Marvel Confirms Spider-Man’s New Enemy Can Steal Peter Parker’s Memories

Published Sep 30, 2026, 9:10 AM EDT

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Spider-Man has built up a legendary rogues' gallery since his inception in 1962. From Norman Osborn, aka the Green Goblin, to Doc Ock, Venom, the Kingpin, and more, there's been no shortage of villains who have made his life more difficult in New York City and pushed him to his limits. Oftentimes, these villains have direct connections to Peter or have inevitably found a way to strike the young hero where it hurts him most by learning his identity and targeting the people he loves, leading to tragedies like the death of Gwen Stacy. Yet, Marvel is officially introducing a new enemy for the wall-crawler that hits closer to home than anyone has before.

Today marks a historic release for Marvel Comics, as the supersized 1000th issue of The Amazing Spider-Man has finally arrived on store shelves. The "biggest issue in Spider-History" is brimming with content celebrating Spidey's history in the comics, including a handful of anniversary stories penned by everyone from Frank Miller to J.M. DeMatteis and even Alien: Earth creator Noah Hawley, interviews with Tom Holland and Destin Daniel Cretton following the success of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and much more. At the core of the collection, however, is the latest entry in Joe Kelly and Pepe Larraz's Amazing Spider-Man run, which left on a climactic note. Peter had to run, or swing, rather, to the hospital quickly upon learning that Aunt May had a stroke. As has been teased for a while now, though, a new villain is waiting for him in Ravage, but despite being billed as a layered and deeply personal foe for Peter, little has been shared about who he actually is.

Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes Which MCU Villain Do You Align With? Killmonger · Namor · Zemo · Thanos

Eight honest questions about how you actually are: what you do about something unfair, how long you will wait for what you want, who you are really loyal to, how easily you let a thing go. Answer them and we will tell you which one of these four you have more in common with than you would like. Every one of them thinks they are the reasonable person in the room.

🐆Killmonger(Black Panther)

🔱Namor(Wakanda Forever)

🎭Zemo(Civil War)

🧤Thanos(Infinity War)

FIND YOUR VILLAIN →

01

How do you react to something you think is unfair? All four of these men started here.

ALoudly, and I want the whole thing torn down. BI protect whoever it hurt, first and fast. CI say nothing, and I start planning. DI look for why it keeps happening at all.

NEXT QUESTION →

02

How long will you wait for something you want? Patience separates these four more than anything else.

ANot long, since I have waited long enough already. BAs long as my people stay safe meanwhile. CYears, if years are what it takes. DTime does not really come into it.

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03

Who are you actually loyal to? Answer for the real one, not the polite one.

AThe people nobody else turned up for. BMy own, and nobody outside that. COne person, and they are already gone. DAn idea, rather than any group of people.

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04

How do you win an argument? Everybody has one method and uses it every time.

ABy being angrier and more right. BBy making the cost of disagreeing obvious. CBy letting them talk until they trip over something. DBy explaining it until they run out of objections.

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05

How easily do you let something go? This is the question that makes villains out of people.

AI do not, and I can tell you exactly why. BOnce whoever caused it stops being a threat. CWhen the balance is settled, and not before. DInstantly, because it was never personal.

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06

What do you think about breaking the rules? Nobody on this list has ever felt guilty about it.

AThey were written by whoever benefits from them. BMine apply, and theirs do not reach me. CRules are a tool, and I use them precisely. DThe rule matters far less than the outcome.

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07

What do people say about you behind your back? You already know which one it is.

AThat I am far too angry about it. BThat I put my own above everybody else. CThat I am much quieter than I should be. DThat I am certain in a way that unnerves them.

NEXT QUESTION →

08

What would you do with real power? Eight questions in, this is the one that picks your villain.

AGive it to the people it was kept from. BUse it to shut my own people off from the world. CUse it to make the guilty face what they did. DUse it to fix the thing everybody refuses to face.

REVEAL MY VILLAIN →

The Case Is Made You Align With…

Four villains, and four arguments the films were honest enough to actually let them make. Here is the one you lean towards, the part of it that holds up, and the exact point where it stops holding up.

Erik Killmonger

You align with the one who was right about the problem and wrong about the solution. Killmonger is the most persuasive villain Marvel has produced because the film never pretends his anger came from nowhere.

• You notice who was abandoned and you cannot let it go, which is a moral instinct before it is anything else.
• His argument lands because Wakanda really did watch and do nothing, and the film makes T'Challa admit it out loud.
• Where it breaks is the method, since a man who was failed by power decided the answer was to hold more of it.
• Michael B. Jordan plays him as somebody performing certainty over grief, which is why the last scene of that film still works.

Namor

You align with the protector, which is the most understandable and most dangerous position on this list. Namor is not chasing power or revenge, he is doing whatever keeps his people hidden, and he has been doing it for centuries.

• Your loyalty has a hard border around it, and everything inside that border matters far more to you than anything outside it.
• Talokan is the best realised world Marvel has built since Wakanda, and the film makes you understand exactly what he is guarding.
• His logic is airtight right up until it requires somebody else's people to pay for his people's safety.
• He would rather be feared by the surface world forever than trust it once, and history has given him reasons.

Helmut Zemo

You align with the patient one, the only man on this list with no powers, no army and no hurry. Zemo lost his family in Sokovia and then spent years working out that you do not fight the Avengers, you introduce them to each other's secrets.

• You go quiet when you are hurt, and the quiet is where the thinking happens.
• Zemo is the only MCU villain who completely won, and he did it with a notebook, a plan and a great deal of self control.
• His grief is real, and the film is careful never to let you forget that he started as an ordinary man with a family.
• Where it fails is the cost, since taking apart the people who hurt him meant hurting a great many people who did not.

Thanos

You align with the one who decided the answer was arithmetic. Thanos is not angry and not grieving in any way he will admit to, he simply reached a conclusion and never once revisited it, which is precisely what makes him frightening.

• You are capable of holding a position that costs you everything, and you would call that conviction rather than stubbornness.
• Infinity War works because it is structured as his film, with a goal, a journey and a sacrifice, and the heroes are the obstacle.
• The flaw in the plan is not the cruelty, it is that he never seriously considered a single alternative to it.
• Josh Brolin plays him tired rather than triumphant, which is the choice that turned a purple giant into a real character.

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Spoilers ahead for The Amazing Spider-Man #1000.

'Spider-Man's Legacy Is on the Line With His Latest Battle

Fortunately, Issue #1000 doesn't keep readers waiting long. It begins with Peter arriving at Aunt May's side alongside her recently revealed son, Cormac, where he finds her completely without any memory of her beloved nephew. The memory loss appears to be a consequence of the stroke, but while he and Cormac talk over the situation in a chapel, he soon learns there's something more sinister at play. While his older cousin initially seems to be comforting him and reassuring him about May's condition, the facade falls and, after biding his time, he makes his move. Cormac Craine, the son of May and Ben Parker, is revealed to be Ravage, and his ultimate goal is to quite literally rip the childhood he never had out of Peter's head through his powers.

Spidey quickly learns that Cormac is responsible for May's memory loss, using his ability to reach into a person's mind and find specific moments in time and remove them, which is why she only forgot Peter. In his eyes, he "fixed" her, and all he needs now is to take Peter's happy memories of living with May and Ben for himself to right what he believes are rightfully the experiences he should've had. His willingness to hurt his mother in the name of this and to finger through his cousin's mind like a filing cabinet leaves the web-head with a greater hatred for him in that moment than any villain he's faced before. Having experienced the pain of losing the very connections that supported him before, he's not about to let Ravage take his most important one without a fight, though he quickly proves to be an overwhelming force that'll force him to confront his legacy as a hero and a son. Both he and Ravage are fighting to "save" May, and only one can come out on top.

The Amazing Spider-Man #1000 is now available for purchase. Stay tuned here at Collider for more on all the latest Marvel Comics developments every week. Explore more comics and books with a free trial of Audible here.