MacDonald "Mac" Gargan is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
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64 Facts About Mac Gargan
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Since then, Mac Gargan has served as the third host of the Venom symbiote, and a member of the Dark Avengers as Spider-Man, but eventually returned to his Scorpion alias.
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Mac Gargan made his live-action debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Spider-Man: Homecoming, portrayed by Michael Mando.
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Mac Gargan appeared as the main antagonist of the first two issues of Ms.
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Mac Gargan appeared in the character's first own four-issue miniseries, Dark Reign: Sinister Spider-Man.
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In 2010, Mac Gargan returned as Scorpion, in the "Big Time" story arc from The Amazing Spider-Man.
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Mac Gargan was a private investigator initially hired by J Jonah Jameson to find out how Peter Parker is able to obtain incredible pictures of Spider-Man.
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Mac Gargan's efforts set off Peter's spider-sense and the teen easily evades the detective.
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The Scorpion proves to be more than a match for Spider-Man, defeating him twice, but the mutagenic treatment seriously affects Mac Gargan's mind, driving him insane as the predatory instincts of the scorpion take over.
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Mac Gargan promptly turns on his benefactor but Spider-Man intervenes, and finally defeats the Scorpion in their third battle.
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Mac Gargan is freed from prison by agents of Egghead, who wants him to join the third Masters of Evil alongside Whirlwind and Moonstone.
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In reaction, while Spider-Man in cooperation with the police are dealing with Mac Gargan, Hammer sends Blacklash and Rhino to subdue Mac Gargan and confiscate the tail enhancement equipment for abrogating his contract.
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Mac Gargan is then hired by the Chameleon to kill a depowered Spider-Man.
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Mac Gargan reappears in the aftermath of the Secret War that was organized by Nick Fury against Latveria.
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Mac Gargan is among the supervillains who were supplied with enhanced technology by Latverian dictator Lucia von Bardas and sent to attack the heroes involved in Fury's Secret War.
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Shortly thereafter, the Venom symbiote approaches Mac Gargan, offering him new abilities, and Mac Gargan becomes bonded with the creature.
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Mac Gargan succeeds in killing Spider-Man, who is really the original Space Phantom in disguise.
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Mac Gargan later becomes a member of a sub-group of the Thunderbolts, which has been drafted by the Avengers to hunt down the members of the fugitive Secret Avengers and is currently run by the Commission for Superhuman Activities.
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Mac Gargan becomes enraged and ferociously man-handles Flag, and is about to eat him when his electrical implants kick in and temporarily subdue him, allowing Flag to live.
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Mac Gargan expresses fear of the control the symbiote possesses over him, yet he has become addicted to the raw unearthly power it brings to him and cannot even begin to imagine life without it, similar to a drug addict.
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Mac Gargan begins to hallucinate that the symbiote is speaking to him, telling him to "feed ".
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Mac Gargan reappears during the "New Ways to Die" story arc of The Amazing Spider-Man, no longer possessing the knowledge of Spider-Man's secret identity.
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Norman Osborn uses a sample of Anti-Venom's DNA from Mac Gargan and creates a poisonous counter to its healing powers by combining the sample with the immune system of Freak.
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Mac Gargan is injected with the "cure" and is given a new Scorpion battlesuit, which contains the venom, until the symbiote can recover.
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Mac Gargan gives up but promises that he will get past this problem and will someday finish Brock.
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Mac Gargan was seen being thrown from Thunderbolt Mountain by Captain Marvel.
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Mac Gargan was later seen with the other Thunderbolts in Washington.
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Osborn attempted to prevent the symbiote from killing anyone by threatening to kill Mac Gargan and promising to help satisfy his "urges" later, only for Gargan to reveal that the threat he appeared to pose to civilians was a ruse in order to draw out a disguised Skrull.
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Mac Gargan was seen slashing and eating the Skrulls all at once.
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Mac Gargan soon joins the Thunderbolts and the remaining heroes for the final battle against the Skrulls.
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Later, attempting to find out Norman Osborn's plans for his son Harry, the real Spider-Man, with the aid of the Invisible Woman, manages to capture Mac Gargan by using a sonic generator and takes his place to infiltrate the Dark Avengers.
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Mac Gargan is thrown into the Negative Zone, but is later seen back with the Dark Avengers.
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Against Osborn's wishes, Mac Gargan is seen heading out into the city to "fight crime" solo.
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Mac Gargan then takes the money Wolfram stole and swings away.
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Mac Gargan is then seen at a strip club with the money and discovers his new favorite stripper.
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Mac Gargan continues to instigate the gang war and aggravate Jameson in person.
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Mac Gargan later begins to show signs that his medications are making him emotionally unstable.
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Marvel and Spider-Man after they arrive, Mac Gargan is forcefully removed from the Venom symbiote, which takes over Ms.
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Mac Gargan, along with the other Dark Avengers, are arrested after Norman Osborn falls from power.
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Mac Gargan was then fitted with a new Scorpion suit by Smythe, which included a life-support system to stabilize Mac Gargan's condition.
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Smythe convinced Gargan to join him in his plan for revenge on J Jonah Jameson.
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Mac Gargan then meets Price at the apartment of a Daily Bugle reporter, who had evidence against Black Cat.
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Mac Gargan is among those who Arcade publicly reveals as the Savage Six.
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Mac Gargan has an exceptionally strong grip, reminiscent of a real scorpion's pincers.
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Mac Gargan wears a full-body battlesuit composed of two layers of light steel mesh separated by a thin layer of insulated rubber.
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Mac Gargan has claws on his fingers which can be used as weapons to slash his foes.
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Mac Gargan still has all of Venom's powers, minus the claws, tongue, and teeth, which he can regrow at will.
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Mac Gargan's "medication" has been shown to decrease his will to fight, making him more sympathetic.
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Smythe altered Mac Gargan's biology, giving him a "scorpion-sense" to match Spider-Man's spider-sense.
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Mac Gargan is emotionally disturbed as a result of the procedure in which he acquired his powers, and retains little of his former rationality.
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Mac Gargan is typically easily outsmarted by Spider-Man and is not very good at cooperating with other supervillains or following instructions as Justin Hammer learned.
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Mac Gargan nearly blew his cover as Spider-Man when he started a drug war and photographs of him engaging in cannibalism wound up in J Jonah Jameson's hands, putting his employer Norman Osborn's plans and the "heroic" status of his entire Dark Avengers team in jeopardy, just to pursue vengeance against Jameson yet again.
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Mac Gargan has even engaged in cannibalism as Venom, severing and devouring the arm of the still-living Steel Spider.
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Unlike Eddie Brock, any inhibitions Mac Gargan had about harming innocent bystanders has been eliminated with his bonding to the symbiote, most likely because he had such little regard for others to begin with.
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Also, when he learned there was a new hero calling herself the Scorpion, Mac Gargan-Venom attacked her to protect his trademark while it still lasted.
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Also, for a brief time, Mac Gargan wore a new Scorpion suit while the symbiote regenerated after Anti-Venom's attack, although initially he was hesitant about wearing it alongside the symbiote.
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Mac Gargan is a member of the Kingpin's undead alliance.
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Mac Gargan appears as the Scorpion in Spider-Man: Reign as a member of the Sinner Six.
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Mac Gargan dies when he is punted from an Empire State Building window by Spider-Man.
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Ultimate Marvel comics feature Maximus Mac Gargan, a tattooed Mexican mob boss that worked with the Prowler .
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Once he arrived at New York, Mac Gargan set his sights on becoming the new "Kingpin of New York", but was stopped by the efforts of an uneasy alliance of Spider-Man and Prowler.
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