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Ben Reilly
Ben Reilly was created by the Jackal, and was the first successful clone of Peter Parker; the first clone, Kaine, suffered from clone degeneration which made him unstable.
Through arcane science, Reilly is imprinted with Parker's memories and in their first encounter believed himself to be Parker.
After Parker was captured by the Jackal, both Parker and Reilly found themselves in Spider-Man costumes at Shea Stadium, and initially fought each other believing the other was the impostor.
When realizing the stakes, they decided to team up in an attempt to save the Gwen Stacy clone and a captured Ned Leeds.
In the process, Reilly appeared to be killed in an explosion, and Parker, fearful of the consequences of a corpse of a second Peter Parker being found, dropped Reilly's body into a smokestack.
Reilly survived and escaped from the smokestack.
When he witnessed Parker and Mary Jane Watson in an embrace, Ben decided to embark on a nomadic life.
He dubbed himself "Ben Reilly", using his Uncle Ben's first name and his Aunt May's maiden name, Ben Parker and May Reilly respectively.
He took some old clothes Parker had intended to donate to charity, and he left New York deeply depressed.
Stricken with influenza, Reilly meets Seward Trainer, a scientist who was secretly blackmailed by agents of Norman Osborn into keeping track of him.
Trainer helps Reilly re-establish his life, and Reilly sees Trainer as a father figure.
Reilly trusts Trainer completely because he helps Reilly survive his aimless wanderings, provides Reilly with forged credentials allowing him to find work for a few months at a time.
Ben subsequently moves on just before people can examine the references closely enough to learn that they are faked, using the money earned to fund himself until he next needs work.
During this time, Reilly is hunted by a failed clone of Peter Parker named Kaine, who believed Reilly to be the original Peter Parker and hates him for being flawless, although initially Kaine is unsure why he is stalking Reilly other than wanting to see him suffer.
Reilly finds love with a college student/waitress named Janine Godbe, who later reveals that her true identity is Elizabeth Tyne, a fugitive who killed her father after enduring his sexual abuse since childhood.
Although he spends some time living with Janine, she apparently commits suicide out of guilt at her past crimes, leaving Reilly to be constantly followed by Kaine, who vows to deny Reilly happiness for as long as he can.
Besides fighting Kaine, Reilly sporadically engages in heroics; although he dislikes playing the hero as it reminds him of life as Peter Parker, he finds himself unable to ignore his spider-sense.
During a particularly bleak period, Reilly works in dead-end jobs and allows himself to be regarded as mentally handicapped rather than interact with others.
After his spider-sense prompts him to save a family from being killed during a robbery, he accepts that he cannot give in to despair and must try to make a difference when he can.
Following this, he lives for a short time in Italy and works as an English teacher, but is forced to leave after a Mafia boss investigates Reilly's past when his daughter expresses an interest in Reilly.
The Mafioso learns about the gaps in Reilly's work record and forced him to leave the city.
While traveling, Reilly fights the mystical villain D'Spayre and a psychopathic showman named Wild-Whip.
Five years later, Reilly discovers that May Parker is dying from a stroke, so he returns to New York.
There, Reilly encounters Peter Parker, who has become bitter and angry following several tragedies.
While they initially come to blows, they begin working together.
Soon after, Reilly dons a makeshift costume, and is dubbed the 'Scarlet Spider' by the press after he defeats Venom.
This victory over one of Spider-Man's major adversaries helps Reilly gain the confidence he needs to believe that he can, perhaps, be a hero in his own right.
For a brief time, the Scarlet Spider joins the New Warriors, though none of the team members fully accepts Reilly because he refuses to reveal his identity.
When Peter Parker is framed and arrested for Kaine's murders, Reilly switches places with him so Peter can remain free and uncover the truth, and allows Parker to use the Scarlet Spider costume for a brief time.
Reilly is finally forced to drop the Scarlet Spider identity when, after getting involved in gang warfare between the second Doctor Octopus and Alistair Smythe, a holographic version of the Scarlet Spider is created, which ruins Reilly's reputation in a vicious rampage.
Reilly concludes that the deception has worked because he is too new on the scene for people to trust him.
Reilly later becomes the replacement Spider-Man for a time at Parker's request, when Parker retires to raise his unborn child.
Reilly wears his own costume style rather than using Parker's.
Meanwhile, both men are misled by the Jackal and Seward Trainer, who are working under orders from Norman Osborn, the Green Goblin, into believing that Reilly was the original and Parker was the clone.
Osborn hopes that the revelation that his life was a lie would make Parker give up, instead both Parker and Reilly see this as a chance to start again.
Reilly starts working at a diner called the Daily Grind; the owner offers him a job after he paid her back a quarter that she had loaned him, recognizing his honest nature.
He also dyes his hair blond to differentiate himself from Parker.
Reilly works there for a year, battling villains.
The change in costume initially prompts the Daily Bugle to claim there is a new Spider-Man, but Reilly and Mary Jane, throw them off the scent and the story is dropped.
Only the Black Cat, Venom, Silver Sable, Sandman, the Human Torch, and his former teammate Firestar ever learn that they are dealing with a different Spider-Man, although Reilly also tells Daredevil the truth, and Mysterio concludes that there had been a substitution when studying newspapers after he is released from prison.
A recently published storyline revealed that the X-Men — specifically Cyclops, Storm, Angel, Iceman, and Wolverine — also know the truth because Reilly told them why he was unaware of an earlier team-up involving Peter, who helped the X-Men trace Mister Sinister's activities.
Reilly later dates college students from Centennial University, Jessica Carradine and Desiree Winthrop.
Aside still mourning Janine Godbe's apparent death, his relationship with Jessica ends because they discover each other's secrets; Jessica's late father was the burglar who killed Ben Parker, and Jessica witnesses that Ben and Spider-Man are apparently the same man.
Though Jessica saw Spider-Man as a hero after seeing him selflessly rescuing people from a burning skyscraper, she realizes she would never have a proper relationship with Ben because of their pasts.
She decides not to reveal Ben's secrets and leaves.
Ben tutors Desiree before his break up with Jessica, and eventually dates her.
During the "Web of Carnage" arc, Ben Reilly is bonded with the Carnage symbiote when it escapes from Ravencroft Institute, where its psychopathic host, Cletus Kasady, is being held, through the asylum's water pipes.
Reilly struggles for control of himself, and tries to prevent the symbiote from taking over, the subsequent inner battle with the creature ends when he has John Jameson take him to a cell designed to hold Carnage, willingly subjects himself to a potentially fatal dose of microwave radiation to try to kill the symbiote, which returns to Kasady via the pipes.
Seward Trainer disappears while Ben fights with the Carnage symbiote.
Reilly's bank account is frozen and his possessions stolen while the Grind is burned down and Reilly is framed for arson.
The Hobgoblin is found to be perpetrating many of these events on the orders of Gaunt and the company Multivex.
It is revealed that the mastermind of these occurrences is the Green Goblin; Norman Osborn.
Reilly's former lover Janine Godbe is taken to New York by Kaine, who informs the police about her crimes and whereabouts, and the two lovers to go on the run.
However, after a final confrontation between Reilly and Kaine in a diner, Kaine accepts that he should turn himself in to atone for his crimes.
Reilly's words and Kaine's decision inspire Godbe to do the same.
Around the same time, Peter Parker and Mary Jane return to New York after a brief time in Portland.
Parker's powers had been lost during his time away, and had erratically returned after a near-death experience in which his body apparently reset itself.
Although Parker's powers only partially returned at first- this weakness proving near-fatal when he briefly lost them while trying to escape a Sentinel during the Onslaught crisis-, as time went on, he and Ben began to contemplate the possibilities of Peter returning to the role full-time, providing the city with two Spider-Men to compensate for the recent loss of the Fantastic Four and crucial members of the Avengers during the war against Onslaught.
Parker's powers return for good while he helps Reilly fend off the latest attack of Gaunt after his real identity was uncovered.
Ultimately, the battle with Gaunt proves to be Reilly's undoing; Reilly is attacked by the original Green Goblin (Norman Osborn), who has survived his last fight with Spider-Man while his spider-sense was still disabled by a gas Gaunt had used.
Osborn reveals Reilly's real identity as the clone, beats him unconscious then arranges for his minions to abduct Parker, dressed Parker in the original Spider-Man costume and takes him to Osborn's base opposite the Daily Bugle offices.
Osborn intends to blow up the building, with most of Parker and Reilly's friends inside it after they were sent false invitations.
While Parker battles Osborn, Reilly attempts to evacuate the Daily Bugle, but injures himself further after protecting Flash Thompson from a bomb.
While helping Parker to remove the remaining bombs, Reilly intercepts a Goblin Glider before it can impale Parker, but the glider damages Reilly's spine.
Reilly falls several stories and crashes onto a taxi underneath.
As he lies dying, Reilly tells Parker that Parker is now Spider-Man and will have to resume the role for Reilly.
Reilly dies and his body decomposed rapidly, although Parker was able to remove the body from public view before the collapse completed, the decomposition confirming Trainer's deceptions and that Reilly was actually a clone.
This sacrifice, and concurrent still-birth of his child, leads Parker to reclaim the Spider-Man identity.
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Through arcane science, Reilly is imprinted with Parker's memories and in their first encounter believed himself to be Parker.
After Parker was captured by the Jackal, both Parker and Reilly found themselves in Spider-Man costumes at Shea Stadium, and initially fought each other believing the other was the impostor.
When realizing the stakes, they decided to team up in an attempt to save the Gwen Stacy clone and a captured Ned Leeds.
In the process, Reilly appeared to be killed in an explosion, and Parker, fearful of the consequences of a corpse of a second Peter Parker being found, dropped Reilly's body into a smokestack.
Reilly survived and escaped from the smokestack.
When he witnessed Parker and Mary Jane Watson in an embrace, Ben decided to embark on a nomadic life.
He dubbed himself "Ben Reilly", using his Uncle Ben's first name and his Aunt May's maiden name, Ben Parker and May Reilly respectively.
He took some old clothes Parker had intended to donate to charity, and he left New York deeply depressed.
Stricken with influenza, Reilly meets Seward Trainer, a scientist who was secretly blackmailed by agents of Norman Osborn into keeping track of him.
Trainer helps Reilly re-establish his life, and Reilly sees Trainer as a father figure.
Reilly trusts Trainer completely because he helps Reilly survive his aimless wanderings, provides Reilly with forged credentials allowing him to find work for a few months at a time.
Ben subsequently moves on just before people can examine the references closely enough to learn that they are faked, using the money earned to fund himself until he next needs work.
During this time, Reilly is hunted by a failed clone of Peter Parker named Kaine, who believed Reilly to be the original Peter Parker and hates him for being flawless, although initially Kaine is unsure why he is stalking Reilly other than wanting to see him suffer.
Reilly finds love with a college student/waitress named Janine Godbe, who later reveals that her true identity is Elizabeth Tyne, a fugitive who killed her father after enduring his sexual abuse since childhood.
Although he spends some time living with Janine, she apparently commits suicide out of guilt at her past crimes, leaving Reilly to be constantly followed by Kaine, who vows to deny Reilly happiness for as long as he can.
Besides fighting Kaine, Reilly sporadically engages in heroics; although he dislikes playing the hero as it reminds him of life as Peter Parker, he finds himself unable to ignore his spider-sense.
During a particularly bleak period, Reilly works in dead-end jobs and allows himself to be regarded as mentally handicapped rather than interact with others.
After his spider-sense prompts him to save a family from being killed during a robbery, he accepts that he cannot give in to despair and must try to make a difference when he can.
Following this, he lives for a short time in Italy and works as an English teacher, but is forced to leave after a Mafia boss investigates Reilly's past when his daughter expresses an interest in Reilly.
The Mafioso learns about the gaps in Reilly's work record and forced him to leave the city.
While traveling, Reilly fights the mystical villain D'Spayre and a psychopathic showman named Wild-Whip.
Five years later, Reilly discovers that May Parker is dying from a stroke, so he returns to New York.
There, Reilly encounters Peter Parker, who has become bitter and angry following several tragedies.
While they initially come to blows, they begin working together.
Soon after, Reilly dons a makeshift costume, and is dubbed the 'Scarlet Spider' by the press after he defeats Venom.
This victory over one of Spider-Man's major adversaries helps Reilly gain the confidence he needs to believe that he can, perhaps, be a hero in his own right.
For a brief time, the Scarlet Spider joins the New Warriors, though none of the team members fully accepts Reilly because he refuses to reveal his identity.
When Peter Parker is framed and arrested for Kaine's murders, Reilly switches places with him so Peter can remain free and uncover the truth, and allows Parker to use the Scarlet Spider costume for a brief time.
Reilly is finally forced to drop the Scarlet Spider identity when, after getting involved in gang warfare between the second Doctor Octopus and Alistair Smythe, a holographic version of the Scarlet Spider is created, which ruins Reilly's reputation in a vicious rampage.
Reilly concludes that the deception has worked because he is too new on the scene for people to trust him.
Reilly later becomes the replacement Spider-Man for a time at Parker's request, when Parker retires to raise his unborn child.
Reilly wears his own costume style rather than using Parker's.
Meanwhile, both men are misled by the Jackal and Seward Trainer, who are working under orders from Norman Osborn, the Green Goblin, into believing that Reilly was the original and Parker was the clone.
Osborn hopes that the revelation that his life was a lie would make Parker give up, instead both Parker and Reilly see this as a chance to start again.
Reilly starts working at a diner called the Daily Grind; the owner offers him a job after he paid her back a quarter that she had loaned him, recognizing his honest nature.
He also dyes his hair blond to differentiate himself from Parker.
Reilly works there for a year, battling villains.
The change in costume initially prompts the Daily Bugle to claim there is a new Spider-Man, but Reilly and Mary Jane, throw them off the scent and the story is dropped.
Only the Black Cat, Venom, Silver Sable, Sandman, the Human Torch, and his former teammate Firestar ever learn that they are dealing with a different Spider-Man, although Reilly also tells Daredevil the truth, and Mysterio concludes that there had been a substitution when studying newspapers after he is released from prison.
A recently published storyline revealed that the X-Men — specifically Cyclops, Storm, Angel, Iceman, and Wolverine — also know the truth because Reilly told them why he was unaware of an earlier team-up involving Peter, who helped the X-Men trace Mister Sinister's activities.
Reilly later dates college students from Centennial University, Jessica Carradine and Desiree Winthrop.
Aside still mourning Janine Godbe's apparent death, his relationship with Jessica ends because they discover each other's secrets; Jessica's late father was the burglar who killed Ben Parker, and Jessica witnesses that Ben and Spider-Man are apparently the same man.
Though Jessica saw Spider-Man as a hero after seeing him selflessly rescuing people from a burning skyscraper, she realizes she would never have a proper relationship with Ben because of their pasts.
She decides not to reveal Ben's secrets and leaves.
Ben tutors Desiree before his break up with Jessica, and eventually dates her.
During the "Web of Carnage" arc, Ben Reilly is bonded with the Carnage symbiote when it escapes from Ravencroft Institute, where its psychopathic host, Cletus Kasady, is being held, through the asylum's water pipes.
Reilly struggles for control of himself, and tries to prevent the symbiote from taking over, the subsequent inner battle with the creature ends when he has John Jameson take him to a cell designed to hold Carnage, willingly subjects himself to a potentially fatal dose of microwave radiation to try to kill the symbiote, which returns to Kasady via the pipes.
Seward Trainer disappears while Ben fights with the Carnage symbiote.
Reilly's bank account is frozen and his possessions stolen while the Grind is burned down and Reilly is framed for arson.
The Hobgoblin is found to be perpetrating many of these events on the orders of Gaunt and the company Multivex.
It is revealed that the mastermind of these occurrences is the Green Goblin; Norman Osborn.
Reilly's former lover Janine Godbe is taken to New York by Kaine, who informs the police about her crimes and whereabouts, and the two lovers to go on the run.
However, after a final confrontation between Reilly and Kaine in a diner, Kaine accepts that he should turn himself in to atone for his crimes.
Reilly's words and Kaine's decision inspire Godbe to do the same.
Around the same time, Peter Parker and Mary Jane return to New York after a brief time in Portland.
Parker's powers had been lost during his time away, and had erratically returned after a near-death experience in which his body apparently reset itself.
Although Parker's powers only partially returned at first- this weakness proving near-fatal when he briefly lost them while trying to escape a Sentinel during the Onslaught crisis-, as time went on, he and Ben began to contemplate the possibilities of Peter returning to the role full-time, providing the city with two Spider-Men to compensate for the recent loss of the Fantastic Four and crucial members of the Avengers during the war against Onslaught.
Parker's powers return for good while he helps Reilly fend off the latest attack of Gaunt after his real identity was uncovered.
Ultimately, the battle with Gaunt proves to be Reilly's undoing; Reilly is attacked by the original Green Goblin (Norman Osborn), who has survived his last fight with Spider-Man while his spider-sense was still disabled by a gas Gaunt had used.
Osborn reveals Reilly's real identity as the clone, beats him unconscious then arranges for his minions to abduct Parker, dressed Parker in the original Spider-Man costume and takes him to Osborn's base opposite the Daily Bugle offices.
Osborn intends to blow up the building, with most of Parker and Reilly's friends inside it after they were sent false invitations.
While Parker battles Osborn, Reilly attempts to evacuate the Daily Bugle, but injures himself further after protecting Flash Thompson from a bomb.
While helping Parker to remove the remaining bombs, Reilly intercepts a Goblin Glider before it can impale Parker, but the glider damages Reilly's spine.
Reilly falls several stories and crashes onto a taxi underneath.
As he lies dying, Reilly tells Parker that Parker is now Spider-Man and will have to resume the role for Reilly.
Reilly dies and his body decomposed rapidly, although Parker was able to remove the body from public view before the collapse completed, the decomposition confirming Trainer's deceptions and that Reilly was actually a clone.
This sacrifice, and concurrent still-birth of his child, leads Parker to reclaim the Spider-Man identity.
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Marvel.com
Sam Ruby.com
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Marvel Comics
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