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Warning ! Contains spoilers for Superior Spider - Man # 5 !
Spider - Manhas faced loads of terrifying villain over the twelvemonth , from Venom to Green Goblin , but amazingly , his sidekickSpider - Boyhas just become a distorted version of Spider - Man ’s scarey baddie . After a sojourn to Peter ’s lab , Spider - Boy aka Bailey Briggs is taken over by a drove of spiders that have the head of Otto Octavius . It ’s a terrifying view , andit ’s also frighteningly alike to the forgotten Spider - Man villain , Carl King .
While Spider - Man and Doctor Octopus are off on a mission together inSuperior Spider - Man#5 by Dan Slott , Christos Gage and Mark Bagely , Spider - Boy goes look for Peter . This hunt for his mentor brings Bailey to Peter ’s lab , where he gets set on by a swarm of spiders that Peter has been prevent . These are n’t normal spiders , either ; they are a hivemind , which , due to a error , have come to host the mind of Otto Octavius .
Completely taken by surprise , the swarm of spider overwhelms young Bailey Briggs and take over his body . This allows Otto to assert his intellect over Bailey , turningSpider - Man ’s sidekick into the Superior Spider - Boy . While this is already a horrifying outcome , the genuine method used has an eerie law of similarity to another terrifying Spider - Man villain .
Being a superhero is n’t well-heeled and instruct how to use superpowers can be a real challenge , but one office was so difficult Spider - Man almost devote up .
Doctor Octopus Has Once Again Stolen Someone’s Body
This is n’t the first time that Doc Ock has strike over someone ’s body . It ’s really become kind of his gimmick over the past few twelvemonth , even more so than the robotic tentacles he ’s sleep together for . Doctor Octopus infamously direct over Peter Parker ’s body andwas the Superior Spider - Man for age . He achieved this by using a automobile to trade his idea with Peter Parker ’s , and now , this machine has circumstantially swapped a copy of Otto ’s mind into this swarm of spiders . While this does n’t seem like the biggest scourge , it ’s actuallya surprisingly close copy of Carl King , one of the most terrifying villains that Spider - Man has ever had .
Carl King was a vicious school bully , and he see Peter Parker get bit by the radioactive spider that gave him his might . require standardised powers , Carl King found the dead body of the radioactive wanderer and rust it . This did n’t give him the power he hop-skip for , though , as his body stop up being corrode inside out by a drove of spider , all of whom subsist as a hivemind of Carl ’s personality . From here on , Carl King , now known as The Thousand , could take over the dead body of other people by eating their insides and puppeteering them with his United States Army of spiders . The Thousand was a horrific villain , and it seems a exchangeable fate has befallen Spider - Boy .
Carl King aka The Thousand only appear in one narration : the 2009 three - yield miniseriesTangled entanglement : The Thousandby Garth Ennis and John McCrea .
Spider-Man’s Ultra-Creepy Villain The Thousand Is The Stuff Of Nightmares
The good news is , there seems to be amajordifference between Carl King ’s and Otto ’s methods of control condition . It ’s not precisely clear how Otto seems to have contract over Spider - Boy ’s mind and is in lineal control of his body . Carl King ’s method acting was much more gruesome , with him down the ageless organs of his hosts and essentially just jade them as a skin suit . Carl was n’t actuallycontrollingthem , so much as he was just mime them . Still , the similarity are too close to disregard , and it seems thatSpider - Boyhas become a misrepresented version ofSpider - Man’smost terrific scoundrel , all because of Otto Octavius .
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Superior Spider - Man#5 ( 2023 )
