You can’t completely blame the Oscar-winning actor, although his cartoonish portrayal of Dillon, who will become the all-powerful Electro, is broad in a way that modern-day superhero movies try to avoid. Freeze were utter duds who essentially killed off their respective franchises, and Jamie Foxx’s portrayal of the nerdy Max Dillon similarly highlighted everything that was disastrous about The Amazing Spider-Man 2. X-Men: Apocalypse’s En Sabah Nur and Batman & Robin’s Mr. Here’s a helpful rule of thumb: If you’re making a superhero movie, don’t have your bad guy dress up all in blue. Jamie Foxx, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man: No Way Home None of them will ever make you consider rooting against Peter Parker. Here, a ranking of the 14 villains from the ten Spider-Man films made so far, including the brand-new Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.
But in the end, they’re beating up on a kid. That’s no offense to some of the excellent actors who have tangled with Spidey. It’s tough to find one, and it’s a reason that, throughout a few iterations of Spider-Man films, the villains just don’t stand out like they do in many other superhero movies.
But how do you play off a Queens teenager? Who’s his natural flip side? The best villains are natural reciprocals of the heroes they battle: The Joker and Batman are two halves of the same coin, cursed to battle forever, and Lex Luthor represents the last vestige of human ingenuity trying to take out the all-powerful alien who reminds us of our own weaknesses. None of the bad guys in the Spider-Man comics has ever come close to the cultural cachet of those villains. Spider-Man’s foes have never been the focus of the Spider-Man films in the way that the Joker or Lex Luthor or Thanos have been in other superhero movies. It’s been updated to reflect Spider-Man’s big-screen adventures since then, including Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. This list was originally published in 2019.
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