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Jackal
The Jackal, as he was originally depicted, on the panel from The Amazing Spider-Man #146 (July 1975). Pencils by Ross Andru.
Publication information
PublisherMarvel Comics
First appearanceMiles Warren: The Amazing Spider-Man #31 (December 1965)
As the Jackal: The Amazing Spider-Man #129 (February 1974)
Created byMiles Warren:
Stan Lee
Steve Ditko
Jackal:
Gerry Conway
Ross Andru
In-story information
Alter egoMiles Warren
Ben Reilly
Team affiliationsEmpire State University
PartnershipsSpidercide
Punisher
Grizzly
Tarantula
Notable aliasesProfessor Warren
The Professor
The Man in Red
AbilitiesGenius geneticist, biochemist and cloner
Talented martial artist and gymnast
Superhuman strength, speed and agility

The Jackal is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly depicted as an enemy of Spider-Man.

Publication history

The character first appears in The Amazing Spider-Man #129 (Feb. 1974), and was created by writer Gerry Conway and artist Ross Andru.[1] In The Amazing Spider-Man #148 (Sep. 1975), the identity of the Jackal was revealed to be Professor Miles Warren, who first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #31 (Dec. 1965),[2] and was created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko. Prior to his reintroduction as the Jackal, Miles Warren's appearances were essentially limited to the occasional cameo in which he acts as simple background to Spider-Man's civilian life as a college student.

When named at all in these early appearances, he is called only "Professor Warren". A "Mister Warren" had previously appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #8 (Jan. 1964), but he is a high school science teacher rather than a college professor, and is physically very distinct from the later Miles Warren. Despite this, Jackal co-creator Gerry Conway has said it was always his interpretation that "Mister Warren", "Professor Warren", and Professor Miles Warren/Jackal were all the same character.[3]

The character is featured in the controversial 1990s Clone Saga story arc, the 2011 storyline Spider-Island, and the 2016 storyline Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy.

Fictional character biography

Miles Warren was a professor of biology at Empire State University.[4] There, he meets Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy.[5] During his tenure there, Warren becomes secretly infatuated with the much younger Gwen to the point of obsession and jealousy of Parker. After Stacy is murdered by the Green Goblin, Warren swears vengeance on Spider-Man, since the papers at the time reported that it was Spider-Man who killed Gwen.[6] Gwen's death drives Warren into depression, despair, and insanity as a mad geneticist who eventually turns into the Jackal. Miles also has a brother, Raymond, who is a science teacher at Peter's high school.[7]

Early career

Miles becomes an assistant of the High Evolutionary at Wundagore Mountain after earning his Ph.D in biochemistry. Warren assists the High Evolutionary in experiments that involve turning animals into humans and vice versa. There is conflict between Warren and the High Evolutionary because Warren succeeds in creating "New Men" who looked practically human, whereas the High Evolutionary is not able to. Eventually, Warren evolves a jackal that exhibits a Jekyll and Hyde personality. When the test subject escapes, the High Evolutionary banishes Warren from Wundagore. Warren continues his research and eventually settles down with a woman named Monica who bears him two children, who are all killed in what was originally believed to be a car crash; however, it is later revealed to be the result of an assault by his highly evolved Man-Jackal, envious of his creator.[8]

Origin of the Jackal

The day after Gwen's death, Warren's lab assistant Anthony Serba reveals successfully cloning a frog using their research technology. Warren gives Serba tissue samples of Gwen and Peter, telling Serba it's of rat cells. Sometime later, Serba confronts Warren, stating that the clones are human and must be destroyed immediately. Panicking, Warren attempts to cover Serba's mouth to shut up, accidentally suffocating Serba. Unable to accept responsibility for his actions, Warren develops a second personality to carry the weight of his misdeeds dubbed "The Jackal". Warren further develops his alter ego by fashioning a green suit and gauntlets with sharp, claw-like razors on each finger, and by training himself athletically.[6] Kaine is the first successful clone of Peter despite suffering from a slow cloning degeneration and having regenerative abilities to elude death several times.[9]

The Jackal's hatred for Spider-Man manifests in his belief that Spider-Man is solely responsible for allowing Gwen, whom he loved, to die at the Green Goblin's hands. He harasses Spider-Man numerous times, setting Spider-Man up against other adversaries. Warren allies himself with the Punisher against Spider-Man.[10] The Jackal next attempts to incite a gang war between Hammerhead and Doctor Octopus.[11] Later, he equips wrestler Maxwell Markham with the costume and powerful exoskeleton of the Grizzly and sends to assassinate newspaper publisher J. Jonah Jameson.[12] The Jackal then holds Parker hostage in a scheme to trap Spider-Man.[13] Sometime after, he learns Spider-Man's identity.

Out of his numerous attempts to create clones of Peter, only one is a perfect copy of the original. He also creates two clones of himself, one a direct copy, the other a modified clone harboring the Carrion virus. The Jackal helps the Tarantula (Anton Miguel Rodriguez) escape prison, and the two become partners.[14] The Jackal captures Spider-Man, but promptly lets go after proving that Spider-Man is no match for the Jackal in a fair fight. He then lures his nemesis to Shea Stadium and manipulates into battling his clone by binding Daily Bugle reporter Ned Leeds to a bomb that only the original Spider-Man can disarm. But when the Gwen clone tears off the Jackal's mask and confronts him on his crimes, Warren finally accepts responsibility for his actions. He attempts to correct his wrongdoings by freeing Leeds, only to be caught in the bomb's explosion.[6]

Clone Saga

The Jackal as he appeared throughout the "Clone Saga". Interior art of Spider-Man: The Jackal Files #1 (August 1994 Marvel Comics). Art by Dan Lawlis.

During the "Clone Saga", it was much later revealed that the clone of Peter had survived the explosion and gone into hiding under the alias of Ben Reilly, and the Jackal who died at Shea Stadium was later revealed to be a clone. Nearly five years later, another clone of Jackal would marry the original clone of Gwen and they would live under the assumed names Warren Miles and Gwen Miles. This clone of Warren eventually died of the clone degeneration that afflicted most of the clones created by the Jackal. The real Jackal resurfaced, where his experiments mutated his own DNA and give himself the attributes of an actual jackal.[volume & issue needed] Prior to these events, the Jackal's physical abilities had merely been the result of training rather than any superhuman powers.

Reilly returns years later to New York City, allied himself with Spider-Man as the Scarlet Spider. The Jackal also returned to unleash his clone army[15] and convinced both Parker and Reilly that Reilly was the real Peter and that the other man was the clone respectively. The Jackal created a number of clones of Peter who came into conflict with Spider-Man, the Scarlet Spider, and Kaine.[volume & issue needed] The clone of Jackal who was thought to have died at Shea Stadium was revealed to have survived and married the Gwen clone under an assumed name.[16] Ultimately, the Jackal, in the process of attempting to kill and replace millions of people with clones that he could control, was killed falling off a tall building while trying to save the Gwen clone.[17]

It was ultimately revealed that the Jackal and the Clone Saga's other major players had unknowingly been duped by Norman Osborn. The Jackal and various others (including Kaine) had been tricked into thinking that Reilly was the original and that Peter was the clone. All of the Jackal's machinations during the Clone Saga were influenced by his incorrect assertion that he knew who the real Peter was.[18]

Spider-Island

The Jackal later appeared in the "Spider-Island" storyline, being further genetically altered to the point where he frequently displayed animalistic tendencies. His body is always cold, requiring him to wear a thick fur coat even in the hottest weather. He became a crime lord, calling himself "The Professor", and allied himself with Hammerhead but the two eventually went to jail.[19] Warren returns in the "Infestation" back-up feature of The Amazing Spider-Man, unleashing genetically-engineered bedbugs to pass on Spider-like powers to thousands of citizens in Manhattan.[20] It is later revealed that he achieved this through the aid of several human clones of himself, and funding from a mysterious female benefactor: the Spider Queen.[21] Although the bedbugs had later died, the virus that Warren gave to New Yorkers which gave them their spider-powers had become airborne to infect the world to create a new race of Homo-Arachnus, as part of the Spider Queen's plan to overtake the Great Web of Life.[20][22]

Jackal has also enlisted the aid of Kaine which Warren had mutated into his man-spider henchman Tarantula.[9][23] It was revealed that the clone of Gwen introduced in Amazing Spider-Man #144 was only Abby-L (Gwen's second clone and the first attempt to clone) was a flawed clone with the degenerative debilities of Kaine. Before this seemingly perfect copy of Gwen died at Abby-L's hands, it was revealed she actually had some degeneration on her hand, suggesting that she was not perfect after all. Abby-L was also infected with the Carrion virus and had the same abilities of Carrion. Abby-L was manipulated by the Spider Queen into killing the other clone of Gwen who was living in London under the alias Joyce Delaney, and coming into conflict with the Jackal and Kaine.[9]

With his own ulterior motives, the Jackal manipulated various gang leaders into adorning duplicate costumes of Spider-Man to cause chaos in the city.[24] While experimenting with the Spider King (who was Steve Rogers captured by the Spider Queen) by injecting with various embryo spiders to hatch outside of New York City Quarantine to spread the Infestation on a global scale.[25] The Jackal reveals that he still knows Spider-Man's true identity despite the worldwide mindwipe of that information by the rest of the world.[21] After a cure was created by Mister Fantastic and Horizon Labs using Anti-Venom's symbiotic antibodies, Warren assured the Spider Queen that no cure was possible to which Spider Queen seemingly killed Warren after realizing the Spider Queen's powers were amplified due to a frequency that returned Spider-Man's spider-sense, giving the woman the power of a god.[25] It appeared that as though the Jackal was killed by the Spider Queen; however, Spider-Island's aftermath revealed that the Jackal who died was one of the clones, and the real Jackal had kept his distance the entire time. The Jackal revealed this to his surviving clones of his former human self, anticipating the outcome, in order to gain a sample of a husk of Spider Queen's DNA, recognizing his success when managing to obtain Parker's DNA. Unbeknownst to the Avengers and Spider-Man, the Jackal was ordering the clean-up crew to obtain the slain female co-conspirator's DNA.[26]

Post Spider-Island

It was revealed that the Jackal has been monitoring Peter's accidental creation of Alpha, and has set his sights on Spider-Man's new protege.[27] The Jackal resurfaces accompanied by his first wave of cloned mutated human-spider hybrids of Spider Queen and is bent on harvesting Alpha's powers for himself in order to clone a race of Alpha males alongside the Spider-Queens. However, his plans fail as the Alpha energy cannot be cloned, resulting in a collection of powerless, near-mindless copies of Alpha, all of which are destroyed when the enraged Alpha breaks free. It was revealed that the two versions of Jackal that Spider-Man and Alpha fought were also clones.[28]

Superior Spider-Man era

When Otto Octavius's mind possesses Spider-Man's body, the X-Men battles a 30 ft. human-spider hybrid attacking New York which turns out to be a human created by the Jackal using Mister Sinister's works.[29] The Jackal later attacks Superior Spider-Man and the new Scarlet Spider with some mutant-powered spider-clones.[30] Superior Spider-Man kills the clones by destroying the Jackal's hideout, but the Jackal escapes. It is revealed that he kept samples of Scarlet Spider's DNA. The Jackal tells Carrion that he is prepared to develop Spidercide 2.0.[31]

Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy

Ben's dissolved remains (after death at the Goblin's hands) were collected by the Jackal and was resurrected thanks to a new cloning process. However, the Jackal found problems with the cellular degradation. He had Ben killed 26 more times, all of which had Ben's life (and most of Peter's) flash before his eyes. The ordeal of repeated death caused Ben to become mentally unbalanced and morally ambiguous, due to the trauma and very soul being damaged from being removed and replaced over and over.[32] Ben eventually breaks free and knocks out the Jackal. After improving Warren's formula, Ben makes clones of Miles and persuades the Jackal that he is a clone, thereby making it nearly impossible to tell who is the real one. Now free with a number of clone of Miles as servants, Ben becomes the new Jackal during the "Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy" storyline and is determined to repay the people who have heavily influenced Ben's and Peter's lives with the Jackal's technology to make sure that no one has to suffer again and that those who have can become whole, and even does this by establishing New U Technologies.[33]

When Spider-Man activates the Webware to stabilize the human and clone cells all across the world that were in danger of succumbing to clone degradation, the various clone of Miles melt as Ben fights Doctor Octopus. The so-called clone that does not melt realizes that he is the true Warren and vows to have revenge on Ben as the true Jackal. Ben returns to a safe-house and finds Miles in his Jackal outfit waiting in the living room. The Jackal proceeds to burn Ben's safe-house down and engages in one final battle. Ben defeats the Jackal and leaves him in the burning house to die.[34]

The Jackal however, survived the fire and targeted the neural net that was built by Dr. Yesenia Rosario when the woman was doing a presentation of it at Empire State University. The Jackal was defeated by Spider-Man and Ms. Marvel as Dr. Rosario destroys her own invention by setting it to self-destruct.[35]

He later surfaced in the Empire State University once more, under the guise of "Professor Guarinus" and is shocked to bump into a super-powered counterpart of Gwen Stacy from another universe, who had recently enrolled in this universe's ESU.[36] He injected himself with actual jackal DNA, allowing himself to transform into looking exactly like his iconic green costume but for real.[37] He recruited another new student, Benji, to befriend Gwen in exchange for the possibility of great power if she does her job well and while Benji is able to tell Miles that Gwen is a costumed hero from another world, she somehow had failed Warren and was punished for it.[38]

Characterization

Powers and abilities

Prior to his regeneration, Miles Warren is a genius in the fields of biochemistry, genetics and cloning, and is a talented gymnast and martial artist. The Jackal later spliced his genes with the genetics of a jackal, having the strength, speed and agility amplified to superhuman levels. The Jackal is unaffected by the worldwide mind purging of Spider-Man's identity.[39]

Raymond Warren

Raymond Warren is a minor character in Marvel Comics. The character, created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15 (August 1962). He is the brother of Dr. Miles Warren aka Jackal, and a science teacher of Midtown High School in Queens, New York.[40] He had a multi-faceted attitude towards his top student Peter Parker, and in fact was the cause of Spider-Man's early adventures against the Tinkerer,[41] and the Living Brain.[42]

Copies of Jackal

Prior to the death of the Warren clone at Shea Stadium,[6] he had created a clone of himself. The clone remained in stasis within a cloning casket that malfunctioned and super-aged the clone beyond death. Eventually, it emerged and became known as Carrion that wielded power and had no conscience for its actions. He was the first carrier of the Carrion virus, which Warren designed to destroy humanity. Carrion contained all Warren's memories which contained within his RNA, that included his hatred and knowledge of Spider-Man's secret identity. Carrion wielded the power to create a Red Dust that would spread as pestilence as well as his touch that would incapacitate or even cause organic matter to degenerate to the point of disintegration.[43] The original Carrion intended to kill Spider-Man with a spider-amoeba, but failed as Carrion was absorbed by the amoeba, engulfed in flames that ensued from his battle.[44][45]

Much later, fellow ESU rival Malcolm McBride stumbled across Warren's old lair, where he was infected with a strain of the Carrion virus and became the second incarnation of Carrion. The virus allowed McBride to become endowed with the knowledge of Spider-Man's secret identity; however, he was unsure whether he was Dr. Warren's first clone or Malcolm McBride.[46] Eventually, McBride teamed with the likes of Demogoblin and Carnage, but was later cured of his condition and incarcerated in Ravencroft Asylum.[47]

A man dressed as the Jackal once attacked Alpha Flight and claimed to be Miles Warren's son.[48] It was later indicated that this Jackal was the Ani-Man Warren created that ultimately murdered the Professor's family.[49]

A version of the Jackal dubbed as "The Professor" fought Daredevil and Punisher.[19]

Jackal used multiple stand-ins, such as the Miles and Jackal clones in Spider-Island.[50][51] There was also an additional Miles Warren clone accompanying Jackal in Sibling Rivalry after targeting the Superior Spider-Man and Scarlet Spider.[52][53]

Ben Reilly later made clones of Miles Warren to help him run New U Technologies.[33]

Other Clones

The following clones were created by Jackal:

  • The Miles Warren clone who died at Shea Stadium in The Amazing Spider-Man #149.[6]
  • The Miles Warren clone who married the Gwen Stacy clone and died of clone degeneration in Web of Spider-Man #125.[16]
  • The Miles Warren clone in the Daredevil/Punisher limited series.[54]
  • The original Miles Warren clone who is Carrion.[55]
  • The Gwen Stacy clone introduced in The Amazing Spider-Man #144. She went by the aliases Joyce Delaney and Gwen Miles.[56]
  • Abby-L - The original Gwen Stacy clone who is also infected with the Carrion virus; introduced in Spider Island: Deadly Foes.[9]
  • The Gwen Stacy clone introduced in The Amazing Spider-Man #399 who dies of clone degeneration.[57]
  • Ben Reilly a.k.a. the Scarlet Spider/Spider-Man.[58]
  • Kaine a.k.a. Tarantula a.k.a. Scarlet Spider - The first Peter Parker clone who suffers from clone degeneration.[volume & issue needed]
  • Spidercide - A Peter Parker clone who has control over his own molecules, used by the Jackal, like Jack and Guardian, as muscle.[57][59] Died fighting Ben Reilly and Peter Parker above the Daily Bugle before falling to its death.[60]
  • Jack - A Peter Parker clone who was the Jackal's diminutive henchman, armed with claw-like fingernails (much like Guardian). He dies from clone degeneration.[61]
  • Guardian - A Peter Parker clone with dense skin, super-strength, and claw-like fingernails who guarded the entrance to one of the Jackal's headquarters. He also died of clone degeneration.[61]
  • The Spider-Man whose skeleton was found in the smokestack that Ben Reilly was dumped down at the original Clone Story's end.[volume & issue needed]
  • The army of Spider-Man clones in Maximum Clonage.[62]
  • The various Warren clones featured in Spider-Island who act as the henchmen for Jackal and the Spider Queen. Two of them later kidnapped Alpha and his family, which Spider-Man fought.[63]
  • The Spider-Queen clones that were harvested from the Spider-Queen's DNA sent to fight Spider-Man.[27]
  • The Alpha clones created to harvest/clone the Parker Particles.[63]
  • Using the works of Mister Sinister, Jackal created a clone that was a girl who can turn into a mutant spider. This girl can shoot mucus from her mouth and shoot optic blasts when in spider form. When the girl was defeated by Superior Spider-Man and Storm, she was taken into the X-Men's custody.[29]
  • Jackal then used the DNA samples of the X-Men that he obtained from one of Mister Sinister's laboratories to create mutant-powered spider-clones. One clone has optic blasts like Cyclops, one clone can use electrical attacks like Storm, one clone can teleport like Nightcrawler, and the final clone can do cryokinesis like Iceman. These mutant-powered spider-clones were killed when Spider-Man blew up Jackal's hideout.[30][31]

Reception

DeMatteis, the creator of the Clone Saga, claimed in an interview that he thought Jackal is "a terrific villain...one of his favorites", and that it "was a blast bringing the character back, if only for this one story."[64] Dan Slott claimed in an interview with Newsarama about the Spider-Island saga that Jackal is "one of the wonderful mad scientists of Spider-Man's world."[65]

Other versions

Marvel Zombies

In the Marvel Zombies universe, when the Zombie Galacti left the Earth (after eating Galactus), Wilson Fisk (Kingpin) makes an empire. The zombiefied Jackal plays an important part in it, creating human clones to feed the remaining Marvel Zombies. This process utilizes Inhuman technology.[66]

Spider-Man: Clone Saga

Jackal appears in the re-imagining of the Clone Saga by Tom DeFalco, who was exploring the storyline as it was originally conceived. He infects both Aunt May and Mary Jane with a genetic virus. When Kaine betrays Jackal and leads Spider-Man and Scarlet Spider to his lair, all three are captured. Jackal then reveals his plan to create an army of Spider-Clones to take over the world and clone Gwen Stacy. The clones prove unstable, however, and Jackal comes to the conclusion that Ben is the original. Before he can do anything, Kaine breaks free and burns his mark onto Jackal's face before breaking his neck.[67]

Ultimate Marvel

The Ultimate Marvel version of Miles Warren is a hypnotherapist for Harry Osborn to help repress memories about the Green Goblin.[68] Later in the Deadpool story arc of Ultimate Spider-Man, he was revealed to be dating May Parker.[69] Additionally, his Clone Saga involvement has been taken over by Doctor Octopus.[70] He last appeared when May tried to introduce him to Peter, but they had to leave town because of Norman Osborn and he had a patient to handle.[71]

Spider-Man: Life Story

Spider-Man: Life Story features an alternate continuity where the characters naturally age after Peter Parker becomes Spider-Man in 1962. After the 60s, Miles eventually leaves Empire State and forms his own bio-engineering company. Peter Parker's wife, Gwen Stacy, became his chief biologist. During this time, he was also hired by Norman Osborn to create clones of Norman and Peter, but he also secretly created a clone of Gwen. In 1977, Norman gets word of Warren's additional clone and sends Harry Osborn as the Black Goblin to attack Warren's company, revealing the clones to Harry, Peter, and Gwen in the process. Harry blows up the containment tubes containing the clones, which kills all of them except for Peter's clone. However, Warren reveals that the "Gwen" that Peter was with was actually her clone, while the real Gwen died in the explosion, as he wanted to keep her for himself.[72]

Spider-Verse

In the Spider-Verse storyline, the Miles Warren of Earth-802 is one of the top scientists working for Jennix of the Inheritors. Jennix once quoted to Miles "I keep you around because you were once the most brilliant mind on the planet."[73] Spider-Man of Earth-94, Scarlet Spider, and Black Widow of Earth-1610 later encounter Miles Warren when they infiltrate the Baxter Building to disable Jennix' cloning device (which is used to create new bodies for the Inheritors if they get killed in action).[74]

Secret Wars

During the Secret Wars storyline, Spider-Gwen encounters the Jackal of Arachnia and covers him with webbing as he is robbing a grave after which he exclaims he is the best geneticist of his generation.[75]

What If?

In "What If The Punisher Had Killed Spider-Man?", Warren successfully dupes the Punisher into killing Spider-Man and abandons him to take the fall in his place. Becoming a hunted fugitive, Punisher eventually hunts Warren down and intends to surrender him to the police. But when the NYPD is about to arrest him instead, threatening to kill him should he shoot Warren, Warren is executed (off-panel) by the Punisher after the latter gleefully concludes the story with the words: "See you on the other side, Jackal."[76]

Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy

When Warren reveals his plans for New U, Kaine and the Gwen Stacy of Earth-65 step in to stop him from winning Peter to his side. Kaine later told Spider-Man that they have visited various unidentified alternate universes where Peter agreeing to Jackal's plans for New U Technologies have led to catastrophe in the form of the Carrion Virus.[77]

In other media

Television

  • Miles Warren appeared in the Spider-Man animated series, voiced by Jonathan Harris.[78] This version is a scientist whose cloning experiments were banned by the government. In the two-part episode "The Return of Hydro-Man", he continued his experiments in secret with help from the crime lord Silvermane (whom he kept anonymous) where Warren worked in an underwater lab. Warren's clones were unsuccessful where their cells would not hold together and they disintegrated into nothing. Interested in Hydro-Man's ability to dissemble and reassemble, Warren finds a sample of Hydro-Man's DNA at the scene of the man's evaporation and creates a clone. Like the real Hydro-Man, the clone loved Mary Jane Watson and demanded that Warren creates a clone of the woman. Warren does create a clone of Mary Jane after stealing some hair samples from a brush while Anna Watson was mourning her niece's loss, unable to notice him in grief. In the end, the clones of Hydro-Man and Mary Jane degenerate, though Warren is able to steal a sample of Spider-Man's DNA from a piece of his costume with the intent to clone. With part of his underwater lab trashed, he contacted the Ultimate Spider-Slayer to have Silvermane's men repair it. The series finale revealed an alternate universe version as Ben Reilly's creator which indirectly resulted in Spider-Carnage's existence.
  • The Warren brothers appear in The Spectacular Spider-Man animated series, both voiced by Brian George.[78] Both characters are depicted as East Indian.
    • Raymond Warren (renamed Aaron Warren) appears as a minor character during season one. He is a teacher of Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy.
    • Miles Warren appears in season two. In the episode “Blueprints”, he and his assistant Debra Whitman joins his brother Aaron Warren, Dr. Curt Connors and Dr. Martha Connors in scientific research at the ESU labs with a grant from Norman Osborn. Warren bases his genetic research on Curt's work with lizard DNA, but Curt discourages his work. In the episode "Destructive Testing", Warren offers to alter Kraven the Hunter's genetic material for a large sum of money. Kraven agrees, and Warren uses the same procedure behind the Lizard's transformation to mutate Kraven into a lion-like creature (with elements of cheetah and leopard thrown in as well). In the episode "Identity Crisis", Warren talks to the school board (after Eddie Brock steals a vial of gene cleanser) and plots to take away the Connors' lab for himself. In the episode "Subtext", he is seen in an old rundown police station which happens to be one of Osborn's laboratories, using Mark Allan as an upgraded experiment from Otto Octavius's previous experiment with Sandman. He then injects a thermal suit into Mark which turns into Molten Man. Warren then convinces Mark that the suit can only be controlled by sheer will when actually it can only be controlled remotely. Connors later discovers Warren's research, and threatens to tell the school board. However, Warren retaliates by threatening to inform of how Curt's human limb regeneration project turned Connors into the Lizard.
  • The Jackal appears as a recurring villain in the late-2010s Spider-Man animated series, voiced by John DiMaggio.[79] This version is Raymond Warren, Gwen Stacy's maternal uncle and father figure, and a scientist researching genetics who injected himself with a jackal DNA serum and is obsessed with conquering Earth and replacing its population with his genetic creations. Jackal first appears in the episode "Osborn Academy" where he's interrupted by Spider-Man during a technology heist and briefly fights, before escaping. He later intervenes in the feud between Herman Schultz and Clayton Cole and steals the pair's technology to fight Spider-Man but is once again defeated yet manages to escape. In the episode "A Day in the Life", Warren auditions to work at Horizon High but is turned down by Max Modell due to his old experiments at the Empire State University. Before leaving, however, is able prick Aleksei Sytsevich with a hidden rhinoceros DNA serum. In the episode "Party Animals", Warren auditions at Osborn Academy, prompting Norman Osborn to ask to prove that his genetic experiments work. This leads to Jackal sneaking at Horizon High and witnessing Aleksei transforming into the Rhino. Spider-Man, after defeating and de-transforming Rhino, follows Gwen to Warren's house where Jackal is defeated and de-transforms into his human form, leading to his exposure as a criminal and arrest. In the episode "Ultimate Spider-Man", Warren seemingly escapes from prison and hires Spencer Smythe to steal Oscorp's genetically modified spiders. After one spider escapes which leads to Miles Morales's abilities, Warren enlists Spencer to capture but Spencer is defeated by the Spider-Men's combined forces and gets arrested. Spencer (on way to a cell) notices that Warren is back in prison and asks when he got re-arrested but Raymond claims that he never escaped. In the episode "The Rise of Doc Ock: Part 3", Jackal transforms Aleksei back into Rhino to go on a rampage through Osborn Academy, infecting more people which turn into humanoid rhinoceroses. While personally confronting Osborn, Jackal reveals to actually be an explosive clone. In the episode "The Rise of Doc Ock: Part 4", Spider-Man and Spy-D discover that the man in prison is actually a clone which explodes while the real Warren is still at large. Investigating Warren's disappearance, Gwen, Peter Parker and Harry Osborn find his secret lab underneath Midtown High School and discover that Jackal's remaining spiders as well as his plan to make an army of Jackal clones with spider powers. Norman and the Osborn Commandos - Doctor Octopus, Vulture, Alistair Smythe, Steel Spider and Rhino - show up to take down Jackal. When the real Jackal arrives, Doctor Octopus defects to his side and mind-controls the group into doing the same as the Sinister Five, but they're all forced to escape after Jackal's lab collapses while Norman seemingly dies. Jackal later serves as the five-part "Spider-Island" story-arc's main antagonist. His destroyed lab's chemicals spread into New York City and the entire population of Manhattan having spider abilities (including Spider-Gwen) but everyone exposed eventually turn into Spider Creatures with Norman as the Spider King. Jackal plans to control the Spider Creature army and use to take over the world, but first he needs to eliminate the two Spider-Men, the only known humans with spider abilities that could stop his plans. He captures Spy-D at Oscorp where Peter, Harry and Anya Corazon eventually show up as well after several confrontations with the Spider King. Jackal then fights the group with many Spider Creatures. He escapes before Oscorp collapses but is ultimately defeated and his plan is foiled for good with a cure being created and reverting New York's population back to normal.

Video games

  • The Jackal appears as a boss character in the PlayStation 2 and PSP versions of Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, voiced by Greg Baldwin. He is in alliance with Spencer Smythe and is a double agent when Spider-Man encounters Jackal aboard the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier, where he has been recruited by S.H.I.E.L.D. out of desperation for a scientific genius to analyze the symbiotes and help stop the invasion consuming Manhattan. After revealing that S.H.I.E.L.D. planned to use the symbiotes as a weapon and his secret alliance with Smythe, as well as Smythe's plan to learn how to control and then use them to take over the world, Jackal betrays Smythe and plans to steal Spider-Man's symbiote black suit for his own schemes. After a battle, Jackal is defeated by Spider-Man and gives a serum that will enhance Spider Man's black suit, before escaping when the Helicarrier crashes into the city. Later, Jackal steals the sonic generator meant to stop the symbiote invasion from the top of Fisk Tower while Spider-Man is busy fighting A.I.M. soldiers and the mind-controlled Black Cat sent by Smythe, and takes it to Central Park, where he modifies the generator to control the symbiotes. When Spider-Man confronts him there, Jackal claims to be the mastermind behind everything and fights the hero once again, but is ultimately defeated by Spider-Man who can then use the generator to either destroy the symbiotes or control the symbiotes personally.

References

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