Attack on the Triskelion

The **Attack on the Triskelion** was a huge battle from Marvel's *Ultimate Spider-Man*. It deals with the S.H.I.E.L.D. trainees led by Spider-Man to protect their school/home the Triskelion from Doctor Octopus and his newly formed Sinister Six. The battle takes place in the Season 4 two-part special, "The New Sinister Six."

## History

### Background

It all started when one of Spider-Man's enemies, Doctor Octopus teamed up with Arnim Zola and HYDRA to defeat Spider-Man. To do that, he let himself get captured by Spider-Man, Agent Venom, and Iron Spider who take him into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody onboard the Tri-Carrier. Then Doctor Octopus combined one of his miniature Octo-Bots with Swarm and his nanobots who was also in S.H.I.E.L.D. custody which caused Swarm to explode in the process. This created a new form of nanobots that were able to change the things they touched including people's bodies. Doctor Octopus used the nanobots to transform his body to match HYDRA's image while some HYDRA Soldiers led by Arnim Zola who were transformed into Goblins by Doctor Octopus used the nanobots to take over the S.H.I.E.L.D. Tri-Carrier and transformed it into their new base called HYDRA Island then the Goblin HYDRA Soldiers attacked and destroyed the S.H.I.E.L.D. Triskelion. They then tried using HYDRA Island to take over New York City and even captured most of Spider-Man's friends so with help from a new Spider-Man named Scarlet Spider who was an old experiment of Doctor Octopus, Spider-Man was able to cure all the Goblin HYDRA Soldiers using a special vaccine that Norman Osborn made and saved his friends. However, Doctor Octopus also used a special mind ray that was able to hurt Spider-Man's friends but Spider-Man, Agent Venom, Iron Spider, and Scarlet Spider were immune to it because of their spider sense. Together they used a new vehicle called Spider-Jet that Iron Spider recently made to get to HYDRA Island and defeated both Doctor Octopus and HYDRA by blasting HYDRA Island into space and near Saturn. But Doctor Octopus escaped and began his new plan to reform his old team the Sinister Six with HYDRA's help to destroy Spider-Man. Over time, Spider-Man and his new team of Spider-Mans called the Web Warriors continued to fight off Doctor Octopus and HYDRA with both sides getting some help. First, Spider-Man recruited Ultimate Spider-Man from his Parallel Universe to join the Web Warriors as Kid Arachnid after stopping Doctor Octopus, Baron Mordo, and Ultimate Green Goblin from tearing all of reality apart using the Siege Perilous. Then Spider-Man also got help from Norman Osborn as Iron Patriot and Harry who became Patrioteer. Scarlet Spider even started to bond with Spider-Man and the Web Warriors and even gets a name from Peter's Aunt May, Ben Riley which was after May's late husband and Peter's late Uncle.

While Doctor Octopus recruited new members for his Sinister Six which included Kraven the Hunter who was upgraded with HYDRA armor, Ultimate Green Goblin who was summoned from Miles' Universe by Baron Mordo using the Siege Perilous, Hydro-Man who Doctor Octopus tricked the Web Warriors into freeing from a maximum-security S.H.I.E.L.D. prison, and Rhino who was one of the S.H.I.E.L.D. trainees and Spider-Man's friends who do it in return for a cure for his mutation. Some villains like Batroc the Leaper, Boomerang, Beetle, Grizzly, Shocker, and Shriek even tried to join the Sinister Six but they all failed after getting defeated by the Web Warriors. Doctor Octopus also tried to recruit Vulture by helping him get back his memories which he said were with Norman Osborn but when he realized Doctor Octopus lied to him, Doctor Octopus put Vulture under mind-controlled HYDRA armor using his nanobots who later escaped. After Doctor Octopus got captured, he tried to recruit Dr. Connors after transforming him back into the Lizard with help from Rhino. The Lizard then spread a Lizard virus across the newly rebuilt Triskelion by biting people but it was all stopped by Spider-Man, and some of his friends. But after Doctor Octopus escaped the Triskelion with help from Rhino, he kidnapped Agent Venom and tried to recruit the Venom Symbiote for the Sinister Six with help from Kraven and Arnim Zola on HYDRA Island in space after it came back from Saturn. But with help from Spider-Man and Scarlet Spider, Agent Venom took back control of the Venom Symbiote and upgraded himself with Kraven's armor when Doctor Octopus bonded him to the Venom Symbiote. Then the Web Warriors escaped from HYDRA Island and back to Earth but Rhino got captured by Doctor Octopus and put under his control. Doctor Octopus also tried to recruit Sandman by capturing him and making a clone of him to be the Ultimate Sandman against the original Sandman's will but Spider-Man and Iron Spider saved him after Vulture led them to the island where Doctor Octopus was keeping Sandman and he joined S.H.I.E.L.D. after moving to the Triskelion. Then with help from an evil scientist named Dr. Michael Morbius under orders from Arnim Zola, Doctor Octopus created a new Venom Symbiote called Anti-Venom from a sample of it he got back when he captured Agent Venom. Which bonded to Patrioteer and injured Agent Venom by burning away the Venom Symbiote just by touching him. Although Spider-Man was able to defeat it, Agent Venom got injured, lost his connection with the Venom Symbiote, and Patrioteer was put into a coma by Anti-Venom in the process. Also during the fight against Doctor Octopus, Spider-Man found out from Vulture that there was a spy working for Doctor Octopus within S.H.I.E.L.D. which was someone who wasn't a spider. Who Spider-Man believed was Rhino due to him helping Doctor Octopus escape S.H.I.E.L.D. custody on the Triskelion and capturing Agent Venom.

Then one day, Dr. Connors built an Anti-HYDRA Weapon and gave Spider-Man the activation key for it for safekeeping which Spider-Man gave to his Aunt May on her birthday after being called there to celebrate it with the other Web Warriors and getting the cake after fighting off Shriek. During the party, Spider-Man and the Web Warriors received a distress signal from the Triskelion and they all went there except for Agent Venom who was now all better but wheelchair-bound with a broken leg so Spider-Man told him to stay behind and protect both Aunt May and the key from any danger as Flash Thompson.

### The Battle

When the Web Warriors all arrive at the Triskelion, they climb to the top of it and try to talk to the other S.H.I.E.L.D. trainees but they don't reply back. But when they reach the top they are confronted by Doctor Octopus who has now formed his new Sinister Six which consists of himself, Electro, Rhino, Kraven, Ultimate Green Goblin, and Hydro-Man. Spider-Man and the Web Warriors then retreat into the Triskelion through a hatch at the top then they find Cloak, Dagger, and Squirrel Girl and learn that the distress signal they got from the Triskelion was faked by Doctor Octopus and that he jammed the communications grid so the Web Warriors couldn't talk to them. Spider-Man warns them about the Sinister Six attacking the Triskelion and orders everyone to evacuate but at Scarlet Spider's request, they all decide to stay and help fight against the Sinister Six with Spider-Man leading them. The Sinister Six then breaks into the Triskelion by ripping off the hatch at the top but then Spider-Man and his friends arrive and fight them off. They all eventually defeat them with Kid Arachnid beating Ultimate Green Goblin, Iron Spider beating Electro, Squirrel Girl beating Rhino who is being controlled by Doctor Octopus, Cloak beating Hydro-Man by teleporting him to the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, and Scarlet Spider beating Kraven. During the fight, Rhino reveals that he was never Doctor Octopus' spy and that Doctor Octopus just used him to escape S.H.I.E.L.D. custody. Spider-Man then wonders where Doctor Octopus is and realizes that he is going after the Anti-HYDRA Weapon Dr. Connors made so he goes after him along with Scarlet Spider. Spider-Man and Scarlet Spider then confront Doctor Octopus in Dr. Connors' lab where he projects a forcefield around him so they can't stop him from getting the Anti-HYDRA weapon. Spider-Man soon realizes that the Sinister Six were just to distract him and his friends so that Doctor Octopus could get the Anti-HYDRA Weapon. Scarlet Spider is able to break through the forcefield but then Ultimate Green Goblin arrives after defeating Kid Arachnid and fights off Spider-Man but gets defeated. However, after Doctor Octopus gets the Anti-HYDRA Weapon, Hydro-Man appears and prepares to sink the whole Triskelion after merging with the ocean while at the same time keeping anyone from getting in or out of the Triskelion. Doctor Octopus also reveals to Spider-Man that the spy is actually Scarlet Spider and that the Sinister Six is actually the Sinister Seven. After Scarlet Spider subdues Spider-Man, he reveals to Spider-Man that everything he did for him was all just for him to gain Spider-Man's trust. Scarlet Spider then unmasks Spider-Man in front of Doctor Octopus and even reveals his identity as Peter Parker to him which devastates Spider-Man.

When Doctor Octopus demands Spider-Man where the key to the Anti-HYDRA Weapon is so he can use it to destroy HYDRA for enslaving him. Spider-Man tries to play dumb about it but Scarlet Spider reveals to Doctor Octopus the location of the key when he shows a holographic image of it which is with Aunt May at Peter's house. Doctor Octopus then orders Scarlet Spider to go get the key but even though Spider-Man is still devastated by Scarlet Spider's betrayal he continues to fight off Doctor Octopus. Meanwhile, when Scarlet Spider arrives at Peter's house to get the key for the Anti-HYDRA Weapon, Flash confronts Scarlet Spider and prepares to fight him off in his high-tech S.H.I.E.L.D. wheelchair after finding out about his betrayal. Scarlet Spider tries to hide his actions by claiming that Spider-Man sent him to get the key but when Flash tries to call Spider-Man to prove it, Scarlet Spider attacks him while Flash fights him off. Back at the Triskelion, Spider-Man continues to fight off Doctor Octopus then leaves to go save Aunt May from Scarlet Spider but Hydro-Man blocks him. Spider-Man tries to fight off Hydro-Man but he is too powerful so Spider-Man convinces Sandman to help him out. Sandman fights off Hydro-Man in giant size to protect the Triskelion but Doctor Octopus leaves for Peter's house with the Anti-HYDRA weapon to get the key with Spider-Man following him. Eventually, Doctor Octopus arrives at Peter's house for the key but Spider-Man fights off both him and Scarlet Spider. However, Scarlet Spider manages to get the key which Doctor Octopus later takes, and uses it to activate the Anti-HYDRA Weapon and reveals that it lets him take control of all the nanobots that make up HYDRA Island. Doctor Octopus uses the Anti-HYDRA Weapon to betray HYDRA and Arnim Zola, takes over HYDRA Island, brings it down from space, and has the nanobots transform it into Octopus Island with huge long robotic tentacles. Doctor Octopus then uses Octopus Island to attack New York City with Scarlet Spider by his side but Spider-Man tries to stop them after rescuing some people and Flash when Octopus Island attacks and destroys Peter's house. Spider-Man then goes to Octopus Island to stop Doctor Octopus while Aunt May tends to Flash, When Spider-Man arrives on Octopus Island he fights off Doctor Octopus and tries to convince Scarlet Spider to stop listening to him but Scarlet Spider refuses. But Doctor Octopus then captures Aunt May and manages to beat Spider-Man down, then after capturing Spider-Man, Doctor Octopus orders Scarlet Spider to deliver the final blow to him. But at the last minute, Scarlet Spider saves both Spider-Man and Aunt May and betrays Doctor Octopus. He then helps Spider-Man defeat Doctor Octopus and destroys the Anti-HYDRA Weapon but Doctor Octopus manages to escape. But without Doctor Octopus to control Octopus Island, it begins to fall and is about to crash right into the city so Scarlet saves Spider-Man and Aunt May by putting them in an escape pod and stays behind to redirect the Octopus Island to a safe position and save the city. After Spider-Man and Aunt May arrive safely at the Triskelion with help from Sandman who defeats Hydro-Man, Spider-Man and the Web Warriors try to save Scarlet Spider with the Spider-Jet but are too late as Octopus Island crashes safely into the ocean and explodes.

### Aftermath

With Doctor Octopus gone and the rest of the Sinister Six defeated, Spider-Man and the Web Warriors try to search for Scarlet Spider in the wreckage of Octopus Island but can't find him so to honor his sacrifice they decide to keep remaining as heroes. However, the fight against Doctor Octopus would continue on and lead to the War of Carnage where both Flash and the Venom Symbiote recovered and become Agent Venom again while Crossbones becomes HYDRA's new leader after Arnim Zola sank with Octopus Island. Later, Spider-Man and the Web Warriors are able to find Scarlet Spider and they help him learn more about his past then he rejoins them and regains the trust of the others. But during those events, Doctor Octopus upgrades his body again with his new nanobots from Octopus Island which allows him to become more powerful and physically strong. Doctor Octopus would then reform the Sinister Six again but with some new members which would eventually lead to Doctor Octopus' Last Attack.

## Belligerents

### Web Warriors

* Spider-Man
* Agent Venom
* Iron Spider
* Kid Arachnid
* Scarlet Spider
* Cloak
* Dagger
* Squirrel Girl
* Sandman

### Sinister Six

* Doctor Octopus
* Kraven the Hunter
* Rhino
* Electro
* Ultimate Green Goblin
* Hydro-Man

### Other

* Aunt May
* Arnim Zola

## Videos

Ultimate Spider-Man Vs. The Sinister Six - The New Sinister Six - Official Disney XD UKMarvel's Ultimate Spider-Man vs. The Sinister 6 Season 4, Ep. 10 - Clip 1Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man vs. The Sinister 6 Season 4, Ep. 11 - Clip 1-2
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