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Known to his employers as Gargan and his enemies as 'The Scorpion' (or 'El Escorpiano' , ' Le Scorpion' , 'скорпион', ' बिच्छू ' , '蝎子' , or 'העקרב',) this hitman travels the world serving up his own personal brand of merciless killing... and doing so with a smile!

Gargan has racked up quite a score over the years, cementing a reputation for himself and amassing a small fortune in international currency. Though Gargan had never encountered a gilipolla he couldn't handle with his own two fists, he began surgically modifying his body to make himself even more deadly. A subtle implanting of sub-dermal brass knuckles evolves into attachment of a spinally fused prehensile acid-tipped tail (cause subtlety), which parlays into an amputation of the lower legs to make room for some bitchin' mechanized talons, and so on.

Your guess is as good as mine as to what Gargan will look like in six months' time, but one thing's for sure: Making yourself less and less human comes with a hefty price tag. So, Gargan continues to work for a living, becoming more and more dangerous as he goes... and having a harder and harder time getting through the TSA Line.

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Instead of assuming his usual MO as a thug in an exosuit, I wanted to reimagine Gargan as being a more worldly hitman with a dark sense of humor. This allows him to play a part in the world at large instead of just being a Spider-Man villain relegated to New York City. This being said, Gargan does have history with Spidey. Meeting early on in both their careers (when Gargan was just a gun for hire without a the tail,) Spidey took on Gargan in Harlem, realizing quickly that the guy was a lot more skilled than the city's usual breed of low-lives, and proceeding to get shot for the fist time as Gargan escaped. Spider-Man knows first hand how dangerous Gargan can be, even without all the death-machines he's now made a part of himself, and Gargan loves to hate the web-head who fares better than most against his particular set of skills.

in terms of the design, I was really influenced by the interpretations of The Scorpion seen in both "Spider-Man: Homecoming" and "Into The Spider-Verse" (the latter of which came up with a seriously genius concept for the character which influenced my version's penchant for modifying himself). I think the original design for the Scorpion is kind of dumb looking, and it gets on my nerves that most of Spider-Man's rogues gallery is colored green, so when designing those characters I try to change that up wherever I can. I wanted Gargan to look and feel like a real threat, and juxtapose that with a sense of humor that might jive with someone like Spider-Man if he weren't always (painfully) reminded that Gargan is a cold hearted killer.

Description
Known to his employers as Gargan and his enemies as 'The Scorpion' (or 'El Escorpiano' , ' Le Scorpion' , 'скорпион', ' बिच्छू ' , '蝎子' , or 'העקרב',) this hitman travels the world serving up his own personal brand of merciless killing... and doing so with a smile!

Gargan has racked up quite a score over the years, cementing a reputation for himself and amassing a small fortune in international currency. Though Gargan had never encountered a gilipolla he couldn't handle with his own two fists, he began surgically modifying his body to make himself even more deadly. A subtle implanting of sub-dermal brass knuckles evolves into attachment of a spinally fused prehensile acid-tipped tail (cause subtlety), which parlays into an amputation of the lower legs to make room for some bitchin' mechanized talons, and so on.

Your guess is as good as mine as to what Gargan will look like in six months' time, but one thing's for sure: Making yourself less and less human comes with a hefty price tag. So, Gargan continues to work for a living, becoming more and more dangerous as he goes... and having a harder and harder time getting through the TSA Line.

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Instead of assuming his usual MO as a thug in an exosuit, I wanted to reimagine Gargan as being a more worldly hitman with a dark sense of humor. This allows him to play a part in the world at large instead of just being a Spider-Man villain relegated to New York City. This being said, Gargan does have history with Spidey. Meeting early on in both their careers (when Gargan was just a gun for hire without a the tail,) Spidey took on Gargan in Harlem, realizing quickly that the guy was a lot more skilled than the city's usual breed of low-lives, and proceeding to get shot for the fist time as Gargan escaped. Spider-Man knows first hand how dangerous Gargan can be, even without all the death-machines he's now made a part of himself, and Gargan loves to hate the web-head who fares better than most against his particular set of skills.

in terms of the design, I was really influenced by the interpretations of The Scorpion seen in both "Spider-Man: Homecoming" and "Into The Spider-Verse" (the latter of which came up with a seriously genius concept for the character which influenced my version's penchant for modifying himself). I think the original design for the Scorpion is kind of dumb looking, and it gets on my nerves that most of Spider-Man's rogues gallery is colored green, so when designing those characters I try to change that up wherever I can. I wanted Gargan to look and feel like a real threat, and juxtapose that with a sense of humor that might jive with someone like Spider-Man if he weren't always (painfully) reminded that Gargan is a cold hearted killer.