10 Most Ridiculous Supervillain Plots In Comics History
10. Kraven The Hunter's Ultimate Scheme Ends With Suicide
Kraven'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 Fearful 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 last 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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