Mysterio

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The Rise of Mysterio

Beck continued to study Spider-Man's behavior and his actions and when he felt he was ready he attacked as Mysterio. Armed with gas that could confuse Spidey's spider-sense, hallucinogenic gas, and chemicals that could easily dissolve his webbing, he saw the first battle to be an easy win. Unfortunately for Mysterio, Spider-Man never goes down without a fight. Such was the case, and Mysterio was defeated and arrested. 

The Sinister Six

The Battle Against Spider-Man

After the dispersion of the Sinister Six , Mysterio continued to battle with Spider-Man to his own dismay. For a time it was thought that he had died in prison as his old friend Daniel Berkhart was taking up the fishbowl for him, but it turned out Beck had been alive all along. A crusade of Mysterio's was the attempt of the retrieval of a lost fortune located in Aunt May's house. Ironically the money had been eaten by silver fish by the time it was discovered leaving Mysterio defeated yet again. 

The End of Beck

Eventually, Mysterio was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor and critical lung cancer assumed to be a nasty side-effect of the chemical products he had used against Spider-Man for years. Because it had been predicted that Mysterio had at most 1 year to live, Ravencroft released him to carryout the rest of his life in freedom. Mysterio made one final attempt to exact his revenge against Spider-Man. However, it had come to Mysterio's attention that Spider-Man was in fact a clone, and no longer the enemy he knew. Because he had no need for revenge against this new Spider-Man he decided that he would get a super hero worthy of his respect to end his miserable life. He decided it was Daredevil who would have the pleasure of ending the reign of Mysterio. Mysterio devised a plot to make Daredevil kill him in a fit of insanity. He hired Bullseye to kill DD's love interest Karen Page, he destroyed Foggy Nelson's relationship with Liz Osborn and he almost made Daredevil kill a baby. But still Daredevil's resolve was to great for Mysterio's psychological torture. Beck ended up committing suicide by shooting himself. However, there was another Mysterio on the horizon, brewing like a storm in the mind of Daniel Berkhart, an old friend of beck's. Mysterio would rise again to torment those who destroyed his friend Beck, but this time he would have a new agenda. 

Mysterio's Revenge

Berkhart, as well as the technological genius cousin of the original Mysterio, Maguire Beck, was trained in arts of illusion by the original Mysterio himself (before Quintin committed suicide). Berkhart and Maguire started their life of crime as the successor of Jack O'Lantern; Mad Jack. The two were hired by J. Jonah Jameson to convince Spider-Man that Berkhart was the Ghost of Mysterio Returned, back when the first Mysterio was still alive (but faking his death). After Quintin shot himself, the Mysterio suit was left to Berkhart as his legacy. Berkhart decided to take on the role of Mysterio on a full-time basis with Maguire providing tech support. Berkhart joined a reformed Sinister Six and because JJJ had abandoned Berkhart when he was defeated by Spider-Man during his stand-in for Quintin, Berkhart decided to use his new alias to exact his revenge against the cowardly newspaper editor. Of course, with all this calamity occurring it was only natural that Spidey would attempt to diffuse the situation, hence crossing paths with the mighty Mysterio yet again. 

Seeing Double at the Triple Rock

Francis Klum, (a mutant with telepathic and teleportation abilities) Obtained an old Mysterio suit discarded by Mad Jack unto the Kingpin. And used it to exact his revenge against Spider-Man. Klum lay siege to Midtown High School where peter worked as a teacher and filled the hallways of the school with traps and illusions. As Spidey was attempting to evacuate the school Berkhart arrived and confronted Klum. The two Mysterios fought as Spidey watched in amusement. It was a well matched battle, of course Klum had the advantage of actual super-human abilities, but this was countered with Berkhart's greater level of experience with Mysterio's gadgets. Berkhart was just about to finish Klum off when Spidey stepped in and defeated Berkhart. Klum then activated the timer of a bomb he had planted in the school's basement and used it as a distraction to escape. 

Powers

Beck and Berkhart

The first two incarnations have had no actual superpowers, though they were both very accomplished illusionists, athletes, and hand-to-hand combatants. Their main threat came in the form of advanced technology mixed with great skill at illusion. Gadgets of theirs have included spring-heeled boots, hologram projectors, radar sensors, various hallucinogenic gases (including a gas that could nullify spider-man's spider-sense), among other things.         

Klum

Francis Klum had all of the technologic weapons as the first two Mysterios, as well as mutant telepathic and teleportational powers. 

Alternate Versions 

Ultimate Mysterio

Ultimate Universe (Earth-1610)

In this reality, Mysterio is a bank robber that Spider-Man was going to defeat along with the help of the police. but they only succeeded in capturing his accomplice. He was also

Old Man Logan

All the most powerfull villains gathered together to kill all of the superheroes. Wolverine and Jubilee are at the X-Mansion when an explosion goes off, killing Jubilee. This angers Wolverine and he kills all the super villains entering the mansion. After the villains are killed, Wolverine finally sees that it has been an illusion created by Mysterio. Wolverine had killed all of the other X-Men.