Kraven the Hunter

Reality TV star Kraven the Hunter had seen it all in the Australian outback. Battling crocodiles, boxing kangaroos, and hunting wild game with his bare hands had gained him a cult following; but, as his agents put it, defeating the masked Spider-Man would put him on the map. Traveling to New York with his girlfriend, Tabidi, and production crew, Kraven promised a horde of reporters that he wouldn't just catch Spider-Man, he would kill him. Visiting P.S. 163 in Queens, Kraven examined the site of a recent battle between Spider-Man and a goblin monster, trying to pick up Spider-Man's scent. Unknown to Kraven, Spider-Man was right under his nose the whole time, in his secret identity as student Peter Parker. Later, Kraven learned that Spider-Man was spotted atop of a limo on the New Jersey turnpike. Kraven and his production crew followed Spider-Man to a Hammer Industries laboratory where Spider-Man battled Doctor Octopus. After Spider-Man defeated Doc Ock, Kraven challenged the exhausted Spider-Man, who wanted nothing to do with him. Kraven lunged at Spider-Man, throwing everything he had at him, but Spider-Man just dodged it all and eventually knocked Kraven out with a single punch. The police then arrested the humiliated Kraven and his production crew for public endagerment.

Because of his arrest, Kraven was deported and his show was cancelled. Even after Tabidi left. Obsessed with revenge, Kraven took illegal enhancement and began a media tour, renewing his challenge to Spider-Man. When the Ultimates sought to arrest him for genetic tampering, Kraven tried to flee but Hawkeye shot him in the calf with an arrow. Placed in S.H.I.E.L.D. custody, Kraven was housed in the same cell block as fellow Spider-Man enemies Norman Osborn, Doctor Octopus, Electro and the Sandman, escaping alongside them and hiding out in Wilson Fisk's summer house in the Hamptons.

While the Ultimates raided Kraven's production company, the escapees took advantage of this distraction to kidnap Spider-Man, whom Kraven unmasked. Enraged that a mere teen had humiliated him, Kraven attacked the bound Spider-Man, but his partners restained him. Osborn tricked Spider-Man into joining them in an attack on the White House, but the Ultimates intervened and Spider-Man turned on Osborn. Knocked clear into the Oval Office, Spider-Man was stalked by a vengeful Kraven, whom Thor downed with a lightning bolt. Captured again, a desperate Kraven tried to claim that Dock Ock or Osborn had been using mind control on him.