Spider-Man is one of the most relatable superheroes out there.
As Marvel’s main man, Peter Parker has gone through a lot over the years, even crossing
paths with characters in unexpected ways, constantly learning and growing from his experiences.
It’s what makes him feel so realistic at times, and a believable character.
One aspect of his personality as a hero is that he’s come to develop complex relationships
with some of the villains he’s faced over the years, even coming to respect them at
times, despite many of them carrying on their criminal ways.
So today, we’re taking a closer look at that, with our list of the top 10 super villains
spider-man respects!
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10 Puma When Puma first hit the scene in The Amazing
Spider-Man issue 256 in 1984, the character was a mercenary baddie, who has the ability
to turn into a humanoid puma form, a mountain lion werecat of sorts.
He had been hired by Wilson Fisk’s son to kill Spider-Man, which is how the two first
came into contact with one another.
But Puma gave up on the job when he witnessed Spider-Man saving the lives of innocent bystanders.
Later on, during Secret Wars 2, Puma learns of Peter Parker’s true identity, but feeling
that he owed the hero a debt of honour, he kept the web slinger’s identity quiet, and
even offered Peter a job at the company he was CEO of.
Peter would decline, but since, the two have had the utmost respect for one another, with
Puma even trying to clear Spider Man’s name of a crime he didn’t commit in Web of Spider-Man
issue 50 when the hero was believed to have become a thief.
9 Sandman Sandman is one of many characters on our list
that started out as a villain, only to later on become an ally of Spider-Man’s.
Created in 1963 by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, Sandman debuted in the Amazing Spider-Man
issue 4, Sandman is William Flint Baker, a man who turned to crime after having been
expelled from prep school.
Using the name Flint Marko, he gets out of prison and flees to a nuclear testing site,
where he comes into contact with irradiated sand near an experimental reactor, which gives
him his powers and changes his molecular structure into sand.
8 Mister Negative If you’ve played the recent PS4 Marvel’s
Spider-Man game, you know that the title features a very conflicted Peter Parker.
Some of the men in his life that he looks up to the most turn out to be criminals and
foes of his, and it makes for some great character conflict.
One of those foes is Mister Negative, Martin Li, who is the founder and owner of FEAST,
a homeless shelter that Aunt May works at and Peter frequents as a volunteer.
Turns out that Li is secretly the leader of the Inner Demons, and has the ability to harness
negative energy; something he uses in his personal vendetta against the Mayor of New
York City, Norman Osborn.
While Peter’s opinion of Li arguably changes over the course of the game, needless to say,
at one point in time, he highly respected the man and the work he did with Aunt May.
7 Kaine Kaine was first introduced in Web of Spider-Man
issue 119 in 1994 as part of the Clone Saga, one of the most highly criticized story arcs
in the hero’s history.
Created by Jackal as a clone of Peter’s, the character was a foil and enemy for Parker
and Ben Reilly, the latter also being a clone.
Kaine was the first attempt at cloning Spider-Man, leaving him deformed and mentally unstable.
Peter would even be blamed for Kaine’s crimes, killing off a bunch of people, and pretty
much all of Ben Reilly’s love interests (since Kaine believed that Ben was the real
spider-man and Peter the clone).
Kaine is seemingly killed off, but is revived later on, and has a new outlook on life, not
wanting to be anyone’s puppet this time around, and ends up handing himself over to
the law, realizing that he needs to own up to his past in order to haver peace with himself.
Later on, he would become a hero, taking on the alias of the Scarlet spider, moving to
Houston Texas after he gets involved in putting an end to a human trafficking ring.
6 Black Cat Black Cat is a fun character.
She’s been an ally of Spider-Mans, an enemy, and of course, a love interest.
She has the ability to affect probability fields, which means she can produce bad luck
for her foes.
Anywho, the two began as enemies, with Black Cat debuting in the amazing spider-Man issue
194.
Eventually, the two hit it off off of the battle field and fell in love.
After they broke up, they did the adult thing, and remained allies, with her being one of
Peter’s most trusted for a while, despite the two having a bit of an off again on again
romance (which ended because she returned to her criminal ways, of course).
5 Loki Once upon a time, Spider-Man and Loki worked
together in the Amazing Spider-Man issue 505, and the web slinger helped save the Trickster
god’s daughter, with Loki acknowledging that he owned Spider-Man a favour.
They also ate hot dogs together which was super adorable.
In Amazing Spider-Man volume 1 issue 795, he cashes in on that favour when the two of
them meet again, asking Loki to rewind time to prevent the death of an innocent civilian
that he indirectly caused.
While Loki thinks that spider-Man should have waited for something better to cash that favour
in on, the two have developed a respect for one another from their encounters, with Peter
even promising him that he’ll put a good word in for Loki with the other super heroes
so that they’ll stop constantly assuming he’s always a bad guy.
4 Flash Thompson Flash Thompson started off as a high school
bully of Peter’s in the Spider-Man comics.
He was kind of an asshole.
But as time went on, he ended up changing significantly, for the better.
After losing both his legs during his military service in the Iraq War, he returned home
to the US and was given a second chance.
The Venom symbiote, which had previously been bonded to villain Mac Gargan, had been captured
by the US government, who offered Thompson the opportunity to bond with it instead, all
as part of an initiative to have the war veteran go on covert missions.
In order to not permanently bond with Venom, Thompson could only be one with the symbiote
48 hours at a time.
3 Venom Venom first appeared as the symbiotic suit
that bonded with Peter Parker at the end of the first Secret WARS STORY EVENT.
After discovering it was an alien lifeform attempting to use him as a host, Peter is
able to get the suit off thanks to Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four.
It’s later revealed that the symbiote joins up with Eddie Brock, a man who had a grudge
against Spider-Man, blaming him for his career falling apart.
With Brock, Venom comes to life, becoming one of Spider-Man’s fiercest foes and reoccurring
antagonists.
But over time, that would eventually change, especially with Brock slowly becoming more
of an anti-hero.
The two would team up during the Maximum Carnage story event to take on the titular villain.
The two at one point struck up a deal, with Spider-Man agreeing to leave Brock along if
he didn’t commit any crime.
Brock moved to San Francisco, and became more of an anti-hero, to the point where he and
Peter even ended up working together to fight off other evil symbiotes.
2 Punisher The Punisher first debuted in 1974 in The
Amazing Spider-Man issue 129, and quickly became known for his violent tactics when
fighting crime.
He was an anti-hero who, driven by the deaths of his family, used torture, extortion, kidnapping,
coercion and even murder as a way to take down criminals.
The character was inspired by The Executioner, a book series that followed a Vietnam veteran
who became a serial killer after the Mafia killed his family.
He started off as a villain for Spider-Man, a bloodthirsty vigilante that attempted to
kill the web slinger who was falsely accused of Norman Osborn’s murder.
He began appearing more frequently in comics, even teaming up with Spider-Man later on,
eventually gaining the hero’s respect despite, you know, being incredibly homicidal.
1 Doctor Octopus Spider-Man’s relationship with Doctor Octopus,
Otto Octavius, has been tumultuous at best.
Hell, Otto once switched bodies with Peter, leaving Peter to die in his fatally ill body
while he pretended to be Spider-Man and became the Superior Spider-Man.
But during that arc, Otto attempts to become a hero (despite some serious villainous personality
quirks) and Peter’s consciousness even tries to help him.
Eventually, Otto gives up his love interest to keep her safe, giving up his position as
Spider-Man so Peter can return.
So despite all of the bad blood, despite the years and years of conflict, the two arguably
have an understanding of one another, having literally been in each other’s shoes.
Their relationship has layers, friends.
Then, you have cases like in the PS4 Marvel’s Spider-Man game where the villain and the
hero used to work together (Peter seeing Otto as his mentor) and then feeling incredibly
betrayed when Otto becomes a villain.
But as always, whatever the iteration we see these two in, their a complex duo, who arguably
understand a part of one another that others often don’t.
There we have it friends!
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