Who Is Spidercide? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Spidercide is a Marvel comic book character, the alter ego of Peter Parker, with over 52 comic issue appearances. Spidercide is a clone of Spider-Man created by the Jackal (who has created the majority of the Spider-Man clones) who made Spidercide believe he was the true Peter Parker. Spidercide's insistence that he was the true Peter Parker led him down a road of violence and villainy.

Who is Spidercide?

Origin Spidercide is a clone of Peter Parker the original Spider-Man. He was created by the Jackal. Creation Spidercide is created by Tom DeFalco and Sal Buscema and first appeared in The Spectacular Spider-Man issue 222 (1995). Major Story Arcs The Third Clone Having returned to New York city upon hearing of Aunt May 's ill health the Scarlet Spider finds himself starting to have visions of his creator, the Jackal . Trying to prove to himself he is not going insane, Ben follows the baits of the vision and eventually finds himself somewhere within the Catskill Mountains confronted by some very real creations of the Jackal that have seemingly hid away within one of his hidden labs since his earlier demise. Spider-Man meanwhile begins to suffer from the same visions and, having collapsed from the strain of them, also sets off to find the source, seeing visions of a collapsed Scarlet Spider as he makes his way to the mountains, only adding to his resolve to follow the visions wherever they may be leading him. Eventually reaching the unconscious Ben and seeing the Jackal like creature that was tormenting him, Peter agrees to team up with Ben to find out what has been going on. Finding .

Key facts

Spidercide is of human origin and first appeared in "Players and Pawns Part 1: False Truths". The character is published by Marvel. With 52 recorded issue appearances, Spidercide ranks among the most featured characters in comics.