CHASM

Real Name: 
Benjamin Reilly
Universe/Timeline: 
Marvel Universe
Status: 
Active
Category: 
Genetic Clone
Alias: 
Scarlet Spider, Spider-Man II, Jackal III, Peter Parker.
Nationality: 
Cloned American
First Appearance: 
Amazing Spider-Man (1st series) #148
Powers & Abilities: 
proportionate strength, speed, agility, endurance, reflexes of a spider, wall-crawling, "spider-sense" that instinctively warns him of danger, uses web-shooters and spider-tracers, psychoactive quantum polymers interact with his power set and equipment, creating tangible "spider-sense" tingles which preemptively strike at anticipated threats, leech memories from others, and shape-cast his thoughts to make his webbing form into new constructs
Affiliation: 
New Warriors, Space Friends, Beyond Corporation
Avengers Membership: 
Infiltrator, of sorts. While operating as Spider-Man, Ben Reilly used Peter Parker's Avenger ID credentials to present himself as a reservist in Sensational Spider-Man (1st series) #3.
Notes: 

The Spider-Man Clone was believed dead after Amazing Spider-Man #148. He resurfaced, unidentified, in Web of Spider-Man (1st series) #113. He identified as Ben Reilly in Spider-Man (1st series) #51, adopting the Scarlet Spider costume in Web #118. Scarlet replaced Peter Parker as Spider-Man in Sensational Spider-Man (1st series) #0.

He was killed by Norman Osborn in Peter Parker, Spider-Man #75. It was later revealed that the Jackal repeatedly resurrected Ben until he overcame and replaced Warren as the Jackal in the Dead No More event. Ben returned to being the Scarlet Spider in Ben Reilly: Scarlet Spider #1.

After the Beyond Corporation claimed the intellectual property of "Spider-Man", Ben became the official Spider-Man in Amazing Spider-Man (5th series) #75. By #93, however, Ben's mind had been traumatized and fragmented by Beyond, removing most of his implanted life experiences from Peter Parker's memories and damaging his own life experiences as Ben Reilly, leaving primarily his biggest traumas. His damaged mind bonded with quantum-shifting polymers in a psychoactive medium released through Beyond's headquarters, mutating him into Chasm.

Last Updated: 
1st June 2023 by Monolith