10 Most Ridiculous Supervillain Plots In Comics History

10. Kraven The Hunter's Ultimate Scheme Ends With Suicide

€œKraven's Last Hunt€ is one of the classic Spider-Man storylines. One of the more kitschy early enemies of the wallcrawler, the big game hunter who decided New York was a more exciting safari than the plains of Africa didn't look out of place amidst the four-colour villains of sixties comic books. By the eighties, that costume was harder to bear. In the 1987 arc otherwise known as €œFearful Symmetry€, JM DeMatteis and Mike Zeck aimed to make Kraven a formidable presence again. It's just a shame that the villainous plot which would put him back at the top of Spider-Man's rogues' gallery would also be the character's final appearance. For a while, anyway. The €œlast€ part was in Kraven's scheme for his hunt from the start. He shoots Spider-Man, buries him, and adopts his persona to violently take down an enemy called Vermin. Then it turns out Spider-Man was alive, which Kraven planned for, because he wanted to prove he could beat his nemesis. Then he shot himself, because he was the winner. Eh?
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