\t\t We will, however, include all the movies about Spider-Man\u2019s famous villains that Sony Pictures tried to weave into a mini-shared universe. It wasn\u2019t a successful experiment but it was a surprisingly long-lasting one, and it may be the only chance we get to see some of his villains on the big screen. Maybe ever.<\/p>\n Welcome to our long, long list of every Spider-Man movie villain, ranked from worst to best! <\/p>\n Note: The following contains spoilers for \u201cSpider-Man: Brand New Day\u201c<\/p>\n 41. Knull<\/p>\n Did you ever wonder who created all those gooey alien symbiotes? No? Well, we meet him anyway in \u201cVenom: The Last Dance.\u201d Kind of. As played by Andy Serkis, this \u201cFinal Fantasy\u201d reject spends the entire film trapped in prison, and the only thing that can free him is a MacGuffin called a Codex. So he uses his godlike powers to create teleportation portals for his minions to travel through. Knull doesn\u2019t travel through them. Oh no. He lets his minions travel through teleportation portals, so they can help him eventually leave the room. He never does. He\u2019s got no character, an arbitrary motivation and a storyline that makes no sense. It doesn\u2019t get worse than that.<\/p>\n 40. Calypso<\/p>\n In the comics, Calypso is a voodoo priestess who sacrificed her own sister to gain superpowers. In \u201cKraven the Hunter,\u201d she\u2019s a lawyer whose grandmother could see the future a little, and who sometimes resurrects Kraven with a magic potion she didn\u2019t make herself. At one point, she says she\u2019s good with a bow and arrow, which pays off a couple minutes later and never comes up again. She spends most of the film slightly helping Kraven (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) track people down, even though Kraven\u2019s whole thing is he can literally track anyone down. Calypso was played by Oscar-winner Ariana DeBose, but there\u2019s nothing she can do to elevate this material. There probably isn\u2019t an actor in the world who could sell a line like, \u201cMy grandmother died on that trip, and I never saw her again.\u201d<\/p>\n 39. Morbius<\/p>\n Michael Morbius is a vampire. Vampires are cool. Michael Morbius is not cool. That\u2019s partly because \u201cMorbius\u201d is one of the most dramatically inert superhero movies of the last ten years, and partly because he\u2019s played by an uninterested Jared Leto. Sony\u2019s weird attempt to turn Spider-Man\u2019s villains into its own mini shared universe of antiheroes was ill-conceived from the jump, but a tragic and haunted figure like Morbius could probably have carried his own movie. To pull that off, the film would have needed a decent script, a convincing lead and exciting direction. Instead, we got \u201cMorbius.\u201d<\/p>\n 38. Rhino II<\/p>\n You can see Alessandro Nivola trying to turn his version of the Rhino into an interesting character. It makes sense: Nivola is an interesting actor, and casting him as one of the biggest hulking Marvel characters this side of the Hulk is an eccentric choice. But the script for \u201cKraven the Hunter\u201d never gives him any motivation to take over the Kravinoff crime syndicate, except that Kraven\u2019s father was rude to him once. (Decades ago!) This apparently inspired him to hire a mad scientist to transform him into a Rhino man. But being a Rhino man is uncomfortable, so he spends most of the movie not being a Rhino man, and instead carrying around a cute little backpack full of his \u201cnot being a Rhino man\u201d medicine. When he finally transforms he looks like the above. Poor guy.<\/p>\n 37. Foreigner<\/p>\n In \u201cKraven the Hunter,\u201d Christopher Abbott plays an assassin called the Foreigner, who can hypnotize people if he\u2019s right in front of them \u2014 but only for three seconds. Also all he can do is make them stand still. That\u2019s not a great superpower, since it would be more effective for him to shoot somebody from literally any other distance. Come to think of it, that\u2019s also Foreigner\u2019s weakness: getting shot from more than a couple feet away. He\u2019s more effective than you\u2019d think, given his skill set, but his motivation is generic and his death is comical. Oh, and why is he called the Foreigner? Because nobody knows his origin. Which doesn\u2019t necessarily make him a \u201cforeigner,\u201d but whatever. It\u2019s not like anything else about this guy makes sense.<\/p>\n 36. Riot<\/p>\n Riz Ahmed seems to be having an okay time in \u201cVenom\u201d playing Carlton Drake, a diet, caffeine-free Lex Luthor-type, whose corporation wants to do bad things with alien symbiotes. Eventually he bonds with a symbiote named Riot, and they try to bring all the other symbiotes back to Earth. Venom and Eddie Brock try to stop him, which they do. Riot\u2019s a functional but perfunctory bad guy, and the first \u201cVenom\u201d solo movie isn\u2019t interested in him. Fortunately, Tom Hardy\u2019s weirdo performance as Eddie Brock and his extraterrestrial other half is interesting enough to carry the movie. But Venom\u2019s nemesis is so forgettable that most of this film\u2019s audience has probably long since forgotten Riot\u2019s name.<\/p>\n \t\t 35. Lucien<\/p>\n Say what you will about \u201cMorbius\u201d \u2014 we just said it sucked, we stand by it, and we\u2019ll say it again if we need to \u2014 but Matt Smith has charisma. The film doesn\u2019t give him anything to do with that charisma, but he squeaks it in wherever he can. Smith plays Milo, a wealthy man with a debilitating illness that starts to wane after he turns into a vampire. So Milo decides to make up for lost time by murdering people. Never mind why. Apparently he was always a jerk and no one noticed. Milo is based on a comic book supervillain named Hunger. He likes to dance to terrible music while getting dressed. Other than that there\u2019s not much to know about him. Thank goodness for Matt Smith.<\/p>\n 34. Chameleon<\/p>\n \u201cKraven the Hunter\u201d has moments when it almost works, and those are the parts where director J.C. Chandor abandons the vigilante superhero concept \u2014 which makes no sense with Kraven anyway \u2014 and treats the film like an organized crime story with supervillains. Enter Fred Hechinger as Dmitri, the mild-mannered member of the Kravinoff family who just wants to be an artist, impeccably mimicking the voices of Ozzie Osbourne and Tony Bennett. Eventually he\u2019s abused, kidnapped and traumatized so much that he gives up on his innocent dreams and becomes as bad as everyone else. So he pays a mad scientist to make him the Chameleon. Now he can mimic people\u2019s faces as well. On paper, that\u2019s cool. \u201cKraven\u201d doesn\u2019t commit to the bit though. Worse, the filmmakers decided to make Chameleon so short that he can\u2019t convincingly impersonate any other character, which ruins the whole concept.<\/p>\n 33. Ezekiel Sims<\/p>\n \u201cMadame Web\u201d is not a good movie, but it\u2019s not an unwatchable movie. Unlike \u201cMorbius\u201d and \u201cKraven\u201d it doesn\u2019t take itself too seriously, and it can be enjoyed as good old-fashioned camp. The villain, Ezekiel Sims, is played by Tahar Rahim as an evil version of Spider-Man. He chases the film\u2019s teenaged leads all over New York like a spider-themed slasher villain, and when director S.J. Clarkson focuses on that aspect of the character he\u2019s relatively intimidating. But his motive is laughably vague, his character is completely undeveloped and he\u2019s eventually defeated with fireworks like a Looney Tunes villain. Let\u2019s just say as Spider-Man villains go he\u2019s hardly the worst, but that\u2019s not saying much.<\/p>\n 32. Green Goblin III<\/p>\n \u201cThe Amazing Spider-Man 2\u201d tried to stuff too many characters, too many subplots and way too much foreshadowing into a single film, so every part of the movie suffered. No character suffered more than Harry Osborn, a.k.a. the Green Goblin, played by Dane DeHaan. We find out Harry and Peter Parker have always been best friends \u2013 something the first movie never mentioned \u2013 and there\u2019s nowhere near enough screen time to sell us on the idea that their connection is deep enough to mean anything. When Harry asks Spider-Man if he can use his super-powered blood to research a cure for a deadly hereditary disease that will one day kill him, Spidey doesn\u2019t say yes right away, so Harry instantly becomes a supervillain. It never tracks. Ever. But at least he killed one of the main characters. You can criticize the third Green Goblin all you want, but you can\u2019t say he didn\u2019t get results.<\/p>\n 31. Doctor Crawdaddy<\/p>\n Doctor Crawdaddy is a joke villain but he\u2019s a funny joke. As voiced by Aaron LaPlante, this mad scientist kidnaps Peter Porker: The Spectacular Spider-Ham, which prevents our cartoon superhero from eating a hot dog. Shenanigans ensue. The villain was introduced in a short film produced in conjunction with \u201cSpider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse\u201d and it\u2019s only a couple minutes long, so Doctor Crawdaddy can\u2019t make a particularly big impression. But he\u2019s whimsical and he gets the job done. In the end, Spider-Ham never eats his hot dog. Check and mate, superhero.<\/p>\n 30. Scorpion II<\/p>\n There\u2019s not much you can say about the second cinematic version of the Scorpion, introduced in \u201cSpider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse\u201d as one of the Kingpin\u2019s villainous henchmen. He\u2019s a Scorpion man. He has cool Scorpion technology, including a bunch of cybernetic legs, and the Oscar-winning filmmakers animated the heck out of him. He holds his own against a team of Spider-Persons and even destroys Peni Parker\u2019s mecha, although the spider who lived inside of it miraculously survives. He\u2019s got nothing to be ashamed of in the villain department. He\u2019s just not much of a character.<\/p>\n 29. Tombstone I & II<\/p>\n Another one of Kingpin\u2019s animated henchmen, Tombstone, is an old-fashioned mobster with super strength and a keen fashion sense. In \u201cSpider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse\u201d he\u2019s played by Marvin Jones III, and in \u201cSpider-Man: Brand New Day\u201d he\u2019s played in live-action by (checks notes) Marvin Jones III. So what the heck, let\u2019s lump them in together since they\u2019re basically the same guy. Like Scorpion, Tombstone doesn\u2019t have much of a character in the Spider-Man movies \u2014 especially compared to the comic book version \u2014 but he\u2019s a competent bad guy who could give any version of Spider-Man a run for his money.<\/p>\n 28. Sea Devil<\/p>\n The first supervillain who menaced Spider-Man on the big screen wasn\u2019t the Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus or any of the other recognizable bad guys in his formidable rogues gallery. It was actually Sea Devil, an anthropomorphic marlin with inexplicable tubes jutting out of his nipples, who could vomit torpedoes and grow to the size of a kaiju. In the 1978 theatrical release \u201cSupaid\u0101man,\u201d a spinoff of the officially-licensed Japanese live-action television series, Sea Devil works for Professor Monster (who barely appears, and doesn\u2019t qualify for a ranking of his own). He waves his monster arms around a lot and sometimes blows up tanker ships. Eventually Spider-Man kills him with a giant robot. This premise would eventually inspire a show called \u201cSuper Sentai Series\u201d \u2014 which would later get recycled for American audiences as \u201cMighty Morphin\u2019 Power Rangers.\u201d The more you know!<\/p>\n \t\t 27. The Hand<\/p>\n There are a lot of minor villains who turn up in \u201cSpider-Man: Brand New Day,\u201d and some of them appear so briefly it makes no sense to rank them. (Sorry, Tarantula.) It seems like The Hand, a cabal of deadly ninjas, will be just another cameo but they return in the third act to give Spidey a hard time, while mind-controlled by the film\u2019s main telepathic antagonist. Like a lot of the Spider-Man villains in the middle of this list, they don\u2019t have a lot of character but they\u2019re good at their jobs. If it wasn\u2019t for Spider-Man coming to a major psychological catharsis in the knick of time, they probably could have kicked his ass. Also it\u2019s just fun to watch Spider-Man fight ninjas, dang it.<\/p>\n 26. Green Goblin IV<\/p>\n The Green Goblin is considered one of Spider-Man\u2019s greatest nemeses. Even the underwhelming version from \u201cThe Amazing Spider-Man 2\u201d made an honest, if ineffectual go of it. In \u201cSpider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse\u201d he\u2019s downgraded to one of Kingpin\u2019s many superpowered underlings. He does, however, get a major power upgrade. \u201cInto the Spider-Verse\u201d turns Green Goblin into a gigantic flying dragon man, who seems like he could probably hold his own against the Hulk. He may not have much of a character, but he\u2019s a real threat. For that, he deserves some credit.<\/p>\n 25. Scorpion I<\/p>\n Mac Gargan, played by Michael Mando, was introduced in \u201cSpider-Man: Homecoming\u201d as a career criminal who was destined to become one of the hero\u2019s most famous supervillains. We just had to wait nine years to see that. Scorpion finally donned his power suit in \u201cSpider-Man: Brand New Day\u201d and, like many characters in that film, he spends a good chunk of the movie psychically controlled by the film\u2019s actual antagonist. But Mando brings some respectability to this character: a blue collar confidence that makes Scorpion stand out amongst the other mid-range Spidey villains without a lot of screen time. And his power armor is, admittedly, pretty cool.<\/p>\n 24. Electro<\/p>\n Electro is one of Spider-Man\u2019s most recognizable supervillains. He is not, however, one of his most interesting supervillains. It makes sense that \u201cThe Amazing Spider-Man 2\u201d would try to do something different with this electricity-themed bad guy: turning him into psychologically fragile Spider-Man fanboy. That could\u2019ve been an interesting idea, but it just never clicks. Electro gets a ton of screen time but not a lot to do, at least in relation to the rest of the film. Jamie Foxx does what he can to add drama to an otherwise underwhelming bad guy. Even with his return in \u201cSpider-Man: No Way Home,\u201d the filmmakers struggle to juice him up much. Electro has got too much screen presence to rank any lower, but he\u2019s too unremarkable to rank any higher.<\/p>\n 23. The Lizard<\/p>\n \u201cThe Amazing Spider-Man\u201d tried to retell Spider-Man\u2019s origin story, which had been told at length in Sam Raimi\u2019s \u201cSpider-Man\u201d just nine years prior. To avoid feeling too repetitive the film made a lot of changes, none of which made the iconic story any better. The reboot emphasized Peter\u2019s deceased birth parents, explaining that the Lizard was their co-worker who now takes Peter under his wing after Peter plagiarizes his father\u2019s work (which he\u2019s never taken to task for). When he becomes a green monster and tries to turn everyone in New York into other green monsters, it\u2019s too silly to have any pathos. But Rhys Ifans is a sympathetic performer and he almost makes it work. Almost.<\/p>\n 22. Shocker I & II<\/p>\n The Shocker is one of Spider-Man\u2019s most consistent villains, always popping up somewhere, ready to shock someone with his nifty power gauntlets. But like many Spidey villains, he\u2019s just an ordinary criminal with a cool gimmick. \u201cSpider-Man: Homecoming\u201d has an interesting take on the character, whose role in the Vulture\u2019s gang is so menial that anyone could do it \u2014 all they have to do is pick up the glove. Logan Marshall-Green plays the first Shocker. When he gets cocky and dies, Vulture tosses his weapon to Bokeem Woodbine and says he\u2019s the new Shocker. Woodbine is marginally better at it, but the point is that anyone could be this particular Spidey villain if they had the right gear. That\u2019s a novel approach which sets this villain apart from the rest.<\/p>\n 21. Kraven the Hunter<\/p>\n As we\u2019ve mentioned before, repeatedly, \u201cKraven the Hunter\u201d is a really bad movie. But the character was probably salvageable. Aaron Taylor-Johnson plays the world\u2019s greatest tracker, who also has animal-themed superpowers, and who defies his gangster father and becomes an anti-hero, murdering anyone who reminds him too much of his dad. Eventually he kills his dad and then realizes he\u2019s become everything he always hated, which might have set him on a path towards facing off against Spider-Man and giving the hero a serious challenge. Obviously, that\u2019s not going to happen anytime soon, but it could have worked. All you had to do was forget his solo film ever existed. Which audiences already did. On opening weekend.<\/p>\n 20. Rhino I<\/p>\n Paul Giamatti is one of the most respected actors actors in the world and he\u2019s never looked happier than he does in \u201cThe Amazing Spider-Man 2.\u201d His version of the Rhino is introduced in an early high-speed car chase before returning in the very last scene, suddenly piloting a huge rhino-themed mech suit, cackling and preening like a diva. He doesn\u2019t get to do much compared to the other, much worse live-action version of the Rhino, but he\u2019s a million times more entertaining. It\u2019s a shame we never got to see more of him.<\/p>\n \t\t 19. The Tinkerer<\/p>\n This may seem like a high ranking for a supervillain who most people don\u2019t remember, but the Tinkerer is actually one of Spider-Man\u2019s most successful bad guys. Michael Chernus plays a brilliant weapons manufacturer, who also plans a high-octane mid-air heist on an Avengers jet. He never has to leave the comfort of his desk. He lets Vulture do all the heavy lifting, literally and figuratively. He\u2019s not a cunning puppetmaster. He just knows what he\u2019s good at: making awesome gadgets and solving complex problems. He\u2019s probably directly responsible for making half of Spider-Man\u2019s villains in the MCU, if not more. On top of that, he seems to completely get away with his crimes, while the Vulture ends up in prison. Smart guy, that Tinkerer. He\u2019s an underrated villain.<\/p>\n 18. Prowler I<\/p>\n The MCU\u2019s take on Spider-Man\u2019s villains as a bunch of down to earth, working class everymen was a refreshing change of pace, and the Prowler is one of the best examples. Donald Glover plays him like an extremely normal, reasonable guy. He tries to buy superweapons from Vulture\u2019s gang, but gives up when it becomes clear Spider-Man is in the mix. He even rats them out because he realizes their deadly high-tech gizmos are bad for the neighborhood. When we see Prowler again in \u201cSpider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse\u201d he\u2019s stuck in another dimension, patiently waiting to be sent home, handling an extremely bizarre situation like a champ. You have to appreciate a guy like the Prowler. He\u2019s not that bad. He\u2019s just not technically \u201cgood.\u201d<\/p>\n 17. Shriek<\/p>\n There\u2019s only big budget superhero blockbuster about two queer polycules fighting each other, and \u201cVenom: Let There Be Carnage\u201d is it. Hopefully the trend will one day continue, but until then we have this very fun flick, with villains who love each other but get ripped apart by jealousy. Naomie Harris plays Shriek, a homicidal villain with super-screaming powers, which is a problem for her boyfriend\u2019s other partner, Carnage, because loud noises are the symbiote\u2019s weakness. The sniping between the trio eventually becomes their undoing. But before that, Harris plays Shriek with malevolent and emotional glee, and does her part to make this sloppy sequel the most entertaining and fascinating installment of Sony\u2019s live-action Spidey Villain-Verse.<\/p>\n 16. Vulture II<\/p>\n We\u2019re not going to pretend that the second version of the Vulture, featured in \u201cSpider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,\u201d is a complex character. He does, however, look totally awesome. He hails from an alternate reality where everything is inspired by the Italian Renaissance and made of parchment paper, which makes him look entirely out of place in Gwen Stacy\u2019s universe. He swoops around with incredible speed, revealing wild weaponry and using Hammerspace \u2013 a literal pocket dimension where you can keep all your stuff, no matter how big it is \u2013 to repair his wings mid-fight. He\u2019s voiced by Jorma Taccone and he completely kicks ass.<\/p>\n 15. Venom I<\/p>\n \u201cSpider-Man 3\u201d is a lot fun but it has serious storytelling problems. One of the biggest is Venom, who can\u2019t appear until after Spidey goes through a complete character arc with the alien symbiote. Eddie Brock, played by an entertainingly despicable Topher Grace, doesn\u2019t become Venom until the third act, so we don\u2019t get to see much of him. That\u2019s disappointing, but director Sam Raimi\u2019s take on Venom as the anti-Spider-Man and the anti-Peter Parker makes sense. It\u2019s no wonder audiences wanted to see more of him, but the film wrote itself into a corner and that was that. \u201cSpider-Man 3\u201d gets a raw deal from most critics but it\u2019s more interesting \u2014 and incidentally, more financially successful \u2014 than most modern superhero movies, and its version of Venom was kinda nifty.<\/p>\n 14. Prowler III<\/p>\n The third version of The Prowler is Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s villain, revealed at the end of \u201cSpider-Man: Across the Universe\u201d but mostly a mystery until \u201cBeyond the Spider-Verse\u201d comes out in (allegedly) 2027. He has the potential to be Spider-Man\u2019s greatest nemesis, or a misunderstood bad guy, or even a total dud (although given how excellent the first time films were, that seems unlikely). But he\u2019s a powerful concept and he makes the ending of \u201cAcross the Spider-Verse\u201d mean more than most other Spidey films. When Miles Morales tries to come home from an alternate dimension, he accidentally ends up in a dimension where nobody ever became Spider-Man, because that particular radioactive spider was sent to a reality which already had one. So that Miles, also voiced by Shameik Moore, became the Prowler instead, which throws the heroic version of Miles into a serious identity crisis. Was this the life he was supposed to lead? We\u2019ll find out eventually, but until then the potential is too tantalizing to ignore.<\/p>\n 13. Doctor Octopus II<\/p>\n A few minutes after Spider-Man re-examines his personal biases after assuming a scientist had to be a man, the audience of \u201cInto the Spider-Verse\u201d finds themselves in the same position. The seemingly quirky creator of Kingpin\u2019s multiverse machine, voiced by Kathryn Hahn, reveals she\u2019s this reality\u2019s Doctor Octopus. And, unlike the \u201cSpider-Man 2\u201d version, she\u2019s got her s**t together and comfortable with her villainy. She\u2019s terribly complex, but that\u2019s part of her appeal. She\u2019s happy with who she is, completely capable as a superscientist and as a violent threat. She\u2019s pretty funny too. The second Doctor Octopus is the whole package.<\/p>\n 12. Carnage<\/p>\n When an alien symbiote attaches to a human host it usually brings out the worst in them. Carnage is what happens when a symbiote attaches to an unrepentant mass murderer, played by Woody Harrelson as a comic book version of Mickey Knox from \u201cNatural Born Killers.\u201d His wig isn\u2019t convincing, but his air of menace sure is. Harrelson even manages to imbue the character with a bit of tragedy. Maybe Carnage wasn\u2019t destined to be a total monster. Maybe he deserved a little sympathy. Either way, he pays the price for his misdeeds, and for bringing a third partner into a romantic relationship without having a conversation about it with his girlfriend first. Venom doesn\u2019t win the day because he\u2019s stronger; he wins because his polycule has better communication, and that\u2019s a lesson we can all learn from.<\/p>\n 11. Sandman<\/p>\n Lots of actors play superheroes and supervillains, but few look as much like their comic book counterparts as Thomas Haden Church, who practically leaps off the page as Sandman in \u201cSpider-Man 3.\u201d Raimi\u2019s underrated film imagines Sandman as a tragic figure who turned to crime to take care of his daughter, and turns into living sand in one of the most haunting villain origin scenes ever filmed. Church plays Sandman like a genuinely remorseful guy, trapped in a perpetual cycle of recidivism; there\u2019s real pathos in that. The decision to retroactively make Sandman the guy who actually killed Spider-Man\u2019s uncle is extremely forced \u2014 no one can deny it \u2014 but it does add gravitas to the character. It also gives Peter an opportunity to come to terms with Ben\u2019s tragic death and overcome his long-gestating anger.<\/p>\n \t\t 10. Green Goblin II<\/p>\n The second Green Goblin isn\u2019t the best villain in Spidey\u2019s rogues\u2019 gallery, but he\u2019s the one who earns the most sympathy. We spend so much time with Harry Osborn in the three Sam Raimi movies, and he undergoes such an emotional rollercoaster, that his downfall is genuinely powerful. He could have been a good guy, but his father\u2019s emotional abuse, and Peter\u2019s rueful decision to honor the original Goblin\u2019s final wishes and never tell Harry his father was a supervillain, leads to his transformation into the Green Goblin. But he\u2019s quickly defeated, gets amnesia and starts screwing with Peter in more soap operatic ways. That whole storyline gets way out of hand. He could have been the best Spider-Man villain. But at least he cracks the top ten.<\/p>\n 9. Jean Grey<\/p>\n The decision to make Spider-Man\u2019s antagonist in \u201cBrand New Day\u201d a superhero, from a side of the Marvel Universe that rarely interacts with Spidey, is a real novelty. So much so that \u201cBrand New Day\u201d tries to make Jean Grey\u2019s identity a major revelation, even though there\u2019s really nobody else it could be. (Maybe Shadow King, but he\u2019s an X-Men villain too.) But casting Jean Grey in this light calls attention to the fact that many supervillains are heroes in their own mind, often responding to traumatic events that mirror the hero\u2019s, except they usually don\u2019t have a positive mentor or parent to guide them. That\u2019s what \u201cBrand New Day\u201d is about, and Jean Grey\u2019s emotional arc resonates as a result. It also makes it hard to think of her as a \u201cbad guy,\u201d but that\u2019s the point. Sadie Sink plays her brilliantly, and \u201cBrand New Day\u201d brings out intriguing aspects of the character, previously unexplored in the official X-Men films.<\/p>\n 8. Mysterio<\/p>\n Uncle Ben is dead, Tony Stark is dead and Happy Hogan isn\u2019t cutting it. So Mysterio takes advantage of Peter Parker\u2019s subconscious need for a father figure in \u201cSpider-Man: Far from Home,\u201d impersonating a superhero from another dimension and convincing Peter he\u2019s a perfect role model. Then, of course, the rug gets pulled, he steals Tony Stark\u2019s greatest weapon (which Tony really shouldn\u2019t have given to a teenager in the first place; that part never made sense) and betrays Spider-Man in heartbreaking fashion. Even in his defeat, Mysterio has the last laugh, revealing the hero\u2019s secret identity to the world in his final moments, and framing Spider-Man for his crimes and his murder. Well played, Mysterio. Well played.<\/p>\n 7. Prowler II<\/p>\n Every Spider-Man\u2019s origin story involves a tragic death. Poor Miles Morales has to deal with two of them. After Spider-Man dies, Miles blames himself. Then it turns out one of his father\u2019s murderers, Prowler, voiced by Mahershala Ali, is Miles\u2019 uncle, who he thought was a good person. Few Spider-Man villains have had such a profound emotional impact, while also serving as a truly great villain in their own right. Prowler is one of the best. And he has the most intimidating theme music of any Spider-Man villain; that can\u2019t be argued.<\/p>\n 6. The Spot<\/p>\n Spider-Man is a story about a regular guy who gets powers, overcomes adversity, finds his moral compass and does great things. The Spot is a regular guy who gets powers, can\u2019t overcome his adversity, loses his moral compass and almost becomes a forgettable villain of the week. But when Spider-Man mocks him, The Spot decides to make something of himself, and be the greatest villain the superhero has ever known. He gets pretty close. With an unusual and visually-exciting power set, and a scheme that could kill everyone in the multiverse, The Spot turns the everyman concept endemic to this franchise on its head. That he\u2019s voiced by Jason Schwartzman, as unassuming an actor as you could possibly cast, only makes his fearsome qualities eerier.<\/p>\n 5. Vulture I<\/p>\n The first solo MCU Spidey movie, \u201cSpider-Man: Homecoming,\u201d isn\u2019t just about the hero; it\u2019s about the collateral damage billionaires inflict on people without means. Tony Stark dangles the carrot of fame and acceptance in front of Peter before pulling it away. And then there\u2019s Adrian Toomes, played by Michael Keaton, who earned a lucrative contract from the government to clean up alien tech after the Chitauri invasion of \u201cThe Avengers,\u201d but then gets screwed over and turns to crime to make up for the lost income. He\u2019s a very cool bad guy with a very cool flying suit, but the best thing about him is that he\u2019s got such a convincing motive that it actually affects Spider-Man\u2019s morality and convinces him to stay small-time and look out for all the people that Tony Stark \u2014 for all his big ideas and good intentions \u2014 doesn\u2019t really think about.<\/p>\n 4. Venom II<\/p>\n There was a time when making a Venom movie without Spider-Man was unthinkable, but after three movies (and one-and-a-half good ones) it\u2019s almost hard to imagine him in Spider-Man\u2019s world anymore. Tom Hardy plays a reporter who made bad ethical choices and tries to redeem himself, while bonding with an alien symbiote with gross appetites. Along the way they develop a beautiful, whimsical queer romance, so it\u2019s impossible not to root for them. Tom Hardy plays both characters and he\u2019s absolutely hilarious, using the \u201cVenom\u201d movies as an excuse to cut loose as an actor and make bizarre choices that wouldn\u2019t make sense in any other context. If he actually met Spider-Man, he\u2019d rank even higher. But knowing that the Venom symbiote has a weird crush on Spidey adds a freaky element to their dynamic, whether they ever share the screen or not.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t![\"Tom](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/tom-holland-spider-man-brand-new-day.jpg\")
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Andy Serkis in \u2018Venom: The Last Dance\u2019 (Sony Pictures)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Calypso.jpg\")
Ariana DeBose in \u2018Kraven the Hunter\u2019 (Sony Pictures)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Morbius.jpg\")
Jared Leto in \u2018Morbius\u2019 (Sony Pictures)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Rhino-II.jpg\")
Alessandro Nivola in \u2018Kraven the Hunter\u2019 (Sony Pictures)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Foreigner.jpg\")
Christopher Abbott in \u2018Kraven the Hunter\u2019 (Sony Pictures Releasing)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Riot.jpg\")
Riz Ahmed in \u2018Venom\u2019 (Sony Pictures)<\/p>\n
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Matt Smith in \u2018Morbius\u2019 (Sony Pictures)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Chameleon.jpg\")
Fred Hechinger in \u2018Kraven the Hunter\u2019 (Sony Pictures)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Ezekial-Sims.jpg\")
Tahar Rahim in \u2018Madame Web\u2019 (Sony Pictures<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Green-Goblin-III.jpg\")
Dane DeHaan in \u2018The Amazing Spider-Man 2\u2019 (Sony Pictures)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Doctor-Crawdaddy.jpg\")
Aaron LaPlante in \u2018Spider-Ham: Caught in a Ham\u2019 (Sony Pictures)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Scorpion-II.jpg\")
Joaqu\u00edn Cos\u00edo in \u2018Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse\u2019 (Sony Pictures)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Tombstone-I-Spider-Verse.jpg\")
Marvin Jones III and Nicolas Cage in \u2018Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse\u2019 (Sony Pictures)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Sea-Devil-Spider-Man.jpg\")
Sh\u014dz\u014d Iizuka in \u2018Supaid\u0101man\u2019 (Toei)<\/p>\n
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Tom Holland and Fan Xiaoshuang in \u2018Spider-Man: Brand New Day\u2019 (Sony Pictures\/Marvel Studios)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Green-Goblin-IV.jpg\")
Jorma Taccone in \u2018Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse\u2019 (Sony Pictures)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Scorpion-I.jpg\")
Michael Mando in \u2018Spider-Man: Brand New Day\u2019 (Sony Pictures\/Marvel Studios)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Electro.jpg\")
Jamie Foxx in \u2018The Amazing Spider-Man 2\u2019 (Sony Pictures)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/The-Lizard.jpg\")
Rhys Ifans and Andrew Garfield in \u2018The Amazing Spider-Man\u2019 (Sony Pictures)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Shocker-I-and-II.jpg\")
Bokeem Woodbine and Logan Marshall-Green in \u2018Spider-Man: Homecoming\u2019 (Sony Pictures\/Marvel Studios)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Kraven-the-Hunter-Movie.jpg\")
Aaron Taylor-Johnson in \u2018Kraven the Hunter\u2019 (Sony Pictures)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Rhino-I.jpg\")
Paul Giamatti in \u2018The Amazing Spider-Man 2\u2019 (Sony Pictures)<\/p>\n
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Michael Chernus in \u2018Spider-Man: Homecoming\u2019 (Sony Pictures\/Marvel Studios)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Prowler-I.jpg\")
Donald Glover and Shameik Moore in \u2018Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse\u2019 (Sony Pictures)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Shriek.jpg\")
Naomie Harris in \u2018Venom: Let There Be Carnage\u2019 (Sony Pictures)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Vulture-II.jpg\")
Jorma Taccone in \u2018Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse\u2019 (Sony Pictures\/Marvel Studios)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Venom-I.jpg\")
Topher Grace in \u2018Spider-Man 3\u2019 (Sony Pictures)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Prowler-III.jpg\")
Shameik Moore in \u2018Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse\u2019 (Sony Pictures)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Doctor-Octopus-II.jpg\")
Kathryn Hahn in \u2018Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse\u2019 (Sony Pictures)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Carnage.jpg\")
Woody Harrelson in \u2018Venom: Let There Be Carnage\u2019 (Sony Pictures)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Sandman.jpg\")
Thomas Haden Church in \u2018Spider-Man 3\u2019 (Sony Pictures)<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Spider-Man-No-Way-Home-2.jpg\")
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James Franco in \u2018Spider-Man 3\u2019 (Sony Pictures)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Jean-Grey.jpg\")
Sadie Sink in \u2018Spider-Man: Brand New Day\u2019 (Sony Pictures\/Marvel Studios)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Mysterio.jpg\")
Jake Gyllenhaal in \u2018Spider-Man: Homecoming\u2019 (Sony Pictures\/Marvel Studios)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Prowler-II.jpg\")
Shameik Moore and Mahershala Ali in \u2018Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse\u2019<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/The-Spot.jpg\")
Jason Schwartzman in \u2018Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse\u2019 (Sony Pictures)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Vulture-I.jpg\")
Michael Keaton in \u2018Spider-Man: Homecoming\u2019 (Sony Pictures\/Marvel Studios)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Venom-Tom-Hardy.jpg\")
Tom Hardy in \u2018Venom: The Last Dance\u2019 (Sony Pictures)<\/p>\n
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Liev Schrieber in \u2018Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse\u2019 (Sony Pictures)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Doctor-Octopus-I.jpg\")
Alfred Molina in \u2018Spider-Man: No Way Home\u2019 (Sony Pictures\/Marvel Studios)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Green-Goblin-I.jpg\")
Willem Dafoe in \u2018Spider-Man\u2019 (Sony Pictures)<\/p>\n![\"Tom](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/tom-holland-brand-new-day.jpg\")
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