Game Theory: Spiderman's Next Villain Is NOT Who You Think! (Spider-Man: Miles Morales)

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, man, help, help, someone stole my bag again, don't fear the fury, the man is here, not you again, the last time my bag was stolen, you finish me When it comes to superheroes getting into each other's asses, I can definitely help this time. Although actually yes, your bag was stolen, you said right, did you know that wasn't really your bag, it was actually a clone created by the jackal when he went on a secret business trip to Europe with your arch enemy, how does he do that? ? the sense makes sense if you read what's coming, to hell with the purse, I'm just buying a wallet and therefore the day was saved once again by

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The new generation of consoles is finally here and with great console generations comes a lot of launch title responsibility and while things have been pretty quiet in the Xbox corner for PlayStation fans, Sony delivered a solid follow-up to 2018 Spider-Man with the new Spider-Man. Miles Morales, Peter Parker better start looking over his shoulder between this

game

and the Spider-Verse, Miles is quickly becoming the de facto Spider-Man and now, with everything Spider-Man past confirmed for the third Marvel movie, Tom Holland, you are a precious little one. human jellybean, I know you're busy playing in the jungle like Nathan Drake, but if you're not careful, they'll take your little red

spider

tights off you, buddy, anyway, Miles Morales adventure, great, felt like a short stopover . something to fill the PS5 launch lineup, an appetizer for the biggest course coming sooner than we

think

, Spider-Man 2 and we all know it's coming, as Insomniac Games said in a blog post in response to questions about Miles Morales, quotes many of you.

Fans have been wondering if Peter Parker is okay, don't worry, we still have a lot of Peter's story left to tell. We don't know when this game will be released. Hell, the game hasn't even been announced yet, but I need to do this. Theory now since I'm hoping that once it's finally announced the big surprise will be spoiled and if I want a chance to be the person who said what the twist is I need to start talking about it now I

think

I know who the big twist. The game's

villain

will be and isn't who you all think, oh to be sure, Insomniac has been very clearly hinting at a particular

villain

to star in the sequel.

We'll get into that in a minute spoiler alert for the original Spider-Man. and thousands morals by the way, but this is what they've also been setting up for another villain that would be an even bigger reveal only this time the clues have been hidden in much more subtle ways that I haven't seen anyone talk about. So I put the pieces together for what I think will be the big reveal of the second Spider-Man game. One more spoiler warning before I say it. Ready. Well, the two games you've played so far seem to be gearing up. harry osborn will be poison in

spider

-man 2 and they have been alluding to the return of the green goblin.

I think the real big bad of the

next

spider-man outing will practically be the biggest bad in all the land 616 doctor doom, yes. that guy who is the villain of the fantastic four, let's start by turning our clocks back to 2018 to recap the plot of the original spider-man game oh and uh while we're here I have to go eat at a crowded buffet restaurant and go to a restaurant packed theater to see the spider verse oh if only i knew what was coming two years later, spider man told us the story of a now veteran peter parker who defeated martin lee, a supervillain called lord negative who was created When an Oscorp genetics experiment went wrong in the game.

Lee wants to weaponize the experimental gr27 serum codenamed Devil's Breath and release it on New York City to defend against attacks from him. Mayor Norman Osborne hires a mercenary organization called Sable, who turn out to be little better than the thugs. They are destined to defend themselves against the Sable gang and Mr. Negatives, the streets of Manhattan become a war zone, eventually Martin Lee teams up with the game's true big villain, Doctor Octopus, Peter's scientific mentor, together, och and lee gather four other mega villains to create the game universe's version of the sinister six doc ock mr negative vulture rhino electro and scorpion take the idea of ​​turning devil's breath into a weapon and run with it successfully infecting large swathes of the population before Spidey saves the day the new game dlc spinoff dl sequel

miles

morals follows a fairly similar setup two villains one with connections to our hero go to war with each other producing warring factions that fight in the streets forcing spider-man to deal with the consequences with peter parker out of town our new spider-man must Once again, we face a corrupt corporate lawsuit and a former friend of Mr.

Negative and Doc Ock who was exchanged for the CEO of Roxanne Corp and the Tinkerer, who is eventually revealed to be Finn Mason's childhood friend. Okay, in both games we have ourselves. a subplot that is never resolved norman osborne's son harry suffers from a rare genetic disease and is suspended in a vat of a mysterious green liquid trapped by oily black webs, it's no big surprise that this heavily involves will appear in the

next

game. like poison it's also how they choose to end the new miles morals story with norman demanding that his son come out of the treatment tube again openly telling us that harry is now free and will be one of the big bad guys in the next game and harry will become Venom isn't so far-fetched in the definitive Spider-Man animated series.

Harry acts as Poison for a long time before he finally breaks free of the corruption of it, but notice that I say one of the great evils, as we just saw in the game, that sums up each one. Of these games have had at least two main focal villains, also consider this, the sinister six is ​​a really strong opening move, it's usually the kind of thing they have to do if there's a reason Spider-Man usually isn't going to the action. - Going head-to-head with big cosmic villains like Galactus just doesn't match his character or his power sets, as such there's not much you can do to ramp up the intensity after the Sinister Six make an appearance, even Miles Morales it does.

Instead of trying to beat the first game, I focused on a slightly smaller threat in a slightly smaller game house. Spiderman's first day alone pretty good. I came across the conspiracy of our neighborhood classic, but I can't afford Spider-Man 2 for PS5. For a slightly smaller game, then how do you get through the six villains in your next title, especially now that you have two Spider-Men to throw at them quality and quantity? You use three heavy hitters, the poisonous Green Goblin and the surprise appearance of Doctor Doom. Here's the thing: Harry's venom has been set up very clearly and he would serve as our villain personally connected to Spider-Man, filling the Octavius ​​and Finn Mason slot from the first two titles, plus there's already been a ton of green elf easter eggs.

Throughout the first game, obviously, there's the prototypical mask that Mary Jane dons, which in turn references the goblins' iconic glider and the pumpkin bombs in the corner of the HUD and the physical recreation of the bombs in the laboratory, but there is also a subtle reference in Harry's medical history. archive looking at harry osborne's medical document you will find references to the amazing spider-man comics numbers 31 and 136 the first appearance of harry osborn and the first time harry dons the identity of the green goblin anyway if harry wasn't already covered of black cobwebs I'm guessing it'll be the new goblin, but with so many clues leading up to what promises to be an Osborne-centric story, the goblin's appearance seems all but guaranteed, so why do I keep harping on about this Doctor Doom appearance in the new game, unlike Venom and Goblin which are pretty much predicted at this point, the reveal of Doctor Doom would be a huge surprise and a huge press getter for the game because up to this point there has been no indication that it is close. to be on the table, but you see that's where you're wrong.

He's been telegraphed in plain sight during these first two Spider-Man games. Our first clue comes in Miles Morales to keep the story focused on Miles Peter. He needed to not be around. I mean, if he were around, he'd probably be the main character, so the writer sent Peter on a little working vacation with Mary Jane to a place called Simcaria. I read MJ's cover about a Karya, they told us that Simcaria is in agony. of a brutal civil war, so Mary Jane is there to shed light on the story. Simcaria was also a major player in the first Spider-Man game and is DLC as it is the home country of Silver Sable and the Sable mercenary group. go back to zamkaria right, you have a war to fight, even harry osborne was supposed to be in zimcari on vacation, but that was just a cover for him floating in a giant test tube simcaria, weren't they just on the news, long and the short thing is that this place is important, it has been mentioned many times throughout both games, it is in the middle of a war and it happens to border a country called latveria latveria is victor von doom's home country, too known as doctor doom, who rules the country as overlord, in fact, the only times simcaria really matters in the marvel universe is when doctor doom is up to no good, so you want to know who is probably behind that war, that mary jane is investigating doom, has never been a big fan of her neighbors and in the comics has tried to invade Simcaria on multiple occasions; in fact, a recent development in his own comic line has him taking control of the country, sure it could be framed in the game as a civil war, but more likely Doom is the one doing the pulling. the ropes in the background, in fact, I think the entire third game could be based on a spectacular spider-man plot.

The green goblin has an army nicknamed the goblin army and you wouldn't know it, but the story of the goblin army comes. Until a climax in Simcaria Osborne attempts to turn the entire population of the country into goblins using an aerosol version of the goblin serum. Wow, that sounds incredibly familiar, just like with the devil's breath in the first game. Osborne is developing a genetic serum that goes wrong and then. It spreads into the air to infect the population, except where the devil's breath would simply kill its victims, the goblin serum turns its victims into homicidal superhumans.

That's exactly the kind of third-act escalation that would be perfect for an open-world Spider-Man game after you. I've gotten really good at beating up street thugs and super soldiers, the game ramps up the difficulty by turning them all into goblin soldiers fighting for simcaria. I mean, we're told that Devil's Breath was created in an attempt to cure Harry's rare genetic disease and by the End of Miles Morales Norman is still desperately moving forward with a cure. It is not difficult to assume that Ozcorp continued to research and eventually created the goblin serum. Now I know that Spider-Man traditionally takes place in New York, but a new map would be a huge step forward.

A way to make the next game feel like a true sequel and also avoid some of the criticism that Miles Morales has endured. The problem is that there aren't many places on Earth that are ideal for Spider-Man. New York is famous for its forest skyscrapers. and maybe there are a handful of other cities where it would be really fun to walk around. I mean, as much as I'd love for the next Spidey video game to be set in Tokyo and be an adaptation of the '80s Japanese Spider-Man. It's unlikely we'll be dressing up as emissaries of the devil, so what if the developers They had complete freedom to create a city that is perfect for walking around once again?

Simcaria provides only a few vaguely defined cities. Simcaria offers level designers. full control over what they want, plus Peter already spent a full game in Simcaria, learned some of the language, and good luck learning some. Worrying why there are seven different words for bathroom. We only got a few vague clues about what Peter was really up to while he was there, indicating that there are still more answers to come. There's also a bigger reason why I think Dr. Doom will be such a big part of the new game. So far, the games have had two major villains fighting in the streets.

In the first game, Doctor Octopus gathered the Sinister Six, while Norman Osborn hired Silver Sable to take over the city. Miles Morales took on Roxanne's army of super soldiers and faced poisonTinkerer underground. Operate alone. He doesn't have an army of goons, but they are both goblins. and doom make two armies that fight in the streets for spider-man to solve, continues the winning formula that insomniac games has created in these first two installments, although lastly it is the long-standing connection between peter parker venom and the fantastic four , also known as doctor doom's most. common enemy in the foreground of the first game there is a sticky note that says rrsuit fabric ballistic call to confirm rr this is most likely a reference to reed richards aka mr fantastic the leader of the fantastic four so We already know that the games are trying to hint at a connection between Peter and Reed, this is further reinforced by the importance of Empire State University in that first game, the game makes no small difference to the fact that this is the alma mater from peter, which like the Simcario references is probably laying the groundwork for the next game because wouldn't you know it?

Other famous alumni of that school are Reed Richards and, of course, Victor von Doom. Additionally, it is Reid Richards who originally discovers the secret of the Venom suit in the comics after bonding with the symbiote in the comics. Parker begins to have strange dreams the suit even begins to monitor his body while he sleeps to find out what is happening to him. Parker goes to the only person he trusts, a fellow Empire State University alumnus, Reed Richards, this whole Empire State Simcario setup, it's all just to pave the way. Likewise, when a new game needs flashbacks to Peter's history with these characters, it won't come out of nowhere, it won't feel like an afterthought that was shoehorned in because they needed to figure out new ways to incorporate these characters. , no, it has already been established.

The game world in the previous installments has already established in the game world that Peter has connections to all of these people and places, so it seems like we have all the pieces in place, needing a change of scenery and overcoming the bad. boy quotient mixed with two clue games and a legacy of comic book action, all of this strongly hints that Dr. Doom will be heavily involved in the upcoming game and today I'm going to go a step further and try to predict a part of the plot when the doctor doom tries to invade simcaria silver saber will call his old friend from the first game norman osborne and spider-man osborne says he can help her but only if she allows him to use saber mercenaries as guinea pigs for his army of goblins Spider-Man gets dragged in to the mess because well, he's Spider-Man Spidey and then he has to fight Doctor Doom's forces to keep Simcaria from being invaded while he fights the goblin army to keep Simcaria from getting infected and the poison is there too, maybe starting out as a hero and turning bad or just an evil threat lurking in the shadows, whatever it is, all of this will lead to what Marvel was hoping to establish with their failed Avengers game, a Marvel video game universe, while Spider-Man has always taken place in a larger universe. it would be the first real step into crossover territory and would be a huge statement introducing Doctor Doom through a Spider-Man game.

Marvel can make the Fantastic Four great again, but let's face it, they need all the help they can get, and from there, the movies. are just one step away, for once video games would be the ones to pave the way, but hey, that's just a theory, a game theory, now I know what you're thinking, yeah, I have a lot of free time to think about these things. Look, if you're like me this holiday season, you've got a lot of time on your hands too, so why not use it to enrich that soft chicken breast brain you've settled into during quarantine using today's audible sponsor?

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