Vulture (Adrian Toomes)

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Silver, Comics: As the Vulture he robs the Park Avenue Diamond Exchange and is first beaten by Spider-Man, who disables his wings.

Cinematic

A New York salvage owner who lost the Battle of New York cleanup contract to Damage Control. He and his crew kept Chitauri technology, built a flying exo-suit, and sold weapons on the black market for four years. As the Vulture he clashed repeatedly with Spider-Man, hijacked a Stark cargo plane, crashed at Coney Island, and was imprisoned.

Comics

Adrian Toomes is a New York electrical engineer who turned an electromagnetic flight harness into a criminal career as the Vulture, one of Spider-Man's oldest foes. He co-founded the Sinister Six, fought rivals and mobsters, and cycled through several villain groups, including the Superior Six, Savage Six and Orchis. Age, illness and imprisonment shape his story, and his granddaughter Tiana carries on the flying legacy.

Timeline 23 events

  1. Silver · Comics: As the Vulture he robs the Park Avenue Diamond Exchange and is first beaten by Spider-Man, who disables his wings.
  2. Silver · Comics: He becomes a founding member of the Sinister Six under Doctor Octopus.
  3. Silver · Comics: His prison cellmate Blackie Drago takes the Vulture wings and mantle until Spider-Man defeats him.
  4. Silver · Comics: Toomes escapes prison, recovers the original wings and beats Drago in an aerial duel.
  5. Bronze · Comics: His nephew Malachi dies taking a bullet meant for him during a gang war over New York's underworld.
  6. Modern · Comics: He is partly responsible for the death of Nathan Lubensky, May Parker's partner, during a clash with Spider-Man.
  7. Modern · Comics: Dying of cancer, he terrorizes the Parkers to seek May's forgiveness and is arrested after his harness explodes.
  8. Modern · Comics: He absorbs the life force of a Mary Parker android and is made young and cancer-free for a time.
  9. Modern · Comics: He is captured by Captain America's Resistance during the Civil War and handed to S.H.I.E.L.D.
  10. Modern · Comics: He leads a new gang of flying thieves in New York and escapes Spider-Man.
  11. Modern · Comics: He is held in the Raft's infirmary, enhanced by Smythe's Spider-Slayers, then forced into Spider-Man's Superior Six.
  12. Secret Wars · Comics: He briefly adopts the Falcon name with a new suit before returning to the Vulture identity.
  13. Fresh Start · Comics: Captured for Kraven's Great Hunt, he leads the trapped villains against the Hunterbots and then joins the Savage Six.
  14. Fresh Start · Comics: He works for Orchis as a research coordinator until Nightcrawler frees him from a techno-organic infection.
  15. 2012 · Cinematic: After the Battle of New York his salvage firm is forced off the cleanup contract by Damage Control, which Tony Stark backs.
  16. 2012 · Cinematic: He keeps leftover Chitauri technology and persuades his crew to turn to reverse-engineering and selling weapons.
  17. 2016 · Cinematic: Four years into the business, Spider-Man interrupts a weapons deal and Toomes takes to the air in his exo-suit to rescue his crew.
  18. 2016 · Cinematic: He kills his employee Jackson Brice with a Chitauri weapon after Brice threatens to expose the operation.
  19. 2016 · Cinematic: He raids a Damage Control truck for confiscated technology but is driven off by Spider-Man.
  20. 2016 · Cinematic: A Staten Island Ferry deal with Mac Gargan collapses when Spider-Man and the FBI intervene, and the Chitauri gun splits the ferry.
  21. 2016 · Cinematic: Driving Peter Parker to a school dance, he works out that Parker is Spider-Man and warns him off.
  22. 2016 · Cinematic: He hijacks the Stark cargo plane over New York, fights Spider-Man, and crashes on Coney Island.
  23. 2016 · Cinematic: His suit explodes from arc reactor radiation, Spider-Man pulls him out alive, and he is arrested and jailed.

enemy of

Spider-Man (Peter Parker), Happy Hogan, Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner), Ned Leeds, Warlock

allied with

Doctor Octopus, Kraven, Morbius

travels to

The Raft

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