Who is Ezekiel Sims in the Spider-Man comics?

Ezekiel Sims is a man of great economic power who obtained powers similar to those of Spider-Man through a ritual directly related to the so-called ‘totems’, people who acquire superpowers linked to certain animals, in this case, spiders. According to its own mythology, the spider that bit Peter Parker did not cause the young man’s spider superpowers, but rather the spider transferred these powers before dying from the experimental radiation to which it was subjected.

All this leads us to expand the nature of some of the most iconic villains of Spider-Man, based on different animals that feel the need to hunt down Peter Parker as one of these ‘totems’. In Ezekiel’s case, he himself tries to kill Spider-Man, although he ultimately finds redemption by realizing Parker’s true nature, who has sacrificed much of his life to save others, giving meaning to the famous motto “with great power comes great responsibility.”