The Sinister Six is the name of various teams assembled with the purpose of defeating Spider-Man or pursuing criminal endeavors. Formed and recurrently led by Doctor Octopus, subsequent iterations of the Sinister Six have also been led by Hobgoblin, Sandman, Green Goblin and currently Boomerang.
In General
- The Leader: There have been a multitude of leaders for the different iterations of the team, Boomerang, Doctor Octopus, Iron Spider, Mysterio, Sandman, and Swarm being among them.
- Legion of Doom: Of various Spider-Man villains.
- Villain Team-Up: They are a group of villains that teamed up together to defeat Spider-Man.
Members
Listed alphabetically after leader
Doctor Octopus (leader)
One of Spidey's most famous enemies, who uses metallic tentacles that he created to commit crimes. For more information on him, refer to his page here.
Electro (Maxwell Dillon)
A former electrical lineman who gained electrical powers in an accident; sadly, he did not get any help for his crippling self-worth issues. Read about him here.
Kraven the Hunter (Sergei Kravenoff)
A former Russian aristocrat who lives for hunting, and has fixated on Spider-Man as his prey. His page is here.
Mysterio (Quentin Beck)
A movie special effects maker turned illusionist supervillain. Read about him here.
Sandman (William Baker)
A petty crook made of living sand. His tropes can be found here.
Vulture (Adrian Toomes)
Spider-Man's second ever supervillain, an inventor who used his flight harness to commit crimes. His tropes are here.
Doctor Octopus (leader)
The bad Doctor himself, once again convening the sinister six.
Electro
Hobgoblin (Jason Macendale)
Kraven's replacement. The fourth Hobgoblin, and second if you're not counting Kingsley's body doubles. His tropes are here.
Mysterio (Quentin Beck)
Sandman
Vulture (Adrian Toomes)
Doctor Octopus (leader)
Dr. Octopus, again leading a villain team-up. Some people really don't know when to quit.
Electro
Gog
Sandman's replacement, a giant alien monster who really isn't that malicious on his own. His tropes are here
Hobgoblin (Jason Macendale)
Mysterio (Quentin Beck)
Vulture (Adrian Toomes)
This fourth incarnation of the Sinister Six was formed by the Hobgoblin to fight Kaine. They added an extra member for good measure, turning it into the Sinister 7.
Hobgoblin (Jason Macendale, leader)
Beetle (Abner Jenkins)
A minor rogue with a suit of flying Powered Armor. Eventually he decided to become a hero, but before that he was a Sinister 7 member. His tropes can be found on the Thunderbolts Founding Members page.
Electro
Mysterio (Quentin Beck)
Scorpion (Mac Gargan)
Formerly a PI who J. Jonah Jameson hired, and (in one of his worse decisions), financed experiments to make an anti-Spider-Man. Mac took up the job of being Spidey's Evil Counterpart with gusto, but wasn't good enough to break into the A-List. He has his own page here.
Shocker (Herman Schultz)
A affable criminal who uses a set of gauntlets that allow him to fire off shockwaves. His tropes are here.
Vulture (Adrian Toomes)
This fifth incarnation was formed by the Sandman to get revenge on Doctor Octopus.
Sandman (leader)
Once sandy muscle for the group, now he leads it against Dr. Octopus.
Electro
Kraven the Hunter (Alyosha Kravinoff)
Not the original Kraven, but his second son. His tropes can also be found on the Marvel Comics: Kraven the Hunter page.
Mysterio (Daniel Berkhart)
Mysterio was dead at this point, but was impersonated by Daniel Berkhart.
Venom (Eddie Brock)
With Doc Ock now the group's target, Venom stepped in to fill out the roster.
Vulture (Adrian Toomes)
This sixth incarnation was formed by Norman Osborn at the time when he was unmasked as the Green Goblin. And just for good measure, he put double the number of superpowered goons in it.
Green Goblin (Norman Osborn, leader)
You know him, you hate him.
Boomerang (Fred Myers)
A boomerang-throwing (he's Australian, the boomerangs are in his contract) supervillain who isn't very successful, partially due to bad luck and partially because no one likes him.
Chameleon
A Master of Disguise and the first supervillain Peter ever faced.
Electro
Still a mainstay, still too dumb to do anything on his own.
Hammerhead
A mobster who just so happens to have a weirdly-shaped steel replacement skull.
Hydro-Man (Morris Bench)
Sandman with water powers, a grudge against Spider-Man, and even less in the way of brains.
Lizard (Curt Connors)
A scientist who turned himself into an evil lizard trying to re-grow his lost arm.
Sandman
Tombstone (Lonnie Lincoln)
A brutal thug with chalk-white skin and an immunity to pain hired by the Green Goblin to join the ranks of the Twelve. Tropes on him can be found here.
Venom (Mac Gargan)
Same symbiote, different human.
Vulture (Adrian Toomes)
This seventh incarnation was formed during the Civil War storyline.
Doctor Octopus (leader)
Doc Ock, finally returning to be the leader of the Sinister 6.
Grim Reaper (Eric Williams)
Lizard
Shocker
Trapster (Peter Petruski)
Vulture (Adrian Toomes)
There's been 7 incarnations of the sinister 6, and Adrien's been involved in all of them. Maybe they should make him the leader next time.
This eighth incarnation was formed following the Origin of the Species storyline and were the main antagonists of the Ends of the Earth storyline:
Doctor Octopus (leader)
This time, the Doctor has grander ambitions than just committing petty crimes with the rest of the dunces in Spidey's rogues gallery.
Chameleon
Electro
Mysterio (Quentin Beck)
Rhino (Alexei Systevich)
A guy stuck in a rhino-themed suit of armor. Currently in a bad way after the loss of his wife.
Sandman
This ninth incarnation debuted in the Marvel NOW! event. After their defeat by the Superior Spider-Man, who took the Living Brain to be his own assistant, the remaining five became the lead characters in The Superior Foes of Spider-Man, where they endeavor to steal a priceless painting of Dr. Doom without his mask.
Boomerang (leader)
Leader of the group, who also narrates their story to a stranger he met at a bar.
Beetle (Janice Lincoln)
Tombstone's daughter, who became the fourth Beetle because being an Amoral Attorney was boring.
Living Brain
Neither alive, nor a brain. It's actually a robot. After Superior Spider-Man stole it and reprogrammed it, it was not replaced and its position was left empty, but the somewhat inaccurate name 'Sinister 6' persisted.
Overdrive
A superhero fanboy whose attempts at pulling a Hawkeye are not going well.
Shocker
One rather unlucky and put-upon supervillain who doesn't tend to hold grudges.
Speed Demon (James Sanders)
A cowardly and lazy speedster who has a soft spot for dogs.
The Superior Spider-Man (Doctor Octopus' mind in Peter Parker's body) captures and assembles his own "superhero team" which he controls through tech implanted in the villains. This 10th incarnation debuted in Superior Spider-Man Team-Up #5 (2013). The roster corresponds closely to the original lineup.
Spider-Man (Otto Octavius) (leader)
Electro
Chameleon
Mysterio
Sandman
Vulture (Adrian Toomes)
In order to steal valuables from the Chameleon, Boomerang's Sinister Six (minus the Living Brain and the Shocker) ally themselves with the Owl, who hires 11 others to create the "Sinister Sixteen".
Boomerang (leader)
Owl (leader)
Armadillo (Antonio Rodriguez)
Beetle (Janice Lincoln)
Bi-Beast
Clown
Cyclone (Pierre Fresson)
Human Fly (Richard Deacon)
Kangaroo (Brian Hibbs)
Man Mountain Marko (Michael Marko)
Mirage (Desmond Charne)
Overdrive
Scorcher (Steven Hudak)
Shriek (Frances Barrison)
Speed Demon
Spot (Jonathan Ohn)
Squid (Don Callahan)
Mojo and the Chameleon abduct Spider-Man and his X-Men students, and force them to star in a show which pits them against the Sinister Sixty-Six. The group, which is not seen in its entirety, consists of holographic stand-ins of various enemies of Spider-Man.
Beetle
Carnage
Demogoblin
Doctor Octopus
Electro
Gibbon
Green Goblin
Grizzly
Hammerhead
Hobgoblin
Jackal
Jack O'Lantern
Kingpin
Kraven the Hunter
Lizard
Morbius the Living Vampire
Mysterio
Puma
Rhino
Ringer
Sandman
Scorpion
Shocker
Tombstone
Venom
Vermin
Vulture
A new team is assembled by Swarm in Spider-Man and the X-Men. While stealing a delivery of gold, the group is confronted by Spider-Man and his X-Men students; after Swarm is defeated by Hellion, his teammates surrender.
Swarm (leader)
A Nazi made of bees. That's Swarm in a nutshell.
8-Ball
An unemployed but talented engineer who turned to super-crime.
Delilah
Killer Shrike (Simon Maddicks)
Melter
Squid (Don Callahan)
A new incarnation is assembled by Miles Morales' uncle Aaron Davis, who is wearing a re-colored and modified version of the Iron Spider armor.
Iron Spider (Aaron Davis, leader)
Bombshell (Lana Baumgartner)
Electro (Francine Frye)
The original Electro's loony fan/girlfriend, who fried him on accident, got powers, and took his place.
Hobgoblin
Sandman
Spot
In Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #6, Spider-Man plays with Nathan, a cancer patient, who becomes Spider-Bite and they "fight" the Sinister Sixty, who wish to obtain Spider-Bite's action figure of Spider-Man.
Absorbing Man
Big Man (Frederick Foswell)
Black Cat
Black Tarantula
Boomerang
Calypso
Carnage
Carrion
Chameleon
Demogoblin
Doctor Octopus
Doppelganger
Electro
Fancy Dan
Fusion
Green Goblin (Norman Osborn)
Grey Goblin
Hammerhead
Hobgoblin
Hydro-Man
Jackal
Jack O'Lantern
Joystick
Juggernaut
Kaine
Kingpin
Kraven the Hunter
Kraven the Hunter (Alyosha Kravinoff)
Kraven the Hunter (Ana Kravinoff)
Lady Octopus
Lizard
Mephisto
Mister Negative
Molten Man
Montana
Morbius the Living Vampire
Morlun
Mysterio
Ox
Raptor
Rhino
Sandman
Sasha Kravinoff
Scorpion
Scream
Screwball
Shocker
Shriek
Silvermane
Sin-Eater
Spider-Slayer
Stilt-Man
Stunner
Swarm
Tarantula
Tombstone
Venom (Eddie Brock)
Vermin
Vulture
