Benjamin "Ben" Reilly, the first major version of Scarlet Spider, is a clone of Spider-Man created by the Jackal. He first appeared in Web of Spider-Man #118.
Peter Parker
Peter Parker was forced to use the Scarlet Spider identity due to all of his Spider-Man costumes being ruined to continue his superheroic activities, while Ben Reilly pretended to be the former in prison.
Joe Wade
Joe Wade is the only character to operate as a villain under the Scarlet Spider alias. An undercover FBI agent assigned to investigate the second Doctor Octopus, he is discovered and turned into a hard-light holographic duplicate of Ben Reilly to ruin the latter's name. In his Scarlet Spider guise, Joe is actually trapped in a virtual reality chamber, and his thoughts power the hologram. Despite this, Joe is unable to stop himself from committing acts of violence. When the real Scarlet Spider attacks Doctor Octopus's lair, he damages the machine while Joe is still inside. The damage to the virtual reality chamber causes the grafts to malfunction, and Joe becomes a real mechanized Scarlet Spider with amazing powers. As the new Scarlet Spider, Joe is superhumanly strong and fast, and has claws on his fingertips; he can also fire webbing from his wrists, crawl up walls, and fire laser 'stingers' from his eyes. It takes both Ben Reilly and the New Warriors to stop the cybernetic Scarlet Spider, and the FBI put him in custody and have him undergo medical treatments to remove the technology.
Scarlet Spiders (Red Team)
The Scarlet Spiders, secretly all clones of Michael Van Patrick, work with the and wear advanced versions of the Iron Spider armor.
Kaine Parker
Kaine Parker, a clone of Spider-Man also created by the Jackal, is the fifth major version of Scarlet Spider.
In the alternate future MC2, Felicity Hardy, daughter of Felicia Hardy and Flash Thompson, adopts the Scarlet Spider identity to irritate her mother. She attempts to convince Spider-Girl to take her on as a sidekick, but the latter refuses. Undeterred, she continues to fight crime until several near death experiences cause her to give up the identity. Although she has no actual powers, she is skilled in martial arts and gymnastics and utilizes an array of spider-themed weaponry.
Spider-Gwen
The Spider-Gwen universe's Mary Jane Watson dresses as the Scarlet Spider for Halloween.
The Scarlet Spider alias appears in the Ultimate Spider-Man animated series. The alias is used as Flash Thompson's wannabe superhero identity in the third season Ultimate Spider-Man: Web-Warriors. A hybrid of Ben Reilly and Kaine Parker appears in the fourth season Ultimate Spider-Man Vs The Sinister Six.
Video games
The Ben Reilly version of Scarlet Spider is an alternate costume design for Spider-Man in the 2000 Spider-Man video game and ', ', ', Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and '.
