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Mysterio
Real Name: Quentin Beck

First Appearance: The Amazing Spider-Man #13 (June 1964)

His face concealed by his trademark globe shaped helmet, Mysterio was a traveling stage magician who claimed to have actual magic powers. The veracity of these claims were dubious, but none could doubt the production values of his shows, which were a true spectacle to behold. But Mysterio had a dark side, and it was exposed in full during a performance in Queens. Supposedly acting on a tip from teenage audience member Peter Parker, the borough's resident crime fighter Spider-Man put a stop to the magician's theatrics, revealing Mysterio to be nothing more than a crook using state of the art illusion projectors, mesmerizing his audience while also scrubbing their credit card information with unseen sensors, robbing them blind. His identity exposed as engineer Quentin Beck, the con man evaded the police with his holograms covering his tracks.

Beck felt no shame in the thievery he committed, the world had been stealing from him for longer than he could remember. He always had a gifted intellect, but was denied a college scholarship when it was instead given to a relative of the school's faculty. All of his early work at Rinehart Holograms, a subsidiary of TriCorp, was sold off without him receiving a dime. When he finally caught a big break pushing his innovative illusion projectors, Rinehart Holograms was sold to a shell company owned by Wilson Fisk, the purported Kingpin of crime, who laid off nearly the entire workforce and told Beck to make money on the side with his tech or leave. Reduced to posing as a magician all so he could steal money from his audience to feed the wallet of his already rich boss, Beck had painstakingly scraped a little off the top of each job just so he could finally have something to his own name. But having it all undone by some random teenager named Peter Parker was the last straw. On the run from both the authorities and Fisk's men, he was approached by the one man who saw his true potential--Otto Octavius. The good doctor promised that if Beck assisted in his sinister schemes against their shared enemy, Spider-Man, revenge against Parker would follow right behind.

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Basically, you should know him if you followed my Spider-Man project!

Alright, long time coming but here's another iconic member of Spidey's rogues gallery, Mysterio. Ole fishbowl head is one of the characters who got quite a bit of focus already in my Spider-Man project so there isn't really a whole lot new here. Same story essentially. Basically, some guy who invented a crazy powerful illusion projector but gets screwed out of his payday by the Kingpin who forces him to use it as a stage magician who steals from his audience and ends up getting exposed by Spider-Man, which leads to him becoming one of the most consistent Sinister Six members. There's a little bit more about his earlier days, and I named the TriCorp subsidiary he worked for (which is named after Ludwig Rinehart, an old pseudonym of his in the comics). Wanted to emphasize that, unlike the other original Sinister Six members, he has a very personal (and one sided) vendetta with *Peter Parker* specifically, even before learning he and the webhead are one and the same.

For his design, this is pretty much just a glow up of his original design from my Spider-Man Project. I really like the concept to that as some elaborate masked stage magician, I just tried to fit more glitz into his outfit plus some more cues from his classic comic design. So he's got some more purple on his coat, he's wearing more gold. His shirt is now green to reference his original outfit, and he's got his classic goofy bracers on his arms now. But other than that it's pretty straightforward.

Description
Mysterio
Real Name: Quentin Beck

First Appearance: The Amazing Spider-Man #13 (June 1964)

His face concealed by his trademark globe shaped helmet, Mysterio was a traveling stage magician who claimed to have actual magic powers. The veracity of these claims were dubious, but none could doubt the production values of his shows, which were a true spectacle to behold. But Mysterio had a dark side, and it was exposed in full during a performance in Queens. Supposedly acting on a tip from teenage audience member Peter Parker, the borough's resident crime fighter Spider-Man put a stop to the magician's theatrics, revealing Mysterio to be nothing more than a crook using state of the art illusion projectors, mesmerizing his audience while also scrubbing their credit card information with unseen sensors, robbing them blind. His identity exposed as engineer Quentin Beck, the con man evaded the police with his holograms covering his tracks.

Beck felt no shame in the thievery he committed, the world had been stealing from him for longer than he could remember. He always had a gifted intellect, but was denied a college scholarship when it was instead given to a relative of the school's faculty. All of his early work at Rinehart Holograms, a subsidiary of TriCorp, was sold off without him receiving a dime. When he finally caught a big break pushing his innovative illusion projectors, Rinehart Holograms was sold to a shell company owned by Wilson Fisk, the purported Kingpin of crime, who laid off nearly the entire workforce and told Beck to make money on the side with his tech or leave. Reduced to posing as a magician all so he could steal money from his audience to feed the wallet of his already rich boss, Beck had painstakingly scraped a little off the top of each job just so he could finally have something to his own name. But having it all undone by some random teenager named Peter Parker was the last straw. On the run from both the authorities and Fisk's men, he was approached by the one man who saw his true potential--Otto Octavius. The good doctor promised that if Beck assisted in his sinister schemes against their shared enemy, Spider-Man, revenge against Parker would follow right behind.

----

Basically, you should know him if you followed my Spider-Man project!

Alright, long time coming but here's another iconic member of Spidey's rogues gallery, Mysterio. Ole fishbowl head is one of the characters who got quite a bit of focus already in my Spider-Man project so there isn't really a whole lot new here. Same story essentially. Basically, some guy who invented a crazy powerful illusion projector but gets screwed out of his payday by the Kingpin who forces him to use it as a stage magician who steals from his audience and ends up getting exposed by Spider-Man, which leads to him becoming one of the most consistent Sinister Six members. There's a little bit more about his earlier days, and I named the TriCorp subsidiary he worked for (which is named after Ludwig Rinehart, an old pseudonym of his in the comics). Wanted to emphasize that, unlike the other original Sinister Six members, he has a very personal (and one sided) vendetta with *Peter Parker* specifically, even before learning he and the webhead are one and the same.

For his design, this is pretty much just a glow up of his original design from my Spider-Man Project. I really like the concept to that as some elaborate masked stage magician, I just tried to fit more glitz into his outfit plus some more cues from his classic comic design. So he's got some more purple on his coat, he's wearing more gold. His shirt is now green to reference his original outfit, and he's got his classic goofy bracers on his arms now. But other than that it's pretty straightforward.