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Spider-Man Vol 1 19
(as Alistaire Smythe)
Modern Comics:
Spider-Man Vol 2 17
(as the Spider-Slayer)
Spider-Man Vol 2 22
History
I do feel lucky... Very lucky, indeed!
- — Alistaire Smythe
- — Alistaire Smythe
Early Years
Alistaire Alphonso Smythe (born late 1986) was the only son of acclaimed Oscorp scientists, Spencer and Mary Anne Smythe, who was Spencer's former lab assistant several years before their marriage. However, their fruitful marriage unfortunately withered and rotted after a few years, as Mary died months after giving birth to their son. Growing up, Alistaire dedicated his whole life to becoming a scientist, just like his parents, fulfilling the goals and achievements they had never accomplished.
Alistaire studied at Midtown High School, where he was unfortunately looked down on by many due to his introverted and asocial personality. His classmates and even his teachers ignored his intelligence and potential. However, some people did see the potential that he had, gaining him only a few friends, most notably fellow classmate Peter Parker, who accepted him for who he was. Though he started to gain more confidence and self-esteem on-campus, one day would change his life, especially his view on most people.
After becoming a victim of an extremely humiliating prank, Alistaire became traumatized, causing him to develop PTSD as a result of being a serious victim of bullying, which lasted for several years of his life, making his father become fully concerned about his son. As a result, Spencer decided to move their home from Queens to the more populated Manhattan in New York City. Alistaire also transitioned to a new academy in New York: the famous Horizon University, where he grew more productive and comfortable with his working environment. This is where Alistaire finished his high school education, and also where he enrolled in college. Alistaire lost some of his former friends, including Peter, although he gained more in the new academy, friends who he could more relate with such as Mark Raxton.
The Rising Tide
During his time in college, Alistaire secretly became a member of the Rising Tide, an anonymous network of hacktivists dedicated to exposing the existence of superhumans and powered individuals, for personal reasons. As a master hacktivist, Alistaire managed to get a promotion which got him a high-ranking position, founding and leading his own subdivision, which he dubbed the Spider-Slayers, after his original alias, the Spider-Slayer. Alistaire had been nicknamed Spider-Slayer due to his never-ending curiosity and obsession about Queens' local friendly neighborhood hero, Spider-Man. The Spider-Slayers became a successful team due to his outstanding leadership, dedicating their efforts to tracking and studying everything about the web-slinger and anything else related to him, such as the allies who trusted him most and villains who despised him most.
Familial Tragedy
Things were going smoothly for Alistaire, as he continued to live a normal and stable life. The events of the Chitauri Invasion of 2010, however, would change everything, particularly for his father. During the disastrous Battle of New York, a part of the building Spencer was in unexpectedly collapsed after being damaged in battle between the Avengers and the Chitauri. As the building collapsed, Spencer attempted to help people evacuate before the building began to crumble. Later, Spencer and several other survivors were found by Spider-Man and the Defenders. His legs were trapped underneath some rubble, and the heroes helped get Spencer out. Spencer was rushed to the hospital by Alistaire to get medical care as soon as he received the news, though the lower halves of Spencer's legs and right arm had to be amputated, meaning he had become helpless to continue to pursue his scientific career.
Saddened and distressed by what happened to his father, Alistaire decided to continue most of his father's works in secret, and also research more on how to get Spencer to walk again and have him fully restored to health by studying more about bio-engineering and nanotechnology. Despite his now busy schedule, it did not stop him from working as a hacktivist in the Rising Tide, as he needed more funds to obtain the materials he needed for his research to help his father, and he would do anything to get the job done. Eventually, his research somehow started to lead to Spider-Man himself, as he kept on studying more about his genetic structure and composition, resembling that of an arachnid's. After figuring it all out, Alistaire decided to put their work into the open field using his own team in secret behind the Rising Tide's back, without their permission. Thinking it would be the best place to execute the mission, they planned their attack in New York City, and their main objective was to get Spider-Man's attention in any way, and get a more recent sample of his blood.
Rise of the Spider-Slayers
Just months before their planned mission on the web-slinger, Alistaire managed to make a series of bio-organic, genetically-enhanced carapace-armored robotic suits for his combat division, which he eventually dubbed the S.L.A.Y.E.R.S., designed to combat and even take down Spider-Man. It was later revealed that Alistaire got this inspiration of the robotic concepts from his father, who never really got to fully make it. During the mission, the team put on the suits (except for Alistaire, who wasn't in the field), and after a long battle, they failed to kill Spider-Man, and ended up getting decimated and humiliated as a result, much to Alistaire's disappointment.
Despite their loss against the web-slinger, the team still got a sample of Spider-Man's blood, making the mission an ultimate success since that was, in fact, their main objective. After the mission, Alistaire immediately continued his research and later, he finally completed it, creating a special serum out of the superhuman's blood. The effects of the serum seemingly fulfilled its main purpose at first, as he tested it on a lab rodent. The researchers were unaware that signs of negative side-effects were starting to occur in the test subjects over time.
Similar to Doctor Curtis Connors' specialized serum that turned him into the Lizard, the serum did fully regenerate missing limbs, although it caused the subject to grow more limbs and unexpectedly mutate until its form started to resemble an arachnid-like creature. Because of this, Alistaire had no other choice but to cancel his months of research and start to work on a new idea for achieving cellular regeneration and treating his father's condition. Disappointed, Alistaire decided to dispose of the samples and the blueprints of his failed serum. Unknown to him, a fellow hacktivist found the samples in the trash after inspecting Alistaire's lab. He picked it up, kept all of it, and decided to share this suspicious discovery with his superiors.
Adopted Heir of Oscorp
Alistaire was one of the many individuals who did not directly participate in the chaos and destruction that was inflicted worldwide by the Movement Alliance during the events of the so-called Global Superhuman War. Around these times, Alistaire continued his research for a cure in secret as Oscorp was funded by a wealthy individual, but he would later decide to stay in with his father in the secret bunker located at his childhood home, as he claimed. After the war, he was thankful nothing horrible had happened to him or his father, the only family he still had left. However, his superiors would assign Alistaire to infiltrate Oscorp in order to investigate how the corporation still ran despite not having a head, while in fact Oscorp was still being run by the deceitful Norman Osborn.
In time, Osborn — who once knew Smythe's parents — figured out Alistaire's ulterior motives, but still decided to recruit him as his successor. Norman saw the potential in Alistaire, more so than in his own son Harry, who had since grown to despise his father due to his villainy. Norman tried to convince Alistaire with the prediction that the Rising Tide would end up selling him out once they found out that he was conducting research behind their backs. Alistaire was in denial at first, but Norman gave him the assurance that he was always welcome to come back to Oscorp once they eventually fired him, with Norman even suggesting that he could help him deal with his issue against the Rising Tide.
Termination of Employment
Smythe, angry at his termination by the superiors of the Rising Tide
Before Alistaire could return to the main headquarters of the Rising Tide, he was tracked down by one of his superiors inside his apartment to question him about the formula that they found in his laboratory. He also told him about the secret mission they accomplished with Spider-Man, though the superiors were not amused as it was conducted behind their backs. Alistaire tried to explain the whole story but before he could, the superior told him that he'd been fully terminated from the Rising Tide. Alistaire shouted and complained that they couldn't shut it down, since his team would be helpless without his leadership. The superior replied, while leaving, that the Spider-Slayers had already been terminated, the day his secrets were exposed to everyone at the agency.
Unable to accept that he was terminated, Alistaire decided to decided to execute his "back-up" plan, jamming every device the superior was using at the time, before shooting him with a modified tranquilizer, loaded with the flawed serum he had developed. The superior fell unconscious, before having a rapid seizure as his appearance slowly transformed into that of a spider-like creature. Alistaire pulled the unconscious body into one of the cells he had purposely built inside the same bunker he had been using as a secret laboratory. After his first stage was a complete success, he began to execute the new mission he had been planning for so long, the so-called "Smythe Protocol."
The Smythe Protocol
After a few weeks of nonstop hard work, Alistaire was able to rise to great power, especially since he was able to garner enough backers from Oscorp as his newfound organization. Thanks to his now-monstrous superior's secret knowledge and confidential information about the Rising Tide, he was able to successfully but indirectly take over the entire organization, unexpectedly infiltrating and shattering the entire Tide in the process. Now split into countless factions, each with its own personal agendas, the superiors had become helpless since Smythe was able to irreparably dismantle the Rising Tide. This also allowed him to speed up the Smythe Protocol by retaking control of the Spider-Slayers.
Alistaire finally had everything that he needed to fulfill the protocol and complete his work. However, only a few months later around late 2016, Smythe's protocol ended after the legislative bill known as the Superhuman Registration Act was finally passed into law, enforcing the mandatory registration of super-powered individuals with the government. The Act drastically ignited the entire superhuman community, creating an impactful conflict between the supporters and the opposition, a conflict now known as the Superhuman Civil War. At first, Alistaire and the rest of the Rising Tide thought that the Registration Act wouldn't affect them, believing that it would only apply to the global superhuman population. That thought was put to the test, after it was revealed that S.H.I.E.L.D., one of the Registration Act's staunchest supporters, was concurrently chasing after all known rogue organizations throughout the country, including all of the pieces of the Rising Tide. Hearing about this unexpected change, Alistaire broke down in tears, realizing that it was unlikely that he could complete the protocol itself, and he wouldn't able to save his father. However, in a moment of clarity, Alistaire snapped out of his emotional state and realized that he still had work to do for his father's sake, knowing that nothing would get done if he just kept on sobbing at his own problems.
Final Mission
Alistaire continued his final mission, trying to stay off the grid, hiding at undiscovered and abandoned Rising Tide bases, and using many different aliases to maintain his cover. He tasked himself with tracking Spider-Man down again to get proper blood samples and use them to stabilize the mutagenic process, reduce its negative effects on the test subjects, and potentially bring it to human trials, including his father Spencer. With his urgent task to hunt down Spider, he once again remotely activated his miniaturized S.L.A.Y.E.R.s, dubbed the Arachno-Drones, across New York, letting them spread out for days as they searched for Spider-Man's whereabouts. Much to Alistaire's delight, one of the drones was watching the clash between the Pro-Registration and Anti-Registration forces somewhere in Manhattan, leading to him finally discovering Spider-Man's current location. He immediately tracked him down, revealing that he chose to suit up in his biorganic armored carapace, something he now officially named the Spider-Slayer. He embraced his villainous persona, his last greatest invention, in the mission that even he himself expected to be his last, once he finally accomplished his goal to restore his father's health.
Wearing his upgraded combat suit, he aggressively ambushed the web-slinger on a rooftop, igniting a battle between the two. During the duel, Spider-Man recognized the suit due to his past encounters with the S.L.A.Y.E.R.s, but felt too powerless to defend himself and tried to confront the man inside the suit. Alistaire revealed that he knew that ethyl chloride was a weakness of the web-slinger's ever since he first studied his blood. Heavily weakened by the chemical, Spider-Man was brutally knocked down by the Spider-Slayer, claiming that although he wouldn't kill him, he would at least beat him into a bloody pulp. Alistaire then abducted Spider-Man, but not before unmasking him and confirming that the slinger was indeed Peter Parker, taking him back to his secret lab as part of his ultimate experiment.
No Turning Back
Back to the main lab, Alistaire locked Spider-Man inside a chamber and strapped him down in order to use more of his blood to continue his experiment on the regenerative serum. A drained Parker woke up to find himself inside the chamber, and he immediately questioned Smythe his main reason why he was doing this to begin with. Smythe didn't respond, but when Peter furiously asked him who he was, Alistaire revealed his face to Peter, answering that he was just a man trying to save his helpless and dying father, much to Peter's surprise, and leading Peter to sympathize with his old friend.
Peter offered to help Alistaire treat his father the right way, but pleaded with him to stop, telling him that what he was doing wasn't right and that he had gone mad due to his father's condition. Although Alistaire felt convinced by Parker's friendly offer, he subsequently realized the situation he was in, before madly rejecting his help, claiming that there was no turning back now. At the same time, Alistaire discovered that the latest version of the serum was completed, and it had counteracted all the negative side-effects of the previous sample, all thanks to Parker's synthesized blood. Alistaire was filled with euphoria and satisfaction from his accomplishment, and was prepared to leave the lab for his father's home to cure him as soon as possible.
However, bad luck came to Alistaire first as he and his hidden location were discovered by a tactical S.H.I.E.L.D. unit assisted by the hero Spider-Woman, something they were tracking for the seventeen hours since the brief but destructive battle in Manhattan. Alistaire and Peter (now remasked as Spider-Man) set their differences aside, reluctantly joining forces to defend themselves from the grasps of the domineering agents and escape. Carrying the only sample of the updated serum, Alistaire was accompanied by Peter himself as they swiftly traveled to his father's home in Brooklyn, having become situational allies until Alistaire could give the serum to his father.
Final Moments
Overcoming almost every obstacle S.H.I.E.L.D. had set against them, the two were very close to reaching Spencer Smythe. Unfortunately, that moment was interrupted by a worst-case scenario neither of them were expecting. The very second Alistaire reached the door to his father's house, his world crumbled upon seeing the protective container holding the regenerative serum shattered into pieces by a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent's specialized bullet, while Parker was bemused to witness Alistaire's greatest achievement fade before his eyes.
Entering an uncontrollable fit of berserker rage, Alistaire started slaughtering the S.H.I.E.L.D. operatives who were still trying to apprehend him and Spider-Man. Peter even tried to stop the raging Alistaire in hopes of calming him down, but the Spider-Slayer was unstoppable. No matter how Peter tried to confront Alistaire, his efforts were in vain: he was too far gone. That was the moment that S.H.I.E.L.D. Deputy Director Maria Hill had no other choice but to send in the Tinkerer, the best hope they had for combating the Spider-Slayer. Using an electromagnetic pulse against Alistaire, he was immediately weakened and the suit was critically damaged in the process. However, much to everyone else's surprise, the Slayer continued to wreak havoc against the operatives, as if he was a monster who felt no pain.
As a backup plan, Hill sent in her two situational operatives Electro and the Fixer, crossing her fingers that they could finish the job once and for all. The two of them battled the Slayer, and were able to finally slow him down with Mason's assistance. As Spider-Man realized that Electro's deadly power was killing Alistaire (since the destroyed suit was still attached to him), the web-slinger begged for Hill and the operatives to save him. Out of mercy, Hill sent an ambulance to come to Smythe's aid, only for Electro to "have his fun" by ignoring Spider-Man's pleas as continued electrocuting Alistaire, leaving him mortally wounded but not before Alistaire got to slammed Electro into several walls of different buildings. In response to his recklessness, Hill punished a stunned Electro by paralyzing him using the collar that he was forced to wear while assisting the Pro-Registration faction, before he was punched in the face by a furious Spider-Man, knocking him out.
Realizing that the situation was dealt with, a saddened Peter came to Alistaire's side as they talked one last time. Alistaire thanked Parker for helping him, and his last request was for Peter to save his father, knowing that he already had the blueprints needed to recreate the serum. Parker accepted his request, and with that, Alistaire breathed his final breath, passing away in his old friend's arms. Alistaire's death waned his chances of inheriting Oscorp's fortune and access to its teachnology and scientific researches, much to Norman Osborn's dismay that he lost a worthy protégé and son figure who would've succeeded and surpassed his legacy as the new head of Oscorp, and speaking of son, Alistaire's father Spencer was alarmed and shattered to find out the former's untimely demise, and while he found out the truth about his crimes which involved Alistaire researching how to treat his father's condition, a guilt-ridden and mourning Spencer conclusively blamed S.H.I.E.L.D. due to their irresponsibility and recklessness to handle threats which costed his son's life.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
None known.
Abilities
- Genius Intelligence: Smythe is genius intellect that he has learned and inherited from his father and his estranged mother. Along with it, Smythe is also very skilled engineer since he has made his suit and other inventions on his own.
- Knowledge of Robotics
- Knowledge of Genetics
- Skilled Engineer
- Knowledge of Bio-Engineering
- Knowledge of Nanotechnology
- Master Hacker
- Master Tactician
- Skilled Manipulator
Strength level
- Class 15+ (with the Spider-Slayer Suit)
- Class 6+ (as Alistaire Smythe)
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Weaknesses
None known.
Paraphernalia
Equipment:
- The S.L.A.Y.E.R. Suits
- Biorganic Carapace Armored Suit: Smythe invented a biorganic carapace that serves as a full body armor, and increases his strength and gives him the ability to walk again by interconnecting with his spine.
- Enhanced Strength
- Enhanced Speed
- Enhanced Agility
- Enhanced Reflexes
- Enhanced Durability
- Wall-Crawling
- Claws and Blades
- Biorganic Carapace Armored Suit: Smythe invented a biorganic carapace that serves as a full body armor, and increases his strength and gives him the ability to walk again by interconnecting with his spine.
- Arachno-Droids
- Arachno-Bots
- Arachno-Drones
- Ethyl Chloride
- Various advanced technology equipment
- Various classified technology equipment
- Various issue communications equipment
Transportation:
- Flight
Weapons:
- Various conventional firearms
- Various classified firearms
- Various self-invented firearms
- Various confidential firearms
Notes
- No special notes.
- ↑ Modern Comics: Civil War Vol 1 5
Trivia
- No trivia.
See Also
- Appearances of Alistaire Smythe (Earth-61615)
- Character Gallery: Alistaire Smythe (Earth-61615)
- Quotations by Alistaire Smythe (Earth-61615)
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Links and References
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