Mac Gargan

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MacDonald "Mac" Gargan is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, the character first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #19 (1964). He is the first and best-known incarnation of the Scorpion, and has endured as one of the superhero Spider-Man's most recurring villains, belonging to the collective of adversaries that make up his rogues gallery. Originally a private investigator hired by J. Jonah Jameson to learn how Peter Parker managed to take pictures of Spider-Man, Gargan was later subjected to a barely-tested procedure funded by Jameson, intended to turn him into a deadly adversary for Spider-Man. The experiment left Gargan with a scorpion-themed armor grafted onto his body, and the predatory instincts of the arachnid. Driven insane by his mutation, Gargan quickly turned to a life of crime as the Scorpion and went on to menace both Spider-Man and Jameson, whom he held responsible for his transformation. In subsequent decades, Gargan would manage to have his armor removed and served as the third host of the Venom symbiote from 2005 to 2010. While bonded to the symbiote, he became a member of the Dark Avengers under the alias Spider-Man, before the two were forcefully separated. Since then, Gargan has returned to his Scorpion alias and began wearing his signature armor once more, as it kept him alive following the strain both the neural-armors and the symbiote put on his body. Since his original introduction during the Silver Age of Comic Books, the character has been featured in various other Marvel-licensed products, including feature films, television series, video games, and merchandise. Michael Mando portrayed Mac Gargan in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) and Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026), while an alternate version of the...