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That was it,

the moment that would forever replay in my mind.

My greatest defeat at the hands of Spider-Man.

Though severely injured,

I would not let it be my end.

I reveled in failure,

using it to fuel my hatred.

I vowed to rise again

to find the strength to defeat Spider-Man,

once and for all.

My body was damaged,

so I needed others carry out my will,

such as Curt Connors.

The side effects of past experiments

left him grappling with his lizard side.

I could help him with that for a price...

The price of obedience.

Connors became my phantom limb,

putting my plans into motion.

If I was going to defeat Spider-Man,

I had to become more.

There was only one thing I had ever seen

that had nearly destroyed my nemesis...

Venom.

Knowing Max Modell's personal trauma

and his driven personality,

I suspected he was still working with a sample

of the symbiote,

so I had Connors plant the Technovore

in Horizon High, a creature that consumed tech,

thus forcing Spider-Man to use a non-technological means

in defeating it.

This confirmed my suspicions,

and exposed Modell in a way that I alone could exploit.

I pulled the strings to have Modell ousted,

and his school became mine.

But I now had Modell's research

to perfect the synthetic symbiote,

combining it with a strain of Jackal's newest serum,

specifically designed to enable my mind to finally heal.

It has empowered me

to take my vengeance.

SPIDER-MAN: Oh wait, are you finally done?

Evil weirdoes sure love to talk about themselves.

Am I right?

I've watched you from the shadows, Spider-Man.

Swarm's Monster League...

At first, it was just a way to fund my research,

but it became a way to study you and your team's actions

in close quarters.

I know your strength isn't only your powers.

It's your support system, your team.

So I developed an even stronger one of my own.

Jackal?

- Huh? - I've been looking forward

to finally spending some quality time with you, Gwen.

You... You know who I am?

Hey, sis, science fact...

The tarantula is deadly to other spiders.

Guess what my new code name is?

Maria? No.

So we're going one-on-one?

Well, whoever you got for me, I can take it.

Swarm? The bee guy?

Why do I get the bee guy?

Pairing us up, huh?

Of all the heroes, you picked me?

I feel like the luckiest spider in the whole hidden lair.

Overconfident, Spider-Man?

That's very unlike you.

Eliminate them.

SPIDER-MAN: Okay, guys, the new Goblin here

may have hired some kind of villain gang,

but we're a team.

Let's show him the difference.

Cool. But, uh, can I switch villains with someone?

I'm not into this bee situation, like, at all.

Maria, wait!

Oh! Argh, oh!

Argh! Show yourself, Uncle Raymond.

Yoo-hoo.

Come along, dear.

GHOST-SPIDER: Get back here!

Look how easily I have taken away all of your support.

Now you, like me, are utterly alone.

Wait, is that what all of this is about?

Because if you feel alone, it's only because

you chose to drive people away, Norman.

Don't call me that.

SPIDER-MAN: What? Norman?

That's your name.

No, Norman was my mask.

Now I have revealed my true self,

just as the spider is your true face.

Have you lost every single marble?

Look at me, Norman. You know I...

Wrong! Peter Parker, Norman Osborn...

These false identities mean nothing.

There is only Spider-Man and Dark Goblin now.

And I will destroy you!

Ah, give me a challenge.

I've waited so long for this.

Yes, that's the spirit.

Perfect. You, full of all that spitfire and wit,

and me... Just look at me!

Uh, do I have to?

Combine symbiotes and Jackal serum?

You look at Venom and think, "I could do uglier"?

Insults? Jokes?

No taunt or jibe can perturb me now, Spider-Man.

Ahhh!

Doctor Connors?

What are you doing?

I can't hold it off any longer.

Please, I did everything you asked.

I need the full cure you promised me, now!

Ha, fool. I don't need you anymore,

so I might as well enjoy finally telling you the truth.

There is no full cure.

What?

There never was.

Why would I waste the resources

to develop a cure for someone as disposable as you?

No. No!

Ahhh!

Sorry for the interruption.

Now where were we?

SPIDER-GIRL: Maria, please.

I don't know how Osborn's making you do this, but...

He's not making me do anything.

I want to be here.

Hey, these are your inventions, right?

- What's that? - What?

That's a new form of centrifuge I'm developing.

The revolutionary design looks genius.

Oh! That was hundreds of hours of work.

Why are you doing this?

I'm destroying your life like you destroyed mine

when you joined my family.

Stop it!

For real, though,

how does the bee thing even work?

Are you each bee? Or are you only all the bees?

I'm not your biology teacher.

You wanna know why I was so eager

to help Osborn take you down?

Because you came here, into my neighborhood,

put my community at risk, endangered my family.

It's because of you I almost lost my only child.

Your neighborhood? This is my neighborhood.

I'd have noticed a next-door neighbor made of bees.

You were my role model, Uncle Raymond,

I'm sorry I have to be the one to take you down.

Oh, Gwen. If only you knew

what you could become with my help.

GHOST-SPIDER: What? A stooge for Norman Osborn?

His and my goals have only temporarily aligned.

Nothing more.

I have my own plans.

What's that supposed to mean?

Come and find out.

- Ahhh! - It's been fun,

but now it's time for the moment I've dreamed of.

My final vengeance!

Joke's on you.

I'm just getting over a cold.

SPIDER-MAN: You know, Gobi, I'll hand it to you.

Splitting me up from my friends,

great idea.

But you haven't thought of all of my friends.

SPIDER-MAN: There's someone you've always underestimated.

- Good timing? - You have no idea.

Harry?

What are you doing here?

Yeah. I rang him up

when I was escaping Jackal's undersea trap.

Just thought he might like to know his long-lost dad

was stopping by for a visit.

Hey, Dad. Been a minute.

You owe me some birthday presents.

Harry.

I'm so happy to see you.

Huh?

Uh... What?

Look at you, son.

Once again, donning the Hobgoblin gear.

That makes me so proud.

This is all I ever wanted for you.

Now you understand.

We're the same.

I was going to reach out to you once Spider-Man was gone.

We'd be free to rebuild our empire together,

father and son.

But now we can take down Spider-Man together.

There was a time I would have done anything

for your approval, Dad.

But that time has passed.

You might be my blood, but you're not my father.

Ever the disappointment.

You're right. I'm not your father, boy!

I am only the Dark Goblin!

In case you missed it, your dad is not playing with a full deck.

Or any cards at all.

Listen, guy... Or is it guys?

I don't know what you've heard.

I've never been a threat here.

I've been protecting it from villains like you.

I wasn't always like this.

I had to protect my family.

The goblin and his Jackal lackey

offered me a chance to fight back,

so I took it.

It meant having to work for them

to create and run that Monster League.

I hated hurting people.

But I did what I had to do.

Hey, I'm trying to fight back, too.

I shut down two giant spider slayers on this very block.

You had to shut them down because they came for you!

You so-called "heroes" attract trouble.

The world doesn't need more like you.

It needs more people like my son.

He's just a kid here on the block,

but he's a genius going to a special school.

And one day, he could change the world.

But he keeps getting caught in your crossfire!

Well, today, that ends!

Dad?

Miles?

You did all this...

All these horrible things

for me?

Norman Osborn tricked you, Dad.

No. I could've...

- I almost... - Dad! Wait!

We can fix this! Dad!

Maria, we promised.

When our parents got married,

we said we'd always take care of each other,

that we'd become real sisters.

You took that seriously?

I never wanted a sister.

You mean you never wanted another sister, right?

What? Yes, Angela was the only sister I ever needed.

Did you actually forget about your other sister for a sec?

'Cause you always worshiped her.

You don't really know me.

SPIDER-GIRL: What if I do?

Maria, remember when I got into Horizon,

you gave me your old microscope?

That meant so much to me.

You think I really cared? Mom made me give that to you.

Hmm.

Ahhh!

Yeah!

The Chameleon, a professional imposter.

Spidey told me about you.

I heard you do really thorough research on the people you impersonate.

Guess not. The real Maria got me a new laptop.

Hmm, as if I didn't already have a microscope.

Spider-Man, you there?

Barely. You okay?

SPIDER-GIRL: Fine now, but I just realized something

about Osborn's healing pod.

If it really is built from the projects he made us design...

Oh, I get where you're going with this.

SPIDER-GIRL: Then buy me some time.

You know, Gwen, I only tolerated Osborn

so we could have a private little talk.

We're way past talking, Uncle Raymond.

You are brilliant.

You're just playing for the wrong team.

Of course, with a few adjustments, I could get you to see things my way.

Ugh! Ahhh!

Argh! Another symbiote?

No, not a life form.

Just some of that synthetic symbiote Max Modell designed at Horizon.

My niece, so willful.

I needed some way to hold you

while I conducted my improvements.

Something that wouldn't trigger your spider-sense.

Improvements?

Let's just say I'm tired of being the only Jackal in the family.

Like we're actually winnin'.

Man, I miss hangin' with you, Harry. We gotta do this more often.

Yeah, maybe more smoothies

and less crazy dad villains?

Deal.

Jackal, Tarantula, Swarm,

return immediately.

Do your duty to protect me.

I order you to respond!

Looks like you're out of allies.

But me, I'll always have my friends.

Come on, Pete. Let's finish this.

Never!

SPIDER-MAN: Wait! We don't know what that much serum will do to you!

What happens to me doesn't matter,

as long as Spider-Man is destroyed!

Don't worry, soon you'll be just like me.

A family affair.

You're better than this, Uncle Raymond.

When you turned, do you have any idea how much it hurt Dad?

A cop with a super villain in the family?

How do you think that made him feel?

How it made all of us feel?

People can be narrow-minded, yes,

but you and I working together, we'll be able to change those minds

or enslave them.

I looked up to you so much.

And I valued that look.

That pride in your eyes, little one.

That's why I'm doing this.

When you're like me, you'll respect me again.

Man, you take creepy mad scientist to the next level,

don't you?

How did you find me?

How did you know I needed help?

I traced your com signal.

I didn't actually know you needed help.

I came to get you for reasons of science.

Yo, Spidey,

I got Ghost-Spider.

We're on our way to Spider-Girl.

Hurry. Goblin's one-man zoo routine

is not as cool as it sounds.

We can't beat him.

He's stronger, faster, bigger.

And grosser. Way grosser.

But we just have to hold on long enough

for the team to finish.

Yeah. Easier said than done.

What do you need?

Attenuate these wires.

And, Gwen, reinforce this casing. Hurry!

Ahhh!

SPIDER-MAN: You still in there, Mr. Osborn?

I'm gonna give you one last chance to give up.

Oh!

Give up?

This is my greatest victory.

- SPIDER-GIRL: Oh, shut up! - Argh!

- GHOST-SPIDER: Wow, he got grosser. - Oh, good.

So it's not just me.

We're doomed. If only someone could go faster and save us.

Hmm. Got the memo.

And done.

That's it. Let's go.

Argh!

Ugh!

Ugh!

GHOST- SPIDER: Huh!

Argh!

Hey, Dad.

Huh?

When your stooge Connors was running the school,

he had all us students working on mysterious projects

without knowing what they were.

But then we learned it was to turn you

into the Dark Goblin.

You've been making us build your evil, venomizing machine for you.

Which is just lazy.

But which also means we're the people

most capable of reverse engineering it.

- Yes! - Yeah! Yes!

Yeah! Go, team.

I'm sorry to drag you into this.

No, I needed to be here. Thank you.

How are we gonna explain all this to the school board?

Or the police?

Or literally anybody?

Well, good thing these drones record everything they see.

This confirmed my suspicions,

and exposed Modell in a way that I alone could exploit.

I pulled the strings to have Modell ousted,

so both his research and his school became mine.

So, as you can see,

Max's experiments were safe and incident-free

until Norman Osborn came along and set him up.

Time to reconsider?

Welcome back, Max.

Yeah, to where you always deserved to be.

You were missed by all of us.

Can we just never speak of the time

you weren't principal here?

It was pretty dark.

Thank you, all.

I know what you had to go through to get me back.

And after everything I've done, I...

It's all right, Max.

Leave the past behind you.

It's time for all of us to focus on the future.

Of course I'm still down here

on the rainforest research expedition.

Why wouldn't I be?

No reason. I've just recently realized

I need to stay in better touch with my big sis.

Well, that sounds good to me.

Nothin' like having your pretend sister

turn out to be a criminal in disguise

to put things in perspective.

Or having a super villain for an uncle.

But now he's behind bars. There's some closure, at least.

Yeah, I'd like closure, too.

It's gonna be tough, though,

'cause my dad... My dad is bees.

We'll find him together.

We're like a family, too, Miles.

We've got each other's backs.

Norman Osborn might have lost his mind,

obsessed with revenge,

but he got one thing right.

My greatest strength isn't my powers.

It's my support system.

Or a better way to say it,

my friends.