played him day 1 vanilla, originally chose him because my name IRL is spenser… just spelled a little different 
I don’t know what drew me to start playing him, probably the mission mode but Bionic Lancer is the most satisfying hyper to land so he quickly became my favourite - and now even more so in Ultimate as I moved him from anchor to point. He even convinced me to get the 2009 game which I loved.
he is black
Needed a good assist to finish Wolverine Combos.
Wanted a character with 900k+ Health.
Wanted a character who synergizes with Sentinel.
Has great DMG potential when set up right.
Was annoyed by other Spencer players, cancelling out my neutral play with zip lines.
There you go!