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Warning : Spoilers for The Amazing Spider - Man # 38!The identity ofSpider - Man’slatest baddie has in conclusion been unwrap , and he ’s been hide out in plain sight from the very beginning of this newThe Amazing Spider - Manrun from Zeb Wells . The Re - Possessor ( or Re - Po for short)was first innovate a few result ago as Madelyne Pyror ’s veracious - hand man whom she summoned to recover Rek - Rap back to Limbo . During his tenure thus far , he ’s held an tune of secret , knowingSpider - Man ’s surreptitious identity for unknown reasons .
Now , those reasons are finally revealed inThe Amazing Spider - Man#38 by Zeb Wells , Ed McGuinness , Mark Farmer , Wade Von Grawbadger , and Marcio Menyz . The origin story for the threatening and ever - elusive Re - Po is finally revealed during the issue , and to just about everyone ’s surprise , he bend out to be a character from Peter Parker ’s past , previously seen at the beginning of Wells ' political campaign with the serial publication .
As it turn out , Re - Po is actually a collections broker who appear inthe first issue of this latest run away ofThe Amazing Spider - Man . For several progeny , the assemblage federal agent is seen sit on Peter Parker ’s front stoep and hounding Peter ’s friends and congenator in an endeavour to get Peter to pay his hospital bill debt from his encounter with the U - Foes inAmazing Spider - Man#876 . The scoundrel ’s personal identity was almost so obvious , that it was gentle for readers to overlook until this point , but it makes utter sensation once all the slice fall into drama .
Re-Po is the Collections Agent
After swallow up Peter whole and sending him to Limbo , Re - Po kidnaps Randy Robertson with the intent of killing him as a part of Peter ’s unpaid interestingness . It ’s ill-defined incisively yet as to where this interest group stems from . Even while talking to himself , Re - Po struggles trying to remember his past sprightliness . All he knows for sure is that he did this sort of matter many times in his past life and that his memory seems fractured because someone may have take his individual . “I am an echo of myself , but I remember the violence,“he secernate Randy . Before he has a chance to visit violence , Spider - Man come to the rescue in the ding of time .
While seek to make sense of Re - Po ’s rambles , Peter finally puts the pieces together : this is the former Gus , the aggregation federal agent . The last prison term reader saw Gus was inThe Amazing Spider - Man#14 , during theDark Webarc . He attempts to hound Peter for money again but instead finds his clon , Ben Reilly , who beats him unmercifully before sending him to Madelyne Pryor . She anticipate Gus that if he corrode a piece of fruit from the Tree of Exquisite Liberation , he can go gratuitous . He eat it , but then she elaborates that it ’s his someone that will be free seconds before his body collapses , and she inhales his soul . What ’s left of him has become Re - Po .
Spider-Man’s New Villain Adds New Context toDark Web
There have been other clue that Re - Po is in reality Gus . Right before Gus eats the yield inThe Amazing Spider - Man#14 , Madelyne mentions that Gus has been " a naughty boy " and that he keeps " particular tool " in his loft . Not only does this suggestion at Gus ' dark and violent nature , but the attic subsequently follow into play in this most recent storyline . It ’s in this garret that Rek - Rap finds cue that lead him to Peter Parker .
More than anything , this revelation adds new context to the ramifications hinted at during thatDark Webarc . During the arc , after New York is sucked into Limbo , Ben Reilly tries to invite Peter to bite a piece of the tree ’s yield if he wants to bring everything back to normal . After seeing what happened to Gus at the meter , readers may have assumed that the fruit was a means for Peter to sacrifice himself so that everyone could go home , but now it is apparent that wipe out the fruit does more than just stamp out the feeder . As it does withSpider - Man’snew villain , it turns them into a monster and a servant of Limbo .
The Amazing Spider - Man#38is useable now from Marvel Comics .
