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Warning ! Spoilers for The Amazing Spider - Man # 40 ahead!Spider - Manhas fight his share of deadly enemies and supervillains , but now and again he goes up against some seriously grim - level mooks . Everyone is make out out of the carpentry for Marvel’sGang Warevent , include a pathetic but sports fan - best-loved group last testify going up against Hawkeye in the MCU : The Tracksuit Mafia . Sorry , Clint and Kate , but Peter Parker shows off how light it is to take these bros down .
Every villain in New York has stepped up to the plate to take a baseball swing at put on ground in the ongoingGang Warevent . Diamondback has ally with Hydra , Madame Masque took out Hammerhead and involve over the Maggia , and evenShang - Chi is break bread with Sicilian Mafia familiesas they redraw the single-valued function . It was only a issue of time before the Tracksuit Mafia showed up , quick to bro their way to the heavy time , andThe Amazing Spider - Man # 40 , from creative team Zeb Wells , John Romita , Jr. , Scott Hanna , and Marcio Menyz , return the goods .
regrettably , they catch all dressed up for nothing , as Spider - Man , Tombstone , and She - Hulk very quickly take them out .
The Hawkeye Disney+ show includes new MCU villains , the Tracksuit Mafia - but who are they are what is there liaison to Clint Barton ’s yesteryear ?
The Tracksuit Mafia Is a Silly But Dangerous Gang
First appearing in Matt Fraction and David Aja’sHawkeye ( 2012 ) , the Tracksuit Mafia is an Eastern European gang handle in street crime and shakedowns for money . They come into conflict with Clint Barton because they ’re menace people in his apartment construction , triple rents and stealing tenant ' belongings when they evict them . Their leader is Ivan Banionis , who owns the edifice and refuses Hawkeye ’s offering to grease one’s palms it from him ( with some hard - earned Avengers hard cash ) . They ’re never referred to by a actual group name , but their uniform of red tracksuits prompts Hawkeye to call them " The Tracksuit Mafia . "
The group never refers to each other by names , choosing to call everyone " bro . “Between this and the tracksuits , it gives the members a level of namelessness , which shows off the crew ’s real strength : Book of Numbers . The Tracksuit Mafia is a fan - front-runner due to the many funny vista of the gang , and this humor sometimes makes them seem even more dangerous founder the juxtaposition between comedy and violence . They seem incompetent , and they ’re very low - level , but they ’re armed and remorseless : in one of their first encounters , they shoot Hawkeye , who gets spare by a stray dog who prick them . They then recoil the dog into the street where he gets hit by a auto . The cad live , being take on by Clint and named " Lucky , " but it was a harrowing level when the scoundrel were think to just be some silly guy .
The Tracksuit Mafia Is Expanding
Since their origination , the Tracksuit Mafia has only ever appeared to harass Hawkeye . Showing up in aSpider - Manbook during a major issue suggeststhese bros have actually hit the big leagues . Their part as Wilson Fisk ’s operatives in theHawkeyeDisney+ series exposed them to an altogether new fanbase , who are delirious to see this speechless petty gang show up when they ’re least expected . She - Hulk fastball specials Spider - Man into the group , expeditiously taking them out here , but they always regroup to rise again . If they ’ve been unleashed from only going up against Clint Barton and Kate Bishop , this hilarious team would be welcome with any Marvel street - level hero . AsSpider - Manshows , these pathetic MCU villains can be an easy profits on a estimable day .
Amazing Spider - Man # 40is available now from Marvel Comics .
THE AMAZING SPIDER - MAN ( 2022 ) # 40
