![]() ![]() Obsessed with exacting his final revenge on Spider-Man, he was disappointed when he deduced from newspaper articles that the current Spider-Man was just a clone, and saw no dignity in overpowering a 'copy' of the real thing (even though by then, the clone had been killed, and the current Spider-Man was indeed the original). He was given one year to live, but this imminent death caused prison psychiatrists to grant him early release. Īfter his final imprisonment, Mysterio was given an early release, as he had been diagnosed with a brain tumor and lung cancer, both caused by the chemicals and radiation from his equipment. He attempted to drive Spider-Man insane with his hallucinations, but was brutally beaten and nearly killed by the Lizard. ![]() Mysterio was also one of the villains present on Ryker's Island during Carnage and Shriek's takeover. Eventually, he began to lose credibility as a supervillain, with his defeat at the hands of Power Pack being a particularly humiliating moment. He joined Doctor Octopus' Sinister Six on several occasions, but this never gave him the edge against his foe that he desired. Despite this, however, Mysterio was constantly beaten by Spider-Man and usually arrested. In other encounters, Mysterio has faked the death of Spider-Man's Aunt May, and made deals with demons from Limbo. He is recruited by Doctor Octopus to form the second Sinister Six, and battles Spider-Man. Mysterio then attempts to scare the tenants from an apartment complex in real estate thwarted by the preteen superhero team, Power Pack, much to his later humiliation. In his next appearance, Mysterio tricks Spider-Man into believing that he had caused the death of a bystander. Beck used bogus alien disguises to frighten May Parker into revealing the location of the fortune, but then learned that the money had long ago been eaten by silverfish. Out of prison, Beck resumes his Ludwig Rinehart identity to manipulate Spider-Man's Aunt May into revealing the whereabouts of a lost fortune hidden in her house. While Beck is incarcerated, his cellmate Daniel Berkhart briefly becomes Mysterio on the original's behalf. ![]() He threatens to destroy the city while on TV, and goes on to convince Spider-Man he is 6 inches (150 mm) tall using a post-hypnotic suggestion and a miniature funfair, but Spider-Man sees through the illusion and captures Mysterio. However they were both defeated and arrested. Mysterio then establishes a brief partnership with the Wizard in a plot to kill Spider-Man and the Human Torch on a Hollywood movie set by pretending to enroll them in a film. Jonah Jameson suddenly bursting into the house. Ludwig Rinehart, using technology and hypnosis in an attempt to make Spider-Man lose his mind, and nearly convincing him to unmask, though ironically Spider-Man was helped by J. Mysterio later creates the alias of world-renowned psychiatrist Dr. After this Spider-Man gets a card that enables him to go on to battle Sandman. He later joins the Sinister Six in an attempt at revenge on Spider-Man, and battles him using robots of the X-Men. However Spider-Man tricked him into revealing he robbed the museum, then revealed he had captured it on tape. In his first battle with Spider-Man, after he frames him for robbing the Midtown Museum, Mysterio obstructs the hero's spider-sense with gas and dissolves his webbing with a chemical abrasive. However, he came to see his career in special effects as a dead-end job, but realized that his expertise in illusions could make him an effective supervillain. įictional character biography Character overview ĭebuting in Amazing Spider-Man #13, Mysterio is Quentin Beck, a special effects wizard and stunt man working for a major Hollywood studio with dreams of making a name for himself in the film industry. In 2009, Mysterio was ranked as IGN's 85th Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time. The original Mysterio ( Quentin Beck) was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko and first appears in Amazing Spider-Man #13, although it was later retconned that the aliens seen in Amazing Spider-Man #2 had been Mysterio and his men in disguise it was revealed that he had been hired by the Tinkerer to disguise himself as an extraterrestrial and uncover military and industrial secrets. Mysterio is the name of three fictional characters, all of which are supervillains and enemies of Spider-Man in the Marvel Comics Universe. Quentin Beck as Mysterio in one of his earlier designs. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification.
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