Super villains for Spiderman movies.

Published on May 10, 2004 By Jamie Burnside In Entertainment

The second Spiderman movie starts this summer. I am looking forward to seeing it.

In Spiderman 1, the villain was the Green Goblin. In the second movie, Doctor Octopus gets to take on Spiderman.

I am assuming that there will be a third (possibly more) Spiderman movie. I was wondering to myself which bad guy would be chosen for the third movie. After the Green Goblin and Doctor Octopus, there isn't another bad guy who stands head-and-shoulders above the rest. (The Hobgoblin might as well be the Green Goblin by the way.)

Here are my guesses for which villain will be next:

Most Likely:

The Lizard (already a Dr. Connor character)

Sandman (what is his origin anyway?)

Mysterio (possibly)

Semi-Likely:

The Vulture (my personal favorite)

The Beetle (another favorite)

Venom (too new. Too farfetched. There is also that issue of explaining the "Secret Wars" costume too)

Electro (he'd be good. They'd have to make his costume cooler though.)

Less Likely:

The Shocker

The Tarantula (I'd like to see that though)

Rhino (too stupid)

Kingpin (used in the Daredevil movie)

Did I leave anyone out? I quit reading Spiderman in the late 1980s, so there's a big hole in my knowledge.

Comments (Page 2)

bogis hilton

on Jun 21, 2004

hello does any1 hav a brain here if u make just the same villan like in 1 n 2 then it will b the same sorta thing its gotta b different like carnage and venom come on they wer frens in da cartoon y noton the big screen

bogis hilton

on Jun 21, 2004

wat about dople ganger has any 1 herd of him also i'd like 2 add that if venom was in it there could b the howl black costume thing spidy gettin taken over by venoms symbiot????????

psychx

on Jun 21, 2004

What do you guys think will be the main villain in X-Men 3. We were obviously clued into the appearance of the phoenix in the next one in X2 so I wonder if they will go with Jean Greys evil side first...

wnx_decoy

on Jun 21, 2004

I hope we, eventually, get some signs of villians like in uncanny X-Men, the ones that were the "evolved" form of the mutants. They were like huge, beastly, warriors. I doubt it, but It would be so awesome. Or how about some of the ol' Jugernaut?

Capt. over and out!

pseudosoldier

on Jul 02, 2004

Bogis - I think there are enough Spider-fans that don't like Venom (and more that don't like Carnage) that this opinion may get taken into account. As far as Doppleganger goes, I had to google for him. As he is tied pretty specifically to the Infinity mini-series (-es?), I don't think he'd make it in. Besides, you're the one calling for something "different." How different is he than just Venom or Carnage (who are fairly similar, themselves). Additionally, one has to take into account what the general viewing public will want from the film. The film *cannot* simply cater to the fanboy fan base.

As for X3, I'd like to see the Hellfire Club. (Okay, now who's giving into fanboy desires...) Hey, at least I said I'd *like* to see it. And it would tie in well with the Pheonix power and storyline. The sentinel program may be the best bet, at least if they can get the visuals done right.

psychx

on Jul 02, 2004

Juggernaut would be great, they would have to probably use cgi though. As far as Spiderman Villains Venom or Carnage I personally think are two of the best ones considering they are just augmented versions of Spiderman plus the costume effect for Venom would be awesome in a big budget Hollywood movie.

CS Guy

on Jul 02, 2004

While I would like to see the Lizard, Scorpion, Rhino, or Vulture, I just think they are too similar to he villains we have been provided to date. They are essentially all strong guys that beat up on spiderman.

Electro or Mysterio would be interesting (and I agree they would need to revamp Electro's ultra-lame costume).

I think Chameleon would be interesting as well, but I don't think there is enough time in a movie to really get into that character, and there would need to be at least one other villain to provide the muscle.

The things I like about the Green Goblin and Doc Ock is that they are smart. Offering a juggernaut of power, like the Rhino or Scorpion, may be intertaining in a comic, but it really lacks gravitas on the big screen.

Venom might be ok. They can do some interesting effects with that character, and they can probably condense/revamp his origin sufficiently. I've never been a fan of Venom, and even less so of Carnage, but that is my personal view. I think Carnage's backstory would be too complex for a movie, and I don't see what you get from using him over Venom anyway.

As for X3, I too would love to see the Hellfire Club. I also want to see more of Colossus.

Jamie Burnside

on Jul 05, 2004

For those of you following this thread, read the above post. It is fantastic.

Now I have seen the second Spider Man movie. There seemed to be a bit of foreshadowing of Harry Osbourne becoming a second Green Goblin or a Hobgoblin.

I think that if they go with that, it will be a bit of a letdown. If they choose to, here is one fan that hopes that they'll double-up on the bad guys.

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A TOPIC FOR ANOTHER BLOG. Spoiler-alert!!

I wanted to write about this before, but I didn't want to spoil the movie in my headline.

Since the Batman movies, the villian in each superhero movie has been killed at the end. As Doctor Octopus is my favorite Spider Man villian, I was reasonably disappointed that he was killed-off at the end. -I wouldn't mind if Dock Ock were to return in a subsequent movie. He was a fantastic villian!

Migz

on Jul 08, 2004

Doctor Doom

Jamie Burnside

on Jul 08, 2004

I think that they'd be sitting on Doctor Doom to use him in the Fantastic Four movie.

JillUser

on Jul 08, 2004

I think if they do the Hobgoblin in will be a minor side note. My votes for the next one are Venom or The Lizard. Does anyone else see MJ's fiance coming back as a bad guy? Just a theory.

Jamie Burnside

on Jul 08, 2004

fiance coming back as a bad guy?

In the comic books, a moon rock turns John Jameson into a wolfman.

I doubt that they'll make a movie about that though, that's digging pretty deep into the Spiderman villian files.

trina_p

on Jul 08, 2004

Since the Batman movies, the villian in each superhero movie has been killed at the end

The Riddler in Batman Forever was put in a mental institution and he claimed he knew who Batman was, when questioned by Dr Chase Meridian he said I'm Batman and she told the keepers to keep him.

I thought Dr Freeze survived too but come to think of it - he didn't

pseudosoldier

on Jul 08, 2004

Trina - Fair point about the Riddler. I think Jamie is ruling out quite a few superhero movie villains' survival other than that: Magneto, Mystique, Sabertooth, Bullseye, Kingpin...
Jamie does get some props for remembering Man-Wolf (damn, I had to look up the name). Man-Wolf did appear in a recent story-arc in Spider-Girl, however.
They might use Jack as "muscle" for a more "thinking" villain... EVERYONE KNOWS WE'RE IN SPOILER TERRITORY, RIGHT? But I question whether Harry is the "thinking" villain that we're looking for. Will he be the new GG, or even Hobby? Will he also have the Lizard for muscle? I guess we'll have to wait.
I have seen some speculation that you could make Jack a passable Venom character, using the origin for the symbiote that they used in the Spider-Man cartoon (found on the moon). They'd probably rather not do that, especially since they mentioned Eddie (Brock), the actual Venom host, in the first film.

Doctor Doom has got to be the villain for the upcoming FF movie. He was never much of a Spidey foe, anyway. Might as well say Firelord. (And, no, I don't want Cosmic Spidey for the third film.) [/geek]

wnx_decoy

on Jul 09, 2004

Hey, you know guys. If you think about it. It's very likely that the Lizard would be in the movie to aid Spidey as he often ended up doing in the cartoons. That would be a good time for a nice little of' team up on spidey. And do you think the wedding will be a factor in the third movie? Maybe spidey even gets a sidekick like Batman does...

I bet I'm wrong on all of my long shots, but it would be fun to see some of these.

My favorite character to see would have to be a toss up between Mysterio and Shocker still. Shocker could do all kinds of things in the movie, that he couldn't ever do before. And Mysterio could really do some wonders with the computer animation we have today. If it was going to be a truly awesome movie there would be a team up though... I'm tired of him fighting one villian in the time that he would usually fight the whole sinister six.

Capt. over and out!

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