10 Things About SpiderMan Villains Only Comic Book Fans Know

10 Things About Spider-Man Villains Only Comic Book Fans Know

In the Spider-Man movies, villains such as Green Goblin and Electro have not been adapted as faithfully as Marvel Comics fans would like.

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Spider-Man has had several live-action interpretations including two reboots, and Spider-Man: No Way Home seems to be pulling villains from a bunch of other franchises. While always interesting versions, what’s shown in the movies is not always one to one accurate portrayals of his antagonists in the comics.

Oftentimes there are necessary (and unnecessary) changes, and details or storylines tend to get left out when members of his rogues gallery are adapted for the big screen. While these exclusions may seem minor, they nonetheless reveal important aspects to their personalities that are ripe for proper representation on the big screen.

The Shocker Is Surprisingly Smart

Many depictions short-change Herman Schultz as just a thug who happened on some gauntlets and uses them to rob banks. In Spider-Man: Homecoming he makes a brief appearance as one of Vulture’s goons, using weapons designed by the Tinkerer that resemble his gauntlets from the comics. What fans wouldn’t know based on his appearance in the movies is that the Shocker is actually rather intelligent.

In the comics, he designed and built his own gauntlets while in prison, then used them to escape and continue his life of crime. Unfortunately, while in the presence of scientific geniuses like Otto Octavius or Norman Osborn, his intellect often goes unnoticed.

Curt Connors Loses His Intelligence When He Becomes The Lizard

In Amazing Spider-Man, Doc Conners becomes a crazed lizard creature bent on turning the denizens of New York City into lizard creatures. It’s implied that the experiment he ran on himself to regrow his arm changed his mind so much that he became so single-mindedly motivated. Despite his mutations, Connors seems to retain his intellect as he’s able to develop a serum to achieve his villainous ends.

What isn’t touched on in the movie, and what most comic book fans know about the Lizard, is that Doctor Conners actually undergoes a slight loss in cognition. There even came a moment where, when looking at notes he wrote while in human form, he couldn’t understand them while in lizard form.

Sandman’s Weakness Is Sometimes A Strength

Flint Marko made his first prominent live-action appearance in Spider-Man 3, looking very much like his comic book self, green striped shirt and all. It’s touched on briefly in the movie that Sandman’s weakness is water, as it turns him into clumpy sand that he can no longer control.

In the comics, however, this weakness was played around with. Marko had a rivalry with Hydro-Man over a lady love, Sadie Fricket. During a physical fight, the two fused and became Mud-Thing, a mindless creature possessed only by their mutual love for Sadie. Mud-Thing was a gentle creature until they witnessed Sadie with another man, flew into a rage, and had to be subdued by Spider-Man.

Electro’s Origins Have Nothing To Do With Eels

In Amazing Spider-Man 2, Electro has many differences from his comic book counterpart. Taking inspiration from his Ultimate Universe version, this version ditches the yellow electricity for blue and loses the lightning bolt headpiece. Aside from these changes, Maxwell Dillon is reimagined as a pencil-pushing scientist who gains his powers by falling into a tank full of genetically modified electric eels.

This origin is a totally new fabrication for the character. In the comics, Electro simply either gets struck by lightning while in contact with power lines, or gains his powers as a result of experimentation with electrical energy. As obvious as it might be to continue the trend of animal-themed villains for Spidey, it was never the case with Electro in the comics.

The Vulture Is An Energy Vampire

Portrayed in Spider-Man: Homecoming by Michael Keaton, Adrian Toomes is a disgraced salvager who turns to a life of crime. His flight suit operates mostly as a jet engine with wings, and a rebreather with foot claws for stealing volatile alien technology in order to secure a living for him and his family while sticking it to those who wronged him.

This is an interesting and thematic take, but in the comics, much of Toomes’ technology and motivation revolves around his status as an elderly man. His harness in the comics had the added effect of extending his life. And with the Juvenator, a device he invented, he was able to absorb lifeforce and youthfulness from other people. He even at one time absorbed enough to be able to turn into a young man and cure his cancer.

The Scorpion Has Had More Than One Costume

Mac Gargan makes a brief cameo appearance in Homecoming, played by Michael Mando as a criminal associating with the Vulture. Unfortunately, he has yet to don his scorpion-tailed armor, but what comic book fans may know that moviegoers do not is that he’s worn more than just an arthropod-themed exoskeletal suit.

Scorpion in the comics at one point bonded with a newly separated Venom symbiote over their mutual hatred of Spider-Man, and so for a time he sported the black and white costume and took on the Venom moniker.

Doctor Octopus Once Became Spider-Man

The on-screen adaptation of Doctor Octopus is very much like his comic book counterpart; the genius, the mechanical harms, the hatred of Spider-Man. The rivalry between Otto Octavius and Peter Parker is arguably more iconic than with Green Goblin and has spanned decades and mediums, but only comic book fans will know that for a time in the comics he swapped bodies with Peter Parker, and assumed the identity of the Superior Spider-Man. During this time, Octavius steered the Spider-Man persona into a more ruthless territory, developing Spider-Bots to patrol the city, and publicly executing criminals in order to prevent crime.

The Kingpin’s Secret Weapon

Kingpin has had a few depictions across multiple movies and with the Daredevil Netflix series, as well as now the Hawkeye Disney+ series. Only in a few of those does he carry around his iconic jeweled walking stick. An undeniably snazzy fashion statement to say the least, but this accessory has both form and function.

In the comics, Fisk’s walking stick doubled as a weapon, with features including but not limited to a sleeping gas dispenser, and laser beam projector. These are generally used sparingly and as a last resort, as usually his massive size and strength will suffice in a fight, but it is nevertheless a neat trick.

The Green Goblin Was Once The Marvel Universe’s Most Popular Hero

In the Sam Raimi movies, Green Goblin is very much the megalomaniacal, power-hungry villain that he is in the comics, and has some of the best quotes in the first Spider-Man trilogy. What the movies don’t touch on is his politically scheming side. Norman Osborn in the comics was able to, through subterfuge and manipulation of the media, secure himself a position as Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. and H.A.M.M.E.R., and touted himself as “America’s Last Hero.” He even made himself an Iron Man-esque suit of armor, called himself Iron Patriot, and formed the Dark Avengers.

The Rhino Is Stuck In His Suit

The Rhino has only seen live-action representation as a tertiary antagonist in Amazing Spider-Man 2, and even that was very limited to a glorified cameo. Appearing only in the opening and ending as a bookend for the movie, Aleksei Sytsevich, as portrayed by Paul Giamatti is a stereotypical Russian mobster in a tracksuit, which he later upgrades to a giant rhino-shaped mech suit.

What is less well-known to audiences is that in the comics, Aleksei is permanently grafted into the suit, and unable to exit it. It even got to a point where writers felt the need to explain that there is indeed an invisible seam in his suit that he can use to expel waste.

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