4) The Spider-Slayer
Depending on your Spidey history, you may be thinking of a different picture when someone mentions The Spider-Slayer to you. For the most part, Spider-Slayers have been formed of a team of robots designed by Spencer Smythe to defeat and destroy Spider-Man, at the request of J. Jonah Jameson. As the years have rolled by, however, Smythe’s son Alistair took over the monicker and eventually became an augmented Spider-Slayer himself.
As the man responsible for so many attempts on the Wall-Crawler’s life and with a near insatiable hatred for the hero, Smythe’s Spider-Slayer represents a ruthless and cunning foe for Peter Parker. In – let’s say- business terms, he also makes sense as a first villain for the rebooted series.
Smythe is a recognizable, but not vital character to Spider-Man’s world. Experimenting with a newer villain like this has its own escape route for the studio, but could still be a more than worthy gamble.