The world of superheroes would not exist if there were no enemies that they had to face. Both on the part of Marvel, DC and other companies, many are the villains who have gained fame thanks to the heroes and, even, some have found a niche within our favorite characters. Today we want to emphasize those evildoers who, on some occasion (whether in comics or on the big screen) faced one of our favorite characters: Spider-Man. This is a compilation of all the villains who have tried to take down Spider-Man.
Spider-Man villains we met in the movies
First of all, we are going to list those that have gained greater popularity when seen on the big screen. The following list is all those Spider-Man enemies that we met in his movies.
Green Goblin
The first and, of course, one of the best known is the Green Goblin . One of the best known villains who has faced our arachnid friend since his first movie that hit theaters in 2002.
He was played by Willem Dafoe, who played a man with a somewhat deranged profile who ended up trying to take down Spider-Man on several occasions. After the fictional death of the character, his son in these films took over. This role was that of Harry Osborm, played by James Franco.
Doctor Octopus
In the second movie, Spider-Man 2 , we were able to meet another enemy of Spider-Man well known to all: Doctor Octopus . It was another madman who had managed to attach a structure with 4 robotic arms that served as an attack and defense tool against Spider-Man. The most curious thing of all with this villain is that he is the only one that Spider-Man has not yet managed to defeat on any occasion.
Venom
A little later, arriving in Spider-Man 3 , we first saw Venom . In the first place, the symbiote from outer space managed to infect our friend Spider-Man. But, after getting rid of him, he possessed Eddie Brock Jr. who is what we now know as this monster with very bad ideas who later had his own solo movie.
Sandman
In the same Spider-Man 3 movie, Marvel introduced us to the Sandman figure. A former inmate who was trapped in a nuclear accident that fused all his cells with sand, giving him the power to manipulate her at will and take a multitude of forms with her.
Lizard
In The Amazing Spider-Man movie we had the opportunity to meet another villain who tries to annihilate Spider-Man. This is Lizard , who was really named Dr. Curt Connors until he injected himself with a serum with reptilian DNA to try and get his arm back, but it didn’t turn out the way he expected. This serum ended up turning him into a giant semi-human lizard with enormous strength, astonishing speed and agility.
Electro
Electro is surely an enemy of Spider-Man that sounds quite familiar to you. You know, that being made of pure energy capable of striking you down just by touching you. We met him in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 , his role being played by the well-known actor Jamie Foxx.
Rhino
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 movie also had room to introduce us to Rhino . This villain is known for being a man who wears a rhinoceros-shaped armor, which endows him with superhuman strength. The appearance of this is not that it is stellar, but it is one of the enemies that has managed to make the leap from comics to the big screen.
The vulture
On the other hand, another enemy of the spider man that many enjoyed in the comics was The Vulture . He appeared in Spider-Man: Homecoming as Peter Parker tried to balance his life as a student while dealing with the attacks of this enemy. And, the truth is that with those metallic wings and those robotic claws he did not make it easy at all.
Mysterio
The villain known as Mysterio knew how to play his cards to fool us all, including the young spider-man in Spider-Man: Far From Home . This enemy is not especially strong, but his true power lies in his intelligence and his ability to create illusions and deceive the senses of others.
Spider-Man enemies in the comics
Having seen all those villains present in the Spider-Man movies, now it’s time to review those who fought him in the comics . And who knows, maybe some of them will soon make an appearance in the films .
Chameleon
The first of the villains from the Spider-Man comics that we want to introduce to you is Chameleon . This one made an appearance for the first time in Amazing Spider-Man Vol . 1 # 1.
Dmitri Smerdyakov, who is his real name, was a boy with a complicated childhood who grew up with a stepbrother who mistreated him but for whom he had a lot of respect. As he grew older he became a criminal whose powers consisted in being able to transform into any kind of quasi-human form, thus supplanting his identity perfectly. He put Spider-Man in a lot of trouble, like, for example, being accused of stealing American secrets that he didn’t really do.
Kingpin
Another fairly well-known enemy of Spider-Man is the Kingpin . An ultra-burly man known for being the king of crime in New York. This character made it to the comics in Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 1 # 50.
This ultra muscular man became well known, in addition to Spider-Man, for appearing in the adventures of other superheroes such as Daredevil.
Jackal
The character of The Jackal is another one of those errors of science so popular in the plot of the spider man. We met him in Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 1 # 3 as Miles Warren, a scientist specializing in genetics who experimented for many years creating hybrids of animals and humans. One of his monsters escaped, murdering his family and revealing the atrocity this man had created.
Trying to escape his past, he moved to another city and began another life as a biology professor who, precisely, taught Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy at the university. He fell in love with Gwen in a strange way and, after her death, blamed everything on Spider-Man and vowed revenge.
To do this, he chose to modify his DNA, finally becoming El Chacal: a half-wolf half-man with super speed, strength, heightened senses and regeneration.
Kraven the hunter
Kraven was precisely that stepbrother who gave the Chameleon a difficult childhood. Kraven the Hunter , which was the full name he took in the comics, first appeared in Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 1 # 15 .
Son of an empowered family that little by little was losing everything he had, he had to remedy this by dedicating himself to hunting big game. But, the strange thing about it is that this hunter had a strange code of not using firearms in any situation.
Later, when he took a potion that a sorcerer gave him, he acquired powers such as strength and enhanced senses in order to better develop his work as a hunter. The problem arose when he decided to go for more complicated trophies like Spider-Man himself.
Morlun
Another known baddie (never better said) Spider-Man is Morlum . He first came into the life of our arachnid friend in Amazing Spiderman Vol. 2 , # 30 alongside the heirs. These are vampiric creatures that feed on Spider-Man’s arachnid power.
Scorpion
The Scorpion is another scientist who, like Spider-Man, received a sting from an altered scorpion, giving him superhuman strength. The difference is that he was later provided with a suit and weaponry with the theme of the animal that had bitten him.
Slaughter
Venom wasn’t the only symbiote going after Spider-Man. On the other side was Massacre , a fusion between Cletus Kasady (hitman) and a descendant of Venom. This was found by Spider-Man in Secret Wars .
Shocker
Last but not least, we have Shock, Shock, or Shocker , who was known by all these names. One of the great enemies of the spider man that appeared for the first time in The Amazing Spiderman Nº6 .
With a childhood that seemed promising, his path was cut short as he used his intelligence and skills to dedicate himself to robbing safes. At the time he was imprisoned and, inside prison, he developed special gloves capable of launching high frequency waves, air blasts and seismic waves. Something that, of course, he used to escape. Right at that moment he took the name Shocker to carry out his crimes.
These are the main villains that Spider-Man faced. Do you miss anyone?
