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Kraven the Hunter came to Governors Island, where a spidery figure has been rumored to be sighted. As he prowled the grounds, he spotted a potential threat and attacked who turned out to be Electro. Deflecting Kraven's attack, Electro pointed to the Vulture, Doctor Octopus, Rhino, and Lizard. Doctor Octopus stated that he lured Kraven to the island in the hopes of teaming up to hunt down Spider-Man, but Kraven refused until Doc Ock pointed out that they could find Spider-Man first. Begrudgingly agreeing to join them,[1] Kraven led the Sinister Six towards the abandoned mansion. Doctor Octopus sent the Vulture to do aerial reconnaissance, and he returned reporting that he saw no signs of life. Doctor Octopus split the party to surround the mansion and cut off any avenues of escape, Kraven was paired with Electro. Entering the mansion and illuminating a passage with a bolt of electricity, Electro was shocked to see an empty suit of Goblin Armor suspended from webbing. Spotting a nearby skull gnawed clean of flesh and with the top bitten off, Kraven realized what happened to the Green Goblin and pulled out his hunting knives as a towering shadow loomed from behind them. A pair of white eyespots glared at them as the white spider emblem of Spider-Man's black suit emerged from the darkness, and a fanged maw opened in a ravenous roar.[2]
Kraven and Electro recoiled at the sight of the hulking black and white monster crushing a pipe above them, a serpentine tongue snaking between its fanged jaws. Electro panicked and fired off a bolt of electricity, narrowly missing Kraven and causing the monster to flee. Furious, Kraven grabbed Electro by the shoulders and berated him, snapping that the monster was Spider-Man. As Kraven left to follow the monster's trail, Doctor Octopus arrived and asked what they were talking about. Electro blurted out that they had found a monster that Kraven thought to be Spider-Man, Kraven grimly insisting that it was. Stating that he trusted Kraven more than Electro, Doctor Octopus asked which way their quarry had fled. As Kraven said it was headed to the roof, Doctor Octopus nonchalantly said that the Vulture was more than capable of holding his own.[3]
Arriving on the roof, the three villains found the Vulture in the claws of the monstrous Spider-Man, restrained by semi-amorphous tentacles extending from its body and crying for help as it tried to bite off his head. With a scream of fury, Doctor Octopus launched himself at the monstrous Spider-Man and tackled it off the roof. As the monstrous Spider-Man overpowered him through sheer strength, Doctor Octopus panicked and called out for help; Kraven leaping off the roof and plunging his hunting knife into its back. Shrieking in rage and pain, the monster destabilized into flailing black tendrils, exposing Spider-Man. Coiling tendrils around Doctor Octopus' throat and trying to strangle him, the black ooze began to engulf Spider-Man once more as he begged his enemies to help him.[3]
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Symbiote Five
Kraven realized that Spider-Man was the key to understanding the monster and moved to cut him free of the tendrils to no avail, as it regenerated as soon as he slashed it. Drawing a comparison to the Lernean Hydra of Greek mythology, Kraven wondered if it had the same weakness and called out to Electro to set the grass around the monster ablaze. Electro reluctantly did so, forcing the monster to relinquish its grasp on Spider-Man. Electro rejoiced just as the Rhino arrived and asked what's going on. Before Electro could reply, the monster furiously ensnared them with its tendrils and roared at them. Looking up to see that the symbiote had captured the other members of the Sinister Six and was about to devour them and realizing that Spider-Man had died, Kraven called out to the symbiote. Approaching the symbiote, Kraven offered himself as its new host, saying that the rest of the world could be their prey before amending his statement to include the other members of the Sinister Six, suggesting they form a pack to hunt together. The symbiote accepted and bonded to them, and the Sinister Six were reborn as the Symbiote Six.[4]
Arriving to this reality on a quest to purge itself of weaknesses, the Carnage Symbiote of Earth-616 killed the Venomized Electro, absorbing his powers. It was then confronted by the Symbiote Six, who declared their intent to avenge their fallen comrade.[5] Carnage-616 mocked the five remaining members of the Symbiote Six, saying it found them so pathetic it would not even absorb their powers like it did Electro's. Deciding to test its new Hell-Mark, Carnage summoned the Monsters of Evil and sicced them on the Symbiote Six, easily overpowering them. Carnage then slaughtered Venomized Lizard, Vulture, Kraven and Doctor Octopus, before departing their reality. Venomized Rhino, the sole surviving member of the Symbiote Six, volunteered to join Agent Venom's Symbiote Squad in exchange for a shot at avenging his fallen comrades.[6]See Also
- 6 appearance(s) of Sinister Six (Earth-11964)
- 5 image(s) of Sinister Six (Earth-11964)
- 6 member(s) of Sinister Six (Earth-11964)