Shocker
Today we talk about Herman Schultz, best known as the Spider-Man antagonist Shocker, who makes shockwaves with special gloves in order to do normal stuff like rob banks for money.
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Thanks to Victoria Watkins for our icon!
Boomerang/Outback/Comeback
Today we talk about Fred Myers, who was a baseball player before getting hired to do crime as Boomerang, which led him to trying to kill Spider-Man, befriending Spider-Man, and even befriending a Symbiote!
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Scorpion/Venom
Today we talk about Mac Gargan, who was a regular private investigator until he let J Jonah Jameson convince him to get experimented on and became the Scorpion, which goes about as well as you might think, and leads him to a revenge quest again Jameson (and Spider-man, even though he wasn't even really involved).
Rhino
Today we talk about Aleksei Sytsevich, best known as the Spider-man antagonist The Rhino, whose main motivations are getting stronger, making money, and being mad at guys who prevent either of the first two things.
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Iris West-Allen
Today we talk about Iris West, who was sent to the past as a baby, ended up marrying Barry Allen, got sent to the future again where Barry ended up finding her and starting a family before he went back to the past and died, so Iris traveled back to the past with her grandson before everything got retconned and then kind of done all over again!
Linda Park-West
Today we talk about Linda Park, who is a reporter and kept running into Wally West on the job before they ended up falling in love, starting a family, forgetting the family existed multiple times, and remembering multiple times.
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Vicki Vale
Today we talk about Vicki Vale, an intrepid Gotham reporter who is going to get to the bottom of this "Is Bruce Wayne Batman?" mystery if it kills her.
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Alexander Gentry, Roger Gocking
Today we talk about the two men who have been known as Porcupine: Alex Gentry who made the spiky suit (and decided to use it for crime), and Roger Gocking who purchased the suit (and decided to use it for crime, and later not-crime). But we mostly talk about Roger.
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Puma/Riot
Today we talk about Thomas Fireheart, who was raised to fight a prophesized threat with shapeshifting Puma powers, ends up starting a business and becoming a mercenary, and being generally in Spider-man's way.
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Randy Robertson
Today we talk about Randy Robertson, civil rights activist, friend and roommate to Peter Parker, son of Robbie Robertson, and one half of a beautiful Romeo and Juliet story.
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Robbie Robertson
Today we talk about Joseph "Robbie" Robertson, a journalist with the Daily Bugle who has a very complicated relationship with the villain Tombstone....
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