Miles Warren, codenamed Wolverine, was a bioengineering professor at New York's Empire State University. He had earned that codename because he was not only a master of cloning, but also, like Spider-Man himself and many of his enemies, had genetically modified himself into a Wolverine-enhanced human.
Yeah, from every angle, this guy looked exactly like the sort of Kamen Rider villain.
What he was doing now was creating a whole bunch of supervillains and Spider-Man clones. His cloning technology was far superior to Doctor Octopus's cloning on Earth-616—he had spent decades researching cloning and successfully perfected an unparalleled method for creating flawless clones.
Ben Reilly, or rather, Earth-1616's Peter Parker clone, was one of his finest achievements. After completing all his research and preparing to take revenge on Spider-Man, he discovered that Spider-Man had changed into a listless, depressed, utterly unsuccessful gloomy shut-in.
That Spider-Man was not the Spider-Man Warren wanted to destroy! Everything had been ruined! So Warren first created a perfect Spider-Man—a clone with seventeen years of combat memories, implanted with another five years of memories and stripped of every memory concerning Miles himself. He was absolutely convinced that he was the original, with physical abilities and combat power at their peak.
Imagine it: when such a Spider-Man appeared in the city and fought supervillains who had long since died, he would steal all the glory from the genuine article! He would become the real Spider-Man! Everyone would believe this Spider-Man was the original, that he was the real one!
And he could take everything from that damn shut-in! Even his lover and his social connections. In the end, that deadbeat shut-in could only die in grief and rage while everyone believed he was the clone or something else.
Even taking a step back, if Peter Parker truly