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Spoilers for the Spider-Man Trilogy, The Amazing Spider-Man Series, and all Marvel Cinematic Universe works set prior to Spider-Man: No Way Home are unmarked.

Multiversal Villains

The Sinister Five (minus two)

Appearances: Spider-Man: No Way Home

"We don't need you to save us. We don't need to be fixed! These are not curses. They're gifts."

— Dr. Norman Osborn / Green Goblin

Five supervillains from other universes who fought and were defeated by their respective Spider-Men. Due to a botched spell by Doctor Strange, these villains were pulled from their respective universes after they had learned that their Peter Parker was Spider-Man, and continue to wreak havoc in the MCU.

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In General

• Aborted Arc: With the exception of Flint Marko, all the villains have been taken from before the conclusions of their stories in their respective films. This leaves them either attempting to find a way home to continue with their plans, which is what Otto Octavius and Curt Connors want to to do as they are for different reasons determined to continue with their experiments, or taking advantage of the new opportunity and abandoning their original goals, which is what the Green Goblin and Max Dillon want to do despite having previously wanted to kill their respective versions of Spider-Man.
• Adaptational Comic Relief: Downplayed, but most of them are portrayed quite a bit more humorously than in their initial appearances.
  • Doctor Octopus starts out being played as a pretty serious threat like in his original appearance, but his first scene ends with him getting defeated in a pretty humiliating way, and he spends the rest of the movie being reduced to The Comically Serious until his Heel–Face Turn.
  • Sandman is still an Anti-Villain and very much a threat when he wants to be, but unlike Spider-Man 3, where he was played completely seriously with no humorous moments, here, due to him being a Fish out of Water (he occasionally misreads other people, especially Electro) and being stuck in his sand form (he gets his arm accidentally wrecked by Spider-Man and accidentally gets sand on Happy's couch and in an attempt to clean it, gets more sand on it), he has a lot of funny moments.
  • Partly because of Character Exaggeration, The Lizard is portrayed more humorously than in his original appearance, where he's actually portrayed as a terrifying and more serious threat.
  • Electro is much less of a tragic character than in his first appearance and has a Running Gag about the fact that he got his powers by falling into a vat of eels.
  • The Green Goblin is the exception, being just as serious and threatening as he was in his first movie. Norman, however, has a few funny moments when he's not controlled by the Goblin. Specifically when he is seen stealing doughnuts while Peter and May are busy talking, announcing his hunger for burritos, and revealing to Peter that he's something of a scientist himself.
• Adaptational Relationship Overhaul:
  • In the comics, all five of the villains are some of the greatest enemies in Spider-Man's rogues gallery, with the Goblin and Doc Ock being the two primary contenders for the title of Spidey's Arch-Enemy. In No Way Home, however, none of them come from the same reality as the MCU Spider-Man and are an example of a Rogues' Gallery Transplant, being the villains of his two variants and Peter having no idea who they are when they meet.
  • Being an Expy of the Sinister Six, the relationship between the villains is completely different since they never intentionally became a team to get revenge on Spider-Man. Instead, they were randomly thrown together, aren't an actual team and have completely different goals which give them different dynamics with each other unlike in the comics. Individually, some of the characters are revealed to be Connected All Along, which also gives them a different relationship from the comics.
• Adaptational Sympathy: Except for The Lizard, who's only keen on turning people into lizards, the other villains get more sympathy added to their depictions on top of how they were originally portrayed in their respective films.
  • Norman is far more frightened of his evil persona and is horrified that Goblin killed Aunt May, the only person to show him kindness in a long time, instead of letting Gobby have his fun whenever someone wronged him in his home dimension or embracing Goblin even when he shouldn't have in the comics.
  • Otto is still at his tentacles' mercy, having been yanked from his home dimension before his Heroic Sacrifice after getting the tentacles to listen to him. Peter rebuilding and reinforcing the inhibitor chip helps to free Otto from their influence, and he's overjoyed he has control of himself again. He even gets the late Tony Stark's arc reactor, allowing him to return home with a clean energy source he's been dreaming of making.
  • Flint is desperate to go home to his daughter, and willingly helps out the heroes until Gobby gets them all to his side, albeit temporarily. Even then he doesn't side with the Goblin and pulls a Screw This, I'm Outta Here
  • Max is hellbent on not being forgotten about like he was in his home dimension, but his Peter, upon him being cured, assures he's not alone and considers him a friend.
• Alternate Self: Played With. When they are pulled from their home universes, they ''are'' the exact same people as the ones from their original movies, with Doctor Strange even insisting on sending them back on their "correct" path, but Peter's insistence on redeeming and curing them before sending them back makes it so they don't have to die fighting Spider-Man. Going by the MCU's established timeline rules, this should create branching timelines separate from the Raimi/Webb movies for them to live in, as the past that Peter-2 and Peter-3 lived through cannot be altered.
• Ambiguous Situation: As three of the villains were brought into the MCU moments before they died, it's unknown if the other two (Sandman and the Lizard) perished at some point afterward or if they, like their Spider-Men, are still active in the present day and were just brought due to knowing their Peter Parkers. It's worth noting that while the Lizard survived the events of his film like Sandman, he was taken from before his version of Peter defeated him while Sandman was taken from some time after his film which might imply a Bus Crash for the Lizard after the events of The Amazing Spider-Man. Also given that Flint seems to be unable to turn back into a human, it's possible that his powers were failing in someway and he would have died as well.
• Anti-Villain: All of them, specifically the Woobie kind. They're portrayed as threatening the stability of the MCU by their mere presence, but also as ordinary people suffering from conditions none of them asked for that in some or all of their cases lead to their deaths fighting the Spider-Man of their home dimension. Peter ends up resolving to help them return to normal so they can avoid that fate.
• Back from the Dead: Three of them died fighting the Spider-Men of their respective universes, and they are brought back to life in the MCU.
• Big Bad Ensemble: They're the primary threats of No Way Home. All of them happen to be Big Bads of previous Spider-Man films — sans Sandman, who stands in for his partner-in-crime Venom (another version of Venom was transported to the MCU with them, but obliviously sat out the entire conflict).
• Broad Strokes: While they are more or less the exact characters seen in earlier films, some do have slight changes applied to them, namely in their appearances — some of which can be easily accounted for, such as Otto could have simply found a new change of clothes in the time of his arrival before his battle with Spider-Man the same as Norman did after taking control of himself, while how Max's situation works would take some more audience inference, and Sandman's situation and the physical differences in the Lizard are without any.^note The real-world circumstances of their actors being unable to perform on-set being aside from this.
• Brought Down to Normal: As part of their treatments, the conditions that affected most of them are removed. Sandman, Electro and Lizard are all turned back to normal humans, the Goblin personality is removed from Osborn's mind and Doc Ock, while not still having the tentacles, has the influence of the tentacle rig removed from his mind so that he is back in full control of his thoughts.
• Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames:
  • Averted with Norman Osborn. While he's usually called by his name, Flint Marko refers to him as "Green Goblin" at one point. MCU Peter Parker also uses the term "Goblin" to describe his evil self (before learning his name, he also called him a "flying green elf").
  • Flint also refers to Otto Octavius as "Doc Ock", but he's never properly called "Doctor Octopus". Most of the time, he is simply called by his name, with even the Peter Parker from the Raimi-Verse only calling him "Dr. Octavius" or "Otto". The closest we get is when May Parker refers to him as "an octopus".
  • Averted with Flint Marko, who is referred to as "Sandman" twice during the movie (the first time by Max Dillon and the other time by MCU Peter Parker).
  • Curt Connors is mostly called "Connors", but is occasionally referred to as "a lizard" or "the lizard-guy".
  • Played straight with Max Dillon, who is always referred to as "Max" (and "Dillon" in one scene), but is never called "Electro" at any point, not even by himself, despite embracing the name in his previous appearance.
• Connected All Along:
  • It's shown that the Green Goblin and the Doctor Octopus of the Spider-Man Trilogy knew each other, despite no evidence of this in their home series.^note Though this instance does have a basis, as Oscorp was providing funding for Otto's work. Amusingly, despite Otto's confusion over this universe's Spider-Man and it being established that he knew his universe's Curt Connors, he doesn't express similar confusion over the Lizard of The Amazing Spider-Man Series.
  • It's also shown that The Amazing Spider-Man Series versions of the Lizard and Electro knew each other as well. Despite this, neither of them (especially the Lizard, given what's shown in that series means he'd likely have known their universe's Osborn personally) express confusion over the Green Goblin not looking like their Norman Osborn.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To the Vulture's gang and Mysterio's team. With the Green Goblin being the Big Bad of No Way Home, the villains contrasts the previous groups by the simple fact they aren't a team with a shared origin and lack a leader. Instead, they have all been brought together by chance and have completely different goals and backstories with the only similarity being that they are adversaries of Spider-Man in their home universes. Also, the previous groups support their leader and mostly lack any special skills themselves, while the villains here are superhumans with one exception and are threats with and without the Green Goblin. Additionally, while Vulture's gang and Mysterio's team came together thanks to things Tony Stark did, the multiversal villains here lacked any sort of connection to Iron Man himself.
• Darker and Edgier: Electro and Lizard are this to the Raimi villains, which makes sense as their universe is much darker than the Raimi-Verse. While both are still examples of a Tragic Villain, the Lizard cares about nothing more than completing his original goal and remains an antagonistic character throughout the film while Electro desires to keep the new power he has gained and doesn't need much convincing to turn against Peter.
• David vs. Goliath: MCU Spider-Man's previous opponents - Steve and Bucky, Shocker, Tinkerer, Vulture, Outriders, Chitauri, Mysterio - were all much weaker than him even with their superhuman abilities and tech enhancements (with the exception of when he participated in team-ups against Cull and Thanos), relying on skills and weapons to even the odds. He could've killed any of them with a solid punch if he really wanted to. The multiverse villains are the reverse: the weakest among them (Goblin) can overpower Peter in a direct contest of strength, practically No-Sell his blows, and carries dangerous weapons that Peter lacks. The Lizard can overpower all three Spider-Men at the same time, and has a Healing Factor on top of that that makes him exceptionally difficult to hurt (assuming you can make him use it in the first place; he's only ever actually shown taking damage from high-caliber gunfire, all of the Peters' punches and kicks do seemingly nothing). Doctor Octopus, while a normal, vulnerable human himself, has four tentacles that can each individually overpower Peter's entire body with ease. Sandman and Electro are ordinarily Nigh-Invulnerable against Peter and at their best reach levels of power more suited for high-level Avengers to deal with. He, with help, takes them all on regardless. Venom is also far stronger than Peter, though thankfully they never have to fight.
• Death Amnesia: The villains who died in their respective movies have no idea that they actually die and the last thing they remember is them fighting their respective Spider-Man. Sandman has to tell Osborn and Octavius how they died.
• Death by Secret Identity: Norman and Otto died shortly after learning of their respective Spider-Man's identity.
• De-power: Peter attempts to restore the villains to their normal selves so that they won't have to die fighting their versions of Spider-Men. Those same Spider-Men help him achieve this; in the end, the only one to retain his powers is Otto, whose arms are a mechanical invention that are physically bonded to him for life.
• Evil Is Hammy: All of them except Sandman are this to varying degrees.
• Expy: A collection of Spider-Man's most iconic enemies easily brings to mind the Sinister Six — who they were intended to be when the film was still being written — but they're unfortunately one member too short to be considered an official adaptation (unless one counts Spider-Man like in Ultimate Marvel since he brought them to his universe, Doctor Strange, Mysterio or Venom). It also doesn't help that they aren't all villains at the same time, with Sandman the Token Good Teammate and only turning on Peter because he wants to go home to his daughter, while Doc Ock gets a Heel–Face Turn prior to Norman losing control to the Goblin. So, at best, it's more Sinister Three or Four than the proper Six. However, all have been members of the Sinister Six at some point in the comics while Doctor Octopus, Electro and Sandman were part of the original team. Also except for the Lizard who replaces Kraven the Hunter, all of the multiversal villains were the founding members of the Ultimate Six from Ultimate Marvel.
• Fish out of Temporal Water: Goblin, Doc Ock, Lizard, and Electro were plucked to 2024 from the past on their native universes, specifically around the time of their defeat in 2002, 2004, 2013 and 2014 respectively. They display varyingly levels of bewilderment at how far technology has advanced in the decade or two since they were plucked, with arc reactors being of particular interest to Doc and Electro. Sandman seems to be the only exception as he's introduced as a benevolent fellow lining up to his Heel–Face Turn at the closing moments of Spider-Man 3 and it's possible he comes from a time after 2005, though he still notably looks the same despite fourteen (nineteen In-Universe) years coming to pass since (though that could be a result of his powers).
• Freak Lab Accident: All five of them obtained powers and became supervillains after a science experiment that went wrong.
• Genius Bruiser: With the exception of Flint Marko/Sandman, all worked in scientific fields; Goblin, Doc Ock, and Lizard were scientists while Electro was an electrical engineer.
• Inferred Survival: Despite some villains being only a couple of minutes from dying in their timelines, it can be assumed that without their powers corrupting their morality/mentality, they'll go on to have lives past what they had before.
• Jekyll & Hyde: Though Osborn is the more prominent example, Octavius and Connors also have this issue to an extent, as they are actually good people (if not desperate) prior to having their powers and are corrupted by their influence, as opposed to a literal split personality. As shown when they are cured of their powers in their respective universe as well as in the MCU, once Octavius regains control of his tentacles and Connors is cured from the Lizard condition, they return to being good again.
• Legion of Doom: All of them are supervillains who were introduced in some of the previous Spider-Man films, and they join forces to fight the three versions of Spider-Men.
• Let's You and Him Fight: In addition to fighting the three Spider-Men from the three different universes, some of the five supervillains also fight each other on a few occasions:
  • In their first scene, Sandman agrees to go confront Electro while the MCU Peter takes care of ripping out the power lines to weaken him.
  • After the Goblin's speech at Happy's condo, Electro turns on the heroes and uses his electrical powers against Doc Ock in an attempt to fry his inhibitor chip.
  • Otto takes his revenge during the battle at the Statue of Liberty when he manages to subdue Electro with his tentacles and uses the Arc Reactor to take away his powers.
  • Shortly after, Otto also participates in the final fight against the Green Goblin by using one of his tentacles to restrain him, but the Goblin quickly gets rid of him by cutting it off.
• Lighter and Softer: The Raimi villains are this to the Webb villains, which makes sense as their universe is not nearly as dark as the Webb-Verse. Osborn was much nicer and more helpful than the other villains until the Goblin took over, once freed from his arms Octavius was also polite and helpful, and Sandman first appeared helping Peter fight Electro and his only goal was to return to his daughter.
• Mysterious Past: From the perspective of viewers who have never watched the Sam Raimi or Marc Webb films, with Norman Osborn and Curt Connors being the only villains who's origins are more or less explained, even if a few details are left out. The rest make vague references to how they ended up the way they are, though presumably they all told Peter their origins off-screen so he could figure out how to cure them.
• Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Inverted with all of them to varying degrees. In their own worlds, they are incredibly dangerous threats, being among the only superhumans known to exist in their own universes which are more or less grounded in reality. While still dangerous in the MCU, they aren't quite as much of a threat given that there are far more superhumans and Gods running around, not to mention that Strange's magic is easily able to capture and restrain all of them.
• Outside-Context Problem:
  • Neither Peter or Strange were expecting them to appear as a result of a memory spell going wrong, with Strange even saying that it should be impossible for them to be here while Peter was surprised to learn that the Multiverse was even real after what happened with Mysterio. While the concept of the Multiverse had been explored in Loki and What If...? as well as the danger it posed, this is officially the first time the consequences directly affected the main MCU universe.
  • Also applies to the situation of the villains themselves. Coming from relatively grounded worlds and with their powers based primarily in science, none of them are prepared when they're suddenly whisked into another universe by a rampant spell, and struggle to adapt to the much more advanced and magical universe they find themselves in.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Played With. All of them are enemies of Spider-Man, but they started off as the enemies of different cinematic versions of Spider-Man, either the Tobey Maguire's version or the Andrew Garfield's version, and they find themselves going up against the MCU version during the events of No Way Home.
  • Some of them, like Lizard and Green Goblin, have brief confrontations with Doctor Strange, a superhero whom they rarely face in the comics.
• Secondary Color Nemesis: With the exception of Electro, all of the villains have a secondary color motif.
  • The Green Goblin starts off with the green armour of his original appearance, and later adds a purple cloak.
  • Doctor Octopus wears a military green trench coat.
  • Sandman's sand form is a brown-orange colour for the majority of the film, and after he's cured, he's seen wearing a green shirt.
  • The Lizard's reptilian form is green.
• Secret-Keeper: The reason why all five of them were pulled into the MCU universe by Doctor Strange's spell is because they all know the secret identity of their home universe's version of Spider-Man.
• Sliding Scale of Villain Threat: Varies based on powerset, rationale, and the lengths to which they will go to achieve their ends:
  • Sandman is one of the biggest threats from a physical standpoint, as he's functionally invulnerable outside of specific circumstances that are never exploited here and could easily pull off vast-scale destruction if he wanted to, but he's easily the smallest threat overall because he has zero desire to hurt anyone who isn't in his way, he's just a stranger in a strange land who desperately wants to get back to his daughter.
  • Doctor Octopus is mostly just looking for revenge on Peter and has zero qualms about making other people collateral damage in the process (and, if anything, seems to favor endangering innocents as a way to lure him out or get himself out of a bad situation), but he's also ruled by his tentacles and stops being a threat completely once MCU Peter gives him a new inhibitor chip and frees him from the control of the tentacles.
  • Lizard is a fairly major physical threat, as his few run-ins with a Peter demonstrate that he is more than capable of overwhelming them in a straight fight, but the real threat comes from his plan, as he has lost almost all of his humanity, genuinely believes that converting humanity into Lizard Folk like himself is the answer to the world's problems, and is completely baffled at why other people do not agree with him and take issue with his plan.
  • Electro is by far the biggest physical threat, as he could easily be an Avengers-level threat if he wanted to, but he's not overtly malicious and is mostly The Unfettered, with no real goal beyond taking full control of his destiny in a world where he can finally be somebody - his threat mostly comes from the sheer destructiveness of his powers and his apathy towards the damage he causes.
  • Goblin is on the weaker end as far as physical threats go; strength-wise he's about on par with Peter and his weapons are limited to small bombs and blades, making him probably the weakest of the movie's villains in a straight fight (more or less on even ground with Spider-Man, who's framed as the underdog against the others). He also has no capability for mass destruction like Lizard, Ock, and Mysterio did via their doomsday machines, or Sandman and Electro do via their abilities to scale up their powers. But ultimately he manages to be the biggest threat overall because he gives his all no matter what he does and has No Kill like Overkill as his baseline level of force. Plan-wise, he is by far and away the most dangerous because he doesn't really have one - he just does what he wants, when he wants, how he wants and believes he has an absolute right to do so, and ultimately sees this new world as his own personal playground that he can murder and raze with impunity. His first outing as the Goblin in his own universe had him tossing hand grenades into crowds and dropping tram cars full of children off of buildings just because he could.
• Tomato in the Mirror:
  • Goblin, Doc Ock and Electro have no memory of them dying in their respective universe and are rather horrified upon knowing of their eventual fates.
  • Played with regarding the Lizard, as he is frightened at the prospect of dying like the above three, but doesn't actually know if that's the case. Since the viewers don't know either, it's unclear if Connors actually fits this trope.
  • Averted with Sandman, who isn't dead in his universe, and is actually the one to inform Osborn and Octavius of their respective fates.
• Tragic Villain: To varying degrees as none asked to become what they did and they especially didn't ask to be brought to the MCU. Both Osborn and Connors mutated themselves but neither did it for power or to hurt anyone with their mutations causing their villainy, Octavius is being controlled by his arms, and Electro was mutated by accident and after that was treated as a monster by everyone which damaged his already poor mental state. Sandman is the only one who was a criminal prior to getting his powers, but he simply wanted to help his daughter and regretted killing Ben Parker.
• Transplant: Doubled as Rogues' Gallery Transplant. These characters come from other universes, having faced off against other Spider-Men.
• Trapped in Another World: They are unintentionally brought out of their respective universes and into the MCU.
• Turning Back Human: Three of them have been turned into non-human beings but are restored to their human condition in the course of the film.
  • In his first scene, Max Dillon is still a blue energy being like he was in his previous appearance. However, he absorbs enough electricity from his new universe to turn himself yellow, and later regains his human body after Spider-Man cuts him off from the power cables, much to his amazement.
    Max: I got my body back!
  • Flint Marko spends the entire movie as a being made of sand, apparently unable to revert to his human appearance. Fortunately, he is brought back to normal by Spider-Man during the climax.
  • Curt Connors seems to be stuck in his lizard form, but Peter manages to make him human again by administering the antidote during the final battle.
• Villain of Another Story: They are enemies of Spider-Man from two separate universes, though this doesn't make them any less of a threat to this universe and its Spider-Man.
• We ARE Struggling Together: Despite teaming up to an extent in the climax, the villains all have completely different goals, which interferes with their ability to work together. Green Goblin wants to torment MCU Peter For the Evulz, Electro wants to stick around in this new universe and absorb as much energy from it as possible rather than return to being a nobody in his home one, Sandman wants to get home as soon as possible to be with his daughter, Doctor Octopus wants revenge after Spider-Man destroyed his machine but makes a Heel–Face Turn after Peter fixes his inhibitor chip and helps the good guys in the Final Battle, and the Lizard just wants another shot at turning everyone into lizards.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Most of them used to be decent people, but obtaining their powers caused them to become deranged supervillains. Once they're Brought Down to Normal, they all make a Heel–Face Turn.
• You All Meet in a Cell: Aside from those who already knew each other (like Otto Octavius and Norman Osborn or Curt Connors and Max Dillon), as well as Electro and Sandman (who met during their confrontation with MCU Spider-Man just before), most of the displaced supervillains meet the others for the first time when they are imprisoned in Doctor Strange's dungeon cells.

Villains from Earth-96283

For tropes pertaining to their original appearances, see the Spider-Man Trilogy: Supervillains page.

Dr. Norman Osborn / Green Goblin

See his page.

Dr. Otto Octavius / Doctor Octopus / "Doc Ock"

See his page.

Flint Marko / Sandman

Flint Marko / Sandman

"I just want to go home."

^{Click here to see him in his human form}
Peter-2: It's okay, Flint. We're gonna get you home.

Species: Enhanced human (formerly), Human

Citizenship: American

Portrayed By: Thomas Haden Church (voice and stock footage), Jon Watts (on-set performer)

Voiced By: Raúl Anaya (Latin American Spanish), Hervé Furic (European French dub), Benoît Rousseau (Canadian French dub), Márcio Simões (Brazilian Portuguese dub)

Appearances: Spider-Man 3 | Spider-Man: No Way Home

"I have a daughter, and I wanna see her. But he's not gonna send anyone home 'till he's finished his little science project back there."

A petty thief who was caught in an experiment that gave him sand-based powers.

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• Action Dad: As originally, he has a daughter and is one of Spidey's most powerful foes.
• Affably Evil: He's the most personable person out of all the villains that were sent to the MCU by Stephen Strange's botched spell.
• Adaptational Dye-Job: He has his actor's blue eyes instead of his comic counterpart's brown eyes, which is seen when his universe's Peter exposes him to the cure and depowers him.
• Adaptational Hairstyle Change: He doesn't have his comic book counterpart's cornrows as seen when Raimi-verse Spider-Man cures him.
• Adaptational Name Change: Like in his original appearance, his name is Flint Marko, which was just an alias he used in the comics while his real name was William Baker.
• Ambiguous Situation: Osborn, Octavius and Dillon were brought to the MCU prior to their deaths while the Lizard suffered a metaphorical death in his original film, but with Flint he apparently comes from a point after Spider-Man 3 and doesn't seem to believe he might die upon returning to his universe.
• Anti-Villain: Unlike the other four villains, who were plucked from their universes in the midst of their conflicts with Spider-Man (most of them seconds before their ultimate defeat), Flint clearly comes from a point in time after he and Peter reconciled; his first instinct when he sees Spider-Man fighting Electro is to protect Spider-Man. While he puts his guard up after realizing Peter is a stranger, he is nevertheless cooperative and patient. In the climax, his only goal is to push the button that will send him back home, his most villainous trait being that he's lost interest in saving the other villains from their fate.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Like in Spider-Man 3, he turns into a Kaiju-sized version of himself during the attack on the Statue of Liberty.
• Badass Arm-Fold: He often does this to show that he's talking seriously, such as when he orders Electro and the Lizard to shut up, or when he states to Max that he doesn't trust anyone.
• Bearer of Bad News: He is the one who has to break the news that both Norman Osborn and Otto Octavius are supposed to die during their last confrontations with Spider-Man.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Sandman is arguably the nicest of the displaced supervillains, even helping MCU Peter to defeat Electro when they have just met each other and he doesn't really understand what's going on. But when he ultimately loses patience and joins the other villains to fight the Spider-Men in the final battle, he proves to be one of the biggest threats and is pretty much unstoppable until the heroes manage to deprive him of his powers.
• Big Damn Hero: In his first scene, Flint sees MCU Spider-Man about to be hit by Electro's lightning bolts and saves him by creating a barrier of sand to shield him.
• Big "SHUT UP!": After being teleported into Doctor Strange's dungeon, Flint quickly gets fed up with Connors and Max's discussion about people being turned into lizards and sternly tells them to shut up so he can talk to Ned and MJ about more important matters, like asking where they've been transported.
  Sandman: Could you two just shut up?! Where are we?
• Big "WHAT?!": His reaction when he hears MCU Peter Parker informing Electro that he has been transported into a new universe.
  Peter: [to Max Dillon] Hey, um... This is gonna sound really crazy, but this isn't your universe.
  Max: Another universe?
  Flint: What!?
• Bullying a Dragon: Just after seeing MCU Peter Parker use a magic gun to make Electro disappear, Flint decides to attack him despite the powerful weapon in his possession. He's certainly lucky that this magic gun only teleports rather than kills, because Peter naturally shoots him next.
• Comically Missing the Point: He misreads what Electro is talking about when he watches the world of the MCU from Happy Hogan's apartment.
  Electro: Look at this place. And all the possibilities...
  Sandman: What? This condo?
  Electro: [sarcastically] Yeah, yeah, the condo. I love the whole open floor plan. [normally] Nah! Nah, man. I'm talking about the world.
• Commonality Connection: He briefly bonds with Electro when they both realize their supervillain origins involved falling into something.
• Deadly Dust Storm: He can use his powers to become a sandstorm. He first does this to surround Electro during their fight, and later to envelop the whole Statue of Liberty in the climax.
• Dumb Muscle: Despite being one of the strongest multiversal villains, he doesn't do a lot of forward thinking. When Peter zaps Max into a cell at the Sanctorum, instead of hearing Peter out, Flint immediately assumes Peter killed him and starts to attack before Peter does the same to him. Later, he chooses to ally with the villains to get the box back that would send him home, even though siding with the Spider-Men would be more beneficial instead of attacking them and get the job done even quicker and without the possibility of Flint becoming a murderer again.
• Elemental Barrier: The first time he appears in the film, Flint creates a huge wall of sand to protect MCU Peter from Electro's lightning blasts.
• Elemental Shapeshifter: True to his name, Sandman is capable of turning and manipulating the sand around him.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He has a daughter in his home universe and will do anything to get back to her.
• Everyone Has Standards: Even though Electro was their enemy, Sandman is shocked when he thinks the MCU Peter killed him in cold blood with his magic webs and turns on him over it.
• Face–Heel Turn: Sandman was last seen being forgiven for being a Tragic Villain in his last appearance and seemingly renouncing his grudge against his universe's Spider-Man. Initially, Flint starts out as an ally to Peter, helping him contain Electro and, despite wishing to go back home to see his daughter, going along with Peter when he tries to fix the villains. He only fights the Spider-Men at the end because he wants to get it over with and complete the spell with the cube.
• Five-Second Foreshadowing: When Peter arrives in the forest where a supervillain has been spotted, the dirt is seen moving around him in odd ways, with Peter even asking MJ and Ned if they saw something. Soon after, Sandman reveals his presence by protecting Peter against Electro's attack.
• Foil:
  • To Max Dillon / Electro. Both of them are villains from other dimensions who gained their Elemental Powers after falling into somewhere dangerous, who never actually meant to become who they were in the first place. Where they contrast is in their objectives: Flint wants to return to his homeworld as soon as possible to see his daughter and generally doesn't give a damn about being superempowered, whereas Max wants to stay in the MCU to absorb its energy and make himself more powerful than he ever was before.
  • To Curt Connors / The Lizard. Both are villains suffering from Shapeshifter Mode Lock who receive less focus than the other three villains (though Flint gets more focus than Curt) and they also have a very personal connection to the Peter Parkers of their realities, with Flint having killed Ben Parker while Curt was a coworker and close friend of Richard Parker. They also both want to return to their universes but for different reasons, with Flint wanting to be with his daughter while Curt wants to return so he can continue with his plan to turn everyone in New York into lizard creatures like him.
  • To Norman Osborn / Green Goblin. Both of them have a child they care for back in their home dimension, though Flint is a better father to his daughter despite being a criminal while Norman bordered on being an Abusive Parent. Flint also regretted the accidental death of Ben Parker and is only fixated on going home, whereas Goblin has no problem with killing May Parker and has no interest in going home over Norman's objections and desire to go back to his son.
• Forgot About His Powers: In Spider-Man 3, one of his favorite ways to use his powers in combat is to turn his hands into hammers or other weapons, which is something he does in almost all of his fight scene (including his brief brawl with Venom). In No Way Home, Flint never uses this ability a single time, not even when he fights the Spider-Men.
• Giant Hands of Doom: When he shows up at the Statue of Liberty, Flint creates a giant arm made of sand to grab the MCU Spider-Man in his hand and squeeze him.
• Good Thing You Can Heal: Peter accidentally smashes his arm while trying to give him a fist bump. He just grows it back, given his whole body is made of sand, telling Peter not to worry.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: Flint initially acts as an ally for MCU Peter when he notices him fighting Electro and willingly teams up to subdue him before he gets too powerful. He quickly becomes antagonistic after Peter sends Electro to the New York Sanctorum's basement though, believing that Peter just killed him. After the situation is explained to him at length, Flint decides to go along with Peter's plan to cure the multiversal villains (albeit reluctantly) up until the Goblin resurfaces and throws everything off the rails. At that point, Flint abandons everyone and resolves to work alone to get himself back home to see his daughter.
• It's All About Me: Not unjustifiably, as he simply wants to return to his home to his daughter, but Flint clearly couldn't care less about what happened to anyone else, which puts him at odds with the Peters that want to help everyone.
• Jerkass Ball: After having been by far the most docile of the displaced supervillains for the majority of the film, Sandman fights the three Spider-Men during the final battle to get the box and doesn’t care if the other villains die as a result. He even attempts to kill Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man by drowning him in sand at one point, despite his remorse for accidentally killing his uncle Ben in his previous appearance.
• Love Makes You Evil: Just like in his original appearance, his love for his daughter is his primary motivation. At the end of the film, he becomes so impatient to reunite with her that he attacks the three Spider-Men to get the magic box and return to his universe, not caring that the other villains might die if he does that.
• Mr. Exposition: As Osborn and Octavius have no memories of their respective deaths, Flint tells them how they died during their battles with Spider-Man.
• Mysterious Past: Flint's origin and daughter are the only things from his background which are mentioned, and he leaves out the fact he has an ex-wife and that he killed the Ben Parker of his universe.^note Though this is alluded to by Raimi-verse Peter when he mentions that he hunted down the man who he thought killed his uncle. This is surprising as unlike the other villains he has seemingly been brought to the MCU from somepoint after his original film, meaning there is a chunk of his life which isn't explained in the film.
• One-Winged Angel: He turns into a giant monster made of sand to fight the three Spider-Men during the final battle.
• Only Sane Man: Serves as this among the villains. He only wants to go home and see his daughter, so he helps Peter subdue Max Dillon, plays along with Peter's cures despite disapproving of them and immediately goes Screw This, I'm Outta Here once the Green Goblin begins to attack, rather than attacking as well. He is even the one who firmly tells Max Dillon to keep the Arc Reactor on when the latter first considers taking it off for himself. Even when he demands for the box along with the other villains during the climax, it's implied he was just planning on sending everyone home himself, rather than destroy it like the others were planning to.
• Out of Focus: Not as bad as the Lizard, but he has the least screen time of the Raimi-verse characters that appeared in the movie.
• Power Degeneration: Over time, Sandman's lost the ability to retain his human appearance, and thus resembles a moving pile of sand shaped like a man rather than a man who can turn parts of himself into sand. It makes his return to normal that much more significant.
• Pet the Dog:
  • Despite not recognizing MCU Peter or understanding what's happening or where he is, Flint is willing to work with him to incapacitate Electro when Peter tells him that he poses a potential threat.
  • Sandman showed sympathy for Electro when he found out that he also got his power from falling into an experiment.
• Punch-Clock Villain: Isn't ideologically opposed to or angry at Peter in any way; he starts off by helping Peter capture Electro, and is totally supportive of Peter's "Cure everyone first" plan because all he wants to do is go home and see his daughter, and helping out is the path of least resistance. Despite this, he does take the villains' side in the Final Battle, apparently having grown tired of waiting.
• The Real Remington Steele: A "Sandman" appeared in Far From Home as one of Mysterio's engineered threats, but it had nothing in common with comics or film Sandman aside from the moniker and sand theme. This is the real Sandman, fresh out of Spider-Man 3.
• Running into the Window: Played With. After their dispute over what to do with the five displaced supervillains, Spider-Man uses his magic webs to teleport Doctor Strange to Sandman's cell. Naturally, Strange manages to walk through the magical forcefield without issue, much to Sandman's surprise. Assuming that the transparent forcefield must have disappeared, Sandman tries to walk out of there as well, only to bump into the still intact forcefield.
• Sand Blaster: His main power is the ability to manipulate and control sand, which he is made of.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Once the Goblin resurfaces and promptly ruins the attempt at curing all of them, Electro and Lizard take his side at wanting to remain as villains while Otto sides with Peter. Flint, however, simply turns into a sandstorm and leaves, choosing to stay out of it.
• Sentient Sands: Unlike most versions of the character, this Sandman is only seen in his sand form and doesn't seem able to regain his human appearance, or at least not until he's successfully cured at the end.
• Shadow Archetype: On the account that he is more selfish than evil, he just wants his problems to be over and will let the other villains go back to die if it means that comes to fruition. He's basically what Peter might have become if he did not have the moral guidance of Aunt May and the other Peters.
• Shapeshifter Mode Lock: Implied. Unlike in the Spider-Man Trilogy, Flint remains in sand form for much of the movie, without ever appearing like a regular human up until the very end when Peter-2 cures him.
• Something Person: Sand + Man.
• There's No Place Like Home: Of the five displaced supervillains, he is the only one who has no other objective than to return to his home universe to reunite with his family.
• This Was His True Form: For most of the film, he stays as a humanoid sand figure, and only returns to his human form after being depowered by his universe's Peter.
• Token Good Teammate: Unlike the other displaced villains, he has no desire to hurt Peter or anyone else (as long as they don't stand in his way), and simply wants to return to his homeworld in order to reunite with his daughter. It's pretty ironic given how he's the only one who was already a criminal before he got his powers while the others only became criminals after being enhanced.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Due to his growing impatience to return to his world and reunite with his daughter, Flint becomes increasingly irritable and hostile over the course of the film. He starts the film as an ally of MCU Peter, even helping him to subdue Electro, but he eventually turns on him when he believes he has just killed their enemy in cold blood. Later, Flint reluctantly agrees to go along with Peter's plan to cure the multiversal supervillains, only to abandon him when the Green Goblin resurfaces. By the time of the final battle, Flint has lost all patience and is willing to attack the three Spider-Men to get the magic box and go home, even trying to kill the Raimi-verse Peter Parker at one point despite having made peace with him at the end of Spider-Man 3.
• Transplant: The same Sandman from Spider-Man 3.
• Two First Names: Both "Flint" and "Marko" are fairly common as first names.
• What You Are in the Dark: A variation, but in No Way Home Sandman is cut off from his daughter Penny, who is the only person he cares about and still cares about him meaning that there is nobody around whose opinion he cares about. Despite not knowing or fully trusting the MCU Peter, he goes along with the plan to cure the other villains and himself if it means he can return to his universe. Then the Goblin convinces Electro to reject the cure, and instead of helping Peter he simply decides to leave. During the battle at the Statue of Liberty he chooses to fight the Spider-Men and outright tells Peter that he doesn't care that they have a way to save all the villains, and even if it kills them he would rather go home and reunite with his daughter.
• Wild Card: A Downplayed Trope. By the final battle, Sandman is on his own to get the cube and complete the spell meant to send him home to his daughter. He still has to team up with Lizard and Electro, who'd rather stay in the new reality, to defeat the combined might of three Spider-Men, however.
• Your Little Dismissive Diminutive: At one point, he refers to Peter's experiments to cure the supervillains as a "little science project" while discussing his reasons for going along with it to Electro.
  Sandman: He's not gonna send anyone home until he's finished his little science project back there.

Villains from Earth-120703

For tropes pertaining to their original appearances, see The Amazing Spider-Man Series: Supervillains page.

Dr. Curtis Connors / The Lizard

Dr. Curtis Connors / The Lizard

"It wasn't crazy, Max, it was the next step in human evolution."

^{Click here to see him in his human form}
Peter-1: Dr. Connors? Welcome back, sir.

Species: Enhanced human (formerly), Human

Citizenship: British, American

Affiliation(s): Oscorp (formerly)

Portrayed By: Rhys Ifans

Voiced By: Germán Fabregat (Latin-American Spanish dub), Christian Gonon (European French dub), François Sasseville (Canadian French dub), Eduardo Borgerth (Brazilian Portuguese dub)

Appearances: The Amazing Spider-Man | Spider-Man: No Way Home

"Trust me, Peter. When you try to fix people, there are always consequences."

An Oscorp scientist who tested a regenerative serum on himself, transforming him into a humanoid lizard-like monster.

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• Adaptational Badass: Downplayed as he isn't especially more powerful than in his original appearance, but here he proves to be a serious physical threat towards Dr. Strange and all three Spider-Men. While dangerous in The Amazing Spider-Man, Spider-Man was able to keep up with him in a fight and the police could do some damage to him using guns.
• Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: While their original film series made them both employees of Oscorp which was also the source of their respective powers, No Way Home establishes that Connors was on friendly terms with Max before his transformation into the Lizard while in the comics they met after they got their powers and never had a close relationship.
• Adaptational Jerkass: Downplayed. In The Amazing Spider-Man, Curt Connors was a crazed Well-Intentioned Extremist when he transformed himself into the Lizard, genuinely believing that the world would be a better place if everyone else would be changed into lizard creatures like him. He also didn't try to attack anyone unless they actively got in his way, even ignoring Gwen Stacy when taking back a compartment he needed for his lizard serum. Here, the Lizard barely tries to justify his reasons for wanting to turn others into lizards, and he's much more prone to Kick the Dog moments: he prevents Peter from escaping from the Green Goblin during the condo battle, and he ruthlessly chases after MJ and Ned to try and claim the box from them while at the Statue of Liberty.
• Adaptational Skimpiness: Like in his previous appearance, he lacks the white lab coat and purple pants the Lizard from the comics usually wears. In fact, he never wears any clothes at any point during the film.
• Alliterative Name: As always, his real name is Curtis Connors.
• All Webbed Up: His universe's Spider-Man takes him out in their fight by webbing him to the scaffolding.
• Alternate Self: Has a variant on Earth-96283.
• Animal-Themed Superbeing: Lizards, if you can't tell already.
• An Offer You Can't Refuse: When Peter offers the five supervillains to cure them, Connors points out that his proposal is essentially this trope, since their only other option is to let Doctor Strange send them back to their home universes where most of them are fated to die.
  Lizard: So, we go along, or die. Not much of a choice, is it?
• Art Evolution: He now has a set of ridges on his head rather than a smooth dome as in The Amazing Spider-Man. His features are also slightly more beast-like than before, with more lizard-like eyes and a much more hunched posture.
• Beast Man: His appearance can be best described as a combination of lizard and man.
• Brutal Honesty: Though he's not overly rude about it, Connors is very plain when he remembers how Max did not look as well put together when they last saw each other and asks him how the big change came about. He's also very upfront about the risks involved in Peter's plan to cure the villains.
• Character Exaggeration: Played for Laughs. Lizard's motivation goes from wanting to turn people into lizard-people like himself because he believes it's the next step of evolution to doing it just because, even offering to augment Electro by turning him into a lizard despite the fact that he's already greatly enhanced by his power set. Unfortunately for him, he doesn't get too far.
• Continuity Nod: After being shot off in The Amazing Spider-Man, his right arm regrew with only four fingers, despite his other hand still having five. No Way Home remains consistent with this detail.
• The Cynic: He believes Peter's plan to cure the villains is doomed to failure (as is any effort to "cure" someone as broken as them), and elects to stay outside in the F.E.A.S.T. truck instead of going along with it. Once the Green Goblin betrays Peter, he's quick to tell him I Warned You.
• Death of Personality: As with his home movie, The Lizard dies once Connors is cured.
• Did You Get a New Haircut?: When he sees Max Dillon again, he remarks that he has changed his hair, his teeth and no longer wears glasses, but he pays no attention to the fact that he's now able to spark electricity from his fingers.
• Emerald Power: He has green skin and is insanely strong, fast, and durable.
• Evil Brit: He still sports his British accent and Electro is quick to bring up how he attempted to turn all of New York into lizards, something he doesn't deny. He also joins the other villains in attacking Spider-Man.
• Evil Is Petty: He essentially appears during Goblin's and Peter's fight just to let him know that he figured that things would go wrong and throw him back in.
• Evilutionary Biologist: He wants to turn humans into lizards like himself because he firmly believes that it's the next step in human evolution.
• Face–Heel Turn: At the end of The Amazing Spider-Man, Connors was cured of the Lizard serum by the Ganali Device's anti-venom cloud, and made peace with his universe's Peter Parker. This is because this Lizard was pulled into the MCU moments before he is defeated.
• Faux Affably Evil: Connors speaks in a gentlemanly fashion and even remembers Max Dillon. However, as pointed out by Dillon, Connors once tried to turn the people of New York into lizards and even refuses Connors' offer of helping him, knowing he will mutate him, something Connors doesn't deny, however after the Goblin causes chaos, the Lizard is quick to side with him and attack Spider-Man, while his gentlemanly tone has completely vanished and he speaks to the Spider-Men with nothing but contempt as he fights them
• Foil:
  • To the Green Goblin. Both of them are Green and Mean characters from another dimension with a Split Personality who terrorize people For the Evulz. The main difference is while the Goblin is obsessed the MCU's Peter Parker to the point where he actively tries to corrupt him into a cold-blooded killer, the Lizard has no such vendetta against the kid, outside of a few Kick the Dog moments.
  • To Flint Marko / Sandman. Both are villains suffering from Shapeshifter Mode Lock who receive less focus than the other three villains (though Flint gets more focus than Curt) and they also have a very personal connection to the Peter Parkers of their realities, with Flint having killed Ben Parker while Curt was a coworker and close friend of Richard Parker. They also both want to return to their universes but for different reasons, with Flint wanting to be with his daughter while Curt wants to return so he can continue with his plan to turn everyone in New York into lizard creatures like him.
• For the Evulz: Compared to the other villains, the Lizard doesn't seem to have much of a reason for being nefarious other than because he wants to turn people into lizards and just wants to fight Peter and his variants.
• Full-Frontal Assault: He is obviously not wearing clothes. Thankfully, his condition means his genitals are not visible again.
• Genius Bruiser: Although he doesn't show it much during the film, Dr. Connors is described by Max as a brilliant scientist who managed to develop a serum to turn people into lizards, and in his Lizard form he is strong enough to overpower any of the Spider-Men.
• Green and Mean: He is not exactly the friendliest character when he is in his green, scaly reptilian form.
• Hidden Agenda Villain: Strangely, he never explains his true goals whenever they're called into question, making him come off as this.
• I Am Not Weasel: Just like in his debut film, he is mistaken several times for a dinosaur.
  Ned: The dinosaur can talk...
  Michelle: Lizard.
  Ned: Right.
• Informed Attribute: He's described as a genius scientist, but unlike his home movie, he never gets to show off his scientific prowess here.
• I Warned You: When Peter declares his intent to cure the villains so they don't have to die when they return home, Connors warns him that trying to "fix" them will have consequences. Sure enough, said consequences become reality when the Green Goblin re-emerges and throws the entire plan off the rails. Connors even lampshades it to Peter.
  Lizard: I told you there would be consequences!
• Kick the Dog: After Peter's attempt to cure the villains gets derailed by the Green Goblin, Lizard emerges from the F.E.A.S.T truck and sticks around just long enough to basically rub it in and tell Peter, "I told you so!", before throwing him back into the apartment complex so the Goblin can continue beating him up.
• Laughably Evil: Given how his true goals are not known to others, he comes across as a lot funnier than before. He even offers Max Dillon a "real" makeover, i.e. turn him into a lizard.
• Lightning Bruiser: He's incredibly agile, tough and powerful, and can easily overpower any of the Spider-Men and would have easily killed any of them had it not been for their superior fighting skills.
• Lizard Folk: Well, obviously. He even spends the entire movie in his Lizard form except for a few seconds at the end.
• Mad Scientist: Connors' plan in his home universe is to turn the human race into lizard hybrids like him. When he offers to cure Dillon of his condition, the latter refuses because Connors might turn him into a lizard, something that Connors doesn't deny.
• Metaphorically True: One interpretation of events. At the end of The Amazing Spider-Man, Connors is cured of his Lizard conditioning, making the Lizard technically dead like the other villains sans Sandman.
• Mortality Phobia: Upon learning about the deaths of his fellow villains from Flint Marko, the Lizard quietly asks Max if he knows whether he died or not, clearly afraid of the prospect.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: While he doesn't outright say it like the Green Goblin does, the Lizard is sceptical enough to know that Peter's idea to cure all the villains from other universes is going to have consequences.
• Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Like with all the villains this is inverted, as he comes from a more grounded world where he's one of the few supervillains to exist and is now in a more fantastical universe. However he gets hit with this much more than his fellow dimensional travellers, as while there isn't exactly anyone else like him in the MCU he doesn't bring any unique abilities or skills. Both Electro and Sandman have abilities that make keep them incredibly dangerous threats in the MCU, the Green Goblin would be considered a powerful super soldier by MCU standards, and Doc Ock is only limited by the fact he comes from two decades in the past of a world that's more grounded than the MCU meaning his technology is outdated, but outside of that proves that he's still a genius able to help Peter. As a result the Lizard is the least dangerous of the five villains.
• Not So Stoic:
  • While the Lizard overall takes the situation he's in quite seriously, he can't help but express shock that MCU Peter has someone like MJ as his girlfriend.
  • Earlier on, he's also heard gleefully chuckling upon noticing that Max is amongst the multiversal visitors captured by Peter.
• Obliviously Evil: He doesn't seem to understand why people might object to being turned into lizard monsters.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Apparently, the Lizard engaged with Doctor Strange sometime after warping into the MCU, and ended up putting up a decent fight, as Strange is heavily scarred from it.
• Out of Focus: Among the five multiversal villains, he easily gets the least focus. He's the only one not seen participating in a fight prior to the final battle (Strange captures him offscreen), he sits out of the events at Happy's apartment (spending the entire time in a F.E.A.S.T. truck), and even during the final battle a majority of the focus goes to the other villains involved.
• Pet the Dog:
  • Upon noticing Max appearing in Doctor Strange's Underforge, Connors immediately recognizes and briefly converses with him, in contrast to how he refused to speak to Strange, Peter or Doctor Octopus. He also acknowledges Max's new appearance, and further offers to help with his makeover (although Max justifiably isn't interested).
  • The Lizard also cautions Peter in earnest upon hearing his idea for trying to help subvert the fates of the multiversal villains, as he knows that a plan of that magnitude is bound to go wrong.
• The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Although Connors still expresses a desire to transform people into lizards against their will, he's never actually shown trying to do this at any point in the film. Instead, he seems more focused on attacking Peter and his friends until he's finally cured again.
• Plot-Irrelevant Villain: Out of all the multiversal villains, he has the least focus on the plot and therefore has the smallest impact on it. His goal of turning humanity into lizards is entirely separate from the main story and isn't really focused on and he never even comes close to accomplishing this goal. He's also the only villain who Peter doesn't personally capture as instead it was Doctor Strange captured him offscreen. His role in the story basically amounts to just being a mere nuisance to the heroes.
• Prehensile Tail: One of his main weapons.
• The Quiet One: The Lizard speaks fairly little compared to his fellow villains, preferring to keep quiet or make animalistic sounds. It's not until Max Dillon acknowledges him as Curt Connors that he starts opening up, which startles everyone.
• Reptiles Are Abhorrent: Electro calls out Lizard's original scheme of turning everyone in New York into lizards as messed up.
• Roar Before Beating: When the Lizard arrives on Liberty Island in the film's climax, he lets out a mighty roar before he goes to fight the three Spider-Men.
• Shapeshifting Excludes Clothing: His clothes didn't transform with him when he turned into the Lizard, therefore he ends up completely naked when the antidote is administered and he becomes human again.
• Shapeshifter Mode Lock: Implied. Unlike in The Amazing Spider-Man, Curt remains in his lizard form for much of the movie, without ever reverting back to normal up until the very end when Peter-1 cures him. This is likely because he was taken just before he was cured in his original form and he seemed to have made his transformation permanent.
• Skewed Priorities: While the others are accepting a deal with Peter and MJ, he is busy coming to the conclusion that MJ cannot be Peter's girlfriend.
• Sinister Silhouettes: His silhouette is briefly glimpsed when Doctor Strange's spell goes haywire, making him the first of the multiversal villains to appear in the film.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He appears for less than a minute in Goblin's and Peter's fight, but by stopping the latter from running away, it allows the chain of events to occur that results in May's death.
• Smarter Than You Look: Everyone (except fellow Webb-Verse denizen Max) is surprised to find out that the aggressive lizard monster is actually a scientist who can speak coherent English. He also accurately predicts that Peter's attempt to cure the villains is going to blow up in his face hours before Goblin shows his face.
• So Last Season: While he can give MCU Peter, Raimi-verse Peter, and even Doctor Strange some trouble, he's ultimately old news to his universe's Peter, who makes short work of him and webs him up.
• Suddenly Speaking: The Lizard initially doesn't speak and only makes animal noises until Max Dillon identifies him and he started speaking, surprising the characters from other universes.
• Super-Senses: Perhaps even sharper than Spider-Man's. He's able to sense that the Green Goblin persona had taken over Norman before Peter's spider-sense could from all the way down in the F.E.A.S.T. truck. That's some range.
• Super-Strength: He tears through the back of a truck he's staying on with ease and later holds MCU Peter by his head with one hand before tossing him into a window.
• There Was a Door: When the Green Goblin starts attacking Peter at Happy Hogan's apartment, the Lizard breaks out of one of the walls of the F.E.A.S.T. truck he was locked in to join the fight.
• Took a Level in Badass: The Lizard was already powerful in his original appearance, but was still inexperienced enough that a rookie Peter was able to keep up with him. In this version, he's much quicker on his feet and is tough enough to the point that both Peter-1 and Peter-2 are shown struggling to fight him, despite having significantly more experience than Peter-3. He even seems to have put up a decent fight against Dr. Strange, if the scratches on the latter's face are anything to go by. That said, he does have a harder time dealing with webbing this time.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Downplayed. While he's still a maniacal villain who wants to turn people into lizards, Connors acts much more polite in his transformed state than he did previously, complimenting Electro on his new appearance, and attempting to warn Peter that his plan to cure them all isn't going to end well. He never attempts to escape when he's stuck in the F.E.A.S.T. truck (but that's more so he can have a front-row seat for his "I told you so"). When things do inevitably go wrong though, the Lizard is quick to return to his evil ways.
• Transplant: The same Curt Connors from The Amazing Spider-Man.
• Unskilled, but Strong: He's a massive Lightning Bruiser capable of overpowering any of the Spider-Men and even gave Doctor Strange some trouble, but his fighting form is incredibly feral and aggressive and this lack of fighting technique allows the Spider-Men to keep up with him.
• Villainous Friendship: With Max Dillon, his Oscorp co-worker.
• Vocal Evolution: He speaks with Rhys Ifans' natural speaking voice rather than it being digitally deepened like in his debut movie. His reptilian roars are also much higher-pitched than before.
• Wall Crawl: He's still just as good a wall climber as he was in his first movie, as shown when he climbs up Happy Hogan's apartment building to attack Peter.
• Would Hit a Girl: During the battle on the Statue of Liberty, he notices Michelle and Ned behind a sling-ring portal and tries to attack both of them to retrieve the box.
• You Can Talk?: Aside from Max Dillon, everyone has this reaction the first time they hear the Lizard speaking.

Max Dillon / Electro

Max Dillon / Electro

"You're not gonna take this away from me."

^{Click here to see him in his blue bioluminescent form} Peter-1: Uh, you wouldn't happen to be from another universe, would you?

Species: Enhanced human (formerly), Human

Citizenship: American

Affiliation(s): Oscorp (formerly)

Portrayed By: Jamie Foxx

Voiced By: Salvador Delgado (Latin-American Spanish dub), Jean-Baptiste Anoumon (European French dub), Pierre Auger (Canadian French dub), Duda Ribeiro (Brazilian Portuguese dub)

Appearances: The Amazing Spider-Man 2 | Spider-Man: No Way Home

"Look at this place... and all the possibilities."

An Oscorp electrical engineer who fell into a tank of mutated electric eels in a freak accident, giving him electric-based powers.

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• Abled in the Adaptation: A strange case, as Max was actually made The Mentally Disturbed in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, but both his mental illness and god complex are toned down in Spider-Man: No Way Home. He also needed glasses. Here his vision seems to be perfect (presumably already a result of the accident).
• Adaptation Dye-Job: His lightning now takes on a more yellow color, putting him in line with his comic book counterpart. He also ditches the Amazing Technicolor Population trope, as he has a normal skin color instead of being blue and bioluminescent. He actually starts the movie looking like his blue self, only to very quickly absorb the energy and turn back to normal, which is chalked up to a difference in energy between his home universe and the one of the MCU.
• Adaptational Hairstyle Change: He goes from having either a bald head or a widow's peak to a fade. He was bald when he was in his bioluminiscent form though.
• Adaptation Personality Change: In The Amazing Spider-Man 2, he was a mentally-ill nerd who developed a God complex upon gaining superpowers. In this movie, he's much more well-adjusted and confident, easily interacting with his surroundings and coming across as the most normal of the displaced villains after Sandman.
• Adaptational Attractiveness: As lampshaded by the Lizard, Max in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 had "bad teeth, glasses and a combover" before becoming a bioluminescent mutant. After absorbing the energies of the MCU and regaining his human form, this Max sports a sidecut and goatee, a healthier bronzed complexion, Timberland shoes, and actual muscle tone.
• Adaptational Badass: Exploited. Since the MCU's energy is significantly more powerful than the one from his home universe, Electro wants to absorb as much of it as possible so he can have more than even his home universe could offer.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • Downplayed, as originally, Max was the only villain in The Amazing Spider-Man duology (not including Rhino) to not know Peter and Spider-Man were the same. Here, he does know, though doesn't comment on it until he's cured.
  • While their original film series made them both employees of Oscorp which was also the source of their respective powers, No Way Home establishes that Connors was on friendly terms with Max before his transformation into the Lizard while in the comics they met after they got their powers and never had a close relationship.
• Adaptational Skimpiness: A pretty notable example. In his original film, Electro was wearing a black skintight suit after gaining control of his powers, including at the moment of his death during the finale. But when he first appears in the MCU as a blue energy being, he doesn't wear anything at all, and is left stark naked when Peter manages to make him regain his human body.
• Adrenaline Makeover: If one treats his entire arc from The Amazing Spider-Man 2 to Spider-Man: No Way Home as one long story, Electro's appearance in the MCU is a much more stocky, well-dressed, and handsome version of himself, compared to how he was previously a balding, gap-toothed nerd with a comb-over. The Lizard lampshades this when he notices Max's new appearance.
• Affably Evil: Max is more personable here than in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, engaging in a friendly chat with both his fellow villains and the heroes. He also makes a point that he won’t hurt anyone if they don’t try to stop him. After being subdued, he even makes peace with the Webb-Verse Spider-Man.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: He first appears with his blue sparkly look from The Amazing Spider-Man 2 for a few seconds before absorbing the MCU's electricity gives him an Adrenaline Makeover.
• Beard of Evil: Though he only had a moustache in his previous appearance, Max now sports a goatee.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: He quickly saw Doctor Octopus/Otto Octavius as a friend because he waved to Max when the latter was transported to the Underforge, even though he didn't know him. Also, despite Max trying to destroy Otto's inhibitor chip to revert him to his villainous alter-ego, and Otto later tricking Max into letting his guard down so he could strip him of his powers, he had no hard feelings towards Otto, even being grateful to him for saving his life during the Statute of Liberty's collapse when Green Goblin unleashed Strange's unstable spell.
• Bishōnen Line: Introduced as an Energy Being version of his original blue form from The Amazing Spider-Man 2 before absorbing the superior energy from the MCU universe to become, well, Jamie Foxx.
• The Brute: Thanks to both Taking a Level in Badass twice but becoming somewhat predictable because of his lust for power, Electro ends up being arguably the most powerful of the returning villains, but is easily manipulated by the Goblin, used to soften up the three Spider-Men, and in the end is easily outsmarted by the now heroic Doc Ock, whose Heel–Face Turn he witnessed but ignored.
• Climax Boss: Among the multiversal villains he ends up being the most dangerous one during the battle with the three Spider-Men to his destructive electricity powers, with Dock Ock already having pulled a Heel–Face Turn and Green Goblin being saved for last, given that MCU Spider Man now has a personal grudge against him.
• Commonality Connection: He briefly bonds with Sandman when they both realize their supervillain origins involved falling into something.
• Costume Evolution: He regains a more handsome human-like form from absorbing energy from the MCU, and later on builds a harness to better absorb the energies of the Arc Reactor he stole.
• Crossover Power Acquisition: When he arrives on Earth-199999 in Spider-Man: No Way Home, the difference in his world's energy and the MCU's energy has a physiological effect on him. First he regains his human form (albeit more conventionally handsome than before), becomes less mentally unstable (though still power hungry) and changes his electricity's color from blue to yellow. When he grabs the Arc-Reactor used to power Peter's 3D printer, it gives him a massive power boost.
• Deadpan Snarker: He Took a Level in Smartass in this movie.
  Max: [when Peter offers to De-power him and the others and save them from their eventual fates] Well, I myself don't wanna be killed, especially by a guy dressed like Dungeons & Dragons.
• Ditzy Genius: He's such a power-hungry brute that it's easy to forget he was an electrical engineer prior to gaining his powers. This bites him in the ass when Doc Ock appears to help him and Max arrogantly assumes he succeeded in frying Otto's chip rather than consider that he might be putting on a show to get close enough to De-power him.
• Does Not Like Magic: When MJ informs him that he's imprisoned in a wizard's dungeon, Max declares that he wants nothing to do with magic, as he's much more interested in the energy of this new universe.
  Max: Look, you can keep your magic. I want a taste of that new energy I just felt.
• Don't Make Me Destroy You: When he shows up at the Statue of Liberty to try to steal the magic box, he asks MCU Peter not to force him to kill him. Borders on Why Did You Make Me Hit You?, as Peter-1 is explicitly trying to help him.
  Electro: Don't make me a murderer, Peter.
• Electric Black Guy: Even moreso than his original film, as he retains his human form while conducting electricity. Interestingly, he admits he always assumed that Peter-3 was black, calling to mind Miles Morales, another Electric Black Guy.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Played for laughs. When describing the Lizard's actions from The Amazing Spider-Man, Electro makes his disdain for the former's goal of turning everyone into lizards very clear. He's also not amused when Connors offers to turn him into a lizard as part of a "makeover".
• Evil Laugh: He lets out a sinister chuckle when he demands Peter to hand over the cube.
• Expecting Someone Taller: When he sees Peter-3's face, he muses that he always thought Spider-Man would be black (a la Miles Morales) on account of him helping the poor and being a Queens native.
• Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: When the villains are recalling their final moments before they were plucked from their universes, Max confidently recounts how he was kicking Spider-Man's ass until he overloaded the grid and made him absorb all of the power... only to realize that was the moment he died.
• Flash Step: When he becomes a powerful Energy Being thanks to the arc reactor, he gains the ability to do this, as seen in the climactic battle.
• Flying Firepower: His powers allow him to fly and to fire lightning bolts from his hands.
• Foil:
  • To Flint Marko / Sandman. Both of them are villains from other dimensions who gained their Elemental Powers after falling into somewhere dangerous, who never actually meant to become who they were in the first place. Where they contrast is in their objectives: Max wants to stay in the MCU to absorb its energy and make himself more powerful than he ever was before, whereas Flint wants to return to his homeworld as soon as possible to see his daughter and generally doesn't give a damn about being superempowered.
  • To Norman Osborn / Green Goblin. They both end up enjoying the MCU and all it has to offer them, mainly since it gives them both a chance to be more than what they were in their home dimensions. Max was what he saw as a nobody back home and wants to stay where he could have even more power, while the Goblin sees the MCU as a new playground to cause mindless chaos and death.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: He goes from a self-professed nobody to one of the most powerful villains in the MCU. When he's forcibly stripped of his powers by Otto Octavius, he sadly laments that he's back into being a nobody, but his universe's Peter reassures him that he was never a nobody.
• Full-Frontal Assault: Electro initially appears as a naked blue/yellow electrical being and quickly devotes himself to blasting Peter-1 and later the Sandman with his abilities. Once he's subdued and Brought Down to Badass, Peter gets him some construction worker clothes to avert this trope.
• Genius Bruiser: Downplayed. His scientific expertise isn't brought up much here, but he is able to upgrade his costume on his own after fleeing Happy's apartment.
• Graceful Loser: Once he's finally depowered, he lets go of his hostility towards Peter 3, acknowledging that he's Just a Kid (with a "nice face") and that he's helped a lot of people. (Amusingly, because a lot of those people were poor, Dillon assumed Spider-Man was black. Not in this universe, Max...)
• Handwave: His completely different character design compared to The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is stated to be the result of the energy in the MCU being "different" to that of his home universe.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Downplayed. He trusts Doc Ock, who he saw make a Heel–Face Turn, to kill Peters 2 and 3, which gives Ock the chance to depower him. In fairness, Max did attempt to fry Otto's inhibitor chip beforehand, so it's likely he just assumed that he had broke it again.
• Hunk: He goes from an unattractive loser to a muscular, handsome man when he arrives in the different universe. Part of the reason he doesn't want to go back home is because he is a loser there, while his new look is something he really appreciates.
• I Hate Past Me: He looks thoroughly ashamed when the Lizard outs him as having once had "bad teeth, glasses, and a comb-over."
• I Just Want to Be Special: He laments that all he wanted was to be noticed, having to dig his way from the bottom to have a sustainable job, but he then quips that there could be "a black Spider-Man" somewhere in the Multiverse.
• I'll Kill You!: While he initially agrees to go along with Peter's plan to cure the supervillains, he still threatens to electrocute him to death if anything goes wrong.
  Electro: Well, I'm in. But, if this goes sideways... I'm gonna fry you from the inside out!
• Just a Kid: When he sees the Amazing Spider-Man without his mask, he realizes how young he is and calls him "just a kid".
• Kubrick Stare: Max does this quite often, particularly when confronted with the temptation of power and the notion of someone trying to take it from him. It serves to remind the audience that, despite his confident Affably Evil attitude that came with his new restoration, he is really not well upstairs still.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Upon removing the electricity inhibitor that ultimately would've cured him, Max chooses to blast Doctor Octopus out the window, sneering that he preferred his old personality before he does so. In the climax of the film, Otto seemingly does a Villain Team-Up with Max to help defeat Peters 2 and 3...only to immediately rip out the Arc Reactor and slap the inhibitor back on, causing Max to lose his powers for good.
• Leitmotif: A few notes from "My Enemy" can briefly be heard during his introduction, and an orchestral version of the lyrics can be heard when he's fighting the three Spider-Men.
• Mistaken Ethnicity: Admits to Webb-verse Spider-Man that he thought he was black underneath the mask.
• Motive Decay: Subverted. For all that he's no longer the meek, awkward, bullied man he was before he got his powers, his primary motivation is still to ensure that he'll never be "a nobody" again.
• Movie Superheroes Wear Black: Like in his previous film, Max wears a black suit as Electro, although it is detailed with yellow straps and wires to give him a more comic-accurate appearance.
• Mr. Exposition: He's the one who explains the origin of the Lizard, who until he saw Max seemed content to let everyone think he was an unintelligent monster.
• Mundane Utility: At Happy Hogan's apartment, Max uses his electricity powers to turn on the television without having to move.
• Musical Nod: When Electro first notices and attacks Spider-Man, a few notes from "My Enemy" from The Amazing Spider-Man 2 play.
• Mysterious Past: Unlike his fellow Webb-Verse native the Lizard who's origin Max explains, he says very little about his own background outside of how he got his powers and the circumstances of his last fight with the Amazing Spider-Man. He leaves out the part where he was tortured for having powers and his obsession with Spider-Man, though the latter is hinted at when he refers to Webb-verse Peter as "my old friend Spider-Man."
• Mythology Gag:
  • Him being Naked on Arrival brings to mind the fact that he is a being of pure energy – without pants.
  • When he charges up his electricity, it focuses around his face in a way that resembles the comic book version's star-shaped mask.
  • Near the end of the film, he mentions that he assumed Spider-Man was black, and muses that there probably is a black one somewhere in the multiverse.
• Naked First Impression: After being subdued by Peter-1 and the Sandman, Electro ends up returning to his natural human form, albeit without anything on. He's quick to lampshade this.
  Electro: So, what, you're just gonna stand here and act like I ain't butt-ass naked?
  Sandman: I am.
• Nature Lover: Inverted. He really hates trees ^note probably because wood is a bad electricity conductor, and even chides MCU Peter Parker for causing him to appear in the woods.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: During the final battle, Max shoots a lightning bolt at a crane while trying to hit Peter-3, which causes it to fall on Sandman's arm, freeing Peter-1 whom he was holding, and also to trap the Lizard as he was fighting Peter-2. This allows the three Peters to regroup and form a plan to take down the three supervillains.
• No-Sell: In his electric form, he is unaffected by the magical teleporting webs. When Peter tries to shoot at him with it, the blast passes through his body and hits a tree behind him instead.
• Not Wearing Tights: Much like in Spider-Man (PS4), Electro wears a harness over casual clothing instead of a garish bodysuit, and his mask is reimagined as lightning forming a star in front of his face.
• Old Friend: He calls the Amazing Spider-Man his "old friend" when they encounter each other during the finale at the Statue of Liberty.
• Pet the Dog:
  • He briefly defends Peter when Doctor Octopus is snarking him for his unpreparedness. Later in the final battle, he also offers to spare Spider-Man's life if he gives Max the Macchina di Kadavus.
  • He showed sympathy for Sandman when he found out that Sandman also got his powers from falling into an experiment in his home universe, and agrees to be careful where they fall.
  • He looked genuinely worried about Doctor Octopus when he blacked out after Spider-Man gave him a new inhibitor chip, and was relived that Otto was okay when he woke up.
• Power Loss Depression: After Otto de-powers him with the cure, he laments to Webb-verse Peter that he's back to being a nobody. Peter reassures him that he was never a nobody.
• Power Makes Your Hair Grow: After getting superpowers, he loses his unflattering combover and gains a nice-looking fade. His pencil mustache also grows into a goatee.
• Power Nullifier: MCU Peter's solution to Electro's condition is to build an energy siphon based on Tony Stark's Arc Reactor technology, which will absorb Max's electrical powers and keep him in his normal, physical human state instead of turning back into electricity. Electro decides he doesn't want to lose his powers and escapes, only to later have the siphon forced on him by the reformed Dr. Octavius in the finale.
• Psycho Electro: Downplayed. He is more well-adjusted than in his debut movie, but he's still power-hungry and sadistic, laughing maniacally when he uses his electric powers to shock the Spider-Men.
• Running Gag: Any time his rather ridiculous origin story (falling into a vat of electric eels) is brought up. Even his last line in the film is him thinking about those "goddamn eels".
• Sanity Strengthening: Strangely enough, Max seems to have become much more mentally sound after arriving in the MCU than he was in his own universe (both before and after getting his powers).
• Scary Black Man: Max keeps his African-American complexion instead of being blue and bioluminescent, and he's a very frightening man to go up against.
• Screw Destiny: A variation. As he stated during the final battle, Electro seems to be referring to how he is content living on in the MCU reality and seems angry at the Spider-Men for trying to defeat him and bring him back to his dimension where he is doomed to die.
• Self-Serving Memory: He warns Peter not to make him a murderer despite having killed several people onscreen in The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
• Shock and Awe: His electrical powers, which change from blue to yellow in color after being transported into the MCU.
• Shout-Out: His armor bears a striking resemblance to Whiplash's suit as shown in the trailer where he shoots chains of lightning which are similar to the suit.
• Technopath: Uses his powers to switch a TV on in Happy's apartment at one point.
• Throwback Threads: A somewhat more subtle version. After getting a power-upgrade in form of the Arc Reactor, a phantom image in the shape of the classical Electro mask from the original comics shapes around his head every time he unleashes his lighting powers.
• Token Minority: The only African-American of the supervillains with the other four being Caucasians, though two (Sandman and Lizard) of the other four are stuck in their mutated forms.
• Took a Level in Badass: Electro is already a badass in his own universe but is somehow stronger in the MCU upon arriving, claiming it is due to the MCU having different energy than his. He later steals an Arc Reactor that makes him even stronger, allowing him to overpower all three Spider-Men at the same time.
• Transplant: The same Electro from The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
• Two First Names: Both "Maxwell" and "Dillon" are applicable as first names.
• Villainous Friendship: With Curt Connors, his Oscorp co-worker.
• Vocal Evolution: Electro in his original film had a distorted, bass-boosted voice to go with his blue look. Here, his voice returns to normal once he gets his normal body back and only gets bass-boosted when he uses his powers after obtaining the Arc Reactor.
• We Want Our Jerk Back!: After he is manipulated by the Green Goblin, he doesn't appreciate the newly reformed Doc Ock questioning his actions, saying he preferred him as a Mad Scientist.
• With Great Power Comes Great Hotness: Absorbing the energy of the MCU not only made him much more powerful, but it also turned him from an unappealing Nerd into a handsome Hunk.
• Why Are You Looking at Me Like That?: Asks this verbatim when Peter's Spider-Sense goes crazy at Happy's apartment and he gives him a weird look to check if he's responsible.
• Yellow Lightning, Blue Lightning: The color of Electro's lightning transforms from blue to yellow due to the MCU's higher level of energy.
• You're Insane!: He doesn't hesitate to let Connors know that he thinks his plan to turn the whole city into lizards is completely crazy. Connors tries to convince him that it's not, with little success.
• You Will Be Spared: At the beginning of the final battle, Electro promises the MCU Spider-Man to spare his life if he agrees to give him the magic box without any resistance. It doesn't work.

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