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Here is a look at everyone who has been Spider-Man other than Peter Parker, ranked.
11) Kraven the Hunter
Kraven the Hunter was a villain because he was a big-game hunter who wanted to kill the most powerful prey, and after killing every animal known to man, he set his eyes on a bigger target in Spider-Man. While Kraven had become a criminal on occasion and was part of the Sinister Six, his story was always about trying to kill Spider-Man. In Web of Spider-Man #31, Kraven’s Last Hunt played out, and he seemingly shot and killed Spider-Man. After burying Spider-Man, Kraven took on the Spider-Man role and actually caught the killer known as Vermin. Spider-Man wasn’t dead, though, and when he dug his way out, Kraven gave up the role and died by suicide since he had nothing left to prove.
10) Ai Apaec the Decapitator
Ai Apaec, the Decapitator, is one of the least known characters to portray Spider-Man in Marvel Comics. He debuted in Osborn #1 in 2010, and Norman Osborn made him the new Spider-Man in New Avengers #18 in 2011. This means he replaced Mac Gargan in the role, after Gargan served as both Venom and the fake Spider-Man for the Dark Avengers. However, Ai Apaec was a god worshipped since the early centuries (based on the real deity), with whom Osborn began working after the government captured him. While he is a god, he didn’t last long and was gone in less than two years when Toxie Doxie stepped on him after he was shrunk.
9) Mac Gargan
After the events of Secret Invasion, Norman Osborn put together a team of Dark Avengers, and the goal was to have different villains portray the real Avengers. For Mac Gargan, he still had the Venom symbiote, but Norman knew that the public wouldn’t like that, so Norman gave Mac medicine that allowed him to control the symbiote more, and Mac was able to shrink his body down and look like a black-clad Spider-Man to fit in better with the Dark Avengers. However, Mac could never stop his bloodlust, and this ended when Carol Danvers ripped the symbiote out of Gargan’s body, and he was arrested.
8) Norman Osborn
When Spider-Man left Earth, and no one knew what happened to him, two people helped cover for him while he was gone. Ben Reilly took on the role of Peter Parker to ensure that he didn’t lose his job, and so he could not worry anyone. However, it was Norman Osborn who took on the Spider-Man role, although no one approved of this, and people like Miles Morales and Ben Reilly tried to stop him. However, Norman struggled to match up to Spider-Man. While he wanted to save his dream, he knew that he wasn’t the man for the job in the end.
7) Gerry Drew
Gerry Drew is Jessica Drew’s son from Earth-982. This alternate Earth saw Jessica retire from her life as a superhero, get married, and have a baby, whom she named Gerry. However, Gerry had a blood-borne disorder because of the radiation in Jess’s body. When doctors couldn’t save him, Jessica recreated the experiment that cured her, and it gave Gerry spider-like powers. As he grew up, Jessica told him about stories from her past, including that of Spider-Man. This causes Gerry to become the new Spider-Man in his world. However, every time he used his powers, it put him closer to death until Peter showed up to convince him to go to Reed Richards for a possible cure.
6) Ezekiel Sims
Ezekiel Sims made his debut in Marvel Comics in 2001 during the storyline that also brought Morlun into Spider-Man’s life. Ezekiel ended up undergoing a ritual years before that gave him the powers from the Spider-Totem, and he ended up becoming extremely wealthy. He became a member of the Spider Society and started building a way to protect the future from Morlun. On Earth-4, Sims actually served as Spider-Man in that world, but his main place on Earth-616 is as a man who used his powers to become rich before finally sacrificing his life to save Peter Parker in the end.
