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Spoilers for all works set prior to Spider-Man: No Way Home are unmarked.

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Vulture's Gang

In General

Vulture's Gang

Appearances: Spider-Man: Homecoming

A former salvage company turned criminal gang that illegally sells high-tech weapons on the black market.

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• Armed Blag: They regularly hijack Damage Control's armored trucks to steal leftover weaponry from the Avengers' battles, using "matter phase shifter" to get inside without anyone noticing.
• Arms Dealer: After being driven out of business by Damage Control, Adrian Toomes' salvage company became a gang of arms dealers. They specialize in manufacturing powerful weapons by combining modern and alien technology they managed to recover from the Avengers' various battles, starting with New York City following the Chitauri invasion.
• Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Justified; as impressive as Phineas Manson's Chitauri-derived technology is, Toomes's gang can't sell them legally, since the basis for said technology was acquired illegally.
• Disintegrator Ray: One of the weapons put together with alien tech by the Tinkerer is a disintegrator rifle, which Toomes first uses on Brice, turning him into ashes (although he thought that was an anti-gravity gun). The Vulture is later armed with it on the ferry, which results in an accidental discharge during the fight against Spider-Man, cleaving the boat cleanly in half through the middle.
• Energy Weapon: Several of the weapons they sell fire energy blasts, such as the Chitauri guns and the Ultron rifles.
• Equal-Opportunity Evil: They are a fairly racially diverse criminal gang, with several members being black, notably Herman Schultz.
• Evil Is Not Well-Lit: The base of operations for the gang is their old warehouse back when they were legit, without most of the lights on. Also, most of the gang's operations take place under the cover of night.
• Failed a Spot Check: When Mason, Schultz and Vale are on a stakeout waiting for the Damage Control trucks, none of them notice Spider-Man struggling with his new web-shooter combinations a few feet away. Granted, Schults does hear something and tries to check it out, but he quickly forgets about it as Mason explains to him how to use his Shocker Gauntlet.
• Five-Man Band: Despite being villains, the five named members of the gang fits the roles quite well:
  • Adrian Toomes/The Vulture is the Big Bad, being the leader of the gang and the main antagonist of the film.
  • Herman Schultz/The Shocker is The Dragon, being Toomes' second-in-command and the most dangerous beside his boss.
  • Phineas Mason/The Tinkerer is the Evil Genius, being a technology expert who creates their weapons.
  • Jackson Brice is The Brute, being pretty skilled when it comes to punching people, but not the sharpest tool in the shed.
  • Randy Vale is the only one who seems to get along well with everyone and never gets into arguments with any of his partners.
• Gravity Master: One of the weapons they designed is the anti-gravity gun, which allows its user to levitate things or even people.
• Imported Alien Phlebotinum: Most of their weapons incorporate leftover Chitauri tech from the Battle of New York. They also sell some Black Hole Grenades that belonged by the Dark Elves.
• Portable Hole: They have access to an alien device that temporarily "phases" matter within an adjustable rectangular shape and allows passing through it, creating this effect. It is quite handy when stealing from heavily secured containers and also when grabbing a beer from the fridge without getting up.
• Supervillain Lair: They operate out of an old warehouse in Brooklyn. The trope is even Discussed by Peter and Ned.
  Ned: They have a lair?
  Peter: Dude, a gang with alien guns run by a guy with wings? Yeah, they have a lair.
  Ned: Badass.
• Trash the Set: After having being an important location throughout the movie, the gang's warehouse collapses at the end when Toomes uses his wingsuit to break the support beams in an attempt to kill Spider-Man.
• Villainous Friendship: With the exception of Jackson Brice, most of the named members are on pretty amicable terms with each other despite being criminals.

Leadership

Adrian Toomes / Vulture

See his page.

Operatives

Phineas Mason / Tinkerer

Phineas Mason / The Tinkerer

"We could have made some pretty cool stuff with all that alien junk."

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Bestman Salvage (formerly), Vulture Gang

Portayed By: Michael Chernus

Voiced By: Mauricio Pérez (Latin-American Spanish Dub)

Appearances: Spider-Man: Homecoming

A mechanic who works closely with Toomes. He's able to make gadgets of all sorts out of common household objects.

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• Adaptation Origin Connection: While Tinkerer and Vulture were originally introduced in the same issue, neither of their stories had anything to do with one another. Here, he's an employee of Toomes who built him the flight suit.
• Affably Evil: Perhaps even moreso than his boss. Unlike Toomes, Schultz and Brice, he never acts aggressive or unpleasant, and is generally pretty mild-mannered and polite for a criminal mastermind.
• Age Lift: Unlike his elderly counterpart in the comics, this Tinkerer is much younger.
• Alternate Self: He has a female counterpart on Earth-1048.
• Arms Dealer: He helps create advanced supervillain weaponry for the Vulture, which is then sold to criminals.
• Beard of Evil: He has a small goatee and serves as the Evil Genius of the Vulture's gang.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Mason frequently bugs a reluctant Toomes about working on a high altitude vacuum seal for his wingsuit, getting rebuffed the first two times before Spider-Man's repeated interference makes him relent. The vacuum seal is deployed during the gang's climactic heist - the mid-air hijacking of a Stark Industries plane loaded with Avengers tech.
• Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: He's never called "the Tinkerer" at any point during the film. Only the credits refer to him as The Tinkerer.
• Composite Character: He's Phineas Mason like the classic Tinkerer, but like Elijah Stern, the Ultimate Marvel Tinkerer, a decade or two younger.
• Constantly Curious: Apparently, he can't help but take a look at his boss's phone every time it rings, despite being warned against it more than once. He justifies himself by claiming that he's "a curious person by nature".
• Evil Counterpart:
  • He is this to Tony Stark. Just as Iron Man provides technology and advice to Peter, Mason allies himself with the Vulture and contributes to his schemes with gadgets.
  • The film also props up a parallel between him and Ned Leeds, both being the overweight nerdy friends and loyal companions who encourage their friends to go on superpowered deeds. Notably, both he and Ned act as "the chair guy".
• Evil Genius: A villainous technowizard, and the guy with the most know-how in Toomes's gang.
• Fat Bastard: He's a heavyset guy who does the gadget work for a gang of criminals. On the other hand, he's not much of a Jerkass.
• Gadgeteer Genius: His main claim is that he can make gadgets. However, he — a MacGyvering working-class engineer, not an MIT graduate like Stark or a prodigy like Parker — has successfully turned the Imported Alien Phlebotinum they've stolen into revolutionary devices such as Toomes's flight suit.
• Insistent Terminology: In the opening scene, Toomes mentions drawing "Cowboys and Indians" as a child, but Mason corrects him by saying that the proper term is "Native American".
• It's Probably Nothing: When Spider-Man manages to stick his webs to the Vulture wingsuit and clings to him during the heist of the Stark Cargo Plane, Toomes realizes there's something wrong but Mason dismisses it as nothing important.
  Toomes: Got a visual on the plane, feeling a little resistance.
  Mason: It’s probably just a drag on the new turbines.
• Justified Criminal: Like his boss, he believes himself to be one, as the company he worked for went out of business due to Stark's "Department of Damage Control" stealing the contract to clean up New York after the Chitauri invasion out from under them and snapping up every construction/clean-up job within a hundred miles. Like Toomes, he thus justifies using the one truckload of scrap they were able to sneak off with to start a business as an arms dealer as the only path left to them — not just by Tony Stark, but by society in general.
• Karma Houdini: He presumably escaped the final battle unscathed, as Spider-Man likely never knew about him.
• Mission Control: Mason operates as Adrian's computer man, keeping him updated on the mission from afar.
• Mundane Utility: At the beginning of the scene where Brice gets fired, Mason is seen using the vacuum seal to put a hole in the refrigerator to get a can of soda.
• Mythology Gag:
  • The Vulture and The Tinkerer were introduced in the same issue of The Amazing Spider Man way back in 1963, albeit in separate stories. They're also two of the earliest villains Spider-Man ever fought (pre-dating the likes of Doctor Octopus and the Green Goblin), which works well with the younger version of Peter Parker portrayed in the film.
  • His gadgets being reverse-engineered from Chitauri tech is likely a reference to the fact that in his first appearance, the Tinkerer was an alien disguised as an old man. For some reason.
• Never Bareheaded: He wears a beanie in all his scenes, including the Distant Prologue taking place in 2012.
• Non-Action Guy: A crucial part of Toomes's operations, but strictly a non-combatant.
• Politically Correct Villain: A minor example, but he thinks it's more appropriate to use the term "Native American" rather than "Indian".
• Punch-Clock Villain: He's very calm and collected, never has any Jerkass or Kick the Dog moments in Homecoming. Of course, since he's also a Justified Criminal.
• Sticky Fingers: When Damage Control comes to take over their job of cleaning up the Battle of New York and orders them to hand over all the alien items they collected, Mason can't resist slipping a Chitauri energy core into his pocket, which he later uses to power a turbine.
• Two First Names: "Mason" is also usable as a first name.
• Undying Loyalty: He seems to be Adrian Toomes' most loyal henchman, being the only one who doesn't even consider leaving him after the FBI and Iron Man start going after them. He also shows great concern for his boss's safety and pleads him to abandon the heist when he risks his life trying to retrieve a crate from the cargo plane while it's about to crash.
• Unrelated in the Adaptation: There seems to be no sign of a familiar relationship between him and Rick Mason from Black Widow (2021) and while Michael Chernus is older than O.T. Fagbenle, it's only by four years, so it's not even remotely possible for this Tinkerer to have fathered Rick.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: He is the one who keeps insisting in doing the "High Altitude Job" — which is the one that ends up getting Toomes captured.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: He's last seen closing his computer screen after Vulture's plan goes off the rails. As Spider-Man never met him and probably doesn't even know of his existence, he likely escaped justice. Additional material created for the Homecoming Blu-Ray suggests that his role may serve as a Sequel Hook for future tech-based Spider-Man villains.

Herman Schultz / Shocker II

Herman Schultz / Shocker II

"I wasn't sure about this thing at first, but...damn!"

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Bestman Salvage (formerly), Vulture Gang

Portayed By: Bokeem Woodbine

Voiced By: Jun'ichi Suwabe (Japanese), Dan Osorio (Latin-American Spanish Dub)

Appearances: Spider-Man: Homecoming

"I love it. They keep making messes, we keep getting rich."

A former employee of Toomes's business. After Damage Control ran them out of business, he stuck with Toomes' gang, eventually coming to use a modified gauntlet stolen from Lagos.

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• Adaptational Dumbass:
  • While not portrayed as outright dumb, this Shocker lacks the genius inventor status he had in the comics, where he invented his own gauntlets. He was also an expertly pragmatic tactician who's evaded capture many different times. Here, the gauntlet was given to him, and he was actually the second to use it after Jackson. That, and he gets foiled by Ned borrowing Peter's webshooter.
  • On the other hand, by the time Toomes sends him to watch the school in case Peter rejects Toomes's offer of a truce, he's clearly spent time practicing with the Shocker gauntlets and is able to use them quite effectively in his fight against Peter. Rather than trying to punch Peter directly, he punches school buses, weaponizing his environment. He may be Book Dumb, but he's clearly Street Smart.
• Adaptation Origin Connection:
  • Shocker was originally introduced years after the Vulture was in the original comics, and the two characters were completely unrelated. Here, Schultz worked for Toomes before becoming one of his goons, and he gets some of the spare gear that the Vulture's used before.
  • His gauntlet is one of the ones originally used by Crossbones during the Lagos incident, salvaged and upgraded by Toomes's gang. In the comics, Shocker invented his own gauntlets and he and Crossbones have absolutely no connection to one another.
• Adaptational Seriousness: Many appearances of the Shocker in comics and western animation play him as a Butt-Monkey and an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain (althought he also is portrayed as a Not-So-Harmless Villain at times). In the MCU, he still may be a minor threat, but he is portrayed as a straight criminal who's taken serious by Peter the whole time.
• Adaptational Superpower Change: Contrary to what his name suggests, Shocker in the comics weaponized shockwaves and vibrations, not electricity.
• Adaptational Wimp: In the original comics, while he's not a threat on the level of, say, Doc Ock or any of the Goblins, the Shocker knew how to use his gauntlets very well, and consistently gave Spidey a hard time, with a solid track record against the wall crawler to the point where it was actually pretty rare to see him just go down after a short fight. In the film however, he's a much worse fighter than his comic book counterpart, being dispatched fairly easily each time he fights Spider-Man, and the only time he does well is when he knocks his web shooters off and is beaten almost instantly when Ned shoots him with one of them and Peter gets them back.
  • There's also the fact that in the comic, Shocker had TWO gauntlets and could fire projectile blasts from them. Here, he's only got one and he's a melee fighter.
  • Justified in that the movie version lacks a secondary gauntlet as well as the ranged firepower they deliver, as well as a suit that protects him from his own gauntlets and can deflect some of Spider-Man's attacks. Along with that, he only recently got the gauntlet and is inexperienced with it in comparison to Brice, who Peter flat out says was better with the gauntlet than Schultz.
• All Webbed Up: Once Spider-Man gets his web-shooters back thanks to Ned's help, he promptly uses them to pin Shocker to the side of a bus, leaving him covered in webs.
• Arms Dealer: He goes out with the Tinkerer's inventions and tries to sell them off to whoever wants them. He seems to focus on explaining what his products actually do.
• Badass Driver: When Spider-Man webs onto the gang's van to follow them, Schultz drives in a way that pushes him towards obstacles on the road, and he eventually manages to get rid of him by sending him crashing into a brick post.
• Bald of Evil: He's bald and a criminal arms dealer.
• Blood Knight: He seems to take some perverse joy in using the shock gauntlet to hammer Spider-Man's face, letting out an impressed "Damn!" when it punches him all the way through a school bus.
• Car Fu: During his final fight against Spider-Man, he uses his gauntlet to blasts multiple buses at the young superhero.
• Civvie Spandex: He has a military jacket and pants over a yellow suit instead of having a standard brown and yellow suit.
• Co-Dragons: Alongside Jackson Brice, he acts as one of Toomes's enforcers. After Jackson is killed off, he graduates to being Toomes's sole Dragon.
• Combat Pragmatist: During their final fight, he attacks Peter by surprise before he has time to put his web-shooters, and then spends the whole fight continuously beating him around to prevent him from getting them back.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • After becoming the Shocker, Schultz gets defeated very easily during his fight against Spider-Man in the ferry due to his poor handling of the Gauntlet.
  • However, Schultz has gotten better at it when they have a rematch towards the end, so this time he's the one who manages to curbstomp his opponent... at least until Spidey gets his Web Shooters back, at which point he beats him within seconds.
• Decomposite Character: His status as the first Shocker is given to Jackson Brice, and his role in creating the original shock gauntlets is retroactively given to Crossbones. Also, his status as a punch-clock, working-class villain is given to the Vulture.
• Distract and Disarm: When the Shocker is overpowering Spider-Man during their final fight, Ned distracts him for a brief moment by firing webbing at his Gauntlet, and Spidey takes advantage of the opportunity to swiftly disarm him.
• Electric Black Guy: Due to Race Lift, Herman Schultz is now a black criminal who utilizes an electricity-powered gauntlet in combat.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • He's quite shocked when his boss vaporizes Jackson Brice right in front of him.
    Schultz: Damn…
  • While he's far from a saint himself, even he doesn't like Mac Gargan.
    Schultz: I hate this guy.
• Evil Feels Good: After getting better at using the Shocker Gauntlet, he admits during his beating of Peter that he does take pleasure in using its destructive power.
  Schultz: I wasn’t sure about this thing at first, but… Damn!
• Help, I'm Stuck!: He gets his Gauntlet stuck in a railing while trying to hit Spider-Man during the fight on the ferry, and Spidey shoots some webbing at it to prevent his escape. He spends the rest of the battle unable to move, until Toomes helps him get free by shooting at the railings.
• How Do I Shot Web?: He initially doesn't know how to use the Gauntlet properly, needing Mason to run him through or risk blowing off his arm from the recoil. In a rather hilarious — and ironic — scene in the film, both Schultz and Peter are simultaneously trying to figure out each other's respective weapons at the exact same time, no more than 20 feet from each other, without either of them realizing the other is there.
• Kingpin in His Gym: He can be seen practicing with his new Shocker Gauntlet in the warehouse, using it to punch a van at one point.
• Legacy Character: While Schultz was the original Shocker in the comics, in the film he's the second person to use the Shocker identity... in the same movie, nonetheless.
• Marquee Alter Ego: He always has his face exposed, and never wears anything resembling his mask from the comics.
• Mobstacle Course: When he tries to escape from the collapsing ferry, Schultz races across the top deck to get picked up by his boss but he has to run through a bunch of people and pushes some of them out of his way.
• Mook Promotion: While not exactly a Mook, Herman Schultz still started off as a relatively unremarkable henchman with no supervillain name and no specific weapon or powers. But after killing the first Shocker Jackson Brice, the Vulture gives Schultz his electrical gauntlet to make him the new Shocker, and tasks him with the important mission of finding the weapon taken by Spider-Man.
• Mouth of Sauron: Whenever the gang sells tech to other criminals, Schultz does the talking.
• Not Wearing Tights: While his jacket and pants match the aesthetic of his comics counterpart, he actually doesn't wear a costume, even though some of the merchandise for the film does depict him wearing one.
• Off Bridge, onto Vehicle: After Spider-Man and the FBI show up during the deal on the ferry, Schultz runs to the top deck and jumps off the railing to lands on the Vulture's back while he's flying away.
• Power Fist: The Shocker Gauntlet he wears on his right arm greatly enhances the strength of his punches, allowing him to send the likes of Spider-Man flying away.
• Put on a Prison Bus: In a deleted scene, the Midtown High news show confirms that he was found by the police after being webbed up onto a bus by Spider-Man, and subsequently taken into custody.
• Race Lift: Though traditionally depicted as Caucasian, this Shocker is played by black actor Bokeem Woodbine.
• Scary Black Man: He's a tough-looking black man who also happens to be a dangerous supervillain.
• Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: He's about to leave after the ferry incident, since they're now on the FBI and Iron Man's radar, and urges Toomes to do the same. He stops once Toomes finally commits to the high altitude heist.
• Shock and Awe: He uses a weapon that gives him certain electricity-based abilities, which actually would have defeated Peter were it not for the quick thinking of Ned.
• Superior Successor: Averted at first, as he loses badly to Spider-Man during their fight on the Ferry, with Spidey even noting that the previous Shocker was much better. However, he eventually gets better with his Gauntlet and manages to beat up Spidey much more brutally than his predecessor during their final fight, although it was helped by the fact that he didn't have his web-shooters at the time.
• Superweapon Average Joe: Herman Schultz is nothing more than an ordinary human being, but with the Shocker Gauntlet he becomes a serious threat even for a superhero like Spider-Man.
• Thwarted Coup de Grâce: After brutally roughing up Peter in their final fight, the Shocker raises his arm in preparation to deliver the final blow. Fortunately, Ned arrives and picks up the web-shooters to fire webbing at his Gauntlet, restraining him long enough for Peter to get up and defeat him.
• Token Minority: He is the only named member of Vulture's gang to be African-American.
• Took a Level in Badass: At first, he's just a salesman for his gang's weapons. He becomes more dangerous after getting the Shocker gauntlet, but remains inexperienced and manages to trap himself on the ferry by punching through steel mesh. After undergoing a bit of self-training, he manages to ambush Peter, knock off his web shooters, and effortlessly knock him around a parking lot before Ned steps in. His Shocker gauntlet is also an upgraded version of one of Crossbones' power-gauntlets.
• Trigger-Happy: Downplayed, but he seems to like threatening people with his gun a little too much. He wastes no time in pulling his gun on Aaron Davis when he hears a suspicious noise during their deal and assumes (wrongly) that he has set him up, and he's more than happy to oblige when Spider-Man shows up and challenges him to take a shot at him instead. Later, he promptly reaches for his gun when he sees a chair wobbling while searching the school and thinks (rightly this time) that someone was spying on him.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: He disappears from the film after getting webbed up against a school bus. It's revealed in a deleted scene that he was arrested after being found by the students. His gauntlet was stolen by a student named Tiny McKeever.
• Would Hurt a Child: Even after finding out that Spider-Man is only a 15-year-old high school student, he is more than happy to pummel him with his Shocker Gauntlet and try to kill him.

Jackson Brice / Shocker I

Jackson Brice / Shocker I

"I got what you need, all right? I got tons of great stuff here. One sec. Okay, I got Black Hole Grenades, Chitauri railguns..."

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Bestman Salvage (formerly), Vulture Gang

Portayed By: Logan Marshall-Green

Voiced By: Daniel del Roble (Latin-American Spanish Dub)

Appearances: Spider-Man: Homecoming

"You're out there, wearing that goofy thing, lighting up cars, calling yourself the Shocker. "I'm the Shocker. I shock people." What is this, Pro Wrestling?"

— Adrian Toomes

A member of Adrian Toomes' gang who first uses the alias and Shocker tech.

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• Adaptational Weapon Swap: In the comics, Jackson Brice is a supervillain specialized in the use of lassos and lariats. His MCU version never uses anything of the sort and fights with an electric gauntlet instead.
• Asshole Victim: He's (accidentally) killed by Toomes when Toomes kicks him off the crew. He got himself kicked off by not caring about being discreet, using their weaponry out in the open and risking someone like the Avengers finding out about their operation, and then was disrespectful and flippant when Toomes reprimanded him for it. While Toomes just kicked him off the crew for that, Brice then threatened to tell his family about Toomes's criminal dealings. Even if Toomes wasn't intending to kill him, Brice deserved whatever was coming his way and Toomes isn't broken up over accidentally causing his death.
• Arms Dealer: He is one right along with Herman, but Jackson focuses more on showing off and handing out the merchandise to potential buyers.
• Atrocious Alias: Toomes finds his self-given moniker "the Shocker" ridiculous. He does suggest that Schultz use it after Brice gets reduced to ashes, though.
  Toomes: What is this, Pro Wrestling?!
• Bald of Evil: He's bald and a criminal arms dealer. It's worth noting that the only other bald guy in the crew is the similarly bad Herman.
• Beard of Evil: Between him, Toomes, Mason, Schultz and Vale, Brice is the one with the bushiest beard and clearly the most evil among them.
• Big "SHUT UP!": He angrily says this when Schultz chides him for using one of their high-tech weapons against Spider-Man in public when he's already been told it wasn't a good idea.
  Schultz: Did you just do it again?
  Brice: Shut up!
• Big "WHAT?!": His reaction when Toomes gets tired of his screw-ups and tells him he's fired.
  Toomes: You know what? I can’t afford your bullshit. Get out of here.
  Brice: WHAT?!
• Blackmail Backfire: When he gets kicked out, he threatens to tell Toomes's family what he really does to get his money if he isn't let back on. Toomes decides to get him back into compliance with his Anti-Gravity gun, but accidentally uses a gun that turns Jackson to dust instead. Nobody is very bothered about it.
• Bullying a Dragon: After Toomes fires him for his arrogance and incompetence, he attempts to blackmail Toomes by threatening to release all the information about Toomes's operations to the public, and even makes a threat to his family. He does it in Toomes's warehouse when all the other crew members are present and when Toomes has several weapons within easy reach. It goes about as well as you'd expect.
• Character Death: He dies from being vaporized by Toomes.
• Co-Dragons: Alongside Herman Schultz, he acts as one of Toomes's enforcers. It doesn't last long, since he dies early in the movie, leaving Schultz as the sole Dragon.
• Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: Played with. He refers to himself as Shocker, but never uses his comic alias "Montana".
• Decomposite Character: Both Jackson Brice (who went by Montana in the comics) and Herman Schultz are the Shocker in this adaptation.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: While Jackson Brice did die as well in the comics, he actually fell to his death when the building he was in collapsed due to the Hobgoblin's sonic scream, rather than being disintegrated by the Vulture.
• Dumb Crook: If he hadn't been a dumbass and fired off powerful and highly-visible weaponry in a residential area, Spider-Man probably would have never learned about the gang's weapon dealings in time to stop it.
• Dumb Muscle: He's pretty good in a fight thanks to his proficiency with the Shocker Gauntlet, being able to get the better of Spider-Man by punching him away. Too bad he's a complete idiot who brings his gang more trouble than he's worth.
• Drunk on the Dark Side: He is always laughing and jubilating when he uses high-tech weapons to destroy stuff or beat people up.
• Establishing Character Moment: He nonchalantly shows up late to work in the opening scene and blows off Toomes' berating of him for it, showing off an indifferent attitude toward Toomes and his job that gets more pronounced as the film goes on and ultimately leads to his (accidental) death at the hands of the latter.
• Evil Is Hammy: He really doesn't understand anything about subtlety, much to his boss's chagrin. For starters, he insists on being called "the Shocker", and he enjoys causing destruction while laughing like a maniac.
• Evil Laugh: After sending Spidey flying several meters away by punching him with his Shocker Gauntlet, Brice laughs triumphantly.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: None of his colleagues seem to really like him due to his Jerkass behavior, with Toomes and Shultz in particular constantly complaining about his stupid blunders. When he gets accidentally killed, they all quickly get over it.
• Hate Sink: Pretty much exists for the sole purpose of giving Toomes more audience sympathy by being a selfish jerkass in comparison.
• He Knows Too Much: As Brice himself points out when he gets fired, Toomes can't just let him go with everything he knows about their weapons business as he might tell people, like his wife. Toomes agrees and picks up a Chitauri weapon to shoot him with it, disintegrating him.
  Brice: Yeah, all right. All right. Wonder if you can afford me out there, though, right? With everything I know.
  Toomes: Excuse me?
  Brice:Um, I’m just saying... maybe your wife would like to know where you really get your money from.
  Toomes:You know what?
  Brice:What?
  Toomes: You're right. I can't afford that.
  [Toomes shoots him with a Chitauri Gun]
• Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: When Spider-Man clings to his van with his web to chase him, Brice uses some high-tech weapons to shoot at him, but misses all his shots. In his defense, it's probably not easy to aim well when you're in a van moving at high speed.
• In Name Only: In the comics, Jackson Brice was a cowboy nicknamed Montana who specialized in using a lasso and was prominently a member of the Enforcers, a trio of elite mob mooks. In the MCU, Jackson Brice has none of these traits.
• Jerkass: As Toomes points out, he doesn't care about anything. In the film's opening, he can't be bothered to show up to work on time, he promptly states he's not going to be the one to cart another load of alien junk to Damage Control, and he deliberately ignores Toomes's warnings about being discreet.
• The Load: Brings nothing but trouble to the gang by showing off with the alien weapons out in the open – and if the opening is any indication, he was this before they turned to crime.
• Mythology Gag:
  • As in The Spectacular Spider-Man, where Shocker and Brice were one and the same, he uses the tech alongside Herman Schultz and is the one who came up with the name.
  • His jacket harkens to the Shocker's classic costume.
• Not a Morning Person: On the day that Toomes' salvaging company cleaned up the aftermath of the battle of New York, Brice didn't show up until the afternoon, pretending that his alarm clock didn't go off. Toomes' reaction implies that this is not the first time something like this has happened.
• Power Fist: The Shocker Gauntlet he wears on his right arm greatly enhances the strength of his punches, allowing him to send the likes of Spider-Man flying away.
• Practice Target Overkill: During the deal with Aaron Davis, he demonstrates his weapons by shooting at some derelict cars and blowing them up in a spectacular fashion, even though Aaron was looking for something simple to mug people with. The resulting explosions are so huge that they attract Peter's attention from Liz's house.
• Psycho Electro: Downplayed, but he has an electric gauntlet and he's shown to be very enthusiastic about using it to shock people.
• Psychopathic Manchild: His behaviour and lack of respect for Toomes resembles more that of an malignant teenager than a grown adult. Tellingly, he's quite a bit more immature than the actual teenagers in the movie.
• Rapid-Fire "No!": Does this when Schultz suggests calling their boss while they're being chased by Spider-Man.
  Schultz: We gotta call him!
  Brice: No, no, no, no...
• Reduced to Dust: This happens to his body when it is hit by Toomes's gun, leaving behind nothing of him but the Shocker gauntlet he was wearing.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He's not in the movie for long, but his bumbling is what alerts Peter to Toomes's racket.
• Stupid Crooks: Guy's a moron with a big mouth. And it gets him killed.
• Superweapon Average Joe: Jackson Brice is nothing more than an ordinary human being, but with the Shocker Gauntlet he becomes a serious threat even for a superhero like Spider-Man. He also uses some particularly destructive firearms during the deal with Aaron Davis.
• Take Up My Sword: Involuntarily. When he accidentally gets turned to dust, Toomes picks up the Shocker gauntlet that is the only thing that was left intact and passes it to Schultz, sarcastically declaring him the new Shocker. Schultz proceeds to use it for the rest of the movie.
• There Is No Kill Like Overkill: As shown during his deal with Aaron Davis, he has a propensity for upselling his customers. When the small-time crook wanted something simple and straightforward - like an ordinary gun — he instead tries to peddle black hole grenades and railguns. Befitting his manchild personality, he loves over-the-top destruction, and for some reason thinks everyone else does too.
  Aaron: Man, I wanted something low-key. Why are you trying to upsell me, man? (...) I need something to stick up somebody. I’m not trying to... shoot them back in time!
• Token Evil Teammate: Not that anyone in the gang is a saint, but between him, Schultz, Mason, Vale and Toomes, he's by far the most unpleasant and trigger-happy.
• Too Dumb to Live: He tries to sell overly advanced weaponry to a common thief who was in the market for a regular gun, and his demonstrations draw the attention of Spider-Man, who nearly catches them. Then he scoffs at Toomes being angry for being so indiscreet and then, when fired on the spot, threatens to reveal everything to Toomes's wife and the police. Double-subverted, as Toomes only wanted to hurt him with an anti-gravity gun but accidentally used a disintegrator instead that turns Brice into dust, but Toomes gets over the mistake remarkably quickly.
• Two First Names: Brice can also be used as a first name.
• Underling with an F in PR: Toomes ordered him to move around some of the alien weapons under the radar. Emphasis: under the radar. Selling it to some bodega-stealing Stupid Crooks and then demonstrating weapons that create massive explosions right next to a residential area and a freeway was against the definition of "under the radar". What really places him in this trope is his utter lack of regret for having performed these snafus and the decision to try to threaten Toomes's family when he's kicked out of the outfit.
• Wasn't That Fun?: After being chased by Spider-Man across the city and causing a lot of visible destruction, he returns to the warehouse all excited and happy, much to Toomes' frustration.
  Brice: Ha-ha-ha! Whoo!! I mean, that was badass!
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Compared to his colleagues, he doesn't appear in many scenes, and he ends up getting killed relatively early in the film.
• Would Hurt a Child: He punches the 15-year-old Peter Parker using his Shocker Gauntlet, and then tries to shoot him with some high-tech gun. To be fair, it's possible that he didn't realize his young age due to him wearing the Spider-Man suit.
• You Have Failed Me: After having enough of his repeated disregard for his instructions and lack of respect, Toomes kicks him off the crew and vaporizes him with a ray gun. Partly Subverted, as it's revealed immediately afterwards that Toomes mistook the gun for a harmless anti-gravity device and didn't intend to kill him.

Randy Vale

Randy Vale

"Hey, chief! We still have this load from yesterday. We're supposed to turn this in, right?"

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Bestman Salvage (formerly), Vulture Gang

Portrayed By: Christopher Berry

Appearances: Spider-Man: Homecoming

Another member of Adrian Toomes' crew.

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• 555: The phone number given for his business in the Daily Bugle job advertisement is 513-555-6011.
• Adaptational Origin Connection: In the comics, Vale was a henchman for Carrion, one of Miles Warren's clones, and had no connection with Vulture. Here, he is in league with Toomes.
• Adaptational Wimp: His comic book counterpart is minor supervillain Darter, who actually gets to use technology and weapons to fight Spider-Man. MCU Vale never gets the chance and ends up presumably arrested.
• All Webbed Up: He is last seen being webbed up to a wall after getting hit by Spidey's Web Grenade during the battle on the Staten Island Ferry.
• Never Bareheaded: He is always seen with a cap on his head, and has been since the Distant Prologue set in 2012.
• Punch-Clock Villain: He's part of the band but never seen committing or attempting to carry out a heinous crime, unlike Toomes, Schultz or Brice.
• Put on a Prison Bus: Like Schultz and Toomes, he is arrested before the end of Spider-Man: Homecoming, though he is arrested significantly earlier at the Ferry and never seen again.
• Reformed Criminal: A promotional Daily Bugle newspaper reveals that he was eventually released from prison and started his own legitimate salvaging business. Although his ad is suspiciously insistent that he wants nothing to do with Chitauri tech.
• Satellite Character: His scenes in the present day revolve around being an extra set of hands, such as searching the school with Schultz.
• Screaming Warrior: When Spider-Man shows up during the deal with Gargan on the Staten Island Ferry, Vale charges at him yelling loudly, though he gets hit by a Web Grenade before getting too close.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Vale is responsible for finding a truck of Chitauri scrap that the crew neglected to drop off, leading to the formation of Toomes's mercenary operation.
• Stink Snub: A variant. While accompanying Schultz to search for their Chitauri Gun in Midtown School, he mentions that he hates high schools because they smell funny.

Others

Species: Humans

Citizenship: American

Appearances: Spider-Man: Homecoming

The other members of Vulture's gang.

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• Building Is Welding: Some of them can be seen welding when they're building weapons.
• Evil Minions: They are Adrian Toomes' henchmen whose job is to build the weapons for his business, but they're never involved in any fight.
• Karma Houdini: Even though they have helped Adrian Toomes with his weapons business for years, they never get arrested during the movie.
• Practice Target Overkill: At the beginning of the film, one of them tests a weapon by shooting at a fridge. The fridge is blown to pieces, showing the destructive power of the weapons they build.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: They stop appearing in Vulture's warehouse halfway through the film with no explanation. Presumably, they chose to quit after the Staten Island Ferry incident out of fear of being caught by Iron Man.

Associates

Criminal Avengers

"Criminal Avengers"

Species: Humans

Citizenship: American

Appearances: Spider-Man: Homecoming

"This high-tech stuff makes it too easy!"

Four robbers in cheap Avengers masks who encounter Spider-Man as they try to rob a bank's ATM.

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• Bank Robbery: Spider-Man catches them while they're in the middle of robbing the Queens Community Bank.
• Bit-Part Bad Guys: Apart from purchasing their weapons from them, they have nothing to do with the main villains of the film and are just a random gang of bank robbers who show up for one scene and get beat up by the hero. They're even the page image.
• Ceiling Smash: One of them suspends Spider-Man with an anti-gravity gun and slams him between the ceiling and floor a few times during the bank fight.
• Faceless Mooks: They are just standard robbers in masks, and none of them inconvenience Peter at all until one of their Chitauri weapons gets out of control and blows up a nearby building.
• Failed a Spot Check: Despite having one of them standing guard, none of them notice Peter when he enters the bank and takes poses until he starts talking to them.
• Gang of Hats: As the name suggests, all four members of the gang wear plastic masks of the Avengers.
• Gravity Master: One of the weapons they purchased from Toomes' gang is an anti-gravity gun, which they use to rip ATMs off the wall and later to manhandle Spider-Man.
• Grievous Harm with a Body: When the Thor-masked robber tries to elbow Spidey, the young superhero effortlessly catches his arm and redirects the blow to the Hulk-masked robber's face. Shortly after, he also catches a punch from the Iron Man-masked robber and throws him to the Hulk-masked robber as well.
• Karma Houdini: They manage to get away as Spider-Man saves Delmar from the explosion in his store they caused with their malfunctioning Chitauri technology.
• Laser Cutter: They use a Chitauri weapon that emits laser beams to cut open some ATMs.
• Malevolent Masked Men: They are four violent bank robbers each wearing a mask based on an Avenger (Hulk, Captain America, Thor, and Iron Man, specifically).
• Mythology Gag:
  • The Thor mask robber has the face of the god's original comic appearance with his famous winged helmet, which the MCU Thor almost never wears.
  • A group of "Criminal Avengers" appeared in the Ultimate comics, also robbing banks in cheap masks before being apprehended by Spider-Man.
• Oh, Crap!: Before any of them attack, they all panic when Spider-Man makes his presence known to them.
• Punch Catch: The criminal disguised as Iron Man tries several times to punch Peter, but he easily dodges every time and eventually catches his fist before throwing him on the one disguised as Hulk.
• Small Role, Big Impact: The core of the gun they bought is taken by Peter, and almost kills the decathlon team in the Washington Monument. It also makes Toomes grateful to Peter when he learns he saved his daughter from the explosion.
• Starter Villain: Not counting the bike thief, they are the first real villains to be faced by the titular hero in Spider-Man: Homecoming.
• Super Weapon, Average Joe: They are your typical gang of bank robbers, but they're in possession of powerful alien weapons that cause Spider-Man to have a little more trouble against them than he would otherwise.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: They are never seen again after escaping from Spider-Man during the bank fight scene.
• Worth It: One of them says this regarding the Chitauri weapons they bought.
  Robber 1: Yo, this high tech stuff makes it too easy.
  Robber 2: Told you it was worth it!
• Would Hurt a Child: Even though Spider-Man has a distinctly youthful voice and mentions having school, they don't refrain from trying to kill him.

Aaron Davis / "Prowler"

Aaron Davis / "Prowler"

"You gotta get better at this part of the job."

^{Click here to see him in Across the Spider-Verse}

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Portrayed By: Donald Glover

Appearances: Spider-Man: Homecoming | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

A low-level crook who approached Vulture's gang to buy a gun only to find out that they offer weaponry of an entirely different nature.

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• Adaptational Nice Guy: While still a criminal, he's clearly a decent guy who cares about his nephew. In the Ultimate Marvel comics, Davis was a real piece of work (trying to exploit and eventually murder said nephew, to start with), and served as a case of Adaptational Villainy for the traditionally heroic Prowler of the mainstream Marvel Universe, Hobie Brown.
• Adaptational Wimp: While he has the alias of "Prowler", it's just a street name — he's by no means a super-criminal and very much doesn't want to be, since it draws way more attention and causes all kinds of mayhem that he doesn't want in his neighborhood. His cameo in Across the Spider-Verse implies that he eventually developed into the super-criminal Prowler in the time between Homecoming and that film.
• Affably Evil: He's ultimately a decent man who happens to make a living through crime, and develops an Odd Friendship with Peter.
• Alternate Self: Has a variant on Earth-1610B whose nephew he meets. He also has one on Earth-42.
• Beard of Evil: He sports a thin beard but overall he's a downplayed example as he's just a lowly criminal and is actually a pretty nice guy all things considered.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Spider-Man saving his life from Schultz and Brice is partially the reason why Aaron told the superhero where he could find Toomes.
  Aaron Davis: The other night, you told that dude, "If you're gonna shoot somebody, shoot me." It's pretty ballsy.
• The Cameo: Makes one in Across the Spider-Verse, in the hall of captured villains.
• Celebrity Paradox: Star Wars has been referenced in several MCU movies and television shows, including Homecoming. Donald Glover portrayed a younger Lando Calrissian in Solo. His appearance in Spider-Man: Spider-Verse also creates this, as the first film, the Aaron Davis of Earth-1610B is seen watching Community, specifically the opening to the season two premiere Anthropology 101, where the character Troy is wearing his Spider-Man pyjamas, who Glover portrayed.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Helps out Spider-Man in the third act after his brief earlier appearance, but on a grander scale, he seems to exist to slowly plant the seeds that may or may not someday lead to Peter's successor appearing in the MCU.
• Composite Character: While he has the namesake and appearance of Aaron Davis from the Ultimate Marvel line, his character traits are much more in-line with Hobie Brown.
• Dimension Traveller: Becomes an unwilling one in Across where he, along with many other villains, are displaced to other universes due to damage done to the multiverse.
• Early-Bird Cameo: He's a long way from becoming the Prowler, yet he has a supporting role in the first standalone Spider-Man movie in this continuity and the alias has already been mentioned.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He may be a crook, but he has family in Queens and doesn't want Toomes' alien weapons loose in the neighborhood.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • While he's a criminal, he doesn't want any of the destructive weapons sold by the Vulture's gang and he's worried about the havoc they could cause in his neighborhood.
  • He also considers Adrian Toomes to be a psychopath and Mac Gargan to be crazy.
• Help, I'm Stuck!: In his last scene, Spider-Man webs his hand to his car's boot and leaves him like that, much to his dismay. He tries to ask for help from bystanders in a deleted scene, without success.
• I Owe You My Life: Although Peter has completely failed to intimidate him, Davis decides to tell him everything he knows about the Vulture anyway as a way of thanking him for stopping Herman Schultz from shooting him.
• Karma Houdini: He's a criminal who tried to buy weapons to mug people, yet Spider-Man doesn't bother to arrest him and the worst thing that happens to him is that he gets his hand webbed to the trunk of his car for a few hours and his ice cream melts.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: While he's got a criminal record and was looking to buy a gun so he could rob people, he's also concerned for his family's safety and doesn't want Toomes's superweapons on the streets of New York any more than Spidey does.
• Mythology Gag:
  • He's played by the man who inspired the creation (and later provided the voice) of his nephew, Miles Morales, with his campaign to play Peter Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man.
  • He briefly mentions that he wants the Vulture's gang to keep their weapons away from Queens because he's worried about his nephew's safety. His nephew, of course, is heavily implied to be Miles Morales, who has been confirmed to exist in this setting. A deleted scene shows him calling Miles to explain his absence.
  • One of his aliases is Brian Pichelli, which are the first and last names of his creators Brian Michael Bendis and Sara Pichelli.
  • His birthday is on April 15, which is Sara Pichelli's birthday too.
  • The only one of the gadgets he shows interest in is one that would let him climb up walls. This was his main gimmick in comics.
  • Davis mentions having worked with Mac Gargan before, a nod to their Ultimate comics counterpart's brief partnership.
• Noodle Incident: According to them, Hobie and Gwen are the ones who captured him at some point before Miles's arrival. According to him, he slipped.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: He might seem like a lazy slacker criminal with a small-time mentality and interests, and to a degree that's true. However, he provides pragmatic reasons for not wanting a fancy weapon or to be particularly ambitious - it attracts all the wrong kind of attention and risks escalating trouble in his neighbourhood. He also figures out very quickly that Peter's just a kid under the mask, startles him by slamming the boot of his car down to make that point, before nonchalantly remarking that he needs to "get better at this part of the job." He then starts a Seinfeldian Conversation that is, in fact, a Secret Test of Character to judge whether Peter really is the friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man that he seems to be. Yeah, it's safe to say that Aaron is much, much smarter than he looks or acts.
• Odd Friendship: Who would think that Spider-Man and a down-on-his-luck criminal would turn out to have a degree of respect for one another?
• Opponent Instruction: When Spider-Man tries to intimidate him into revealing what he knows about Vulture's gang, Davis sees that he's struggling and gives him some tips on how to improve.
  Davis: Can I give you some advice?
  Peter: Hmm?
  Davis: You got to get better at this part of the job.
• Papa Wolf: Besides gratitude for saving his life, Davis snitches on Toomes and his gang to Spider-Man once he realized the danger they and their alien weapons presented to his nephew.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Demonstrates this when dealing with the Vulture's gang. As a small-time crook, Aaron was only looking for easily concealable small arms, and the Imported Alien Phlebotinum portable artillery Brice is hawking frightens and disturbs him. Seeing square acres of forest getting vaporized is what compels him to tell Spider-Man everything he knows about the operation — he may be a crook, but he saw city blocks getting turned into blue mist back when the Chitauri invaded, and it is not something he wants to see on a regular basis in the city that he and his family call home.
  Aaron Davis: I just need something to stick up somebody. I'm not trying to... shoot them back in time.
• Punch-Clock Villain: He is only a small-time crook trying to make a living for his family.
• Roger Rabbit Effect: His cameo in Spider-Verse has him retain his live-action look despite the fact that everyone around him is animated.
• Seinfeldian Conversation: He briefly derails Spidey's interrogation to talk about his favorite sandwich shop in Queens. Mainly though, it's further testing by Davis to see if Spidey's really on the up and up, and the two end up bonding a little more with this random discussion.
• The Stool Pigeon: He ends up becoming this for Spider-Man, giving him information on where to find Adrian Toomes and Mac Gargan.
• Took a Level in Badass: In the events between Homecoming and Across the Spider-Verse, he goes from a low-level crook to a legitimate supervillain that needed the combined effort of at least two Spider-Society members to be taken down and captured.
• Two First Names: "Davis" can also be a first name.
• Villains Out Shopping: Peter finds him while he's loading groceries into his car. When Peter leaves him tied to the car by webbing, he even complains that he has ice cream melting in his trunk.
• You Got Guts: Admits that Spider-Man is "pretty ballsy" for having said to Herman Schultz, "If you're gonna shoot at somebody, shoot at me".

Mac Gargan's Gang

"Mac" Gargan

MacDonald "Mac" Gargan

"Take a picture. Slice his throat. Put his head in the dryer."

Species: Human

Citizenship: American

Portrayed By: Michael Mando

Voiced By: Gerardo García (Latin-American Spanish Dub)

Appearances: Spider-Man: Homecoming

"Mac Gargan. Extensive criminal record, including homicide."

— Karen

A paranoid crook who has it in for Spider-Man.

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• Aborted Arc: The Stinger of Spider-Man: Homecoming set up Mac Gargan going for revenge by learning his secret identity. However, he's completly absent from the sequels, plus all memory of Peter getting erased at the end of Spider-Man: No Way Home and Toomes getting transported to Sony's Spider-Man Universe means his plans for revenge have hit a major roadbump.
• Adaptational Attractiveness: In Homecoming, he initially lacks the scars that his Ultimate Marvel counterpart had. It doesn't last.
• Adaptational Badass: In the comics, Gargan has gone through different variations of threatening, from 'not-very' to 'enormously-so'. For the most part, however, he's characterized as being a none-too-bright Super Loser who rarely makes his own plans and winds up being The Brute to whoever he's working for. Here, he's an established criminal and remorseless killer who's feared by many and has a talent for survival. In short, he's treated a lot more seriously and is very scary despite not having his infamous suit yet.
• Adaptational Villainy: The classic version of the Mac Gargan character was originally a private detective that J. Jonah Jameson hired to investigate how Peter Parker got his Spider-Man photos before he was turned into a Tragic Villain by means of being placed in a suit he couldn't take off, completely ruining his ordinary life and leaving him a vengeful shell of a man. Here, he's a murderer and an established criminal long before he puts on a suit. Part of this treatment likely owes itself to having this version of the character take a few cues from Ultimate Marvel's Maximus Gargan, who was a straight criminal.
• Ax-Crazy: Has homicide on his record. His description of what he wants to do to Spider-Man is rather disquieting.
• Bald of Evil: Has a shaved head, and is without a doubt the most evil character in the film.
• Composite Character: He has the name of the original Scorpion, but is a Latino Tattooed Crook like the second Ultimate Scorpion (Maximus Gargan).
• Conveniently Cellmates: Not necessarily cellmates, but he finds himself in the same prison as Adrian Toomes at the end of the film and the two run into each other during The Stinger, with Gargan even Lampshading the coincidence.
  Gargan: Look who it is! What are the odds you and I'd end up in the same summer camp?
• Disney Death: Seems to be the only casualty of the Ferry incident, but we meet with him much later in a post-credits scene, scarred by his injuries.
• The Dreaded: Or more accurately, 'The Hated'. Nobody likes dealing with him, even other criminals. Aaron refers to him as 'crazy', and even Shocker somewhat nervously states that he hates him.
• Early-Bird Cameo: While he's present throughout Homecoming, he's not the Scorpion just yet, though The Stinger suggests that he will have a larger role at a later point in time.
• Eviler than Thou: His gruesome description of what he's planning to do to Spider-Man at the end of the film makes it clear that he is far, far worse than Adrian Toomes and his men will ever be, to the point that Toomes prefers to lie by claiming that he doesn't know Spider-Man's true identity to spare him such a fate.
• Eye Scream: When he resurfaces after the Ferry incident, it looks like he popped a blood vessel in his left eye.
• Face, Nod, Action: A minor example during the arms deal on the Staten Island Ferry. When Herman Schultz comes to tell him in which truck the weapons are stored, Gargan nods to one of his henchmen to signal him to go take a look.
• Facial Horror: In The Stinger, the left side of his face is badly disfigured due to the injuries he received during the fight on the Ferry.
• Faux Affably Evil: Presents himself as very polite to Adrian Toomes while making it abundantly clear that he wants to violently dismember Spider-Man.
• Foreshadowing: He mentions that he's got some friends on the outside that really want to be rid of Spider-Man, potentially teasing the possibility of the eventual formation of the Sinister Six.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: He got some nasty scars on his face as a result of being hit in the face with a car and surviving during the Ferry incident.
• Hated by All: Even the other criminals loathe this guy, with Aaron Davis and Herman Schultz expressing their contempt for him at different points.
• It's Personal: Since the battle on the Ferry, Gargan intensely despises Spider-Man for causing him to receive some injuries and to be sent to prison, so now he's plotting to get his revenge by brutally killing him.
• Made of Iron: He has to be, considering he took a car in the face and somehow managed to survive with only a few wounds.
• Misplaced Retribution: Despite the fact that Adrian Toomes was the one who slammed a car into him, Gargan doesn't blame him and plans to get revenge on Spider-Man instead.
• Offstage Villainy: While Gargan doesn't do much on screen during the film, Karen informs Peter that he has a substantial criminal record, which includes murders.
• Put on a Prison Bus: It's revealed at the end that he got arrested and is now in the same prison as Adrian Toomes.
• Race Lift: Like his Ultimate Marvel counterpart, this version of Gargan is Latino rather than white.
• Rebel Relaxation: He is first introduced leaning this way against a pillar of the Ferry during the weapons deal with the Vulture's gang.
• Sadist: He smiles cruelly while describing the vicious way he intends to kill Spider-Man in The Stinger.
• Smug Smiler: Gargan is almost always seen with a cruel and arrogant smile on his face, whether it's during the weapons deal on the Ferry (at least before Spider-Man shows up) or when he talks with Toomes about what he plans to do to Spider-Man in The Stinger.
• Stalker without a Crush: As we find out in the mid-credits scene, he's been stalking Spider-Man for a while.
• Tattooed Crook: He's got a scorpion tattoo in the neck. It is fitting.
• Token Evil Teammate: He's a complete murderous psychopath, compared to the more level-headed members of the gang he runs with.
• Unexplained Recovery: So he got hit by a car into New York's Upper Bay and was presumed dead... then we see him alive, though horribly scarred and with some kind of metal harness attached to his right arm. Who pulled him out of the bay and who did the surgical work on him is left unexplained.
• Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: Spider-Man: Homecoming is easily the most lighthearted of the MCU films, with most of the villains (like Vulture and his gang or Aaron Davis) being Justified Criminals who are simply trying to get money but don't really want to harm anyone. Mac Gargan, on the other hand, is a sadistic psychopath played completely straight who is already guilty of murders and plans to kill a teenager in a particularly disturbing way.
• Would Hurt a Child: Not only does he point his gun at the 15-year-old Spider-Man on the Ferry, but he also mentions in The Stinger that he intends to have people murder him. However, he's not necessarily aware of the hero's young age.

Gargan's henchmen

Species: Humans

Citizenship: American

Appearances: Spider-Man: Homecoming

The henchmen of Mac Gargan.

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• Curb-Stomp Battle: They all get beaten with ease by Spider-Man during the battle on the Ferry, to the point that he even apologizes for being so hard on them.
• Mooks: They serve as another gang of evil henchmen for Spider-Man to beat up.
• Tap on the Head: One of Gargan's henchmen gets his head repeatedly slammed against the weapons truck by Adrian Toomes until he is knocked out, as Toomes was coming to get his Vulture wingsuit to fight Spider-Man.
• The Voiceless: None of them utter a single intelligible word during the ferry scene.
• What Measure Is a Mook?: Averted. Spider-Man actually shows concern for them when they get hit with a motorcycle, and tries to make sure that they're not too badly hurt.
  Spider-Man: Are you guys okay? My bad, that was a little hard.
• Would Hurt a Child: They repeatedly attempt to shoot the 15-year-old Spider-Man, although they were not necessarily aware of his young age.

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