With the knowledge that the MCU's Spider-Man Far From Home is introducing some smaller
Spidey villains into the fray, Hydro-Man and Molten Man, we can't help but wonder about
what other kinds of villains may pop up in the web slinger's silver screen stories.
Some of Peter Parker's villains are notoriously powerful though, leading us to ponder whether
or not some of his rogue's gallery would be too strong for the MCU in its current state.
So today, we're counting down a few hypotheticals with our list of the top 10 Spider-Man Villains
too strong for the MCU.
Now, to be fair, most of the villains on this list are quite powerful, and some arguably
OP, but that doesn't mean that at some point we might see them make an appearance in the
MCU.
We also tried to avoid villains on our list that antagonise groups of heroes like the
Avengers, which Spidey has been a member of, and instead, focused on villains who at one
time or another personally had it in for the web slinger.
So with that in mind, let's get to it.
10 The Spider-Slayers The Spider Slayers are robots that were created
specifically to hunt down, capture and kill Spider-Man.
First appearing in The Amazing Spider-Man issue 25 in 1965, there have been various
iterations of them over the years, with the first being designed and built by Doctor Spencer
Smythe thanks to funding from J Jonah Jameson.
Smythe would be contaminated by radiation poisoning from creating the robots, and tried
to take revenge on Jameson and Spider-Man, only to die right before Spider-Man defeated
him.
Perhaps the more vicious versions of these robots though can be found in the Ultimate
Marvel universe, Earth 1610, where the Spider Slayers were created by the Tinkerer under
Nick Fury's command in case spider-Man ever went rogue.
They're 8 feet tall, balance on a large sphere, have two arm canons and a sphere for their
heads, plus they managed to taken down Carnage and kill a disfigured clone of Spider-Man's.
Needless to say, they can be lethal.
9 Alistair Smythe Speaking of the Spider-Slayers, our next number
is actually a member of said group - Alistair Smythe, the son of Dr Spencer Smythe, who
inherited the legacy from his father, along with a hatred of Spider-Man.
Initially, he was wheelchair bound until he became the Ultimate Spider-Slayer and gained
the ability to walk.
So what's Alistair's deal?
He is a scientific genius who knows a thing or two about genetics, cybernetics and robotics.
He built his own version of the Spider-Slayers, which were majorly advanced compared to his
father's version, being more sophisticated and formidable.
He became the ultimate spider slayer when he crafted a bio organic carapace, which is
a shell like protective exoskeleton, like crustacean animals have.
This carapace fused with his spine, allowing him to walk, gave him bird like talons for
feet, had two curved blade esque weapons jutting out from his shoulders, and blades on each
of his forearms.
In additional to that, he also has a web shooter, and his armour gives him super human strength,
speed, durability and agility.
8 The Spot The Spot first appeared in Spectacular Spider-Man
issue 97 back in 1984.
He's been an antagonist of both Spider-Man's and Daredevil's over the years, and originally
worked as a scientist for another mutual threat of theirs - Kingpin.
Dr Jonathan Ohnn was assigned by Wilson Fisk to reproduce the radiation levels of Cloak,
a hero who can teleport himself over long distances and become intangible.
When attempting to recreate his powers, Ohnn created a circular black portal, which he
then stepped into.
He passed out, and awoke in a dimension he believed to be the one Cloak used as a gateway
to teleport through.
When he returned to the real world, he had undergone a massive transformation, having
portals to this other dimension adhered to his skin, giving him the black spots on his
body.
Spot can create portals leading into an alternate dimension, which he calls Spotworld, which
allows him to theoretically travel an unlimited distances.
He can also use his spots to avoid taking damage, opening a portal in which attacks
pass through.
His abilities are something that Spider-Man's spider sense is unable to detect, making Spot
fairly deadly.
7 The Sinister Six Let's be real about this super villain group
for a sec - while leaving them out of the future of Spider-Man stories in the MCU might
be a big mistake on Marvel Studios part, there is no way that we'll be seeing the Sinister
Six show up on the big screen any time soon.
For starters, not all of its members have been introduced into the MCU.
Second, there's NO WAY in hell that Peter Parker is ready to take on the combined efforts
of foes that deadly.
So while we do think that the Sinister Six is inevitable, we definitely think they're
a long time coming as far as Spider-Man's films are concerned.
6 Will o' the Wisp Will o' the Wisp, aka Jackson Arvad, first
appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man issue 167.
And he's got a handful of abilities up his sleeve that would be hard for any superhero
to tackle.
He was a physicist who was able to gain control over the electromagnetic attraction between
his body's molecules, which led to his powers.
Aside from being a scientific genius, he's capable of density control, similar to Vision,
meaning he can make himself intangible if he wanted.
He can fly at subsonic speeds, he's capable of hypnosis, and of course, he's got superhuman
strength, durability and speed.
He's come into contact with Spider-Man on multiple occasions, and once Civil War rolled
around and Peter Parker's identity was revealed, he worked with Chameleon on a scheme in order
to get revenge on the web slinging hero.
5 Superior Spider-Man Superior Spider-Man is a character we'll likely
never see in the MCU.
Or rather, an iteration of a character who hasn't even come into the MCU yet.
We're talking Otto Octavius, aka Doctor Octopus.
During the Dying Wish story line back in 2012, Otto was terminally ill from his years of
fighting crime, and set in motion a plan to continue his legacy.
This plan involved swapping his consciousness with Peter Parker, planting Parker into his
dying body, and Otto into Peter's healthy web slinging one.
Parker died, and Otto became Spider-Man, calling himself the Superior Spider-Man.
As you can imagine, fans weren't really into that, and Parker eventually returned, but
Otto to this day continues to fight on as the Superior Spider-Man in the second volume
of his solo series.
So what makes him superior, and a villain that is 'too strong' for the MCU, aside from
reasons we've already mentioned?
Well, for starters, he had taken over Peter's body.
He had access to Peter's memories.
He improved upon Spider-Man's costume, upgrading it a whole lot, and still has the genius level
intellect and scientific mind of Otto.
So yeah, overall, not a villain Peter Parker of the MCU would be overly eager to see come
alive off the panels, I'm sure.
4 Red Goblin While the Green Goblin aka Norman Osborn is
Spider-Man's arch nemesis, this version of Osborn combines the Green Goblin along with
the enemy of another Parker rival.
Red Goblin is the result of Norman Osborn bonding with the Carnage symbiote, the symbiote
Venom birthed who has an adoration of all things blood and violence.
Hence the name.
Anywho, Carnage got mixed in with the Goblin Formula, which made both of them stronger
and purged them of their weaknesses.
Eventually, Osborn's youngest son, Normie, ends up getting infected, and ends up becoming
the Goblin Childe.
3 Jackal For this number, we're specifically looking
at the Miles Warren as Jackal.
First appearing in The Amazing Spider-Man issue 31 back in 1965, Warren wouldn't become
the Jackal until almost 100 issues later.
Miles had a grudge against Spider-Man, believing that he was responsible for Gwen Stacey's
death - he was obsessed with Stacy despite their large age difference.
After a failed stint as the High Evolutionary's assistant, and a dead family because of one
of his creations, and a dead assistant of his own that he suffocated, Warren ends up
successfully cloning humans, and begins to clone Peter Parker.
This carries on into the highly controversial clone saga, and even manages to create clones
of himself.
Aside from his scientific genius, he ends up splicing his genes with the genes of a
jackal, which grants him superhuman strength, agility and speed.
All in all, a fellow who can stir up that much trouble is not someone to be taken lightly.
2 Mephisto From a master of clones to a master manipulator,
in at number two we have Mephisto.
Mephisto is a character who many deem as too powerful overall for the MCU, regardless of
what heroes he takes on.
And fun fact - he's actually quite present through the Infinity Gauntlet comic, but his
lines from that comic were given to Ebony Maw in the Infinity War film.
Anywho, Mephisto, who first appeared in 1968 in The Silver surfer issue 3 has been a foe
of many heroes in the Marvel universe.
He is a demonic immortal entity based off of the Mephisto of Faust legend who uses a
variety of magic the likes of altering time, projecting illusions, shape and size shifting,
regeneration, manipulating memories and much, much more.
He is known for acquiring souls but cannot subjugate the will of another being, hence
why he's always making deals and pacts with superheroes to get what he wants.
Peter Parker got tanged up with Mephisto in the One More Day story event, in which the
demon offers to save the life of Aunt May if Spider-Man gives up his marriage to Mary
Jane.
He does, and Mephisto not only erases their marriage, but erases the little girl who would
be their future daughter.
The storyline was highly criticized.
Needless to say, Mephisto is incredibly powerful, incredibly manipulative, and a villain that
would be difficult to place into the MCU in its current state.
1 Knull If you thought an immortal demon entity was
a lot, how about a symbiote god?
Knull is technically more of a Venom villain, but this nefarious being also fought against
Spider-Man.
Knull is a malevolent deity whose existence predates the universe, having prior just drifted
through the endless abyss that existed before it.
The Celestials created the universe, and that didn't bode well with Knull, who decapitated
one of them in retaliation.
He essentially is the creator of the Klyntar, having manifested a symbiotic suit of armour
from the eldritch darkness he commanded, setting out on a mission to commit celestial genocide.
And he's got a ridiculous amount of power.
He's got divine physiology.
He has the ability to create, control and manipulate eldritch darkness, which is a manifestation
of the primordial void that existed before the universe.
He can create symbiotes, and dominate them via a hive mind.
He's also existed for over 12.7 billion years, and is self-sustaining, plus has a regenerative
healing factor.
His one weakness though?
The Light, a metaphysical force that came into being with the Big Bang that spread throughout
the Abyss.
There we have it friends!
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later on?
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