Film Theory: Did Flash SPOIL Spiderman's Next Villain?

Well, I have some title ideas for the

next

Spiderman movie. Brilliant! I can't wait to hear them. Well, do you know that each one presents some play on the word "home"? I think these will be branded. Well, then continue! Let's listen to them! Imagine this. Spiderman: Homewrecker. Where Peter cheats on MJ Mmm? :o Hoh, wow. Well, that's annoying because they just got together. And they are not married. And they are homeless -_- I hear you loud and clear. How about this? Spiderman: Homebound Peter Parker develops terrible agoraphobia. It's pretty hard to fight crime when you don't leave the house.

People know who he is now. Maybe that makes you nervous. Well, I guess that makes sense. What else were you thinking? How about this one then? Spiderman: Home on the Range It's a western, gunslinger meets webslinger Ooh, dangerous and sticky, I like it Alright. Well, how about you try this one on for size? Spiderman: Home Alone Where, instead of using his fighting powers, he sets creative traps using everyday household objects. Eat a can of paint, Hobgoblin. Oh, and we finally have one that I know you'll love. Spiderman: Home for the Holidays A non-denominational game. celebration for the whole family.

Well, I'm sold. Call the boys. We have something to announce at Comic Con. Hello Internet, welcome to Film Theory Using our theoretical tingle to dispel all Mysterio illusions and let me tell you, between fake restaurants, fake Mysterios and fake Nick Furys, I felt tingles all over while watching Far from home. I should probably get him checked out by a doctor, but seriously, I felt like he couldn't trust anything. The ushers were there trying to get me out of my seat, and I was like, "NO! I feel the vomiting around me. Everyone is trying to make me think the movie is over, but we're still somewhere." In Act 2!" Long story short, I'm not allowed to go back to that theater.

On the plus side, I left Far From Home with a lot of theoretical material. So today I'm tackling a

theory

that's so speculative. It's more of a hypothesis than a

theory

. I know, I know, Blasphemy. But when I left the theater I couldn't get it out of my head and I thought it was a great topic to talk about in the series. You see, the most important part Far From Home isn't so much what's in the movie. Instead, it's what comes after the movie. Far From Home isn't just another step on Marvel's ladder to box office heaven.

It's clear that this

film

acts as a turning point between where we've been and where we're going. A gateway to Marvel's post-Endgame era, where suddenly everything is called into question. From your leadership to your own identity. And as part of So, I'm here today to predict Spider-Man's

next

major role in all of this. Because at this point, Tom Holland's Spider-Man movies have gone too far. I think they have revealed too much. And as a result, I have a solid hypothesis about where things are headed for the old webhead in the next feature

film

. So book your tickets now, ladies and gentlemen, because Spider-Man's next opponent is going to be a massive showdown, with the Sinister 6.

For those of you who may not be familiar, The Sinister 6 is a team made up of several of the nastiest

villain

s from Spiderman. Can you guess how many? Typically, a massive team of super

villain

s would be something that would develop fairly late in a comic's run as they figured out how to create new and exciting stories for the same character, but when it comes to Sinister 6, its beginnings. Actually, they start from the beginning of the Spiderman comics, back in 1963. :o And since then there have been no less than 24 different versions. Which have had names like The Sinister 6, The Sinister 7, The Sinister 12, The Superior 6, The Hexagon of the Haters, The Most Sinister Six and the 6 Men of Sinestry.

That one with the hexagon was a joke by the way, but it's not like you noticed, right? This group has been through more reboots than the Spiderman movies. But in all seriousness, me standing here as my virtual self saying that the movies will feature Spider-Man's most iconic group of villains, they probably won't set the world on fire. So instead, let's be even more specific in selecting who exactly those six characters will be. That would be a little more impressive, right? I mean, I need to do a lot to make up for the failed prediction theories of the past.

Therefore, it would be difficult to identify the top 6 villains for Peter P's next appearance in a movie that hasn't even been announced yet. Throughout Marvel's history, there have been over 40 members of the Sinister 6, leaving us with plenty of villain options to fit into the group. It's like the popular fraternity of comics. Everyone rushes inside. Luckily, I don't need to rely on my usual prediction methods. There have been a lot of solid clues throughout the series. If we go back to Homecoming, at the end of that movie, we already know 50% of the team that will lead this new version of Sinister 6.

The first and most obvious inclusion is Adrian Toomes, also known as The Vulture. . Who might have been kind enough to preserve Spidey's secret identity in prison. "If he knew who he was, he would already be dead." But now that everyone knows the truth, all bets are off. Toomes has an ax to grind. It's also worth noting that The Vulture is an OG member of The Sinister 6. The original seven iterations of this group featured The Vulture prominently, so not including him when he's already an established part of this Cinematic Universe would be a big deal. surprise. And that's not all.

On the Vulture team, we have a brief passing reference to another classic Spider-Man villain. The surprise. In the MCU, Shocker is not a major supervillain, but rather a nasty salesman who fires Vulture's illegal rockets in public and attracts the attention of Spider-Man, which in turn makes Vulture realize that old Sparky is too much responsibility and it is necessary to let it go in the most violent way possible. While it initially seems like The Vulture just turned Sinister 6 into Fearsome 5, he quickly replaces Shocker with a new Shocker, passing the torch quite explicitly. "Here. You're The Shocker now." I don't think it's a throwaway phrase, friends.

It's short and easy to dismiss as just a tongue-in-cheek Easter egg, but remember, we saw a similar series of events become the main plot twist in Far From Home. We are a group of smaller characters that have been created through past films and suddenly emerged to the forefront to become major players. So will The Shocker have a similar reveal in the third Spider-Man movie? Oh yeah. It definitely has a precedent. And not only that, but Shocker is actually a canonical member of the Sinister 6 in the comics. I mean, pretty much everyone is, but still, he's there.

Usually as a member of the expanded Sinisters, such as Sinister 7 and Sinister 66. You heard that right, SIXTY-SIX. Here I thought Infinity War had a lot of characters. Anyway, there are two villains in the first movie, but we can move on. There are a couple more tertiary villains we see running around on the Vulture team, but I'm more hesitant to count on these guys because they rarely appear in Sinister 6 and they simply don't have the same level of name appeal. Specifically I'm referring to the Marauder, played in Homecoming by Childish Gambino himself, Donald Glover, and The Tinkerer, who is worth mentioning because, well, if I didn't, you guys would light me up in the comments thinking I miss him. .

I did not do it. He's just not interesting enough to make the official team counted here. Which, of course, brings us to the end of Homecoming. Here, The Vulture goes to prison and meets Mac Gargan. If that name doesn't ring a bell, the tattoo on his neck certainly should. A scorpion. It looks like Mac continues the great tradition of arthropods in this franchise by taking on the role of The Scorpion. A guy who traditionally has a giant tail that shoots acid. How more technology-focused films will make this attack strategy less cumbersome is up for debate. But there's no doubt he'll join forces with Toomes.

Just in his brief scene, it's immediately established that he's also after Spider-Man and wants to team up. So, long story short, at the beginning of Far From Home, we know that these two bad guys are still in prison together, and the new Shocker is still floating around somewhere too. Giving us a solid lead over at least 3 of 6 Casualties. Let's see who else will appear in Far From Home. At the beginning of the new movie, Peter and his friends were simply wiped out for 5 years by Thanos. The very fabric of reality has been shaken. Oh! But do not worry.

The Avengers discovered that annoying time travel business and now everything is back to normal. With everyone now fully acclimated to aliens and magic and Tony Stark destroying large sections of major cities, it turns out to be the perfect place for Mysterio to enter the fray, with the world willing to believe literally anything at this point. Literally anything at this point waiting in his organization of background players from all the past movies decides to create his own superhero, a soldier from another universe, Mysterio and, if ever there was a superhero, perfect villain for the Internet age. This guy is fake.

He only makes things for the cloud. His entire reputation depends on everything being on video because if there really was a true Avengers-level threat, Mysterio would be completely useless. In short, Mysterio would be a great YouTuber. He'd be funny if he weren't completely depressing. Anyway, Hauk Mysterio is another core member of our new Brotherhood of Sinister Travelers. Now I know the first thing you're going to say, but we saw Mysterio die at the end of Far From Home. Which is absolutely true. I totally believe Quentin Beck is dead. Despite my best efforts in researching this episode to prove otherwise, but far from home, where a shot of the team is very clearly shown of him taking the computers and drives that hold all of Mysterio's files, I mean , think about it.

They were doing Mysterio's trick before taking control of Edith. Edith simply allowed him to do it on a larger scale and throughout the film. They very intentionally show Quentin Beck and Mysterio separately. Mysterio is just a projection, a drone, of what this superhero suit looks like. So not only can Mysterio return, that kind of plot is also canonical in the source material. Mysterio's original plot in the early days of the Spider-Man comics beginning in issue #13 is to pretend to be a good guy by exposing Spider-Man's true identity to Jay Jonah Jameson and then faking his own death.

Which one wouldn't you know? They all turned out to be key rhythms. We see him do it and far from home. So we should consider staying true to his comic book origins and remember that he was also an OG alum of the Sinister Six who participated in the first five iterations of the group and took a break for 6 and 7 and then came back strong in 8 and 10, which means Mysterio will take our number 4 spot. Now from here our job gets a little more difficult because we have to get two villains who we haven't seen directly yet, but who I think are the movies.

They are definitely preparing us for the first open space. I think we'll take advantage of Marvel's newest toys. The doodles. Captain Marvel was interested in showing off the scrolls and how well they are able to infiltrate the ranks of normal humans. But it was strange. Seeing them also appear and far from home a story. They seem pretty disconnected from why would Marvel show us this now at this point in the movies? Well, I think it comes down to two reasons, both of which go back to that turning point I was talking about at the beginning of episode one: They know that Spider-Man is and always will be their greatest hero.

He is Marvel's equivalent of Batman. I mean, I'm sure Iron Man was great for the movies, but Spider-Man is just iconic. He was big before the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He was big before Ironman really changed the superhero scene. So if the Skrulls are going to play a major role in the future of the MCU, they need to be introduced to general audiences who may not have seen Captain Marvel through a more conventional film like Spider Man. There's your point, but there's a second and more relevant reason that applies to our theory today. You see, it turns out there's a Spider Man villain with a very scroll-like power that shapes the chameleon.

He is a shapeshifter. Who is capable of disguising himself behind the face of whoever he wants? In fact, the chameleon was the first Spider-Man villain introduced in Spider-Man #1 back in 1963 and, barring some fan theories, had never appeared on the big screen before, leaving the path wide open to bring him into through shapeshifters we already know. We know that scrolls exist in this universe. So all you need toPlace it on Sinister is a scroll that has gone rogue and with a chip on its scaly green shoulder. That's not just speculation, we may already have it identified. Many fans believe they already have.

I saw this guy in the MCU right here, the guard sent to watch over Peter while he was in Europe. It's a small detail. But his name is Dimitri and wouldn't you know it except that exact name Dimitri? Smear to Cobb is the chameleon's exact identity in the comics, give this man a thumbs up ladies and gentlemen. He's our #5, which leaves us with one last slot to fill, and honestly, if they go in several really cool directions when it comes to the Spider-Man movies so far, the MCU has had a habit of misleading us. They know that we know these stories and characters.

That's right. What happens when a hero resets so frequently in such a short time? So to keep us off balance I'm borrowing a phrase from the show that must not be mentioned subverting expectations that are reinventing or reimagining the good guys and bad guys in ways we don't expect to keep everything fresh and new Aunt May is an old MJ doesn't represent to Mary Jane and Peter's biggest bully

flash

is not your typical jock. He's just an even bigger nerd in the same way that there are villains creeping around here that we might not even see coming.

For example, remember one of Peter's relatively unmemorable teachers at homecoming? Well, her name is Mrs. Warren, which could be a name chosen completely at random or it could be a reinvented version of biology professor Miles Warren Peters who starts in Spider-Man 148 and ends up becoming one of the six sinister villains, The Jackal, a villain's mind. You, who continue to clone Peter, his dead girlfriend, and his dead parents in a plot that was not very well received by comic book fans. But still she's there and waiting to be swiped, so go ahead, sinister, six, take your chances.

Others have also pointed out that Spider-Man has been seen fighting the Manfredi crime family, leading us to believe that comic book villains Silvermane, who is associated with that family in the comics, may also be floating along with a large number of his accomplices. There are plenty of other easter eggs like these and they could materialize in the future, but here's the thing None of these guys are cutting my mustard so far, everyone we've talked to has seen them before like the stereo or the vulture or It's just a backup player like Shocker or Chameleon, we need a big name.

We need an important actor. The sinister six need their new lead singer, their headliner. We need Doc Ock or more likely the Green Goblin and of the two I think the Green Goblin is all set up and ready to launch. Not only is the Green Goblin one of the most frequent members of the Sinister Six, but because the Goblin is usually a member of the Osborn family, who are tech billionaires just like Tony Stark, they tend to have ties to most of the other villains from the comics and also in the new cinematic universe where technology is fueling many of these characters' powers.

They would have connections in that area with Osborn technology that would help complement what the vulture is doing. Osborn's technology would help complement the Mysterio gang. Osborn's technology would help strengthen the surprise, but now come on. Going back to something I said earlier about subverting expectations. Remember to show the bully nerd. He is clearly being set up for a future plot throughout the film. There's a running thread about his relationship with his parents, a weird text message thread with them, and that scene where they come home and his driver meets him in both scenes. Flash is being ignored by his parents.

They are absent, they have forgotten about him, it is also clear that they have a very formal relationship with Flash having to call them father and it is very similar to the way Harry Osborn reacts to his father Norman Osborn and most of the other Spider stories -Man. Including film Sam Raimi, male Traditional father Norman Osborn Flash's family is also very rich like my dad's car says, just like The Osbournes Heck, it's even been suggested that those super rich Osbornes are busy building the new headquarters of Oscorp in the old Avengers building that You can see they're building it far from home, but I know what you're thinking.

This is Flash Thompson. He's not in Osborn and you know what? That's just what I thought too. That's what literally every online fan wiki says, but it seems like literally everyone has jumped to conclusions here because at no point in the movies do we hear it. Flash's last name is never called Flash Thompson, not once is he always just a meat man, even here in the credits. Seriously, he's only listed as Flash Matt. Maybe you want that, right? there are our loyal theorists, the smoking gun, the big twist in the way our expectations will end up being subverted in the next Spider-Man movie is that Flash's last name will be revealed as Osborn, that's what I'm building a good flow here.

You're dismissing my dramatic revelation. Well, here's a more dramatic reveal. Oh yeah, so it's not in the script or the credits. But yeah, well, why didn't you tell me before, even if he's Flash Thompson? there is a very real possibility that he was adopted by the Osbournes. That kind of angle would be supported by the comics in the story. Norman Osborn takes Flash under his wing, gives Flash a job, makes him feel like part of the family, and ultimately converts him. him against the spider-man he was before. Idolizing just as we see

flash

Idolizing Spider-Man far from home.

So there you have it folks, we have our six villains, Shocking Vulture, Scorpion the Chameleon, Mysterio and the Green Goblin, all set and ready to go, but to close things out here I think I'll take even more risks, I think it's okay worth pointing out. I realized that there is a villain in this group that is different from everyone else. Vulture Vulture is very clearly established as a family man. I built this whole place because I made people like to look. It's not about dominating the world or being a renowned superhero. Devils. he doesn't even want to attract the attention of the Avengers.

If you bring the Avengers damage control team here, he's not in it for the hell of it like Mysterio. He's not in this for revenge. He's only in this to take care of his wife and his. daughter, the same daughter whom Spider-Man saved at the end of Homecoming and who later rescued Vulture during the final battle. We already know that Vulture wouldn't hand over Peter Parker's identity to Scorpion and we know that he has at least half of it. a dozen opportunities to take him down during that final confrontation and fail to do so when faced with the option of teaming up with a group of villains who are hell-bent on world domination.

Well, he might initially accept the trip. My prediction is that Vulture will defect to protect someone who shares his values ​​and goals, someone who still appreciates helping the small, local neighborhood. In the end, Vulture will be the one who ends up protecting Spider-man against the rest. The sinister six. Anyway, that's more than enough speculation and fan fiction for today. I mean, I'm already trying to make calls about a movie that hasn't even been announced to exist yet. Let me slow my progress a little here, regardless of how things are going. play outside. I'm excited for this third installment of the Spider-Man franchise.

I actually love these movies. They're some of my favorites in the MCU and whether you agree or not, I hope you like watching them and theorizing about the future of things because it's a superhero movie. It's all just for fun. Just as this is just a theory, ah, movie theory, and if you want to see more Spider-Man content, check out this video on the left where I break down the physics of Spider-Man's deadly web. It turns out that Spider-Man should have died multiple times regardless of this super attack or while you're here. Be sure to click the button to the right to subscribe.

I have an upcoming theory about which Spider-Man would win in a Spider-Man battle royale. Make your predictions now, friends, what theories will emerge in the near future and with that. I'm leaving next week. Let's take a break from superheroes. Must?