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The Mindworm (William Turner) is a Marvel Comics character and a former enemy of Spider-Man. The...

The Mindworm (William Turner) is a Marvel Comics character and a former enemy of Spider-Man. The character first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 1) #138. Mindworm was a superhuman mutant with limited telephatic powers who was briefly a minor enemy of Spider-Man. He had an oversized cranium and was naturally extremely intelligent. Eventually, Mindworm attempted to reform but his problems were too difficult for him to control and he allowed himself to be killed by common street thugs to end his great suffering. C.M. Kornbluth published a science fiction short story in 1950 with the title The Mindworm. The center character of this was a mutant who fed (fatally) on others' emotions. The Marvel character of that name has very similar abilities. He is also mentally ill, suffering from severe debilitating chronic depression and light dementia. Born a freak with superhuman powers, William Turner accidentally killed his mother through his unconscious vampiric psionic feeding, which caused his father to go into emotional shock and run in front of a car. The effect of this incident was extremely traumatic for young William as he deeply cared about both of his parents and did not even