While there's no question that the handling of the Clone Saga itself left something to be desired, the actual concept and characters had a lot of potential. Tom Holland has recently suggested that he'd love to do the Clone Saga in a Spider-Man: Homecoming sequel, and it isn't such a stretch to imagine it happening: there are probably hundreds of screenwriters who would love to get in there, streamline the arc, cut out all of the messiness, and do "their" version of it.

But what many may not realize is that the Clone Saga involved more clones than just Scarlet Spider. There are actually quite a few Peter Parker clones out there — some of them grown in a lab by people other than the Jackal. In this list, we're going to look back through all of the Spider-Clones out there, and figure out which ones were the best, the worst, and somewhere in between. Without further ado, here is Every Spider-Man Clone, Ranked.

18. The Live Action 1970s Spider-Man Clone

If you've never seen the 1970s live action Spider-Man TV series starring Nicholas Hammond... well, don't go rushing out for it. This show didn't hold a candle to the classic Bixby/Ferrigno Incredible Hulk. It was campy, low budget, and totally messed up on the whole "great power/great responsibility" theme. Seriously, even Stan Lee hated this show.

Due to budget restrictions, this Spider-Man mainly only fought against gangsters instead of supervillains. But surprisingly, the series did feature the only (so far) live action depiction of the Clone Saga to date, in the episode "Night of the Clones." Here, the Jackal is replaced by a character named Dr. Moon, who creates an evil clone of himself. The Dr. Moon clone then goes on to create a clone of Spider-Man (also played by Nicholas Hammond, of course). The Spider-Man clone dies by the end of the episode.

17. Spidercide

If there were an award for the "Lamest, Most Unnecessary Spider-Man Clone of All-Time," it would go to this guy. He's a shining example of why the Clone Saga was so difficult to read through at times.

Ben Reilly was cool. Introducing Kaine, the mysterious and torn "original" clone, was also cool. What certainly wasn't cool was when they decided to introduce yet another clone, who also believes himself to be the original Peter Parker, though certainly none of the readers fell for it. It didn't help that he got saddled with the most ridiculously '90s codename ever. Seriously, "Spidercide?"

In addition to having all of Spider-Man's powers, Spidercide could control his body's mass, form, and shape on a molecular level, which basically gave him the ability to do anything that the plot needed him to do, whether it made sense or not. These powers also meant he could never really get killed, which means we all have to live in dread of the day that some nostalgic writer decides to resurrect him. God help us.

16. That Entire Army of Spider-Man Duplicates in Maximum Clonage

Yes, there really was a Spider-Man storyline named Maximum Clonage. Yes, it really features an army of Spider-Man clones. Fun? Not really.

Basically, Ben Reilly has to face off against literally hundreds of Spider-Man clones just like himself, all at the same time, with all of them trying to kill him. Why? How? Who knows. One can imagine that it must have cost a fortune for the Jackal, AKA Dr. Miles Warren, to sew all those hundreds of perfect little Spider-Man costumes. None of them seemed to possess much in the way of personality, and really, the only reason this faceless mob ranks above Spidercide is just because Spidercide is so lame.

Mercifully, this army of monotonous Spidey clones doesn't last too long in the storyline itself, since after a few minutes, they all spontaneously melt into puddles of goo. Great job, Jackal.

15. Guardian

As you can tell, once the Jackal got a sample of Peter's DNA, he never stopped having fun with it. Another one of his monstrous cloning experiments produced this insanely musclebound Peter Parker specimen, known as Guardian.

Yes, the character above is a Spider-Man clone. He may not look like it, but he is.

Guardian is one of the Jackal's earlier Spider-Man clones, from before the procedure was perfected, and so he suffers from rapid cellular generation. As a result, the Jackal locks him in a stasis pod for most of his life, only unleashing him later on so that Guardian can attack Peter and Ben. Guardian degenerates soon afterward, dying in the arms of his best friend — who, as it happens, is also a Spider-Man clone named "Jack."

14. Jack

Guardian's best friend, and another one of the early Peter Parker clones, is this short, hairless little guy known as Jack. His altered physical condition compared to the original Peter Parker is due to Jack's clone degeneration. His powers are also significantly weakened, to the point where he can't crawl up walls anymore. But yes, he's still a Peter clone.

Jack is the right hand man of the Jackal. Which, if you think about it, is pretty creepy — you know, the notion that Dr. Warren surrounds himself with little copies of Peter Parker to serve him. It's hard to say why Jack decided to stay by the side of his insane creator, but as the Clone Saga goes on (and on, and on...) it doesn't last. After betraying the Jackal, he succumbs to clone generation, and he has never been seen again since.

13. Spider-Amoeba

The zombie-like figure known as Carrion is one of Spider-Man's scariest enemies. Though his origins are a bit complicated, Carrion began as simply a clone of Dr. Miles Warren, the Jackal, and eventually evolved into a sentient virus that turns anyone it possesses into Carrion. Though Carrion never got as clone-obsessed as the man his genetics were copied from, Carrion did create at least one Spider-Man clone of his own. Not surprisingly, it's a creepy one.

The "Spider-Amoeba" is technically a clone of a college student named Randy Vale, which was then augmented by an injection of Spidey's DNA. This amoeba-like creature then grows into a monstrous beast with all of Spider-Man's powers, but no human instincts, morals, or intelligence. Though Spider-Man has a tough fight against the Spider-Amoeba, it eventually turns on Carrion himself, and both villains die when the whole lab catches on fire.

12. Superior Octopus

Otto Octavius, the mad scientist better known as Doctor Octopus, has been through some crazy stuff in the last few years. After spending a pretty solid chunk of his life as one of Spider-Man's archenemies, Ock's body started succumbing to the damage, so he did a little mind-swap with Peter Parker. This trapped Peter in the body of the dying Octavius, while Ock himself was free to swing around in Peter's body as the all-new, "superior" Spider-Man.

Since then, Peter's managed to make his way back to his own body, while the original Doc Ock has died. However, Octavius did save a copy of his consciousness before his untimely death, and this little mental clone of Doc Ock's mind has now managed to make his way into the physical "Proto Clone," a perfect duplicate of Peter Parker's body. Now possessing both the brilliant mind of Otto Octavius and a cloned body of Spider-Man (with no pesky Parker consciousness inside it), the new Ock has taken to calling himself the Superior Octopus.

11. Spider-Carnage from the Animated Series

Any kids who grew up watching the classic '90s cartoon Spider-Man: The Animated Series will this guy, the climactic villain who appeared in the show's final episode.

In the alternate universe that this character hails from, this version of "Peter Parker" is a person who for years believed himself to be the original Spider-Man, until tests by Dr. Curt Connors reveal that he is actually the clone, and Ben Reilly is the original. Overcome with rage, this clone then bonds with the Carnage symbiote. He then begins working to destroy all of reality as we know it, until the day is saved just in the nick of time by the heroic version of Spider-Man from the TV show's reality.

Yeah, it sounds complicated, but it honestly did make for a really memorable final episode.

10. Doppelganger

This animalistic Spider-Man clone was created during the comic book version of the Infinity War, generated by the cosmic power of the Infinity Gauntlet. Originally a living fractal, this creature was given shape during the conflict, crafted into a monstrous duplicate of Spider-Man. Similar nightmarish clones were generated for several other superheroes as well, but Spidey's "Doppelganger" was the only one who survived the storyline.

Possessing no real motivation or strong will of its own, Doppelganger has since become attached to its "parents," the murderous duo of Carnage and Shriek. It follows them around as their loyal, murderous companion, though Carnage is about as nasty a parent as one would expect him to be, trying to kill Doppelganger whenever the duplicate gets on his nerves.

9. Ultimate Carnage

Speaking of Carnage...

In Marvel's Ultimate Universe, Carnage is not the symbiotic spawn of Venom that gets bonded to a mass murderer. As scary as Cletus Kasady might be in the Marvel Universe, this version of Carnage is just as creepy: it's a vampiric organism that needs to feed off the genetic material of other living beings in order to survive. One of these beings, sadly, ends up being the Ultimate version of Gwen Stacy, who dies at Carnage's hands — while looking into Peter Parker's face. Like we said, it's a seriously creepy story.

This version of Carnage is also, at it happens, a Spider-Man clone. It is created by Curt Connors, who bonds Peter Parker's DNA to that of the Lizard, and then combines this with a sample from the Venom suit, resulting in what is probably the most horrifying clone on this list.