Ghost Spider (Kaine Reiley)

## Ghost Spider

### Nicknames

Spider-Baddy, Spider McBaddy, Winter Spider, HYDRA-Man, Otto's Pet Project, The Manchurian Candidate, Ghost In The Dark, The Black & Gold Killer, The Assassin Spider, Lethal Weapon.

### Alignment

Good (formerly bad due to being brainwashed into an assassin, preceeded by a neutral thought process, before turning straight)

## Biographical Information

### Relatives

Robbie Rodriguez (half-brother) (deceased)Gabriel Rodriguez (father) (deceased)

Carla Reiley (mother) (deceased)

Jessica Drew/Teresa Parker (wife)

Peter Parker (brother-in-law)

Mary Jane Watson-Parker (sister-in-law)

Anna May Watson-Parker (niece)

Ben Parker-Watson (nephew)

### Affiliation

SHIELD, SWORD, Little Rome's Church Of Hope, Saint Peter's Basilica Of Italy, HYDRA (Formerly), The Life Foundation (Formerly), Roxxon Corporation (Formerly), MI13, Interpol, Web Warriors, Northridge Church (formerly), Rochester Community Service (formerly), Brockhampton Shoe Factory, Raimi's Chop Shop, Turag Garments.

### Occupation

Crime-fighter, Vigilante, Fugitive, Terrorist (formerly), Criminal (formerly), Assassin (formerly), Secret Agent, SHIELD Agent, Shadow Agent, Mercenary, Shoe cleaner (formerly), Butcher (formerly), Garments Worker (formerly)

### Education

Rochester Community School (graduated from high school, unable to attend university due to financial struggles)

### Base Of Operations

New York, New Mexico, Rochester, Tijuana, San Diego, rest of the United States, Venice, Italy, rest of Mexico, international outposts globally set up by SHIELD.

## Additional Information

### Wiki Author

DuttPanda

**Kaine Reiley**, also known by his alter-ego, **Ghost Spider** is a vigilante/fugitive/crime-fighter, genetically modified and experimented upon to wield the uncanny features of a spider and gain superhuman abilities.

Reiley was the son of a very fragile, religious, humble mother and an abusive, alcoholic father who abandoned them to start a new family of his own. From his early childhood, Kaine tried his best in supporting his mother who started working in a church. Raised as a religious person, Kaine struggled with his faith as he internalized and compartmentalized his depression and questions as to why the world was constantly beating down on him all the time, being ostracized because of his financial and social status, looked down upon others and unable to find a stable job because of his lack of education beyond high school. He grew up to be a very reserved, quiet, humble and hardworking person who didn't complain about his multitude of problems, bottling up all of his rage and stress inside. He briefly became a priest in the church his mother worked for. Despite being abandoned by his father, Kaine looked after his half-brother from his father's new family, Robbie, who had seeked refuge from him after their father had started abusing him.

Kaine decides that he needs to find a job that he could sustain for the long run so he quit his job as a priest to work in the city's community center, even though that in itself, didn't pay much. In doing so, he was unable to help out his mother with a lot of important church-related stuff. Soon after, tragedy strikes. Kaine's half-brother Robbie visits their estranged father after an intense altercation where they both end up dead in a murder-suicide. Kaine never got to know who murdered who first and felt guilty and felt that he failed in trying to make his half-brother understand the concept of mercy that he instilled within himself, which was the reason he was able to not lash out at his father even after all the years of abuse he faced from him.

Life hits rock bottom for Kaine when the church his mother worked in is shut down. Not emotionally stable and fully dependent on her job and faith, his mother becomes erratic and becomes sick. Hospital bills pile up and his community center unethically fires him after his deceased father's new family presses charges against him, in the basis that he conspired with Robbie to hurt their father as revenge. His social reputation is ruined after rumors start piling up about his involvement with his half-brother & father's deaths. Kaine decides to fight back against these allegations, however he is mortified to learn how much money the court will take from him once the case begins. With no option left & his mother essentially on deathbed, he starts doing odd jobs until his will to live starts to diminish. He is met by Gustav Fiers, a representative of Ravencroft, who makes a living out of collecting men who are at the complete end of their ropes, and convincing them to apply as consenting human test subjects in dangerous experiments.

Fiers manipulates Kaine into thinking since he has no other option left and in dire need of money, that he should consider his offer of signing to a non disclosure agreement as a human test subject in scientific projects. In return, Fiers would pay for all of his mother's hospital bills and clean his slate. Kaine begrudgingly accepts, seeing no other form of salvation.

He is entered into Ravencroft, a shady institution for the mentally ill. In Ravencroft, they use him and other poor souls as off-the-record guinea pigs, where Otto Octavius and the Life Foundation use these human test subjects to be experimented upon. Fiers dishonors his deal with Kaine and destroys all records of meeting up with him or their contract. Moreover, Fiers kills Kaine's mother and fakes evidence which points to Kaine admitting to killing his mother and then leaving an note which indicates that he also committed suicide, so that the authorities can be misdirected so no traces of his involvement with Ravencroft as an unethically inducted test subject for dangerous projects is found.

Kaine is brainwashed, his memories deeply suppressed, completely broken from his free will, and given spider-powers, as part of Otto's plans in creating a modified radioactive spider-powered army of his own; Kaine is molded into the assassin (similar to the Winter Soldier) named the Ghost Spider. Otto enters a joint partnership with HYDRA to use him as a sleeper agent. Under HYDRA, the Life Foundation and Otto's mind control, the Ghost Spider is sent on sleeper missions to assassinate multiple key figures they want to remove.

Eventually, SHIELD, Peter Parker, Miles Morales and Jessica Drew join forces to catch this Ghost Spider. Kaine's true persona, however, has been suppressed deep within the consciousness of his brain. The Ghost Spider is inevitably caught up to by the Web Warriors and interrogated by Jessica Drew, who is appeal to unearth a small fraction of his lost humanity, thus creating a connection between them. He manages to escape however, and reports back to Otto's secret base. After his interrogation with Drew who managed to activate some part of his delayered humanity, Kaine starts slowly reactivating his past memories from his true persona; all that anger and rage resurfacing, he sneaks past Otto's supervision and hunts down Gustav Fiers, busts down his human trafficking ring, which he would've otherwise shipped off to Ravencroft for unethical experiments.

Devastated upon learning his mother has been killed by a spiteful Fiers who has nowhere to hide, Kaine is unable to reclaim his belief in religion and forgiveness, and filled with rage. Kaine decides to let go of his pacifistic nature and embrace his violent and vengeful side that he has been forced into as a killer under the influence of HYDRA. He murders Gustav Fiers and his entire personnel brutally.

Deciding that he must embrace the sins he has committed, and no longer giving a fuck about anything except vengeance, he frees himself from the shackles of Otto's mind-control to help the Web Warriors stop Otto's plans of initiating his crazy "Spider-Island" plan, which they succeed in. Kaine is let off by Peter and SHIELD, who recognizes that he is truly not evil, but rather an unfortunate instrument of destruction bent to someone else's will.

Kaine relocates to Venice, Italy, to visit St. Peter's Basilica, a church his mother always wanted to visit, to explore whether he could ever reclaim faith in God, and if there was any of it left, and to ponder what to do with his newfound powers. He is tracked down by Jessica Drew. She feels sympathy for him and recognizes that there is good in him. She wants to help him be free of his woes and traumas. Although Kaine is initially dismissive and wants to stay away from Jessica so that he doesn't end up caring for her, since he believes that anyone who ends up with him will be in danger (a parallel that he shares with Peter which they later bond over) Kaine soon learns to trust people and decides to give humanity a chance again, after it treated him like trash. Kaine falls in love with Drew who convinces him to join SHIELD as one of their secret agents, literally becoming her partner-against-crime and on the field, battling villains together as the Ghost Spider and Scarlet Spider duo/couple.