Kindred

A mysterious and sinister figure who emerged to menace Spider-Man, this Kindred operates in dark, high-stakes conflicts involving heavy hitters like Electro, Kraven the Hunter, Mysterio, and Gabriel Stacy, signaling a dangerous threat within the Sinister War saga.

Emerging from the darkest corners of Marvel's Modern Age, Kindred made their haunting debut in Amazing Spider-Man #71 in 2021, introduced under the editorial eye of Nick Lowe and Lindsey Cohick. This enigmatic figure cuts a sinister silhouette across the pages of Amazing Spider-Man and Sinister War, sharing those charged, dangerous stories with the likes of Spider-Man, Electro, Kraven the Hunter, Mysterio, and Gabriel Stacy — a rogues' gallery that signals just how high the stakes run whenever Kindred appears. Still a relatively fresh presence in the Marvel universe with a compact but potent footprint, Kindred is exactly the kind of brooding, mysterious addition that keeps longtime Spider-Man readers leaning forward, hungry to understand what this unsettling figure truly means for the wall-crawler's world.