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Villain Overview

Thing is, I'm a gentleman. You'dah knocked? You couldah come right in. But you had to go and sneak around. That's the problem with you new cops: no respect. Course, used to be, we earned your respect. You hit us, we hit back. Made you know your place. Gave you the fear. But now- now yah think a stiff breeze'll blow us over. Time to bring the fear back.
~ Hammerhead as he ruthlessly kills Yuri's fellow police officers.
I just want to thank you for showing me what I've been doing wrong for years. If I want to rule this city, I gotta modernise. Evolve. Now that I'm evolved, it's time for me to be the boss I always shoulda been. Just as soon as I kill you both.
~ Hammerhead during his final fight with Spider-Man and Silver Sable.
See you in hell, bug!
~ Hammerhead attempting to kill Spider-Man.

Joseph Martello, better known as Hammerhead, is the main antagonist of The City That Never Sleeps, the DLC sequel to the 2018 video game Marvel's Spider-Man. He is a ruthless crime lord and head of one of the Maggia crime families, who aimed to overthrow his fellow dons to take over all of New York City.

Using stolen Sable International technology, particularly any leftover weaponry from the Devil's Breath crisis or any shipments being transported at sea, Hammerhead plans to revitalize the mob and bring the city back to its "glory days". He is also the arch-nemesis of Yuri Watanabe, a.k.a. Wraith.

He is voiced and motion-captured by Keith Silverstein, who also voiced several other villains which include Hawk Moth in Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir, Johan Liebert in Monster, Marluxia in Kingdom Hearts, Reaper in Overwatch, Gantu in the Stitch! anime, Hisoka Morow in the 2011 Hunter x Hunter series, HUNK in the Resident Evil series, Deep Sea King in One-Punch Man, Kurozumi Orochi in One Piece, and Wolfram in My Hero Academia: Two Heroes.

Biography[]

Past[]

Little is known about Hammerhead's life before becoming a member of the Maggia crime syndicate. What is known is that he was born in Russia as Joseph Martello and that he had a carbon steel plate placed into his head following an attempt on his life, which granted him increased strength and durability in his forehead. Over the course of his career, he gained a reputation of killing his enemies by head-butting them.

Marvel's Spider-Man[]

Even though he doesn't appear during the Devil's Breath incident and attacks by Mister Negative and Doctor Octopus, Hammerhead's plan is foreshadowed in the side mission Cat's Cradle, when Spider-Man found Black Cat's hideout and her apparent plan to blackmail the other Maggia dons.

The City That Never Sleeps[]

The Heist[]

In truth of Black Cat's purported intentions in the side mission, Cat's Cradle, Hammerhead sends Black Cat to steal multiple data drives to blackmail the other Maggia dons. However, after learning that she betrayed him and stole the data for herself, Hammerhead rigs her apartment to explode and watches her "death" from a nearby building as Spider-Man attempts to save her, unaware that she survived.

Turf Wars[]

Following Black Cat's deception, Hammerhead changes his plans to instead kill the other dons and begins stealing Sable international's hardware and declared open war on the rest of Maggia, as well as the N.Y.P.D. During a attack on Harlem Sanitarium by the N.Y.P.D., Hammerhead captures and kills Captain Yuri Watanabe's squadron, and even though Spider-Man arrives, he escapes in the confusion.

Going into hiding in the meantime, Hammerhead plans to assassinate the other dons and kidnaps them with Sable International's tech. While continuing to steal more equipment, he sends his forces to attack police conveys across New York City to led Spider-Man away from a police precinct where he and his men steal an experiment known as "Project Olympus", killing numerous cops in the process, which infuriates Watanabe further.

As a final stage in his plan to bring back the "good old days", Hammerhead plans to raise his status by killing the other dons in a public and televised execution by burying them in a pit with cement at Hudson Yards. In the meantime, Hammerhead enhances himself with Project Olympus, an experimental battle armor. However, the execution of the dons is foiled by Spider-Man, who then confronts Hammerhead on top of the construction site.

Shrugging off Spider-Man's interference, Hammerhead decides to kill the superhero in order to earn the fear and respect that he craves. Despite the power boost given by his armor, as well as the aid of several of his men, Hammerhead is ultimately defeated. Before the police can bring him into custody though, Watanabe arrives, driven over the edge by Hammerhead's schemes and coldly shoots him in the head before Spider-Man and the other officers can stop her.

Hammerhead's body is placed in an ambulance, likely to be taken to the morgue but the transport is sabotaged by one of Hammerhead's men incognito of a paramedic, who is able to revive him with a taser.

Silver Lining[]

Following Hammerhead's escape, his men continue stealing Sable International tech to enhanced his crime family. However, while Silver Sable returns to the city to reclaim her stolen tech, Hammerhead, enraged by his previous defeat, forces Oscorp scientists to convert his body into a gigantic, super-enhanced cybernetic exoskeleton. As Hammerhead leads Spider-Man and Silver Sable into a trap on top of the Colexco building, he reveals his new body and assaults them both on Sable's jet. As he tries to finish them both, Black Cat is revealed to be alive as she rescues Spider-Man, while Hammerhead crashed with the jet. As Silver Sable survives, Hammerhead kidnaps her and takes her to his underground lair to be interrogated and tortured by his men. After Spider-Man saves her, they check Hammerhead's files on a flash drive given by Black Cat and learn that the metal plate in his head is made of carbon, which is sensitive to heat.

At Silver Sable's secret base, Spider-Man tests the laser cannon on Sable's jet before contending with Hammerhead. Spider-Man and Sable use this weakness against him by shooting heat lasers at his forehead before eventually crashing the laser-equipped jet into him, therefore finally defeating the crime boss for good. What happened to him afterwards is currently unknown though it's possible that he might be still alive due to him being a cyborg and his head was probably in lockup at either Rykers or the Raft.


Trivia[]

  • Unlike his mainstream counterpart, this version of Hammerhead has had his real name revealed, similar to his Shattered Dimensions counterpart.
    • His surname "Martello" is the Italian word for "hammer".
  • Hammerhead's character bio explains that he is 6'5" and weighs 290 lbs. It also says that his birthplace is Russia.
    • This implies he is based off his Earth-1610 version from the comics who is 6'5 and not his Earth-616 version who is only 5'10. Both are in the 200 weight class, however.
  • This adaptation of Hammerhead is arguably the darkest one so far, as unlike the previous ones, his backstory, although still mysterious, shows no means of justifying his multiple heinous acts.

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