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CORPUS CHRISTI -- Moody High School students got a very realistic sense of the consequences of driving drunk.
CCPD and Driscoll Children's Hospital staged a mock accident--called "shattered Dreams"--to teach students about underage drinking.
EMTs, firefighters, teachers and a handful of students all participated.
And it's all meant to look shockingly real.
"I die at the scene. I'm going to be hanging out of a window, and, I'm dead," said Miranda Villegas.
Some students had contorted expressions and were visibly shocked by the gory scene.
Charlie Ramirez of DPS said that sometimes, that's what it takes to get the message to really sink in with young people.
"It's an excellent program to make people understand this is serious business. This is why it's called shattered dreams."
The staged accident painted a picture of a group of teens, under the influence of alcohol, that crashed head on.
Police and medics acted out a rescue scene. There was even a hearse there for effect.
Students who attended gave a generally positive response to the event.
Student Emma Saenz explained that sometimes it helps to show what could happen, rather than just tell someone about it.
"There has been a lot of accidents with the kids, mostly with the drinking, and I think it's the best way to show what could happen."
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Hendrick Automotive Group
Hendrick Automotive Group Reviews
3 Employee Reviews Back to all reviewsSort: Popular Rating Date
"Service "
- Comp & Benefits
- Work/Life Balance
- Senior Management
- Culture & Values
- Career Opportunities
I have been working at Hendrick Automotive GroupPros
There's no way you can get fired.Cons
Pay is terrible. Prepare to work hard with little to no reward.Advice to ManagementAdvice
I'm absolutely sure they know what needs to been done.Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDisapproves of CEO
"Started out great but was way too stressful. "
- Comp & Benefits
- Work/Life Balance
- Senior Management
- Culture & Values
- Career Opportunities
I worked at Hendrick Automotive Group full-time (less than an year)Pros
Extremely clean and nice facilities. New building. Some of my fellow employees were very nice. Excellent product to sale. Very well organized. No shortage of product to sale.Cons
Quotas of sales were too high based on the number of people walking into the dealership and way too many salespeople. Lots of disagreements between salesman because too many salespeople for too few customers. I was promised pay that I never got for going to Raleigh and other locations to pick up cars and bring to the dealership. Be careful if they promise you extra pay for moving cars around, because I never got it.Advice to ManagementAdvice
My advice to management is to not promise something if you cannot do it.Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo opinion of CEO
I worked at Hendrick Automotive GroupPros
They pay for your health insurance 100%
The individuals in the accounting department are good folks, although disgruntled about the company.Cons
No Growth potential. Individuals in accounting have never been promoted and never received a raise for 10+ years. Micromanaged to the extreme.Doesn't Recommend

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|20th Jul 2001, 01:31 AM
Mister 2.75
I could probably find out by looking around the site, but I'll ask here instead.
Can and does Infiltration 2.75 extend beyond the mutator?
Cuz the review I read mentioned levels and stuff and missions and a new game mode and stuff, and when I chose to download it linked me to the 2.75 download page. I though 'yay, now I don't have to download the huge 60 meg version that I don't have enough diskspace for' and assumed it was an old review of an old version.
thanks in advance
|20th Jul 2001, 02:19 AM
Another Kiwi, how lovely
2.75 was just a weapons mod with skins, and some other stuff. After that the first revolution was 2.80
Delete all that porn and download inf!
|20th Jul 2001, 09:21 AM
Hallelujah, I was wondering when one of the other 7 people in NZ with an internet connection was going to stumble across INF
Welcome home Table.
|22nd Jul 2001, 03:18 AM
Alright, thanks...
And no, there's actually no porn whatsoever on this PC...we just have small hard-drives. UT takes up like a third of one of them.
I'm jes' trying to think of what I could delete...I guess I'll just borrow a CD writer so I can burn the backup of my old computer...yeah. It's probably pretty big.
Plus the immense size of Inf makes me worry that it won't run decently on this PC. I can't remember the exact specs of it, but I usually aim for the lower-end maps. Galleon is about as detailed as it can handle, and even then it's teetering in between the levels of playability and nonplayability.
god I phrased that weirdly.
P.S. I'll ask in the wrong place, shall I? What other decent weapons MODs are there?
|22nd Jul 2001, 03:49 AM
p.s. I don't play games on the net (lag just RUINS it completely) so botmatch in 2.8.5.whatever better be pretty good.
|22nd Jul 2001, 10:25 AM
Well, since it doesent really look like the initial question got answered, i'll have a go at it.
2.75 is this:
2.75 is more or less just a weapons mutator, the weapon and player models are primitive, but fun none the less (i still play this version), it relies on UT's standard game-modes, all of witch works, and in addition, the gameplay can be tweaked in many ways, such as last-man-standing, with any number of additional lifes you want, rounds and map change can be configured easilly, allso witch weapons are allowed ingame, and witch weapons everyone spawns with.
It relies in pickups scattered around the maps, unless you turn that off, and choose to spawn with everything needed instead, but generally, the old maps on RM are wised, as the newer ones doesent have pickups, the link up top that says "maps" will take you directly to real-maps, where all INF maps are gathered, any UT map will allso work (2.75 doesent come with maps).
All of this is configured in the link in the "mod menu" in UT, and the mutator is selected in the practice session window where it says "Unreal tournament" (scroll down till it says "Infiltration").
2.75 uses a slightly tweaked version of UT's bot code, so they will behave much like you are used to them (2.80+ bots are not much fun, still allot of problems with them that needs to be ironed out).
Its only a little more than 7 meg's, so go for it!
|23rd Jul 2001, 10:10 PM
I have 2.75, and it's good, but it seems...inadequate.
Could someone quickly explain what 2.85 is like, and if it's worth getting if I was just to play with bots?
thank ye kindly
|23rd Jul 2001, 10:42 PM
Im sorry to say it, but bots seem significantly dumber in 2.85.5.
This version features a free-floating aim style with very detailed weapons. Loadout-based system too. No finding weapons laying around the map.
Most ppl complain that it is slower, so if you have problems with ut now, I honestly don't suggest it. No point in giving yourself a headache.
|23rd Jul 2001, 10:47 PM
aww, this after my brother spends ages downloading the files and I arrange the loan of a CD writer to free up diskspace
well, I'll try it anyway.
P.S. What other decent (low cpu demanding) MODs are there? Mostly I'm thinking weapons...
|23rd Jul 2001, 10:49 PM
now I'm confused
You say 2.85.5
You're saying it's not worth using 2.85 or it's not worth getting the 2.85.5 patch?
|23rd Jul 2001, 10:51 PM
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In 2.85, you configure your loadout before battle to determine what you use before you go into battle. The only weapons you pick up are from dead bodies. You get to choose from a wide assortment of weapons, but the more you take, like in real life, the more of a speed and stamina penalty you get. That sums up 2.85.
If you are ever given a chance to pick up a quater, run. Run with whatever speed God has given you and pray "They" don't catch you.
|23rd Jul 2001, 10:55 PM
2.80 and up is a whole different thing.
I would hardly call it a patch(nothing like 2.75). It has its own launcher, its really a total conversion...
Try looking at some of the screenshots.
|24th Jul 2001, 03:06 AM
Thanks guys...though you haven't really told me anything I hadn't assumed already.
So it's Counterstrike. I don't care how much I'm generalising by saying that, but it is.
Okay, now someone just needs to answer my other questions.
P.S. To re-iterate: how cpu demanding is infiltration 2.85, and is there any reason not to upgrade to 2.85.5?
Answers on a postcard please
oOr better still in here, actually
|24th Jul 2001, 06:09 AM
If when you say that Inf is like CS you mean that they are both mods of FPS then yes they are slightly similar. CS is a bunnyhopping fragfest, whereas Inf is a thinking mans real-life mod. Stealth and a steady head always win (cept when you get whores - see other posts elsewhere).
2.75 was so long ago I almost can't remember it, wait, I can't. I say just stick with what your system can handle and wait for an upgrade. 2.85.5 is only good if you want to play online (which I assume you don't). So if you want the P90 and FN Five seveN then get 2.85.3, if not, stick with an earlier version.
|25th Jul 2001, 12:24 AM
Still my question has not been answered...maybe it was too vague
You say how 2.85.5 is not for me. okay
And 2.85.3 just introduces two new weapons...
then you say stick with what I have
I have 2.75 - I have downloaded 2.85 and am in the process of freeing disk space to install it
Best way to phrase my question - is 2.85 better for me than .3 or .5?
thank you
|25th Jul 2001, 06:46 AM
2.85.3 is far better than 2.85 (it's only a 12MB patch as well). Since you're not playing online, you wont notice any difference at all except you'll have a couple of new weapons and slightly better gameplay. The order to install everything is 2.85 - 2.85.3, if you have got the map packs, I'm not sure which order to put them on. Anyone??
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Jerry Hall--first-generation supermodel, the former Mrs. Mick Jagger, dictionary definition of "cool blonde"--is shaping the fashion moment. Her signature style was all over the Spring 2011 collections: Gucci, with Marrakesh-inspired luxe in jewel tones; Fendi, with whites and turquoise, all very Jerry in Saint-Tropez in the mid-'70s; Marc Jacobs, in a more Studio 54 sort of a way. We are all about to be impacted by Jerry Hall's aesthetic.
"Oh, that's so nice," says Hall when we meet at her London home to talk about the fact that she's holding the world's runways in thrall. "I've been hearing it. All the photographers and hair and makeup artists have been telling me, 'We keep saying, 'That's so Jerry Hall!'" And she laughs, which is her way of softening anything that might otherwise seem self-congratulatory.
It's predictable, but in the flesh, Hall is preposterously good-looking. She is 54 years old, all legs, blonde hair, and mannered charm. She is part man-whispering coquette, part solicitous girl's girl, part alpha mama. (I overheard her badgering 13-year-old son Gabriel Jagger to put on a coat before he went outside.) And she is good company.
She's leafing through her new book, Jerry Hall: My Life in Pictures, out now in the U.K. It's both an autobiography and a testament to a spectacular career. "Yves Saint Laurent was my first fashion show," she says. "I wore his tuxedo. And Helmut Newton was my first photographer, in 1973. I was really very lucky. I had an amazing career."
Hall didn't always dream of modeling. Growing up in Mesquite, Texas, she just wanted to be glamorous. "My mother and my sisters--five girls--were crazy about glamour and Hollywood movies. I styled myself on Veronica Lake and Marlene Dietrich." Yet, she says, she was a tomboy.
It wasn't until she took LSD at a high school party that she began to understand her potential. "A boy gave me a quarter of a tab. I didn't know what it was!" she says. "I actually had never taken drugs and was very nervous. And I never did take drugs [afterward] ever, ever. But I locked myself in the bathroom and spent the whole night staring in the mirror, going, 'Oh, my God.'" She runs her fingers over the contours of her face. "All of a sudden, I thought, Wow!"
And so, a few weeks before her 17th birthday, she flew to Paris. "I sort of had a turning thing. One of those moments where you decide you're going to do something really wild. And I did it."
Her twin sister, Terry, soon joined her, and the two of them shacked up in the Hotel Crystal with Grace Jones. "We shared a room; it had twin beds on one side and a single bed on the other and was divided by a curtain," writes Hall in her new book. "Grace was trying to be a model," she tells me. "She and I put on cabaret shows for our friends. We told her she had to be a singer. We'd go to the Club Sept, which was the happening club. That's where I met Antonio Lopez, the fashion illustrator I started working with. And Helmut Newton and Salvador Dalí. I was attracted to artistic and creative types."
Her charm impressed the Parisian intellectual and artistic set. She met Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir at La Coupole. Dalí asked her to come to Spain to make a film of her wearing only a white veil. She turned him down. "I had promised my mama I wouldn't pose nude," she writes.
It sounds like an intense and decadent crowd. "Actually, they were all very sensible," she says. "Andy Warhol [one of Hall's good friends] was the most sensible person I've ever met. He never took drugs, didn't drink. He liked sort of watching. Dalí too. Watchers. And I don't like to be in the middle of a crowd, so I like to watch too."
Hall's modeling career took off instantly. But it was the cover for Roxy Music's 1975 album, Siren, that propelled her to international celebrity. Lead singer Bryan Ferry picked her up at Heathrow Airport, and by the time the shoot was over, they had fallen for each other. Within months, Ferry proposed. Hall was 19; he was 30.
London embraced the glamour and cool of the couple. They were invited everywhere, including to dinner by Mick Jagger. "Bryan was flattered by Mick's attention, but he could also see that Mick was smitten with me. It couldn't have been nice for him. At the end of the evening, Mick brushed his leg next to mine," Hall writes. "I felt an electric jolt!"
Can she remember what she was wearing when she and Jagger met? "Yeah, I can. I was wearing linen trousers, kind of full, '30s, and they buttoned at the side. I had this crocheted sweater; it was '30s too, with short sleeves and a knitted collar. And a matching straw beret. All '30s. I always liked to do a look from a period, you know. Ha, ha! And I loved the '50s. The Hollywood sort of slightly slutty glamour. I still love that."
Jagger began turning up regularly at the London house Hall shared with Ferry. "He'd be jumping around and joking, and Bryan would get very edgy. ... One time Mick started chasing me around the Ping-Pong table, trying to kiss me, and Bryan came in and chased him out."
One night while Ferry was on tour, Hall was seated between Jagger and Warren Beatty at a dinner party in New York City. They ended up party-hopping all over town. "[It was] May 21, 1977. ... We would celebrate that day for the next 23 years," she writes. Jagger started wooing Hall with bouquets of flowers and constant attention. She finally gave in, and they began an affair. There was only one problem: Jagger admitted that he smoked heroin. "I told him I couldn't see him if he took drugs," she writes. Jagger managed to break his habit.
When Ferry's tour ended later that summer, he took Hall with him to Los Angeles, but Jagger was relentless. "He begged to see me again, telling me how much he missed me," she writes. They met in Paris. "As soon as I saw him again, I knew I wanted to be with him." They flew to Morocco, and Hall told Ferry she was working. "Finally, he said, 'Stop lying. I read about you and Mick in Morocco in the papers.'"
They ended things, leaving Hall and Jagger free to move in together. Hall tried not to worry about the small detail that Jagger was technically married to Bianca. "I thought ... I could get him to give up womanizing," she writes. For a while, she was right. After all, as she famously told David Letterman on his show, her mother had taught her "the way to keep a man was to be a maid in the living room, a cook in the kitchen, and a whore in the bedroom."
The couple became regulars at their favorite nightspot, Studio 54. "That was wonderful. Because you'd see all these amazing people, famous people from all over the world, in one place on one night. It was quite something!"
And she was one of those famous people. "But I was still a fan. Ha, ha! It was wonderful. You'd see Martha Graham, Rudolf Nureyev, Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams. Elizabeth Taylor."
Her Studio 54 outfits were conceived to maximize the club's lighting. "Lots of bling! And lots of Halston. Jersey and draped and quite chic, you know."
Over the years, Hall inevitably became friends with many of the designers she worked with. "Yves Saint Laurent, Thierry Mugler, Madame Grès." Did they give her clothes? "Oh, yes. An awful lot," she drawls. "I know. So lucky!" A year and a half ago, Hall sold a significant portion of her collection at Sotheby's auction house and donated the proceeds to a homeless charity. Was it a wrench to let so much go? "No. Because I was having a feng shui attack," she explains. "And I'm not finished yet. So much junk everywhere."
It's the first big cleanout she's done since splitting with Jagger in 1999. She had been plagued with doubts about their relationship for years. "Mick was a dangerous sexual predator," she writes, "and although I loved him and he swore undying love for me, I felt very unsure of him. I had weaned him off drugs, but they had been replaced by sex. ... By the time we had children, I would read about Mick's dalliances in the newspapers." One report finally did them in: the news about Jagger's son with Brazilian model Luciana Morad.
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Kraven the Hunter
|Kraven the Hunter
Kraven the Hunter, as depicted by John Romita, Sr.
|Publication information
|Marvel Comics
|First appearance
|The Amazing Spider-Man #15 (August 1964)
|Created by
|Stan Lee
Steve Ditko
|In-story information
|Alter ego
|Sergei Nikolaevich Kravinoff
|Team affiliations
|Sinister Six
Kravinoff Family
"Avengers" (1959)
|Notable aliases
|Olympic-level athlete
Gifted tactician, hunter and hand-to-hand combatant
Superhuman strength, speed, agility, stamina, durability, senses, and reflexes
Kraven the Hunter is a fictional character, a supervillain who appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is an enemy of Spider-Man. Kraven's name is Sergei Kravinoff. He is the half-brother of Dmitri Smerdyakov, better known as the Chameleon. The character first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #15 (August 1964), and was created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko.[1] In 2009, Kraven was ranked as IGN's 53rd Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time.[2]
- 1 Publication history
- 2 Fictional character biography
- 3 Powers and abilities
- 4 Other versions
- 5 In other media
- 6 See also
- 7 References
- 8 External links
Publication history[edit]
|This section requires expansion. (June 2010)
Kraven the Hunter first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #15 (August 1964). Though he would occasionally appear in other characters' titles, he was most frequently used as a Spider-Man foe. He is killed off in the acclaimed 1987 storyline by J. M. DeMatteis, Mike Zeck, and Bob McLeod, "Kraven's Last Hunt". Though generally considered to be the definitive Kraven the Hunter story, the story originally had a completely different character in Kraven's role. Writer DeMatteis recounted:
As I was getting ready to work on the story, I was sitting in my office and looking through a Marvel Universe Handbook and came across the entry for Kraven the Hunter. To this day, I don't know if this was something that was established in continuity, or if whoever was writing the Handbook entry made it up, but they mentioned that Kraven was Russian. For me, a total Dostoyevsky fanatic, the idea that Kraven was Russian and had the same tortured, Russian soul that the great Dostoyevsky characters had, unlocked this door in my head and suddenly I had a new understanding of this character. I thought about Kraven and the forces that had driven him to be who and what he was. This was a character I had never had any interest in whatsoever. I always thought he was one of the stupidest Spider-Man villains ever, but suddenly I had this whole new take on the character.[3]
Despite Kraven the Hunter being one of Spider-Man's most long-standing archenemies, DeMatteis claims that none of Marvel's editorial staff objected to the proposal to have him killed in the story.[3] Kraven later returns as a ghost in the graphic novel Amazing Spider-Man: Soul of the Hunter, also by DeMatteis, Zeck, and McLeod. DeMatteis also wrote "Kraven's First Hunt" for The Sensational Spider-Man Annual '96, a retelling of The Amazing Spider-Man #15 which incorporated several DeMatteis retcons, such as that Kraven was abusive towards the Chameleon.
Fictional character biography[edit]
Kraven's real name is Sergei Kravinoff. He is a Russian immigrant, the son of an aristocrat who fled to the United States with his family in 1917 after the Russian nobility was decimated by the February Revolution and subsequent collapse of the reign of Tsar Nicholas II.
Kraven is a maniacal big game hunter who seeks to defeat Spider-Man to prove that he is the greatest hunter in the world. Unlike other hunters, he typically disdains the use of guns or bow and arrows, preferring to take down large dangerous animals with his bare hands. He also lives by a code of honor of sorts, choosing to hunt his game fairly. He consumes a mystical serum to give himself enhanced strength and dramatically slow the aging process. Kraven was trained as a hunter largely by a mysterious man named Gregor, a mercenary who battled Ka-Zar.[citation needed] Kraven was at one point lover of the voodoo priestess Calypso.[4]
He is contacted by his half-brother, the Chameleon, to defeat Spider-Man. Spider-Man proves a frustrating quarry because Kraven continually underestimates the superhero's resourcefulness.[5]
Kraven becomes a founding member of the Sinister Six when he accepts Doctor Octopus' offer to form a team to fight Spider-Man where they capture Aunt May and Betty Brant. He attacks Spider-Man in Central Park with three tigers. Spider-Man easily fights off the attackers and secures the next clue to where Aunt May and Betty Brant are being held. After Aunt May and Betty Brant are rescued, Kraven the Hunter and the rest of the Sinister Six are arrested by the police.[6]
Determined to end his life as he becomes older, frustrated with his failing health and continuing failure to defeat Spider-Man, Kraven sets out a final hunt for Spider-Man. After capturing Spider-Man, he shoots him with a coma-inducing drug and buries him alive on his estate.[7] To complete his victory, he attempts to become Spider-Man's clear superior by impersonating him in a brutal vigilante campaign and capturing Vermin, the one foe Spider-Man had never been able to defeat on his own (Their last battle requiring Captain America's assistance).[8]
After Spider-Man emerges from his grave two weeks later, Kraven explains his actions to him and sets Vermin free, reaffirming to Kraven that his foe is an honourable man. Spider-Man goes after Vermin to prevent his killing again, giving Kraven the opportunity to leave a final confession of his crimes against Spider-Man and then commit suicide.[9] Because of his suicide, his soul is unable to find rest until Spider-Man confronts his risen corpse on Kraven's behalf.[10]
Kraven is resurrected from the dead by Sasha Kravinoff and the Kraven family with a ritual using the blood of Spider-Man.[11] He is shown to now be explosively psychopathic and cold towards his family, beating his son and daughter and expressing little attention towards his wife. After being stabbed by his daughter Ana, Sergei recovers stating that Sasha restored him with corrupted blood which he calls "unlife". They pull off the mask of the corpse of Spider-Man hung in their mantel and discover that Kaine is in Spider-Man's costume.[12] Spider-Man, in his black suit, confronts Kraven and the rest of the Kravinoff Family. Spider-Man is tempted to kill Kraven, but he refuses to do so when he is reminded by Julia Carpenter (who has inherited the powers of Madame Web after her death) that committing murder in not in his moral code.
Following their defeat by Spider-Man, Kraven and his family escape to the Savage Land. While there, Kraven brutally kills Sasha (who complained that Kraven would have to hunt them to prove their place in the Kravinoff family) and euthanizes Vladimir. Alyosha flees in disgust afterwards. Kraven and Ana discuss rebuilding the Kravinoff family, which leads to Ana running off to hunt Alyosha to prove herself worthy to Kraven and rebuild the Kravinoff family.[13]
It was later revealed that back in the 1950s, Kraven the Hunter was a member of Nick Fury's Avengers alongside Dominic Fortune I, Dum Dum Dugan, Namora, Silver Sable, Sabretooth, and Ulysses Bloodstone, tracking a stolen version of the Super-Soldier Serum combined with the Infinity Formula that had been stolen by a group of Nazis attempting to create their own Captain America.[14]
While he is in the Savage Land, Venom lands in the area on an unrelated mission from the federal government. Mistaking him to be Spider-Man, Kraven attacks him and gains the upper hand before Venom escapes.[15]
When their identities became fractured after a temporary separation, the Hulk discovers that Bruce Banner had hired Kraven to find the lost city of Sasquatches. Although Hulk was uninterested with helping the Sasquatches deal with Kraven, he changes his mind and beats up Kraven the Hunter.[16]
Kaine in the alias of Scarlet Spider later encountered Kraven the Hunter who was dressed as Scarlet Spider in order to torment him.[17] With the help of Ana, Kraven kidnapped Kaine's friends in order to motivate the Scarlet Spider fight him. In the end, Kaine delivered Kraven a fatal blow in the chest, which paralyzed his heart. But using the same attack, Kaine brought him back to life supposedly still breaking the curse. Following the fight, both Kravens disappeared.[18]
Kraven's legacy[edit]
Kraven has also had two sons take up his role:
- Vladimir Kravinoff took up the name "Grim Hunter" and decided to hunt down Spider-Man and several of his foes. During the fight with Spider-Man, he is murdered by an insane clone of Spider-Man named Kaine. Sasha Kravinoff later sacrifices Mattie Franklin as part of a ritual that revives Vladimir in a humanoid lion form during the Grim Hunt storyline. Sasha later stated to Kraven that Vladimir's appearance was the result of a test revival ritual to see if she can bring him back to life. Vladimir was euthanized by Kraven (which he does due to "respect for the dead") in the Savage Land at the conclusion of The Grim Hunt arc.
- Some time after the death of Vladimir, his half brother and mutant, Alyosha Kravinoff, becomes the second Kraven.
- There was a third son named Nedrocci "Ned" Tannengarden who tries to kill Alyosha, but he was murdered by the Chameleon (who during that time believed himself to be the original Kraven the Hunter).[19]
- Also, Kraven once raised an alien creature called Gog who he found in a spaceship that had crashed in the Savage Land.
- Kraven's wife Sasha Kravinoff and his daughter Ana, were part of a Gauntlet on Spider-Man's life causing chaos and weakening the web crusader prior to the events that lead to resurrecting Kraven from the grave. Ana currently wields the alias the "Grim Huntress" and is currently stalking Spider-Girl and the Scarlet Spider.
It was revealed during 2009's X-Men/Spider-Man crossover that years earlier, Kraven made a deal with Mister Sinister. He and the Blob tracked down the X-Men, and they fought the united forces of Spider-Man and the original X-Men. Kraven fled after a short battle, but not before wounding each member of the X-Men. Kraven returned to Sinister, with genetic samples from Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Iceman, Angel, and Beast. Furthermore, Sinister requested a sample of his DNA.[20]
Years later, after the death of Kraven, an ex-Morlock who had kept his powers post M-Day named Joe Buggs was murdered by a mysterious mutant hunter. His friend Ed (who had lost his powers) went to the X-Men for help. He claimed that the man who killed Buggs was Kraven the Hunter. Although they were skeptical about Kraven's apparent resurrection, the X-Men called on the help of Spider-Man, who had battled Kraven many times over the years. After discussing the battle that they had with Kraven years ago, and the fact that he had given samples of the X-Men's DNA to Sinister for cloning, the lights went out on the wing where they were located. The hunter attacked, and quickly dispatched Colossus but was held at bay by Spider-Man's webbing. He broke free, claiming his name is Xraven.
The X-Men quickly realize that Xraven has all of the powers of the original X-Men, and he was able to defeat Cyclops and Shadowcat, holding her hostage, giving the ultimatum that he would kill her if they did not surrender. Spider-Man insulted Xraven, claiming that Kraven would never threaten a helpless girl. Xraven was momentarily fazed by his comment, but attacked again, claiming that he is the "favored one". Cyclops realizes Xraven's weakness and tells him that Mister Sinister sees him as nothing but a pawn. He tells Xraven to read his mind, in order for him to see the kind of a man Sinister really is. After Xraven sees Cyclops' memories, he flees but the X-Men become aware of the fact that he was able to get DNA samples from Shadowcat, Colossus, Nightcrawler, and Wolverine.
Returning to Mister Sinister with the samples, Mister Sinister tells him that he planned to clone a new generation of mutants, and that he would unite all mutantkind. After seeing what Sinister's real intentions were in Cyclops' memories, Xraven destroys the samples, claiming that Mister Sinister would breed slaves as opposed to warriors, and Xraven attacks him. Although it is clear that Mister Sinister survived his confrontation with Xraven, it is currently unknown whether Xraven survived.[21]
The Xraven clone possesses the combined powers of the original X-Men, as well as Kraven the Hunter's fighting techniques, strength, and agility. His telepathic powers are able to block Spider-Man's spider sense, as well as Wolverine's heightened senses. His increased stamina makes it possible for him to be teleported by Nightcrawler repeatedly without suffering from fatigue. He has pale, white-grey skin, red eyes and no hair. Xraven also had a black diamond-shaped mark on his forehead, similar to the one on Mister Sinister.
Ana Kravinoff[edit]
A third, female Kraven tracks Spider-Man to his apartment, but mistakenly believes Peter Parker's roommate Vin Gonzales was him. She then methodically ruins Vin's life, and captures him.[22] Despite Vin's claims that he was not Spider-Man, Kraven prepared to hunt him, but was stopped by the real Spider-Man who was wearing Daredevil's costume (which notably had eyelids for him to be able to see). At the end, it is revealed that her name is Ana Tatiana Kravinoff, that she is only about 12 years old, and that she is Kraven's daughter by a woman called Sasha Aleksandra Nikolaevich (also mother of the deceased Vladimir). She and her mother have recently set about forming an alliance of Spider-Man villains to get revenge on the wall-crawler and kidnap Madame Web. They also hired Deadpool to keep him distracted while they kidnapped Mattie Franklin. Their revenge scheme will play an important role in the Gauntlet.[23] Ana and Sasha later meet up with Alyosha Kravinoff who assists them in preparing for the "Grim Hunt" where they start going after Kaine.[24]
Ana assists Alyosha into attempting to abduct Arachne, only to run afoul of Spider-Man who repels them. Ana alongside Alyosha, Electro, and Diablo were present when Sasha sacrificed Mattie Franklin as part of a revival ritual that resurrected Vladimir Kravinoff as a humanoid lion creature.[25] Ana alongside Vladimir and Alyosha attacked Anya Corazon, only to end up fighting Spider-Man, Arachne, Kaine, and Ezekiel (who was really Chameleon in disguise). The Kravinoffs managed to overpower them and make off with Araña and Arachne. After Chameleon sheds his disguise and Spider-Man partially succumbs to the drugs the Kravinoffs have given him, Ana was present when Kaine (dressed as Spider-Man) was killed as a sacrifice as part of a ritual that revived Sergei Kravinoff.[11] Following the resurrection, Sergei gets acquainted with his family. When Kraven returns after preventing Vladimir from attacking the captives, he is shown to lack a sense of control, attacking Ana until he is stabbed in the heart by Ana in self-defense. Sergei recovers, stating that Sasha restored him with corrupted blood or the "unlife" as he puts it.[12] When the Kravinoff Family was defeated, Ana alongside the other Kravinoffs escaped to the Savage Land. After Sasha and Vladimir are killed by Kraven and Alyosha flees, she runs off to hunt Alyosha to prove herself to Kraven. She tells Kraven that if she can take down Alyosha, Kraven should train her and help rebuild the Kravinoff family. Otherwise, he will forget about family.[13]
Ana later attacks the new Spider-Girl in an attempt to finish the hunt she started during The Grim Hunt. Although obviously the stronger fighter, Ana is eventually defeated thanks to Spider-Girl's experience at fighting in New York City. She is thereafter incarcerated.[26]
Ana later escapes incarceration and heads to Houston to hunt Kaine (the current Scarlet Spider). Ana and her brother Aloysha delivered the killing blows to Kaine that lead to his blood resurrecting her father Kraven the Hunter. However, since Kaine himself was resurrected shortly afterwards so that there could be balance between Hunters and Spiders, it remains to be seen what other motives Ana has for Kaine as there are visions of a dark future ahead for the Scarlet Spider.[27]
With the help of Ana, Kraven kidnapped Kaine's friends in order to motivate the Scarlet Spider fight him. In the end, Kaine delivered Kraven a fatal blow in the chest, which paralyzed his heart. But using the same attack, Kaine brought him back to life supposedly still breaking the curse. Following the fight, both Kravens disappeared.[18]
Powers and abilities[edit]
By regularly ingesting the potion made from the various unnamed jungle herbs, Kraven grants himself a number of abilities including sufficient superhuman strength, speed, stamina, agility, and reflexes to make him a physical threat to Spider-Man, though these powers are not as developed as those possessed by Spider-Man. Kraven's body is also more durable and more resistant to certain forms of injury than the body of a normal human. He can withstand great impact forces, such as falling from several stories or being repeatedly struck by a superhumanly strong opponent, that would severely injure or kill a normal human, with little to no injury to himself. The effects of the potion have dramatically altered Kraven's aging process to the point that he has aged little, if at all, over several decades. Despite being over 70 years of age, he has the physical appearance of a 30-year-old man.
The potion enhances Kraven's sight, hearing, and smell to superhuman levels, adding to his already impressive tracking skills. He can see farther, and with much greater clarity, than a normal human. His hearing is similarly enhanced, enabling him to detect sounds which an ordinary human cannot, or sounds that a normal human could detect, but at much greater distances. Kraven can use his sense of smell to track a target by scent, much as some animals do, even if the scent has been somewhat eroded by natural factors.
Even without his superhuman powers, Kraven is an Olympic-level athlete, a gifted tactician, hunter, and hand-to-hand combatant. He also has great knowledge of pressure points, both in the anatomy of humans and in many animals. He can strike at these nerve clusters with pinpoint accuracy, allowing him to incapacitate more-powerful opponents or animals. He is familiar with many exotic poisons and tranquilizers, which he often uses during his hunts.
Due to a flaw in the ceremony that resurrected him, Kraven was given "the unlife... the eternal curse", as he discovered when his daughter stabbed him through the heart. According to Kraven, he can now only die by Spider-Man's hand. However, this curse was apparently broken when Kaine temporarily killed Kraven by stopping his heart and then restarting it with the same move.
Other versions[edit]
Marvel Noir[edit]
In Spider-Man Noir, Kraven is depicted as a former animal trainer in a circus that was taken by Norman Osborn, a mob boss known as "The Goblin", as one of his hitmen and collectors. He was killed when a mass of man-eating spiders covered his body and started eating him. His final act was to kill Osborn when his mangled spider-ridden corpse lands on him thus spreading the mini man-eaters.[28]
Marvel Zombies[edit]
Kraven is seen on Marvel Zombies: Evil Evolution attacking the Marvel Apes along with other zombies, often hungry for human (or in this case, ape) flesh. He also makes a brief cameo appearance on Marvel Zombies: Dead Days when the zombie Sinister Six attack Wolverine and Magneto. It is later revealed that he was actually infected by the Earth-Z zombie Sentry, thereby spreading the infection all over the dimension.
Marvel Zombies Return[edit]
In the first issue, he is seen with his Sinister Six teammates terrorizing Empire State University after the Kingpin hires them to distract a heist. When a zombified Spider-Man next comes to the dimension, he was zombified by the Zombie Spider-Man after he violently rips out his throat, as Spider-Man's efforts to resist his hunger were overwhelmed by the unique scent of Kraven's various jungle potions. As he next devours Peter's friends alongside the undead Sinister Six, the very-angry Zombie Spider Man next kills him for that overwhelming thing they started to do.[volume & issue needed]
Spider-Man: Reign[edit]
In a dystopian future, Kraven (assumed to be Aloysha Kravinoff, Kraven's son) works for the tyrannical Mayor of New York City. He works to squash a rebel disruption of the power structure by simply murdering everyone; including kids. Spider-Man throws him off a building to his death.[29]
Ultimate Marvel[edit]
In the Ultimate Marvel series, Sergei Kravinoff is an Australian and the host of his own TV reality show. In the TV show, he hunts down dangerous animals, and intends to hunt and kill Spider-Man on live television in order to boost his ratings (after his first fight with Doctor Octopus attacking Justin Hammer's NY facility). He is arrested after being knocked out with a single punch by the superhero (who was trying to help two people out of an overturned car)[30] and his show is canceled.[31]
In the Ultimate Six story arc, Kraven genetically tampers with his DNA, allowing him to become a gruesome werewolf-like monster (similar to the werewolf depiction in The Wolf Man) with large hands and feet, claw-like fingers, enlarged red veins, darker skin, fang-like teeth and berserk-like feral behavior. Kraven is taken in S.H.I.E.L.D. confinement after being taken down by the Ultimates for tampering with his DNA. Kraven eventually escapes with other Spider-Man villains. They capture Spider-Man, tie him up, unmask him, humiliate him, and blackmail him into joining them. Kraven helps with the attack on the White House through he is electrocuted by a lightning bolt from Thor when he tries to attack Peter.[32]
He is last seen in another S.H.I.E.L.D. containment facility surrounded by soldiers, while claiming that he was under mind control.[volume & issue needed]
Alongside the rest of the Ultimate Six, Kraven (who is back to his human state) plays a role in "The Death of Spider-Man" storyline. Norman Osborn breaks him and the rest out of the Triskelion and after their escape, Osborn informs them that God wishes for them to kill Peter Parker.[33] Elijah Stern gives Kraven a set of blasters and knives.[34] When Electro is shot by Aunt May, an electric surge knocks out Kraven, Sandman, and Vulture.[35]
What The--?![edit]
In What The--?! #3 Kraven appears as a raven called Raven the Hunter.[36]
2004-05 Marvel Age Spider-Man[edit]
In this rendition, Kraven is a hunter from a TV show and claims he will kill Spider-Man when paid by the Chameleon. He defeated Spider-Man once and injured his arm, but Spider-Man barely escapes. When he and the Chameleon fight Spider-Man, he defeats both of them and calls the police.[volume & issue needed]
On Earth-001 during the Spider-Verse storyline, Kravinoff (a man that resembles Kraven the Hunter) is a member of the Hounds who are servants of Verna of the Inheritors. He accompanies Verna and the other Hounds when the head to Earth-1610 to hunt Miles Morales.[37]
In other media[edit]
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- Kraven the Hunter appears in the Iron Man portion of The Marvel Super Heroes entitled "Cliffs of Doom" voiced by Chris Wiggins. He and Chameleon collaborate to steal Tony Stark's magneton laser.
- Although Kraven the Hunter never appeared in the Spider-Man 1967 series, similar Australian hunter character Harley Clivington appears, along with an aborigine in the episode "The One-Eyed Idol", where he uses a statue to hypnotize J. Jonah Jameson into giving him money. Later this character appears trying to find the Fountain of Youth in "Fountain of Danger".
- Kraven the Hunter appears in the 1981 TV Spider-Man episode "The Hunter and the Hunted". J. Jonah Jameson hires him to capture Zabu so that he can be the mascot of the Daily Bugle. He uses his special formula, tranquilizer gas, and an electric cage to trap Zabu. When Ka-Zar makes it to Manhattan, Kraven calls up Jameson to lure Kraven to his hideout in a plot to hunt Ka-Zar for publicity. Kraven manages to trap Mortimer (Jameson's nephew) and gets Ka-Zar tangled up in his vines. Spider-Man arrives and fights with Kraven's pet snake while Kraven cuts off Jameson and Mortimer's escape. Upon evading Kraven's other traps, Spider-Man manages to destroy the controls enabling Ka-Zar and Zabu to subdue Kraven and trick him into one of his cages. With Kraven handed over to the authorities, Ka-Zar and Zabu returned to the Savage Land.
- Kraven the Hunter appears in the Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends episode "The Crime Of All Centuries", voiced by Robert Ridgely. He manages to bring the dinosaurs he caught from the Savage Land to Manhattan to prove the existence of the Savage Land. Kraven later captures Firestar so that he can use her powers to power up a machine that will hatch his dinosaur army.
- Kraven the Hunter appears in the 1994 Spider-Man animated series voiced by Gregg Berger. When big-game hunter Sergei Kravinoff is attacked and nearly killed by hyenas while saving Dr. Mariah Crawford from them, he is saved by the administration of a miracle drug by Dr. Crawford which, in addition to curing his wounds, grants him heightened senses and physical abilities. Unfortunately, the serum also causes him to become increasingly bestial to the point that he eventually begins 'hunting like a jungle animal' and calling himself 'Kraven the Hunter'. By the end of the episode "Kraven the Hunter", Kravinoff is cured of his insanity. During the second season, Kraven makes a cameo appearance in the episode "Morbius" when he is informed of the mutative disease that is afflicting Spider Man. He returns in the episode "Duel of the Hunters" during which he is called in to hunt Spider Man who has, by this point, mutated into the monstrous Man-Spider. His hunt is initially interrupted by the Punisher who intends to kill Spider-Man, but the two eventually work together to track down Spider-Man and restore him to his human form with Dr. Crawford's help. In the fourth season episode "The Return of Kraven", Kraven returns to New York and takes the same serum that caused his initial transformation in an effort to track down a mysterious creature that has been attacking people in Central Park. He encounters Spider-Man several times before being subdued. Kraven then explains that when Dr. Crawford contracted an African plague, he makes the decision to save her life by giving her a dose of the same miracle-drug that had caused his transformation. It worked to cure her, but later caused her to turn into the feline-like monster he currently hunts. By combining their efforts, Spider-Man and Kraven manage to restore Dr. Crawford's sanity, though she retains the mutated body and enhanced abilities gained from the serum. Kraven and Crawford depart together to an unknown location.
- In the Spider-Man Unlimited episode "Enter the Hunter!", the Hunter (voiced by Paul Dobson) is the Counter-Earth version of Kraven the Hunter. He is one of a few humans that the High Evolutionary allows to live in the upper parts of the city. He works as a mercenary for both the rebels and the High Evolutionary and is hired by the latter to hunt and kill, and/or capture Spider-Man. Upon breaking into his lair, Spider-Man discovered that the Hunter was using a toxic formula that when mixed with certain animal pheromones gives traits of that animal to the drinker, but also poisons bone marrow, screws up the liver, and cuts your lifespan in half to which the Hunter stated it's a necessary sacrifice for the power it brings. Spider-Man defeats him by trouncing him and turning his security system against him stating that he now knows the Hunter's secret and if he comes after the Rebels or him again, he will use this knowledge to beat him into the ground.
- Kraven the Hunter appears in the two-part Spider-Man episode "Mind Games", voiced by Michael Dorn. The version killed the Gaines wife and husband by poisoning them with a serum but the couple spawned two fraternal children (Roxanne Gaines and Roland Gaines) who got hypnotizing powers from the serum's effects. The Gaines Twins could not use their powers on Kraven as his senses were too keen for their abilities. In the first part, the Twins hypnotized Spider-Man into thinking Kraven killed Mary Jane Watson and the Twins used this moment to have Spider-Man kill Kraven. In the second part, Spider-Man and Kraven fight inside a warehouse in which Spider-Man almost kills Kraven by hanging him. Luckily, Spider-Man snaps out of the hypnosis and spares Kraven's life in time learning Kraven did not kill Mary Jane. Kraven was handed over to Officer Barr and sent back to jail.
- Sergei Kravinoff appears in the The Spectacular Spider-Man, voiced by Eric Visbit.[38] Garbed in a lion-themed vest similar to his comic book counterpart, he is the most skilled hunter in the known world, relying only on his natural skills to subdue his prey. In the episode "Destructive Testing", Kravinoff arrived in New York with Calypso and his pet lion (that was trained to track anything) and had confronted Spider-Man where, to his credit, he provides a reasonable challenge but is still subdued before too long. However, following his first defeat at the hands of Spider-Man, he becomes convinced that the only reason he lost was due to Spider-Man's genetically altered physiology. As such, Kravinoff enlists Professor Miles Warren's aid in securing powers of his own. Using a serum concocted from Warren's own research (and based on Curt Connors's Lizard formula), Kravinoff is then mutated into a humanoid black-maned lion-like creature with elements of leopard and cheetah DNA (similar to his Ultimate Marvel version). After the mutation, he then changes his name to 'Kraven the Hunter' and goes after Spider-Man. With his new form, he easily outruns and overpowers Spider-Man several times throughout their fight (actually forcing Spider-Man to use up all his web fluid against him) and only being narrowly subdued after being tied up with most of Spider-Man's webs. After his second defeat, Kraven is rescued by Calypso on behalf of the Master Planner who asks him if he would like to hunt in a pack. This does occur in the episode "Reinforcement" when he is sent to spring Doctor Octopus and Electro from Ravencroft. He only got away with Electro as Doctor Octopus did not want to leave. Thus, Master Planner managed to form the second version of the Sinister Six with him, Mysterio, Vulture, Electro, Sandman, and Rhino. After Vulture, Electro, Sandman and Rhino were defeated, he and Mysterio attacked Spider-Man where their fight led to a mall. He was knocked out by an exploding Mysterio robot. Though Mysterio was arrested, Kraven alongside the other four villains were extracted at the last minute by the Master Planner. In the episode "Gangland", Doctor Octopus tries to call Kraven for backup, but Doctor Octopus's phone becomes jammed by the Green Goblin.
- Kraven the Hunter appears in the second season of the animated series Ultimate Spider-Man, voiced by Diedrich Bader.[39] Unlike other versions, Kraven in this series uses high-tech versions of traditional hunting weapons, such as an energy-bladed spear and a wrist-worn force shield. He aspires to be the greatest hunter in the world where he has been collecting various magical animal-related artefacts from all over the world. He fought the first White Tiger (Hector Ayala) to claim his White Tiger amulet and gain its power for himself. He eventually kills the White Tiger, but the amulet is passed on to Hector's daughter, Ava Ayala, who swears revenge on Kraven for killing her father. Years later in his self-titled episode, Kraven arrives in New York to hunt White Tiger where he uses a mystical drum to drive White Tiger berserk. Kraven manages to dart Nova and Iron Fist and used knock-out gas on Power Man. Spider-Man and White Tiger find Kraven in Central Park where they find Power Man, Iron Fist, and Nova sedated in a boat after Spider-Man pushes White Tiger out of the way of one of Kraven's traps. Kraven attacks Spider-Man and White Tiger and uses one of his high-tech hunting weapons to try to kill White Tiger. Spider-Man works to keep White Tiger alive, using his webbing to set off Kraven's sound grenade to get away. White Tiger is then attacked by Kraven at the zoo and manages to swipe the White Tiger Amulet and dons it in order to continue attacking Spider-Man and White Tiger as all the animals in the zoo go berserk. Kraven chases Spider-Man and White Tiger out of the zoo & up into some trees. The power of the White Tiger Amulet proves too much for Kraven as it turns him into a humanoid white tiger with the ability to control the zoo's white tigers. After a tactic that enables White Tiger to reclaim the amulet, Kraven is regressed back to normal. Spider-Man then webs Kraven as he convinces White Tiger not to avenge her father. White Tiger decides not to take Kraven's life as Kraven breaks free. White Tiger and Spider-Man double-team Kraven and knock him out as White Tiger calls up S.H.I.E.L.D. to pick up Kraven. In the episode "The Sinister Six", Doctor Octopus recruits Kraven into his super-villain team alongside Beetle, Rhino, Electro, and a mind-controlled Lizard. After Spider-Man's team defeated the Sinister Six at the Statue of Liberty, Kraven the Hunter, Doctor Octopus, Beetle, Rhino and Electro are imprisoned in the currently rebuilt S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier while Lizard had evaded capture. In the episode "Return of the Sinister Six", Doctor Octopus and Lizard spring the imprisoned Sinister Six members from Ryker's Island and equip them with high-tech armor made from stolen OsCorp technology. Kraven is given a lion-themed armor with razor-sharp mechanical claws. Kraven fights Spider-Man and then White Tiger once again. He also assists in the group's gang assault on Iron Patriot (Norman Osborn). After Green Goblin's rampage, Spider-Man was able to defeat Kraven along with the other Sinister Six members. In the episode "The Savage Spider-Man," Kraven teams up with Taskmaster in a plan to lure Ka-Zar to New York by kidnapping Zabu so that Taskmaster can recruit Ka-Zar to his side. During Taskmaster and Kraven the Hunter's fight with Spider-Man, Wolverine, and Ka-Zar, Kraven the Hunter uses a dart with a special poison in it on Spider-Man which transforms him into the Man-Spider. Upon being pursued to Manhattan by Spider-Man, Wolverine, and Ka-Zar, Kraven seeks to perform a ritual to become immortal by sacrificing Zabu at sunset (with the ritual occurring once every thousand years) while Taskmaster plans to get Ka-Zar on his side. With help from Wolverine who deals with Taskmaster, Spider-Man and Ka-Zar defeat Kraven the Hunter who tries to knock Zabu off the bridge only for Spider-Man and Ka-Zar to catch Zabu before he can fall into the river. Kraven the Hunter is later arrested by S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Marc Webb confirmed that Kraven's spear appears in the end credits for The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Webb also confirmed Kraven will appear as a member in The Sinister Six film.[40][41]
Video games[edit]
- In the 2000 video game Spider-Man, there is a secret lair in training mode that contains animal furs, weapons, and crates which say "Property of Sergei Kravinoff".
- Kraven the Hunter is a boss character in Spider-Man 2: The Sinister Six.
- Kraven the Hunter appears as a boss in the Xbox version of Spider-Man: The Movie, voiced by Peter Lurie. Under Norman Osborn's orders, he poisons Spider-Man with a toxic gas and puts him in a maze forcing Spider-Man to avoid various traps (and Kraven's attempts to shoot him) as he is weakened by the poison. After the maze level, Spider-Man fights Kraven for the cure. Despite Kraven's use of a strength-enhancing potion that makes him pretty much invulnerable to physical attack, Spider-Man wins putting Kraven in jail for his crimes. He also appeared in the Game Boy Advance version of the game as a mercenary working for Osborn. He first fights Spider-Man in a ship's hold and is relatively easy to beat. He appears again later in a funhouse at Coney Island where he demonstrates all his abilities and is even harder to defeat than he was before. He refers to Spider-Man as "Man-Spider" until his second defeat when he finally says the name right and informs Spider-Man that Green Goblin knows where Mary Jane Watson lives. Kraven the Hunter decides to wait for the police out of respect for Spider-Man.
- In Ultimate Spider-Man, there are billboards advertising Kraven the Hunter's TV series all around New York.
- Kraven appears as a boss in Spider-Man 3, voiced by Neil Kaplan. In this version, he wears a ponytail and is partnered with Calypso (only present in the game's PS3 and Xbox 360 versions). They were hunting the Lizard (along with a group of henchmen who have booby-trapped the sewers) when Black-Suit Spider-Man appears and fought Kraven. In his battle with Spider-Man, he uses potions that give him the abilities of a bear, a crow, and a black panther as well as the ability to turn invisible near the end of the fight. Kraven and Calypso eventually got away while Spider-Man fought Mega-Lizard.
- Kraven the Hunter appears in the PlayStation 2 and PSP versions of Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, voiced by Dwight Schultz. Spider-Man encounters him in the sewers hunting Rhino after some run-ins with Kraven's traps. Spider-Man eventually finds Kraven the Hunter and defeats him.
- Kraven the Hunter appears in Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, voiced by Jim Cummings.[42] In the first Amazing segment, Kraven has kidnapped Spider-Man and brought him to a temple in the jungle to hunt him on his own terms with his students. Spider-Man promptly escaped, but Kraven has a piece of the Tablet of Order and Chaos which has given him enhanced speed to the point where most of Spider-Man's attacks are easily dodged. Spider-Man must get it and in a twist to the usual Kraven/Spider formula, Spider-Man hunts the Kraven through Kraven's jungles. Spider-Man defeats Kraven at the top of the temple and claims the piece of the Tablet of Order and Chaos. During the credits, Kraven is shown chasing a Rabbit like a cat probably due to head injury (his head is bandaged up). In the game's Nintendo DS version, the Noir version of Calypso planned to use the Tablet of Order and Chaos fragment to raise an army of zombies and resurrect the Noir version of Kraven indicating that this version of Kraven is dead.
- Whilst he does not appear in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, one of Mike Haggar's new costumes is based on Kraven the Hunter's look.[43]
- Kraven the Hunter appears in Lego Marvel Super Heroes, voiced by J.B. Blanc.[44]
- Kraven the Hunter appears in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, voiced by Steven Blum. He appears as a mentor to Spider-Man, training him to become the ultimate hunter, having come to New York to hunt the cross-species released in the previous game. He has the stuffed trophies of the cross-species Scorpion, Iguana, and Nattie in his loft as a combined result of acting in self-defense and saving the victims of the cross-species. Although he offers Spider-Man useful advice in tracking criminals, when he is willing to let Cletus Kasady kill a man as he and Spider-Man watch, Spider-Man realizes that Kraven favours a ruthlessness that he cannot condone. He later learns that Kraven is actually in the employ of Wilson Fisk as a "security consultant," the two men manipulating Spider-Man to help eliminate Fisk's rivals so that he can set himself up as New York's major crime figure. Spider-Man defeats Kraven the Hunter in Central Park and leaves him webbed up to a tree.
- Kraven the Hunter will appear in Marvel Heroes.
- Kraven the Hunter is featured in a story line in the newspaper edition of The Amazing Spider-Man starting with the October 8, 2012 strip. The byline credits Stan Lee, Larry Lieber and Alex Saviuk. In this story, Kraven has been paroled from prison for helping medical science by locating a rare plant. He is appearing at the Jungle World Casino in a large animal show.[45]
- Kraven the Hunter appears in the Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark musical as a member of the Sinister Six and is played by Christopher Tierney. In this version, Kraven starts out as a scientist, who is experimented on by the Green Goblin and then manipulated into joining the Sinister Six.[46]
- Kraven the Hunter is the opponent defeated by Spider-Man in the 1966 Aurora plastic model kit.[47]
See also[edit]
- ^ Manning, Matthew K.; Gilbert, Laura, ed. (2012). "1960s". Spider-Man Chronicle Celebrating 50 Years of Web-Slinging. Dorling Kindersley. p. 26. ISBN 978-0756692360.
[Stan] Lee and [Steve] Ditko's newest villain, Kraven the Hunter, debuted in this issue.
- ^ Kraven The Hunter is number 53, IGN.
- ^ a b Johnson, Dan (August 2009). "In Our Sights: Kraven's Last Hunt". Back Issue! (TwoMorrows Publishing) (35): 3–9.
- ^ Daredevil #310
- ^ The Amazing Spider-Man #15
- ^ The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1
- ^ Web of Spider-Man #31
- ^ The Amazing Spider-Man #293, The Spectacular Spider-Man #131
- ^ The Amazing Spider-Man #294
- ^ J. M. Dematteis (w), Mike Zeck (p), Bob McLeod (i). "Soul Of The Hunter!" Amazing Spider-Man: Soul Of The Hunter 1 (1992), Marvel Comics
- ^ a b Amazing Spider-Man #635
- ^ a b Amazing Spider-Man #636
- ^ a b Amazing Spider-Man #637
- ^ New Avengers Vol. 2 #10
- ^ Venom vol. 3 #3
- ^ Incredible Hulk vol. 3 #11
- ^ Scarlet Spider Vol. 2 #21
- ^ a b Scarlet Spider Vol. 2 #23
- ^ Spider-Man's Get Kraven #1-6 (2002-2003)
- ^ "Comic Books | Comics". Marvel.com. 2012-03-18. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
- ^ "X-Men/Spider-Man (2008)". Marvel.com. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
- ^ Amazing Spider-Man #565
- ^ Amazing Spider-Man #611
- ^ Amazing Spider-Man #631
- ^ Amazing Spider-Man #634
- ^ Spider-Girl vol. 2 #4-5
- ^ Scarlet Spider vol. 2 #6
- ^ Spider-Man Noir #1–4 (2008–2009)
- ^ Spider-Man: Reign #1–4 (December 2006 – March 2007)
- ^ Ultimate Spider-Man #21
- ^ Ultimate Spider-Man #22
- ^ Ultimate Six #1–7
- ^ Ultimate Spider-Man #156 (2009)
- ^ Ultimate Spider-Man #158
- ^ Ultimate Spider-Man #159
- ^ What The--" #3 (October 1, 1988)
- ^ Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 3 #9
- ^ "Comics Continuum by Rob Allstetter". Comicscontinuum.com. 2008-01-21. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
- ^ "Ultimate Spider-Man Season 2 Premieres Jan. 21". Marvel.com. December 26, 2012.
- ^ Marc Webb Confirms Mysterio And Kraven As Sinister Six !
- ^ "Amazing Spider-Man 2 Exclusive: Marc Webb Interested In Kraven The Hunter As A Villain". Comic Book. May 4, 2014. Retrieved 2014-05-04.
- ^ "Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions Interview: Meghan Morgan". Uk.gamespot.com. 2010-09-10. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
- ^ http://www.capcom-unity.com/number6/blog/2011/08/26/umvc3_costume_inspiration_blog?pg=2
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- ^ "Kraven the Hunter, character in Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark". Abouttheartists.com. 2010-11-28. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
- ^ "Spider-Man Model Kit". Retrieved 2012-10-24.
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AVALON – Celebration of life services for John Miller Copeland were held Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010 at 2 p.m. at Williams Funeral Directors.
Born May 29, 1933 in Avalon, the son of Clinton M. Copeland and Berniece Copeland, he passed away Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010.
The family lived in Tulsa, Okla. where he attended elementary and graduated high school from Oklahoma Military Academy in 1951.
Preceded in death by his parents; he is survived by his wife Beverly Merriman Copeland of Rowlett; sons Curt Copeland and his wife Barbara of Tyler and Craig Faulkner and wife Stephanie of Dallas; daughters Jill Copeland Womack and husband Joe of Coppell, Allison Copeland of Irving and Keli Faulkner Lynn and husband Kevin of Plano; sister Marion Michalove of Forest City, N.C.; seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
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The floodgates have opened. Sordid accounts of sexual assaults, bullying and hazing at Maine West High School are pouring out in a civil suit filed against the school and Maine Township District 207 by past and present students.
Three of the students were freshmen when they allegedly were sexually assaulted. They were gifted soccer players who had been promoted to the varsity team, a noteworthy achievement for any freshman.
But a freshman with considerable talent still will have insecurities. During the school day he might be shy and awkward in the hallways, especially at the beginning of the school year. In that case, an acknowledgment — a simple hello — from an older teammate in the cafeteria would make his day.
On the playing field, a freshman might not know how the team conducts practice drills. He will look to older players for guidance.
A true team rallies around its vulnerable youngsters. If the team goes out for pizza, the older players make sure the freshmen have a ride, a gesture to drive home the point that they function as a unit.
All this might sound idealistic, but this is how juniors and seniors treated me when as a freshman I ran with the varsity cross-country and track teams at Maine West, the same high school at the center of the lawsuit alleging abhorrent behavior.
The suit alleges that in September two freshmen, now plaintiffs, were held down, beaten and sodomized by their varsity teammates. Another former soccer player alleges that the same happened to him in 2007.
A fourth unnamed former student, who played baseball, is now part of the suit, alleging that after being promoted from the freshman B to freshman A team in spring 2008, he was stripped down from the waist by his teammates in the locker room and repeatedly bullied in the months that followed.
His mother requested that her son be transferred to Maine East, citing the abuse in an August 2008 letter to Maine West Principal Audrey Haugan. The mother said Wednesday at a press conference that Haugan approved the transfer the same day. District officials said in a statement Wednesday that the superintendent became aware of that incident this month — four years later.
The common link, according to the lawsuit, are coaches Michael Divincenzo and Emilio Rodriguez, who have been reassigned by the district. According to the suit, they encouraged the abuse. The school district is investigating with DCFS.
Ten students have been disciplined by the school; six have been charged as juveniles by the Des Plaines Police with misdemeanors.
Tony Romanucci, the lawyer for the victims, is calling for the firing of the coaches, Haugan and Supt. Ken Wallace. Romanucci sees parallels between this case and the Penn State scandal involving former football coach Jerry Sandusky, who is in prison for molesting children. Iconic football coach Joe Paterno lost his job for doing nothing to stop Sandusky.
"Joe Paterno wasn't a part of it," Romanucci said. "He turned a blind eye to it."
Across the country, administrators and teachers need to keep an eye on this case and their own schools' programs.
Administrators continually demand higher test scores from teachers and students, but similar oversight and care is needed for extracurricular clubs such as debate, cheerleading and athletics.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Gov. Martin O'Malley signed an executive order Monday outlining how to implement the state's first long-range strategy to control growth as the population continues to swell, but opponents say the plan that includes sweeping land use implications should have gone through the General Assembly.
O'Malley was joined by former governors Harry Hughes and Parris Glendening for the presentation of PlanMaryland. The basic framework of the plan is in effect. However, the administration will be working with local governments for the next six months to develop a specific list of criteria for planning areas, and no major changes are expected to happen before a year's time, said Maryland Department of Planning Secretary Richard Hall.
"This plan will target investments that we make, and we estimate that we can actually save money by targeting those investments in the smarter growth areas," said the Democratic governor. "It is not a way for the state to take away local planning and zoning prerogatives. Our purpose is to work with local planning and local zoning and we all need to participate in this in order to make it work."
He pointed to the construction of a new public health lab adjacent to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore _ instead of in the middle of a cornfield in Howard County as previously planned _ as an example of the kind of changes PlanMaryland will bring. The idea is to steer development into places that already have infrastructure, instead of building too much on declining acres of woodlands and wetlands.
But state Sen. E.J. Pipkin, R-Cecil, has described the plan as part of "a war on rural Maryland." Pipkin said if the governor is so confident it's the right way to go, he should allow the General Assembly to debate it and decide whether it should be implemented.
"This is something that reaches every Marylander," Pipkin said Monday. "It has an impact on their local governance. It basically confirms a world view that not everyone in Maryland shares."
O'Malley bristled at the suggestion that the policy is an attack on rural areas. He noted large investments in school construction funding in western Maryland and on the Eastern Shore, as well as advances in opportunities for farms to plant crops that control soil erosion and protect water quality. The plan does not replace local decision making, O'Malley said.
Critics say the plan threatens local authority, because the state could steer money away from local projects. But O'Malley said the plan only aims to stop the unsustainable.
"The consequences, if you will, will primarily be budget consequences _ as we make our capital allocations _ and as each department makes its decisions based on what promotes smart growth versus what promotes sprawl and unsustainable land consumption," O'Malley said.
Hall described PlanMaryland as a very general framework that could be changed or updated. He also said outreach to local officials already has reaped benefits.
"I know this will be harder in some places than others but we've already done it in one county in a matter of hours," Hall said.
O'Malley underscored that the plan has been developed over four years after meetings with more than 3,000 people statewide. The governor also noted that the Maryland General Assembly first required preparation of a state development plan in 1959.
Smart growth has become all the more important, because Maryland has become the fifth most densely populated state in the nation, O'Malley said. While the debate is a difficult one, the state can't wait, because the state's population is expected to continue growing, the governor said.
Glendening, who has long been a smart growth advocate, said the tension has resulted from the traditional reliance on local decision making and concepts of private property.
"That worked fine for several hundred years," Glendening, who was governor from 1995 to 2003, said. "Now what we're recognizing is that our resources are finite _ that we cannot sustain decisions made on those principles _ and so you can't expect to immediately throw those principles out, but you can put some guidelines that start making better local decisions and then starts making better use of property."
Hughes, a Democrat who is from Caroline County on the Eastern Shore, described the plan as an important step that will help protect the Chesapeake Bay and preserve agriculture.
"This is another step that's going to be helpful in restoring that wonderful body of water, and also it's going to be helpful for the agricultural community," Hughes, who was governor from 1979 to 1987, said.
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Microsoft today, released 13 security updates as a part of the monthly patch Tuesday cycle to close 19 vulnerabilities found in their Windows, Office, Internet Explorer and Media Player/Media Center software.
Although they had planned to release 14 patches, the release of one of the updates had to be delayed. The patch in question was intended to close a vulnerability found in the SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0 and the reason given for delaying the update was that they found an incompatibility during third party tests. The update will be released later, once the incompatibility issues are addressed properly.Read More
Microsoft has made the beta for the new version of Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) available for public widely. Earlier, the beta was only available for a limited number of beta testers.Read More
SkyDrive gets a major update. Social sharing, PDF support, more like a desktop apps, HTML5 and geolocation mapping.Read More
Microsoft has updated their Windows Phone 7 Mac client to add ringtone support and some other changes.Read More
A list of Windows Phone 7 apps that some Microsoft bloggers suggest and use.Read More
Microsoft is inspiring artistic creativity through the launch of an international project called The Art of Touch. The campaign provides a free digital toolset and canvas to easily create, save, and share digital artwork.Read More
Behind the scenes of Microsoft's future video and look into Microsoft's Envisioning Lab showing current and future technologies.Read More
Who said Microsoft cannot invent? The Microsoft Research team are making use of most interactive and favourite interactivity solution, Kinect, in a research project that will definitely "wow" you. The project is named "HoloDesk", which allows users to play or manipulate with virtual 3D objects, in an aim to bridge the gap between the real and the virtual world.Read More
Here is my take on the Windows 8 Developer Preview. Understand what's new with the Explorer, Task Manager, take a look at the Metro Shell UI, and lots more.Read More
A new Microsoft patent application granted is about embedded video players in a web page.Read More
Microsoft patent shows Ultraviolet rays being used to sterilize touch screen devices.Read More
Microsoft shared details about the upcoming Windows Phone handsets from AT&T that include HTC TITAN, Samsung Focus S and Focus Flash. Ballmer says Nokia's WP7 handsets come out in a week & Windows Phone president expects 4G, NFC next year.Read More
Microsoft is giving giving free WP7 handsets with purchases more than $500 on their US store while mobile carrier 3 is offering free Xbox with a purchase of Windows Phone 7.Read More
Microsoft and the ecosystem partners have started advertising for the holiday season hoping to sway some users to opt for their consumer ecosystem/Read More
Microsoft's patent shows a cool and interactive avatar based virtual shopping experience for you and your home using the Xbox 360′s Kinect controller.Read More


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Huntsville, AL 35801
DMV Phone Number(256) 539-0682
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