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Marvel Comics storyline

"The Six Arms Saga" is a story arc featuring the popular Marvel Comics character Spider Man, written by Stan Lee and drawn by Gil Kane. It spans the issues The Amazing Spider Man #100–102 (1971) and features the first appearance and origin story of Morbius, the Living Vampire. The story arc is mostly remembered for Spider Man growing four extra arms, and for a subsequent What If ? stating that keeping the arms would have allowed Spider Man to save Gwen Stacy and defeat Thanos himself. The Six Armed Spider Man appears in Spider Man: Across the Spider Verse.) also has six arms.

Deadpool encounters a version of Spider Man in a universe which he refers to as "an Age of Apocalypse" (not the Age of Apocalypse). In this reality, a six armed Spider Man becomes Pestilence, Horseman of Apocalypse, with poisonous fangs and engages in cannibalism.

An issue of What If? had asked "What If Spider Man had Kept his Six Arms?". Morbius is killed by sharks (they were attracted to the blood on Morbius' clothing when he landed in the water) before a cure for Spider Man's mutation is found. After a fight with the Lizard, Spider Man is advised by Dr. Curt Connors to see Professor X. Spider Man ends up in a scuffle with X Men members Angel, Beast, Cyclops and Iceman until Professor X and Jean Grey break it up. Professor X then examines him with Cerebro and learns that Spider Man's mutation is now permanent. Spider Man then visits Mister Fantastic for a second opinion. Mister Fantastic also states that the mutation has become permanent. When the Thing comes in announcing that Doctor Octopus is holding hostages at City Hall demanding to see Spider Man, Spider Man easily takes down Doctor Octopus with his six arms. Spider Man gains enormous popularity and is the nationally recognized spokesperson for the physically challenged, thereby proving J. Jonah Jameson wrong in his assumption that Spider Man would be considered as a freak. Afterwards, Mister Fantastic summons Spider Man back to present his latest invention four arm sheaths that will keep the extra arms invisible (as long as they are worn) when Peter Parker is in his civilian outfit. Years later, Aunt May has died of natural causes and Peter begins his full time career as a superhero. His extra limbs give him augmented strength and agility. Spider Man also prevented the death of Gwen Stacy at the hands of the Green Goblin as well as participating in the Secret Wars where his alien costume soon resulted in the creation of Venom whom Spider Man also defeats. The story ends with Peter accepting the situation in which he was responsible for and making the best of it.

In the run up to Spider Verse, after learning that something is crossing dimensions to kill Spider Men, the Superior Spider Man (Doctor Octopus' mind in Spider Man's body) assembles a team of the more ruthless surviving Spider Men to oppose this threat, including a six armed Spider Man wearing a costume perfectly adapted to his condition. During the storyline, this version of Spider Man accompanies Spider Man Noir to a world where the spider bite left Peter in a coma, with the six armed Spider Man using the serum that gave him his extra arms to cure Peter of his mutation for good, guessing that Peter's mutation being so new would make it more receptive to the serum. However, the six armed Spider Man is later killed during a trip to 2099 with Lady Spider and Spider Man 2099 when he is caught and fed on by one of the Inheritors.

"The Six Arms Saga" is adapted into the second season of Spider Man: The Animated Series, Neogenic Nightmare. In this continuity, the transformation is caused by the same spider bite that gave Spider Man his powers and took longer to develop. After the mutation begins, Spider Man first asks Professor X and the X Men for aid, but they are unable to help. Spider Man then turns to Dr. Mariah Crawford instead, but his initial attempt at a cure results in him growing four arms. After fighting the Punisher, Michael Morbius, and the NYPD, the accelerated mutation causes Spider Man to mutate into the feral "Man Spider". Kraven the Hunter and Punisher are eventually able to capture Man Spider and deliver him to Dr. Crawford, who restores him to normal. By the end of the season, the Vulture attempts to drain Spider Man's youth and power, but Dr. Curt Connors reprograms the Vulture's equipment to absorb the defective genome that originally caused Spider Man's mutation and permanently cure him, though the genome was temporarily transferred to the Vulture. In the two part series finale, "Spider Wars", Spider Man teams up with multiple alternate reality versions of himself assembled by the Beyonder and Madame Web, including a Spider Man that was still dealing with his mutation crisis who eventually transforms into Man Spider during their mission. The Beyonder later teleports Man Spider back to his home dimension so he can receive help. The Six Arms Saga is alluded to in Ultimate Spider Man. In the episode "Strange", Peter Parker imagines that he has four additional arms in a dream induced by Nightmare. In "Carnage", the Green Goblin injects Peter with the Carnage symbiote, leading to Peter imagining what his subsequent transformation will look like, with a spider like form being among the possibilities. In "The Savage Spider Man", while traveling to the Savage Land with Wolverine, Spider Man is poisoned during an encounter with Taskmaster and transforms into the feral Man Spider before he is eventually cured after Ka Zar sprays him with liquid from a skunk like creature. In "Return to the Spider Verse (Pt. 4)", an alternate reality version of Man Spider was captured by Wolf Spider before the "prime" Spider Man, Miles Morales, and Spider Gwen arrive to rescue them and defeat Wolf Spider.

In November 2017, Sony Pictures announced plans to make a film adaptation of Morbius' origin story from "The Six Arms Saga" as part of Sony's Spider Man Universe, written by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, directed by Daniel Espinosa, and starring Jared Leto as Dr. Michael Morbius, with Spider Man removed from the narrative. Production began in November 2018, with filming beginning in February 2019. Morbius was originally scheduled to be released on January 28, 2022, before it was pushed back to April 1, 2022. The six armed Spider Man appears in Spider Man: Across the Spider Verse as a member of Miguel O'Hara's Spider Society.

The six armed Spider Man appears as a playable character in Spider Man Unlimited.