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take how many of Spider - Man ’s enemies have an animal theme , it makes sense that one of them would be a cricket bat . With Spider - Man ’s rogues gallery and support cast consisting of the likes of the Lizard , Scorpion , Black Cat and Rhino , a chiropteran - theme character just is n’t that surprising . What is surprising , however , is how the character overlap with not one buttwoBatman character -Man - BatandBatwing .
James " Jimmy " Santini aka " Batwing " appear inThe Untold Tales of Spider - Man#2 in 1995 . Investigating illegal waste material dumping alongside his Father of the Church , James is the only survivor when the pair was discovered by polluters . Jimmy mutates into a bat - like puppet after drinking contaminated water . Cast out by his mother , Jimmy becomes the subject of a premium put up by Councilman Randolph Cherry , which before long comes to the tending of the perpetually - bust Peter Parker . Eventually , Spider - Man discovered the dependable nature of the infamous " Batwing " and endeavor to help oneself him . Though he was never cured , Jimmy did regain balancing with his mother and even link the Initiative and the Avengers Academy .
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Jimmy Santini shares a lot in common withKirk Langstrom aka the Man - Bat , a scientist - turned - cricket bat hybridwho first appeared in the pages ofDetective Comics#400 in 1970 . Santini also share the false name of Batwing with Luke Fox , the son of Batman ally Lucius Fox , who has taken the Batwing assumed name as a costumed superhero ( and who may or not become Batman himself in Generation Five ) . While Santini ’s Batwing predates Luke Fox ’s appearance by sixteen years , the lineament remains an unnoticeable fixture of the Marvel Universe , in all probability due to hisobvious resemblance to the famous DC anti - hero .
Interestingly enough , Batwing does pay a more than passing resemblance to theUnwanted , failed vampiric test study lurking beneath Ravencroft Institute . While these creatures are also bat - human hybrids , their appearance is substantially more mutated . Their heavily - mutate leader also has psychical powers , which he uses to obligate Fisk to free them . While Batwing was last seen heading to the West Coast with the balance of the Avengers Academy , there could be a link between the pollutants that created him and the Ravencroft experimentation that resulted in this horde of near - lamia .
While Marvel ’s Batwing is an obscure B - lister , it looks like he might be catch a 2nd chance for the public eye if he has any connexion to the mysterious mutate in Ravencroft . After all , Ravencroft author Frank Tieri has been have it away to shine a spotlight on unsung or petty characters , as he did in his Weapon X series . If this is the case , it wait like Marvel ’s answer toMan - Batjust might be getting his due .
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