| “ | Captain Yuri Watanabe, situation report. Felecia Hardy, AKA the Black Cat, is missing. Presumed dead. She had partnered with Maggia Don Hammerhead to blackmail the other families' leadership. Hardy betrayed Hammerhead. Using appropriated Sable weaponry, he retaliated. Aggressively. Both Hardy and the blackmail material were lost in his attack. Now, Hammerhead is out for blood. Blackmail no longer an option, he's gone to the mattresses hoping to eliminate the other Maggia Dons by force. To do this, he's continue to appropriate the heavy arms Sable left when they pulled up stake. We've impounded as much of Sable's equipment as we can, but it may not be enough. It's an all-out gang war, and New York is caught in the middle. | „ |
| ~ Yuri Watanabe at the start of Turf Wars. |
The Hammerhead Crime Family are a ruthless crime family led by the crime lord Hammerhead who are aiming to overthrow the other Maggia Families and take over all of New York City using stolen Silver Sable International technology. They serve as the the main antagonists of the DLC, The City That Never Sleeps for the 2018 action-adventure superhero video game Marvel's Spider-Man.
History[]
Past[]
The exact founding date of the Hammerhead Crime Family is unknown but it was started by the over ambitious crime lord Joseph "Hammerhead" Martello whose biggest wish in life was to rule New York City with an iron fist. After a failed assassination, Martello gained an iron plate in his skull that made him a devastatingly powerful opponent as he set his sights towards conquering New York and dethroning the other Maggia Dons.
After 2010 however, the Maggia were faced with a new and more powerful threat; the rise of Wilson Fisk and the up-tick in supervillains. They went to war against the Kingpin Syndicate but lost utterly; nearly being exterminated. As a result, the Maggia Dons including Hammerhead were forced to put aside their differences and simply hunker down to survive.
Marvel's Spider-Man[]
Hammerhead and his Crime Family do not appear during the Devil's Breath incident and attacks by Mister Negative and Doctor Octopus due to still being in reclusion. During this time though, after the downfall of the Kingpin, Hammerhead begins growing in power again with plans to take over New York City. 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[]
Three months after the end of the Devil's Breath Crisis, Hammerhead breaks the ceasefire between the Maggia families, planning to regain the respect and fear that the Maggia used to have; sending his men out to perform crimes ranging from extortion and money laudering to strongarming and car theft. By kidnapping her pet cat, Hammerhead sends Black Cat to steal multiple data drives to blackmail the other Maggia dons with his men reinforcing should she fail. However, Black Cat steals the drives for herself, including the one belonging to him, and fools him by giving him four fakes. Hammerhead's subordinates soon learn of Black Cat's trickery, driving Hammerhead into a murderous rage, ordering his men to blow up Black Cat's penthouse with her inside it. Despite Spider-Man's attempts to save her, Black Cat seemingly perishes in the explosion, with Hammerhead watching from a distance.
Turf Wars[]
Due to the failure revealing that he is gunning for the other Maggia Dons, 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, but 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, to be taken to the morgue but the transport is sabotaged by one of Hammerhead's men incognito as a paramedic, who is able to revive him with a taser.
Turf Wars[]
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 crashes 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 floating base, Spider-Man tests the laser cannon on Sable's jet but only shortly after Hammerhead arrives to finish them off for good. Using their laser cannon though, and despite the army of Project Olympus Thugs supporting 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.
With Hammerhead and most of their members imprisoned, the Hammerhead Crime Family loses most of its power and influence; quickly coming under threat by the other resurgent Maggia Families as well as the police and Spider-Man.
Spider-Man: Miles Morales[]
Although unconfirmed, it is highly likely that whatever was left of Hammerhead's Crime Family is eliminated by The Underground during their rise to the top of New York's crimeworld using the generative matter technology given to them by the Tinkerer.
Organisation[]
The Hammerhead Crime Family has a very traditional structure for an American Crime Family; Hammerhead at the top as Don followed presumably by an underboss and Captains followed thereafter by thugs. Like the rest of the Maggia, the Hammerhead Crime Family controls most of the illegal gambling, loan-sharking, and narcotics trade in the United States, as well as many legal gambling casinos in Atlantic City and Las Vegas. Hammerhead specifically operates a distillery, the Blackshead Tavern and an auto-body shop; all used for counterfeiting.
Unlike other Crime Families though, the Hammerhead Crime Family employ more traditionally old fashioned methods. Owing to Hammerhead's love of the "good ol' days", the time when the Maggia controlled New York through fear, the Hammerhead Crew employ methods typically only seen in the distant past; ranging from burying the Dons in cement (alluded to be a modernised version of cement shoes) and pretending to respect the police in a friendly way as often happened between organized crime gangs and corrupt police in the 1920's and 30's. At the same time though, as seen with Project Olympus, the Hammerheads are not afraid to modernize where it suits them.
Members[]
Don[]
Agents[]
- Black Cat (blackmailed)
- Fake EMT
Henchmen[]
- Hammerhead Thugs
- Vinny
- Gino
- Lou
- Dino
- Project Olympus Thugs
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 Villains
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