Roach-Man

A minor Marvel villain lurking in the chaotic fringes of the multiverse, Roach-Man crosses paths with Gwen Stacy and other heroes in the offbeat, dimension-hopping world of the Gwenverse alongside equally eccentric foes like Doctor Cephalopod.

Crawling out of the Marvel multiverse in 2022, Roach-Man made his skittering debut in Spider-Gwen: Gwenverse #1, courtesy of creators Tim Seeley and Jodi Nishijima. This Modern Age oddity keeps genuinely wild company — sharing pages with Gwen Stacy, Captain America, and the gloriously named Doctor Cephalopod — which tells you everything about the delightfully strange corner of the Marvel universe he inhabits. With appearances also popping up in Miles Morales: Spider-Man, he's a small but intriguing piece of recent Marvel's multiverse-hopping ambition, the kind of offbeat character that makes dedicated collectors do a double-take and dig deeper.