Spencer Smythe

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Spencer Smythe is a fictional villain in the Marvel universe. He is the father of Alistair Smythe.

[edit] In comics

Spencer created the Spider-Slayer robots, which were designed to kill Spider-Man. After he continually failed to defeat Spider-Man, Smythe died of radiation poisoning from the materials used to create the Spider-Slayers.

[edit] In other media

Spencer Smythe (voiced by Edward Mulhare) appears in Spider-Man: The Animated Series. In the series, he is hired by Norman Osborn to create the original Spider-Slayer called the Black Widow, so that Osborn can create a hoverchair for his paralyzed son, Alistair, only if Spider-Man is captured. At OsCorp, the robot captures the wrong person. Then, Spider-Man comes to stop it, before Osborn activates one of the seekers, making Spider-Man hitting to start a fire. When Osborn doesn't allow Alistair to get a hoverchair due from saying "no spider splat, no hoverchair", Spencer decided to stay behind OsCorp to finish Spider-Man off while Osborn puts Alistair to safety. After the Black Widow is destroyed by Spider-Man by acid, OsCorp explodes, and Alistair thinks that he died.

Later, it is revealed that, after the explosion, Spencer can't find an exit to OsCorp. Then, Kingpin freezes Smythe, so his son can work for him. But Alistair figures out about after Dr. Herbert Landon, the Kingpin's replacement partner, turned Alistair into a cyborg, and having Alistair run off with his cryogenically-frozen father, desperate to work for anyone, except for the Kingpin, to revive his father, most notably the crime lord, Silvermaine, who is ironically the Kingpin's enemy.