70 Facts About Ben Reilly

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When Peter Parker temporarily left the Spider-Man role, Ben Reilly became the new Spider-Man while wearing a new costume variation designed by artist Mark Bagley.

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Ben Reilly is then resurrected in a new clone body, his mind and soul healed and restored.

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Ben Reilly was featured prominently in the supplemental material provided for the storyline, including Spider-Man: The Lost Years and Spider-Man: Clone Journals.

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Ben Reilly was passed the mantle of Spider-Man and was featured throughout the Spider-Man titles The Amazing Spider-Man, The Spectacular Spider-Man, Spider-Man, Spider-Man Unlimited, and The Sensational Spider-Man, which replaced Web of Spider-Man as an ongoing monthly title.

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Ben Reilly remained as the featured Spider-Man between January and December 1996.

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Ben Reilly initially tries to escape his past and punishment for his actions while being haunted by hallucinations, adopting the Scarlet Spider identity again.

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When Venom goes on a rampage, Ben Reilly decides to stop Venom, donning a red bodysuit along with a blue spider hoodie he buys at a museum.

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Ben Reilly concedes he has no desire to be Spider-Man again since he has evolved into a different person.

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Ben Reilly bonded with the Carnage symbiote as Spider-Carnage which John Jameson helped in removing.

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Ben Reilly starts a relationship with Jessica Carradine, a student at Centennial University with a personal vendetta against Spider-Man, convinced the hero is a murderer.

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11.

Ben Reilly later discovers her late father was the burglar who killed Ben Reilly Parker and went into foster care after the man's arrest.

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12.

Ben Reilly's blames the wall-crawling vigilante not only for taking away her parent, but for his death during another encounter with Spider-Man, unwilling to believe it was simply a heart-attack brought on by stress.

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Ben Reilly's decides to start a new life on her own rather than remain with Reilly.

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14.

Ben Reilly introduces Peter to the Daily Grind staff as his "cousin".

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15.

Ben Reilly befriends Giachomo "Jimmy-6" Fortunato, who does not wish to follow the legacy of his crime-lord-father Vincente.

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16.

Ben Reilly is chosen to fight Superboy, the hybrid-clone of Superman and Lex Luthor, and wins.

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17.

Ben Reilly dies and his body decomposes rapidly, confirming he was actually a clone.

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18.

Ben Reilly appears as part of the 2015 All-New, All-Different Marvel branding, in the form of the mysterious man in a brilliant red suit with a mask of Anubis, the jackal-headed Egyptian god of death.

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19.

Warren clones Ben Reilly again, transferring all his memories including his death.

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20.

Ben Reilly adopts a mask of Anubis and as the new Jackal he improves process the cloning process, now seeing his new clone creations as "reanimates, " continuations of the original person rather than simply copies.

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21.

Ben Reilly's reanimates seem improved in many ways but carry a latent form of a new Carrion virus in their cells.

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22.

Publicly, Ben Reilly uses the company New U Technologies to offer cutting edge healing and organ replacement for people, even those with terminal conditions.

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23.

Ben Reilly decides to let this plague spread across Earth so he can replace everyone with genetically improved reanimates, but his plan is stopped.

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24.

Ben Reilly buys time by telling Cassandra he can develop a cure in exchange for a lab and resources.

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25.

Ben Reilly argues he is trying to cure Abigail Mercury's condition, but his untested serum backfires and kills the girl.

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26.

Ben Reilly's offers to restore Abigail or Kaine to life, but Ben asks her to save both and take him instead.

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Ben Reilly later injects Abigail with what seems to be a blood sample from the angel Gabriel, though Abigail nevertheless succumbed to her fatal disease.

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28.

Ben Reilly however refuses, remembering Death's warning that his soul will be shattered and he might become evil.

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29.

Ben Reilly quickly discovered that he had been driven sociopathic and he enjoyed it.

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30.

Ben Reilly then assaulted Kaine and fatally injured him, threatening him to leave Las Vegas if he survived.

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31.

Overhearing that the Inheritors plan to use New U Technologies to rebuild their cloning machine to ensure they can't die, Ben Reilly, still suffering from his evil soul, volunteers his services, wishing to prevent his technology from causing more harm.

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32.

Ben Reilly was caught off guard by Conan's ally Nyla Skin, which allowed Conan to easily take him out by throwing him into an electrical sign and knocking him out.

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33.

Ben Reilly returned to New York City and started working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art where he was first inspired to create the Scarlet Spider identity.

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34.

Ben Reilly takes a newly modified costume designed by Beyond into the field when Bushwacker seizes control of a building in Dallas, Texas.

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35.

Ben Reilly arrives to stop him, Bushwacker takes note of the new costume and asks when heroes like Ben Reilly ever have time to sew, before training his weapon on his hostages.

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36.

Ben Reilly is horrified and calls in the Beyond corporation, who assure him they will take care of the clean up operation, providing counselling for the hostages as well as a contractor to repair the building.

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Ben Reilly is impressed with the Beyond corp's services as well as the effectiveness of the new Spider-Man suit and agrees to join them.

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38.

Ben Reilly is concerned he'll be mistaken for the real Spider-Man, Beyond corp tell him that, to them, he is the real deal.

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Ben Reilly eventually gives Parker the slip using one of his costume's devices to trap him.

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40.

Ben Reilly eventually arranges a meeting with Peter where he confesses to being the Spider-Man he encountered earlier.

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41.

Ben Reilly informs Peter of his recent recruitment by Beyond and that they have acquired, through the remains of Parker Industries, the rights and license to the Spider-Man name.

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42.

When Ben Reilly departs, Peter tells MJ he wanted to wait until he was out of earshot and sight before confessing that he can't feel anything in his body.

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43.

Ben Reilly goes into convulsions and doctors scramble to stabilize him, but they appear to be losing him.

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Ben Reilly assures her he can and then visits Doctor Kafka for a therapy session.

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45.

Ben Reilly is transported downtown where he stumbles upon the living vampire Morbius in the midst of a feeding frenzy.

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46.

Ben Reilly is attacked by Kraven, Ben Reilly sees shapeless faces as part of his hallucinations, very much as Peter Parker has in recent times.

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47.

Ben Reilly is taken by Kraven to an off shore ocean platform where the Hunter has captured other Beyond staff.

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48.

Ben Reilly attends therapy with Ashley Kafka, and talks about recent dreams he has had concerning Peter's Uncle Ben Reilly.

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49.

Maxine informs Ben Reilly he is becoming more of a liability and there were other options before him that Beyond were considering for the role of Spider-Man.

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50.

When Octavius attacks Maxine at Beyond headquarters, Ben Reilly comes to her rescue and is able to get the better of Octopus this time.

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51.

Ben Reilly discovers to his horror Beyond considers him emotionally compromised and easy to manipulate.

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52.

Ben Reilly's mind is further tampered with, and he loses all sense of Uncle Ben Reilly's teachings about great responsibility, which later puts Janine and Mary Jane in great danger when they are confronted by Doctor Kafka, who has been transformed by Beyond into a new and dangerous enemy they christen the Queen Goblin.

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53.

Issues with Ben Reilly's memory have become worse, with the literal holes in his visual memories where the faces of his loved ones used to be creeping into his actual perceptions, leaving Ben Reilly unable to even perceive his own face in the mirror.

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Donning a twisted green and purple version of his Spider-Man suit, Ben Reilly declares his old self "dead, " implying that the memories and larger personality that once resided in his physical form have been erased, which seems to be confirmed by his inability to even perceive his own face, along with his previously established amnesia.

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Ben Reilly's superhumanly enhanced muscles, bones, and body are more resistant to injury than the average human.

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In battle, Ben Reilly can allow this sense to guide his reflexes to help dodge attacks.

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Ben Reilly possesses Peter Parker's genius-level scientific intellect with particular talents towards applied science, chemistry, biology, engineering, physics, mathematics, and mechanics.

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58.

Kaine notes that Ben Reilly is more reliant on tactics rather than his physical skill and is a calculating and cunning combatant.

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59.

When operating as the new Jackal, Ben Reilly begun harvesting the DNA from the remains of those he planned to clone, rather than using the blood sample that Miles Warren had gathered to grow the clones.

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60.

Ben Reilly is seen battling the zombies; however, this plan falls apart.

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61.

Ultimate Marvel version of Ben Reilly is an African-American scientist who worked with Dr Curt Connors at Empire State University.

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62.

Ben Reilly combines a sample of Spider-Man's DNA with the Lizard's and the Venom symbiote to create the Carnage organism, and steals a second sample of Spider-Man's DNA from the lab.

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Ben Reilly eventually becomes a photojournalist in Chicago, where he operates as the hero known as "the Red Mask".

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However, Peter allowed Ben Reilly to take over his life so he could live quietly with Mary Jane and his children.

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65.

In 2006, Ben Reilly is murdered by Morlun, as Peter ignored Ezekiel's warnings about him in this timeline, prompting Peter to return to New York to reveal that he is the true Peter Parker so he could prevent Morlun from coming after his family and stop Tony Stark from taking over Parker Industries.

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Ben Reilly adopts the identity of the Scarlet Spider and begins working at the Daily Grind.

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Since Ben Reilly is the only stable clone, the Jackal takes a sample of his blood to perfect his cloning technique.

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68.

Ben Reilly spends several months in the role, while Parker gets ready to become a father.

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Ben Reilly is shown as a less-polished Spider-Man and is somewhat insecure due to his relative inexperience because of his exile.

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When Ben Reilly goes searching for the baby, he is attacked by the Green Goblin, who is revealed to be Harry Osborn and working with Kaine.

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