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Mac Gargan
Mac Gargan equally the Scorpion; in The Amazing Spider-Man vol. 1, #370 (December 1992) Art by Mark Bagley
Publication information
First appearance	Equally Mac Gargan: The Astonishing Spider-Human being #19 (December 1964) As the Scorpion: Amazing Spider-Man #20 (January 1965) As Venom: Curiosity Knights: Spider-Human being #10 (March 2005) Equally Spider-Human: Dark Avengers #1 (March 2009) Every bit Virus: Venom (vol. four) #25 (July 2020)
Created by	Stan Lee Steve Ditko
In-story information
Full proper name	MacDonald Gargan
Species	Human mutate
Team affiliations	Sinister Six Sinister Twelve Night Avengers Thunderbolts Masters of Evil Alchemax Vicious Vi
Notable aliases	Scorpion, Venom, Spider-Human, Virus, "Kilgore Trout"
Abilities	As the Scorpion: Superhuman strength, speed, agility, stamina, durability and reflexes Precognitive Scorpion-sense Wearing scorpion-similar armor with a cybernetic tail that has projectile weapons Ability to cling to almost surfaces Every bit Venom: Symbiote grants: All of Spider-Human being's powers Limited shapeshifting Amnesty to Spider-Man's spider-sense

MacDonald "Mac" Gargan
is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is usually depicted as an adversary of the superhero Spider-Homo. Created past Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, he outset appeared in
The Amazing Spider-Man
#19 (Dec 1964) equally a private investigator hired by J. Jonah Jameson to learn how Peter Parker took pictures of Spider-Man. In the post-obit issue, Jameson decided to turn Gargan into a deadly antagonist for Spider-Man through a barely-tested procedure, which left Gargan with an unremovable scorpion-themed armor and the predatory instincts of the arachnid. Driven insane by his mutation, Gargan instead turned to a life of law-breaking every bit the
Scorpion, and went on to menace both Spider-Man and Jameson, whom he held responsible for his transformation. Since then, having finally removed the armor, Gargan has also served every bit the third host of the
Venom
symbiote, and a member of the Night Avengers equally
Spider-Man, but eventually returned to his Scorpion alias as it kept him alive due to the strain both the neural-armors and symbiote put on his trunk.

Since his debut during the Argent Age of Comic Books, the graphic symbol has featured in various Marvel-endorsed products and media adaptations, such as feature films, television series and video games. He made his live-activeness debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film
Spider-Man: Homecoming
(2017), portrayed by Michael Mando.

Publication history

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The character was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Gargan first appeared in
The Astonishing Spider-Homo
#nineteen (December 1964) and offset appeared as the "Scorpion" in
The Astonishing Spider-Man
#20 (January 1965).^[1]
He also appeared as the chief adversary of the first 2 problems of
Ms. Curiosity
(Ms Marvel #1-2, January 1977).

Years later, he became the tertiary "Venom" in
Marvel Knights: Spider-Human
#10 (2005) and the tertiary "Spider-Man" in
Dark Avengers
#one (2009). He appeared as a regular character in the
Dark Avengers
series from issue #1 (March 2009) through outcome #16 (June 2010). Mac Gargan appeared in the graphic symbol's first own iv-issue miniseries,
Dark Reign: Sinister Spider-Man. The comic was released in June 2009 and was written by Brian Reed, with fine art by Chris Bachalo.^[two]
In 2010, Gargan returned as Scorpion,^[3]
in the "Large Time" story arc from
The Amazing Spider-Human.^[4]

Fictional graphic symbol biography

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Scorpion

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Mac Gargan was a private investigator initially hired by J. Jonah Jameson to find out how Peter Parker is able to obtain incredible pictures of Spider-Man.^{[five]
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Gargan'south efforts ready off Peter's spider-sense and the teen easily evades the detective. Jameson then decides to rent Gargan every bit the subject of a barely-tested process that would endow him with the useful characteristics of a particular animal with the help of Dr. Farley Stillwell.^[8]
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Dr. Stillwell also outfits him with a club-similar mechanical tail. In this instance, a scorpion is the base for the purposes of creating a powerful amanuensis capable of defeating Spider-Man as the scorpion is a natural predator of the spider. The Scorpion proves to be more than than a match for Spider-Homo, defeating him twice, just the mutagenic treatment seriously affects Gargan's mind, driving him insane as the predatory instincts of the scorpion take over. He promptly turns on his benefactor simply Spider-Man intervenes, and finally defeats the Scorpion in their third battle.^[10]
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The Scorpion becomes a professional person criminal and returns to indulge in a vendetta against Spider-Human being and Jameson, only to exist defeated again.^[12]

He is later hired past a spy ring to follow Due south.H.I.East.L.D. amanuensis Sharon Carter, merely is defeated by Helm America.^[13]
Scorpion is acquired by Mr. Kline, who creates an android duplicate of him.^[xiv]
The existent Scorpion and Mr. Hyde launch a campaign of terror against South.H.I.Eastward.50.D. agents, simply are defeated by Captain America and the Falcon.^[15]
After being released from prison house for skillful behavior, the Scorpion hunts down Spider-Man and tries drowning him in a cement vat, hoping to use the boost to his reputation to become an underworld boss. Scorpion learns that Spider-Human survived the see, and the Jackal gives him the hero's location. The Scorpion arrives at a hospital room with Peter Parker and his Aunt May. Not recognizing Spider-Man in his civilian identity, he threatens May and demands to know where Spider-Human being is. After she faints, Scorpion rampages through the infirmary. A furious Spider-Man beats the Scorpion and makes him apologize to May.^[sixteen]

The Scorpion fights Ms. Marvel after a botched revenge attempt confronting Jameson; the Scorpion becomes more than psychotic than usual after this, resulting in his being dumped in acid.^[17]
In the sewers, his sanity deteriorating, Scorpion comes to believe that his costume cannot be taken off. After a quick run into, Spider-Man proves that his belief of being a monster is just in his mind.^[eighteen]
Gargan forms an extortion racket to demolition the
Daily Bugle, but is thwarted past Spider-Man and Captain America.^[nineteen]
He is freed from prison house past agents of Egghead, who wants him to join the 3rd Masters of Evil alongside Cyclone and Moonstone. The team fight the Avengers but are defeated.^[20]
Scorpion kidnaps Jameson's bride Marla Madison on their wedding day merely she is rescued past Spider-Man.^[21]
Jonah publicly confesses to his role in creating the Scorpion when the Hobgoblin tries to apply that underground to bribery him.^[22]
Despite his encounters with other foes, Scorpion has ever had a special hatred for Spider-Man and Jameson, which extends to when he attempts to become a mercenary for Justin Hammer, who has the Scorpion's battlesuit modified. He ruins his prospects on his first mission, to capture a war hero, when he cannot resist creating a hostage situation merely to bring Jameson to him for revenge. In reaction, while Spider-Man in cooperation with the police are dealing with Gargan, Hammer sends Blacklash and Rhinoceros to subdue Gargan and confiscate the tail enhancement equipment for abrogating his contract.^[23]

During the "Acts of Vengeance," he tries to enter Canada to avoid the Super Ability Registration Act. The Tinkerer meets him at the airdrome and provides him with a modified scorpion tail for his costume. He, Asp, Nekra, and Owl (who are nether the control of Llan the Sorcerer) are repelled by Alpha Flight and Gamma Flying.^[24]
He is so hired by the Chameleon to kill a depowered Spider-Man. He is defeated by the Black Cat.^[25]
The Scorpion'southward abiding defeats at the hands of Spider-Man drive him to depression. He wanders the sewers, his mind condign clearer than information technology had been since his transformation, and decides to quit beingness the Scorpion. He encounters a depressed and crisis-ridden Spider-Human. Ignoring Gargan's plea that he is a changed man, Spider-Human beats him savagely.^[26]
In his adjacent advent, Gargan is back to being psychopathic. He battles and is defeated by Spider-Man'southward clone Ben Reilly.^[27]

Scorpion temporarily works for Roxxon and helps them in their phony "rehabilitation therapy". Roxxon updates the Scorpion'south powers and costume and promises he will become dorsum at his enemies. Spider-Human being convinces Scorpion that he is merely existence used. Scorpion and then turns on Roxxon and is then defeated by Spider-Man.^[28]
Gargan reappears in the aftermath of the Secret War that was organized by Nick Fury against Latveria. He is amidst the supervillains who were supplied with enhanced engineering by Latverian dictator Lucia von Bardas and sent to attack the heroes involved in Fury's Undercover War. The villains' technologies are hijacked by von Bardas, supplying her with power, potentially at the cost of the villains' lives, but the assembled heroes defeat von Bardas and apprehend Scorpion and the others.^[29]

Venom

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Subsequently, through circumstances even so to be revealed, Norman Osborn reveals Spider-Man'southward true identity to Gargan and gives him orders to kidnap Peter'due south Aunt May should Osborn ever be captured and imprisoned.^[thirty]
When Spider-Human defeats Osborn, he is imprisoned and Gargan carries out Osborn's orders in kidnapping Aunt May. Gargan eventually summons Peter and tells him the just fashion he can come across his aunt once again is to break Norman out of jail. Shortly thereafter, the Venom symbiote approaches Gargan,^[31]
offering him new abilities, and Gargan becomes bonded with the creature.^[32]
This would later on give him an extra border as part of Norman Osborn's Sinister Twelve.^[33]
Even with these additional powers he is all the same swiftly defeated past Spider-Man, as Helm America, Iron Homo, Daredevil, Yellowjacket and the Fantastic Four bargain with the rest of the Twelve.^[34]
Though incarcerated, Gargan is unfazed, as with his new powers come up the respect of becoming an "A-list" villain at concluding.^[35]

Alongside Spider-Man and other villains and heroes, Venom is kidnapped by other-dimensional forces. He succeeds in killing Spider-Man, who is really the original Infinite Phantom in disguise.^[36]
For his crimes, the Inhumans matriarch Medusa orders his execution and about carries it out herself. Later, he tries to kill the other participants for the Beyonder's wish fulfillment prize for the winner,^[37]
but fails and is returned to Earth alongside the residual of the group.^[38]

Thunderbolts

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Gargan subsequently becomes a fellow member of a sub-group of the Thunderbolts,^[39]
which has been drafted by the Avengers to hunt downwards the members of the fugitive Cloak-and-dagger Avengers and is currently run by the Commission for Superhuman Activities.^[40]
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It is and so revealed that he has been outfitted with electrical implants by the authorities to keep the Venom symbiote in check.^[42]
Equally a Thunderbolt, he is seen every bit a hero by the full general public and has his own action figures.^[43]
Gargan displays his new raw power as Venom in a battle with Jack Flag, after pummeling Flag for a bit, the hero manages to stab Gargan, who is protected by the symbiote. Gargan becomes enraged and ferociously man-handles Flag, and is about to eat him when his electric implants kicking in and temporarily subdue him, allowing Flag to alive.^[44]
Gargan expresses fear of the command the symbiote possesses over him, yet he has become addicted to the raw unearthly ability it brings to him and cannot even begin to imagine life without information technology, like to a drug addict.^[45]
An assault from Steel Spider and Sepulchre makes him lose control once again, briefly becoming a huge monster again, while Moonstone is incapacitated and thus cannot coordinate control of his electrical implants.^[46]
Afterwards he returns to a normal form with no ill effects. He also bites off and devours Steel Spider'due south arm during a fight.^[47]

Gargan is subsequently ordered by Osborn to hunt down Namor. Later on shooting him with a Thunderbolts-supplied weapon, Gargan disables Namor by ripping off his feet-wings. The Sub-Mariner manages to return Gargan unconscious and and so rips out the symbiote'south tongue,^[48]
although the symbiote easily makes a new i. Gargan begins to hallucinate that the symbiote is speaking to him, telling him to "feed (it)". He later attacks and devours a baby-sit and declares that "the simply way out of Thunderbolts Mountain is when I decide to let you lot die".^[49]
Information technology is afterwards revealed that the psychic criminal Bluestreak is controlling Gargan's deportment, although it is uncertain whether the symbiote was actually speaking to him or non.^[50]
Venom goes up against the Swordsman, who stabs Gargan through the breast, using his powers to force the symbiote away from his sword. Gargan is wounded, but lives.^[51]
After healing, he retains his monstrous form, rarely returning to his usual size.^[52]

"New Ways to Die"

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Gargan reappears during the "New Means to Die" story arc of
The Amazing Spider-Man, no longer possessing the knowledge of Spider-Man's secret identity.^[53]
Gargan and the Thunderbolts are called back to New York to capture Spider-Man. While on a search for the wall-crawler, Gargan'south symbiote senses a one-time host nearby. Gargan suspects that it is Spider-Human but instead finds Eddie Brock at the F.E.A.Due south.T centre (a soup kitchen). The Venom symbiote attempts to go out Gargan to re-bail with Brock, much to Gargan's (and Brock'southward) dismay. Upon making contact with Brock, his skin is shown to exist caustic to his erstwhile symbiote, and as a white substance seeps out of his pores covering his body, Brock uses the Anti-Venom symbiote and battles Gargan. With some aid from Spider-Man, Anti-Venom subdues Venom and almost destroys the symbiote.^[54]
Norman Osborn uses a sample of Anti-Venom'southward DNA from Mac Gargan and creates a poisonous counter to its healing powers past combining the sample with the allowed arrangement of Freak. Mac Gargan is injected with the "cure" and is given a new Scorpion battlesuit, which contains the venom, until the symbiote can recover.^[55]
Anti-Venom tracks downwards Gargan at Oscorp. After a grueling battle "Ven-orpion" injects the toxin into Anti-Venom and seemly kills the suit. He and then attempts to kill Brock but the symbiote tries holding him back, still feeling love for its quondam host. The symbiote gains its strength and breaks though the Scorpion adapt. Gargan gives upward but promises that he will become past this problem and will anytime stop Brock.^[56]

Clandestine Invasion


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Gargan was seen being thrown from Thunderbolt Mount by Captain Marvel.^[57]
Gargan was later seen with the other Thunderbolts in Washington. The Skrulls attempt to trick him into killing normal humans in society to detect out which of them are Skrulls.^[58]
Osborn attempted to prevent the symbiote from killing anyone past threatening to kill Mac Gargan and promising to help satisfy his "urges" later, only for Gargan to reveal that the threat he appeared to pose to civilians was a ruse in order to depict out a disguised Skrull. Venom played a huge role in fighting the Skrulls. He was seen slashing and eating the Skrulls all at once.^[59]
He soon joins the Thunderbolts and the remaining heroes for the final battle confronting the Skrulls. During the battle, he was a force to be reckoned with.^[threescore]

Venom, along with most of the Thunderbolts squad, attempts to impale partner Songbird on the orders of Osborn. Facing Venom, Songbird was defeated and most eaten by Venom, but escaped with help from the Swordsman.^[61]

Night Reign


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Norman Osborn forms the Night Avengers, providing new identities to some of his former Thunderbolts. After feeding a Skrull to a hungry Venom that has become more than bestial than human, Osborn gives him a medication that resets the symbiote to the size it was when information technology possessed Spider-Human originally. Gargan can transform into his larger Venom grade at will.^[62]

Norman introduces Gargan and the symbiote as "Spider-Man" of the Nighttime Avengers.^[63]
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During their starting time mission against Morgana le Fay, Morgana transforms "Venom-Spidey" into a giant, demonic monster who so tries to consume Ares.^[65]
Venom later coughs up Ares; however, Morgana's magic continues to affect Venom, causing him to lose and gain control of himself randomly.^[66]
Subsequently Morgana is defeated in the by past Fe Patriot and Dr. Doom, Mac returned to his "Spider-Man" course with only a slight headache. Hawkeye promised to kill Mac one solar day for trying to eat him while he was under Morgana's control.^[67]
Once they arrive home, he is seen arguing with Hawkeye.^[68]

Later, attempting to find out Norman Osborn's plans for his son Harry, the real Spider-Man, with the assist of the Invisible Woman, manages to capture Gargan by using a sonic generator and takes his place to infiltrate the Dark Avengers. Gargan is thrown into the Negative Zone,^[69]
simply is subsequently seen back with the Dark Avengers.

Confronting Osborn's wishes, Gargan is seen heading out into the metropolis to "fight crime" solo. At i point, he is seen defeating a bank robber called General Wolfram. Subsequently making out with two girls at once and getting cheered by a large crowd, he takes the robber to an abandoned rooftop and consumes his arm. He then takes the money Wolfram stole and swings abroad. Gargan is then seen at a strip club with the coin and discovers his new favorite stripper. Later getting reprimanded by Norman Osborn for eating Wolfram's arm, Gargan kills the stripper and places her dead body in J. Jonah Jameson's bed while he is gone in an endeavor to frame him for her murder. At the aforementioned time, Redeemer visits the injured General Wolfram and recruits him alongside other villains who take had limbs bitten off by Gargan (namely Dementoid, Doctor Everything, Xi, and Hippo) in a programme to accept down "Spider-Man" (who is believed to be the root of their problem).^[70]
In some other attempt to antagonize Jameson, Gargan instigates a turf war between ii rival street gangs, hoping to wear Jameson downwards through stress and exhaustion from continuously putting out stories to cover the crime wave. At the same time, the Redeemer arms his group with cybernetic limbs to defeat Spider-Homo. J. Jonah Jameson goes to Osborn for help and is given Spider-Human being to assist solve the metropolis's gang trouble.^[71]

Gargan continues to instigate the gang war and beal Jameson in person. A flop threat is placed by Redeemer to lure Spider-Homo into an intervention, though Gargan instead devours Hippo and Eleven, badly injures Dementoid, and beats Physician Everything into submission before turning him over to the police. He and so eats Redeemer's limbs. With Redeemer, Wolfram, and Dementoid the only ones still remaining of the grouping (albeit hospitalized), Redeemer sends photos of Gargan'south deportment to Jameson in an attempt to expose him as a cannibalistic psychopath to the world.^[72]
Jameson first goes to Osborn, who decides to cut Gargan loose by sending Bullseye and Daken (in their sometime costumes) to kill him. At the Big Apple tree Festival, the two assault him, with Dementoid, General Wolfram, and both gangs involved in the turf war inbound the fray to attempt to kill Spider-Human. Gargan ends up defeating all of them, and J. Jonah Jameson shoots a gun in the air to end the fight. As a result, everyone credits Jameson and Spider-Man with successfully working together to stop criminals and save the festival. Gargan afterward returns to Avengers Tower, where he is visited by Norman Osborn. Osborn informs him that Bullseye and Daken will get over being hurt, but warns Gargan that if he goes out of control once more, he volition suit upward every bit the Iron Patriot and take care of him personally.^[73]

During the opening chapter of "Utopia," the Dark Avengers are sent into San Francisco to quell the mutant riots and boxing any X-Men they can discover. Tension is shown to exist betwixt the Avengers and Osborn's ain Nighttime X-Men. When Namor and Emma Frost are revealed to be double agents on Cyclops' side and defect with Cloak and Dagger, an irate Osborn gathers the Night Avengers and the remaining Dark X-Men, Gargan included, ordering them to bring him Namor'due south head and Emma Frost's center and to make sure that Cyclops sees them do it.^[74]
The Dark Avengers and Night X-Men attack Utopia and battle the 10-Men, with Venom facing off against Colossus. Due to the sheer number of X-Men, Osborn is forced to retreat when informed that the only way to win would be to impale all the mutants on the isle, an choice which is non politically feasible.^[75]

Gargan subsequently begins to testify signs that his medications are making him emotionally unstable. On a mission with the Dark Avengers, Osborn takes Gargan off the instance when he notices Gargan's outbursts.^[76]
Molecule Man turns Gargan and his symbiote into an inert pile of goo.^[77]
He is later restored by the Sentry.^[78]

"Siege"

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During the "Siege" storyline, Mac Gargan is with the Dark Avengers when Norman Osborn makes plans to invade Asgard. Mac Gargan and the rest of the Avengers protest. For fighting alongside the Initiative, Osborn promises to give the team their freedom from servitude. As a result, Gargan is among the mass of soldiers to launch an attack on Asgard following Loki's setup. He and the remainder of the Avengers manage to overwhelm Thor.^[79]
While fighting Ms. Marvel and Spider-Man after they go far, Gargan is forcefully removed from the Venom symbiote, which takes over Ms. Marvel until Spider-Man defeats it.^[80]
He, along with the other Dark Avengers, are arrested subsequently Norman Osborn falls from power.^[81]

Return as Scorpion

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During the "Big Time" storyline, Mac Gargan is seen at the Raft superprison, having been separated from the Venom symbiote: the symbiote'south removal was causing medical issues due to the side furnishings from his original genetic mutation. Alistair Smythe breaks him out of the Raft.^[82]
Gargan was then fitted with a new Scorpion adjust past Smythe, which included a life-back up organisation to stabilize Gargan'south condition. Smythe convinced Gargan to join him in his plan for revenge on J. Jonah Jameson.^[83]
Scorpion joins Alistair Smythe, a new villain named Fly-Girl, and some unnamed cyborg minions (each wanting revenge on Jameson) in attacking the launch site of John Jameson's latest space mission, where they sabotage the launch and hold John Jameson for bribe.^[84]

During the "Ends of the Globe" storyline, Scorpion is seen guarding one of Doctor Octopus' facilities. Titanium Man enters it and ends up fighting Scorpion. Titanium Man is defeated by Scorpion despite his best efforts.^[85]

During the "Dying Wish" storyline, Scorpion hears the call-to-arms from Peter Parker (while trapped in Doctor Octopus' dying torso) to save him and auscultate Dr. Octopus (occupying Spider-Man's body) in gild to save his loved ones from Dr. Octopus' final sinister scheme.^[86]
Scorpion and Hydro-Human accompany Peter Parker in Doctor Octopus' body to Stark Industries to await for Tony Stark only to end upwards in a trap fix by Medico Octopus in Spider-Man'southward body. When finding a prophylactic area containing Spider-Man's friends and relatives, Scorpion plans to take his concluding revenge on J. Jonah Jameson. Upon accessing the memories of Spider-Man loving Aunt May - and the times Scorpion threatened her - Md Octopus in Spider-Man's torso retaliates by punching Scorpion so hard in the jaw (the merely unprotected part of his trunk) that it breaks off from his caput.^[87]

Scorpion was later on seen in the Raft'south infirmary with Boomerang and Vulture. Scorpion now sported a metallic appliance that replaced his missing jaw. Alistair Smythe's mini-Spider-Slayers heal and enhance them, and Smythe gives them an offer to impale Spider-Man.^[88]
While Boomerang fights Spider-Man, Scorpion is convinced by Smythe to go afterwards Mayor Jameson again.^[89]

During the "Hole-and-corner Wars" storyline, Scorpion is among the villains at Kingpin's viewing party of the incursion betwixt Earth-616 and World-1610.^[xc]

As part of the "All-New, All-Dissimilar Marvel," Scorpion was secretly hired by Tiberius Stone of Alchemax to further test Alchemax's Spider-Slayers during Tiberius' trip to a foreign country to sell them. During Scorpion'due south test of Alchemax'due south Spider-Slayers, Scorpion encountered Spider-Man 2099.^[91]
When Scorpion thought that Spider-Human 2099 was his Spider-Man in a dissimilar costume, he attacks him with the assist of the Spider-Slayers; Spider-Man 2099 muses that in his time the Scorpion is considered a low-primal opponent for Spider-Homo, simply personally considers the villain a genuine threat afterward just a few moments fighting him. Spider-Homo 2099 was able to use his holographic assistant to project a hologram of Spider-Human being over Scorpion causing the Spider-Slayers to set on Scorpion until he turned them off twice.^[92]

Scorpion later doubles working for Black Cat's gang when he and a human named Lee Cost partake in a black market sale that besides involved Tombstone's gang.^[93]
When at Black Cat's hideout, Scorpion accuses Lee Price of botching up the black market sale which Lee Toll denied leading Blackness Cat to demand an explanation after hearing about some information from her spies at the New York City Police Department telling her what they know. After Lee Toll leaves following his explanation, Scorpion becomes suspicious towards Lee.^[94]
While confiding his suspicions, Mac Gargan dons a new version of the Scorpion armor.^[95]
He and so meets Price at the apartment of a Daily Bugle reporter, who had evidence against Black Cat. When Lee reminds him that they should scare the reporter, Scorpion attacks him causing Lee to transform into Venom and the two brainstorm to fight. During the fight, Scorpion is nearly killed until Spider-Human being intervenes, who mistook Venom for Flash Thompson.^[96]

In a prelude to the "Hunted" storyline, Scorpion is among the animal-themed characters captured by Taskmaster and Blackness Ant on Kraven the Hunter's behalf. He is among those who Arcade publicly reveals as the Savage Six.^[97]

Characterization

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Powers and abilities

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As Scorpion

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Mac Gargan, as the Scorpion, was given superhuman powers through chemical and radiological treatments, include splicing his genetics with a scorpion's DNA, which produced mutagenic effects. As the result, he has arachnid-similar powers similar to Spider-Man'southward such as superhuman strength, speed, agility, reflexes, stamina, and immovability, and besides can scale walls (he also punches holes in walls as a way to climb).^[98]
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He likewise has an uncommonly strong grip, reminiscent of a existent scorpion's pincers. He wears a total-trunk battlesuit composed of two layers of light steel mesh separated by a thin layer of insulated condom. In addition to his superhuman physique, he was traditionally armed with a cybernetically-controlled, seven-pes mechanical tail, with a tool steel articulated framework which tin can whip at ninety miles per hour. The tail has in the past been equipped with projectile weapons, usually an electric generator, although information technology has also been equipped with a spike at its tip, which can squirt an acidic spray, and a low-density plasma energy projector. The Scorpion tin employ his tail as an extra leg, or he can coil it backside him to spring himself a distance of at least 30 anxiety. The Scorpion is essentially stronger and more than durable than Spider-Homo, though is a much less skilled mitt-to-paw combatant, and thus Spider-Man relies on his tactics and wits to defeat him.

As Venom

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With the Venom symbiote, Mac Gargan retains his superhuman abilities, some of which have increased essentially beyond the original levels. The costume can even emulate the tail of Gargan'southward Scorpion costume. It can also exist used as a fifth limb.^{[
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As Venom, Gargan has gained the ability to shoot webbing and climb walls similar Spider-Man, and tin disguise himself as other people or blend in with his groundwork. He is undetectable by Spider-Human'due south "spider-sense". His skill as a paw-to-paw combatant has increased due to the influence of the alien symbiote, which has superior instincts and fighting experience. The costume can also heal grave injuries suffered by the host with incredible speed. Mac (as Venom) has claws on his fingers which can exist used equally weapons to slash his foes. He can likewise create tendrils to incapacitate his enemies.

When injured or enraged, Venom now has the ability to increment its mass and physical strength in order to meet whatever threat information technology is facing with equal force, an power inconsistently hinted in the past, such every bit when Venom battled the Juggernaut. During these times it is not articulate that Gargan has any control over the symbiote, for had information technology not been for the technology restraining Venom, he would accept eaten Jack Flag. Likewise, during a battle with the Steel Spider, Gargan attacks innocent bystanders.^[44]

As Spider-Man

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A special "medication" provided by Norman Osborn allowed Venom to assume a smaller, more human-looking form like to when Spider-Homo had control of the symbiote. From this form, he is able to switch back to his larger, more feral form whenever he pleases. As Spider-Man, Mac seems to be even more than agile than when he was as Venom. He also still has all of Venom'south powers, minus the claws, tongue, and teeth, which he can regrow at will.^[72]
His "medication" has as well been shown to decrease his volition to fight, making him more than sympathetic.^[76]

Render equally Scorpion

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After Smythe breaks him out of the Raft, Gargan is fitted with a new Scorpion suit. The suit is larger than its predecessor, and cybernetically wired into Gargan, making him a cyborg. It is equipped with a more than powerful tail, mechanical pincers, and is impenetrable. Smythe also altered Gargan's biology, giving him a "scorpion-sense" to match Spider-Man's spider-sense. The suit is too very tough, allowing Gargan to withstand a autumn at terminal speed.^[83]
The armor leaves Mac's jaw unprotected, which Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man's body exploited to punch his jaw make clean off.^[87]
Post-obit his employment by Alchemax, he has gained a new jaw to replace the jaw he lost.^[91]

Personality

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Earlier he assumed the identity of the Scorpion, Mac Gargan was a skilled, if somewhat greedy and unscrupulous, individual investigator, who admitted that he would go through anything "only then long equally the pay is good!"^[ten]
His greed withal motivated him as a supervillain, albeit in a twisted mode: while awaiting an official "offering" from the Thunderbolts, Gargan squeezed his amanuensis for financial details on a proposed volume, Telly and moving picture bargain ("How many dorsum points? And residuals? Fantastic. That foreign
and
domestic?"), demanded sure talent for the writing (including the screenwriting brother of the comic'south writer) and, finally, Gargan killed six "capekiller" S.H.I.East.Fifty.D. agents sent to bring him in - because while he intended to cooperate, his agent had told him that the rights to his life story would be "worth a piffling more" if Gargan "goosed upwardly the body count" before joining the Thunderbolts.^[100]

He is emotionally disturbed as a upshot of the procedure in which he acquired his powers, and retains little of his onetime rationality. He is typically easily outsmarted by Spider-Man and is not very good at cooperating with other supervillains or following instructions equally Justin Hammer learned. His most prominent weakness is his explosive temper and irrational hatred toward J. Jonah Jameson, to the point where he has been known to ignore the orders of whomever he is working for, in order to assail the
Daily Bugle'southward
publisher^{[
volume & issue needed
]}. None of this has inverse with his bonding to the Venom symbiote, or with his new career serving under Norman Osborn with the Thunderbolts or the Dark Avengers: in fact, the symbiote seems to take simply made him even more irrational, and his new career as a "hero" has done zero to curtail his lingering hatred of Jameson^{[
volume & outcome needed
]}. He nearly blew his embrace as Spider-Man when he started a drug war and photographs of him engaging in cannibalism wound up in J. Jonah Jameson's hands, putting his employer Norman Osborn's plans and the "heroic" status of his entire Dark Avengers team in jeopardy, but to pursue vengeance against Jameson (at present the Mayor of New York) however again. His ill-conceived and poorly thought-out plan failed, and he was forced to publicly brand peace with Jameson in his Spider-Man guise, greatly embarrassing him, though he secretly fantasized well-nigh killing Jameson during the whole time while they were shaking hands^{[
volume & issue needed
]}.

The years of existence outsmarted and beaten, despite his physical superiority over Spider-Man, complement the similar hatred possessed by the symbiote, and has allowed it to virtually completely command Gargan. Dissimilar the other Venoms, Mac very seldom refers to himself every bit "we" instead of "I". Gargan has even engaged in cannibalism as Venom, severing and devouring the arm of the still-living Steel Spider. After getting "the taste of flesh", he is seen displaying even more signs of cannibalism such as eating Skrulls, consuming the bones of Swarm, devouring Eleven and the limbs of criminals, and trying to eat Ares. When the symbiote is dormant in his body he has expressed nausea and fright of the organism.^[101]
Unlike Eddie Brock, any inhibitions Gargan had near harming innocent bystanders has been eliminated with his bonding to the symbiote, most likely because he had such trivial regard for others to begin with. Gargan's previous identity has not been completely degraded. His symbiote once sprouted a scorpion-like tail, although he has not had it since. Also, when he learned there was a new hero calling herself the Scorpion, Gargan-Venom attacked her to protect his trademark while information technology nevertheless lasted. Also, for a brief time, Gargan wore a new Scorpion arrange while the symbiote regenerated subsequently Anti-Venom'southward attack, although initially he was hesitant about wearing it alongside the symbiote.

Reception

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Accolades

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• In 2012,
  IGN
  ranked Mac Gargan's Venom persona 17th in their "Top 50 Avengers" list.^[102]
• In 2014,
  IGN
  ranked Mac Gargan 10th in their "Top 25 Spider-Man Villains" list.^[103]
• In 2016,
  Comicbook.com
  ranked Mac Gargan'due south Venom persona 4th in their "Every Venom Host In The Marvel Universe Ranked" list.^[104]
• In 2021,
  CBR.com
  ranked Mac Gargan eighth in their "10 Strongest Spider-Men" listing.^[105]
• In 2021,
  Screen Rant
  ranked Mac Gargan fourth in their "x Most Powerful Hosts Of The Venom Symbiote" listing,^[106]
  tenth in their "Spider-Man Villains, Ranked By Fighting Ability" list,^[107]
  and included him in their "10 All-time Marvel Legacy Villains Who Lived Up To Their Predecessor" list.^[108]
• In 2021,
  Newsarama
  included Mac Gargan in their "The greatest Venom hosts of all time" listing.^[109]
• In 2022,
  Collider
  included Mac Gargan in their "10 Spider-Man Villains Fans Desire to See in the MCU" list.^[110]
• In 2022,
  CBR.com
  ranked Mac Gargan sixth in their "Spider-Man's 10 Coolest Villains" listing,^[111]
  9th in their "x Virtually Iconic Spider-Man Villains" list,^[112]
  9th in their "Spider-Man: Ranking His 15 Strongest Villains" list,^[113]
  and 16th in their "Venom: Ranking the Strongest Symbiotes" list.^[114]
• In 2022,
  Screen Bluster
  ranked Mac Gargan 2nd in their "10 Most Powerful Fauna-Themed Spider-Man Villains" list.^[115]

Other versions

[edit]

Exiles

[edit]

In one of the many realities visited by the Exiles, Mac Gargan is one of the many superhumans that form the Heroes for Rent, and is part of the
Avengers Package, which also includes the Black Widow and the Black Knight. Afterward existence hired to protect Tokyo from Moses Magnum and Namorita, Scorpion is killed past the murderous, teenage counterpart of Magik.^[116]

JLA/Avengers


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In the last issue of
JLA/Avengers, Scorpion is among the enthralled villains defending Krona'south stronghold, and is defeated by Sandman.^[117]

Curiosity Zombies


[edit]

A zombified Scorpion appears in
Marvel Zombies: Dead Days
and
Marvel Zombies 3. He is a fellow member of the Kingpin'southward undead alliance. As such, he searches New York and the surrounding areas for food of whatever kind. He is on friendly terms with the zombie Diablo. He is eventually killed past Machine Man.^[118]

Spider-Homo: Reign


[edit]

Gargan appears as the Scorpion (in a highly advanced costume) in
Spider-Human being: Reign
every bit a member of the Sinner Six. He dies when he is punted from an Empire State Building window by Spider-Man.^[119]

Spider-Poesy


[edit]

In the
Spider-Verse, the World-001 version of Scorpion is a member of Verna's Hounds. Alongside the Earth-001 version of Rhino, Scorpion accompanied Verna to World-21205 to hunt Hobgoblin (who was the identity of that world's Peter Parker). They were stopped by the Spider-Woman of Earth-65.^[120]

Ultimate Curiosity

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The Ultimate Marvel comics feature
Maximus Gargan, a tattooed Mexican mob boss that worked with the Prowler (Aaron Davis).^[121]
This version is the second villain to accept on the Scorpion alias, the starting time being a deranged, imperfect clone of Peter Parker. He is shown to have very resistant skin, merely may have other powers too.^[121]
Once he arrived at New York, Gargan set his sights on condign the new "Kingpin of New York", but was stopped past the efforts of an uneasy alliance of Spider-Human and Prowler.^[122]

In other media

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Television

[edit]

• Mac Gargan / Scorpion appeared in the 1960s
  Spider-Man
  serial, voiced by Carl Banas.^[123]
  This version's villainous nature was amplified when Farley Stillwell turned him into the Scorpion.
• Mac Gargan / Scorpion appeared in the
  Spider-Human and His Amazing Friends
  episode "Assault of the Arachnoid", voiced by Neil Ross.^[123]
• Mac Gargan / Scorpion appeared in the 1990s
  Spider-Human
  series, voiced initially by Martin Landau earlier Richard Moll took over.^[123]
  Introduced in "The Sting of the Scorpion", this version is initially a neurotic, plump, and balding private eye working for J. Jonah Jameson. In an attempt to discover Spider-Homo's identity, Jameson convinces Gargan to let Dr. Farley Stillwell to use the Neogenic Recombinator to transform him into a superhero. Every bit Scorpion, Gargan defeats Spider-Human, but is overcome with pain equally he undergoes further uncontrolled mutations that give him dark-green pare, yellow eyes, and talon-similar fingers. Driven insane and assertive more radiation will render him to normal, Gargan attempts to proceeds access to a nuclear reactor and destroy New York in the process, but is defeated by Spider-Human and arrested. In "The Insidious Half dozen" and "Battle of the Insidious Half dozen", the Kingpin recruits Scorpion and five other supervillains to course the eponymous team in an try to impale Spider-Man, merely he ultimately defeats them. In "The Terminal Nightmare", desperate to discover a cure for his status, Scorpion kidnaps Stillwell, but the scientist destroys the Recombinator to stop others from creating monsters like Scorpion. After saving the Vulture from an exploding edifice, Scorpion takes him hostage under the belief that he is smart enough to change him back. Meanwhile, Alistair Smythe, requiring Scorpion's genetic code to further his own experiments, holds Black True cat hostage to coerce Spider-Man into bringing Scorpion to him. Withal, Scorpion manages to escape Smythe after Vulture attacks and attempts to leave his life of crime. In the five-function episode "Six Forgotten Warriors", Scorpion rejoins the Kingpin and the Insidious 6 to locate the Red Skull'southward doomsday device. By the episode's end, Scorpion escapes from the police and goes back to his own life.
• Mac Gargan is alluded to in
  The Spectacular Spider-Human.^{[
  commendation needed
  ]}
  In the series finale "Final Curtain", the Chameleon, disguised as Norman Osborn, thanks the private investigator on the phone for investigating Donald Menken's address. Scorpion was originally set to appear had the series continued.^{[124]
  [125]}
• Mac Gargan / Scorpion appears in the 2010s
  Spider-Human being
  series, voiced by Jason Spisak.^{[123]
  [126]}
  In his virtually notable advent, he pursues an unsuccessful partnership with the Tinkerer who uses energy from the Blood Gem to plough him into a large monster, simply to be defeated past Spider-Gwen, Anya Corazon, and the Ultimate Spider-Human being.

Marvel Cinematic Universe

[edit]

Mac Gargan appears in media prepare in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).

• He first appears in the live-action film
  Spider-Homo: Homecoming
  (2017), portrayed by Michael Mando.^[127]
  This version takes inspiration from the mainstream and Ultimate Marvel versions and is depicted as a ruthless and notorious gangster with an all-encompassing criminal tape and a scorpion tattoo on his cervix. He meets with Adrian Toomes' associates at the Staten Island Ferry equally part of a bargain to receive advanced conflicting weaponry. However, Spider-Man interrupts the bargain and webs Gargan to the ferry earlier the latter gets knocked into the bay during Spider-Homo's fight with Toomes. In a mid-credits scene, Gargan meets with Toomes in prison to discuss friends of the latter's who share his want to get revenge on Spider-Human and Toomes knowing the web-slinger'southward identity, though Toomes denies it.
• An alternate universe version of Gargan as the Scorpion will appear in the upcoming animated series
  Spider-Human: Freshman Year
  (2024).^{[128]
  [129]}

Video games

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• Mac Gargan / Scorpion appears as a boss in
  The Amazing Spider-Man
  for the Game Boy.^[130]
• Mac Gargan / Scorpion appeared in
  Spider-Human 2: The Sinister Half-dozen
  as a member of the titular group.^[131]
• Mac Gargan appears in
  Spider-Human being: The Video Game.^{[132]
  [133]}
• Mac Gargan / Scorpion appears as a boss in the SNES and Genesis versions of the 1995
  Spider-Homo
  game.^{[
  citation needed
  ]}
• Mac Gargan / Scorpion appears equally a boss in
  Spider-Man: Lethal Foes.^[134]
• Mac Gargan / Scorpion appears as the offset boss in the 2000
  Spider-Man
  game, voiced by Daran Norris.^[123]
• Mac Gargan / Scorpion appears equally a boss in the 2002
  Spider-Human
  motion picture tie-in game, voiced past Mike McColl.^[123]
  This version is an arachnophobic quondam exam subject field of a failed military experiment meant to create super-soldiers, which left him with a suit of irremovable scorpion-themed armor and super-powers.
• Mac Gargan / Scorpion appears every bit a boss in
  Spider-Man: Mysterio's Menace.^{[135]
  [136]}
• Mac Gargan / Scorpion appears in
  Curiosity: Ultimate Alliance, voiced past Beau Weaver.^{[137]
  [123]}
  This version is a fellow member of Doctor Doom's Masters of Evil. Additionally, the "Villain Pack" DLC introduces Gargan'south Venom form every bit an alternating costume for Eddie Brock'south version.
• Mac Gargan / Scorpion appears in the
  Spider-Man 3
  film tie-in game, voiced by Dee Bradley Bakery.^[123]
  This version is portrayed every bit a tragic anti-hero who went through a like origin story equally his 2002 video game incarnation.^{[
  citation needed
  ]}
  Seeking aid in removing his mechanical scorpion tail, he approaches Dr. Farley Stillwell, the caput scientist of cybernetics corporation MechaBioCon (MBC), only for her to turn him into a "bounty hunter" to assist in MBC's illegal activities via a suit of armor equipped with drill hands and a heed-control helmet. While releasing the Rhino from a police van, Scorpion is confronted past Spider-Man, who was investigating MBC when he learned about what happened to Gargan from Dr. Andrews, a scientist who developed feelings for Gargan. After a fight with the listen-controlled Gargan, Spider-Man is able to complimentary and join forces with him to confront Stillwell. Later on defeating the Rhinoceros and rescuing Dr. Andrews, Scorpion near kills Stillwell, simply Spider-Man and Dr. Andrews persuade him non to before he escapes.
• Mac Gargan / Scorpion appears as a boss and playable graphic symbol in
  Spider-Homo: Friend or Foe, voiced by Fred Tatasciore.^[123]
• Mac Gargan / Venom appears every bit an unlockable playable grapheme and boss in the PS3, Xbox 360, PS4, Xbox I, and PC versions of
  Marvel: Ultimate Brotherhood 2, voiced by Chopper Bernet.^{[
  citation needed
  ]}
  He is among the villains that are placed under mind command via nanite technology to serve the heroes' cause and can be either on the pro- or anti-registration side.^[138]
  Additionally, Gargan as the Scorpion appears as a boss in the Wii, PS2, and PSP versions of the game, voiced by Jim Cummings.^[137]
• Mac Gargan / Venom appears in
  Marvel: Avengers Brotherhood. This version is a member of Dell Rusk's Nighttime Avengers.
• Mac Gargan / Venom appears as a playable character in
  Spider-Human being Unlimited.^[139]
• Mac Gargan / Scorpion appears equally a playable character in
  Lego Curiosity Super Heroes two.^[140]
• Mac Gargan / Scorpion appears as a boss in
  Curiosity's Spider-Man,^[141]
  voiced once more past Jason Spisak.^[123]
  This version has a similar origin story to his comics analogue, although he used to be a small-time criminal rather than a private investigator. He tin also shoot a fatal, hallucinogenic toxin from his tail. Following his transformation into Scorpion, Gargan became a mercenary, which brought him into conflict with Spider-Man. Within the game's continuity, Spider-Man has been a superhero for eight years and is well-familiar with Scorpion. At the beginning of the game'south storyline, Scorpion is imprisoned at the Raft. However, he eventually escapes when Otto Octavius stages a prison house break and agrees to join his liberator's Sinister Six in exchange for expunging Gargan's criminal tape and clearing his gambling debts. After the team overpowers Spider-Homo, they split up to attack different Oscorp properties, with Scorpion beingness sent to poison the metropolis's h2o reservoir. Though he is foiled past Spider-Man, Scorpion poisons him with his toxin and escapes while the webslinger develops a cure. Scorpion afterward joins the Rhino at the docks, but Spider-Homo arrives to confront them. After turning the villains confronting each other, Spider-Man locks them within a shipping container before the police arrive to accept them dorsum into custody.
• The Mac Gargan incarnations of Venom and Scorpion appear as separate playable characters in
  Marvel Puzzle Quest.^{[142]
  [143]}

Nerveless editions

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References

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External links

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• Mac Gargan at Curiosity.com
• Mac Gargan at Spiderfan.org
• MacDonald Gargan on Marvel Database, a Marvel Comics wiki