Dennis Carradine (Earth-96283)

**Dennis Carradine**, nicknamed **Spike** as his personal criminal name, was a petty small-time crook and carjacker who did a lot of crime in New York City. While avoiding the authorities, Dennis became a partner to Flint Marko, who was trying to find a way to save his daughter Penny. After robbing money from a wrestling promoter, Dennis was given the chance to escape from Peter as a subtle way of getting revenge against the fight promoter who cheated him out of money, thinking was "not his job" to stop him. However, when Dennis was declared the person responsible for the murder of Ben Parker, he was then confronted by a vengeful Spider-Man, who wanted to kill him. Despite begging for his life, Dennis accidently fell to his death when he failed to defend himself from the web-crawling vigilante.

## Biography

### Early Life

Dennis Carradine was born in October 31, 1964 and raised in Brooklyn, New York. However, after being fired from a recent job, Dennis nicknamed himself as "Spike" when he became a criminal, and spent his life robbing and mugging many people in New York with his partner Flint Marko, who had been doing whatever he could in trying to save his daughter Penny.

### Murder of Ben Parker

In the year 2002, Dennis began to rob money from a wrestling venue while his partner Flint made an attempt to steal a car from Ben Parker in order to make an escape with the cash. Shortly after Peter Parker had been cheated by the wrestling promoter, Dennis came into the room and pointed his gun at the promotor, threatening to shoot him if he didn't put the money in the bag. Urging the promoter to hurry up, Dennis immediately knocked the promoter aside and took the bag of money with him. As he ran, the promoter and a cop chased him down the hall and yelled for Peter to stop the criminal from escaping with the money. Peter, who had been deeply angered at the promotor for not giving him $3,000 dollars as promised, chose to let him go as a way to teach the promotor a lesson. Once Dennis made it to the elevator, Dennis thanked Peter for his help.

After escaping the wrestling venue with the money he stole, Dennis ran towards where Flint Marko was having a small conversation with Ben Parker, who bravily reasoned with him since he understood what it meant to be a father in caring for a daughter that he loved so much. Upon arriving, Dennis suddenly shocked Flint, causing his partner to accidently shoot Ben at point blank. While his partner was terribly shocked for what he did and tried to help Ben, Dennis entered Ben's car and yelled for Flint to get in just as the cops were coming, but Flint ignored him and stayed behind. Seeing that Flint was no longer any use for him anymore, Dennis left his partner behind to take the fall for the shooting and left the scene, but eventually the cops began to tail while driving towards his hideout with the money.

### Death

During the chase, Dennis would encounter Spider-Man, who managed to catch up to him. Dennis tried to shoot him, but the web-crawler managed to avoid him. Immediately, Dennis managed to reach towards an abandoned warehouse with the money, but was unaware that Spider-Man was still following him. On the verge in defending himself, Dennis was ambushed by Spider-Man, who viciously attacked and disarmed him, and then had the killer pinned onto a wall just as he unmaked himself. Dennis begged his attacker not to hurt him and to give him another chance, but when Peter, who he believed that Dennis had been responsible for killing his uncle, asked if he gave Ben a chance in anger and held him high, thus ready to kill him in an act of vengeance.

However, when Peter raised him up high to see the man closer, he was shocked to learn that it was same man that he helped escape back after robbing the fight promoter at the wrestling venue. Despite recognizing him too, Dennis saw that his attacker was distracted by the shock he endured hours ago, thus giving him the opportunity to pick his gun up and points it directly in front of Peter's face, ready to shoot him. However, Peter was fast enough to disarm him once again, causing Dennis to back away in fear and continued to beg for his life, but just as he backed up, he accidently trips and ends up falling through a window to his death. His body would soon be found by the police.

### Legacy

Even after [Peter Benjamin Parker (Earth-96283)|Peter]] continued to believe that Dennis was responsible for Ben Parker, he was filled with grief and blamed himself for his uncle's death, if he had stopped Dennis from escaping, then he wouldn't have lost him. In essence, Dennis' actions were necessary for Spider-Man to become a hero as Uncle Ben's death is the main reason Peter became a costumed hero and adopted his famous "with great power comes great responsibility" morality.

At some point, Peter decided to confess to his Aunt May that he was responsible for letting the thief go that resulted in Ben's death. May, though understandably shocked at first, let's Peter know that she does not blame him after a few days of coming to terms with the information. However, it wouldn't be long when May and Peter would eventually learn the truth from Captain George Stacy that the police received evidence that Flint Marko was the man responsible for the death of Ben Parker.

At first, Peter was shocked and saw that he was not responsible at all, but even if he had stopped Carradine, then Flint Marko could have still killed Ben due to someone else distracting him.

## Personality

Dennis Carradine was described to be a very violent and aggressive criminal.

## Paraphernalia

### Weapons

* **Handgun**: Dennis Carradine normally carried an ordinary handgun. He used it to threaten a wresting promotor to put the money in his bag and then tried to shoot Spider-Man.
* **Knife**: Dennis used a knife to defend himself while trying to fight Spider-Man.

## Relationships

### Enemies

* Flint Marko - Former Partner
* Benjamin Franklin Parker
* Peter Benjamin Parker / Spider-Man - Attempted Victim

## Appearances

* *Spider-Man*
* *Spider-Man: No Way Home* (mentioned)

## Trivia

* In the Spider-Man 2002 video game, his weapon of choice was a shotgun and a flash grenade instead of a pistol and a knife. He was the first boss in the game.
* Carradine's real name was not revealed until Spider-Man 3.
* Before Spider-Man 4 was cancelled in favor of The Amazing Spider-Man reboot, Michael Papajohn was approached to reprise his role as Dennis Carradine once more in the film. However, it's unknown if Carradine was intended to appear in flashback sequences like in the previous film or if he was going to appear in some other way.