List of Spider-Man enemies
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Spider-Man has one of the best-known rogues galleries in comics. Spider-Man's most infamous and dangerous enemies are generally considered to be the Green Goblin,[1] Doctor Octopus and Venom. Others include the Lizard, the Chameleon, the Hobgoblin, Kraven the Hunter, Carnage, the Scorpion, the Sandman, the Rhino, Mysterio, the Vulture, Electro, the Kingpin, Hydro-Man, the Shocker, and Morlun. As with Spider-Man, the majority of these villains' powers originate with scientific accidents or the misuse of scientific technology, and they tend to have animal-themed costumes or powers. At times these villains have formed groups such as the Sinister Six to oppose Spider-Man.
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[edit] Rogue's gallery
Spider-Man's most renowned rogues include (in order of appearance):
| Villain | First appearance | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Burglar | Amazing Fantasy #15 (August 1962) | Peter Parker's first foe was not one of his more well-known costumed enemies, but rather a common criminal. This unnamed, small-time burglar plays a pivotal role in Spider-Man's origin. Spider-Man originally intends to use his powers for fame and fortune, but one day he allows a thief to run past him. Soon after, the same criminal broke into his house intending to rob it and, when confronted, shoots and kills Peter's Uncle Ben. |
| Chameleon | Amazing Spider-Man #1 (March 1963) | Chameleon aka Dmitri Smerdyakov was a Russian spy with a knack for disguises. |
| Vulture ¤Adrian Toomes ¤Blackie Drago |
Amazing Spider-Man #2 (May 1963) Amazing Spider-Man #48 (May 1967) |
The elderly Adrian Toomes turned to a life of crime after his business partner cheated him. With a self-invented anti-gravity pack, wings for faster flying and a birdlike costume, he became the high-flying, lowdown Vulture.
"Blackie" Drago[2] is a prison cellmate of Toomes' who tricks Toomes and steals the Vulture harness and costume. He uses the suit to make money through air piracy. |
| Doctor Octopus ¤Dr. Otto Octavius ¤Carolyn Trainer |
Amazing Spider-Man #3 (July 1963) Amazing Spiderman #205 |
Dr. Otto Octavius is a respected scientist, one of the world's foremost experts in radiation who used four mechanical arms in his experiments, which bonded with his nervous system after an explosion becoming Doctor Octopus. He combines physical power with mad genius and is a founding member and leader of the Sinister Six.
During the Clone Saga, Dr. Otto Octavius (Doctor Octopus)is killed by Kaine and is replaced not long after by Carolyn Trainer, daughter of Seward Trainer and adoring student of Octavius. She obtains a set of four tentacles identical to Octavius' and made use of a personal force-field that kept anything from hitting her. She took the name Doctor Octopus in honor of her beloved instructor but is later known as Lady Octopus. |
| Sandman | Amazing Spider-Man #4 (September 1963) | While on the run from the law, the escaped convict Flint Marko finds himself on a remote beach during a nuclear weapon testing. His cells are spliced with sand molecules by the radiation, and his body becomes a mass of a sand-like substance. |
| Lizard | Amazing Spider-Man #6 (November 1963) | When he lost his arm during a war, Dr. Curt Connors felt like he lost a half of himself. Obsessed with regaining his lost limb, Connors creates a serum from reptilian DNA, in hopes of gaining reptile-like regeneration abilities. He regains his arm, but at a price: he becomes a humanoid lizard, with a savage personality. |
| Electro | Amazing Spider-Man #9 (February 1964) | An emotionally stunted man with an inferiority complex, Max Dillon is struck by lightning while working on power lines and discovers that he has a supernatural control over electricity. Donning a green and yellow lightning themed costume, he goes on to battle Spider-Man numerous times. |
| Mysterio ¤Quentin Beck ¤Daniel Berkhart ¤Francis Klum |
Amazing Spider-Man #13 (June 1964) | A disgraced stunt man and special effects artist named Quentin Beck dons an extravagant and theatrical costume as Mysterio and seeks to discredit and frame Spider-Man. After Beck's death, Daniel Berkhart and teleporting mutant Francis Klum both adopted the identity for a brief time before Beck returns from the dead. |
| Green Goblin ¤Norman Osborn ¤Harry Osborn ¤Bart Hamilton |
Amazing Spider-Man #14 (July 1964) Amazing Spider-Man #136 (September 1974) Amazing Spider-Man #174 |
Originally a normal scientist and ambitious businessman, Norman Osborn uses an experimental formula which gives him superpowers but also drives him insane. When Spider-Man thwarts his plans to take over as crime boss of New York City, he dedicates himself to utterly destroying Spider-Man's life. Their mutual animosity becomes personal when Osborn kills Gwen Stacy, Parker's long-time girlfriend and first true love. Harry Osborn, Norman's son and Peter Parker's best friend, eventually dons his father's old costume and continues his mission of hate against Spider-Man after his father's apparent death. Harry's therapist Bart Hamilton also donns the costume temporarily until he dies. |
| Kraven the Hunter ¤Sergei Kravinoff ¤Alyosha Kravinoff |
Amazing Spider-Man #15 (August 1964) | Perhaps the most respected big game hunter in the business, Sergei Kravinoff eventually set on a quest to capture the most elusive prey there is - Spider-Man. Alyosha Kravinoff continued his father's legacy after his death. |
| Scorpion | Amazing Spider-Man #20 (January 1965) | Private investigator Mac Gargan was paid by J. Jonah Jameson to undergo an experimental animal mutation therapy, imbuing him with super-strength, speed, and endurance at the cost of his sanity. Donning a scorpion-based costume, he set out to defeat Spider-Man numerous times and take revenge on Jameson for taking away his humanity. |
| Rhino | Amazing Spider-Man #41 (October 1966) | Aleksei Sytsevich is a poor immigrant from Russia who participates in an experiment that bonded a super-strong polymer to his skin and gave him enhanced strength, speed, and stamina. |
| Shocker | Amazing Spider-Man #46 (March 1967) | A burglar gifted with a head for engineering, Herman Schultz develops a pair of gauntlets capable of throwing incredibly powerful vibrational blasts. He wears a gold and brown quilted costume to protect himself from the vibrations of his gauntlets. |
| Kingpin | Amazing Spider-Man #50 (July 1967) | Wilson Fisk is the most powerful crime boss in New York City. |
| Morbius | Amazing Spider-man #101 (October 1971) | Michael Morbius, a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist, attempts to cure himself of a rare blood disease with an experimental treatment involving vampire bats and electroshock therapy. He instead becomes afflicted with a far worse condition that mimics the powers and bloodthirst of vampirism. Morbius now has to digest blood in order to survive and a strong aversion to light. He gains the ability to fly, as well as superhuman strength and healing abilities. |
| Hammerhead | Amazing Spider-Man #113 (1972) | Hammerhead is a member of organized crime and is closely associated with the Maggia crime family. Hammerhead distinguishes himself from other villains in that he dresses up and acts like a gangster from the 1920s. Due to an injury he suffers in which his skull is reinforced with metal, his head has a flat shape to it. |
| Jackal | Amazing Spider-Man #129 (February 1974) | Dr. Miles Warren is an Empire State University biology professor who becomes infatuated with Peter Parker's girlfriend, Gwen Stacy. After she dies during a battle between Spider-Man and the Green Goblin, Warren becomes a demented geneticist and clones both Gwen Stacy and Peter Parker. He gains enhanced strength and agility by combining the genetic material of an actual jackal with his own. His genetic tampering later results in the Clone Saga. |
| Hydro-Man | Amazing Spider-Man #212 (January 1981) | Morris Bench works on a cargo ship until an accident transforms him into a being of pigmented water, able to control his own liquid body. He has since been a frequent antagonist of Spider-Man and an occasional ally/enemy of the Sandman whom he once accidentally merged with and became a mud monster. |
| Hobgoblin ¤Roderick Kingsley ¤Arnold Donovan ¤Ned Leeds ¤Jason Macendale |
Amazing Spider-Man #238 (March 1983) | A millionaire fashion designer and criminal named Roderick Kingsley acquires the Green Goblin's weaponry and uses them to further his own ambitions after the Goblin's seeming death during a battle with Spider-Man. He modifies Osborn's original formula to give himself superhuman strength without becoming insane. Kingsley later brainwashes Ned Leeds, a reporter working for the Daily Bugle, to act as a stand in on many occasions and fool the underworld into thinking that Leeds is the Hobgoblin. Jason Macendale also uses the Hobgoblin identity for a time. |
| Venom ¤Eddie Brock ¤Ann Weying ¤Angelo Fortunato ¤Mac Gargan |
Amazing Spider-Man #299 (April 1988) Spider-Man #375 (March, 1993) Marvel Knights: Spider-Man #7 (December 2004) Marvel Knights: Spider-Man #9 |
When Spider-Man rid himself of the alien symbiote costume he acquired during the Secret Wars, it bondswith reporter Eddie Brock, who hates Spider-Man for causing him to lose his job and reputation. The symbiote, known as gives Brock all of Spider-Man's powers, protection from his Spider-Sense and the knowledge of Parker's secret identity. After leaving Brock, the symbiote has attaches itself to other individuals including Ann Weying, Angelo Fortunato, and Mac Gargan. |
| Carnage | Amazing Spider-Man #361 (April 1992) | Carnage is the combination of a symbiote spawned from the original Venom symbiote and the serial killer, and former cell mate of Eddie Brock, Cletus Kasady. He thrives on murder and chaos and is many times stronger than Spider-Man. |
| Morlun | Amazing Spider-Man vol. 2. #30 (June 2001) | Morlun is from a race called the Ancients, that feed on "totem" people like Spider-Man. While Spider-Man is learning the true intentions of totemistic hunters from his new friend Ezekiel, Morlun readies for his next hunt: Spider-Man. |
[edit] Group villains
| Villain | First appearance | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Enforcers | Amazing Spider-Man #10 (March 1964) | The Enforcers came together to combine their forces and become a very powerful band of criminals that has been very much in demand by many criminal leaders over the years. Its members are self trained as none have superhuman powers. |
| Jury | Amazing Spider-Man #383 | The group first appearsin Venom: Lethal Protector and consists of Sentry, Ramshot, Screech, Bomblast, Firearm, Wysper, and U.S. Agent. |
| Sinister Six | Amazing Spiderman Annual #1 (1964) | The Sinister Six is formed by Doc Ock, one of Spider-Man's major enemies. He thought if Spider-Man's six greatest villains join together they can defeat the web-slinger, so he hunts down 5 others: Vulture, Electro, Sandman, Mysterio, and Kraven the Hunter. He organizes a plan for each to attack Spider-Man one by one until Spider-Man is defeated. They kidnapp Betty Brant and Aunt May to make Spider-Man fight. Spider-Man defeats the six villains one by one until they are all defeated. The group reforms many times with varying membership and various numbers including Sinister Seven and Sinister Twelve, though the Vulture has always been present. |
| Sinister Syndicate | Amazing Spider-Man #280 | Patterned after the conglomeration of Spider-Man's deadliest foes who call themselves the Sinister Six, the Sinister Syndicate originally is formed by the super-villain Abe Jenkins, aka "The Beetle". |
[edit] Minor enemies
Alphabetical order:
| Villain | First appearance | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Answer | Lethal Foes Of Spider-Man #4 (July 1984) | Originally Aaron Nicholson was a very loyal hitman of the Kingpin, known as the Answer, but later became an unconscious being of energy. |
| Armada | Sensational Spider-Man (1988) | Armada a technology using mercenary hired by Mysterio. |
| Basilisk | Marvel Team-Up vol. 1, #16 (Dec 1973) | Basil Elks is a petty thief who breaks into a museum to steal what he believes is an ordinary emerald - but is in fact a Kree artifact called the Alpha Stone. Elks gains multiple superpowers, when the the stone shatters, by one of the museams security guards. Basilisk realizes that the Alpha Stone has a twin - the Omega Stone - which he becomes determined to find so as to increase his powers. Basilisk into conflict with Captain Marvel (who is seeking the Stones), Spider-Man, Mr. Fantastic and finally the Mole Man in his underground lair.[3] |
| Beetle | Strange Tales #123 (August, 1964) | Abner Jenkins was a master mechanic at an aircraft parts factory who became dissatisfied with his boring, low paying job. Using his considerable mechanical knowledge, Jenkins built an armor-plated, strength-augmenting suit, a pair of gravity-defying wings, suction-fingered gloves, and a cybernetic control helmet. Calling himself the Beetle, Jenkins decided to use his battle-suit for fame, wealth, and adventure. |
| Big Man ¤Frederick Foswell ¤Janice Foswell |
Amazing Spider-Man #10 (March 1964) Marvel Team-Up #39 (November 1975) |
Frederick Foswell was a small and timid reporter working for the Daily Bugle who aspired to be a crime boss. Taking on the identity of the Big Man, Foswell and his Enforcers attempted to take over the New York underworld. The daughter of the original Big Man, Janice Foswell sought to follow in the footsteps of her father and gain control of the New York underworld. |
| Big Wheel | Amazing Spider-Man #182 (July 1978) | Jackson Weele is a businessman who has embezzled from his company who gets Tinkerer to create a large metal wheel that can climb up buildings, complete with guns and waldo-arms. With this new vehicle, Weele is transformed into Big Wheel, the supervillain. |
| Black Tarantula | Amazing Spider-Man #419 (January 1997) | Carlos LaMuerto is the most recent in a family line of superpowered vigilante martial artists, all posing as a single immortal figure. |
| Black Fox | Amazing Spider-Man #255 (Aug 1984) | Black Fox is a jewel thief with a long international career. In his sixties, he yearns to pull off one last big heist so that he can retire for good to the French Riviera |
| Boomerang | Tales To Astonish #81 (July 1966) | Fred Myers has no superhuman powers, but he has the strength, agility and endurance of a professional athlete from his days as a baseball player. He can throw projectiles with nearly unerring accuracy, and his aim is nearly the peak of what a non-superpowered human can accomplish.
Boomerang's most dangerous assets are, naturally, his arsenal of specialized boomerangs. He has modified and improved on them over the years, but the most common ones are exploding boomerangs (with enough explosive power to destroy an automobile), razor-bladed boomerangs, and boomerangs that release large doses of tear gas to disable a target. |
| Calypso | Amazing Spider-Man #209 (October 1980) | Calypso Ezili, is a psychopathic voodoo woman who was associated with Sergei Kravinoff, aka Kraven the Hunter. |
| Carrion ¤Miles Warren clone ¤Malcolm McBride ¤Dr. William Allen |
Spectacular Spider-Man #25 (December 1978) Spectacular Spider-Man #149 (April 1989) Spider-Man: Dead Man's Hand (1997) |
The first Carrion was originally an extremely decayed and super-powered clone of Dr. Miles Warren.
The second Carrion was a college student named Malcolm McBride who had discovered a genetic virus which mutated him into Carrion, who had all the powers and memories of the original Carrion. While examining the corpse of the Miles Warren, Dr. William Allen was infected with an extremely powerful version of the Carrion virus. Using its power to manipulate the minds of others, Carrion III went on a killing-spree in New York City. It was only by using the Jackals old scientific notes that Spider-Man managed to cure Dr. Allen of the Carrion plague. |
| Coldheart | Spider-Man #49 (1994) | Kateri Deseronto was once a government agent with the codename Coldheart. She has the a bulletproof costume and with two swords, one to paralyze and the other to feeze objects. She is proficient in martial arts and sword fighting. After her son's death during a battle between the Hobgoblin and Spider-Man, she was deemed mentally unfit for field duty. Her clearance was revoked and she was forcibly retired.[4] She later confronts both Spider-Man and Hobgoblin, in revenge, after stealing her costume back. Coldheart is arrested and imprisoned in the Raft. Coldheart is apparently one of the many villains that escaped from the Raft [5]. Hiding in Stamford with some other escaped convicts, she was eventually tracked down by the New Warriors. During the battle, Nitro used his powers to explode the entire neighborhood, causing both the death of hundreds of people, the New Warriors, and presumably Coldheart as well. |
| Demogoblin | Web of Spider-Man #86 (March 1992) | The third Hobgoblin, Jason Macendale, wanting power, attempted to sell his soul to the demon N'astirh during the Inferno Crisis. An amused N'astirh declined Macendale's soul and instead grafted a demon to Macendale, "without a catch". Unfortunately for Macendale, the fusion of himself and the demon gave him a hideous appearance and drove him insane. After months of fighting for control of Macendale's body, the demon physically tore himself from Macendale and, christening itself the Demogoblin, set off to purge the world of "sinners". |
| Doppelganger | Infinity War #1 (June 1992) | A magically created clone of Spider-Man, the Doppelganger was created by the Magus to kill Spider-Man. |
| Finisher | Amazing Spider-Man Annual #5 | An assassin employed by the Red Skull who killed Spider-Man's parents. Spider-Man kills Finisher in self defense by turning his own missile against him. |
| Richard Fisk | Amazing Spider-Man #83 | Richard Fisk, the son of crimelord Wilson Fisk, is an anti-hero who has adopted several identities over the years, most notably The Rose. Although his goals are noble ones, the methods he uses cause more harm than good. |
| Vincente "Don" Fortunato | Spider-Man #70 (May 1996) | A mob boss affiliated with the Maggia and HYDRA, who attempts to fill the vacuum of power in the absence of the Kingpin |
| Fusion (Hubert and Pinky Fusser) | Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 1) #208 | Hubert and Pinky Fusser are twins both born with dwarfism. One becomes a nuclear scientist, and one becomes janitor at the same privately-owned research corporation where his brother works. When an accident strikes Hubert, his brother rushes to assist. The resulting radiation causes them to become one, a Fusion - a twin-headed radioactive being which contains both of their personalities. The brothers have Superhuman strength, and they can glow and emit radiation.Fusion profile (spiderfan.org) |
| Fusion (Mr. Markley) | Peter Parker: Spider-Man (Vol. 2) #30 | Mr. Markley is a millionaire who can get anything he wants. Markley can persuade people to do what he wants, to see what he wants, and to hear what he wants, controling people's perceptions. After his son, Francis, dies as a result of trying to imitate Spider-Man, he takes revenge on Spider-Man as Fusion. He attacks and brutally beats Spider-Man by morphing his body parts into those of various heroes. Capturing and brutally torturing Spider-Man in an abandoned warehouse, Fusion is defeated when Spider-Man, realizing the nature of Fusion's powers, manages to pummel him into submission. When he next appears, Fusion, having teamed-up with Doctor Octopus, through a bizarre plot of dismembering and mind-controlling people, manages to get a device which allows him to track Spider-Man. Soon after gaining the device, Fusion is beaten horribly by the traitorous Doctor Octopus and is left for dead, but yet he survives.Fusion profile (spiderfan.org) |
| Freak | Amazing Spider-Man #552 (March 2008) | drug addict named "Freak" is chased down by Spider-Man after he attempted to steal from the poor at the soup kitchen Spider-Man's Aunt May works at. He stumbles into a laboratory owned by Curt Connors and injects hiself with animal gene fluids, thinking they were crystal meth. Freak then began to form a chrysalis around his body, emerging as a skinless monster. |
| Grizzly | Amazing Spider-Man #139 (December 1974) | |
| Grey Goblin | Amazing Spider-Man #509 | Before her death, Gwen Stacy and Norman Osborn had an affair and Gwen became pregnant with twins: Gabriel and Sarah. Gabriel, like his sister, were born with the goblin formula in their system. Due to this, they both age much faster than a normal human; appearing as adults despite being around 9 years old. After a second dose of Goblin formula Gabriel took the mantle of Grey Goblin and became very much insane. |
| Hypertron 1.0 | Web of Spider-Man #83 (Dec 1991) | |
| Hypno-Hustler | Spectacular Spider-Man #24 | Created by Bill Mantlo and Frank Springer, Hypno-Hustler can perform hypnosis with the aid of his guitar, and when teamed with his backup band, The Mercy Killers, can perform mass hypnosis. His boots can emit knockout gas on demand, and have retractable knives in the soles. The Hypno-Hustler also appeared in Spider-Man: Reign, a limited series set in the future, at the end of Spider-Man's career. The Hypno-Hustler is metioned in pasting by Spider-Man in the Spider-Man: Friend or Foe video game. |
| Jack O'Lantern | Machine Man #19 (February 1981) | Jason Philip Macendale, known as the original Jack O'Lantern, has no super powers but wares a flaming pumpkin mask and hurls explosive grenades while flying on a disc glider or hopping about on a "pogo platform". He later became the second Hobgoblin. |
| Kaine | Web Of Spider-Man #119 (December 1994) | Kaine was the first clone of Peter Parker created by Professor Miles Warren who also doubles as the Jackal with only one genetic flaw: He is slowly degenerating due to clone degeneration. |
| Kangaroo ¤Brian Hibbs ¤Frank Oliver |
Amazing Spider-Man #81 (February 1970) Spectacular Spider-Man #242 |
Frank Oliver was the first Kangaroo but only had two overall appearances in Amazing Spider-Man #81 & 126. In #126 showed the Kangaroo off with his "powered-up" powers courtesy of Dr. Jonas Harrow, the man also responsible for Hammerhead's hard head. Unfortunately, the powers, not to mention radiation poisoning, got the best of Frank and it killed him.
A second Kangaroo, Brian Hibbs, jumped onto the scenes in Spectacular Spider-Man #242 with a very brief appearance. Brian Hibbs showed up again as a member of the Legion of Losers along with teammates Grizzly, Gibbon, & The Spot. |
| Jake Martino | Amazing Spider-Man #540 (May 2007) | Jake Martino is a small-time hitman hired by the Kingpin to kill Aunt May, though he only succeeds in shooting and wounding her. Spider-Man resolves to straight-out murder Martino after discovering he was the shooter, but he is shot by another Kingpin assailant before Martino is able to give out the identity of his boss. |
| Menace | Amazing Spider-Man #549 (February 2008) | Menace's back-story, including his real name, remains largely unknown. He bears a strong resemblance to the Green Goblin/Hobgoblin villians and uses the same style of Goblin glider. Peter suspected that Harry Osborn is Menace but had Lily Hollister his latest girlfriend varify he was not gone during the time Peter fought Menace.
The only thing known is that he's been hunted down by Jackpot since his escape from robbing a bank truck. During her search, she meets Spider-Man and reluctantly takes his help. Menace then attacks a council meeting and kidnaps a council woman, and Spider-Man and Jackpot attack him. Unfortunately, Menace's glider slams into the rescued council woman, and Menace escapes the crime scene but not before accusing Spider-Man of being responsible for the woman's death. |
| Mindworm | Amazing Spider-Man #138 | Mindworm was a superhuman mutant with limited telephatic powers. He had an over sized cranium and was naturally extremely intelligent. Eventually, Mindworm attempted to reform but his problems were too difficult for him to control and he allowed himself to be killed by common street thugs to end his great suffering. |
| Mirage | Amazing Spider-Man #156 (May 1976) | Desmond Charne is a former holography technician who wanted to be a supervillain. To that end, he uses holograph technology which could make him invisible or create 3-D illusions. |
| Overdrive | Spider-Man Swing Shift (Free Comic Book Day, 2007) | Technology user (notably a heavely modified car) and fan boy of Spider-Man. |
| Queen | Spectacular Spiderman vol.3 #15 (December 2004) | Adriana Soria is the first female marine in combat during World War II. Adriana and a number of other soldiers are exposed to radiation at Bikini Atol in an attempt to create more super-soldiers. All but Adriana die during this experiment. The mental strain of the experiment unhinges Adriana's mind and she is placed in a military asylum and forgotten. Adriana is a latent mutant who's radiated genetic structure made her into an insect human hybrid, who appears human. Queen surfaces in New York with the ability to control anyone with "insect genes" including those with retrograde DNA pieces. She is able to mutate the DNA in Spider-Man resulting in his becoming a monstrous spider creature before reverting mostly to his original form (Spider-Man gains the ability to generate organic webs). It was Queen's hope that this monstous spider would give birth to a child for her. Queen is seemingly killed by an explosion when Spider-man defeated her though her body was never found. |
| Ringer | The Defenders #51 (September 1977) | Career criminal Anthony Davis hired the Tinkerer to build him a battlesuit. Upon testing the suit by himself, the Beetle broke into his workshop and the two battled, resulting in Davis becoming the Beetle's prisoner. The Beetle wanted Davis to wear the suit so they could fight Spider-Man together, and convinced Davis to do so because of the deadly explosive weapons built inside the suit. |
| Scream | Venom: Lethal Protector #4 | Scream was one of the five Life Foundation Symbiotes that were forcefully spawned from the Venom symbiote. She was their unofficial leader. |
| Scorpia (comics) | Spider-Man: The Power of Terror #2 (February 1995) | Elaine Colls is a mental patient at Bellevue Hospital in Hell's Kitchen. She is chosen by Silvermane to become the new Scorpion after the retirement of the original; however, she opted to call herself Scorpia. |
| Screwball | Amazing Spider-Man #559 | Screwball's spectacular stunts and heists are all done for publicity and fame. She uses live streaming to get her videos online. |
| Sentry | Peter Parker: Spider-Man (Vol. 2) #4 (April, 1999) | A former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent operating as Sentry, Steward Ward is as a double agent for Z'Nox aliens, who use Ward to aid in an invasion of Earth. Years later, as Z'Nox aliens found themselves on Earth during a brief period when it was designated an intergalatic prison, Ward is infected by Z'Nox lifeform, mutating him into a half-human/half-alien being. Ranger subsequently sacrificed himself to destroy Ward. |
| Shathra | Amazing Spiderman vol.2 #46 | Shathra is, much as Spider-Man is rumored to be, a totem of the spider wasp. As spider wasps kill spiders, she escaped the astral world where she lived to find Spider-Man. |
| Shriek | Spider-Man Unlimited #1 (May 1993) | Shriek is a dangerous and criminally insane villainess with the ability to manipulate sound in a number of elaborate ways.. She once allied herself with Carnage and several other supervillains who went about New York on a killing spree.
Shriek's origins and real name are uncertain. She was named Sandra Deel in her earliest appearances, but named Frances Louise Barrison in later appearances. |
| Silvermane | Amazing Spiderman #73 (Jun 1973) | Silvio Manfredi, nicknamed "Silvermane" for his near-white hair, is a professional criminal originally from Sicily who started his criminal career in an organized crime group called the Maggia. Climbing through the ranks and becoming head of the crime family, he eventually formed an alliance with HYDRA, a worldwide organization determined to take over the world. |
| Sin-Eater | Spectacular Spider-Man #107 (Oct 1985) | Well known for his murder of Captain Jean DeWolff, Stanley Carter was injected with drugs while with S.H.I.E.L.D. and had his strength & endurance increased. |
| Alistair Smythe | Amazing Spider-Man Annual #19 (1985) | The son of Spencer Smythe, the creator of the Spider-Slayers; after his father died of radiation poisoning, Alistair followed in his footsteps, trying to destroy Spider-Man with robots. Crippled after his first attempt at killing Spider-Man, Alistair regained mobility, as well as superpowers after a combination of self-inflicted mutations and cybernetic implants. |
| Speed Demon | Avengers #70 (vol. 1, Nov. 1969) | James Sanders first appears under the codename Whizzer, as a member of the Squadron Sinister. Several years after the Squadron Sinister disbands, James Sanders decides to return to crime in a new costume as the Speed Demon and battles Spider-Man. |
| Spidercide | Spectacular Spider-Man #222 (1995) | During the Clone Saga, in addition to Ben Reilly and Kaine, a third significant clone of Spider-Man was introduced: Spidercide. He died during a battle with Spider-Man, Ben, and Kaine. Scrier recovered his remains and reanimated him, granting him the ability to turn into other materials and shapes in the process. He later mortally wounded Kaine by impaling him. He ultimately betrayed the Jackal in the end, sending a copy of all of the Jackal's data to Scrier. The Jackal found out and tried to kill him, and Spidercide was once again incapacitated when he fell off the top of the Daily Bugle building. His body was taken away by police and placed in a state of suspended animation to keep him from returning again. Unlike most comic book characters who are put into suspended animation only to later return, Spidercide was never seen again.Bio at Spiderfan.orgThe Clone Saga TimelineSpidercide on the Marvel Universe Character Bio WikiSpidercide profile (marvunapp.com) |
| Spot | Spectacular Spider-Man #48 (January 1985) | Jonathon Ohnn can enter himself through holes, or portals to the spot dimension and he can throw them as a weapon from his body, but is limited by the number on him. |
| Stegron | Marvel Team-Up #19 (March 1974) | Dr. Vincent Stegron was hired by S.H.I.E.L.D to assist Dr. Curt Connors in studying dinosaur DNA from the Savage Land. Obsessed with the experiments Connors did to create the Lizard, Stegron stole the DNA samples and injected himself with them. He then transformed into a hominid dinosaur and became bent on reclaiming the earth for the dinosaurs. |
| Mendel Stromm | Amazing Spider-Man #37 (June 1966) | Stromm was Norman Osborn's college professor, and became his partner in OsCorp Industries. His early research was on a chemical that would provide enhanced strength in its test subjects (and would eventually turn Osborn into the Green Goblin). Osborn, wanting the formula for himself, discovered that Stromm had been embezzling funds from OsCorp, and turned Strom over to the police. After several years in prison, Stromm was released and tried to kill Norman Osborn for revenge using evil robots. He was stopped by Spider-Man and seemingly died of a heart attack.
Stromm had made plans for his death, however, by arranging to have his brain waves transferred to a robot double. Now calling himself Robot Master, Stromm returned in Spectacular Spider-Man vol. 1, #68 (July 1982). After being defeated and destroyed Stromm returned several times as a cyborg sometimes known as Gaunt. |
| Swarm | Champions #14 (July 1977) | As a former Nazi scientist, Fritz Von Meyer hid in South America after World War II. He became very interested in the breeding and keeping of bees and one day discovered a highly radioactive over-sized beehive due to a meteorite bombardment. The bees that inhabited the hive demonstrated great intelligence. Von Meyer tried to manipulate the bees so that he may train them by using a psionic beam. As a result, the bees underwent even a greater mutation. The bees attacked him and consumed his body in which now only the skeleton existed resulting in a living "Swarm". |
| Tarantula | Amazing Spider-Man #134 (July 1974) | As a revolutionary terrorist and government operative, Anton Miguel Rodriguez is expelled from his small organization and went on to the other repressive side of the government where they created the identity of the Tarantula for him and to serve as his country's counterpart to Captain America. |
| Terrible Tinkerer | Amazing Spider-Man #2 (May 1963) | Originally thought to be an Alien from Amazing Spider-Man #2, the Tinkerer turned out to really be a brilliant man named Phineas Mason who is at the top his game in creating mechanical devices, mostly for super villains |
| Tombstone | Web of Spider-Man #36 (March 1988) | Lonnie Thompson Lincoln is an African American albino who became a superhuman hitman and mob enforcer known as Tombstone. |
| Toro Negro ("Black Bull") | Amazing Scarlet Spider #2 (December 1995) | El Toro Negro is a South American mercenary and antagonist of Spider-Man closely associated with the Great Game. The mercenary has enhanced strength, speed, durability, and agility; as well as a large arsenal of weapons. The character along with his partner Polestar, kill the superhero Nightwatch, and which EL Toro Negro follows by killing Polestar. was last seen as a captive of his sponsor Justin Hammer, who told him that he would remove Torres' weaknesses — starting with his mind. Hammer then proceeded to forcibly lobotomize the immobilized Torres. |
| Seward Trainer | Peter Parker: Spiderman #52 | Seward was the Jackal's trusty assistant and the Jackal couldn't have done all of his cloning without him. |
| Will o' the Wisp | Amazing Spider-Man #167 (April 1977) | Jackson Arvad, an employee at Roxxon Oil, worked in the division dedicated to electromagnetic research. Unable to save himself from a laboratory accident that made him able to control the level of attraction between his body's molecules. |
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[edit] Made-For-TV villains
These villains don't appear in the comics. They were created for the various cartoon series. Among them villains are:
- Arachnoid: He appeared in Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends. Zolton is a chemical scientist who creates a Spider-Serum that will give him Spider-Powers. He impersonates Spider-Man when committing crimes until he mutates into the Arachnoid: a mutant with the torso of a man and a spider's body from the waist down. This plot was somewhat based of Nephilia's.
- Baron Von Rantenraven: He appeared in the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon. He invaded New York with WWII Airplanes.
- Bolton: He appeared in the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon. Bolton is a Martian warrior who can throw thunderbolts. He worked together with Boomer.
- Boomer: He appeared in the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon. Boomer is a criminal who uses bombs. He worked together with Bolton.
- Buzz Mason: He appeared in Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends. He is a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent who secretly controlled Lightwave into committing robberies of a device that will enable him to control a satellite called the GUARDSTAR.
- Charles Cameo: He appeared in the 1960s cartoon. Charles Cameo is a former actor who uses disguises to commit crimes. He once impersonated the Prime Minister of Rutania.
- Clive: He appeared in the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon. Clive is a movie producer who plans revenge on the movie critics and audiences by creating Blotto.
- Cyberiad: He appeared in Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends. Nathan Price was Firestar's lover until an accident caused by an attack by AIM caused him to end up as a cyborg called Cyberiad. He attacked the X-Men Mansion and captured its members one-by-one. His design is based on Fatal Five member Tharok.
- Desperado: He appeared in the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon. He is a cowboy on a robotic horse.
- Dr. Atlantean: He appeared in the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon. Dr. Atlantean is a scientist from Atlantis who brought Manhattan underwater. He is a redrawn version of the Radiation Specialist.
- Dr. Cool: He appeared in the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon. He is a diamond thief who was robbing diamonds while hiding out in a warehouse with a freezer in it.
- Dr. Magneto: He appeared in the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon. Dr. Matto Magneto is a scientist armed with a gun that can magnetize and de-magnetize objects. He planned revenge upon the world for ridiculing his theories.
- Dr. Manta: He appeared in the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon and he's a Rocket Robin Hood villain. He used giant, mechanical beetles to enslave an island's inhabitants.
- Dr. Noah Body: A brilliant scientist who has somehow found a way to make himself invisible. He has only appeared in the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon.
- Dr. Dumpty: He appeared in the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon. Dr. Humperdink Dumpty is a jewel thief who stole the jewels of actress Rachel Welles when he attacked a parade.
- Dr. Vespian: He appeared in the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon. He is a scientist who developed a drinkable invisibility serum that he tested on himself and his dog.
- Dr. Von Schlick: He appeared in the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon. He is an evil scientist who wears a rubber, non-stick costume with petroleum-based bubbles emitted from his fingers. Spider-Man had to use a special webbing to stop him.
- Dr. Zap: He appeared in the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon. Dr. Zap is an electric-powered Chinese scientist who kidnapped Dr. Irving Caldwell in order to learn the secrets of Dr. Caldwell's levitation helmet.
- Dr. Zellner: He appeared in the 2003 Spider-Man cartoon. He developed a drug that would make stupid people intelligent. He tested it on thug twins Jack and Mack and used them to commit crimes.
- Fantastic Fakir: He appeared in the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon. He is an Arabian Fakir whose flute can create illusions and control animals.
- Fiddler: He appeared in the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon. Otto is a man who hates rock and roll for it replacing classical music. He used a deadly violin to seek revenge on Cyrus Flintridge.
- Fifth Avenue Phantom: He is quite possibly the most unremarkable villain from the '67 animated series. He appeared in "The Fifth Avenue Phantom" and "The Dark Terrors". He used a device that shrank valuables as well as android women who masqueraded as fashion mannequins.
- Gadgeteer: He appeared in the 1980s Spider-Man cartoon. Gadgeteer is an evil janitor who takes on this identity to steal Dr. Norton's shrink ray.
- The Gaines Twins: They appeared in the 2003 Spider-Man cartoon. Roland and Roxanne Gaines are twins with mind powers who messed with Spider-Man's mind.
- Gamesman: He appeared in Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends. The Gamesman plotted to cause havoc in New York by using the arcade games to hypnotize the teenagers there. He unwittingly caused Francis Byte to become Videoman resulting in Gamesman to manipulate him.
- Harley Clivendon: He appeared in the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon. Harley Clivendon is an Australian who one time hypnotized J. Jonah Jameson with an idol.
- Herbert Landon:
- Human Fly Twins: They appeared in the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon. Stan and Lee Patterson are former circus acts who reverted to crime.
- Iceberg: He first appeared in the 1994 Spider-Man cartoon. He was a frozen crimelord that works for the Kingpin and that Hobbie Brown used to work for before becoming the Prowler.
- Infinata: He first appeared in the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon and he's a Rocket Robin Hood villain. He's from the Fifth Dimension where he attempted to steal the Universal Library from a dying scientist from the destroyed planet Gorth.
- Kotep the Scarlet Sorcerer: He first appeared in the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon. Kotep was an ancient Egyptian sorcerer who was defeated by his opponent and placed in suspended animation until a professor at Peter's school used an incantation to awaken him.
- Lightwave: She first appeared in Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends. Aurora Dante is Iceman's half-sister who can manipulate and control light. She is an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. until Buzz Mason controlled her into stealing a device that will allow Buzz to control the GUARDSTAR. Lightwave is based on Aurora and Darkstar.
- Master Vine: He first appeared in the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon. He is a leader of a race of plant people in an alternate dimension.
- Microman: He first appeared in the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon. Professor Pretories is a diabolical scientist who has a light that can shrink him to a small size.
- Mirium: She first appeared in the 1994 Spider-Man cartoon. In this series, she is a Vampire Queen and the mother of Blade.
- Miss Trubble: She appeared in the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon. She had a chest that enabled her to summon living statue versions of Greek Mythology characters and creatures.
- Mugs Riley: He first appeared in the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon. Mugs Riley is a criminal who escaped from jail and discovered an underground society of Molemen. He used them to commit crimes while disguised as a Moleman.
- Nephilia: He appeared in the 1980s Spider-Man cartoon. Dr. Bradley Shaw and his assistant Penny plotted to attain Spider-Man's blood into order to duplicate his powers use them for Bradley's own needs. Unfortunately, he ends up becoming Nephilia: a mutant with a man's torso and a spider body from the waist down.
- Pardo: He first appeared in the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon. Pardo is a sorcerer who can turn into a black cat and rob people in a movie theatre.
- Parafino: He appeared in the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon. He is the owner of Parafino's Wax Museum. He one time used wax mannequins of Blackbeard, Jesse James, and the Executioner of Paris to commit crimes.
- Plotter: He appeared in the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon. Plotter is a criminal mastermind who hires Ox and Cowboy to steal a blueprint for a missile.
- Professor Gizmo: He appeared in the 1980s Spider-Man cartoon. Professor Gizmo is a master criminal who planned to use Spider-Man to attach an antenna to the large sunken treasure ship, the El Conquistador.
- Pterodax: Pterodax appeared in the 2003 Spider-Man cartoon. Pterodax is a high-tech mercenary group led by Sergai.
- Radiation Specialist: He appeared in the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon. The Radiation Specialist took over Manhattan's new and only Nuclear Power Plant and uses a special ray in it to lift Manhattan into the clouds unless the city meets his demands: he is amply paid, granted amnesty from arrest, and permitted to build his own nuclear reactor. He had a radiation gun which gave Spider-Man a disadvantage.
- Scarf: He appeared in the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon. Scarf is a masked villain who uses illusions.
- Shikata: She appeared in the 2003 Spider-Man cartoon. Shikata is a martial arts expert and swordsman who uses a sword and incantation to stay young. She wanted to fight Spider-Man to the finish.
- Sidewinder: He appeared in the 1980s Spider-Man cartoon. Sidewinder is a masked cowboy villain who rides a flying, robot horse. He leads a gang of cowboys who also ride flying, robot horses.
- Skymaster: He appeared in the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon. Skymaster is a criminal that resides in a blimp. He kidnapped the school's football star Roy Robinson so that he can force his father to reveal the invisibility serum's ingredients.
- Stuntman: Stuntman appeared in the 1980s Spider-Man cartoon. Jack Riven was the World's Greatest Stuntman until an accident permanently fused him to a mechanical suit of armor a few years ago. He blames Spider-Man for that. Stuntman has two lackey named Larry and Moe who help make up the Triangle of Evil.
- Super Swami: He appeared in the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon. He is an Oriental-illusionist.
- Talon: She appeared in the 2003 Spider-Man cartoon. Cheyenne Tate is a high-tech thief who was a love interest for Harry Osborne. She is somewhat based on Black Cat.
- Turbo Jet: He appeared in the 2003 Spider-Man cartoon. As Turbo Jet, Wyler acts like a modern-day Robin Hood with the stealing from the rich and giving to the poor while wearing a high-tech suit. He is said to be based on Rocket Racer.
- Videoman: It appeared in Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends. Electro brought it out of an arcade game to steal components for his Ultra-Transformer, but was defeated by the Spider-Friends. Videoman was released again during a thunderstorm. A teenage video game prodigy named Francis Byte ends up becoming Videoman due to an explosion caused by the Gamesman's plot where Francis learns to become a good superhero. After the Gamesman's defeat, he is now training with the X-Men.
