VULTURE
Earth-42949

Real Name: Adrian Toomes

Identity/Class: Alternate reality (Earth-42949) human (World War I era to World War II era)

Occupation: Enforcer;
    former circus freak

Group Membership: None

Affiliations: The Goblin (Norman Osborn)

Enemies: Ben Parker, Spider-Man (Peter Parker)

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: "Osborn's Right-Hand Monster"

Base of Operations: New York City, New York, USA;
    formerly Coney Island, New York City, New York, USA

First Appearance: Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions video game (September 7, 2010)

Powers/Abilities: The Vulture had no inherent superhuman powers but he had very sharp teeth and nails. He was skilled in the use of throwing weapons such as knives and molotov cocktails.

    He suffered from photosensitivity and an intense fear of Spider-Man. He was also quite sensitive to insults about his appearance, which would often cause him to fly into a rage.

    While empowered by a fragment of Earth-10955's Tablet of Order and Chaos, the Vulture temporarily gained the ability to teleport.

Height: 6'4"
Weight: 195 lbs.
Eyes: Yellow
Hair: Bald (formerly brown)

History:
(Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions video game (fb) - BTS) - Adrian Toomes was born in an unrevealed location, a citizen of the United States. Growing up without receiving any formal schooling, Toomes became a circus performer under the name of the Vulture, though it was publicly known that Toomes was the Vulture. The Vulture soon became the second-biggest geek in the carnival freakshow circuit. He performed twice a day but was treated worse than an animal, eventually growing to hate the humans who laughed at him. Once freed of the carnival life, the Vulture began to cannibalistically eat people, earning himself a criminal record, and he was soon hired by the crimelord Goblin (Norman Osborn). After Ben Parker became a known agitator of the Goblin's mob, the Goblin ordered the Vulture and his other Enforcers to make Ben Parker silent in the most lethal of ways. When the Vulture ate Ben Parker alive, the vigilante Spider-Man seemingly killed the Vulture in a fit of rage. Somehow surviving his gunshot wounds despite a regretful Spider-Man believing him dead by his own hands, the Vulture mysteriously resurfaced months later alongside the Goblin.


(Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions video game) - After the Spider-Man of Earth-10955 shattered the Tablet of Order and Chaos during a fight with Mysterio, some fragments of the Tablet were scattered to Earth-42949, where the Goblin discovered their power and decided to collect them. After first ordering Hammerhead to get one of them, only to see Hammerhead defeated by Spider-Man, Osborn next ordered the Vulture to acquire a second fragment.

    Enlisting the help of Osborn's bandits, the Vulture successfully acquired the Tablet fragment but he was pursued by Spider-Man. All of the bandits noticed that Toomes was really afraid of Spider-Man, who soon defeated the bandits and caught up to the Vulture, winning the battle against Toomes by taking advantage of his hatred of bright light. Despite this defeat, the Vulture managed to throw Spider-Man towards the railways. After trying to force Spider-Man to give up by taking hostages and burning a building filled with civilians, Vulture decided to use the fragment's power, as Hammerhead had also done, with aspirations to become a crimelord himself upon Spider-Man's defeat. Gaining the power of teleportation from the fragment, the Vulture became more powerful but he was defeated by Spider-Man nonetheless.

Comments: Created by Dan Slott, Daniel Strange, Hoffmeier and Axis Productions, Ltd. (see Appearances list for a small list of some of the artists involved).

    Vulture was voiced by Steven Blum.

    Vulture's origin is loosely mentioned by Spider-Man and confirmed in Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions' Character Bios section. His height, weight, color of eyes and hair are also confirmed in Character Bios.

    Universes shown in PC/console versions of Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions are not the same as those shown in game's Nintendo DS version because of changes in the plot in between the two versions of the video game. In the Nintendo DS version of the video game, the console/PC version's Hammerhead, Vulture and Goblin were changed to Boomerang and Calypso. This version of the Noir universe, as seen in the PC/console versions of the video game is Earth-42949.
   
    There was some lengthy discussion as to whether the Noir reality seen in Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions was Earth-90214, as at first glance, the Shattered Dimensions video game seems to go to great lengths to fit the storyline into established Earth-90214 continuity. It specifically mentions Spider-Man shooting the Vulture and notes that the Vulture somehow survived, making an attempt to explain why the Noir Vulture would be present in the video game after having seemingly been shot dead. The video game also lists the Vulture's first appearance in the Character Bios section as being Spider-Man Noir I#1. At the time, all of that seemed to suggest that the Noir reality in Shattered Dimensions was indeed Earth-90214. However, in Spider-Man Noir II#4, we see several deceased Spider-Man foes get reanimated to battle Spider-Man, one of which is the Vulture, thereby confirming that the Vulture did indeed die of his gunshot wounds on Earth-90214 rather than surviving, as the Shattered Dimensions video game confirms. Therefore, that would make the Noir reality seen in Shattered Dimensions a divergent reality that diverged when the Vulture survived rather than dying. This divergent reality has since been officially designated as Earth-42949.
 
    This profile was completed on 10/21/2025 but its publication was delayed, as it was saved for the Appendix's 25th anniversary celebratory event.

Profile by Sasasych (with a lot of help from Proto-Man).

CLARIFICATIONS:
Earth-42949's Vulture should be distinguished from:

images: (without ads)
Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions video game, concept art (Vulture main & crouching images)
Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions video game (Vulture headshot & from behind images)

Appearances:
Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions video game (September 7, 2010) - Dan Slott (story), Daniel Strange (writer), Mark Hoffmeier (story, dialogue), Gary Erskine (storyboard art), Gareth Hector (concepts & matte paintings), Sergio Caires (lead character art), Ben Leitgeb, James Busby, Matteo Ghezzi (character modelers), Drew Robertson, Roland Walker (environment creation), Joey Loke (prop creation), Wiek Luijken (director)

First posted: 09/27/2026
Last updated: 10/21/2025

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