Herbert Landon

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Herbert Landon is a fictional character and super villain from Spider-Man: The Animated Series. He was a former friend of Hank McCoy. He was voiced by David Warner.

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Landon originally appeared in Season Two, as a scientist working for the Brand Corporation, but secretly working for the Kingpin. He despised mutants and had developed a chemical that would destroy them, while he pretended to be making a mutant army for the Kingpin and lied to the public he was working on a mutant cure. When the Hobgoblin attempted to steal Landon's formula, a fight ensued in which Landon was doused in his own chemicals, turning him into a 50 ft mutant. Luckily, the X-Men and Spider-Man were able to reverse the procedeure, but the accident left Landon with a permanent mutated half-face. After that, he joined forces with Spider-Man's arch foe, the Kingpin, and served as his key scientist.

Following this, Landon was portrayed as half-human and half-reptilian (his mutant form), and Kingpin's sidekick. He used his knowledge of bio-engineering to transform Alistair Smythe into the Ultimate Spider-Slayer and replacement partner to the Kingpin, taking Alistair Smythe's spot.

Some fans have complained that in his half-mutant stage, he resembles Batman villain Two-Face a little too closely.

In The Awakening, at the end of the episode, Landon is seen in the hospital right after Morbius drains his plasma. In The Vampire Queen, Landon makes a cameo appearance in the episode wherein he was hypnotized by Mirium into stealing the Neogenic Recombinator from Kingpin. He was later seen fully recovered in the fifth season premiere and last appeared in the five-part episode saga that followed the fifth season premiere.

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