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During character development for what would eventually be Spiderman, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko originally wanted a mammalian themed superhero to add to the Marvel Universe. Preliminary ideas led to the creation of "Aardvarkman," a superhero with the ability to control hordes of soldier ants. However, in the words of Ditko "the idea of a long gross tongue seemed downright evil in nature; a tongue that long with a mouth that small seems ridiculous." The soldier ant theme eventually led to the creation of Spiderman, and the supervillain Toad was eventually created from the failed artwork for Aardvarkman.
UPDATE: After 12 days, not only is the Aardvark edit still on Wikipedia, someone actually corrected Jeremy's edit. They changed Spiderman to Spider-Man. Gotta remember the hyphen!
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