CARLYLE (MARVEL COMICS)

'Luke Carlyle' is a fictional character from Marvel Comics, created by J. Michael Straczynski and first appeared in ''The Amazing Spider-Man''.^[1]

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Fictional character biography

In other media

Video games

Footnotes

Fictional character biography

Carlyle is a thief and con man who worked his way up the corporate ladder, eventually to a trusted position. When the CEO of the company he worked at discovered Carlyle's fraud, Carlyle killed him. Carlyle then hired Otto Octavius under the guise of helping to make him a legitimate researcher and stole his mechanical appendages. Carlyle had the scientists at his company copy Octavius' cybernetic controller, something that "looked like it was made in the 1960s", into a new six-armed power suit. Despite his superior technology,Carlyle was defeated by a combined effort between Octavius and Spider-Man, with Octopus cracking Carlyle's suit and Spider-Man filling the suit with webbing via the crack.

In other media

Video games

★ Carlyle appears as "Carlyle the Mad Bomber" in the ''Spider-Man 3'' video game. In the game he was a wealthy business man whose business was destroyed when J. Jonah Jameson posted stories in the Bugle that got City Hall to investivate him. Fueled with revenge, he and his hired henchman go on a bombing spree. First he blows up his own building, which Spider-Man investigate where he stops some of his henchmen and saved one woman tied to a bomb. Later on, Jameson received an anonymous call that there were bombs planted all over the subway. Peter hears this call and rushes to the subway where he disarms all the bombs. Spider-Man later finds more of Carlyle's henchmen planting bombs all over the city using jet packs, but he is able to stop them and the bombs. It isn't until a chemical plant is under attack that Spider-Man finally meets Carlyle, where he and his henchmen were trying to steal a tank, but they are once again stopped. Carlyle escpaes in a helicopter but not before throwing a bomb at Spider-Man, who escapes after the entire factory caves in. The final act shows Carlyle attacking the Daily Bugle, planting bombs, and kidnapping Jameson. After Spider-Man disarms all the bombs, he chases after Carlyle's helicopter. Carlyle then places a neckbrace on Jameson that will explode if he gets far away from him. He then throws Jameson out of the helicopter, but is caught by Spider-Man. After chasing the helicopter, it starts flying around a building where it shoots missiles at Spider-Man. When a missile got close to him, Spider-Man shot a web at it and threw it back at Carlyle's helicopter until it went down. When it went down, Carlyle and the henchmen aboard escaped using jetpacks, but Carlyle then sets off explosives in their suits stating that he was "handing them their walking papers", while he escaped.
He was voiced by Neil Ross.
The appearance of Carlyle in the game is slightly based on a villain called Turbo Jet who appeares in

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