Sinister Six - in Other Media - Novels

Novels

During Adam-Troy Castro's Sinister Six trilogy of Spider-Man novels, a new Sinister Six- consisting of Doctor Octopus, the Vulture, Electro, Mysterio, the Chameleon, and original member Pity, who can generate a psionic-based darkness- are formed by Gustav Fiers, a notorious criminal known as the Gentleman, who wishes to kill Peter Parker in revenge for the actions of his parents in thwarting some of the Gentleman's schemes in the 1960s, having already been responsible for betraying his parents to their true killer, the Red Skull (Fiers requested that the Skull leave Peter alone because he preferred the challenge of fighting adults who could understand what was happening and possibly fight back to present some kind of challenge rather than the ease of taking out helpless children). To this end, seeking to score a victory against Spider-Man to overshadow all of the wall-crawler's own successes- while also making a profit both because that is his usual M.O. and because it makes his victory all the sweeter-, having freed the Six from jail, Fiers arranges a 'Day of Terror', featuring the Sinister Six mounting various attacks across New York to distract Spider-Man while Electro and Pity steal an ink-destroying catalyst from a nearby facility, subsequently remaining underground before stealing a powerful generator from an adamantium research facility a week later.

With this equipment, Fiers planned to trigger a massive electromagnetic pulse that would blank out all databanks in Manhattan- the only reason he ever risked working with loose cannons like the Six in the first place was because Electro's powers were the only way he would have the energy to trigger the pulse-, subsequently releasing the catalyst from his private plane to destroy all ink in New York, triggering a complete financial collapse due to all the documents and information lost- to say nothing of the anarchy that would result as gang warfare became the only way to survive-, while the Gentleman's own recently-purchased material wealth would significantly increase in value. However, Electro, the Vulture and Mysterio were all taken out before Electro could trigger the pulse thanks to the efforts of Spider-Man and S.A.F.E., Doctor Octopus and the Chameleon both attempted to betray the Gentleman and take control of his plan, and Pity was convinced to help Spider-Man defeat her two former teammates when he informed her that the currently-missing Doctor Octopus had always hated not being in charge and had almost certainly left the fight to go after the Gentleman. Fiers subsequently died of gunshot wounds caused when the Chameleon attempted to take his place and reap the benefits of his scheme (only to be caught by Octavius), the Chameleon ended up in the hospital due to hypothermia after the Gentleman's plane crashed into cold water, Octavius vanished for a time after bailing out of the plane himself, and Pity disappeared, with her final fate remaining unclear.

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