The Classic Black Suit appears as an unlockable suit for Peter Parker in Marvel's Spider-Man 2. It is an original comic variant of the Insomniac's Black Suit, and more accurately, the latter suit's rage form.
Characteristics[]
The Classic Black Suit is a pitch-black suit with no webbing, huge white eyes and two giant white spider insignias that wrap around Peter's torso. It is also sleek and streamlined, with the organic materials of the Black Suit are replaced by a glossy, shiny fabric that has a blue tint and the hand patches are two white squares that are placed on the back of Peter's palms. There are also veins placed in certain areas to give the suit a discreet organic look.
- Suit Styles
- Default: The default color scheme.
- Style 1: The suit is tinted violet, resembling the Earth-1610 (Ultimate Spider-Man universe) and Earth-TRN009 (Spider-Man: Web of Shadows universe) versions of the costume.
- Style 2: The suit's colors are inverted, resembling the Anti-Venom symbiote.
- Style 3: The suit has blue and red outlines, resembling Venom's appearance in 1994's Spider-Man: The Animated Series.
- Unique Feature
As it is classified as a symbiote suit in-game, it uses black webs as opposed to the white webs used by most of Peter's other suits. It also uses the symbiote tendrils for the Spider-Dash and Spider-Jump moves. However, this does not affect the symbiote abilities or the Symbiote Surge transformation.
Original appearance[]
For more background of the Symbiote Suit throughout comic book history, see all appearances of Venom and the original appearance of Venom on the Marvel Database
The earliest instance of Spider-Man wearing a "Black Suit" came about due to a fan contest hosted by Marvel Comics in 1982, where the costume idea for the character was submitted by a fan named Randy Schueller, with the initial intent being that the suit would function as a costume for stealth purposes. Marvel's chief editor Jim Shooter, impressed with the pitch, bought the rights to the black costume from Schuller for $220.00. It made its first official appearance in a publication during the crossover event Marvel Super Heroes: Secret Wars (1984–85), which united the heroes of the wider Marvel Universe against a multiversal entity known as the Beyonder. During the events of issue #8 (Dec. 1984), Spider-Man's classic costume was damaged amidst his displacement on Battleworld with the other heroes, and Bruce Banner / Hulk informs Parker of a device that can generate any type of fabric from thought, leading him to test the machine for himself. The device generated a black sphere which began to wrap around Parker, creating the Black Suit. The machine would be retroactively established as a containment chamber for the symbiote created by the symbiote Hive on the planet Klyntar, who sought to outcast it for not consciously aligning with their morals to overtake hosts and instead vowing to protect them instead.
The Black Suit would be expanded upon in The Amazing Spider-Man #252 (Jan. 1984), now being established as an alien, symbiotic substance that would bond to Parker while sleeping and take him for joyrides while he remained unconscious, physically overexerting Peter beyond his natural limits. Knowing of the symbiote's desire to completely overtake him, Parker would visit the Baxter Building in issue #258 (Jul. 1984) to have it examined by Reed Richards and Johnny Storm of the Fantastic Four, who deduced its weakness to fire and sound waves. Richards promptly used a sonic gun to force the symbiote off Peter, while Parker himself would have to resort to a makeshift costume in lieu of being unable to repair his original suit. He would repurpose a Fantastic Four uniform with a paper bag on his head, garnering the public nickname of "The Bombastic Bag-Man".
Unknowingly to Parker, the symbiote would resurface in Web of Spider-Man #1 (Jan. 1985) after escaping the Fantastic Four's custody and bond to his red/blue costume, causing him to travel to a nearby church and use its rooftop bell to expose the symbiote to the same sound waves that amplify its vulnerability. As established later in The Amazing Spider-Man #300, disgraced journalist Edward Charles Allan "Eddie" Brock, who was previously humiliated by Parker's expose of his fraudulent reporting at the Daily Globe, was present at the church as Peter was removing the symbiote from his body, seeking repentance for his suicidal tendencies. Upon removal, the symbiote would find its way onto Brock himself and leverage a combination of his self-loathing along with the substance's desire for taking revenge on Spider-Man, becoming the monstrous Venom in the process, and retroactively establishing the symbiote's name as also in reference to the character.
A Black Cloth Suit resembling Classic Symbiote Suit first appeared in The Spectacular Spider-Man #99. It was created by Black Cat.