Criminal Syndicate

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King T'Challa is the leader of Wakanda, a technologically advanced nation that houses rich deposits of the precious metal vibranium. As Black Panther, T'Challa connects to the panther god Bast by eating a special heart-shaped herb, thereby gaining superhuman abilities. T'Challa uses these powers to protect Wakanda and the world from those who would seek it harm. A fallen son of Wakanda, Erik Killmonger desires to rule Wakanda. An expert in hand-to-hand combat, Killmonger also possesses enhanced strength, agility, speed, and stamina. This allows him to go to toe-to-toe with his nemesis, the Black Panther, and makes him a dangerous threat for anyone who stands in his way.

When the Red Skull sought an heir for his criminal empire, he fathered Sinthea Schmidt. The girl was raised with constant indoctrination of her father's twisted views. Forced to undergo physical transformation in one of the Red Skull's machines, she was gifted with superhuman powers. With her partner Crossbones and an incarnation of the Serpent Squad by her side, Sin has rampaged across the world, coming into conflict with the Avengers, S.H.I.E.L.D., and the Winter Soldier. As a child, Ophelia Sarkissian was taken by Hydra and raised by Daniel Whitehall, the mysterious agent known as Kraken. For over two decades, she trained to become one of the organization's most proficient soldiers. Later in life, she abandoned Hydra to become the leader of the Serpent Squad mercenaries, where she used her peak physical conditioning, cunning, and ruthlessness to secure her place as a deadly viper in the global underworld.

Doctor Curtis Connors was once a genetic biologist and mentor to Peter Parker. He sought a way to use reptile DNA to regrow lost limbs, like his own missing arm. After testing his experimental serum on himself, Connors transformed into the inhuman reptilian creature, Lizard. Sergei Kravinoff is Kraven the Hunter, a fanatical big-game hunter who seeks to claim Spider-Man as a prize to demonstrate he is the foremost hunter in the world. From the hidden jungles of the Savage Land to the urban landscape of New York City, Kraven will not relent until he has bagged his trophy.

Quentin Beck began a life of crime as a frustrated artist. A successful stunt man and special effects creator in Hollywood, he turned to criminal life after failing to gain the recognition he thought he deserved. Donning the mantle of Mysterio, Beck uses illusions, hypnosis, and trickery to enact his criminal schemes. A longtime rival of Spider-Man, Mysterio's gadgets and intelligence allow him to tangle with his super-powered foe. The killer Cletus Kasady shared a prison cell on Ryker's Island with Eddie Brock, the human host of Venom. Kasady merged with an insane offspring of the original Venom symbiote, which bonded to his bloodstream, transforming him into the deadly and unpredictable villain Carnage.

In the years since being bitten by a radioactive spider, Peter Parker's life has been one constant adventure after another. From battling super-powered foes of every size and description to saving New York City more times than he can count, Peter has seen it all. Still, he continues to put everything on the line using his experience, his long list of friends, and sometimes even his longer list of enemies to protect the innocent. Peter Parker is the Amazing Spider-Man, and he wouldn't have it any other way. Felicia Hardy is a world-renowned cat burglar with the latent ability to manipulate probability, causing her enemies to suffer unpredictable luck. After a chance encounter with Spider-Man, Felicia gave up a life of lawbreaking (well, mostly) to become a crimefighter. Despite an on-again, off-again romance with Spider-Man, she remains one of his closest allies, occasionally even giving up large scores in order to do the right thing. Felicia Hardy is the Black Cat, and the odds have a way of always landing in her favor.

Frank Castle was an honest ex-Marine just trying to live a normal life with the family he loved. When his family was tragically gunned down, Frank went on a mission of vengeance, first against those directly responsible, then swearing an oath to punish those who hurt the innocent. An expert in close quarters combat, a trained marksman, and an explosives expert, Frank now stalks the mean streets delivering his own brand of personal justice as the Punisher. When Anthony Masters injected himself with an experimental serum designed to unlock the brain?s procedural memory potential, he gained the ability to instantly replicate the physical movements of anyone he saw. Using these photographic reflexes, Masters took on the name Taskmaster and became a mercenary?selling his skills to the highest bidder. Thanks to his mnemonic memory, Taskmaster is able to memorize, utilize, and predict the attacks of any opponent, turning their own physical abilities against them.

As a boy, Matt Murdock was blinded in an accident involving radioactive chemicals. Though he could no longer see, the chemicals heightened Murdock?s other senses and imbued him with an incredible 360-degree radar sense. With years of martial arts training under the ninja master Stick and fueled by a relentless pursuit of justice, Matt Murdock protects the innocent of Hell?s Kitchen as Daredevil, the Man Without Fear! A psychopathic assassin, Bullseye is one of the deadliest men in the world. Beyond his superb skills in hand-to-hand combat, Bullseye was born with the innate ability to throw any projectile with lethal force and accuracy. As a costumed criminal, Bullseye has crossed paths with many of the world?s greatest heroes, but he holds a special hatred for his nemesis, Daredevil, stopping at nothing to put him down once and for all.

A.I.M. scientist George Tarleton had the dubious distinction of being chosen as the subject for a procedure which would transform him into a unique, bio-engineered living computer. Unable to use his limbs, Tarleton was confined to a hoverchair, which gives him both mobility and a deadly assortment of conventional weaponry. Since then, M.O.D.O.K. has used his vast intellect and exceptional psychic powers to terrorize the world as the leader of A.I.M. and one of the world?s most dangerous and unpredictable foes.

Wilson Fisk is a criminal mastermind and the single most feared, dangerous, and powerful crime lord in New York City. From humble beginnings as a poor street thug, Fisk used his genius intellect, physical strength, and sheer ruthlessness to remove all rivals and become the unseen ruler of all organized crime in the city. As the Kingpin, Fisk is a master manipulator, controlling events to increase his power, influence, and the reach of his criminal empire. When an example has to be made, the Kingpin uses his enormous strength and martial arts skills to utterly crush his foes. Counting the likes of Spider-Man, Daredevil, and the Punisher among his long list of enemies, the Kingpin has no qualms in exploiting his adversary?s principles to usher in their destruction.

When industrialist Norman Osborn injected himself with his experimental Goblin Formula, it granted him incredible strength, speed, and resilience but fractured his mind, turning him into the cackling, psychotic terror known as the Green Goblin.