is created by Miles Warren's company New U Technologies. Skills and abilities Spencer Smythe is quite intelligent, capable of designing advanced robots that could pursue solitary targets. These robots were physically dangerous enough to overpower Spider-Man at multiple points, but they lacked A.I. software. In other media Television A character inspired by Spencer Smythe named Henry Smythe appears in the Spider-Man (1967) episode "Captured by J. Jonah Jameson", voiced by Henry Ramer. Similarly to Spencer, he is the creator of the Spider-Slayers. Spencer Smythe appeared in Spider-Man: The Animated Series, voiced by Edward Mulhare. He is enlisted by Norman Osborn to capture Spider-Man in exchange for building a hover-chair for his paralyzed son Alistair Smythe. Spencer creates his first Spider-Slayer, the Black Widow, to achieve this, but it instead kidnaps Flash Thompson, who was wearing a Spider-Man costume at the time. When the real Spider-Man comes to the rescue, the ensuing battle leads to a fire at Oscorp. With Osborn's negative reinforcement, Spencer stays behind to ensure Spider-Man dies and Alistair gets the hover-chair, but is seemingly killed when Oscorp explodes. Later in the series, it is revealed that Spencer survived and was put into cryogenic suspension by the Kingpin to ensure Alistair's loyalty after the latter fell in with the crime lord. Alistair eventually discovers Spencer and recovers him with Spider-Man's help. Afterwards, Alistair works for various resourceful individuals in exchange for his father's revival. Spencer Smythe appears in Spider-Man (2017), voiced by Benjamin Diskin. This version is Peter Parker's strict science teacher at Midtown High School and Alistair Smythe's estranged father. In the two-part episode "Horizon High", he sabotages Anya Corazon's experiment and frames Harry Osborn for it, resulting in Harry's suspension from Horizon High. Later, Spencer allies himself with the Vulture to seek revenge against Max Modell and creates his first Spider-Slayer to steal Harry's work from Horizon High, but it is eventually destroyed by Spider-Man. In the episode "Ultimate Spider-Man", Spencer is hired by Raymond Warren to steal Oscorp's genetically modified spiders. To do this, he programs a Spider-Slayer to attack Norman Osborn and threaten to destroy Oscorp while he steals the spiders. Meanwhile, it is revealed that Norman had Spencer cause Harry's suspension in exchange for a position at Osborn Academy, but later reneged on their deal. While leaving Oscorp, Spencer bumps into Miles Morales and loses a specimen, which later turns Morales into the