Alistair Smythe (1994-1998)

History
Alistair Smythe was an inventor, robotics engineer and the son of Spencer Smythe. Alistair was left crippled by an accident that his father blamed himself for.

Spencer was hired by Norman Osborn to construct a weapon designed to kill Spider-Man and in return Norman would build a hoverchair for Alistair. However, the attempt eliminate Spider-Man went seriously wrong and Spencer was thought to have died in a fire at Oscorp. Alistair then began working for the Kingpin who promised him tools Alistair could use to eradicate everyone who he blamed responsible for his fathers apparent demise. In actuality, Spencer had survived the explosion but the Kingpin kept him in Cryogenic stasis.

Alistair went on to make more spider slayer robots but they all failed to kill Spider-Man and this continued failure kept Alistair forcibly working for the Kingpin. Alistair later experimented on Prometheum X, after John Jameson's shuttle, which was carrying the substance, crash landed on the George Washington bridge in New York.

Alistair kept working for the Kingpin until after Smythe's plan of framing Peter Parker for stealing information, resulted in the arrest of the Kingpin's son, Richard Fisk and leading Spider-Man to discover the Kingpin's identity of Wilson Fisk. After this situation the Kingpin had Herbert Landon turn Alistair into a biomechanical spider slayer, programmed to eliminate Spider-Man. However, Alistair discovered the Kingpin had kept his father in cryogenic stasis and, with the help of Spider-Man, managed to escape the Kingpin with his father.

After this, Alistair began working for other villains, including Silvermane and his daughter Alisha Silvermane who promised to help fund research into restoring Alistair's father.

Alistair was later taken to part of the Secret Wars and remained under the employ of the Red Skull until he betrayed him and was later returned to Earth along with the other villains and heroes, except Spider-Man.

Basic Facts

 * Real Name: Alistair Smythe
 * Base of Operations: Oscorp, Fisk Tower, Silvermane's base
 * Occupation: Inventor, Robotics Engineer, Scientist
 * Eyes: Blue
 * Hair: Brown
 * First Appearance: The Spider Slayer
 * Last Appearance: Secret Wars Part 3: Doom