Sinister Six

### Purpose

Common enemies of Spider-Man aligned for vengeance and for common criminal purposes.

### Dissolution

1st team: 1998

The Sinister Six is a criminal organization formed in New York City by a group of six supervillains. While of varying goals and objects, one constant is that they are united in opposition against the superhero known as Spider-Man, with its first iteration having been born in the hopes of putting down the webslinging hero down for good. Subsequent reincarnations would follow similar goals in their attempts of warring against the Web-Slinger along with any other goals established by the organizer of the Sinister Six iteration.

## 1st Iteration: Original Sinister Six

The original iteration of the Sinister Six was founded by Doctor Octopus following a string of defeats by Spider-Man over back in 1998. After escaping from prison, he looked over the various newspapers for other supervillains who fought aganinst the Web-Slinger and began recruiting them for the possibility of an alliance. The idea behind it was that if they were nearly successful by themselves, they could win united. The original team consisted of:

* Dr. Otto Octavius- Dr. Octopus (leader)
* Adrian Toomes- The Vulture
* Sergei Nikolaevich Kravinoff- Kraven the Hunter
* Quentin Beck- Mysterio
* William Baker/Flint Marko- Sandman
* Maxwell Dillon- Electro

Guided by Dr. Octopus, their plan was for each individual member of the Sinister Six to battle Spider-Man in a pre-determined locasion of each of their choosing, relying on a gauntlet routine in order to try and tire him out. The initial idea of ganging up on him was disregarded out of concern from a lack of synergy and their gathering would attract the authorities on mass on them. Having to the conclusion that Spider-Man had an affiliate there because his pictures only showed up there, they kidnapped Betty Brant and a bystander she was with: May Parker.

At hearing this from J. Jonah Jameson, who was given the warning from Vulture, Peter Parker suited up and proceeded to go to his gauntlet against the Sinister Six at their locations. He would defeat Electro near a local power plant and would overcome a recent mental block to defeat him. He would go on to fight Kraven in the park against him and some wild cats he "liberated" from the zoo, defeating him and returning the cats. Afterwards, Mysterio attacked him with robotic duplicates in the city street; the group beginning to lose their nerve and patience as Spider-Man was defeating him. Vulture tried flying in to assist Mysterio, but their fears of him using them against the other was confirmed as he would slam Vulture into Mysterio. Sandman then lured him into a construction site, only to be tricked into a cement mixer and interrogated, giving the final destination in promise of being let go, which he kept. Dr. Octopus was the last one remaining and working in the remains of an old laboratory, surprised that Spider-Man was still able to keep going despite the punishment. After rescuing the hostages, Peter would finally apprehand Dr. Octavius by short-circuiting his arms. All six supervillains were captured and Spider-Man's large-scale victory cemented him as the single biggest street-level threat to New York's criminal organizations.