Sinister Six
The Sinister Six is a team comprised of Spider-Man’s toughest foes. Alone, each supercriminal is a handful for the web-slinger, but when united by the genius Otto Octavius, they’re enough to throw the entire city into a panic. Along with their hate for Spider-Man, Otto is able to offer each man an answer for their own specific problems, like offering a treatment for Vulture’s spinal cancer or the clearing of Scorpion’s criminal record. Martin Li and Otto both want revenge on the mayor of New York, Norman Osborn, and they’re willing to use a contagious virus on the people to get this revenge. It takes all that Spider-Man has to survive and re-imprison this gang of scientifically enhanced criminals.
General Cooperation
- The combined Sinister Six, minus Doc Ock, defeat Spider-Man (source)
- Electro and Vulture demonstrate great teamwork (source)
- Scorpion and Rhino show poor teamwork due to volatility (source)
- Doc Ock quickly dismisses Mister Negative as useless (source)
Doctor Octopus: Intelligence
- Helps design Spider-Man’s Advanced Suit (source)
- Helps design Spidey’s Impact Web gadget (source)
- Develops a corrosive agent to free Rhino from his mechanical suit, impossible for a government agency (source)
- Begins treating Vulture’s spinal cancer (source)
- Begins modifying Electro’s harness to allow him to become pure energy (source)
Doctor Octopus: Other Gadgets
- Suit provides magnetic insulation and improves neural interface with arms (source)
- Wears a mask to protect from Devil’s Breath toxin (source)
- Rigs a time bomb for Spider-Man (source)
Doctor Octopus: Durability
- Shrugs off thrown debris from Spider-Man (source)
- Gets up after a combo of strikes from Spider-Man (source)
- Gets up quickly after being thrown off a radio tower (source)
- Takes a severe physical beating from Spider-Man (source)
- Stays conscious after falling a few stories onto a metal structure (source)
Doctor Octopus: Arms General
- Arms can retract completely into Doc Ock’s suit (source)
- Uses four mechanical arms and lifts own body with them (source)
- Uses long range thrusting attack with an arm (source)
- Uses slamming attack with two arms (source)
- An arm is detached by Spider-Man after a long fight (source) ([Limit])
- When the chip on his spine is removed or destroyed, arms cease to function (source) ([Limit])
- Has small amount of armor covering the chip (source)
Doctor Octopus: Arms Control
- Early prototype arms pick up and hold a coffee mug (source)
- Early prototype arms juggle about 20 tennis balls at once (source)
- Arms controlled enough to open a wine bottle and pour two drinks; communication at one nanosecond, faster than brain signals (source)
- Ruptures a glass vial to spread a toxin (source)
- Drops Osbourne off a skyscraper, then catches him by the foot after falling (source)
- Dodges thrown debris from Spider-Man (source) ([Agility])
Doctor Octopus: Arms Strength
- Flips an armored truck (source) (^Comic)
- Smashes a television screen (source)
- Overpowers and throws a weakened Spider-Man (source)
- Casually smashes an electronic billboard by climbing down it (source)
- Tears through a metal laboratory ceiling (source)
- Swats Martin Li across a room (source)
- One arm makes Spider-Man struggle strength-wise (source)
- Quickly incapacitates Spidey by slamming him around a room (source)
- Tears off pieces of a radio tower and throws them at Spider-Man (source)
- Crushes Spider-Man’s web shooters in grip (source)
- Breaks the mask of Spider-Man’s Anti-Ock Suit with a strike (source)
- Pins Spidey to a wall and punctures his shoulder with a claw, piercing the heavily armored Anti-Ock Suit; fully impales when Spider-Man stops resisting (source)
- Arms can be momentarily webbed up by enough of Spidey’s webbing (source) ([Limit])
Doctor Octopus: Arms Mobility
- Climbs walls with arms (source)
- Climbs around while using one arm to hold a man (source)
- Scales a skyscraper (source)
- Leaps around with use of arms (source)
Doctor Octopus: Other
- Suffers from neurological disorder that will paralyze body but leave mind intact (source)
- Peter says Doc’s disorder might destroy motor functions within a year, and arm use might worsen it (source)
Mister Negative: Physicals Strength
- Kicks the door off an armored vehicle (source)
- Crushes a smartphone in hand (source)
- Overpowers Spider-Man, pulling him with a web (source)
- Blows away debris by striking the ground with a blade (source)
- Destroys tables with sword, leaving pieces floating (source)
Mister Negative: Physicals Durability
- Gets kicked through a subway train door by Spidey (source)
- Getting kicked into a train control panel electrocutes and knocks him out (source) ([Limit])
- Survives train crashing through subway into street (source)
- In human form, easily dispatched by Doc Ock (source) ([Limit])
Mister Negative: Physicals Agility
- While grappling Spider-Man, jumps from one subway train to adjacent one (source)
- Dashes around the battlefield quickly (source)
Mister Negative: Negative Energy Production
- Blasts beams of negative energy that tear up subway train interior (source)
- Blasts Spidey with a beam of energy (source)
- Produces negative energy in waves and bolts (source)
- Accidentally killed parents when first channeling negative energy (source)
- Coats blade with negative energy to torture Norman Osborn (source)
Mister Negative: Nightmare Hallucinations
- Grabs Spider-Man’s arm and sends him into hallucinogenic nightmare (source)
- In nightmare, summons attackers (source)
- In nightmare, assumes large monstrous mask form (source)
- Nightmare ends immediately when Spidey breaks contact (source)
- Ambushes Spider-Man and sends him into another nightmare (source)
- Later induces nightmare hallucinations without physical contact (source)
- Monster form uses massive claws to attack (source)
- Spidey overpowers nightmare monster and kicks Mister Negative (source)
Mister Negative: Corruption
- Has followers commit suicide bombings (source)
- Corrupts a man to obey, then commands him to kill himself (source)
- Corrupts party-goers to be mindlessly violent (source)
Mister Negative: Minion Enhancement
- Four enhanced goons briefly contend with Peter Parker (source)
- Enhanced bruiser creates energy wave that flips a car (source)
- Enhanced sword users create negative energy waves and dash attack (source)
- Enhanced whip users swat away Spidey’s gadgets and snatch him from air (source)
- By physical contact, drains followers’ energy to enhance own abilities (source)
- Drains a Demon to blast away gunmen (source)
Mister Negative: Assets
- Billionaire at age 27 (source)
- Forces pilot attack helicopters (source)
- Forces use massive armored transport vehicle (source)
- Uses a handgun (source)
- Uses a sword (source)
Scorpion: Physicals Strength
- Stabs through man’s body armor into chest, killing him (source)
- Only held by Spidey’s webbing for a few seconds (source)
- Punctures the street before smacking Spidey into traffic (source) (^Comic)
Scorpion: Physicals Agility
- Sneaks up on and snatches Spider-Man despite Spider Sense (source)
- Hangs upside-down with tail (source)
- Leaps around battlefield to pounce on Spider-Man (source)
- Scales walls with claws (source)
Scorpion: Physicals Durability
- Shrugs off small close-range explosion (source)
- Takes accidental hits from Rhino (source)
- Survives being locked in shipping container with angry Rhino (source)
Scorpion: Toxins
- Stabs Spider-Man in back, administering poison that drops him (source)
- Fires globs of venom from tail (source)
- Venom projectiles deal damage with mild visual effect (source)
- With tail slash, injects Spider-Man with hallucinogen (source)
- Spider-Man visualizes sea of poison (source)
- Spider-Man visualizes giant Scorpion tails (source)
- Spider-Man visualizes Otto blaming Peter for neural interface madness (source)
- Spider-Man visualizes many deadly Scorpion apparitions (source)
Vulture: Physicals Offensive
- Cracked Spider-Man’s goggle lenses in past, almost blinding him (source)
- Wings are sharp weapons (source)
- Swipes at enemies with metal wings (source) (^Comic)
Vulture: Physicals Durability
- Thrown into Rhino, flooring both (source)
- Takes physical strikes from Spider-Man despite exposed head (source)
- Fine after flying headfirst into concrete chunk (source)
- Takes own knives thrown back at him (source)
- Barely conscious after beating from Spidey and falling from sky (source)
- Shrugs off fiery explosion when crash landing into building (source) (^Comic)
Vulture: Flight
- Swoops down and snatches Spider-Man before getting webbed (source)
- Flies around city dragging Spider-Man on cable, swinging him into obstacles (source)
- Upgraded suit against jamming technology after first suit’s wings jammed (source)
Vulture: Other Technology
- Throws arcs of large metal knives from wings (source)
- Uses invisibility generator to sneak up on Spider-Man, then wraps him in strong cables (source)
Vulture: Other
- Spider-Man’s first fight with Vulture was a serious challenge (source)
- Fight felt like fighting two opponents (source)
Electro: Physicals
- Flies freely, as fast as Spider-Man swings (source)
- Gets up and flies away after being kicked through metal doors by Spider-Man (source)
- Flies straight through concrete smokestack (source)
- Okay after Spider-Man swings big concrete chunk at him (source)
- After transformer blows up in face, webbed to ground and defeated (source) ([Limit])
Electro: Electric Blasts
- Blasts open a set of doors (source)
- Destroys industrial crane with electric blast (source)
- Destroys fuel containers and topples communication towers with blasts (source)
- Causes Spider-Man great pain with direct electric current (source)
Electro: Other Electric Uses
- Opens prison cells with electricity (source)
- Electromagnetically throws dozens of shipping containers at once (source)
- Levitates and destroys police cars (source) (^Comic)
- Produces waves of electricity that travel down walls (source)
- Spider-Man uses electrician’s glove to insulate from some electricity (source) ([Limit])
Electro: Transformers
- With large electrical transformers, electrifies entire skyscraper; stops when all five destroyed (source)
- With transformer, creates and controls giant bolts of electricity (source)
- Current stops when all five transformers destroyed (source)
Electro: Other
- Spider-Man believes Electro would challenge Avengers at true potential (source)
Rhino: Strength Striking
- Rams through wooden crates (source)
- Backhands wooden crates, shattering them (source)
- Stomps ground to knock enemies off feet (source)
- Punches out of containment unit (source)
- Breaks specially designed handcuffs against wall (source)
Rhino: Strength Lifting/Throwing
- Throws large concrete columns, knocking down thick metal door (source)
- Throws human like a doll (source)
- Flips police car over (source)
- Tosses large wooden containers (source)
- Flips empty shipping container high into air (source)
- Tears out car-sized asphalt chunks and throws them (source)
- Throws Spider-Man through brick wall like fastball, knocking him out (source)
- Lifts and throws tanks (source)
Rhino: Strength Running/Ramming
- Runs through concrete wall (source)
- Keeps running with no speed loss when two Spider-Men attach fire hydrant and taxi to slow him (source)
- Runs through power building, causing blackout (source)
Rhino: Durability
- First costume broken by Spider-Man breaking horn (source) ([Limit])
- Totally bulletproof (source)
- Runs through flurry of bullets and dispatches soldiers (source)
- Shrugs off big concrete piece from Spider-Man (source)
- Spider-Man swings heavy construction equipment to hurt him (source)
- Survives locked in shipping container with angry Scorpion (source)
- Jumps down couple stories (source)
- Gets up immediately after falling through mall floor (source)
- Jumps through flammable gas container, creating massive explosion without slowing (source)
- Considerably hurt by Miles’ Venom Blast (source) ([Limit])
- Knocked out by Miles’ Venom Blast after good fight (source) ([Limit])
- Gets sword through chest but presumably survives (source)
- Red armor from Roxxon immune to Venom Blasts (source)
- Red armor broken off easily by Miles (source)
Rhino: Agility
- With running start, jumps 4-5 stories and smashes through brick wall (source)
- Runs bit faster than Miles swings (source)
Rhino: Skill
- Jumps up, snatches bar sign, throws it at Miles (source)
- Bounces Miles off ground, boots him into wall, runs through wall (source)