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''Grim Hunt'' is a 2010 ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' storyline written by Joe Kelly with art by Michael Lark. It spans from ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderMan1999'' #634-637.

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''Grim Hunt'' is a 2010 ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' storyline written by Joe Kelly with art by Michael Lark. It spans from ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderMan1999'' #634-637.
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->''" Prepare, Spyder! The end has come! The Grim Hunt is here!"''

''Grim Hunt'' is a 2010 ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' storyline written by Joe Kelly with art by Michael Lark. It spans from ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderMan1999'' #634-637.

After the Kravenoff family sets up Spidey's classic RoguesGallery to fight him one after another and wear him down, they start hunting down spider-powered individuals. Eventually, Kraven's ex-wife and children round up various spider-people and use them in blood rituals to resurrect both Kraven and his dead eldest son in the same mansion Kraven uses ''ComicBook/KravensLastHunt'', much to Kraven's fury at being cheated out of a peaceful end through unnatural means.

The story is notable for bringing [[Characters/MarvelComicsKravenTheHunter Kraven the Hunter]] back from the dead, and killing off numerous supporting cast, including the third ComicBook/SpiderWoman, Mattie Franklin, Madame Web, and Kaine.

The series acts as a sequel to ''ComicBook/KravensLastHunt'', and has itself a sequel in ''ComicBook/{{Hunted}}''.

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!!''Grim Hunt'' provides examples of:

* ArcVillain: Sasha Kravinoff.
* AvengingTheVillain: Sasha's entire goal is to avenge Kraven's death, which she blames on Spider-Man. Never mind the fact that Kraven was DrivenToSuicide.
* AxCrazy: Ana Kravinoff. She's very proficient with knives, has a tendency to speak in rhyming couplets as she tries to eviscerate Spider-Man, and is last seen gleefully hunting down her own brother at the end of the arc.
* BackForTheDead: After being absent for much of the 2000s, Mattie Franklin returns, where she is sacrificed by Sasha Kravinoff to resurrect her son Vladimir.
* BackFromTheDead:
** Ezekiel Sims seemingly reappeared to tell Spider-Man to warn every spider-themed hero and villain about the Kravinoff family's vendetta, but it was really the Chameleon in disguise tricking Peter into walking into a trap.
** Kraven the Hunter is imperfectly resurrected thanks to a black magic ritual. He's ''not'' happy about this.
* BadassFamily: The Kravinoff family, although they don't [[BigScrewedUpFamily get along all that well]].
* BadFuture: The one Peter saw during [[ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManJMichaelStraczynski JMS' run]] has been explained, if Arachne's visions were true -- it's a future where Peter killed the recently resurrected Kraven, which led him to go down the same path as ComicBook/ThePunisher of sorts, with the added problem of alienating himself from everybody, before getting killed in a police confrontation.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Kraven's family decided it was a good idea to start systematically killing off Spider-themed superheroes to get to Peter. It really wasn't, seeing the way Peter went off on them was pretty disturbing in a way.
* BlindSeer: Madame Web is blind, but can see along the strands of the Web of Life to predict the future. After she dies, her powers are transferred to Jessica Carpenter/Arachne, including, somehow, her blindness.
* CameBackWrong:
** The ritual to resurrect Vladimir backfires and Vladimir is resurrected as a leonine monster.
** Thanks to Kaine sabotaging the ritual, Kraven is "cursed with un-life", and only Peter or another connected to the Web of Life can kill him. Mentally, he's all there, just angry about it -- Madame Web even mocks his wife for assuming he's changed. He's exactly the same, she just prefers not to remember him that way.
** Kaine is resurrected in a mutated state in the epilogue, with extra eyes in a spider-like pattern on his forehead.
* CatFolk: Vladimir is revived by his family as a human-lion hybrid.
* CoDragons: Ana and Alyosha for Sasha.
* CruelMercy: Kraven the Hunter is brought BackFromTheDead by his ex-wife Sasha, who put Spider-Man and his "spider family" through Hell in the process, killing Madame Web, Mattie Franklin, and Kaine, the last of whom was sacrificed in a BlackMagic ritual to bring Kraven back. Having [[DrivenToSuicide met his end by his own hand]], Kraven [[UnwantedRevival is]] ''[[UnwantedRevival not]]'' [[UnwantedRevival happy to be alive again]], especially since he CameBackWrong because the ritual that resurrected him needed the ''real'' Spider-Man, not a clone. During Spidey's subsequent RoaringRampageOfRevenge against Sasha and the Kravinoffs, he nearly kills Kraven with a spear, but Julia Carpenter persuades him not to by showing him visions of a BadFuture that will result should he go through with it; Kraven is not happy, since he ''wants'' to die and, according to him, can ''only'' die by Spider-Man's hand.
* DeathSeeker: Why Kaine sacrifices himself.
* DirtyCoward: Kaine's so terrified of the Kravinoffs that after they capture Araña and Arachne, he insists to Peter that they can't win and their best option is to "run and screw the rest." Spidey responds by decking Kaine in the face and giving him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, absolutely disgusted that Kaine shares his DNA and memories yet acts like a selfish coward. This actually reaches Kaine, who subsequently knocks Peter out, dons his costume, and dies fighting the Kravinoff family in his place.
* DueToTheDead: Following his HeroicSacrifice at the end of ''Grim Hunt'', Kaine is given a proper burial under the name Kaine Parker.
* FacialHorror: During his RoaringRampageOfRevenge against the Kravinoffs after he has been pushed to his limit, Spider-Man gives Sasha his own version of the Mark of Kaine, pressing his hand to Sasha Kravinoff's face and uses his [[WallCrawl wall-crawling ability]] to [[TearOffYourFace rip the skin off]], ripping Sasha's face apart and leaving a handprint-shaped scar.
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Kaine is noted to have suffered in the past. When the Kravinoffs embark on a warpath against Peter's "spider family" in the "Grim Hunt" storyline, Kaine is fully prepared to bail out, insisting to Peter that they can't win and they should just "run and screw the rest." In response, Spidey actually punches Kaine in the face, telling him that the difference between them is the fact that he doesn't use his life's misery as an excuse to give up the good fight.
-->'''Spider-Man:''' I know you've had a crappy life, and done bad things, I get it... but I never realized what a piece of garbage you were until this moment. How can you share my DNA and be so damn selfish? We've all been hurt! We've all suffered! But the real difference between us is that I never used it as a crutch. You call it "guilt"... I call it responsibility. And by God, even if it means walking into the lion's den and not coming out... I'm not going to stand by and let people die to save myself.
* HeroicSacrifice: Kaine sabotages the ritual to revive Kraven by tricking the Kravinoffs into sacrificing him instead of Peter.
* HeroKiller: Sasha is responsible for the murder of Mattie Franklin and Kaine. (Julia Cornwell, who was going by the name Arachne at the time, was also a target, but was saved by Spider-Man.)
* HumanSacrifice: Mattie Franklin is turned into one by the Kravinoff family in order to resurrect Vladimir Kravinoff, the Grim Hunter.
* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: Peter gets one of these speeches when he's shown a vision of the future if he kills the just-resurrected Kraven the Hunter. The reaction of the fandom was... [[MisaimedFandom unexpected]], as the two-page spread that encompassed the vision not only showed Peter apparently becoming a complete and utter badass, but featured the fan-favorite "Happy Birthday" costume. Cue the fans shouting "Kill the guy!" at their comic books.
* ImmortalityInducer: Kraven is imperfectly resurrected by his wife and children, and can only be killed by an entity connected to the Web of Life.
* ImportantHaircut: Kaine finally carves away his long, unkempt "villain hair" to a haircut more like Ben and Peter's. It symbolizes his HeelFaceTurn as he's preparing to sacrifice his life to save Peter's.
* KarmicDeath: Sasha spends several issues tormenting Spider-Man and his allies for the purpose of avenging Kraven and resurrecting him. Shortly after his resurrection, Kraven, who [[UnwantedRevival didn't even want to be brought back in the first place]], snaps her neck.
* KilledOffForReal:
** Kaine is killed by the Kravinoff family.
** Madame Web is murdered by Sasha Kravinoff after mocking her failure to resurrect Kraven properly. She transfers her powers to Julia Carpenter before dying, though.
** Grim Hunter is killed by Kraven as a MercyKilling, considering his condition a sorry state.
* LegacyCharacter: Jessica Carpenter succeeds Cassandra Webb as the new Madame Web.
* MercyKill: Vladimir is killed by Kraven out of mercy for what he had been made into when the Kravinoff family went to the Savage Land.
* NotQuiteDead: Kaine sabotages the ritual to revive Kraven by tricking the Kravinoffs into sacrificing him instead of Peter. He's resurrected by the Other, with the help of the Jackal.
* OnlySaneMan: Chameleon's the only member of the family to realize that bringing back Kraven is not a good idea, considering he was DrivenToSuicide.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Peter dishes one out to Kaine when the latter insists they can't beat the Kravinoffs and they should just "run and screw the rest." Peter outright punches Kaine in the face, absolutely disgusted at Kaine's [[DirtyCoward selfishness and cowardice]] despite the two sharing DNA and [[GeneticMemory memories]]. This actually reaches Kaine, who subsequently knocks Peter out, dons his costume, and dies fighting the Kravinoff family in his place.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: After the Kravinoff family, led by Kraven's wife Sasha, started hunting down spider-powered individuals, killing Mattie Franklin, Madame Web, and Kaine in the process, even leaving Kaine's body on display in a graveyard with a note that says "Hunt Me!". In response, Peter, in a fit of pure rage, dons his black suit and takes the fight to them, defeating the Chameleon, Alyosha, and Vladimir, ripping Sasha's face apart using his {{Wall Crawl}}ing power offensively and going at Kraven with one of his spears fully intending to kill him in retaliation, with the only thing stopping him being Julia Carpenter, now the new Madame Web, showing him visions of a BadFuture where he becomes a mass-murdering AntiHero.
* SelfServingMemory: When Kraven is resurrected by an ImperfectRitual, Sasha is convinced that he CameBackWrong and is different from the man she loved. Madame Web mocks her for thinking as such; Kraven is exactly the way he was before (barring his anger at an UnwantedRevival) and Sasha just prefers not to remember him as such.
-->'''Sasha:''' Everything is ''wrong''! That man is ''not'' my husband--\\
'''Cassandra Webb:''' Oh, but he is… Refreshed from a long ''nap''. It's like that with old married couples… Sometimes you forget.
* SickEpisode: The Kravinoffs actually plan their attack to take place when Spider-Man's sick using the precognitive abilities of Madame Web.
* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Kraven's Last Hunt''.
* TearOffYourFace: Spider-Man rips apart Sasha's face with his wall-crawling power.
* TearsOfFear: Anya has these while she is imprisoned.
* TortureAlwaysWorks: Madame Web is a victim of this after she was captured and tortured for weeks by the Kravinoffs, and because of her powers, she saw herself eventually giving in, which she eventually did.
* UnholyMatrimony: Sasha is just as crazy and evil as Kraven is, possibly more so in regards to the latter.
* UnstoppableRage: Spidey after the Kravinoffs brought back Kraven by killing Kaine.
* UnwantedRevival: Kraven is resurrected by his wife and children, but the revival is [[ImperfectRitual botched]], and he is brought back as an undead. He was ''pissed'' about it, killing Sasha and most of the people she worked with shortly after. Chameleon even points this out, reminding the others that Kraven [[DrivenToSuicide ended his own life]] in the first place.
-->'''Chameleon''': Has anyone stopped to consider the fact that this man ''shot himself in the head''? How do you know he ''wanted'' to come back?
* VillainsWantMercy: During the climax, Spidey embarks on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against the Kravinoff family for everything they put him and his "spider family" through, at one point using his {{Wall Crawl}}ing powers to [[FlayingAlive tear a handprint-shaped mass of flesh]] [[FacialHorror clean off of Sasha Kravinoff's face]]. When Sasha frantically begs him to wait, Spidey hatefully asks her if ''she'' "waited" when she killed Kaine, Mattie Franklin, and Madame Web.[[note]]Incidentally, using wall-crawling powers to rip the flesh off a victim's face was the trademark of Kaine, an AntiHero clone of Spidey. The fact that Spidey is willing to resort to that same level of brutality illustrates just how far the Kravinoffs have driven him.[[/note]]
->'''Sasha Kravinoff''': W-wait--\\
'''Spider-Man''': Did you "wait" for Mattie? Cassandra? Kaine?! Now you know what it feels like. To be wounded, hunted... ''slaughtered''.

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