10 Disturbing Spider-Man Villains

A unique focal point of trauma for any Spider-Man reader has to be that of the supervillain known as The Thousand.

The Thousand originally went under the name of Carl King, who was one of Peter Parker's vast assortment of school bullies. King was especially cruel, however, delighting in going just that little bit further to make the poor Parker suffer. As such, it's particularly unfortunate that Carl was the only person who saw Peter be bit by the spider that gave him his powers, as it gave the cruel boy one idea that would allow him to still overpower his nerdy opposition: to eat the dead spider.

Instead of giving King cool web-swinging powers, however, the spider would cause his body to break down into a bunch of similar-looking arachnids, leaving him a bunch of spiders living in a human skin suit. It's shown as pretty much the grossest thing in all of the Spider-Man franchise, if not the grossest thing in most of comics.