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A classic Spider-Man villain just got an update to his origin that makes him very similar to one of the first heroes featured in the MCU.
WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for Giant-Size Amazing Spider-Man: The Chameleon Conspiracy #1 by Nick Spencer, Ed Brisson, Marcelo Ferreira, Carlos Gomez, Ze Carlos, Ig Guara, Wayne Faucher, Andrew Crossley, Morry Hollowell, Rachel Rosenberg, VC’s Joe Caramagna, on sale now.
The Chameleon just got a revision to his origin story that has many parallels to that of the Black Widow in the MCU. During a meeting between himself, Teresa Parker, and the Finisher, Chameleon was revealed to have come from a school run by the Finisher to create espionage agents. This draws a comparison to the Red Room where the Black Widow was trained to become an assassin alongside other young women.
Young Dmitri Smerdyakov ended up in the Kravinoff Estate alongside his half-brother, Sergei, who would grow up to be Kraven the Hunter. Dmitri was alone and often abused, but that all changed when the Finisher arrived at the Kravinoff estate. Chameleon has always been an associate of the Finisher, but only now is the full extent of that relationship explored.
Finisher saw great potential in young Dmitri’s skill at impersonations and disguises. He took the future Chameleon away, becoming his benefactor as he enrolled the boy in a special school for children who were trained to become master infiltrators and spies. It was here that Chameleon learned the tools of his trade that made him one of Spider-Man’s earliest foes.
This is a surprising revelation about the origin of the Chameleon and sheds light on the terrifying possibility of there being more agents like him around the world. The site of his training is eerily similar to that of the MCU’s Black Widow, which has been explored in previous movies and will likely be revisited in her upcoming solo film.
Much like the Chameleon’s school, Black Widow’s Red Room is a place where children, specifically girls, are trained to become deadly agents. However, while the Chameleon’s training focused almost exclusively on espionage, the girls in the Red Room were trained from a young age to kill with efficiency and without remorse. By the time they complete their training, all participants are masters of their craft.
No matter which way it is examined, the two schools bear distinct similarities. Their indoctrination of children is the main one, brainwashing them over the course of years to be used as deadly tools. They even share similar outcomes. At least one of their members has become a more public figure, although there still exists an unknown number of fellow graduates out in the world. Unlike the Black Widow however, Chameleon has no intention of standing in the way of his fellow masters of disguise.
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