The Amazing Spider-Man Official Villian Casting & Discussion Thread

[bullets]

I'd like to see Kraven and Lizard with the Introduction of Black Cat and possibly Kingpin

I would like to see part 5 and 6 a two part scenario where Kingpin breaks criminals out of prison to form a sinister six ( Electro , Vulture , Scorpion , Hobgoblin , Shocker, Rhyno ) You could also have Spider-man get assistance from Snadman and Black Cat to defeat them.

 

[Rodrigo90]

If he wasnt making cameo appearances,yeah. He wouldve been good. But itll just screw things up. I want Beck to be what he is from the comics.

 

[JackIvyGB]

I'd like to see Sandman's daughter die because he couldn't get the medicine he needed for her, and in turn he can't think of anyone to blame it on except for Spider-man, so he is the one who comes out to reunite the singularly defeated bad guys under their new unseen leader, the so called "Master Planner" (name might be a little cheesy actually...) and their unknown financier...Otto Octavius and Norman Osborn! We thought they were dead, but Otto's legs crawled him up out of the water to safety and resuscitated him! He has some harsh amnesia and keeps getting flashes of memories that only make him angrier. And the Goblin formula worked some preservation and healing factor magic and voila!

Green Goblin (in a sicker suit. Make it a little more scary looking, almost zombie-esque perhaps, keeping with his "risen from the dead" motif)
Doc Ock
Sandman
and whichever 3 bad guys Spidey fights, locks away, and Sandman subsequently breaks out (I vote for Electro, Scorpion, and either Shocker or Vulture. Lizard has to much of an emotional attatchment. He's not as much a bad guy as he is like a werewolf type thing. Someone who doesn't want to hurt people, but can't stop himself. I can't see Connors conspiring with the S6, and definitely not Lizard, as he should be an inhuman beast who at best mutters what could be considered singular words and noises)

VS

Spidey and Black Cat!

Play it out like the last part of Mark Millar's "Marvel Knights Spider-Man", only it's 6 instead of 12, the Avengers don't show up!

They could even use that same storyline: 6 of Spidey's deadliest enemies have returned, some from the grave, to enact their revenge...and they know who he is, who he loves, and how to hit him where it hurts the most. Peter is so concerned about them coming after MJ that he forgets to keep a better eye on Aunt May. They both end up getting kidnapped and Peter enlists Felicia to help him in his biggest battle yet.

 

[Oscorp]

Smythe, Vulture, and Electro are not minor villains. The Spider Slayers I don't think should be a throw away threat if they were used. He controls an army of those things. Vulture and Electro are SS memebers, and guys who have been huge threats to Spider-Man over the years. They're not villains who should be in the opening for Spidey to own.

I don't think we need throw away villains. Instead of having scenes that derail from the plot, we need ones that serve the plot. If a Shocker was to be thrown out in the first scene of the film or whatever, it would have to have some purpose. You can't just start the film on a random fight. That is valuable screentime you're wasting doing that.

Agree to everything you said! However, I'd love an opening scene to show Spidey beat the crap out of some street thugs. Just to show that he doesn't just fight superpowered foes etc.

 

[david icke]

I've been saying this ever sense Spider-Man 2! Seriously, you have one of the most popular heroes ever, and instead of at least opening on him stopping some sort of crime, be it a simple robbery or one of his minor villains...we open on him delivering pizza. I may have been more forgiving if he had stopped in the middle of the delivery to catch a purse snatcher as opposed to saving kids playing in the streets, but seriously...delivering pizza.

Aw, I loved that opening, 'He stole that guy's pizza!', thought it was perfect for Spider-man as he is the misunderstood everyman superhero.
He did save those kids on the way remember, so it wasn't all pizza.

I love how Shocker seems to pop up from time to time only to have his butt handed to him in the Ultimate Spider-Man comics. He seems to be like the perfect character for this type of thing. It'd be cool to see him pop up a couple times and just get whooped, but then all of a sudden when the sinister 6 come out and he's just so pissed off now that he actually puts up a darn good fight with them against spidey...but still ends up getting whooped.

Villans like the Shocker are perfect for this type of proposed opening. A minor but well known villan who uses technology as opposed to superpowers, you don't have to explain how they got powers or where they came from. And you can always have a throwaway explanation of where they stole the tech from or something.
Shocker, Rocket Racer, Prowler, Grizzly, these type of guys.

It feels like the only superhero film to start off with the "hero fighting a minor villain" angle is TDK, when he busts up Scarecrow's drug deal, though I'm not sure if Scarecrow qualifies as low level.

Scarecrow is major, and he already had his big role in the previous movie, this was just a tying up of loose ends scene from that. It was great to get that finally in a sh movie, just the one appearance from a supervillan in the opening action scene with the hero.

 

[sauronthegreat]

Electro, Vulture, and Smythe can't be minors. Electro could carry a film by himself, even Smythe can, maybe it would be great if the Scorpion was along with Smythe. Vulture definitley can't hold a film by himself IMO, but he is in no way a throw-away villain for one scene.
It's difficult to put Morbius in a Spidey film, with the 'realism' that Raimi established.. as a mutant maybe, but not a vampire. And it would be rather strange for Spidey to fight a vampire for one first action scene and then continue with Mysterio or Electro.
Only villains that deserve screentime, and are not that complex to hold a film by themselves or even in a team up with another, are maybe Shocker and Rhino, and they are not that hard to explain, but I would rather see them form a 'film version' of the Sinister Six.

 

[ThatDamnNinja]

So the big names being thrown around right now are:

Black Cat
Electro
Tombstone
Vulture

Cast 'em!

 

[TheScarecrow]

Black Cat: Melissa George.
Electro: Ben Foster.
Tombstone: Eric Dane.
Vulture: Alan Rickman.

 

[ThatDamnNinja]

Oh, by the way, Tombstone is black.

 

[mre]

Alan Rickman as the Vulture?




I don't think so.

 

[GoldGoblin]

So were getting a mobster and his henchman as villains,but the mob boss is Vulture and his henchman is Black Cat,who are father and daughter?

 

[GoldGoblin]

So Vulture and Black Cat own the Daily Bugle as a cover.Black Cat sneeks into Oscorp and steals the Goblin formula that gives her her strength and agility,but her father's body is too old for the formula cause it will give him a heart attack and kill him,so he uses the glider tech to create his wings.

 

[GoldGoblin]

Have spidey vs shocker,and after shocker is defeated just have the reporter say that another thug has been given suped up tech by the tinkerer.

 

[NinjaCarm]

God we got some varied opinions in this thread.

We have everything from Black Cat and Vulture as MAIN VILLIANS to someone suggesting SHOCKER and RHINO could hold their own movie !


SHOCKER and RHINO !!!! ???? !!!!!

Are you kidding me ?

 

[GoldGoblin]

The Tinkerer could give us alot of villains for spidey to fight.A suit that creates illusions,a suit with gauntlets that shoots out vibrations,another suit that does the same thing but shoots electricity,the rhino being a suit kinda like iron monger was in iron man,etc.

Maybe the Tinkerer is just the right hand man to the main villain who is the crimelord.

 

[GoldGoblin]

Bruce Campbell will be the crimelord mobb boss known as Tombstone...

 

[sauronthegreat]

The whole plot of father and daughter owning the Bugle and at the same time be crime lords and then turning super villains is SICK! It will never happen! It's just terrible!!!

 

[Michael Frost]

Tombstone is albino.

Anyway, if he really has to be in a movie, I'd choose Kevin Bacon. He has this cadaveric face that would fit.

 

[david icke]

Awesome. When was the last time that a female villian was done well? (actually it was 1992).

Mystique in the X-Men films was one of the best villans done in comicbook films.

 

[SymbioticToxin]

Mystique in the X-Men films was one of the best villans done in comicbook films.

Until X-3. But yes, she was one of the best.

 

[david icke]

Until X-3. But yes, she was one of the best.

She was still consistent with her character from the previous in X-Men 3 though, so she was still good, it was just a shame that her character was hardly in the movie. I read somewhere it was due to a scheduling conflict.

 

[mre]

Tombstone is albino.

Anyway, if he really has to be in a movie, I'd choose Kevin Bacon. He has this cadaveric face that would fit.

From Wikipedia:

Born as Lonnie Thompson Lincoln in Harlem, in New York City, Lonnie started out as troubled youth who was bullied by his peers because he was Harlem's only African American albino.

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

Alan Rickman as the Vulture?




I don't think so.

Agreed. I think that if Vulture is in the 4th one, it's obvious that Ben kingsley will play him. One of the reasons being he was going to play Vulture in S-M3.

 

[mre]

Agreed. I think that if Vulture is in the 4th one, it's obvious that Ben kingsley will play him. One of the reasons being he was going to play Vulture in S-M3.

Kingsley is a great actor, and he definitely looks like the Vulture.

 

[SymbioticToxin]

Kingsley is a great actor, and he definitely looks like the Vulture.

Well, nostril wise anyway, lol. But no, he does look like Toomes.