Characters / Spider-Man: Clones

Benjamin "Ben" Reilly

Notable Aliases: Scarlet Spider I, Spider-Man II, Jackal II

First Appearance: The Amazing Spider-Man #149 (October, 1975)

The second and most successful clone of Spider-Man created by the Jackal. A superhero known as the Scarlet Spider, Reilly later replaced Peter Parker for a time as Spider-Man after he found out that all this time he was the original and not Peter. Ben met his ultimate demise in the fight against the Green Goblin which led to Peter becoming Spider-man once again, after he found out that he is the real Spider-man after all. And then he came back, because comics are like that.

Kaine Parker

^{Click here to see as Scarlet Spider} 

Alter Ego: Scarlet Spider IV

First Appearance: Web of Spider-Man #119 (December, 1994)

"I'm doin' something very, very stupid. Don't screw up my hero moment, Parker."

Kaine was the first clone of Spider-Man created by the Jackal. He was suffering from clone degeneration and was used as a test subject until he fled. He became an assassin and spent years tormenting his clone brother Ben Reilly until he was eventually cured of his cellular degeneration and has taken up the mantle his now dead brother as the new Scarlet Spider.

Spidercide

Alter Ego: Peter Parker

First Appearance: Amazing Spider-Man #399 (March, 1995) ^note As Spider-Man; New Warriors #61 (July, 1995) ^note As Spidercide

Spidercide is a clone of Spider-Man created by the Jackal (who has created the majority of the Spider-Man clones) who made Spidercide believe he was the true Peter Parker. Spidercide's insistence that he was the true Peter Parker led him down a road of violence and villainy.

• Ax-Crazy: As Spidercide, he lives up to the name, being far more brutal and keep to violence than most other versions of Peter.
• Cloning Blues: Initially believed himself to be Peter Parker, until he became Spidercide he suffered from the dread and confusion surrounding learning that he's a clone.
• Tomato in the Mirror: In what was not exactly the most original plan ever, Jackal set him upon Peter and company with without letting him know he was a clone, spreading confusion over who is a clone and who was the original.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Since he was created to not just be confused for Peter, but also to kill him, he has been genetically engineered to have additional powers. The most impressive is that he can alter his molecular makeup at the cellular level, changing shape or even state at will. He can impersonate others or turn into water to flee a rough situation.

Spider-Clones

First Appearance: Amazing Spider-Man #404 (August, 1995)

The Spider-Clones were a disposable army of clones of Spider-Man created by the Jackal to kill Ben Reilly.

• Clone Degeneration: All of these guys are significantly less stable than any of Jackal's other clones, as they all rapidly decay into fleshy mush over the course of their battle with Ben and Kaine.
• Conservation of Ninjutsu: A veritable army of unstable Spider-Clones proves to be less threatening than a single successful clone like Ben or Kaine. Justified due to Clone Degeneration.
• Zerg Rush: Their only tactic.

Itsy Bitsy

First Appearance: Spider-Man/Deadpool #8

A woman who was a test-subject of Patient Zero. She received DNA from both Spider-Man and Deadpool, which caused her to turn into a spider-like psychotic creature.

• Always Someone Better: Itsy-Bitsy repeatedly bests Spider-Man and Deadpool in combat.
• All Your Powers Combined: Patient Zero's procedure granted Itsy Bitsy the combined abilities of Spider-Man and Deadpool, and some other extra powers.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: Has blue skin.
• Extra Eyes: Like an actual spider she has six eyes.
• Fluffy the Terrible: She is decidedly not as cute as her name sounds.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Itsy-Bitsy was a recovering drug addict who lamented not being able to change the world until Patient Zero gave her her powers.
• Knight Templar: Itsy-Bitsy desires to use her new powers to finally bring true change to the world after feeling powerless for so long, and essentially goes on repeated killing sprees to make it happen.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Has six arms armed with guns and organic webbing sharp.
• Not Quite Dead: Deadpool seemingly killed her (pushing her body through a plasma breeder). However, Itsy Bitsy turned out to have survived and began to slowly grow back, being stuck in the form of a small spider for the time being.
• Razor Floss: Itsy-Bitsy can produce organic webbing sharp enough to slice someone into pieces.
• Sex Is Violence: Itsy-Bitsy has a mad hard-on for Spider-Man and Deadpool, and actively tries to get Spidey to give in to his murderous urges.
• Spider People: She possesses eight limbs, six eyes and chelicerae in her mouth. She also has only three fingers on each hand.
• Was Once A Woman: She was a normal human before to be turned in "spider-woman".

Doppelgänger

First Appearance: Infinity War #1 (June, 1992)

Carnage: Y'know, while I was locked in the Vault, I heard some rumors about a pack of evil duplicates from outer space, and... nah! It's all too hokey for words!

Originally a "living geometric pattern" that resided in another dimension, Doppelgänger and several other members of his kind were turned into twisted duplicates of various superheroes by the Magus during The Infinity War. Unlike the other knock-offs, this one survived that event, and has periodically resurfaced to torment the real Spider-Man.

• Alas, Poor Villain: He was disemboweled by Carnage while trying to protect Shriek during one of the former's tantrums. While attacking Doppelgänger, Carnage even mused that it felt like such a waste to waste him. Fortunately his healing powers saved him.
• All Animals Are Dogs: Behaves almost like a dog around Shriek.
• All Webbed Up: Though him doing this to someone is almost always lethal, as his webbing is razor sharp.
• Animal Eyes: He has compound eyes originally in the shape of Spider-Man's lenses, but they've since become six spider-like ones.
• Angry Guard Dog: For the Magus, then Demogoblin, and finally Shriek and Carnage.
• Artificial Human: According to some scientists, he is "inorganic and may not have been legally alive to begin with".
• Ascended Extra: Spider-Doppelganger was just one of many distorted doppelgangers of Earth's superheroes spawned by Magus in the Infinity War storyline. Aside from Thanos's Doppelganger (who was uniquely identical to the original Thanos), Spider-Man's Doppelganger is the only one who continued to appear beyond that event.
• Back from the Dead:
  • He was impaled by Hobgoblin, but healed by Demogoblin, which had the effect of stopping him from being destroyed when the Magus was defeated at the conclusion of the Infinity War.
  • Carnage gutted him in Maximum Carnage, though he resurfaced without explanation years later.
  • Shortly into his reappearance, he was shot almost completely in half by Royal Blue, but revived while being autopsied.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Why he allied with Demogoblin and Shriek.
• Bald of Evil: Seeing how his costume is actually his skin he lacks hair.
• The Berserker: It is completely feral in combat, using its fangs, claws, and razor-webbing to brutally attack its enemies.
• Building Swing: Being a copy of Spider-Man, he can create organic webbing.
• Cast Herd: Despite being completely unrelated to them, Doppelgänger has often ingratiated himself with the Symbiote characters due to his physical resemblance to one, particularly Carnage
• Ceiling Cling: He can cling to walls and horizontal surfaces. Usually leads to *Drool* Hello.
• Chest Insignia: He has a copy of Spider-Man's signature emblems on his chest and back.
• Criminal Doppelgänger: One of the few Spider-Man duplicates who is unrelated to the Jackal.
• Disability Immunity: Instead of killing him, Demogoblin took him on as an accomplice, apparently not regarding him as a "sinner" due to him being no more intelligent than the average dog.
• Dumb Muscle: He has no real will of his own, and is thus used as a henchman by other villains.
• Easily Forgiven: He's gotten passed Carnage shredding him, going back to obeying his commands, and even attempting to warn him about Scorn.
• Enemy Mine/Token Evil Teammate: Doppelgänger, or at least an AU version of him, can be seen in Spider-Verse fighting the Inheritors as part of the Spider Army. How the good guys convinced him to join them is a mystery.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He was fond of Demogoblin, and regards Shriek as his mother.
• Evil Knock Off: Was explicitly created to be one of Spider-Man.
• Extra Eyes: As of his reappearance, he's developed multiple eyes.
• Fangs Are Evil: He has a mouth full of fangs almost reminiscent of a symbiote's.
• Fish out of Water: He's a living geometric pattern from another dimension forced into a twisted humanoid form resembling Spider-Man, stuck in Manhattan. .
• Half the Man He Used to Be: He was shot in half by Royal Blue, leaving him crawling around on his numerous arms, to rather creepy effect. His legs have grown back by the time of Spider-Verse.
• Healing Factor: Presumably how he survived being mortally wounded multiple times.
• Humanoid Abomination: Doppelgänger is a living geometric pattern from another dimension that was forcefully transmuted into a monstrous copy of Spider-Man.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Hobgoblin knocked him onto a spiked fence, but he was saved by Demogoblin.
• Lightning Bruiser: It is just as fast and strong as the original Spider-Man.
• Magic Enhancement: Being turned into an artificial copy of Spider-Man is apparently enough to make him qualify as a Spider-Totem.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: His six clawed arms.
• Not a Mask: There's no monstrous version of Peter Parker in there; the "costume" is his actual skin.
• Outrun the Fireball: Does this at the end of Carnage U.S.A..
• Phlegmings: Is occasionally drawn with strings of drool between his fangs.
• Razor Floss: His biological webbing is sharp enough to slice into Iron Man's Bleeding Edge armor.
• Suddenly Voiced: When he reappeared, he displayed the ability to talk, albeit only a few slurred words.
• Super-Strength: Presumably to a greater degree than Spidey, due to his additional limbs.
• To Serve Man: Not at all against eating humans.
• Unexplained Recovery: After being fatally wounded by Carnage, he inexplicably returned over a decade later, presumably due to a previously unknown Healing Factor.
• The Unintelligible: When he talks it comes out like this.
• Waking Up at the Morgue: After apparently being shot to pieces by Royal Blue, he wakes up on the autopsy table.
• Wall Crawl: Like the real Spider-Man he can easily cling to vertical surfaces.

Spider-Man (Isotope Genome Accelerator Duplicate)

First Appearance: Amazing Spider-Man Vol 5 #2 (September, 2018)

Spider-Man Duplicate: Yeah, but come on, even you have to admit — the giant robot was awesome.

After Peter was pushed into an Isotope Genome Accelerator, a machine designed by Dr. Curt Connors to de-hybridise the characteristics of a single being, he became irradiated and split into two separate beings. Peter kept all of his memories and personality but lost his powers, while his Spider-Man identity took a life of its own, keeping all of his usual powers but losing any sense of responsibility.

• Beware the Superman: His debut arc shows that Spider-Man genuinely could be quite dangerous if he lacked Uncle Ben's teachings about responsibility.
• Deadpan Snarker: He has some decent quips here and there, but it's mostly averted as he lacks Peter's usual sharp wit, instead often resorting to puerile "randumb" humour and gratuitous pop culture references.
• Enemy Without: As his wanton disregard for silly concepts like "property damage" and "common sense" gets out of hand, he inevitably clashes with his own secret identity, Peter Parker.
• Expy: He's somewhat similar in concept to the Superman duplicate from Superman III, being a darker Literal Split Personality of the hero bereft of any sense of morality due to a lack of a human secret identity.
• Instant Awesome: Just Add Mecha!: He takes control of the Tri-Sentinel on the basis that giant robots are totally awesome, dude! Wait, whaddaya mean it causes tens of millions of dollars in property damage?
• Literal Split Personality: After a freakish lab accident, Peter Parker and Spider-Man essentially become two separate people. The first story arc of Nick Spencer's Amazing Spider-Man run deals with their ensuing conflict.
• Manchild: He represents the worst excesses of Spider-Man's childish tendencies, namely his excitability for the superhero lifestyle. This culminates in him putting the city in danger by taking control of a giant Sentinel, purely and unashamedly for Rule of Cool.
• Meta Guy: He quite directly comments on the controversial developments in Spider-Man's life during Dan Slott's run on the main comic, lampshading the perception that Peter has lost his way by making so many bad decisions in life and becoming a sad-sack loser. Unfortunately, rather than learn from his mistakes, he becomes an uninhibited hedonist.
• Motor Mouth: This Spider-Man clone demonstrates how utterly obnoxious this trope can be when taken to too much of an extreme.
• Only in It for the Money: Another unfortunate Parker trait that he exaggerates and deconstructs. Peter often deals with money troubles in the comics and sometimes lets common greed get the better of him, resulting in him taking the occasional trashy promotional deal or trying to use super-heroics for personal gain. This was particularly prevalent in The Amazing Spider-Man (Dan Slott), during which Peter founded his own corporation, Parker Industries, off the back of Otto Octavius's work. As a Take That! to those developments, this Spider-Man immediately signs off his likeness to various corporations in exchange for merchandising profits.
• Shadow Archetype: He represents what Peter could've turned out like if Uncle Ben played no role in his origin story.