History

When Spencer Smythe died because of his prolonged exposure to radioactive chemicals, Alistair inherited his legacy and his hatred for Spider-Man. In his first attempt to kill Spider-Man, he mistook Mary Jane Watson for Spider-Man who was playing along with it to give Peter time to come up with a plan. Mary Jane claimed she used a super suit built by aliens to deceive Smythe until the real wall-crawler defeated him. He then tried to kill Spider-Man again when he and Mary Jane were trying to get her sister out of prison for helping their father in a crime. He worked for the Kingpin at first but after a disagreement over how to deal with Spider-Man.

After being sent to an asylum, Alistair escaped and took several other inmates along in order to build new Spider-Slayer. After sending a series of slayers after Spider-Man, but all were destroyed by him with help from Black Cat, Alistair lured Spider-Man to his home for one last fight. To fight Spider-Man Alistair modified his body into a cyborg and began a battle with Spider-Man, but was defeated and taken to custody as well with the other asylum inmates.

While the Scarlet Spider worked in the city, Smythe began a war with a new slayers he wanted to sell on the black market. These Cyber-Slayers as he called them were controlled by turning one's thoughts into the slayers' actions--were probably named as such because the initial target was Carolyn Trainer (Lady Octopus) and her group, not Spider-Man or the Scarlet Spider. However the Scarlet Spider ended up in the middle of things and temporarily worked with the Cyber-Slayer however Smythe was eventually brought to justice.

Smythe escaped prison and wanted revenge on Spider-Man and J. Jonah Jameson his father's death. He made Jameson alter the stories in the Daily Bugle or he'd kill his wife and son. Spider-Man caught Smythe's trail, and followed it back to the Bugle, but was attacked by every versions of spider-slayer ever sent after Spider-Man plus a pair of new ones, a miniature model designed to latch onto Spider-Man's face and invade his mind through use of radiation and a large six-armed model stronger than any other. The miniature spider-slayer psionically connected to Spidey's mind, copied thoughts of his loved ones, and broadcasted it to other mini-slayers. Smythe gave Spider-Man the choice of either stopping the others or preventing the six-armed one from killing Jameson. Spidey eventually defeated all the spider-slayers at the same time, but Jameson who knocked Smythe out with a baseball bat for threats on his family.

Smythe recently returned again and used a poisonous spider to cause John Jameson, aka Man-Wolf to end up in a hospital.

Powers and Abilities

Alistair wears a carapace that gives him increased strength and gave him the ability to walk again by interconnecting with his spine. Alistair bird-like talons for feet; a long, curved blade-like weapon jutting from each shoulder; a pair of smaller, jagged blade weapons on each forearm; and a specially made web-shooter that fires from the forearm area. Alistair like his father is skilled in the field of Robotics and has rebuilt and created his own Spider-Slayers.