Fictional Character Biography
Sergei Kravinoff is a maniacal big game hunter known as Kraven the 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, though he does use a mystical serum to give him similar strength to Spider-Man. Spider-Man proves a frustrating quarry because Kraven continually underestimates the superhero's resourcefulness. He was contacted by his half-brother, the Chameleon to defeat Spider-Man. Kraven was a founding member of the Sinister Six, and was the second foe to battle Spider-Man, fighting him at a zoo using wildcats.
Kraven finally completes his ultimate objective in the acclaimed 1987 storyline by J. M. DeMatteis and Mike Zeck, "Kraven's Last Hunt", where he seemingly kills Spider-Man and buries him on his estate, then poses as the hero in a brutal vigilante campaign. Though Spider-Man survives (having only been drugged), Kraven is satisfied with his success, and after helping Spider-Man defeat the rat-like monster Vermin, and having no further goals, commits suicide.
Kraven later returns as a ghost in the graphic novel Amazing Spider-Man: Soul of the Hunter.
Kraven is later resurrected from the dead by Sasha Kravinoff and the Kraven family with a ritual using the blood of Spider-Man. He is shown to now be explosively psychotic and cold towards his family, beating up his son and daughter and expressing little attention towards his wife, which Chameleon states might stem from inward anger from being resurrected, given it was by Sergei's own hand that he met his end. After being stabbed by his daughter Ana, Sergei recovers stating that Sasha restored him with corrupted blood or the "unlife" as he puts it. They pull off the mask of the corpse of Spider-Man hung in their mantel and find out that Kaine is in Spider-Man's costume. Spider-Man in his Black Suit confronts Kraven and the rest of the Kravinoff Family, and he is tempted to kill Kraven. However, he refuses to do so when he is reminded by Julia Carpenter (who has inherited the powers of Madame Web after her death) that he does not stand for murder, explaining that he is the center of a moral 'web' that would be destroyed if he breaks his moral code. Following their defeat at the hands of 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.
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.
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.
Hulk discovers that Bruce Banner had hired Kraven the Hunter to find the lost city of Sasquatches. Although Hulk was uninterested with helping the Sasquatches deal with Kraven, he changes his mind at the last minute and beats up Kraven the Hunter.
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