Who would you say is Spider-Man’s most overrated rogue?

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Initially I thought the Inheritors but outside of a handful of people I don't know anybody who actually likes them.

Green Goblin is definitely the one I find the most overrated as it seems all his good stories are behind him. When he branched out into the wider Marvel Universe and got reinvented as Iron Patriot, it was the logical extension of the Green Goblin. You had good stuff coming out of Dark Reign and that development for struggle over what Osborn wants and what he does and where those lines blur with his Goblin persona is good stuff.

So naturally we throw that away for him to become Carnage and screw around with Spider-man. Keep beating that dead horse.

Yeah, I don’t expect much from early villain motives. It’s one of the reasons why many other rogues galleries were shafted. They didn’t hold up to modern standards.

Villains like Green Goblin and Doctor Octopus benefit from being iconic enough that writers are willing to invest time in properly developing them.