. |
| 1389 | [[/folder]] |
| 1390 | |
| 1391 | [[folder:The Thousand]] |
| 1392 | !!The Thousand |
| 1393 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thethousand_6033.jpg]] |
| 1394 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Carl King |
| 1395 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Tangled Web: The Thousand'' #1 (June 2001) |
| 1396 | |
| 1397 | -> ''"Everything. I wanted what you had for myself, Parker. The things I could do with it... with power like that... but what I got was different. Something better, Parker. Something worse. Something that could live inside, that could liquefy the innards of a man and walk the Earth within his hollow shell... something that could watch. And wait. And fester."'' |
| 1398 | |
| 1399 | A merciless bully, Carl King's favorite pastime was torturing [[Characters/MarvelComicsPeterParker Peter Parker]]. On the fateful day Peter was bitten by the mystical[=/=]irradiated spider, Carl witnessed his favorite punching bag get bit by the spider and instinctively use the abilities the spider gave him to dodge a car. Carl subsequently took to stalking Peter, who went on to become Spider-Man. Envious of Spider-Man's powers, Carl attempted to replicate them by stealing and eating the spider, which had been kept for study after dying. Instead of granting Carl arachnid-based abilities, the spider caused the thuggish youth to gradually metamorphose into a swarm of a thousand spiders, which could devour the innards of others and wear their skin like a suit. Laying low for years in order to master and strengthen his new form, Carl eventually went after Peter, intending to kill him and replace him as Spider-Man. |
| 1400 | ---- |
| 1401 | * AnimalisticAbomination: Notable in that he used to be human, but is now a SpiderSwarm version of TheWormThatWalks. |
| 1402 | * ArcVillain: Only appears in the three-issue arc "Tangled Web: The Thousand." |
| 1403 | * AttentionWhore: One of the reasons why he wants to steal Spider-Man’s life is so he can be famous. |
| 1404 | * AxCrazy: The consumption and death of his mother at his hands may have been an accidental killing, but what he did to his dad and girlfriend was perpetrated willingly and for little more than sick kicks. After going underground to get used to his new state and to build up his strength to fight Spider Man, he spent his time taking his violent urges out on the homeless population and whatever unfortunate happened to cross his path. |
| 1405 | * BodyHorror: His powers embody this trope. |
| 1406 | * BreakThemByTalking: What Carl tried to do to Peter during the time he bullied him, in addition to the physical violence. Emphasis on ''tried'', as already back in school Peter, along with everyone else, saw right through him and knew he was nothing but a sadistic and pathetic sociopath who only knew cruelty and fear, and was only a threat to Peter on account of his larger size and greater physical strength. |
| 1407 | * BaldOfEvil: He briefly became this when he took over the body of Peter’s balding landlord, Mr. Ambrose. |
| 1408 | * TheBully: He was the nastiest bully in Midtown High, and made Flash Thompson look like a saint in comparison. As an adult, he’s still the same cruel, sadistic bully he was in high school, as Peter points out to him. |
| 1409 | * BullyBrutality: During his EvilGloating, King nonchalantly recalls doing such things to Peter as forcing him to eat dog crap, dangling him off the Williamsburg Bridge, and ''holding a knife to his crotch'' [[DisproportionateRetribution purely because he messed up his math paper]]. |
| 1410 | * CannibalismSuperpower: By liquifying and drinking a person’s bones and internal organs, he gains their strength. He gained SuperStrength by eating the innards of several people, and planned on gaining Spider-Man’s powers by eating ''his'' innards. |
| 1411 | * ThisCannotBe: When Carl is about to take over Peter's body, he [[BreakThemByTalking gives a speech about how Peter is still weak and pitiful compared to him even after getting superpowers. Peter stuns him with a single sentence]]. |
| 1412 | -->'''Spider-Man''': Carl...[[PreAssKickingOneLiner I'm not afraid of you at all]].\ |
| 1413 | '''Carl''': But.... |
| 1414 | * CannotTalkToWomen: Peter claims that in high school, Carl was terrified of girls. |
| 1415 | * CardCarryingJerkass: In high school, Carl was an even more vicious bully to Peter than Flash Thompson; in the present, he revels in the memory of how much he made Peter's life miserable and freely admits he was a "rotten kid". As the Thousand, he's crossed the line into CardCarryingVillain. |
| 1416 | * CardCarryingVillain: He acknowledges himself as a supervillain after admitting he killed his parents to Spidey. |
| 1417 | -->'''Thousand''': You remember what a rotten kid I was, Parker. It's hardly surprising I turned out to be a rotten supervillain, too.\ |
| 1418 | '''Spider-Man''': A supervillain?\ |
| 1419 | '''Thousand''': I think I fit the profile. |
| 1420 | * CharacterCatchphrase / MadnessMantra: "It should have been me!" |
| 1421 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: Having seen what the radioactive spider bite did to Peter, Carl decided to break into the exhibition building to acquire one for himself. It was only after he did so that he realized that he had no idea how to irradiate a spider, and the spider that bit Peter was dead, which left him with "Plan B" - eating the spider's corpse. |
| 1422 | * DisposableVagrant: His main source of nourishment. |
| 1423 | * DisproportionateRetribution: In high school, Carl made Peter do his homework for him. Once, when Peter didn’t do a good job on his math homework, Carl reacted by ''pointing a knife at his crotch''. |
| 1424 | * EntitledBastard: He's insanely jealous of Peter's fame, powers, exciting adventures, and the beautiful women he’s dated, firmly convinced that they’re all rightfully his. |
| 1425 | * EvilCounterpart: To Flash Thompson, who does not appear in the story. Both bullied Peter Parker, but while Flash did so due to [[FreudianExcuse his troubled home life and own insecurities]], Carl did it simply [[ForTheEvulz because he was a sadistic sociopath]]. While Flash looks back on his time as a bully with embarrassment and shame, Carl revels in the memories of his past misdeeds. Both of them wanted to be like Spider-Man, though Flash admired Spider-Man while Carl was extremely jealous of Spider-Man. Later, Flash would become a superhero while Carl would become a super''villain''. |
| 1426 | * EvenTheLovingHeroHasHatedOnes: Spider-Man normally doesn't hate anyone, and even against the evilest of foes, he's still open to delivering wisecracks and lighthearted jokes at their expense. With Carl? Peter straight-up gives him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech about how rotten and pathetic he is with a blunt and serious tone, never making a single joke once when fighting against him. Considering Carl's history as an unrepentant bully towards Peter, his shamelessness about killing others, and his insanely self-absorbed reason for committing murder, it's no wonder why Spider-Man had such contemptuous and disdainful thoughts toward him. |
| 1427 | * EvilGloating: After biting Spider-Man and paralyzing him, he [[BoundAndGagged ties him up]] and goes on a long monologue, explaining his origins, his powers, and how he plans to KillAndReplace Spidey. This, combined with the interruption of Peter's landlord, who King promptly devours, buys Spidey enough time for the poison to wear off. Spidey even lampshades it before breaking free and attacking him. |
| 1428 | -->'''Spider-Man''': You're in love with the sound of your own voice. You strut around smirking like a two-year-old who's just finished potty training. You can't resist laying out every detail of your descent into evil and your big, bad plan... and you get so into it you forget your paralyzing poison is about to wear off. |
| 1429 | * ExorcistHead: When controlling a human body, he can make the body’s neck twist backwards. |
| 1430 | * FatalFlaw: Carl's pathological need to gloat and grind Peter's face to the dirt when he has him at his mercy. See the EvilGloating entry above. |
| 1431 | * FatBastard: His own body was chubby, and he’s a heartless monster. The story also begins with him inhabiting the body of an unnamed overweight man, and he later takes over Peter's overweight landlord, Mr. Ambrose. |
| 1432 | * ForTheEvulz: Regularly bullied and tormented Peter in high school for the hell of it. In his current state, he's just as bad, admitting he's a [[CardCarryingVillain supervillain]] and recalling how he [[WouldHurtAChild ate children]] with a smile on his face. |
| 1433 | * GiantSpider: The main spider is about the size of a human head. |
| 1434 | * GreenEyedMonster: Solely motivated by envy for Peter's life as Spider-Man, believing it to be perfect. |
| 1435 | * HateSink: He's a vile, sadistic, predatory abomination both literally and figuratively. Even among Peter's worst foes like Norman Osborn and Carnage, the Thousand has none of their bravado or even ''slightly'' sympathetic qualities, being a vicious, entitled bully who kills and torments for the pettiest of reasons. |
| 1436 | * HighVoltageDeath: Spider-Man electrocutes him, reducing the Thousand to the One. While swearing vengeance, the remaining spider [[TrampledUnderfoot is stepped on]] by an oblivious passerby. |
| 1437 | * HiveMind: A single mind in one thousand little bodies. |
| 1438 | * HumanoidAbomination: When he’s wearing his latest victim and pretending to be human, he perfectly embodies this. He can act and look perfectly normal up until the moment he feels he has the upper hand. At which point he can distort and warp his host body ([[BodyHorror which is little more than a bag of skin]] [[TheWormThatWalks animated by his spider form]]) into a varied array of horrific configurations to overtake his opponents. He’s also completely divorced from humanity both in his [[AnimalisticAbomination natural]] [[SpiderSwarm state]] and [[AxCrazy mental]] [[TheSociopath state]], as well as believing himself to be vastly superior both to normal people and Spider-Man alike. |
| 1439 | * ICantSenseTheirPresence: He’s somehow immune to the Spider-Sense. |
| 1440 | * IRejectYourReality: Carl thinks all the other kids liked him in high school. When Peter tells him that everyone thought he was pathetic, he calls Peter a liar and says that’s “not how it was at all”. |
| 1441 | * ImAHumanitarian: Carl has eaten dozens of humans to gain the strength to fight Spider-Man. He planned on eating Spider-Man, too. |
| 1442 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Incorrigibly selfish, using everyone else for his entitled pleasure and punishing them for failing to satisfy his wants. |
| 1443 | * KarmicDeath: Despite twisting himself into a hideous abomination and going on a killing spree, all with the end goal of killing Spider Man to take his fame and glory for himself, it’s gloriously cathartic for him to end his pathetic quest for recognition as a smear on the bottom of an average citizen’s shoe, crushed to death as his killer continues on with their day blissfully unaware of his presence. |
| 1444 | * KickTheDog: Once, while beating up Peter in high school, Carl lied to Peter that his Aunt May hates him and that by encouraging Peter to stand up to Carl, she was purposely setting Peter up to get beat up by him. And then, of course, there’s all the people ([[WouldHurtAChild including children]]) that he killed and ate for no good reason. |
| 1445 | * KillAndReplace: His plan for Spider-Man. |
| 1446 | * KilledOffForReal: As if to demonstrate how unworthy he is even to be a supervillain, he gets killed at the end of his introductory story and even now, decades later, he has never come back. |
| 1447 | * LazyBum: In high school, he would make Peter do all his homework because he was too lazy to do it himself. |
| 1448 | * MetaOrigin: Ever wonder about what happened to the spider that bit Peter? |
| 1449 | * NeverMyFault: Blames Peter for his condition and how it led to him devouring his girlfriend, even though he [[TranshumanTreachery immediately dismisses normal human lives as worthless]] and, as Peter points out, he had a choice every step of the way. |
| 1450 | * NoSympathy: Carl takes sick pleasure in hurting Peter, and he doesn’t show even a tiny shred of guilt for all the people he’s killed over the years. |
| 1451 | * OrificeInvasion: His spiders invade a person's body this way, devour their innards, and [[ReplicantSnatching wear their leftover flesh as a suit]]. |
| 1452 | * TheParalyzer: His bite can temporarily immobilize others. |
| 1453 | * PsychopathicManchild: For all his power, King is nothing more than a SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp, utterly fixated on Peter and insanely jealous of his fame and glory as Spider-Man. During their fight, he rants about how he believes ''he'' should have become Spider-Man and how he deserves Peter's "perfect life." Spidey even lampshades it, remarking that Carl hasn't changed at all from the pathetic bully he was when they were kids. |
| 1454 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: In addition to what Spidey says to Carl before breaking free and attacking him, there's also what he says when he's laying into him. |
| 1455 | -->'''Spider-Man''': I remember you, Carl <punches him in the face>. Not quite the same way you do <punches him in the stomach>. You think the kids at school ''liked you''? You think they liked that you picked on kids like ''me''? You were ''pathetic'', Carl! You didn't know how to make friends! You were terrified of girls! All you knew was ''cruelty'' and ''fear'', and making people nervous to get your attention! And look how far you've come, Carl! <kicks him in the chin> ''You're just the same old'' SADIST ''you always were!!'' |
| 1456 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: His spiders have red eyes. |
| 1457 | * TheResenter: For Spider-Man’s entire career as a superhero, Carl has watched him from afar, envying and hating him for having the “perfect” life that Carl claims is “rightfully his”. |
| 1458 | * {{Sadist}}: There’s nothing he loves more than hurting Peter. He fondly looks back on his memories of bullying Peter in high school, calling them “good times”. |
| 1459 | * SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp: Except he never did grow up, physically or emotionally. |
| 1460 | * SelfMadeOrphan: After becoming the Thousand, he murders his own parents and takes over their bodies. |
| 1461 | * SelfServingMemory: Like most bullies, he is under the delusion that he was popular. He violently denies Peter's argument of how pathetic he is and that nobody ever liked him. |
| 1462 | * SmugSnake: He's nowhere near the threat he thinks he is. |
| 1463 | * TheSociopath: He only cares for himself and what he wants, and is obsessed with becoming Spider-Man, believing he's entitled to the power and position Peter has. Other human lives are nothing but stepping stones to satisfy his wants, and he casually admits to Spidey that he ate dozens of people to grow stronger, including his girlfriend, his parents, and [[WouldHurtAChild children]]. |
| 1464 | * SpiderSwarm: The Thousand is a swarm of spiders in a human shell. |
| 1465 | * StalkerWithoutACrush: He stalked Peter and followed his exploits as Spider-Man for ''years'', and is obsessed with killing him and stealing his life. |
| 1466 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: Carl’s dad looked exactly like Carl, except his dad was balding. |
| 1467 | * TrampledUnderfoot: His last spider gets squished under a passing civilian’s shoe. |
| 1468 | * UndignifiedDeath: He escapes Spider-Man's electrical attack with one spider left and vows to return and exact revenge... only to get squished under the foot of a random civilian who didn't even realize he was there. |
| 1469 | * WallCrawl: While inhabiting a human body, he can somehow crawl on walls, just like Spider-Man. |
| 1470 | * WouldHitAGirl: He murders a female secretary from the Daily Bugle so he can take over her body for a surprise-attack on Peter. He also ate his mom and mentions that he ate his high school girlfriend. |
| 1471 | * WouldHurtAChild: He willingly admits to Spider-Man that some of his victims were children, which is far from the only atrocity he admits to in the long-winded account of his past. |
| 1472 | * TheWormThatWalks: His true form is a swarm of a thousand of normal-sized spiders and one big one; he wears the skin of anyone he kills, after devouring their insides. |
| 1473 | [[/folder]] |
| 1474 | |
| 1475 | [[folder:Trapstr]] |
| 1476 | !!Trapstr |
| 1477 | [[quoteright:134:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/trapstr.jpg]] |
| 1478 | !!!'''Alter Ego:''' Unknown |
| 1479 | !!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Free Comic Book Day (Vol. 2017) #Secret Empire'' (May, 2017) |
| 1480 | ->''No "e." I'm still trying to decide on the "a."'' |
| 1481 | |
| 1482 | Trapstr debuted interrupting a fight between the Vulture and Spider-Man, immobilizing them both with her paste gun and stealing some of the former's loot from a robbery. Originally introducing herself as the new Trapster, she dropped the "e" from her alias after Spider-Man wondered if it was spelled like that. When the Beetle founded an all-female criminal enterprise named the Syndicate, Trapstr was part of it. |
| 1483 | ---- |
| 1484 | * AffirmativeActionLegacy: A female who has adopted the Trapster's name and gadgets, even though the original Trapster is still active. |
| 1485 | * AllWebbedUp: Often leaves her foes glued to surfaces. |
| 1486 | * LeetLingo: Dropped the 'e' from 'Trapster' after Spider-Man wondered if it was spelled that way. She is still deciding whether to keep the 'a'. |
| 1487 | * MysteriousPast: Unlike every other member of the Syndicate, her real name and why she became a supervillain is unknown. |
| 1488 | * SinisterShades: Where sunglasses as part of her costume. |
| 1489 | * StickySituation: Wields a paste-gun that fires a stream of glue. The adhesive dries instantly, can adhere to nearly any surface, and is virtually unbreakable, flameproof, and vulnerable only to ultraviolet light. |
| 1490 | [[/folder]] |
| 1491 | |
| 1492 | [[folder:Tri-Sentinel]] |
| 1493 | !!Tri-Sentinel |
| 1494 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tri_sentinel_earth_616_from_amazing_spider_man_vol_5_3_001.jpg]] |
| 1495 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #329 (February 1990) |
| 1496 | |
| 1497 | A [[FusionDance fusion]] of three Sentinels created by [[Characters/MarvelComicsLoki Loki]], and programmed to destroy humanity. It attempted to do so by inciting a nuclear catastrophe, only to be stopped by Spider-Man (who at the time possessed the power of ComicBook/CaptainUniverse). It later returned, recovered by the Life Foundation, who attempted to reprogram it. The Tri-Sentinel rejected the new programming, and attempted to continue its own. It was once again stopped by Spider-Man, who destroyed its central processor by exposing it to Antarctic Vibranium. |
| 1498 | ---- |
| 1499 | * TheBusCameBack: It recently returned during ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderMan2018'', 27 years after its last appearance. |
| 1500 | * CombatTentacles: It possesses multiple mechanical tendrils, located in the palms of its hands. |
| 1501 | * FreezeRay: It utilized such a beam ([[EyeBeams fired through its eyes]]) during its battle with Cosmic Spider-Man, using it to freeze a tidal wave Spidey had created to try and short-circuit it. |
| 1502 | * FromASingleCell: It was able to rebuild itself after being blasted to dust. |
| 1503 | * HumongousMecha: Sentinels are often large, but the Tri-Sentinel had the combined size and mass of three of them. |
| 1504 | * KnockoutGas: Yet another weapon it used against Cosmic Spider-Man. It failed to work, due to the Enigma Force keeping Spidey conscious. |
| 1505 | * LogicBomb: Attempted. Sebastian Shaw had placed a failsafe programming loop in the Sentinels it was formed from; it was meant to convince them that, since they'd inherited altered characteristics from their "ancestors", the Mark I Sentinels, they were technically mutants themselves (which, in theory, would drive them to destroy themselves). When Shaw activated the loop in the Tri-Sentinel, it only resulted in it briefly freezing up, its tripled logic capacity allowing it to reject the loop. |
| 1506 | * MultiArmedAndDangerous: Possesses six arms. |
| 1507 | * RoguesGalleryTransplant: Sentinels were created to destroy mutants, making them regular enemies of the ''ComicBook/XMen''. |
| 1508 | * NighInvulnerability: Even with the Captain Universe powers, Spider-Man had a tough fight against it. In the end, it took every ounce of energy the Enigma Force had to destroy it. |
| 1509 | * VillainDecay: [[spoiler:In its most recent appearance, Spider-Man managed to defeat it by tearing into its circuitry and taking control]]. |
| 1510 | [[/folder]] |
| 1511 | |
| 1512 | [[folder:Vermin]] |
| 1513 | !!Vermin |
| 1514 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1850154_vermin.jpg]] |
| 1515 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Edward Whelan |
| 1516 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Captain America'' #272 (August 1982) |
| 1517 | ->''"For I am not a man! I am death! I am...VERMIN!"'' |
| 1518 | |
| 1519 | Edward Whelan was raised in a seemingly average and well-off family home. However, his father was secretly abusive of Edward, and this colored his opinion of himself growing up. Edward's self-loathing brought on by the abuse eventually led him to a life on the streets. At some point, he was picked up off the streets by Baron Zemo, the son of a Nazi scientist, and Arnim Zola, the master Nazi geneticist, and subjected to a process that bestowed upon him various ratlike traits and attributes. |
| 1520 | ---- |
| 1521 | * AbusiveParents: As a child, Edward was regularly molested by his father; a wealthy and influential judge. As a protective measure, Edward would shut himself down and suppress these memories, burying deep and festering feelings of hatred, rage, shame, and loathing for his father and for himself. |
| 1522 | * ArtificialAnimalPeople: Mutated from a human into a humanoid rat by Baron Zemo and Arnim Zola. |
| 1523 | * TheBeastmaster: Vermin can communicate with and command rats and stray dogs within a radius of two miles from him. On several occasions, he has commanded hundreds of sewer rats to attack an enemy. |
| 1524 | * BoringButPractical: Vermin mostly just fights like a wild animal and doesn't have a massive amount of brute strength. And he doesn't possess the more impressive elemental powers or flashy destructive abilities of Spider-Man's other villains. But his unseen primal communication or "psychic poison" is always guaranteed to keep Spider-Man off his toes somehow and turn him into a hesitant, sloppy fighter. And when your mundane animalistic fighting style and invisible psychic mind poison is enough to bring Spider-Man to his knees and almost always require him to need some kind of outside help to regain his HeroicSecondWind against you, then you don't really need to have metal tentacles, electric powers, or the ability to turn into sand to keep up with him. |
| 1525 | * DependingOnTheArtist: In some stories, he has a tail. In others, he doesn’t. |
| 1526 | * ItCanThink: He might be animalistic and barely a shadow of his former self, but he can still talk and remember things. |
| 1527 | * ManOfKryptonite: His primal communication ability can make rats and other mammalian animals do his bidding but it can also affect baseline humans differently as well, even those who are enhanced like Captain America or Spider-Man. As Captain America noted when he and Spider-Man fought Vermin together, Vermin's very presence gives off ''something'' that clouds your mind, making you sloppy and off-your-game. It explains why he's done as well as he has against Spider-Man over the years despite not remotely having similar stats on paper, as Spider-Man will always be off his game around Vermin somehow and usually hesitate before the final blow, leaving himself open for Vermin to attack. |
| 1528 | * MesACrowd: After being administered an odd pharmaceutical by Arcade, Edward gained the ability to biophysically duplicate himself through rapid cellular mitosis. Able to create a seemingly endless number of duplicates of himself all able to work in conjunction with each other rather seamlessly. |
| 1529 | * PowerCreepPowerSeep: He started out as a Captain America villain and his official stats even out around the peak human range of being able to lift 1000 pounds. But over the years as he's become more of a Spider-Man foe, he's seemingly gotten much stronger to the point where he's presented as a legitimate physical threat to superhuman foes like Spider-Man and the Lizard. |
| 1530 | * RatMen: Mutated into a humanoid rat. |
| 1531 | * RoguesGalleryTransplant: While introduced as an enemy of Captain America, he has joined the Rogues Gallery of Spider-Man. Luckily Spidey met Vermin while teaming up with Cap. |
| 1532 | * {{Sadist}}: According to one of his captives in the sewers, if you fight back when he picks you to eat, he takes his time killing you. One particularly gutsy captive tries to escape anyway and is ripped apart. |
| 1533 | * ScaryTeeth: Vermin possesses very sharp and strong teeth as well as 1-inch claws at the tip of each of his fingers. His teeth and nails are strong enough to gnaw through wood, fibers, and even soft metals (like lead) within minutes. |
| 1534 | * SuperSpeed: Vermin can run and move faster than even the fastest Olympic level sprinter. While not superhuman, he can run as fast as it is naturally possible for a human being to run and can reach a top speed of 35 miles per hour. |
| 1535 | * SuperStrength: Vermin possesses physical strength that is slightly beyond the natural physical capability of any normal human and can lift approximately 1,000 lbs. |
| 1536 | * SuperToughness: Vermin's body is somewhat harder, tougher, and more resistant to injury than the body of an ordinary human. While far from invulnerable, Vermin can endure impact forces and trauma that would severely injure or kill a normal human being with mild to moderate discomfort. |
| 1537 | * SwarmOfRats: He can control regular rats too. |
| 1538 | * WasOnceAMan: He was once a regular human until he was mutated into a rat by Baron Zemo and Arnim Zola. |
| 1539 | * WolverineClaws: Vermin possesses very sharp and strong teeth as well as 1-inch claws at the tip of each of his fingers. His teeth and nails are strong enough to gnaw through wood, fibers, and even soft metals (like lead) within minutes. |
| 1540 | * ZergRush: What's worse than a giant rat-man? A swarm of giant-rat men! |
| 1541 | [[/folder]] |
| 1542 | |
| 1543 | [[folder:Vulture II - IV]] |
| 1544 | !!Vulture II |
| 1545 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/801537_bd.jpg]] |
| 1546 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Raniero "Blackie" Drago |
| 1547 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #48 (May 1967) |
| 1548 | |
| 1549 | The second Vulture, who took the original Vulture's wings after tricking him into telling him their location. He was defeated by Spider-Man quite easily. |
| 1550 | ---- |
| 1551 | * BigBadWannabe: Tried to usurp the Vulture identity from Adrian Toomes and even managed to beat Spider-Man in their first encounter (albeit while Spidey had [[WorFHadTheFlu a bad cold]]), but he ends up losing their rematch and afterwards is forced to duel a very angry Adrian who handily defeats him, proving that he is the true Vulture. Drago hasn't had a major appearance since then. |
| 1552 | * KnowWhenToFoldEm: After being bested by Adrian, Drago declares he's done being the Vulture and won't try it again. As of this writing, he's stuck to his word. |
| 1553 | * LegacyCharacter: Very first person to take the Vulture moniker after Adrian Toomes. |
| 1554 | |
| 1555 | !!Vulture III |
| 1556 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/clifton_shallot_earth_616_from_official_handbook_of_the_marvel_universe_spider_man_back_in_black_vol_1_1_0001.jpg]] |
| 1557 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Clifton Shallot |
| 1558 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #127 (December 1973) |
| 1559 | |
| 1560 | Another person using the Vulture alias. Former ESU professor, became unbalanced when his funding was cut, mutated into the appearance and powers of the Vulture (Toomes). |
| 1561 | ---- |
| 1562 | * PutOnABusToHell: He was incarcerated for the murder of Gloria Jenkins and he's presumably still there. |
| 1563 | * SinisterSchnoz: After mutating he obtained Toomes' hooked nose. |
| 1564 | * WingedHumanoid: Unlike Toomes, he really had wings to fly. |
| 1565 | |
| 1566 | !!Vulture IV / Red Vulture |
| 1567 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/red_vulture.jpg]] |
| 1568 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' James "Jimmy" Natale |
| 1569 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #592 (June 2009) |
| 1570 | |
| 1571 | ---- |
| 1572 | See Characters/ThePunisherEnemies |
| 1573 | [[/folder]] |
| 1574 | |
| 1575 | [[folder:The Vulturions]] |
| 1576 | !!The Vulturions |
| 1577 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vulturions.jpg]] |
| 1578 | !!! '''Alter Egos:''' Honcho, Gripes, Pidgeon, Suger-Face (original members) |
| 1579 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' Web of Spider-Man #1 (April 1985) |
| 1580 | |
| 1581 | Honcho, an engineer turned criminal, found himself sharing a prison cell with Adrien Toomes, who showed him his Vulture suit designs. Unbeknownst to Toomes, Honcho had a photographic memory, and upon leaving prison he recreated and modified the designs. Recruiting three petty criminals, he formed the Vulturions. |
| 1582 | ---- |
| 1583 | * CombatPragmatist: Honcho has been known to carry a regular handgun while wearing his suit. |
| 1584 | * LegacyCharacter: After the original team's defeat, only Honcho has remained, recruiting others to don the remaining suits. |
| 1585 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Honcho's real name has never been revealed. |
| 1586 | * PhotographicMemory: Honcho possesses such a talent, allowing him to create his own winged battle suits after taking just one brief look at Toomes' original designs. |
| 1587 | * SuperZeroes: Despite their youth, numbers, and modified suits, the Vulturions have never been even half the threat Toomes is. Indeed, when Toomes learned his designs had been copied, he hunted the original group down and beat them almost to death by himself (with only Spider-Man's intervention stopping him). During an appearance in ''ComicBook/SpiderGeddon'', Miles Morales defeated the four of them with little trouble, even mocking them by claiming the original Spidey can't mention them without breaking into laughter. |
| 1588 | [[/folder]] |
| 1589 | |
| 1590 | [[folder:The Wall]] |
| 1591 | !!The Wall |
| 1592 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_wall_0.jpg]] |
| 1593 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Joshua Waldemeyer |
| 1594 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ComicBook/SpideySuperStories #8 (February, 1975) |
| 1595 | ->''"Here’s one WALL you’ll never CRAWL!"'' |
| 1596 | |
| 1597 | Joshua was your average teenager, working a part time job laying down bricks at a construction site. One day, he was caught in the heat of an explosion, somehow merging him with a nearby brick wall. Desperate to ruin Spider-Man’s day off, he went on to impersonate the wall of a baseball stadium and attempted to murder the New York Mets. |
| 1598 | ---- |
| 1599 | * BackFromTheDead: What happens to one of his victims, suggesting the presence of either cosmic powers beyond the scope of a baseball game or the Wall having far greater potential than let on. |
| 1600 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: In spite of his childish nature, he is shown to be quite formidable, killing several individuals presumed to lack any sort of metahuman properties with ease. His speeds alone are shown to be able to bypass Peter’s spider-sense, a mighty impressive feat. |
| 1601 | * BlessedWithSuck: Somehow, being in close proximity to a wall while caught in an explosion turned him into a sentient brick wall. |
| 1602 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: In spite of murdering several people, he willingly follows the rule that no walls are allowed on active baseball fields after being informed such a rule is so prominently in the rulebook that he shouldn’t have missed it. |
| 1603 | * FreakLabAccident: A potential explanation for the source of his powers. |
| 1604 | * PutOnABus: Has not appeared since the 70s. |
| 1605 | * SuperSpeed: Can run faster than your average wall. |
| 1606 | * SuperToughness: Though not demonstrated, it can be assumed that he possess this ability, for clay bricks are renowned for their durability and perseverance. |
| 1607 | * TakenForGranite: Though not petrified, his body is now seemingly entirely made of stone. |
| 1608 | * WasOnceAMan: Once went by the name of Joshua, and is presumed to have had a life prior to gaining superpowers. |
| 1609 | [[/folder]] |
| 1610 | |
| 1611 | [[folder:The Walrus]] |
| 1612 | !!The Walrus |
| 1613 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1920330_hubert_carpenter__earth_616.png]] |
| 1614 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Hubert Carpenter |
| 1615 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Defenders'' #131 (May 1984) |
| 1616 | ->''" I don't like books. They think they're smarter than me."'' |
| 1617 | |
| 1618 | Hubert Carpenter has been a guinea pig for his Uncle Humbert's experiments for a number of years that have been quite unsuccessful. Until one day when his uncle's Omicron-Ray Generator gave Hubert superhuman strength and his career as a criminal began. |
| 1619 | ---- |
| 1620 | * AnimalThemedSuperbeing: The walrus. |
| 1621 | * BlessedWithSuck: His claim that he possesses the proportionate strength, speed and agility of a walrus means that he should actually be much weaker and slower than an average human. |
| 1622 | * CarryABigStick: He found a hammer that gave him magical powers when exposed to the full moon. |
| 1623 | * GracefulInTheirElement: His powers make him slow and clumsy on land, but like an actual walrus, he could be much more of a threat underwater. |
| 1624 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: When Deadpool accidentally led him to a magical hammer, he beat the shit out of Wade and nearly killed him. It's only after Deadpool tricked him into going to a place that cancelled the hammer's powers that he was able to defeat him. |
| 1625 | * ShoutOut: His real surname is "Carpenter" and his alias is "Walrus", a nod to the story of the Walrus and the Carpenter from ''[[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland Through The Looking-Glass]]''. |
| 1626 | * SuperToughness: His layer of blubber makes him surprisingly hard to damage. |
| 1627 | [[/folder]] |
| 1628 | |
| 1629 | [[folder:White Rabbit]] |
| 1630 | !!White Rabbit |
| 1631 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lorina_dodson_earth_616_from_amazing_spider_man_vol_1_605_0001.jpg]] |
| 1632 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Lorina Dodson |
| 1633 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/MarvelTeamUp'' #131 (July 1983) |
| 1634 | -> ''"We're the White Rabbit Gang—and we're here to rob this Kwikee Burger. I trust no one has any objections?"'' |
| 1635 | |
| 1636 | Lorina Dodson was born into a wealthy family, and kept sheltered and secluded by her hoity-toity parents, who intended for Lorina to grow up to be "a proper lady". To cope with her boredom and loneliness, Lorina turned to books, and became obsessed with Creator/LewisCarroll's ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland''. At the age of twenty-five, Lorina married a feeble, eighty-two year-old billionaire, who she killed in order to get ahold of his fortune, which she used to fund her new career as a thrill-seeking supervillain called the White Rabbit. |
| 1637 | |
| 1638 | As White Rabbit, Lorina committed numerous petty crimes, leading to defeats by Spider-Man, and... lesser heroes, like Frog-Man, Leapfrog, Gibbon, Grizzly, etc. While she escalated her schemes every time she was defeated, White Rabbit remains a largely ineffective nuisance, at one point being regarded as such a joke that the only people she was able to get to hench for her were a pair of out of work actors she dressed up as "Mad Hatter" and "Dormouse". |
| 1639 | ---- |
| 1640 | * AbnormalAmmo: Carries an [[ParasolOfPain umbrella gun]] that shoots razor sharp metal carrots. |
| 1641 | * AccidentalMurder: An ''ComicBook/AbsoluteCarnage'' tie-in story reveals she once inadvertently caused a man to have a heart attack when she just wanted to scare him as a prank, which if that didn't kill him it was when she shocked him with her electric gloves in an attempt to revive him. |
| 1642 | * TheAggressiveDrugDealer: She was reimagined as one in ''Brand New Day'', complete with an incredibly garish van depicting the hookah-using Caterpillar from ''Alice in Wonderland.'' |
| 1643 | * AliceAllusion: A supervillain whose themed around ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'', specifically the White Rabbit. She also had two "henchmen" (actually actors because no self-respecting crook would work for her) dressed up as the Mad Hatter and the Dormouse at one point. |
| 1644 | * ArchEnemy: To Frog-Man. They became each other’s arch-enemies because they are so pathetic nobody else would take them seriously. |
| 1645 | * AxCrazy: Lorina is a total nutcase, plain and simple, to the point of being completely ridiculous. And that's exactly why she can't be left unchecked, a fact that Spidey himself acknowledges. |
| 1646 | * ClockKing: She's sometimes depicted as being obsessed with time pieces and punctuality, to the point of [[BadBoss murdering a minion]] because he was a few seconds off-schedule. |
| 1647 | * DeadlyPrank: In a tie-in for ''ComicBook/AbsoluteCarnage'' she pointed a harmless fake gun at a judge and his son, and causes the son to have a heart attack, which sends the judge down a road of felony and imprisonment. |
| 1648 | * DependingOnTheArtist: Whether her hair is red, blonde or strawberry blonde varies between the books she's in. In one story it was randomly [[PaintItBlack black]], along with the rest of her outfit (a short-lived {{goth}} phase?) |
| 1649 | * GadgeteerGenius: The Rabbit is a pathetically inefficient hand-to-hand fighter, thus she relies on her [[ParasolOfPain parasol gun]], her tasing gloves and the occasional rabbit-shaped assault mech for combat. |
| 1650 | * GoldfishPoopGang: She's easily the weakest of all the Spidey villains, given just how easy it is to drive her away every time. |
| 1651 | * IneffectualSympatheticVillain: She is a complete joke in the criminal world and was beaten up once by the Grizzly and the Gibbon, two other joke villains that Spidey had honestly believed were no threat! Recently also MJ has beaten her. |
| 1652 | * InHarmsWay: She wanted to experience the thrill of a life of crime. The thrill she gets indeed, but she's too insane and too ineffectual to experience it for too long. |
| 1653 | * {{Irony}}: When she's actively doing villainy, she's hilariously incompetent. Her pulling a prank causes a man to have a fatal heart attack and push his father down a spiral that leads to his life ruined. |
| 1654 | * KarmaHoudini: She got away with killing a man (though accidentally) and ruining his father's life, by escaping from her trial in her rabbit robot. |
| 1655 | * MinionWithAnFInEvil: Her two henchmen. Really out of work actors (although if asked they will insist they are not out of work, just between jobs) that she hired to dress up as the Mad Hatter and the Dormouse. Whenever she orders them to break out really dangerous weapons, they always aim the weapons in a safe direction and never towards people. They fire into the air a lot, keeping in mind where the bullets are going to come down. They even discuss the safest places to aim them in normal tones while she's standing only a few feet away. Fortunately, she's absolutely batshit insane and always too busy ranting to notice. |
| 1656 | * MostCommonSuperPower: She has a big buxom and nice cleavage. |
| 1657 | * MsFanservice: Her default costume is quite showy of her well-endowed chest and shapely legs. In ''Wolverine & Black Cat: Claws'', she wears even less, and [[VaporWear also doesn't seem to be wearing a bra.]] |
| 1658 | * MundaneUtility: After she accidentally gives Leonard Elkhart's son a heart attack, she tries to use her electric gloves as a makeshift defibrillator. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome It fails.]] |
| 1659 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Has this reaction when she accidentally causes Judge Leonard Elkhart's son's death in a prank gone wrong, where she is genuinely sorry for what she did... at least until Leonard accidentally kills an innocent man trying to avenge his son. Lorina goes from being contrite to gleefully commenting that they're not so different. |
| 1660 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: And yet, for all of her sheer incompetence, she's still dangerous enough to civilians to get noticed. Just not powerful enough to be treated as anything else than a nuisance by Spidey and anyone else dealing with her; as Peter once put it, the Rabbit is a total psycho even if she's also completely ridiculous. A tie-in to ''ComicBook/AbsoluteCarnage'' shows just how dangerous she can be to normal people, from being able fight off several cops, to accidentally killing a man with a fake gun, and escaping her trial in her rabbit mech without much difficultly. |
| 1661 | ** In a 2022 book, despite appearing to be defeated and captured, she successfully managed to trick Spider-Man into walking right into Tombstone's trap from him. |
| 1662 | * PerkyFemaleMinion: Whenever she's working for someone else. |
| 1663 | * ParasolOfPain: Carries an umbrella that shoots [[AbnormalAmmo razor sharp metal carrots]]. |
| 1664 | * PlayboyBunny: After the limited series ''Claws'', her outfit was modified to resemble this for a short while before switching back to her normal costume. |
| 1665 | * StaticStunGun: Her TrickedOutGloves contain a hidden taser she can use to stun people. |
| 1666 | * ThrowTheDogABone: She tries to do to this for Leonard Elkhart, appearing at his cell offering condolences for his terminal illness and extending friendship, but given the nature of their relationship -- she accidentally killed his son years prior and laughed about it after he botched assassinating her -- she's honestly the last person he wants to see, which says a lot when the next person he sees is ComicBook/{{Carnage}}... |
| 1667 | * TrickedOutGloves: Her gloves contain a hidden taser. |
| 1668 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Her accidentally giving a man a fatal heart attack drives his father, a respected judge, mad with grief and at her trial, he attempted to shoot her... only to hit an innocent person in the court. This lands ''him'' in jail, and by the time Carnage comes to kill him, he's nothing but a nihilistic shadow of a person who welcomes death. |
| 1669 | * ZanyScheme: All of her schemes are either ridiculous or completely crazy. |
| 1670 | [[/folder]] |
| 1671 | |
| 1672 | [[folder:Will o' the Wisp]] |
| 1673 | !!Will O' the Wisp |
| 1674 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/will_o_the_wisp_marvel_comics_spider_man_arvad.jpg]] |
| 1675 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' Jackson Arvard |
| 1676 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''The Amazing Spider-Man #167 (April, 1977) |
| 1677 | |
| 1678 | Jackson Arvard worked as a scientist in the Roxxon Energy Corporation's electromagnetic research division. Arvard was under constant pressure from his boss, James Melvin, to produce results or lose his job and as a result worked himself to the point of getting little sleep. This ultimately resulted in him getting caught in an accident at work involving a new electromagnetic device he was working on. Arvard discovered that the electromagnetic attraction between his molecules had been weakened, threatening his life. |
| 1679 | \ |
| 1680 | Desperate, Arvard turned to Dr. Jonas Harrow, the scientist who operated on Hammerhead and gave him his metal skull. Instead, Harrow used a device on Arvard that placed him under the scientist's control and made him perform numerous robberies which led to him becoming in conflict with Spider-Man. With Spider-Man's aid, Arvard freed himself from Harrow's control and used his power of hypnosis to to get Harrow to confess to his crimes. |
| 1681 | ---- |
| 1682 | * AntiVillain: At least initially. Arvard is less a villain and more a desperate man trying to save his life, with the true villains of the Will O' the Wisp stories being James Melvin, who left Arvard to for dead and only cared about the applications of Arvard's research, and Dr. Jonas Harrow, who was only using him for his own ends. Arvard is more victim than villain. |
| 1683 | * BallOfLightTransformation: Arvard can fly by making himself lighter than air and expelling a trail of excess molecules behind him. He gives off so much light when he does this that he looks like an ethereal glowing sphere. |
| 1684 | * BrainwashedAndCrazy: Jonas Harrow pretended to help Jackson control his abilities, but instead implanted a MindControlDevice within him, placing Jackson under his control until Spider-Man intervened. |
| 1685 | * CharmPerson: Arvard can mesmerize people by making the emblem on his chest glow. Anyone who looks at it is instantly under his sway. |
| 1686 | * DroppedABridgeOnHim: Attempted but subverted. He was one of the villains poisoned by [[Characters/MarvelComicsFrankCastle The Punisher]] during a wake for Stilt-Man. It was later revealed in She-Hulk's book that they survived. |
| 1687 | * {{Flight}}: Will O' the Wisp can fly by becoming lighter than air and expelling excess molecules in a single direction behind him, causing him to be propelled forward. When he travels faster than 5 miles per hour, the expenditure of molecular energy causes him to give off so much light that he appears to be an ethereal glowing sphere. |
| 1688 | * HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: While he was a villain, Arvard's quarrel was more with Melvin and Harrow than with Spider-Man, and he was even able to have the two men exposed for their crimes. He later teamed up with Silver Sable and her Wild Pack. Some time later, he was temporarily forced back into Harrow's employ until Ben Reilly helped free him from Harrow's control once again. For some reason, he was also part of the Chameleon's team of "exterminators" who targeted Peter after he [[ComicBook/CivilWar2006 he revealed his identity to the public]] even though Wisp has no real grudge against Spider-Man. |
| 1689 | * {{Intangibility}}: One of the powers he gained from the accident. |
| 1690 | * LightIsNotGood: An AntiVillain variety. Arvard's moniker refers to a light phenomenon often attributed to ghosts and he takes the form of an eerie glowing sphere when flying. |
| 1691 | * MindManipulation: He can hypnotize others by emitting a glowing light from his chest emblem. |
| 1692 | * MonochromaticEyes: He has blank white eyes that give him a very creepy look. Especially when he smiles as seen in the image for this section. |
| 1693 | * NighInvulnerability: He can also gain increased durability by increasing his density. Between this and his ability to turn intangible, Will O' the Wisp is virtually impervious to harm. |
| 1694 | * NominalVillain: In his initial appearances, Arvard was forced into crime by Jonathan Harrow taking advantage of him. |
| 1695 | * PowerIncontinence: Initially, Arvard had difficulty maintaining a solid state after the accident, prompting him to turn to Harrow for help. He was cured of this problem by Dr. Maria Madison. |
| 1696 | * SuperStrength: By increasing his density for ten minutes, Will O' the Wisp can gain super strength. |
| 1697 | * SuperToughness: He can also use his control over his molecules to make himself denser and [[SuperStrength stronger]]. |
| 1698 | [[/folder]] |
| 1699 | |
| 1700 | [[folder:Yith]] |
| 1701 | !!Yith |
| 1702 | [[quoteright:343:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yith_earth_616_from_all_new_official_handbook_of_the_marvel_universe_vol_1_12_0001.jpg]] |
| 1703 | !!! '''Alter Ego:''' None |
| 1704 | !!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Spider-Man: Quality of Life'' #1 (July, 2002) |
| 1705 | ->''"Wow.Nothing gets past you. Have you also noticed I have a tail and a forked tongue?"'' |
| 1706 | |
| 1707 | Yith is a 7th-generation descendant of the Elder God Set and a mercenary with half-human, half-snake body. |
| 1708 | ---- |
| 1709 | * FangsAreEvil: Has sharp fangs that produce neurotoxic venomous spittle. |
| 1710 | * HellishPupils: Yith has eyes that are vertically slit, like a snake's. |
| 1711 | * PoisonousPerson: Has sharp fangs that produce neurotoxic venomous spittle. |
| 1712 | * PrehensileTail: Has a powerful tail used for coiling and strangulation. |
| 1713 | * SemiDivine: Yith is a 7th-generation descendant of the Elder God Set. |
| 1714 | * SnakePeople: Yith has the lower body of a snake, and can use her tail as a weapon, vertically-slitted eyes, a forked tongue, fangs, claws, scales, and produces venom. |
| 1715 | * SuperSpit: Has sharp fangs that produce neurotoxic venomous spittle. |
| 1716 | * SuperStrength: Her tail is super-humanly strong, capable of lifting 2 tons. |
| 1717 | * SuperToughness: Her skin is highly resistant to injury and her scaly hide can withstand impact from small-calibre bullets. |
| 1718 | [[/folder]] |
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