Kraven The Hunter

Kraven il Cacciatore (Sergei Kravinoff) è un personaggio di fantasia che appare nei fumetti americani pubblicati dalla Marvel Comics. È uno dei nemici più longevi di Spider-Man, spesso alleato di Squirrel Girl, e il fratellastro di Dmitri Smerdyakov, meglio noto come Camaleonte. Il personaggio è apparso in numerosi adattamenti dell'Uomo Ragno, tra cui serie animate e videogiochi. È ampiamente considerato uno dei nemici più temibili tra i suoi avversari. Il personaggio ha attirato grande attenzione grazie alla storia «L'ultima caccia di Kraven».

Abilità : By regularly ingesting the potion made from various unnamed jungle herbs, Kraven grants himself superhuman physical abilities making him a physical threat to Spider-Man, though these powers are not as developed as those possessed by Spider-Man. Kraven's body is also more durable and more resistant to certain forms of injury than the body of a normal human. He can withstand great impact forces, such as falling from several stories or being repeatedly struck by a superhumanly strong opponent, that would severely injure or kill a normal human, with little to no injury to himself. The effects of the potion have dramatically altered Kraven's aging process to the point that he has aged little, if at all, over several decades. Despite being over 70 years of age, he has the physical appearance of a 30-year-old man. The potion enhances Kraven's sight, hearing, and smell to superhuman levels, adding to his already impressive tracking skills. He can see farther, and with much greater clarity, than a normal human. His hearing is similarly enhanced, enabling him to detect sounds which an ordinary human cannot, or sounds that a normal human could detect, but at much greater distances. Kraven can use his sense of smell to track a target by scent, much as some animals do, even if the scent has been somewhat eroded by natural factors. Even without his superhuman powers, Kraven is an Olympic-level athlete, and a gifted tactician, hunter and hand-to-hand combatant. He also has great knowledge of pressure points, both in the anatomy of humans and in many animals. He can strike at these nerve clusters with pinpoint accuracy, allowing him to incapacitate more-powerful opponents or animals. He is familiar with many exotic poisons and tranquilizers, which he often uses during his hunts. Due to a flaw in the ceremony that resurrected him, Kraven was given "the unlife... the eternal curse", as he discovered when his daughter stabbed him through the heart. According to Kraven, he can now only die by Spider-Man's hand. However, this curse was apparently broken when Kaine temporarily killed Kraven by stopping his heart and then restarting it with the same move.