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I will be taking you down a deep, dark, hilarious rabbit hole that is the top 10 dumbest Spider-Man
villains.
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10 Swarm
A villain that is just what he sounds like, made up of a ton of bugs.
Not just any bugs.
Fritz Von Meyer was normal bug scientist, just trying to control the consciousness of
a meteor-affected hive of bees.
Until the bees decided they didn't like that idea and tore him to shreds.
However while this happened they somehow melded consciousness with him.
And now they help to form his body which is really just the bees and Meyer's skeleton.
I'm sure you can imagine a way you would attempt to fend off this villain.
Yes, you guessed it, bug repellent.
And yes, so did Spidey.
And yes, it worked.
9 The Answer
Former big time assassin for King Pin himself, Aaron Nicholson was one of the first to volunteer
for King Pin's superpower creation program.
After being experimented on, it at first seem that Aaron had gained no powers until he realized
he had the ultimate power.
To become the Answer to any situation.
What does that mean?
That there was no problem that he could not solve.
He actually defeats both Spider-Man and Black Cat handily in the comics.
So why is he on the list?
A few reasons, his name is ridiculous and although he defeats our hero, he never really
returns.
And later accidentally kills himself when he transfers his life force energy into Dagger
in an attempt to use her powers.
Guess he didn't have the answer for that one.
8 The Orb
Suffering from a deformity, the Orb's head is nothing but a giant eyeball.
Yeah, I don't know how comic books really define deformity but this seems like more
than that...
The Orb is the villain responsible for sending Spider-Man and Wolverine back through time.
While this feat is pretty impressive, it did not seem to be his intention.
He also ended up getting sent through time himself and to his dismay, captured and returned
to his original timeline thereafter.
Let's examine his abilities.
He can see really well.
And uh... oh, after he absorbs Uata's eye and gains Watcher level powers, he can see...
really... really well.
Yeah...
7 Saturn aka Father Christmas
Okay so Saturn himself is pretty terrifying and one point is probably over 10 stories
tall when both Spider-Man and Deadpool team up to take him, wreaking havoc and being likened
to the Stay Puffed Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters.
But like the Stayed Puffed Marshmallow Man, Saturn also has a soft side and it is for
this reason I decided to add him to my list.
How is he defeated in the Spider-Man/Deadpool series?
By Deadpool and Spider-Man sharing with him the true meaning of Christmas.
That is right.
Saturn goes on a rampage because of the commercialism of the holiday.
Saturn, I feel you.
But once Spider-Man and Deadpool explain the holiday's true value, bringing family together
and the like, Saturn gives up the goat and decides that maybe Christmas isn't so bad
after all.
Proving that some villains can be reasoned with.
6 Mindworm
Another villain added to the list because of easy he was surprisingly easy to defeat.
William Turner was born with the ability to drain other's psionic energy, basically feeding
off their brains in a telepathic way.
He was living in an apartment and feeding off the energy of its residents until he tried
to feed off the energy of Peter Parker.
Peter's mind was too strong and due to his spidey sense, he knew something was afoot.
He uncovered Mind Worm's plot, beat him up and defeated him.
Mind Worm never killed anyone but later was manipulated by other criminals to help in
a robbery.
Being in and out of prison and left destitute, this villain met his end after trying to turn
good.
Destitute, he was killed by a street gang.
Mostly I included Mindworm cause he is just sad.
Poor, William.
5 Stegron
After the discovery of the Savage Lands, Doctor Vincent Stegron was tasked with assisting
in research on the dinosaurs which had reappeared there.
Unfortunately Vincent became obsessed with the research, stole and used a formula and
was transformed into Stegron.
His master plot was a good one, to use the bones of dinosaurs since past to bring them
back to life.
And to conquer the world and rule over his reptilian subjects.
Good plan, bad timing.
Stegron put this plan into action in December and his reptilian body could not stand the
cold.
He was seen at the end of this plot, succumbing to the cold and slipping to the bottom of
Central Park lake.
4 White Rabbit
I mean to see how silly this Spider-Man villain is just take a look at her.
Lorina Dodson was inspired by, you guessed, Lewis Carroll's Alice and Wonderland when
she was a young girl and since becoming an adult decided to adopt the character of White
Rabbit for her villainous identity.
She decided to become a thief and criminal simply because she was bored and had the funds
after killing off her richer, much older husband whom she was forced to marry.
Okay, I do feel a little bad for her there.
Not only are her motives almost non-existent but so are her abilities.
While having an accoutrement of gadgets at her disposal, she has no real powers.
And half the time her gadgets can be seen giving her more trouble than they are worth.
3 The Big Wheel
Speaking of ridiculous gadgets, that is what this next villain is all about.
Meet Jackson Weele who was just your run of the mill corrupt businessman until one day
everything changed.
He commissioned a wheel from the Tinkerer.
Er, sorry, a big wheel.
I mean people do say the wheel was one of the best inventions, right?
How did he try to defeat Spider-Man?
By running him over in his big wheel.
Pretty ... I mean, rudimentary logic I suppose.
Unfortunately for Weele his wheel was more of a land vehicle than water vehicle.
He fell off the side of a building and into the Hudson River while fighting Spidey and
ended up arrested.
In fact he is often defeated simply by falling off of things...
2 Plantman
The biggest reason why I wanted to include Plantman on my list had to do with this hilarious
panel I found of him.
Though Plantman has now been retconned the original Plantman was Samuel Smithers, a gardener
who was working on a way to make plants talk.
I wonder what plants would say if they could talk...
I imagine they would just sigh a lot.
Anyways when lightning struck his experimental plant ray gun, the lightning magically made
work.
Sort of.
The ray gun gave Smithers the power to animate plants.
He adopted the mantle Plantman and tried to get back at a former employer for firing him
and thus a villain was born.
Although Plantman later successfully poisoned Captain America, almost killing him, Spider-Man
and Falcon teamed up to defeat his plot because Plantman made an antidote and it was super
easy for them to take it from him.
Like, why even make an antidote in the first place?
That just seems like a bad idea.
Plantman even acknowledges that it kind of is while he does it in the comics.
1 Grey Goblin
I had to put Grey Goblin on this list simply for the sheer WTF factor of his origins story.
Grey Goblin is, get this, the child of Norman Osborn and Gwen Stacy.
And that's not all apparently Gwen Stacy was secretly pregnant with no just one Osborn
baby but twins.
Also Peter never noticed.
When Osborn finds out that Stacy plans on keeping the babies from him and raising them
Peter, he kills under the guise of Green Goblin and raises the babies as their quote-unquote
uncle.
In typical Norman Osborn fashion, he brainwashes them into thinking Peter Parker is their father
and that he killed their mother, Gwen Stacy.
Like... actually what is even happening in this story!
After the twins, Sarah and Gabriel, find out about their true origins because Peter Parker
tells them and later Gabriel finds bonafide proof that he was telling the truth about
their parents---Gabriel still injects himself with Goblin formula and becomes Grey Goblin
in an attempt to kill Spider-Man.
Like... why?
Well, I'm left needing to read about some better Spidey vs villain battles after that
list.
And I'd love it if you'd help me out by commenting with some of your favourite Spider-Man villains
and villain moments in the comments below.
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