Sequels New York's Mobsters

[Mistah K88]

Throughout his history Spider-Man has had to deal with the mobs of New York on numerous occasions, and has been caught up in the middle of several gang wars between the crime bosses of New York City. From the Big Man of Crime, to Crime Master, to the Kingpin of Crime and more, Spidey has several heavy hitters that tend to delve into more organized crime rather than the over the top super villainy. In fact, even the over the top super villains have tried to muscle their way into organized crime (top dogs Norman Osborn and Otto Octavius amongst them) and controlling New York’s Underworld. In fact, the theming can be similar to a “Mob vs Freaks” scenario with the supervillain element (Goblins, Ock, etc), the mobsters themselves (Lucky Lobo, Big Man, Enforcers, etc.), and something in between (Hammerhead, Silvermane, Tombstone, etc).
However, we seldom ever see any of these elements on the big screen, instead focusing on the larger than life super villainy. Heck, even the small screen tends to ignore the mobsters in Spidey’s world as of late in favor for the more colorful big bads. Now the question of the day is this, should we see this element established in a sequel or even Spidey movies in general? Or is it too small scale for this universe’s Spidey, and would better fit someone more “street level” like Daredevil? If you would like to see Spider-Man’s mob rogues in the future, who would you like to see?

 

[ItchyWebShooter]

Tombstone seems like a good fit for an MCU villain, but I'd love to see a Crime Master/Big Man mystery play out over a feature film.

 

[Tg11]

If only Kingpin could be used in the MCU film universe but he can't since he is in the Netflixverse so Tombstone would be the next best option

 

[metaphysician]

I'd really rather that Peter spend his time fighting "blue collar supervillains" than mobsters, even mobsters with super-muscle ( or super-muscles ). Fits better with Spider-man's general schtick of "street level Superman", primarily swinging around the city saving people in need.

 

[2kt09]

It's the best way to differentiate from previous takes, whilst keeping it small-scale by having the bad guys be the city's organized criminal underbelly. Dunno much about Mr Negative, but he looked great in that gameplay reveal.

 

[Tg11]

If they could use Wilson Fisk imagine

 

[ItchyWebShooter]

Damn, now I'm thinking about the visual possibility of Mr. Negative on film.

That would be sick.

 

[Mistah K88]

I'd really rather that Peter spend his time fighting "blue collar supervillains" than mobsters, even mobsters with super-muscle ( or super-muscles ). Fits better with Spider-man's general schtick of "street level Superman", primarily swinging around the city saving people in need.

I think that it could be connected in a way. The mobs of New York are a middle man between the random bank robberies to the big time super villainy.

Crime bosses like Francisco Lobo know that they are beneath the notice of the Avengers, and Spidey taking on these blue collar criminals starts to put enough of a dent in their income that they start focusing on him. It's kind of like Spidey simply beating some blue collar baddies has a domino effect which lands him into something bigger unexpectedly.

We all know Fisk is out of the picture...as I'm sure they are unable to use him... but Spidey has plenty of bad guys who are involved in organized crime. Heck Tombstone has ties to Robbie Robertson if they ever decide to bring in the Bugle.

 

[ItchyWebShooter]

I'd love to see some gang war storylines. And there's plenty of ways to draw in the major motion picture supervillains into these stories from the classic ASM issue "The Goblin and the Gangsters" to the fantastic "Gangland" episode of TSSM.