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It should have been him. That's what consumes Carl King ever since childhood.
It should have been him. King reminisces as he watches Spider-Man defeat
the Rhino. He reminisces about the times when he bullied Peter Parker,
from kindergarden to high school. About when he witnessed the spider bite and
followed Peter, discovering his secret. About his jealousness, when he doubled
back and ate the spider. And about the unforseen results that move had, which
consumed his body from within...
Finally, all this time passed, and King is ready to make his move. His jealousy
became hatred long ago. He jumped bodies again and again, getting stronger each
time. He grew in numbers. He became a thousand spiders, The Thousand. Powerful
enough to face Spider-Man, to defeat him, and take his body. To finally have
what he always wanted. That night, King broke into the Bugle's office, and took
the body of Jessica Patton, who worked there. Using her as a trojan horse, he
paid a visit to Peter Parker, and catching him by surprise, he managed to
paralyze him with a venomous bite. When he was just about to take Peter's body,
the super-intendent, Mr. Ambrose, came to check on the noise, and became King's
last victim. King took Ambrose's body, and then delighted himself in revealing
all the story to Peter. Until the venom wore off. Peter was ready now. The fight
was tougher, and King ended up being electrocuted in a show of fireworks as lots
of flaming spiders shot out of Ambrose's body. But one spider survived. Enough
to carry his consciousness, enough to start all over again, to bide his time and
grow strong. But ironically, enough to fit under a single shoe, as King was
squashed the foot of by a passer-by as he cluelessly gloated about his inevitable
comeback.
Thanks To:
Some of the above information is extracted from the various
versions of the Official Handbook to the Marvel Universe and the more recent
Marvel Encyclopaedias.
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