History Literature / MarvelsSpiderManHostileTakeover

''Marvel's Spider-Man: Hostile Takeover'' is a prequel novel to the video game ''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4'', written by David Liss and published by Titan Books. It was released on August 21, 2018.

* AmbiguousDisorder:
** Andy, the thief from the beginning of the book, is not shown to be very bright, having been told to steal snakes from a pet-shop and putting them in a bag with a bunch of toy snakes so that they wouldn't get "lonely."
** Michael Bingham wouldn't be considered "sane" even by the loosest sense of the term. When he first saw Spider-Man in-person, he immediately concluded that ''he'' was the real Spider-Man and that Peter was nothing but an imposter, a delusion that lead to him willingly being used as a test-subject for Oscorp and then working under Fisk. He also possesses a SelfServingMemory, a LackOfEmpathy and various thoughts of random homicide that he will sometimes dismiss.
*** Flashbacks into his childhood implies that Michael Bingham may be on the autism spectrum, though it is not mentioned explicitly.

* MythologyGag: Peter walks by what is almost certainly the Sanctum Santorum, home of ComicBook/DrStrange, and notes how he’s pretty sure it’s haunted.

* ContrivedCoinicidence: The place Bingham decides to bomb during a fake Shocker attack just so happens to be Peter’s favorite sandwich shop and where Anika just so happens to be so that she can die when the bomb goes off.

* RageQuit: {{Referenced|Trope}} by Echo when she says that overturning the board is the counter-move to checkmate.

* YouKilledMyFather: Maya Lopez believes that Spider-Man was the one who killed her father and left her orphaned, a falsehood that her foster-father Wilson Fisk fed to her.

* RunningGag: Bingham’s Spider-Man suit’s web lining is too close together to perfectly mimic the actual suit. Everyone from Yuri to the Scorpion points this out.

* CorruptPolitician: It’s implied that Osborn is a little too friendly to business interests and is neglecting the ordinary people of New York. He’s also entirely wiling to appoint Wilson Fisk— a man he very much knows is a violent crime lord— to Commissioner of Finance.

* WeWinBecauseYouDidnt: Basically what the heroes’ efforts against Fisk boil down to in the climax. They can’t truly take him down (yet), only stop him from succeeding this time.

* OutGambitted: Osborn plays Fisk for an utter fool and walks away from the whole mess clean.

* FreudianExcuse: Bingham grew up as a special needs kids who was bullied and moved to New York only to live homeless until OsCorp made him a test subject to duplicate Spider-Man’s powers.

* RealityEnsues: After the fake Shocker attack, Peter watches a TV news segment where most of the commentators note all the incongruities of it and how it’s highly unlikely the Spider-Man there was actually the real deal. Even Fisk notes it’s only because the modern social climate where some people will believe anything that Bingham’s tactic even works on anybody.

* DispoableWoman: Anika is introduced as a new coworker of Peter’s. They share a mutual attraction, potentially setting up an obstacle for Peter’s relationship with MJ. However, she’s present for the faked Shocker attack and dies in the explosion.

* KarmaHoudini: Mayor Norman Osborne is heavily implied to be as evil as any average incarnation of him in other universes, but suffers zero consequences for anything in the story.
* OutGambitted: Osborne plays Fisk for an utter fool and walks away from the whole mess clean.

''Marvel's Spider-Man: Hostile Takeover'' is a prequel novel to the video game ''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4'', written by Creator/DavidLiss and published by Titan Books. It was released on August 21, 2018.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Bingham doesn't understand why Spider-Man cares for and protects people, rather than abusing his power to lord over and terrorize the city. He sees that as proof that Spider-Man in unworthy for his power.

* HijackedByGanon: Inverted. Despite ''Hostile Takeover'' featuring a number of Spider-Man's well known villains, they are mostly regulated to minor cameos. Fisk is the BigBad of the novel, but the Blood Spider ends up pushing him to the wayside, despite The Blood Spider being a more obscure villain in the comics.
* IRejectYourReality: Bingham has a bad tendency to try to rework the world through his own perspective. Case in point, he doesn't consider Spider-Man worthy of his power and title, hence he himself is the ''the'' Spider-Man and the hero of New York is an imposter. Also he makes up claims that his mother neglected him despite the fact she was one of the few people in his life to be genuinely kind to him.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Michael Bingham is the center of his own world and wants to be the center of everyone else's. He has this trope so bad he only considers caring about other people when they are nice to him, and thinks nothing of them when they die.

* PsychoPrototype: Since Bingham gained Spider-Man-esq. powers from experimentation at Oscorp, Blood Spider can be considered this to Miles Morales.
* ARealManIsAKiller: Blood Spider believes that what should make him worthy of being the "true" Spider-Man is that he is is willing to push everyone around and kill innocent people.
* SelfServingMemory: Bingham prefers remembering people and versions of events the way he wishes too as opposed to reality. It's noticeable regarding his mother; in his childhood flashbacks, he has fond memories of how she'd take care of him and she was one of the few people who was genuinely kind to him; as an adult, to go along with his WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds narrative that he made up in his head, he now likes to imagine his mother was negligent.
* StupidEvil: While he is capable of planning and [[PragmaticVillainy pragmatism]], Bingham is also rather impulsive and lets his emotions get the better of him. Also he's on a power trip as the Blood Spider and thinks Spider-Man should use his power to lord over others.

** Andy, the thief from the beginning of the book, is not shown to be very bright, having been told to steal nsakes from a pet-shop and putting them in a bag with a bunch of toy snakes so that they wouldn't get "lonely."

* VillainousBreakdown: Absolutely loses it when Spider-Man shows up in public to expose him and Fisk. Bingham immediately rushes to the scene (blowing every chance he had of actually framing Spider-Man) and attempts to fight Spider-Man to the death, far more angry and violent than what he's shown before.

* FrameUp: He was hired by Fisk to do this to Spider-Man and ruin his reputation. He also blackmails a guy to pose as The Shocker in a hostage scheme to blow up a restaurant.

''Marvel's Spider-Man: Hostile Takeover'' is a prequel novel to the video game ''VideoGame/MarvelsSpiderMan'', written by Creator/DavidLiss and published by Titan Books. It was released on August 21, 2018.