So we'll see if he makes a supervillain team in the future. He's one of the founding members of "The Sinister Six" along with Doctor Octopus, Electro, Kraven the Hunter, Mysterio, and Sandman. He even threatens to kill a child for interfering in his business. Keaton gives Toomes a glint in his one eye and a knife in the other. Not only that, the man under the mask is equally terrifying and charming.
But the movie makes him a terrifying villain with huge metal wings and glowing eyes. Vulture has always been considered a third-tier villain despite the character’s long history.
Plus since he started his career at an old age, he’s also one of the few geriatric supervillains. Only Peter’s brilliant mind can take him down. He first appears in Amazing Spider-Man #2 (1963) as a brilliant inventor villain using magnets to fly. The vulture is literally one of Spider-Man’s oldest villains. Part of his job involves swooping in with a flying suit and plucking it out of the hands of Tony Stark and the government. When a job he bids on gets taken away by the government he decides to steal alien tech and sell it to the highest bidder. He plays Adrian Toomes, the head of a salvage company. Anyone who watched his performance in Pacific Heights knows he can be a psycho with a turn of his head. Plus, he looks amazing.įirst Appearance: Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) Michael Keaton is best known for playing a superhero Batman but he’s just as good playing a villain. He kills a bunch of cops during his crime spree so there’s no doubt he’s a villain. If you can watch him desperately trying to pick up his daughter's locket without feeling the pain you have no soul. His transformation into Sandman is chilling (although scientifically dubious) and his re-emergence as Sandman is still a gut punch. Making Sandman the real killer really called his whole effort into question. The solving of his Uncle Ben's murder motivated him to become a hero. Narratively it’s one of the most powerful storylines since it revisits Spider-Man's first heroic act.
Thomas Hayden Church plays the classic Spiderman villain Sandman in the third Marvel Spider-Man movie.ĭirector Sam Raimi actually wanted him to be the main villain but the studio talked him into adding Venom. Marko first appears in The Amazing Spider-Man #4 (September 1963) and has the ability to break his body down into particles and reconstruct them. Spider-Man 3 (2007) - Sandman / Flint Marko (Thomas Haden Church)Ī guy turning into sand doesn't sound like much but Sandman is one of Spider-Man's longest-running villains. Thomas Hayden Church as Flint Marko / Sandman He does kill a few dudes and looks pretty awesome despite the questionable CGI of the time.Ĩ. But he is funny ("My Spider-Sense is tingling! If you know what I'm talking about"). Even with the painful fangs, he wears he still can't quite reach the menace of other villains. Grace is an interesting casting choice because he's not very threatening.
He's one of Spider-Man's most lethal and cunning foes. The character of Eddie Brock first shows up in the comic Web of Spider-Man #18 (1986) before merging with the black alien symbiote in Amazing Spider-Man #299 (1988). After the symbiote, he gets even more unhinged and teams up with Sandman to kill Peter Parker. Even before getting the symbiote he's a bit of a nut job saying Gwen Stacy is his girlfriend when they went on one date. He plays Eddie Brock as a rival photographer. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) - Donald Menken (Colm Feore)īefore the reboot, we got our first live-action movie Venom thanks to Topher Grace. He does look incredibly cool which ranks him a little higher. The guy obviously knows about a lot of evil things but doesn't do much. Gentleman first appeared in the comic Spider-Man: The Gathering Of The Sinister Six (1999) as an incredibly wealthy and devious villain. He's shown walking past some equipment inspired by villains like Dr. Played by Michael Massee he appears again in the sequel talking with Harry Osborn (Dane DeHann) about a small "team" of supervillains. He appears in Curt Connors (Rhys Ifans) cell when he's incarcerated in "Beloit Psychiatric Asylum" and asks if Peter knows the "truth" about his father's death. He's so mysterious he's only known as "The Man in the Shadows". First Appearance: The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)Ī mysterious man shows up in The Amazing Spider-Man 2.