The Spider-Slayers are a group of robots created by Spencer Smythe. Oscorp later re-branded them into Spider-Man (Spider-Men) hunting machines in case of the threat of Jackal's Spider-Army.
Trivia[]
- The Spider-Slayers appear to be inspired by the ones featured in the 1994 Spider-Man animated series.
- The Oscorp Spider-Slayers bare a slight resemblance to the SP//dr mech suit used by Peni Parker from Marvel's Earth-14512 universe.
- The Spider-Slayers debuted in the 25th issue of the original Amazing Spider-Man comic book series.
- In the comic books, Jameson was the one who financed Spencer Smythe's production of the Spider-Slayers.
- Jameson would also use them years later to combat the Superior Spider-Man and Red Goblin.
- Both the animated version of Spider-Island and the original comic book story arc involved the Slayers in curing the virus.