SpiderMan 10 Things Fans Should Know About Ravencroft Institute
Spider-Man: 10 Things Fans Should Know About Ravencroft Institute
Ravencroft Institute is home to some of Spider-Man’s most insane villains. The place has a dark history involving cults and supernatural creatures.
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The Ravencroft Institute is one of the premier mental health asylums for the criminally insane in the Marvel Universe. It has played a big role in Spider-Man’s edge of the Marvel Universe in particular, as it has housed many of his more unhinged antagonists, particularly the deadly Carnage.
More recently, Ravencroft was utterly destroyed when Carnage was resurrected during the Absolute Carnage story. While Venom, Spider-Man, and others did their best to quell Carnage’s rampage, Ravencroft still fell. The rebuilding has begun, and Mayor Wilson Fisk has spearheaded the process with Norman Osborn. During the cleanup, Mister Fantastic and Misty Knight uncovered several secrets hidden beneath Ravencroft.
10 Both New And Very Old
To get one of the obvious comparisons out of the way, Ravencroft Institute shares a lot of similarities with DC’s Arkham Asylum, the penitentiary frequent housing of many Batman villains. The ongoing Ravencroft miniseries makes some of the likenesses far more pronounced, even if DC doesn’t have the trademark on haunted mental asylum. For those interested in keeping score, Arkham Asylum first appeared in Batman in 1975, while Ravencroft first appeared in Spectacular Spider-Man in 1991. However, in-canon, the Ravencroft Institute was first built at the turn of the 20th-Century, though its history actually goes back to before the 15th-Century.
9 Vermin Used To Be An Orderly
Edward Whelan, aka the rat-like creature known as Vermin, was once an orderly at the Ravencroft Institute. He is a frequent foe of the Amazing Spider-Man, though he actually made his debut battling against Captain America. He would later return to Ravencroft for psychiatric treatment under Dr. Ashley Kafka.
8 Cursed Ground
The tragedy of Ravencroft traces back to long before the institute was ever built. Before the land was colonized by Europe, the indigenous tribes knew to avoid it. A cult of butchers and cannibals occupied the ground, and they worshipped Knull, God of the Symbiotes. This cult was a precursor to the Church of the New Darkness, which later resurrected Cletus Kasady and Carnage.
7 First Inmate
The land that Ravencroft would be built upon actually had its first inmate long before the Institute itself would be built.
Courtland Kasady and Molly Ravencroft lived on the land, and Kasady was found and converted into the murderous cult that lived nearby. He killed Molly, and he was imprisoned in a wooden cage no bigger than an outhouse by other settlers.
6 The Death Of Captain America
Captain Steven Rogers, the “original” Captain America fought his final battle on the Ravencroft lands near the end of the Revolutionary War. This Steven Rogers is actually an ancestor of Steve Rogers, and he came into conflict with the Hellfire Club of the time. However, a cannonball would bring him his demise on the Ravencroft lands.
5 The Other Cult
True to the H.P. Lovecraft inspirations behind Ravencroft and Knull, another cult operated for a time on the Ravencroft lands in the early 1800s. Shuma-Gorath, extradimensional demon and frequent foe of Doctor Strange, was worshipped by a cult that lived in the area. It is unknown what happened to this cult, but it would be unsurprising if they were driven away by the Knull-worshipping cult.
4 Dr. Nathaniel Essex And Victor Creed
Dr. Jonas Ravencroft officially founded the Ravencroft Institute shortly before 1900, and, by 1909, he had recruited a doctor by the name of Nathaniel Essex, aka Mister Sinister. He performed grotesque experiments on his helpless patients, including one Logan. Essex also worked frequently with an orderly named Victor Creed, aka Sabretooth. The two conspired to kill another doctor by the name of Claudia Russell, an ancestor of Jack Russell–the Werewolf by Night.
3 World War II Vampires
The Weapons Plus Program took hold of Ravencroft Institute during World War II after creating Captain America in Project: Rebirth. At this point, they had become fixated with vampires and worked with none other than Count Dracula himself.
Their goal was to remove the solar weakness of vampires and created countless mutilated vampiric half-breeds in the process. Captain America and Bucky would bust up this operation, but the unwanted vampire mutates were left to rot under Ravencroft for decades afterward.
2 Destroyed By Deadpool
Deadpool found himself at Ravencroft during the Absolute Carnage event, and he would ultimately be the one to bring about its downfall. He battled the Cult of Carnage and set fire to Ravencroft Institute while trying to escape the horrors within.
1 The New Management
As previously stated, Mayor Wilson Fisk took the helm in resurrecting Ravencroft Institute, and he had Norman Osborn helm the new facility. Norman Osborn is, of course, the alter ego of the villainous Green Goblin. However, he isn’t the only costumed criminal given the rains of Ravencroft Institute. The former Kingpin also recruited Tony Masters, Mac Gargan, Roderick Kingsley, and Karla Sofen to staff the hospital. Those are the alternate identities of Taskmaster, the Scorpion, Hobgoblin, and Moonstone respectively.
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