Thread:Coolot1/@comment-24839525-20170923210432/@comment-29421682-20171107023228

I also have a Scorpion idea, which is akin to the Ultimate version.

Mac Gargan was a Southern gangster who frequently made deals with Mexican drug lords and cartels. He and his gang would eventually be busted by the F.B.I. and Gargan himself tried and convicted for illegal drug importation into the U.S. and would be sentenced from 19-20 years (a homage to his first appearance in The Amazing Spider-Man #19-20.) in federal prison.

Spencer Smythe and Norman Osborn approach Gargan with a deal; participate in an experiment to turn him into a super-soldier and be released from prison, with an additional $10,000 pay (also a homage to The Amazing Spider-Man #20.) for his services, with the end goal being the destruction of Spider-Man.

After injecting him with an early version of the same formula which granted Spider-Man his powers, Smythe encases him an a suit of mechanized armor designed by himself and Phineas Mason (Tinkerer, another homage to The Amazing Spider-Man #20.) with a tail modelled after the mechanical arms on the apparatus used by Otto Octavius.