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What are you talking about?
Doctor Octopus is a mad scientist who once nearly destroyed the world.
Kingpin is the number one mob boss of New York.
The Green Goblin is a rich CEO and scientist.
The Hobgoblin is similar to the above.
The issue with Judas Traveler wasn't that he wasn't simply a "thug with gifts". It's that, as admitted by Glenn Greenberg, no one at Marvel actually knew what the guy's deal was. Not the writers, not the editors. He kept dropping in and out of the Clone Saga with little to no explanation of what he wanted.
Judas Traveller will always have a special place in my heart because he was introduced pretty shortly after I first started reading Spider-Man. I liked his original version that JM DeMatteis wrote and I think he may have been much cooler for longer had JMD had full control over him and he wasn’t explained off by other writers later.
I'd forgotten them already but that whole TriCorps cohort of researchers.. from those who liked Peter to the guy who just hated him on principle, lol.. good riddance.. the sub-plots with them just seemed to meander and ultimately just boil down to an excuse for Peter to get fired publicly and thought of as a goof.. (would of course, happen again and again)...
carlie cooper wasn't she like a big love interest, haven't seen her lately.
Carlie Cooper was a love interest for a fairly short period. That ended with Spider-Island. Then she got written out of the books at the end of Superior Spider-Man.
And she returned as Mary Jane's friend in Spencer's run. She appeared actually in the Sins' Rising story.
Mackie's notorious for dropping plot threads.
A lot of the characters who get dropped were part of a new setting for Peter.
His undergrad friends left the book for a while, and the focus was on were in grad school classmates, the first major supporting characters introduced as major who were then forgotten.
Later, this would repeat the next two times he went to Grad School, as well as new professional settings (Tricorp, Horizon.)
Another group of forgotten characters is replacements for existing characters. Anna Watson was mainly prominent, when Aunt May was believed dead. There's less of a point to her now. Jill Stacy was pretty much an attempt to bring back Gwen. Arthur Stacy was a surrogate Captain Stacy. Paul Stacy was part of the package.
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Thomas Mets
Fusion was great.
Freak did pop up recently in Ravencroft. Sometimes you need C-listers, to add flavor to scenes with a lot of bad guys without diminishing the A-listers. He wasn't ever introduced as a major character, though. I doubt Marvel was under the illusions he was the next Carnage.
The 90s cartoon had a working dynamic with her, where she would disapprove of Peter. This gave her more to do in the stories.
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Thomas Mets