Respect the Vulture(Adrian Toomes): Marvel 616

Adrian Toomes was a bright inventor and engineer, but not much of a business man. So he partnered with a friend of his, Gregory Bestman, in order to create a company in which Bestman handled the finances and Toomes made the inventions. But Bestman became greedy, and began to steal Toomes's share of the company. Eventually, he forced Adrian out. Outraged, Adrian realized that for too long he had been the one being looked down and scavenged at due to his passiveness. With this passion of revenge, he built a special flying harness based on both electromagnetism and bits of anti-gravity tech and swooped out to take revenge on Bestman. After this, he began to rob due to feeling the need to be the one scavenging now as well as a desire to gain enough money for many things(motivations have varied from treating his sick family to wanting to simply retire). This led to many run-ins with Spiderman, and Vulture developing great annoyance with the wallcrawler.

Vulture is not a purely evil man, and has many pieces of morality in him. He cares deeply for his family and has been known to back down for his friends. Ultimately, Vulture wants two things in life now: defeating Spiderman and gaining a nest egg for himself. He places higher priority on the latter.

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Strength

Despite his frail appearance, Vulture has enormous strength imbued to him by his flying harness. It has been somewhat inconsistent between writers as to whether he keeps it without his harness or not, but nevertheless, it is a potent weapon for him.

• He casually crushes a thug's wrist and hand without missing a blink

• He kicks a hole in a wall and Spider-Man says his strength is almost in his league

• Just by flaring out his wings, he ragdolls six AIM agents

• He throws a helicopter from the air

• Smacks down several cops

• His stomp smashes a concrete sign and makes it collapse

• He has a "wrecking ball punch"

• A knee to the face sends Spiderman quite far back

• He lifts up the back end of a gasoline truck quite high up

• Smashes face first through a tombstone

• Lifts Daredevil and a heavy stone cross before smashing him into another headstone

• Punches Daredevil through a door and Daredevil has more words about his strength

• Buckles the metal of elevator doors

• Completely blows open a different set of elevator doors

• His wings flap hard enough to make strong winds

• He throws off two men who try to hold him down, blows back Spiderman with his winds, and flings a slot machine at him

• He tears open the metal armor of Hornet

• Slams Spider-Man into a metal pole hard enough to dent it

• A loop de loop to the back of the head knocks Spiderman out for a little bit. Spiderman was a lot weaker in those days, but he still did have superpowers

• He punches through a wall and then flings Spider-Man with quite a bit of force

• He cuts a gun to ribbons with his claws. The claws are a new addition

• He rips out of Spider-Man's webbing

• He kicks through brick

• He slams Spider-Man through brick

• As of his newest suit, he can alter gravity in order to increase his strength. He uses this to throw off Superior Spiderman and catch him in a choke hold that he can't break

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Speed and Flying Ability

Vulture's flying harness lets him fly via anti-gravity, and he has great mobility while flying. Beyond that too, his natural reflexes have been honed greatly.

• He blocks projectiles from Bullseye

• He mentions ducking shots from AIM agents off panel and then dodges a few shots on panel

• Spider-Man comments on how fast he is several times, Vulture dodges some webbing, and he snags Spider-Man's leg before he can jump free

• He's fast enough to escape Spider-Man's choke hold before he can get a good grip

• He does a loop de loop here before Superior Spiderman can react and catches him in a grab. To those wondering about his lack of wings here, those aren't what let him fly

• Flies up to plane level, leaves an explosive, and then flies off in a split second

• Dodges poison darts and then proves he's more agile than the Vulturions(crappy knockoffs)

• He loops over a billboard faster than the Vulturions can react and knocks one of them out. Possibly FTE here

• Dodges a barrage of attacks from Hobgoblin

• Blitzes Spiderman in the air. Spiderman was in disguise as Hornet, and he also admits Toomes has always been more maneuverable in the air

• Darts are too slow to tag him

• He tags Spider-Man out of the air

• He speed blitzes several cops

• He's faster than goons can react

• Faster than a motorcycle

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Durability

Vulture's typical suit has at least some kevlar in it and his harness gives him enhanced durability all over his entire body

• He takes a shot to the arm from a special AIM weapon and while it hurts, he's not severely wounded or anything. He was offguard too

• He's slammed into a pillar hard enough to crack it and is fine

• He can roll with blows from 60's Spiderman

• After flying face first into a headstone, he's only kind of dazed

• He blocks an explosion from a pumpkin bomb with his wing

• He's smashed into the ground hard enough to crack it and is not down

• He blocks a barrage of darts with no harm to his wing

• He's flown face first into a billboard and he's pretty much alright(this was one of those stories where he's powerless without the harness)

• A punch from Daredevil has little effect

• He tanks all out blows from Blackie Drago. Blackie Drago can kick through brick chimneys easily

• He tanks an all out kick from Spider-Man because in the air, he can cushion the blow

• He tanks a metal pipe to the back of the head and being punched through several pieces of machinery

• He's bullet proof to small arms

• His suit has lots of back up systems in case his main power generator goes down

• Only hours after having a stroke, he manages to muster up the strength to fight back rather impressively and sit up. More so a feat for his will power, but impressive

• He takes a couple of good hits from Spider-Man, but is fine

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Gravity Manipulation

These days, Vulture can manipulate his anti-gravity tech far more freely and offensively. More specifically, to enhance his strength

• He can fling a water tower with ease

• He can bring down 80x gravity on someone

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General Feats

• Rather handily beats Daredevil and leaves him with a dislocated arm

• Gets very close to beating Daredevil in their second fight and only loses because Daredevil takes the fight to where Vulture can't see or fly. Daredevil is exhausted by this effort