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[[File:Spectacular Sinister Six.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Picture of the original Sinister Six in [[The Spectacular Spider-Man (TV series)|''The Spectacular Spider-Man'']].]]

* The Sinister Six appeared in ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man (TV series)|The Spectacular Spider-Man]]'' episode "Group Therapy." It consists of [[Doctor Octopus]], [[Sandman (Marvel Comics)|Sandman]], [[Shocker (comics)|Shocker]], [[Vulture (comics)|Vulture]], [[Rhino (comics)|Rhino]], and [[Electro (Marvel Comics)|Electro]]. Like in the original version of the team, Doctor Octopus is the leader of the team. The team's members have all previously been members of the Sinister Six in either the comic books or other animated Spider-Man programmes. The villains pooled their resources and organized a well-planned jailbreak orchestrated by Hammerhead on Tombstone's orders, then went after Spider-Man. After realizing that his previous strategy's wouldn't work, Spider-Man beat a hasty retreat. Going to bed that night, he wished that he could wake up tomorrow and see the Six back behind bars. The black suit, like a malignant [[genie]], took over his body as he slept and met Dr. Octopus and his team. Spider-Man—or, specifically, the symbiote acting as Spider-Man—defeated all six handily, using both a few new tricks which were previously impossible in his standard [[blue]]-and-[[red]] costume and the Six's own talents and weaknesses against each other. Peter later awoke, bone-tired, late in the day to find his idle wish had been granted. The Bugle reported the Sinister Six has been captured, and his own byline below photos of the battle stared him in the face. He realized the symbiote suit was "wearing me" and was horrified. Of note is that the team never actually uses the codename "Sinister Six" amongst themselves; it's only used in the Bugle headline reporting their defeat and capture. Spider-Man does, however, refer to them as the 'simpleton six' during their second encounter.<ref>{{cite web|last= Allstetter|first= Rob|title= THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN ROUNDUP|publisher= Comics Continuum|date= 2008-04-25|url= http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0804/25/index.htm|accessdate= 2008-04-25}}</ref> In "Reinforcement", the Master Planner arranged the reformation of the Sinister Six (this time explicitly named as such) (Which had Doc Ock and Shocker replaced by Mysterio and Kraven the Hunter) with an android stand-in for [[Mysterio|Quentin Beck]] and illusion of Adrian Toomes as Rhino and Sandman escape. [[Kraven the Hunter]] busted out Electro from Ravencroft, but Doctor Octopus was unwilling to join them (though this was in the following episode to be Doctor Octopus feigning unwillingness to fool the Ravencroft staff and that like in the comics, he was the Master Planner). Electro and Vulture attacked the skating rink near the town's Christmas tree causing Spider-Man to lure them away. After taking out Vulture and Electro, Sandman and Rhino attacked. Upon driving them to the pier, Spider-Man doused Sandman with a hydrant (with some of it freezing him through the cold night air) and then sent Rhino under the icy water. With Sandman completely frozen, Mysterio and Kraven attack using illusions of Doctor Octopus and Shocker. Upon hitting Kraven's face with a perfume bottle, Spider-Man is attacked by Mysterio's technological Homunculis. Kraven unwittingly gave away Mysterio's robot duplicate which was about to explode. Spider-Man swings away the nearby Santa Claus and elf as Kraven is knocked out by the explosion and webbed up. Upon trapping and making sure it's the real Mysterio, Spider-Man tries to get him to tell him who the Master Planner is. With Mysterio taken into custody, Tinkerer had managed to extract the other members at the last minute. It should also be noted that the latter incarnation has the most members of the original Sinister Six from the comics, with only Rhino replacing Doctor Octopus.

 

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