Spider-Man's Devastating Loss to Kraven Was Secretly Deadpool's Fault
It was Kraven the Hunter who ushered in what is arguably Spider-Man's most significant defeat in the iconic Kraven's Last Hunt story, but little do most readers know is that the biggest catalyst to that loss is Deadpool. In the 1987 classic by J. M. DeMatteis and Mike Zeck, Kraven the Hunter finally manages to defeat and seemingly kill the then-black-suited (but not symbiote corrupted) Spider-Man, incapacitating him for two weeks after taking him out with a tranquilizer gun. It's a surprising move, not just from the shock factor of everyone's friendly neighborhood Spider-Man seemingly dying, but because as Spidey quips as he's being shot at, «Rifles aren't your style.»
Spidey isn't wrong. Guns lean closer towards the style of someone like Deadpool who, canonically, has already been positioned as the first person to ever serve as a symbiote's host. This was revealed in Deadpool’s Secret Secret Wars by Cullen Bunn and Matteo Lolli, which takes place before the symbiote found its way to Peter Parker. That wouldn't be the last time Deadpool would don symbiote colors. He'd do so in again in Deadpool: Back in Black, which takes place in the '80s before the events of Kraven's Last Hunt and shortly after Peter Parker ripped the symbiote from his flesh in the Our Lady of Saints Church. Of course, Spidey himself went on to continue crimefighting in a regular black suit after that night, but what audiences didn't know is that before it found its way to Eddie Brock, the symbiote creeped back to its original host, Deadpool.
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During Deadpool: Back in Black #4 written by Cullen Bunn with art from Salvador Espin, Deadpool has a confrontation with Kraven the Hunter
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