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The Daily Bugle Tumblr Characters
Characters that appear in The Daily Bugle's Alternate Reality Tumblr. Can be considered as Loose Canon since unlike the video games it doesn't conflict with the films.
The Daily Bugle
Eddie Brock
Edward "Eddie" Brock
A reporter for The Daily Bugle who has written articles on the apprehension of criminals like serial killer Cletus Kasady, along with The Enforcers. Though he does not appear in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 itself, his articles are included as viral marketing for the sequel.
- Adaptational Heroism: It's implied by his writing that this version of Eddie Brock is a more ethical journalist and all-around better person than he was in the comics or the movie that he previously appeared in.
- Adaptational Wimp: Is apparently just a normal person as the symbiote doesn't exist in this universe, as Peter makes no mention of it when his Raimi-Verse counterpart mentions his version in Spider-Man: No Way Home.
- Chekhov's News: On a meta level. His article on Cletus Kasady is pretty obviously meant to hype up the then-forthcoming Webb-verse Venom movie, which ultimately never came to pass.
- For Want Of A Nail: Unlike is two counterparts he never bonded with the Venom symbiote which seemingly doesn't exist in his universe.
- Hero-Worshipper: Implied - the second-to-last sentence in his article praises Spider-Man (which, considering that he's writing for the Daily Bugle, is saying something).
- If It Bleeds, It Leads: Averted - the article he wrote is evidently too short to make it to the front page of a newspaper.
- Intrepid Reporter: It takes some serious cohonies to write about a serial killer's capture.
- One-Steve Limit: Averted as he works alongside Edward Leeds, but since they are Only Known by Their Nickname it's doubtful that it causes any issues.
- The Real Heroes: He notes that the barista that reported on Kasady was a hero, and that her idol, Spider-Man, should be proud of her for her actions.
- Tempting Fate: He confidently notes that he doesn't think that Kasady will bring about any more carnage now that he's in prison.
- Worst News Judgment Ever: You would think the Daily Bugle would place a greater emphasis on the capture of a serial killer.
Ned Leeds
Edward "Ned" Leeds
A reporter for The Daily Bugle for wrote and article about how Thomas Fireheart presented two million dollars to help rebuild the damage down to Midtown High after the Lizard fought Spider-Man there.
- One-Steve Limit: Averted as he works alongside Edward Brock, but since they are Only Known by Their Nickname it's doubtful that it causes any issues.
Other Characters
The Big Man
The Big Man
A mysterious criminal mastermind rapidly gaining power in the New York underworld, which he intends to unite, and turn into an unstoppable empire under his command. Beneath the mask is Daily Bugle reporter Frederick Foswell.
- Big Bad: Of the ARG, up until his capture and death.
- Killed Off for Real: Was murdered in prison.
The Enforcers (Jackson "Montana" Brice, Daniel "Fancy Dan" Brito, and Raymond "The Ox" Bloch)
The Enforcers
- Bar Brawl: Fancy Dan started one in the Zero One Lounge, pulling a gun on one of Silvermane's goons during an argument.
- Terrible Trio: As always.
Spencer Smythe
Spencer Smythe
"Well, if you want to catch the right fly, you have to spin the right web."
The head of the engineering division at Oscorp, he was fired for unknown reasons, and replaced by his own son, Alistair.
- Alliterative Name: Spencer Smythe.
- Deadpan Snarker:Joy: Can you summarize your recent work in one word?
Smythe: Mobility.
Joy: Elaborate, please.
Smythe: If you wanted an elaborate answer, why did you ask for a single word? - Foreshadowing:Joy: One last thing, how is it working with your son?
Spencer: Alistair is a brilliant young engineer and I'm thrilled to see his career develop. I'd better watch my back or he'll have my job before too long! - For Science!: When asked about the commercial applications of his inventions, he responds with, "I don't do marketing. Engineering innovation doesn't result from a focus on revenue".
Herman Schultz/The Shocker
Herman Schultz / The Shocker
- Butt-Monkey: He's never really taken any seriously by the Bugle, nor Spider-Man for that matter.
- Cut Lex Luthor a Check: The Bugle doesn't hesitate to point out that he, rather than use the technology making up his gauntlets to rob banks for money, could've instead sold the technology legally and earned far more for it than he ever would've gotten from criminal acts.
Cletus Kasady
Cletus Kasady
A serial killer that was sent to Ravencroft Institute after turning himself in. Though he does not appear in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 itself, an article about him is included as viral marketing for the sequel. It is speculated that he will most likely transform into Carnage and escape from Ravencroft.
- Anti-Climax: Invoked on his part. He calmly turned himself in after murdering at least a dozen people, which caused him to be the subject of a major manhunt.
- Ax-Crazy: He was bad enough that he was placed on the FBI's Most Wanted.
- Big Bad: He was probably supposed to serve as this for the Venom movie. When Venom came out, however, it was set in a completely different continuity, and Kasady was not the Big Bad, though he does make a cameo in The Stinger and eventually does become the Big Bad of its sequel, Venom: Let There Be Carnage.
- Big Damn Heroes: Averted. Spider-Man didn't show up to kick his ass, much to the disappointment of the local that identified Kasady.
- Dissonant Serenity: He was noted as being unnervingly calm when he turned himself into the FBI.
- Evil Redhead: He is noted as being a "notorious redhead" by Brock.
- Great Escape: Subverted. He tried escaping during his transfer to another prison, but he was apprehended before he could go anywhere.
- Knight of Cerebus: Of all the criminals that were discussed in the paper, he was treated as the most serious threat by The Daily Bugle.
- Longer-Than-Life Sentence: Twelve of them, as a matter of fact.
- Serial Killer: At the time of his arrest, he had been associated with twelve murders.
Anne Weying
Anne Weying
The lawyer who represents Curt Connors during his trial.
- Amoral Attorney: She may be one, considering that she unsuccessfully tries to convince the jury that the Curt Connors' attempt to transform all New Yorkers (including her) into humanoid lizards and Captain George Stacy's murder were all because of the Lizard serum's effects. That said, she does point out that Connors injected himself with the serum to prevent Oscorp from experimenting on innocents, but the jury doesn't buy it.
Video Game Exclusive Characters
This is for characters that are introduced in the games, but are not based off of their film counterparts - as well as tropes to the characters that are in the films, but only display the tropes in the games. Alistair Smythe
Allistar Smythe
- Voiced by: Nolan North (first console game)
- Accuser of the Brethren: Towards Connors.
- Affably Evil: At first.
- Big Bad: For the game after the first movie, being responsible for the Spider-Slayers and some of the cross-species.
- Dragon Ascendant: He pretty much takes over Oscorp after he unleashed the S-02 robot on the city.
- Driven to Madness: The cure for the cross-species virus he injects himself with paralyzes him from the waste down and drives him insane.
- Driven to Suicide: Throws himself in front of an armed Hunter Bot while infected rather than living as a cross-species.
- Evil Is Hammy: When he loses his sanity.
- He Who Fights Monsters: Condemns Connors for what he's done as the Lizard, and blames him for the entire cross species virus, but Smythe's robots prove to be a bigger threat to the city as his robots cause more damage to the city then the Lizard did in the movie.
- Humongous Mecha: What? Just because he specializes in nanobots doesn't mean he can't scale them up.
- Knight Templar: Condemns Connors' action in the movie and believes he is the Big Good for all of New York City and arguably the entire world. He's not.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Says this when he sees his machines destroying the city.
- No Kill Like Over Kill: After he gets rid of Spider-Man's powers, he allows him to flee throughout the facility, as he activates the S-03 Robot to kill him.
- Powered Armor: Dons one for combat purposes when he loses functionality in his legs.
- Robot Master: "Mecha-Mooks for a better world!" is pretty much his motto.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: True, he wanted to cure the virus. But unfortunately, unleashing Mecha-Mooks and Humongous Mecha on Manhattan is most certainly not the way to do it.
- Why Won't You Die?: Shouts this when he sees Spider-Man helping the Lizard fight the S-03 robot.
Michael Morbius
Dr. Michael Morbius
- Bat Out of Hell: This version worked with Connors and insisted he work on bats instead of reptiles "for some reason."
- The Ghost: Mentioned in the beginning, though never seen in game.
- Mythology Gag: His purpose in the game, more or less. In the 616 universe, he's known as "Morbius, the Living Vampire".
- Our Vampires Are Different: His reference in the game amounts to a nod to this, but the state of being is, so far as is known, not present.
The Rhino
The Rhino
- Voice by: Fred Tatasciore (first console game)
- And I Must Scream: He and Morbius are the only ones who know he used to be human, and Morbius won’t talk and Rhino can’t, meaning he can’t be free from Oscorp’s custody.
- Bullfight Boss: As usual
- Killed Off for Real: Quite possibly after being thrown in an electrical pit.
- Rhino Rampage: Duh.
- Was Once a Man: He was a low-level Mafia thug Rajit Ratha and Michael Morbius mutated into a rhinoceros-human hybrid to sell on the black market. Ratha was killed before this could happened, and Morbius, who had been blackmailed into helping and knowing that even a company as corrupt as Oscorp balked at doing this to humans, covered up Rhino’s humanity.
Iguana
Iguana
- Bait-and-Switch Boss: Early on he menaces civilians in a park. When Spider-Man comes to the rescue, the S-01 appears and scare him off.
- Fluffy the Terrible: Connors named him Iggy when he was a normal iguana.
- Flunky Boss: Has several infected assisting him during the fight.
- Killed Offscreen: By Kraven between games.
Felicia Hardy
Felicia Hardy / Black Cat
- Badass Normal: She's a cat burglar who can take on Spider-Man. She becomes an Empowered Badass Normal in the sequel after getting cross-species enhanced by the Kingpin.
- Classy Cat-Burglar: Not the first time you encounter her outside of Beloit, but by the second, a photo shoot, she seems to have gone this route, even leaving notes to Spider-Man after the fact and taken on a liking for cats.
- Dark Action Girl: She's a superpowered cat burglar who can handle herself in a fight with the Web-Head.
- Empowered Badass Normal: Implied by her cliffhanger ending during an optional mission that she's now a cross species and still human enough to leave Spider-Man a note saying thanks, presumably for giving her the information on Oscorp. Confirmed in the sequel, where she is infused with cat DNA by the Kingpin in exchange for killing Spider-Man.
- Femme Fatalons: Her upgraded suit in the second game has claws.
- Fragile Speedster: Very fast, but has a hard time fighting once Spider-Man can keep up with her webbed up, and spends much of her boss fight hiding.
- In Love with the Mark: She is hired by the Kingpin to assassinate Spider-Man in the sequel, but her journals reveal that stalking him just made her fall for him even harder. After their boss fight, she practically suggests they elope, but Spider-Man turns her down, citing his responsibilities.
- She-Fu: Though she doesn't attack much up close, she seems to be an expert acrobat if her flips are anything to go by.
- Shock and Awe: Uses taser grenades aside from her gun.
- Smoke Out: Uses smoke bombs.
- Spy Catsuit: No pun intended.
- The Vamp: Openly flirts with Spider-Man in their boss battle. Him starting it doesn't help, though.
- You Fight Like a Cow: Banters back and forth with Spider-Man during their fights.
Scorpion
Mac Gargan / Scorpion
- Voiced by: Mark Ashton
- Beware My Stinger Tail: From a black fat-tailed scorpion, this should come as no surprise.
- Fun with Acronyms: Its name is M.A.C, which stands for "My Astonishing Creation".
- Humanoid Abomination: He’s a horrific, humanoid scorpion created by injecting a black fat-tailed scorpion with human DNA that was promptly bonded to a piece of the Venom symbiote, resulting in a horrific abomination.
- Killed Offscreen: By Kraven between games.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: Was a black fat-tailed scorpion infused with human DNA and bonded to the Venom symbiote.
- Scary Scorpions: There’s quite a load of Body Horror going on with him, and he is bonded with the Venom symbiote.
- Shout-Out: Scorpion bears a great deal of resemblance to his 2099 counterpart, and like its 616 counterpart was bonded to the Venom symbiote.
Edward Whelan/Vermin
Edward Whelan / Vermin
- Voiced by: Steve Blum (first console game)
- The Beastmaster: Can control a horde of rats.
- Face–Monster Turn: Edward Whelan was a good man who accidentally turned himself into a mindless beast while trying to save his friend.
- Killed Offscreen: By Kraven between games.
- Plague Master: For the cross-species virus.
- Rodents of Unusual Size: A gigantic hybrid between a human and a rat.
- Tragic Monster: Edward Whelan was a scientist who was Curt Connors’ friend and closest confidant. When Curt became the Lizard, Whelan worked tirelessly to save him. Unfortunately, Whelan suffered from sleep deprivation and passed out, resulting in him getting the dubious honor of being the first victim of the cross-species virus, turning him into a mindless monster.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: He accidentally created the cross-species virus while trying to create a cure for the Lizard, and wound up the unlucky first victim of it.
- Was Once a Man: He used to be a human scientist.
Whitney Chang
Whitney Chang
- Voiced by: Claudia Black (first console game), Sumalee Montano (second console game)
- Canon Foreigner: Made no appearances before the first game.
- Chekhov's Gunman: After Spider-Man is temporarily Brought Down to Normal, she gives him a lift to Smythe's S-03 mech.
- Cute Bruiser: Her bio points out she's as tough as she is beautiful.
- Intrepid Reporter: Her proper introduction to Spidey is when they both break into an Oscorp facility.
- Ship Tease: She and Spider-Man flirt a lot when together, but it is clear that Peter only has eyes for Gwen and in her bio it states she isn't looking for a relationship.
- Snark-to-Snark Combat: Engages in this with Spider-Man. She tends to win.
Nattie
Nattie
- All Webbed Up: His boss fight's end, pinned to a high wall in a sewer in a web cocoon.
- Canon Foreigner: Was created specifically for the game.
- Doppleganger Attack: The makeup of the clones is unknown, but they are all monochrome.
- Fish People: Of the Piranha Problem variety.
- Fluffy the Terrible: His name is Nattie, and he's an anthropomorphic piranha.
- Flunky Boss: With his clones.
- Killed Offscreen: By Kraven between games.
- Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: Was absent in most trailers.
Cletus Kasady/Carnage
Cletus Kasady / Carnage
- Voiced by David Agranov (second console game)
- Abusive Parents: It's stated that his father was abusive and his mother was absent.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: This version appears before Venom.
- Ax-Crazy: A death-obsessed lunatic who is a psychopathic Serial Killer.
- Big Bad Ensemble: With Kingpin.
- Cyborg: The game's version of the symbiote is a nanotechnological entity created to cure Norman's illness before being weaponized.
- Death Seeker: Tries to get Spider-Man to kill him, and after being defeated for the last time he begs to be killed.
- Evil Red Head: He has red hair and is a nihilistic psychopath.
- Evil Sounds Deep: As Carnage his voice becomes significantly deeper and slightly distorted.
- The Family That Slays Together: Intended to create one using the symbiote, but is stopped by Spider-Man.
- Final Boss: Of the second game.
- Freudian Excuse Denial: Discussed in his journal. Kasady acknowledges that he had an abusive childhood, but denies that it made him what he is now, since a lot of other people had it even worse than him and turned out just fine.
- Grand Theft Me: The flavor text for the Spider-Carnage costume paraphrases Ben Reilly's statement after being taken over.
- Jagged Mouth: As Carnage, he has black fangs that blend into his mask.
- Mook Maker: Infects dozens of inmates with the symbiote, and spawns a mini-Carnage during the final boss fight.
- "Not So Different" Remark: He pulls this card on Spider-Man while they fight.
- One-Winged Angel: The first phase of the final boss fight has Spider-Man whaling on Cletus, who is partially covered by the symbiote. After a short conversation, Cletus allows the symbiote to take over and transforms into Carnage proper.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: The Carnage symbiote is red and black, and Cletus is a serial killer.
- Serial-Killer Killer: He earns the nickname "the Carnage Killer" by targeting other criminals.
- Slasher Smile: Even without the symbiote covering his face.
- The Sociopath: His profile repeatedly mentions that he is a diagnosed psychopath with an obsession with death.
- The Symbiote: Is used as a test subject in the Venom Project, becoming coated in a red-and-black symbiote.
- Villain Has a Point: During the Final Boss, he tells Spider-Man that's he's just like him, and that he was glad when Kasady killed other criminals. He tells him that he wants to do the same thing, to stop criminals forever. Surprisingly, Spider-Man agrees with him. But he says that feeling anger and the desire for revenge is human. What's important is whether or not he acts on those feelings.
Eddie Brock/Venom
Eddie Brock / Venom
- Voiced by: Ben Diskin (second iOS game)
- Blood Knight: Taunts and whoops when attacking Spider-Man.Venom: Izzat good? Yeehaw!
- Combat Tentacles: Extends them from his body while roaring.
- Composite Character: Eddie is basically a gender-flipped version of Whitney Chang, and winds up as part of the Venom Project like Cletus did in the console games.
- The Corruption: Spider-Man encounters him infecting civilians with his symbiote, similarly to Web of Shadows.
- More Teeth than the Osmond Family: It just wouldn't be Venom without a mouth full of fangs.
- Royal "We": Like most versions of Venom, this one refers to himself as "we".Venom: GRAHHHH! We will not be stopped!!!
Spider-Man: We?! I only see a filthy criminal in a knock-off costume! - Spike Shooter: Can send his symbiote under the ground and project spikes up underneath Spider-Man.
- Tainted Veins: He has a distorted vein-like webbing motif on his head, shoulders, arms and legs, similarly to the Venom in Spider-Man 3.
- Voice of the Legion: His voice is distorted and echoic.
Wilson Fisk/The Kingpin
Wilson Fisk / The Kingpin
- Voiced By: JB Blanc (second console game)
- The Bad Guy Wins: By the end of the game, he isn't arrested, improves his operation, and takes over Oscorp from the now insane Harry Osborn. Not to mention that he seems to be setting up the Sinister Six.
- Big Bad Ensemble: With Carnage.
- Bullfight Boss
- The Chessmaster: Pretty much the entire game's events are part of his plot to become the man in charge of New York's crime.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: The worst example of this.
- Fat Bastard: Oh, dear Lord, yes.
- Karma Houdini: Thanks to Electro causing a blackout, Peter can't prove he's a criminal.
- Lightning Bruiser: Surprisingly, Fisk is both fast and insanely strong, able to easily keep up with Spidey and injure him badly.
Sergei Kravinoff/Kraven the Hunter
Sergei Kravinoff / Kraven the Hunter
- The Brute: Serves as this to Kingpin. Officially speaking, he's a security consultant. But he's actually Kingpin's main muscle.
- Egomaniac Hunter: He has hunted everything from all over the world.
- Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: Hunts humans (Only criminals, but still). Until he turns on Spider-Man that is.
- Mentor Archetype: Is this to Spider-Man, teaching him the ways to hunt and stalk his prey. Until it is revealed he only did this to make Spider-Man more of a challenge for his Hunting the Most Dangerous Game.
Dmitri Smerdyakov/The Chameleon
Dinitri Smerdyakov / The Chameleon
- Voiced by Glenn Steinbaum (second console game)
- The Dragon: To Kingpin.
- Obfuscating Disability: After being attacked by symbiote-controlled inmates, he's clutching his chest and limping... until Spider-Man leaves to fight Carnage and he promptly straightens and calmly walks away.
- Walking Spoiler: Of a sort. He spends most of the game disguised as Donald Menken - or having been Donald Menken all along - but doesn't appear until The Stinger and only serves to set up for a possible Sinister Six-focused game.
