WMG / Marvel's Spider-Man 2

Pre-Release Theories

Ganke will learn of Peter's identity as the 'other' Spider-Man.

• Confirmed in the 12-minute gameplay trailer — Ganke refers to Peter as ‘Mr. Parker’ before hastily correcting himself to ‘Spider-Man’.

Spider-Gwen will be introduced to setup a Miles Morales-esque setup

• Just feels like it makes a lot of sense, you could include alts based off both from the comics and completely new designs. Maybe to differentiate the game from previous entries, Gwen could operate in a different city like Jersey meaning you can use a new sandbox or you could give her a piece of the Symbiote and go the Gwenom route.
  • Jossed-instead, Cindy Moon (otherwise known as Silk) is introduced at the end of the game.

Flash Thompson will appear and will be revealed to be the phony Spider-Man met in the first game.

• We'll see Flash volunteering at F.E.A.S.T and if we talk to him, we'll get a few lines of dialogue where he expresses his admiration and even idolization of Spider-Man. Eventually, he'll admit that he even dressed up as Spider-Man and operated as a vigilante for a small time before hanging up the mask once things got too dangerous.
  • Unlikely, I'm fairly sure there was an easter egg about Flash working to help fellow injured veterans, suggesting that he's already lost his legs, possibly setting him on the path to Agent Venom.
  • Jossed. Flash Thompson's only mentioned in passing and flashbacks to Peter's high school year. In the latter scenario, we do see what he looks like as a American football cardboard stand.

Harry won't become Venom

• Eddie Brock is too well-known and liked for him to be omitted from the game without any backlash. Instead, Harry will be a lesser-known Symbiote user, like Toxin (which is fitting considering his condition) or a new identity altogether. His character arc will involve him being a vigilante who lets the Symbiote control him into brutally killing criminals. Once Peter makes him come to his senses, Harry will discard the Symbiote and it will end up on Eddie.
  • However, Harry's rejection of the Symbiote means he will succumb to his illness and die. Norman will blame Spider-Man for this and go on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge as the Green Goblin.
  • As an addendum: once Eddie goes through the inevitable Trauma Conga Line that costs him his job, his reputation, his health, his apartment... he immediately blames Spider-Man for it, and thus he crosses paths with Green Goblin and explains that he too is going after Spidey and that he knows his Secret Identity. Cue the Big Bad Duumvirate. Or, if they both share the belief that only they alone can destroy Spider-Man, things could easily go south.
  • If they planned on Eddie becoming Venom in this universe, they would have introduced him in the first game. Some of the dynamics of Eddie- him being best friends with Peter, etc.- are adapted into Harry in this universe. As far as the character being too popular- Doctor Octopus is best known as Otto Octavius, but that didn’t keep Into the Spider-Verse from mixing things up. Besides the original was the 2nd highest selling PS4 game of all time, it’s not like they need the clout.
    • I'm fairly sure Eddie was one of the signatures on the card Peter got when he left the Bugle (one of the Backpack relics). Not an actual appearance, but it references his existence, much like the backpacks reference Lizard, Mysterio and Sandman.
    • Plus I'm fairly sure the best friend angle is exclusive to the The Spectacular Spider-Man; in Ultimate Marvel they were childhood friends who lost touch after their fathers died, and in the original story, Peter had no idea who Eddie was when he first unmasked him as Venom beyond recognising him from a news story about Eddie being disgraced, with no idea that Eddie blamed him for it.
  • Jossed. According to this trailer, it seems Harry will be Venom. Besides, Insomniac is known for taking liberties with the established mythoi of various Spider-Man stories to make their own. This is only further reaffirmed in the final game.
  • Outright Jossed. Harry is the first to bond with the symbiote, and he becomes Venom after it goes back to him.

There will be a series of side-missions involving Cletus Kasady pre-Carnage

• It'll be like the Hush sidequest in Batman: Arkham City, where Peter finds a few dead bodies and has to figure out where the killer is. The sidequest will end with the implication that he will become Carnage in a later installment.
  • Alternatively, he could have a history with Eddie Brock, who is a journalist who contributed to his first arrest. He leaves around video messages at his crimes, like Black Cat did, just to goad Eddie into coming to him. Also, he could become Carnage in a future DLC campaign.
  • Confirmed, though it's executed differently. Cletus Kasady is revealed to be the mastermind by the arson group The Flame, which is a dedicated series of side mission. After his defeat, it's teased that he managed to get a vial of symbiote for future endeavors.

Gwen Stacy will have a supporting role

• It'll build up to her becoming Spider-Gwen in the third installment.
  • Or alternatively, Venom's presumed role in the sequel will allow them to set up Carnage-Gwen like in the Ultimate comics.
• She'll be a worker at Connors Labs with Eddie Brock, like in the Spectacular Spider-Man cartoon.
  • Jossed. Gwen is nowhere to be seen in the game and isn't even mentioned.

Venom's identity will be subject to some Telltale-style player's-choice-dependant determinism

• Either Harry or Eddie will be a possible Venom, depending on what choices the players makes. Perhaps whoever winds up symbioteless winds up dipping into Goblin serum instead.
  • The deciding choice will be picking between working on a cure for Harry or helping Eddie get out of a dangerous situation: Developing a cure will mean that Harry won't have to rely on the symbiote for treatment, but leaving Eddie to fend for himself would alienate him towards Peter and/or Spider-Man and the symbiote will hate Peter for separating it from Harry, causing it to seek out Eddie. Helping out Eddie will cause him to keep a positive view of Peter/Spidey, but Harry will remain dependent on the symbiote and it's influence will eventually corrupt him into becoming Venom.
  • Jossed. Harry is Venom the whole time.

Ned Leeds will be introduced, based on his reasonably-popular Homecoming incarnation

• And, like in the comics, he will be hinted to be Hobgoblin (or equivalent Goblin-character), but this will be a Red Herring. And, yes, it would be a bit odd for a supposed good friend of Peter's not to get any mention throughout the first game, but there's a trope for that.
  • It'd be hard to assume that he's the Hobgoblin if we're going for the Ganke Expy from Homecoming.
    • He gets a bit older, starts using Goblin serum. I can see it.
    • Or they could split the difference and have a mysterious new crime lord who specializes in computer hacking, we never see his face until the end when we see he is the Ned Leeds introduced earlier in the game. Thus Ned would be The Man In the Chair...OF CRIME.
  • Jossed. No Hobgoblin yet.

The Sinister Six members in the next game

• After they failed him the last time, Doc Ock (if not led by anybody else) will look for new villains in the Sinister Six to help him. Possible candidates include:
  • Doctor Octopus: He'll be the Red Herring for the real Big Bad of the game.
    • Unlikely. The second game implies that Octavius never escaped the raft and takes place a year after the first game. By that point Octavius would be completely unable to move.
  • The Lizard: Curt Connors will start involuntarily transforming into the Lizard, so Doc Ock offers to help him find a cure. He will be a reverse "Get Back Here!" Boss where as the Lizard, he uses his keen sense of smell to track Peter down and he has to lead him to a trap.
  • Kraven the Hunter: He will be a bounty hunter he hires. His missions will play similarly to the Deadshot sidequest from Arkham City where he keeps attempting to shoot Peter, and he has to figure out his pattern.
  • Mysterio: Doc Ock uses his illusions to help him break out of prison. He will be Scorpion's replacement for the nightmare level.
  • Chameleon: He uses his ability to hide in crowds, and Peter has to figure out the right one.
  • Venom and/or the Green Goblin: With the Sequel Hook, they're inevitable.
  • Another potential candidate is the Sandman, who could conceivably somehow escape the vial Peter has him trapped in. He'd join the Six to get revenge on Spider-Man for imprisoning him for so long and for keeping him away from his family.
  • Hammerhead: After having his plans to completely take over the Maggia and eventually the City thwarted by Spider-Man despite essentially turning himself in a cyborg that can be brought back from the dead with just a high enough electrical voltage to jumpstart him, he would be laying low until Doc Ock comes to recruit him and his faction if only to provide the Six with disposable mooks like Li did with the Demons. Of course, Hammerhead will refuse at first, but is ultimately kowtowed when the other five completely trounce the gangsters Hammerhead brought and he himself becomes outnumbered 5 to 1, with Doc Ock then threatening to completely disable the resurrection effect on Hammerhead's suit and killing him off permanently. Considering the fact that was perfectly capable of fulfilling his side of the bargain with members of the previous Six, which includes possibly CURING CANCER, Hammerhead is not willing to risk going against the scientist.
  • Aaron Davis/The Prowler: With Miles starting his superhero career, it would make sense to pit him against his criminal uncle.
    • Fairly safe to say Jossed, Aaron was a secondary antagonist to Miles in the spin off. He ultimately was last seen having willingly given himself up to take down Kreiger, it'd be a reversal of his current Arc to turn on Miles again.
  • Lady Octopus: A person with a connection to Octavius who believes hes right and comes a counterpart to Peter as a friend who follows him down into villainy.
  • Screwball: Last minute choice as a person who can distract Spider-Man and the cops.
  • Yuri Watanabe/Wraith: Having fully become Wraith, she'll join the Six under the pretense of wanting to remove people like Norman Osborn from power, but is actually planning on foiling the villains' plan from the inside before executing them all, thereby proving to Spider-Man that her methods are superior to his....unfortunately, Otto will be fully aware of her intentions and will use her to distract Spider-Man for him while he accomplishes his goals, at which point he'll discard her.
  • Jossed. The Sinister Six never reforms, and after Electro, Vulture and Scorpion all die at the hands of Kraven and Mister Negative reforms, it's extremely unlikely we'll ever see it again.

Other superheroes will make a cameo in the next game

• Since places such as the Avengers Tower, Sanctum Sanctorum, Wakanda Embassy, and Alias Investigations existed as landmarks in those games, that means the heroes associated with these places might show up as well. They might do it like in those classic PS1 games where other supers appear for a moment as cameos to help support Spidey from time to time, but the main focus will be on Spidey himself. Plus, with everything that's going on in New York in this game, those other heroes just can't simply ignore it and may take a more active role in keeping the peace. My guess as to which heroes will show up is: Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Iron Man, and possibly Nick Fury and SHIELD.
  • Jossed, as none of those heroes show up. However, a mystical artifact of Doctor Strange plays a role in a mission, and Fisk Tower is being reformatted into the Baxter Building.

  • To add onto this, The Fantastic Four will play a big part in the second game. Marvel's First Family has been intertwined with Spiderman's mythos since the very beginning and in the comics, Reed Richards helps Spiderman study the Symbiote and discover its true nature. While I don't think the Spidermen will go to The Fantastic Four for help with any issues involving the Symbiote, it's more than possible that we'll see Peter and Miles meet them for the first time and have some sidequests working with them to deal with some old-school F.F villains. Help The Thing defeat The Hate-Monger and a group of Neo-Nazis/Hydra agents that are terrorizing Yancy Street, Race the Human Torch across the city like in Ultimate Spiderman, so-on, and so forth. These sidequests could even reward the player with Fantastic Four-themed costumes from What-If or the Empyre tie-in from a while ago.
  • Jossed. However, Fisk Tower is being reformatted into the Baxter Building, so there might be hope down the line.

One of the plotlines in the sequel will be about Richard and Mary Parker

• Maybe Insomniac will take the idea that Richard and Mary Parker are government or SHIELD agents and run with it. Maybe the reason for their untimely deaths can be traced back to Norman Osborn and his secret projects.
  • Jossed.

Toad will appear in a sequel, and be changed into a woman

• Toad from the X-Men comics will appear in the next game and be gender-bent. She’ll be a one-time villains
  • So evil Froppy?
  • Jossed.

Taskmaster will become the “Riddler” of this universe

• More specifically, in a sequel he’ll always be hired under somebody’s guise laying out challenges for Spidey among other things.
  • Jossed.

The Brotherhood of Mutants will make an appearance

• Nope.

Taskmaster was hired by SHIELD

• It would make sense since Spider-Man would only work for a “Good” organization and any employers would be quick to realize this. Though SHIELD may be an “End justifies the means” type of group in this universe. Also in the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon Spidey did work for SHIELD for a considerable amount of time.

Richard Fisk, AKA The Rose, will appear in the sequel to take over his father's domains for himself.

• Jossed.

Peter will gain new employment as a teacher for Midtown High or working at Horizon Labs with Max Modell

• Semi-confirmed. He's a teacher at the beginning but gets fired after the opening mission.

A future game will adapt the Superior Spider-Man storyline

• It wouldn't be too much of a stretch for Otto to figure out how to use the neural interface to pull a body swap with Peter before the disease renders him paralyzed. It could possibly serve as a kind of Redemption Arc for this version of Otto.
  • There is quite a bit of evidence pointing to this possibility. First, the story of the previous game hammers home how Otto's body is falling apart, and since his tentacle rig is wrecked and he's likely in jail by now, he has plenty of motivation to find a new one. And not only does Otto know who Peter is and what he's capable of, who better to hijack than the person who helped him design his neural interface? Second, while Marvel's Spider-Man has a plethora of suits available with more being added through downloadable content, two of the most glaring omissions were the Symbiote Suit and the Superior Suit- and Insomniac has gone on record stating that the Black Suit would be dealt with in a sequel (which is now backed up by the presence of Venom in the trailer), so the Superior Suit might end up being a sequel plotline as well. Third, Peter is using some suspiciously Superior Spider-Man-esque mechanical spider legs in the trailer. And fourth, and probably most telling... who at Marvel had a big hand in the story of Marvel's Spider-Man? Dan Slott and Christos Gage, the chief architects of the Superior Spider-Man comics.
• I doubt it would lead to a redemption arc, the comics found it hard enough to get people to accept Otto, how do we expect them to push a game where you play a former bio-terrorist who stole the body of a hero we have loved for a long time, presumably murdering him. The fact is that while some people have grown to like the story some, like myself, still despise it, and it would be a major risk, like them trying to use the Clone Saga for a plot line.

The sequel will feature a co-op mode

Namely, Peter and Miles.

• Jossed. It's single player only though the player gets to switch between Peter and Miles.

Flash Thompson will be in the second game.

• Though not in person, but as the host of his own podcast show that works to build up support for Spider-Man (harkening back to his old role as a Spidey fanboy) in direct opposition to JJJ's efforts. They'll have a fierce rivalry, with the two often responding to each other's broadcasts and having heated debates, though Jonah will try to be respectful towards Flash since he's a veteran—but only just barely.
  • Jossed, though he's mentioned by Peter and Harry.

Curt Connors' laboratory will become an important location

• With Otto out of the picture, that's where you'll go to do your little science-related minigames. Oh, and some plot stuff might happen there too.
  • Confirmed.

Peter will replace the Advanced Suit.

• Peter won't want to wear something that reminds him of what happened to Otto, so he'll craft a entirely new suit and wear it as his primary costume. The Advanced Suit will still be available though, as an unlockable suit.
  • The reason, at least, is looking pretty jossed at this point. First off; he’s still wearing the Advanced Suit in his brief appearances in the Miles Morales game, a year after the Devil’s Breath incident. Second off; while he does seem to have changed to a new suit in the trailer for the next game, there is something very telling about it; its Iron Spider legs. Now, the Doylist reason for these are undoubtedly that Insomniac saw the popularity of the Iron Spider suit and wanted to make a version of it that was actually canon to their story, as opposed to an ancillary costume. The Watsonian reason, though? Peter perfected the neural interface that was such a problem on Otto’s arms and is now using a set of his own as the force of good they were meant to be originally. Far from trying to distance himself from any memory of Otto, he’s trying to honor the man Otto once was.
    • It's also possible that the legs are a Doylist way to replicate the powers of the symbiote without wasting the invested upgrade points. Or maybe the symbiote powers will be a beefed-up version of the legs. Given the reveal trailer, it's probably the first one.

Mary Jane will wind up getting Spider powers.

• Given the disappointment over the Bait-and-Switch used to give Miles his powers and the feel that they They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot of giving MJ powers they may give her powers in the sequel. There are actually a few ways they can do this.
  • The obvious is that she encounters another Spider, that is more inclined to bite her. They could try that, though it would risk claims of being derivative and recycling the plot for a third time (Peter was bit as some point as well)
  • She could find a suit able to replicate Peter's powers, similar to the suit she wears in Renew Your Vows.
  • Or if Harry as Venom (or another symbiote) is a key part of the second game, MJ could get a symbiote, again homaging the story in Revew Your Vows, as well as her role in the last few episodes of the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon, which her reporting job already homages.
• Furthermore giving MJ spider powers would allow Spider Gwen, Jessica Drew, Maday and other popular female spiders to be given roles in the game as costumes, Like Ben, Kaine and Miguel have such a role for Peter without the massive Gameplay Story Segregation putting those costumes onto the male Peter would cause.
  • Sort of, though it's short-lived. Venom infects Mary Jane with a symbiote, causing her to become Scream, though she's quickly defeated.

Black Cat does have a son, and he is Peter's

To explain further, in the sequel Spider-Man will meet up with Black Cat again, but instead of her living it up in the lap of luxury, it will turn out she is merely living on a modest upper middle class in the middle of nowhere, on purposely keeping to herself. Black Cat does confirm that she actually has a son, but heavily stresses that the kid is actually adopted. Despite being his son, only technically. Before Peter can ask further, her son reveals himself.....and he's actually this universe's version of the Doppleganger! Black Cat further explains that after she and Peter broke up both professionally and romantically, Black Cat did go straight for a while, but then became press ganged by S.H.I.E.L.D. to rob the headquarters of AIM to find evidence that would put away the organization forever. Black Cat discovers that AIM had been attempting to create artificially grown super soldiers, with the base of these soldiers taken from Norman Osborn's research on Spider-man's powers. The only successful result was the Doppleganger, a horrifically mutated clone of Peter Parker that barely looks like the original with the intelligence of a five year old. Feeling pity for this creatures and having intense maternal instincts flair up, Black Cat decided to steal the Doppleganger along with the evidence she collected. SHIELD wanted the creature destroyed, but Black Cat refuse to let them, so the thief was sent to steal the flash drives containing the Maggia's collective bank accounts as a compromise, with the loot being split 50/50 between SHIELD and herself, which was still enough to make her filthy rich. She decided to spend the rest of her life living in solitude and raising her clone child, her antagonism towards Spidey during the first DLC her attempt to try and push him away in order to completely do away with her past.

Of course, there is a reason for Spider-Man trying to find Black Cat again, and she's forced to come out of retirement to help out. She will also have an added Berserk Button that is pressed whenever someone refers to the Dopplegangar as "it" and/or "that".

The group that hired Taskmaster to vet Spidey is...

A.I.M. They're confirmed to exist in this 'verse (check the labels on the boxes in Otto's lab after he gets 'alternative funding'), and they're defiantly the sort of group Taskmaster would associate with. It also makes sense why they would want Web-Head to work for them since a) his skills, equipment, and abilities would make him one Hell of an operative, and b) as a group of MadScientists, they'd be champing at the bit to study him with the intent to replicate his powers.

Miles' suit, if he dons one, will have an original design and not be the one used in the comics.

Because why not, since Peter got one.

Possible suits that were not included in the first game:

• Amazing Spider-Man 1 and 2 suits
  • Jossed for the TASM 1 suit since it was included in an update for the first game (at least in terms for being included in the first game, it might be included again possibly).
  • Confirmed. Both suits show up.
• Spider-Man 3 Black Suit
  • Confirmed.

• Comic Book Black Suit
  • Confirmed.
• Raimi Wrestling Suit
  • Jossed.
• TASM 1 Vigilante Suit
  • Jossed.
• Superior Spider-Man Suit
  • Confirmed.
• Japanese Spider-Man Suit (Toei)
  • Jossed.
• Far From Home Suit (Possibly called Stark Suit Mk. II or something along those lines)
  • Jossed; it was included in the original game as "Upgraded Suit".
• Spider-Man Unlimited Suit
  • Jossed.
• Captain Universe
• Sensational (Ben Reilly)
  • Spider-Carnage
• Ricochet, Hornet, Dusk, and Prodigy
• Arachnoman
• Into The Spider-verse version of Noir with hat and trenchcoat (alongside the original Noir suit).
  • Confirmed.
• if Miles is playable, he could have his own set of suits, like the Halloween costume from Into the Spider-Verse (with or without cape)
  • Both are confirmed. Miles has his own set of suits and the costume is indeed one of them.
• Spider-Gwen
  • Wouldn't that be a bit weird?
• Spider-Phoenix (Spider-Man with the Phoenix Force)
• Web-Man
• Arachknight
  • Confirmed: Early access to Arachknight for Peter and Shadow Spider for Miles has been confirmed as part of the Pre-Order bonuses.
• The suit Peter wore at the very end of Spider-Man: No Way Home.
  • Isn't that just his classic suit?
  • Confirmed.
• Alternate suits for the symbiote, including a cel-shaded comic book suit, Spider-Man 3 style symbiote, Tel-Kar, Venompool, Agent Venom, and some original designs created for the game.
• Spider-Carnage
• Peter B's bathrobe from Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.

There will be a spin-off game that deals with the civil war in Symkaria

The civil war in Symkaria gets a lot of focus in Silver Lining that it's just impossible to leave it hanging. While Spider-Man stays in New York, MJ goes to Symkaria to cover the story. This entertains a possibility that Insomniac might be developing a new superhero game set in Symkaria, but it may star other superheroes instead. MJ will show up as a news reporter, though, and there will be references made about events happened in this game. Also, if this takes place internationally, then SHIELD might appear and play a big role as well.

The Punisher will be in the sequel.

But it won't be Frank Castle. Yuri will become The Punisher as opposed to Wraith.

• Very unlikely. The Punisher mantle is so closely associated with Frank Castle in the comics that Insomniac won't risk alienating the fanbase by having someone else wearing the skull.
• Jossed. The 12 minute gameplay reveal features a brief appearance of a fully costumed Wraith in Kraven's list of enhanced individuals based in New York, confirming that Yuri has officially taken on that moniker.

Jameson will run for Mayor.

Considering his outrage over Norman Osborn turning NYC into a Police State, J. Jonah Jameson will seek to dethrone him from his current position as Mayor.

Doc Ock will try to switch bodies with Spider-Man

and become Superior by beating a new Sinister Six (that he created)and will end up a Boss Battle for Miles.

Peter, Miles, and Mary-Jane will meet Peter's clones

both bad and good.

Peter will get the Black Suit for a certain portion of the game

After he discards it and it latches on to whomever becomes Venom, the boss battle will have the computer use the player's most frequent combat strategies against them.

• Confirmed. He only has it for the middle third.

Prowler will be a villain

Assuming the next game will focus on Miles becoming his own version of Spider-Man, he'll eventually have to deal with his Uncle Aaron AKA The Prowler, who be The Dragon to the main villain.

• Unlikely. Aaron is serving a reduced sentence in prison after the events of Spider-Man: Miles Morales.

Peter will get a job, or get an interview, at Horizon Labs

Venom is going to be the second-to-last boss (or at least the Climax Boss) while Green Goblin takes the position as Final Boss.

Putting aside that it's been a long time since Goblin got to be the final boss in a Spider-Man game, nothing spells "climatic" like Spidey having to face off against two of his greatest nemeses back-to-back.

• Jossed. Venom is the final boss.

Venom won't just be bonded to one host...but three.

The Stinger does show the symbiote, but what if it may not be the whole thing? It would certainly be enough to keep Harry under life support, but not enough to turn him into Venom right away (keywords). The other two portions will end up going to Peter and Eddie. After Norman had taken the symbiote in, he could only keep one third of it as the rest of it fled his lab - one part goes to Peter at one point, creating the iconic black suited Spider-Man; and shortly after his reputation tanks, Eddie gets the other part. Once Peter and Harry come across each other, the latter will go into full-on Venom mode, which could resemble Ultimate Marvel's interpretation of him. Upon defeating him, the symbiotically influenced Spidey will rip the symbiote from Harry's body and seemingly dispose of it somehow, killing him horribly. Right after, Spidey realizes what he just did and tears his part of the symbiote off...Eddie will recollect the other two parts of the symbiote to make it whole, and fully become Venom, looking much closer to the traditional/mainstream Venom design than Harry. Of course, since he is now Venom, Eddie bears full knowledge of Spider-Man, his identity, his secrets, everything as per tradition...and the fact that he murdered Harry. Which will be the perfect evidence to slander the spider and get his vengeance upon him once and for all: and earn Norman's trust, who will no doubt become the Green Goblin once hearing about his son's death.

Peter and Miles will continue to work at F.E.A.S.T.

If we assume that F.E.A.S.T. survives the events of the game it'd make sense for Peter and Miles to continue working there for 2 reasons:

• Reason number 1: It would be out of character for Peter, the hero who embodies responsibility and helping the little guy, to abandon people who he's helping.
• Reason number 2: It would be a good way to honor May, to continue her work.

Connecting to this...

Tony Stark will be revealed to have started bankrolling F.E.A.S.T.

Presumably Martin Li's assets have been seized, and even if they haven't, anyone still in charge would be unlikely to keep using the terrorist's money for fear of backlash. However, F.E.A.S.T. still needs money so presumably it would need help from some Philanthropists. It would be a decent way to introduce Tony, and by extension the Avengers into Peter's world without them appearing as heroes and potentially overshadowing Spidey.

Spider Bot will be a deployable gadget players can use at any time for reconnaissance

The frequent use of Spider Bot in The City that Never Sleeps suggests that Peter has managed to make them regular use, so in the sequel perhaps they will be usable in a similar way to the RC Car from the Watch_Dogs DLC Bad Blood, or the Jumper from Watch_Dogs 2, or possibly the Quadcopter if the Spider Bot can fly like it's MCU counterpart or the combat Gadget Spider Drone.

Peter will have the Hacking app in the sequel

With Miles as Peter's protégé, there is no way that he wouldn't eventually bring up the hacking app to Peter, and it'd then make sense for Peter to implement the app into his Spidey Gadgets. It's also possible that MJ would begin using it, assuming her stealth segments return, while them not having Miles use it as Kid Arachnid (or whatever he goes by) would just not make sense.

The Goblin Serum will be developed as a cure for Harry's illness

One of the effects of Harry's disease is that it makes him physically weak, so Norman brews up the Serum so that it'll at least allow Harry to leave his life support chamber. To test how safe it is, Norman uses it on himself, and it is soon revealed that the Serum has the unfortunate side-effect of making him more violent and aggressive, ultimately causing him to become the Green Goblin.

• Confirmed. When Harry is left comatose after the final boss, Norman gets on the phone and says to "get the G-Serum ready ASAP."

Gwen Stacy will appear in the sequel

• But she'll be a teenager. Instead of the usual Peter, MJ, Gwen love triangle, Gwen is introduced as Miles' love interest similarly to Into The Spider-Verse. She may or may not get powers.
• Her plotline will be similar to Miles' from the first game leading to her gaining Spider powers of her own and then her own spin-off game, perhaps to not be a straight repeat of Miles' character arc she could gain her powers early on and take up the Ghost-Spider identity in time for the Climax.
  • Jossed.

The sequel will expand combat to aerial and wall-crawling battles, like in Spider-Man: Web of Shadows

With both the aerial superiority of the Green Goblin and Venom's augmented Spider-abilities, it stands to reason that Spidey has to be even more adaptable than he already is, all in order to combat foes that can match him on any terrain, whether it's when he's web-swinging or wall-crawling. Insomniac clearly took a lot from many other Spider-Man games, especially from the oft-revered PIZZA TIME, but let's not forget that the handy Web-Strike mechanic originated from the 2008 game, Web of Shadows. Its main draw was being able to switch from the Classic Red suit to the Venom Black Suit in a symbiote-infested New York, but a lot of people don't seem to recall just how innovative and unique its combat system was. In WOS, Spidey has a HUGE amount of combat abilities and special movies not only on the ground, but WHILE HE'S WEB-SWINGING or FIGHTING ON THE WALLS. Sure it was a little clunky at times, but being able to fight seamlessly between the ground, air, and walls (with a FULL MOVESET for EACH TERRAIN) is an incredible mechanic that I'm honestly shocked no other Spider-Man game has tried to do, including this one. It would be a natural evolution for Insomniac's mission to bring the best possible Spider-Man experience, by perfecting mechanics introduced in previous games and elevating them to a truly amazing experience. It also makes some amount of sense from a story standpoint; should Norman become the Goblin or Harry/Brock/Gargan/Aunt May's corpse/Miles become Venom. Norman would hire his own PMC group of glider-riding Goblin wannabes (like the Kingpin flying thugs in WOS) and Venom could spawn symbiote enemies that chase Peter down on the walls.

Silver Sable and Black Cat will remain villains in the sequel

Sable makes it clear she doesn't see herself as a hero in Silver Lining. She might teach the audience that working with a hero doesn't automatically make her a good guy. She might be committing war crimes in Symkaria, or simply fighting a retaliatory civil war with the intent of becoming a dictator. She is still a mercenary and may be at odds with Spider-Man again. As for Black Cat she's still a criminal that lied about having a son with Spider-Man simply to steal money from Hammerhead and only sided with him and Spider-Man for her and their mutual benefit.

• Both jossed. Black Cat only appears briefly and is no longer villainous, while Silver Sable does not appear at all.

Spider-Man and the police will be on worse terms.

With Yuri having become Wraith, Spider-Man has lost his main liaison with the police and his relationship with them will deteoriate, with the cops becoming a lot more suspicious of Spidey. Eventually, they'll completely turn on Spider-Man and there'll some missions where the cops will be gunning for him.

Harry:

• Will wind up being the anti-Doc Octopus storyline-wise. He’ll start off as a monster- or will become one by the end of Act I- but Peter will be able to reach him and bring him back to the light. It’ll be a redemption of sorts for Peter who partially blames himself for not being able to save Octavius.
• Will become a vigilante. There’s a line in his journal from the first game- “little bit of bad to do a lot of good”- that’s just so on the nose, it’s impossible to not read it as foreshadowing. Whether or not it’s as Venom/Anti-Venom/Hobgoblin/whatever, he’ll end the game as an antihero vigilante. He might even wind up targeting Norman, depending on how he reacts to the news about Devil’s Breath- this version of Harry is much more of a humanitarian and will likely be horrified that what was an attempt to cure him led to the deaths of thousands of people, including Aunt May, who Harry was presumably close to.
• Is gay. This one is kind of reaching but it fits. Besides representation, this version of Harry has some tropes associated with being gay- he’s really close to his mom (let’s be honest, calling her “the prettiest mom at midtown” is freaking Norman Bates-level weird if he’s straight), he’s distant with his dad (Norman being at least mildly homophobic could explain why he prefers Peter if that character dynamic exists in this universe- the usual reason, that Harry’s a slacker or depends on Pete, doesn’t fit in this narrative) and he’s much more mature/arguably slightly more feminine than usual. Plus- the past few iterations of Harry have had been the source of an ocean of Ho Yay, so making him canonically gay would be the next logical step.
  • 1. Jossed. He doesn't become firmly on the side of evil until the final act.

2. Confirmed. He briefly becomes Agent Venom in the first third and can help fight crime for a little bit with the Spider-Men after tagging along with Peter to rescue Tombstone.3. Jossed. Other than maybe his slightly effeminate mannerisms, there is no hint whatsoever that he's homosexual. He does express his love for Peter, but it's clearly in a brotherly fashion and doesn't have any more undertones than other depictions, plus when he separates himself from MJ and Peter during the carnival, he clearly states albeit jokingly that he wants to see if he gives off "casanova vibes".

The regular employees and residents of F.E.A.S.T will be revealed to know Peter is Spider-Man

There is a moment, when Peter breaks into Lee's office where he openly web zips into a ceiling vent. Coupled with him being treated at the shelter after Otto kidnaps Norman, Spidey asking about May while in costume, the climax of the game, including Peter unmasking for May, it makes sense that at least some of the regular residents and employees of F.E.A.S.T will have figured out that Peter is Spidey particularly after Gloria became one of the people to see Miles unmasked in the climax of Spider-Man: Miles Morales.

Why not say anything? There are several reasons.1: Out of respect for May's memory.2: Peter himself seemed to be a well liked volunteer.3: We know Spidey personally saved Gloria and helped Howard with the pigeons, the implication is that he may have helped a lot of them.

This could lead to a moment similar to Spider-Man 2 where F.E.A.S.T rallies to protect Peter from a villain, or alternatively a moment where a villain turns the city against Peter and the people of F.E.A.S.T give him a group pep talk the strength to get back in the fight.

Potential tie-ins with Marvel's Wolverine

With the announcement that Wolverine is getting his own game, there are a few ways for Marvel's Spider-Man 2 to foreshadow the events of this game:

• X-Men specific villains like Toad as minibosses (see above).
• A casual reference or two to Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters and/or Wolverine.
• A sidequest involving mutants.
• Logan himself in a small cameo.
• A Wolverine or X-Men inspired Spider-suit.
  • Confirmed! Miles gets a Wolverine inspired suit called the "Best There Is" suit

If Eddie Brock is in the game, he will be race swapped into a black man.

This would give Tony Todd more to do than just a monster voice and they could even base the appearance of Eddie's character model on him.

The Darkest Hour will be based off of Kraven's Last Hunt

Peter is seemingly killed and Buried Alive, Kraven dons the Spider-Man costume and goes after Venom, and now it's up to Miles to save the day in Peter's place. However, Peter will turn up again just like in Last Hunt and pull a Big Damn Heroes moment.

The game will flip the traditional Spider-Man/Venom relationship on its head.

Harry will essentially be the black suit version of Spider-Man. Inspired by old web-head, he'll base his appearance on Spider-Man and try to fight crime himself, but the symbiote will push him to more violent extremes. When Harry eventually rejects the symbiote, two things will happen:

• The symbiote will bond with Eddie Brock, but it will blame Spider-Man for its rejection more so than Harry as an impossible standard he couldn't live up to.
• Without the symbiote to keep him alive, Harry will either be forced to take the Goblin serum or perish.
  • If the latter occurs, expect Norman to take the serum instead, blaming Spider-Man for Harry's death and seeking revenge.

The franchise will build towards Spider-Island as a future game.

I saw a video (pre-announcement) speculating DLCs for this game, it was pointed out by someone else and I agree, that Spider Island is far too immense a story to be put in a DLC. I don't know if it'd be Spider-Man 3 but the game may begin to set up towards it.The following things need to be set up for a faithful adaption of the original book.

• Clone Saga: The clone saga is controversial and would be a challenge for a game to focus on, but they have the advantage of the 8 year time skip, in the first game they established a lot of members of the rouges gallery that weren't in the main game, as well as several heroes through the backpack tokens and the photo collectibles, it could easily be revealed through a similar means that the clone saga happened already, setting up both Miles Warren and Kaine to appear in a Spider Island Game as both are major characters in the comic.
• Horizon Labs: The easiest thing to set up, Peter lost his Job at the end of the previous game, given that Octavius Industries being shut down, assuming he continued as a scientist it'd make sense for him to try and get a job at Horizon. This could perhaps explain how Peter built the new arms on his suit.
• Agent Venom/Anti-Venom: Either Anti-Venom will be Harry Osborn like the Ultimate Spider-Man Cartoon, in which case perhaps he gets the AV symbiote from Norman trying to use Devil's breath on him after losing the symbiote, or Eddie becomes Anti venom somehow, while in a Post Credits scene, we see Flash get the Venom Symbiote as Agent Venom.
  • And in either this game or a future one, skins for Agent Venom will include some looks like his Guardians of the Galaxy look and Agent Anti-Venom.
  • Alternately, as a nod to the Anti-Ock Suit from the first game, Peter becomes Anti-Venom for the final battle against Venom, and just like in the comics, does so by fusing a fragment of the Venom symbiote with Mr. Negative's powers.
• The Queen: Perhaps references to her could be made like the clone saga, through background building collectibles.
• Other heroes: Spider Island is not just a Spider-Man story, a lot of heroes are included, particularly in the massive fight between all the Spider-Man impersonators and the Avengers, perhaps some of these heroes could show up in cut scenes or even side missions and and DLCs to set up a massive Spider Island Crossovers.
• Spider Sense: During Spider Island Peter is missing his Spidey Sense, leading to a dramatic moment where he gets it back, perhaps a City that Never Sleeps style DLC chain could lead to Peter losing his spider sense, setting that up similar to how CTNS set up Yuri become Wraith. The missing spider sense could also set up a tougher combat experience until the fight with Tarantula, at which point Spidey would be even more of an Apex than ever before.

The above hypothetical Spider Island Game would set up for a Kaine spinoff.

It just dawned on me writing the above speculation, Spider Island set up Kaine as the new Scarlet Spider, perhaps the hypothetical Spider Island game could do something similar, setting Kaine up for a spin off like Spider-Man: Miles Morales.

Kaine would actually be a very good candidate for a spin off as he has his own USP like Miles; Miles had the Venom Blasts and the invisibility, Kaine has his brutality and his stingers, where say Spider Gwen would play pretty much as just 'Spider-Man, but with a girl's body' and Ben would literally be Spider-Man's clone. Kaine could play as sort of Spider-Man meets Assassin's Creed, particularly since Insomniac are already doing a more violent hero with Wolverine.

Monster Ock will return.

Monster Ock first appeared in Spider-Man (2000) as the final boss. For this game, Doc Ock could have escaped the Raft after whatever chaos ensued in the plot, and at some point merged with a symbiote, possibly Carnage or Venom (assuming Carnage is going to be in the game). Much like in Spider-Man (2000), Monster Ock chases either Peter or Miles with the intent to kill them, before moving into an intense boss fight.

Venom will be a ally and the third playable protagonist.

If the first game is any indication from it's easter eggs, the Venom symbiote isn't exactly a new development and Eddie and Peter have already worked out their differences or at the very least don't hate each other. Furthermore, in the trailer itself Venom answers what seems to be Kraven's question to the two Spider-Men, implying Venom is on their side. Venom also in the comics has been a anti-hero longer than they have been a villain, has team up material with both Spider-Men, fought Kraven before and both Venom movies, made by Sony no less, have done well with audiences. As for how it could play out, Eddie either had the symbiote stolen from him by Norman to save his son or willingly gave it up to save Harry and during this title Harry will break out, supplying a Venom boss fight before the symbiote returns to a playable Eddie. Potential costumes for Venom could be Anti-Venom, Space Knight, Venom movie, Spider-Man 3 Venom and Ultimate.

• It would also be an ideal way to keep the Symbiote playable after Peter inevitably shakes the thing.
• Semi-confirmed. Harry dons an Agent Venom-esque suit and briefly serves as an ally, but is not playable. When he becomes Venom, he's playable for one mission and you're stuck with him by default.

There will be a Venom spin-off game in the same vein as the Miles Morales game

It will be M-Rated and have a morality system similar to Infamous. The player can choose to be a hero, an anti-hero, or an outright villain. Depending on your morality path, either Spider-Man or Carnage will be the final boss (or both if you go the Anti-Hero route).

• It might also be a standalone game like the DLC for Arkham Origins or inFAMOUS: First Light

Either this game or a third one will introduce Spider-Woman

Based off Ultimate Jessica Drew, maybe, but with alternate skins such as Spider-Gwen, 616 Jessica, Julia Carpenter, and other different versions of Spider-Woman.

There will be flashbacks of Peter, MJ, and Harry when they were fifteen

Miles Morales introduced us to a flashback cutscene and playable scene off Miles a few years before the events of the first game when he graduated from middle school.

If Harry's expected to be Venom, Peter and MJ would likely recall flashbacks during their time in high school, before Peter gained his powers. Heck, maybe there's a flashback level where we play as pre-bitten Peter in the very lab he was bitten (likely Peter showing-and-telling Miles what exactly he and his friends were like before he became Spider-Man and how he gained his abilities).

• Half confirmed. Harry and Peter do appear in flashbacks, but without MJ, and Peter does have his powers.

Spider Gwen will be introduced via the clone saga.

Okay, this is somewhat complex. My idea here is that Spider Gwen would be a composite of her usual self and Ultimate Jessica Drew (herself a composite of 616 Jessica and Ben Riley);

While neither Gwen's 616 death nor her 1610 death can be canon to this universe (616 Gwen obviously died to Green Goblin, Norman has yet to adopt this role, and, assuming that this is Venom's debut, Carnage, 1610 Gwen's killer, will almost certainly not be around yet) but perhaps the original Gwen Stacy was a classmate, friend and possibly even girlfriend of Peter who died a few years before, perhaps Gwen was killed by Cletus Kassidy, a subtle nod to her 1610 fate and foreshadowing Kassidy's future fate.

As with the original 616 version, Miles Warren, who was obsessed with Gwen, attempted to clone her back to life, at the same time beginning his work on cloning Peter, possibly creating Ben Riley, probably creating Kaine and so one. This creates 2 possibilities for Spider Gwen:

1. 1: In an attempt to make Gwen able to defend herself Miles deliberately crossed her DNA with Peter Parker's

2. 2: Accidentally a sample of Gwen's DNA was mixed with Peter's.

Either result causes a clone of Gwen Stacy to be born with spider powers. Perhaps, for one reason or another, she ends up a teenager, making her an equal/potential love interest for Miles. It could also open up multiple possible plotlines for Gwen, perhaps her backstory could be explained through the story, with Peter initially surprised to see her alive for example. Furthermore if they did make Kassidy her killer, it would introduce an interesting stance for her story if a later game brings in Carnage.

• OP: It would also be a way to bring Spider-Gwen into the universe without just repeating exactly what they did with Miles in the first game, or bringing in the multiverse, which the MCU is making quite extensive use of right now.

Yuri/Wraith will likely become Spider-Man's ally again, on mutual/professional terms.

The DLC made it clear Yuri's willing to kill corrupt people because they escape the law too much (which can be more-or-less understandable), but in her life of vigilantism will give her moral compass, likely to let everyone know the old Captain Yuri is underneath her wrathful mask.

This would make her a Foil to Otto, too. Yuri's lost sight of protecting the world after her experiences with Hammerhead, but is willing to set high standards and (partially) know right from wrong. Of course, when forced with work alongside Spider-Man one last time, they'll quip each other for old times sake until they reach a mutual agreement. Yuri would be an example that she's still Yuri, just traumatized and wanting to do the right thing. She never intended to turn evil; just bring justice to those who've escaped it too much.

If Peter would cross a Despair Event Horizon (while under the influence of the symbiote), Yuri would come to notice the drastic change in the friendly-neighborhood Spider-Man and go through a My God, What Have I Done? when she realizes her path into darkness has deeply affected Spider-Man and literally became personal when she turned on him. After saving him from the symbiote, Yuri apologizes to Spider-Man for breaking his trust, becoming a sort of light in Peter's constant life-imbalance, and shows him that his Friend on the Force was never truly gone after all, completely contrasting his incident with Otto.

Peter will make use of the Friendly-Neighborhood Spider-Man app.

Following his return at the end of Miles Morales, Peter will also get the FNSM app so he can use it to better keep track of crime around New York.

While using the app, Peter will talk about how convenient it is, making a quip about how he initially had to wait until a report to the police was made before taking action.

• Confirmed, both Peter and Miles use the app for side missions.

George Stacy will become Spider-Man's new Friend on the Force

In the sequel, Yuri Watanabe has become the Wraith and has likely severed all ties with the PDNY, thus becoming a full-on vigilante with an extremist mindset.

George Stacy will likely take Yuri's place in the sequel as Captain Stacy of the PDNY. George Stacy's appearance will give us an introduction to his daughter, Gwen Stacy, similar to how Jefferson Davis' involvement in the first game introduced us to Miles Morales. Part of the story arc in the sequel will be Captain Stacy introducing himself as the new captain due to Yuri's suspension/disappearance. In fact, part of Stacy's plot in the story is actually him tracking down Yuri and, like her before him, George tolerates and calls Spider-Man often to give him a heads-up because he's aware Spidey's a decent guy and actively wants to help the police as opposed to Yuri's methods and vocally disapproves of the Wraith's extremism.

And probably to make his arc more interesting, George has a history with Yuri and her family. It's mentioned in the DLC that Yuri's father was a Dirty Cop, which George could've been involved in, and/or was Yuri's mentor on the force. Yuri would have some kind of animosity towards Stacy, and if so, it wouldn't help her mindset that George takes her place as Spider-Man's new police informant and captain. This would likely drive her to go after Gwen, and George practically begs the Spider-Men to protect his daughter.

This will be how Gwen meets Peter and Miles and, if it is planned that Gwen will gain spider powers, they'll become a Power Trio.

• Jossed.

Miles will end up having to fight Peter in a boss fight to help free him from the symbiote

• Confirmed.

Possible voice actors for new characters

• Jessica Drew / Spider-Woman:
  • Jennifer Hale
  • Karen Strassman
• Gwen Stacy / Ghost Spider:
  • Ashley Johnson
  • Cassandra Lee Morris
  • Erika Harlacher
  • Dove Cameron
• Flash Thompson / Agent Venom:
  • Robbie Daymond
  • Matthew Mercer
• Cindy Moon / Silk:
  • Stephanie Sheh
  • Jenny Yokobori
• Anya Corazon / Spider-Girl:
  • Cristina Valenzuela
  • Tiana Camacho
  • Melanie Minichino
• Captain George Stacy:
  • James Arnold Taylor
• Ben Parker (via flashback):
  • Paul Eiding
• Quentin Beck / Mysterio:
  • Bruce Campbell
    • Jossed, he's played by Noshir Dalal
• Sergei Kravinoff / Kraven the Hunter:
  • John DiMaggio
    • Jossed, he'll be played by Jim Pirri.
• Flint Marko / Sandman:
  • Diedrich Bader
  • Patrick Seitz
    • Jossed, he's played by Leandro Cano
• Curt Connors / The Lizard (if his uncredited VA isn't a Permanent Placeholder)
  • Dave Wittenberg
  • Steve Blum
    • Jossed, he's played by Mark Whitten
• Eddie Brock:
  • Troy Baker
  • Matthew Mercer
  • Nolan North
• Cletus Kasady:
  • Robbie Daymond
  • Mark Hamill
• The Carnage Symbiote (if not shared with Cletus):
  • Bumper Robinson
• The Green Goblin (if Cast as a Mask):
  • Ron Perlman
• James "Logan" Howlett / Wolverine (potential Early-Bird Cameo for his own game):
  • Steve Blum
  • Cal Dodd

Peter already fought Venom, and this isn't the first time he's worn the Black Suit

Venom will be a pre-established villain that Spider-Man already crossed paths with. At some point, he figured that the symbiote and/or Eddie Brock had died, which leads to his shock that it's being used to try to cure Harry.

And within the context of the gameplay reveal, we can speculate that it takes place right after Peter recovers the symbiote after it'd been stolen, possibly by Curt Connors or some other party. Stressed out by the onslaught of Kraven's forces closing in, Connors turning into the Lizard before he can give out information, and the discovery of Harry's terminal illness, this causes Peter to become vulnerable enough to accept the symbiote's power for one more ride, but it's using said vulnerability to try to permanently bond with him again like before. This might somewhat explain 1) why Peter seems to be putting it on when he burst out of that basement instead of already wearing it, and 2) why he seems to already have experience with tendril combat.

• Jossed. The symbiote as a whole is a foreign concept to him.

All of Peter's suits will have a Symbiote variation

Given the Venom Symbiote's importance to the game's plot, Peter will very likely end up having to use it a lot throughout the story. To make sure that players don't feel like they're being forced to use a specific suit several times throughout the story, instead of the suit that they want to use, there would be Symbiote versions of all of Peter's suits, allowing players to use the suit of their choice while still having Peter use the Venom Symbiote whenever the plot demands it without forcing the player to change suits.

Peter will lose the Symbiote Suit during the story, but will get it back at the start of the post-game

Since Venom is already confirmed to be in the game, it's pretty much guaranteed that Peter will lose the Symbiote Suit at some point. However because the Symbiote Suit has already been shown to have its own unique gameplay abilities, it wouldn't make sense to have players lose access to it permanently. So after beating the game, players would be rewarded by regaining access to the Symbiote Suit and since it would only be for gameplay purposes and the story would be over by that point, there would be no need to explain how Peter got it back and none of the characters would have to acknowledge that Peter has started wearing it again.

The Symbiote Suit will also be available in New Game Plus, allowing players to see it in all real-time cutscenes.

Peter will become Venom

When Miles warns Peter about the Lizard having big teeth, he just says, "So do I." There's also a line across Peter's mask that faintly resembles a closed mouth, and Peter's eyes grow small edges similar to that of Venom's eyes.

• This might explain why Venom made Peter's Spidey-Sense go off in the reveal trailer. He straight up wasn't there in the actual cutscene. If this was before the symbiote bonds to Peter, then why would he willingly wear the suit that drove his best friend insane?
• Likely jossed. The latest TV spot shows both Miles and Peter fighting Venom.

Venom will be playable in a DLC or post-game

Not only does the intial trailer seem to tease this with Venom appearing and accepting Kraven's challenge (on top of the playable Spider-Men), it would also allow the Black Suit combat features to be used without breaking the story.

The third act of the game will be based on Kraven's Last Hunt

With Peter freed from the symbiote at the end of the second act, Venom joins forces with Kraven to hunt down the superhuman and vigilantes in the city, turning it into a war zone.

With Kraven taking over New York as his new "hunting ground", the vigilantes, including Peter and Miles, go into hiding and join forces as they all now share a common enemy. Peter and Miles will have a heart-to-heart on what happened with the symbiote as the former recovers from the corruption. After collecting himself, Peter ends up leading the Ragtag Band of Misfits (including Black Cat, Prowler, Wraith, Tombstone, etc.) against Kraven and Venom to take back the city. As the team splits up with different tasks, Peter and Miles help each group before the final battle will end up being Venom, who was using Kraven from the start.

• Jossed. Venom kills Kraven soon after Harry gets the symbiote back.

Harry will first appear to be cured before relapsing.

Near the start of the game, Harry will abruptly show up, appearing to have been completely cured of his condition. But soon, Harry will start to weaken and the affliction will return with a vengeance, placing him at death's door.

Peter will accidentally bond with the symbiote while trying to help Harry.

Going with the above, after Harry relapses, Peter will investigate and discover the symbiote. He'll decide to examine it to figure out why it didn't cure Harry, but while trying to get a sample, the symbiote will latch onto Peter and bond with him (similar to how it happened in the Ultimate Spider-Man comics).

• Jossed. The symbiote actually bonds when Harry is trying to help Peter after Kraven stabs him.

Peter will cause Curt Connors to transform into the Lizard.

Peter will track down Connors, who will be hiding from Kraven's crew, for help in developing a cure for Harry. But due to the symbiote's influence, Peter will become angry and aggressive towards Connors, likely blaming the scientist for failing to help Harry. The stress will cause Connors to lose control and transform into the Lizard.

• Alternatively, Peter might reluctantly decide that Connors stands a better chance of evading Kraven and his henchmen in Lizard form and trigger the change for his own protection.
  • Jossed. Kraven is the one who causes Connors to transform.

Uncle Ben's killer will play a part in the story

A flashback to when Peter apprehended him will be the game's tutorial. In the present day, the burglar will have been one of the inmates who escaped during the first game. Peter will encounter him again, but the Symbiote's influence will have him choose revenge over justice. Miles will stop him from killing the burglar, but him nearly committing murder is what makes him realize he needs to get rid of the Symbiote.

The post credit scene will have Norman taking the Green Goblin serum

We got the first two of Spidey's trio of archenemies for the first two games, makes sense to save the biggest and baddest for the third. I can't imagine Norman's reunion with Harry will go well here, not with everything he's done, and that'll be an influence of sorts.

Harry will die—which will push Norman over the edge.

Going with the above, Harry will ultimately succumb to his illness and die. A grief-stricken Norman will blame Spider-Man for his death and vow revenge as the game ends with him finally taking the Goblin serum.

• Mostly confirmed. Harry doesn't technically die, but he's rendered comatose to the point that he may as well be dead, at least in the state he's in when we see him last, and Norman orders for the Goblin serum to be prepared but is not shown on screen taking it.

There will be a confrontation between a Symbiote bonded Spidey and Yuri/Wraith.

While wearing the symbiote, Peter will confront Yuri who is now operating as the Wraith. the symbiote will feed into Peter's anger over her betrayal and he'll almost kill her before being stopped by Miles.

The first thing Harry says to Peter after they see each other for the first time in years: "Hey Pete. You look different. Did You Get a New Haircut?"

No way that will happen, because John Bubniak's facial model only exists in the PS4 version of the first game. The remaster seems to be the definitive version, which means Ben Jordan's facial model has always been what Peter looks like.

How Peter throws off the symbiote.

It seems inevitable that the Black suit arc of the game will end in a battle between Peter and Miles, however it would not feel right for Miles to forcibly remove the symbiote from Peter; Word of Saint Paul says that they are basing the symbiote's corruption as a form of addiction, and under that context it would feel wrong for the symbiote to be removed by anyone other than Peter, with Peter beating his addiction and being an active part of the decision. I have two possible ideas on how it could happen.

Option 1: Miles loses the fight and the state Peter leaves him in snaps Peter out of it, resulting in a Battle in the Center of the Mind between Peter and Venom, akin to The Spectacular Spider-Man S1 E12 "Intervention" and the encounters with Martin Li after the APC chase and in the antiserum lab.

Option 2: Miles has to incapacitate Symbiote Peter, weakening the Symbiote enough to allow for segments of Peter in the aforementioned Battle in the Center of the Mind, likely in several stages where they symbiote gets the upper hand forcing Miles to incapacitate him again.

• Jossed, though Miles does find a way to incapacitate Peter and the Symbiote. The fight is part beating up Symbiote Peter and part trying to talk him out. The end does feature Miles hitting the bell to weaken the Symbiote long enough for Peter to rip it off from himself, though.

Ganke will become playable alongside MJ

I understand it's an unpopular opinion, but the purpose of MJ and pre-bitten Miles' missions were to see the missions through a human perspective rather than a superhuman like Spider-Man's. It also would be cool if Ganke actually had some limelight in the sequel, taking Miles' place since his friend now has spider powers. He could use his Playful Hacker skills and apps for distraction and/or knocking out enemies, maybe even send his own Spider-Bots and Spider-Tracers to eavesdrop and spy on enemies.

And speaking of Spider-Bots, if Ganke will have the honor of control his own, he could use it to help MJ, Peter, or even Miles will they're undercover and help them get past hazards before his bot will continue onward.

Yuri will act as The Corrupter to Peter

AS a former heroic force and friend of Peter taken down a dark anti hero path, Yuri's role in the plot may include trying to convince Peter that she is right about her stance on killing and crime fighting, serving as an external force unknowingly working in concert with the Venom symbiote to tempt Peter into embracing his darker instincts.

Kraven will become Venom.

After the symbiote is removed from Peter, he and Miles will either try to take it back to Harry or dispose of it, but before they can, Kraven—having been humiliated in one-on-one combat by the Spiders—will interrupt them and take the symbiote for himself in order to gain an edge against the heroes, becoming this universe's version of Venom.

• It can be a loose adaptation of Kraven's Last Hunt.

Eddie Brock will be Venom... in The Stinger

Considering it's established that Eddie exists in this continuity, the claims that he won't be Venom will be true From a Certain Point of View. After Venom is thwarted, a sample of the Symbiote will latch on to Eddie. The story will be followed up on in either DLC or even a spin-off game.

Eddie Brock will undergo Adaptational Heroism.

Building off of the above, if Eddie does appear, he'll be based on the version from Venom (2018), being an honest, hardworking reporter who has no negative feelings towards Peter/Spider-Man. If he gets the symbiote, he'll immediately set out to use it for good.

There will be a Bait-and-Switch about Eddie Brock getting the symbiote.

While Eddie won't be Venom, the game will still feature him and tease the possibility of him getting the symbiote, similar to how the first game teased Mary Jane getting spider-powers. Specifically, there will be a moment after the symbiote is removed from Peter where Eddie finds the symbiote and almost bonds with it... before being interrupted and the symbiote ends up being claimed by someone else.

The Lizard's appearance will gradually change over the course of the game.

The trailer shows that the Lizard has shed his skin, which Ganke notes means he's getting bigger. So when Curt Connors first transforms into the Lizard, he'll start off as a comic accurate, man-sized reptile. But each time he reappears onscreen, he'll be slightly larger and more monstrous than before.

Eddie DOES become Venom after all, in a case of Lying Creator.

It can also be zig-zagged somewhat; Peter sheds the symbiote after realizing he's come too far, which will then lead to Harry becoming a twisted and feral Venom. When that beast is dealt with (whether Harry dies or not) the symbiote will then finally jump to Eddie and become the prime Venom and Final Boss, which would be the one we've seen in promo art so far. So while Eddie ultimately becomes Venom, he isn't the first Venom; akin to Marvel's Spider-Man.

Peter bonded to the Venom symbiote partially do to witnessing Miguel O’Hara attack a different version of Miles in Across the Spider-Verse

Spoilers for Across the Spiderverse While this is kind of a stretch since we don’t know exactly when Insomniac Peter was recruited or if he even saw everything Miguel did, if he did end up chasing an alternate (to him) version of Miles and saw Miguel nearly kill him, this could cause him to become venom partially out of a desire to protect Miles in case Miguel finds out and tries to attack him as well.

• Jossed. The game takes place before Across the Spider-Verse.

J. Jonah Jameson will become Venom

This isn't a joke theory either. After the Devil's Breath and Roxxon incidents, public support for the Spider-Men has increased, and even Jameson's fans start siding with them. As a result, his ratings start to plummet. Making things worse, his history of slandering Spidey starts to catch up to him when one false alarm too many nets him a lawsuit. With his podcast dead and his reputation in shambles, the Daily Bugle refuses to take him back. However, the straw that breaks the camel's back for JJ is when his son, John, gets killed in the crossfire in a battle between Spidey and Kraven (maybe Peter finds out John brought the Symbiote to Earth and he tries to get information out of him). With his hatred for Spider-Man now personal, the Symbiote sees JJ as a suitable host.

The Prowler will return as a major supporting character

Last time we heard about Prowler, he was arrested with possibility of a reduced sentence. But sometime during the story, most likely after Peter does something out of character like try to kill someone, Miles will realize that the symbiote has got to go right here and right now and will go to the police to get his uncle Aaron released on parole to help him out, with Miles acting as Aarons superviser, to get (the other) Spider-Man separated from the symbiote he finds himself bonded to.

The Symbiote is still an alien.

It'll turn out that the Symbiote is an alien lifeform like in the original comics, with Oscorp having somehow captured it after it arrived on Earth and had been studying it. When Harry fell ill, a desperate Norman had the Symbiote bond with him in the hopes that it would be able to cure him.

• Seemingly confirmed in the Story Trailer, which shows armed men led by Norman encountering the Symbiote in what appears to be a small crater, complete with flames lingering around the edges. It’s not unlikely that this was the exact moment the Symbiote was discovered, shortly after arriving on Earth.

There will be a level where we play as MJ and she's hiding from the symbiotic-infused Peter

As shown in a Freeze-Frame Bonus, MJ is seen hiding when the Black-Suited Spider-Man crashes into a hallway near the room she's in, and she looks terrified. Kind of like Miles (pre-bitten) had to hide away form Rhino and how unnerving it was, MJ having to hide from Spider-Man of all superhumans could be taken to a whole new level. As we're playing as MJ sneaking around, we'll be hearing Peter's voice, sounding more like an unnerving, eerie Tranquil Fury (as Venom's Kick the Dog moment, he's using Peter's voice to strike fear into his loved ones to isolate Peter and scare his friends from his life). Given how aloof and aggressive Venom is making Peter, MJ could use it to her advantage by tricking Venom (not Peter) with Miles' hacking app and the lures Peter gave her in the first game. Throughout the mission, MJ is trying to find a way to get Peter separated from the Venom symbiote and free him from its influence.

• Confirmed. When MJ shocks Peter into consciousness, the symbiote takes over and all MJ can do is run.

Martin Li will develop a Split Personality.

It'll be revealed that since the first game, Martin Li's psyche has fractured in two, much how like it was in his original comic appearances, with a remorseful "Martin Li" personality and a vengeful "Mr. Negative" personality. The two personalities will clash with each other for control; Martin Li wanting to atone for their crimes while Mr. Negative will still want to get revenge on Norman Osborn. Peter and Miles will be conflicted on how to deal with him — Peter, remembering how Li used to be, will want to help him while Miles will refuse to have any sympathy for the man responsible for his father's death.

• It would be a case of Both Sides Have a Point that could cause a brief rife between the Spider-Men, until they agree to Take a Third Option.
• Peter can persuade Miles not to let his hatred blind him to Spider-Man's responsibility by bringing up how he was once in a similar position with Uncle Ben's killer. This would be the first time this iconic lore is referenced.

The way the symbiote suit will likely be handled gameplay wise

A. Peter will gain the symbiote suit in a story event at the very beginning of the game, and for a while he will have the suit equipped and won't be able to take it off for a few missions until he loses it

B. It'll persist until the middle of the game, before that it will either appear in some missions after being gone for a few as it takes over Peter and he loses control over it. It may or may not be optionally equippable in between story, side missions, and free roam in between these moments.

As for how he loses the symbiote and what happens afterwards to the black suit mechanics...

A. Miles will end up somehow driving the symbiote away and the black suit powers won't be usable until the end of the game, where Peter will gain it back as Anti-Venom in the very last mission or close to it (mirroring the Anti-Ock Suit) and in the post-game he can freely use the symbiote powers this way.

B. Near the beginning or middle of the game, Miles will try to beat some sense into Peter and drive the symbiote away and fail, and after doing some research and finding out that the dragon's breath virus that gave Martin Li his powers and the symbiote have a wierd interaction, and Miles will do the unthinkable, seek out Martin Li or break him out of Rikers in an effort to save Peter, and after fighting Symbiote Peter a second time, Negative managed to drive away the sentient part of the symbiote and purify what's left into Anti-Venom, after this, the symbiote suit powers will be accessible via some sort of super meter mechanic in gameplay. Shortly after these events Negative will start antagonizing the city or again or just plain leave, which is why he won't be able to do it for Harry, Eddie, or whoever the "main" Venom host is.

• Confirmed. Peter gets the Anti-Venom suit near the end of the game.

There will be multiple Symbiotes.

It'll be revealed that Oscorp managed to clone the original symbiote during their studies of it. As part of his plan to "heal the world", Harry will unleash the symbiote clones in the game's third act, leading to a scenario similar to a certain other game where Peter and Miles will have to fight the symbiote-infected citizens of New York.

Calypso will be a secret ally of Kraven

Using her powers on either Peter or Miles.

• Not on screen, but Kraven is using suspicious potions and treatments to enhance himself, which could come from Calypso.

Possible Venom skins should he be playable

• Spider-Man 3.
• Venom (2018).
• Agent Venom.
• The Mac Gargan Venom.
• Anti-Venom.
• Spider-Man Unlimited
• The Ultimate Universe.
• Other possible Symbiotes (excluding Carnage since he's a popular enough character to show up on his own), like Toxin or Riot.
  • Jossed. While Venom is playable, he receives no costumes.

Miles isn't the one who will snap Peter out of the Symbiote's influence

MJ will, in the launch trailer we hear her say "I know I can snap him out of this!" Maybe she's right, maybe, instead of Miles removing the symbiote, or being the one to help Peter with a "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight speech to get him to break through the symbiote's influence, it'll be MJ.

• Jossed. It's Miles.

Jameson will think Spider-Man is a completely new menace when he wears the Symbiote

As a subversion to the running gag, Jameson will think Spider-Man going rogue is too good to be true, and uses the Symbiote's tendril powers as evidence. During one of his podcasts, he'll call this new menace "Venom," and the Symbiote will admit it likes the name during the climax.

Post-Release Theories

In the event that Venom comes back, it won't be the original symbiote

With the likes of Anti-Venom and Carnage established or hinted at, it seems possible that a rogue symbiote remnant could attach itself to someone like Eddie Brock and go on to become a different Venom closer to the Anti-Hero portrayals.

Cindy already has her spider abilities.

Peter will either die or permanently retire at the end of the next game, leaving Spider-Man duties to Miles

Venom as either Eddie or Flash will be getting a DLC chapter or bigger role in a spinoff.

There's no way they put that much effort into his playstyle or the Agent Venom models and won't capitalize on it in some way. Just reusing a lot of assets like Miles's game would work wonders.

The Agent Venom Suit will eventually get added as a playable suit for Peter, either by Patch Update or DLC

The suit’s model and gameplay animations are both already in the game and, based on its attack animations and the fact that it’s another Venom Symbiote suit, it should play similarly to the Black, Symbiote, and Anti-Venom suits.

Theories on how they could retcon the deaths of Spider-Man's rogues gallery

• Electro might have finally achieved his goal of becoming pure energy, meaning Kraven Never Found the Body
• One of the villains of the third game will be the Jackal, who replaced some or all of them with clones
• Shocker was only put in critical condition and after being healed of the injuries sustained from his fight with Kraven, decided to turn over a new leaf like Tombstone and Mysterio did.
• Scorpion's enhanced physiology allowed him to survive an injury that would be fatal for a normal human, with the poison in his tail putting him in a deathlike coma.
• Vulture was acknowledged by Spidey in the first game as being the smartest of his foes. It's conceivable that he could've schemed up a way to escape from Kraven and trick him into thinking he had been killed.

Venom was being controlled by Knull

His character page brings up several points in which his plot and powers hue closer to Knull than Venom, as well as mentioning his symbol on the meteor and the symbiote goons. Perhaps Venom was acting simply as an agent of Knull, perhaps even he fell back under Knull's sway when he came into contact with the meteor.

• Given the Insomniac leaks, there's a ton of cut content in the game and story. Venom's original plan was to take over an oscorp tower and use its technology to create a portal to allow more symbiotes and symbiote infected creatures to invade earth with the Spider-Men ultimately putting a stop to it. There's a chance Knull had something to do with that, but given how powerful he is, legit at cosmic levels of power, I doubt he was involved as this would imply the Spider-Men fighting him. They are being pushed as strictly street-level heroes and couldn't even touch him.

If the third game is the Grand Finale then it'll include a Distant Epilouge

Assuming that Peter is not killed in the game, and he and MJ get to settle down then, at the end of the game, we will cut to about a decade and a half later, where the old guard of Spiders will be training Mayday Parker as Spider Girl as the final scene.

Doc Ock plans to take Peter's place as Spider-Man.

Otto intends to capture Peter so that he can transfer his mind into him. This'll lead to a Battle in the Centre of the Mind with ultimately, Peter winning.

Norman and Otto will form a new Sinister Six as part of their revenge on Peter and Miles

And it will consist of villains from the previous games, including Hammerhead, Simon Krieger, Chameleon, and Cletus Kasady, who will go rogue and become Carnage.

• Doubtful on Krieger as he was just a corrupt short sighted businessman with no powers, abilities or even implied fighting skills so what would recruiting him serve.
• If not Krieger than Rhino could take his place.

Spiderman three will either open with Peter being killed by the goblin, the rest of the game will fallow miles quest for revenge with Silk as his partner

You have to admit, it be a HELL of a way to kick of the third game

Miles will end up having his canon event in 3 when Uncle Aaron dies

So far Uncle Aaron, aka the Prowler, has survived this timeline. If it's not in DLC it will likely be in 3 when he dons the Prowler outfit one last time and makes a Heroic Sacrifice.

• Highly unlikely, as canon events 1) are not a singular thing so Miles having "his" canon event isn't how it works, and more importantly, 2) they aren't real, which is the whole point of the movie.

Screwball challenges will be back in the DLC

Even after everything with the Hunters, the Flame, and the Symbiotes, Screwball will be a persistent threat once again in the DLC, especially if she gets her hands on Mysterio's VR tech.

If there's DLC, Peter won't be playable, at least not the whole time.

The ending all but outright states that Peter is temporarily stepping down as Spider-Man and leaving Miles in charge. This means either Miles will be the only Spider-Man you can control (which will even his playing field since the previous game had no DLC while the first game did) or Silk (who was introduced in The Stinger) will take Peter's place.

• Not directly confirmed, but hinted at. Insomniac stated in November 2023 that Miles will be the main Spider-Man in their universe moving forward.

The construction worker that drugged Miles was actually the Chameleon.

He speaks in Russian and Miles seems to question who he was later on rather than just assuming it was one of Kravens hunters. Plus that doesn’t feel like a tactic they would use as it would diminish the value of the hunt.

• Given that when we find Chameleon's apartment, he leaves a message for Kraven mentioning the drink he set out was prepared in a way Kraven explicitly dislikes, as well as the poison trap further in, they clearly weren't on good terms, so it'd be odd if they did work together in this one specific instance.

3 will not adapt superior Spider Man

The reason the Black suit was absent from the first game was that Insomniac wanted to save it until they could tell it's story properly. Similarly I believe that they said that they didn't give us Miles' suit was to save it for when Miles became Spider-Man. This would suggest that the Superior suit's inclusion in this game indicates that Insomniac do not intend to use the character in the future.

They will, however, adapt and change it to the Superior Octopus instead

Related to the above, while the Superior Spider-Man suit has the Superior Octopus' alternate colors, it's not an exact replica and just a palette swap. 3 will instead have Otto become the Superior Octopus, taking inspiration from his former protege. He might create an android body to put his brain into it just to emphasize how Otto refuses for his great intellect to be hindered by his weakening body, thus literally giving up his humanity in exchange for becoming superior. Bonus points if he gets his own robot minions for his own faction.

• And adding to this, in 1, Otto made a deal with A.I.M. So while Hydra may not be involved in the creation of Superior Octopus this time around, A.I.M. might just be taking their place

Superior Spider-Man will happen, but with Miles instead.

Insomniac showed they're willing to take from Spider-Man: Life Story, considering how in this game Kraven is dying of cancer. As an extra "screw you" to Peter, Doc Ock will transfer his brain into Miles and tell him it's so he can see the horror in Peter's eyes as he kills him.

• This will result in a Dueling Player Characters Boss Battle, like with Symbiote Spider-Man and Miles in the original. Afterwards, Miles will go through a Battle in the Center of the Mind to defeat Otto.

The game will get patched so Miles's Evolved Suit won't have his hair exposed.

Insomniac are known for their attention to detail and listening to fans, and regardless of one's thoughts on the Evolved Suit, it's safe to say that the response has been almost unanimously negative. It's likely that they won't redesign it completely, but it's not out of the question for them to fix it's most criticized aspect.

Knull was behind Venom's actions in the game

Venom's boost in powers and his Assimlation Plot are already noted as being closer to Knull than Venon himself. Furthermore both the meteor and the symbiote enemies, other than Venom and Scream, all possess Knull's spiral insignia. It is probable that the meteor allowed Knull to work through Venom, in much the same way Venom himself fwas working through Harry with the other symbiotes directly under Knull's power, which would explain why they suffer from No Ontological Inertia, with the 'transmitter' (read: Meteor) destroyed, Knull is out of range of the newer symbiotes, and without him they die off.

• Like I mentioned above for a similar theory: Given the Insomniac leaks, there's a ton of cut content in the game and story. Venom's original plan was to take over an oscorp tower and use its technology to create a portal to allow more symbiotes and symbiote infected creatures to invade earth with the Spider-Men ultimately putting a stop to it. There's a chance Knull had something to do with that, but given how powerful he is, legit at cosmic levels of power, I doubt he was involved as this would imply the Spider-Men fighting him. They are being pushed as strictly street-level heroes and couldn't even touch him.

Harry will become Iron Patriot.

After Harry wakes from his coma, he'll don the Iron Patriot armor (which was built by Oscorp as an attempt to copy Iron Man's armor) in order to help stop Norman who will have become the Green Goblin by that point.

If 3 does have a Distant Epilogue it'll feature a Bait-and-Switch

After the final battle against Goblin, Otto or both we will see Peter, heavily injured, collapse, with Miles, Cindy and M.J rushing to his side, but it fades to black before we can see if Peter is alive or not. We then cut to about 15 years later where we focus on Miles and Cindy helping Mayday out, making it seem that Peter died, and then we see Peter who is alive, perhaps having lost a leg like MC 2 Peter, maybe using a prosthetic based on the tech Peter worked on with Otto, or maybe using Anti-Venom as a prosthetic, come in to help out with his daughter and former protogee, revealing he survived.

Given how many people are speculating that Peter will die in the 3rd game, this would be an excellent way to subvert these expectations similar to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and give the franchise, which admittedly does see the heroes lose someone in every game, have a Surprisingly Happy Ending.

The next Midquel game will be a Prequel looking at young Peter

While it could be Miles or Venom, the flashbacks to young Peter feels like they could be setting up a shorter prequel game looking at teen Peter. Costumes could focus on some of the early suits, including a return of the Wrestler suit, Tobey's Wrestler suit and Andrew's Vigilante suit.

Carnage will not appear in a sequel and instead will be a DLC main villain

This is to give the focus of whatever Spider-Man 3 will be on Green Goblin and Doc Ock so that Carnage does not steal the spotlight from them or vice versa. There will instead be a DLC for this game for Carnage where we deal with him and his cult, all of them becoming symbiotes as well.

The Andi girl Ganke is dating is Andrea Benton, a.k.a Mania

How Cindy got her powers.

Given that she appears closer to Mile's age rather than Peter's, unless Older Than She Looks is in effect, it's likely Silk will come to be in a different manner compared to the comics. How is up to interpretation. Some possibilities:

• A blood donation from Peter or Miles results in her developing her powers. Possibly with the 'pheromonal' aspect being translated as a temporary side-effect of her powers stabilizing due to the rather unorthodox method of obtaining them compared to every other Spider-person in-universe.
• She already has her powers by the time she's introduced with the explanation being that when MJ broke into Osborn's penthouse and knocked over specimen cases that released 42, which later bit Miles, another specimen escaped which found its way out and eventually bit Cindy, giving her her own powers.
• Speaking of MJ breaking into Norman's penthouse, there's a magizine article in the penthouse that reveals that there's a cottage industry of scientists trying to figure out how Spider-Man's powers work. Thus, Cindy's powers will come from an experiment trying to replicate Peter's powers—either purposely as the result of someone (possibly her father) experimenting on her or unintentionally with Cindy being exposed to the process by accident.

The DLC will further set up the sequel(s), which will take influence from the both original and Ultimate Clone Sagas, Superior Spider-man and Dead No More stories.

There will be dlc like the first game and each DLC plays into the greater scopes that will be involved in the sequel if the O's are teaming up. The DLC will also set up Miles Warren as a corroborator of Otto(in place of Ultimate Ben Reilly), who's favorite student Gwen Stacy is killed by The Flame and his cult which Warren will blame the Spider-men for as they could have stopped them at the trainyard. Gwen who is briefly introduce and interacted with will be revived via a clone with Peter's powers(a play off Ultimate Jessica Drew. Otto will create a cloned body of Peter's to take for himself, to both give himself a stronger body as well as try to ruin Peter's life using his own face which will result in Peter using the same tech to give the clone his own memories, which merge with Otto's mind/memories resulting in the clone renaming themselves Ben Reilly to honor Ben's memory and the victim of Otto's actions in the first game. A failed clone with a scarred face named Kaine will be running around brutalizing criminals and briefly an enemy before becoming a full ally. Unfortunately this may result in Mary-Jane's death when Osborn find's out Peter's identify via the clones. Luckily the cloning tech will last long enough for MJ to be revived through one, possible with Peter's powers since that seems to be what the writers are going for.

The Kingpin will stage a comeback.

In either DLC or the next sequel, the Kingpin will be released from prison and he'll take advantage of the chaos caused by the Symbiote invasion to begin rebuilding his criminal empire.

Harry will survive his coma but something will be different or off about him when he recovers.

There's no way they would've kept him alive while going out of their way to make his fate close to death anyways unless there was some sort of reason for it. If it were as black and white as him being dead or alive, it's highly doubtful there wouldn't be more explicit hints dropped.

There will be a "Spider-Man: Miles Morales 2"

The plot will follow Miles and Cindy as the latter starts up her own superhero career with Peter being around to offer advice but otherwise staying out of the action, because he's recently become a father to Mayday and has decided to retire for her safety, naturally with the events of "Spider-Man 3" forcing him to wear the mask one last time to face off against his true Arch-Enemy, the Green Goblin.

The DLC chapters will have you play as different characters

• Black Cat: It will go into her rescue for her girlfriend in Paris.
• Venom: It will detail them spreading the Symbiote. Eddie Brock will play a role in the story.
• Wraith: It will detail her tracking down The Flame and ends with a battle with Carnage.

When Harry wakes up from his coma, he will become Hobgoblin

When he finds out his father is going on a rampage as the Green Goblin, he takes some of his gear and helps Peter and Miles during the climax.

Cindy Moon, a.k.a. Silk, will have a heavier emphasis on webs as her fighting style

In future games, if we do actually play as Silk, her fighting style will be based a lot more around webs, especially helping her is that she's the only one of the three Spider heroes in our roster who has organic webs, allowing her to be more creative with them without risk of running out of webs. Bonus points if she does the web constructs (like giants fists, hammers and shields) and web attacks that Spider-Man did in Shattered Dimensions and Web of Shadows.

Possible secondary antagonists for Spider-Man 3

While it's obvious the Green Goblin will be the final boss, he'll most likely be introduced in the third act like Doc Ock and Venom. So, in the meantime, somebody should fill the role Mr. Negative and Kraven filled in the first two games.

• The Superior Spider-Man: The Stinger showed that Otto Octavius will be returning. So, to get back at Peter for thwarting him, he will steal his body and commit crimes impersonating him.
• Spencer and Alistair Smythe: Osborn will commission the former to build the Spider Slayers to get revenge against the Spider-Men, and the latter will act as The Heavy in his Ultimate Spider Slayer form.
• Carnage and Shriek: That is if their story doesn't get resolved in DLC for this game. Osborn will seek out Cletus Kasady after finding out he has a Symbiote sample in a last ditch effort to save Harry. The straw that makes Osborn become the Green Goblin is when the Spider-Men destroy the Carnage Symbiote.
• AIM: The organization was briefly mentioned all the way back in the first game and will finally come to forefront in the third game. The group will back Norman and Otto's revenge scheme against the Spiders, hoping to exploit it for their own ends, only to be betrayed and their leadership killed by the newly minted Green Goblin.

The third game will be rated M by the ESRB.

It's undoubtedly possible. As Batman: Arkham Knight - which received this rating and caused some to be skeptical - showed, much darker media featuring typically family-friendly characters can work if it retains the spirit of the source material, and since Insomniac's universe is following the Arkham template pretty closely, it's certainly plausible that the finale may go places darker than what we've already seen from the series. Both main games have as is featured scenes far more violent than anything featured in other Spider-Man games (or the movies) to date, particularly one of Mr. Negative's men shooting themselves and Jefferson Davis bleeding out in 1, and in 2 itself, Venom biting Kraven's head off was notably gruesome. It'll probably be a light M if it does, but where the story is going, it's easily a considerable outcome.

• Maybe for a Venom spin-off, but Spider-Man is too marketable for kids for an M-Rated game. Batman only got away with it because it was always a dark franchise, and the first three Arkham games pushed the limits of the T-Rating.
• That doesn't necessarily rule the possibility out, though. Batman is almost as popular with kids as Spider-Man, if not just as popular - Arkham Knight's M rating made headlines upon its announcement because Batman's normally all-ages demographic was why it was so surprising.

The white and gold version of Miles's Smoke and Mirrors suit is a tribute to Jason David Frank.

The color scheme and structure is incredibly reminiscent of Tommy's White Ranger costume to the point that many also in the Power Rangers fandom immediately pointed out the similarities. So much so in fact, typing in "White Ranger Suit Spider-Man 2" on search engines gives you a plethora of results discussing the parallels. It could just be a coincidence, but the default version of the suit looks so incredibly different, Toei's Spider-Man show is indirectly the reason the Power Rangers have Megazords since it featured mecha for the first time, and the Forever Suit was all but stated to have been in honor of Chadwick Boseman, so it's not only possible but plausible for this to be the case.

Spider-Man 3 villain line-up

The Green Goblin, Carnage, and the Chameleon have already been set-up, but who else will show up?

• Hydro Man: He could be the warm-up boss, like Sandman in this game.
  • Alternatively, he could take inspiration from the 94 cartoon and have him be MJ's possessive ex-boyfriend, making him a more personal foe. If they go this route, they can play up his creepiness factor and his fight will instead be a tense sequence where you have to evade him attacking you from potentially anywhere.
• Shocker: Particularly, Jackson W. Brice, since Herman Schultz is dead.
• The Prowler: However, it'll be Hobie Brown. He'll have found Aaron's old lair and was able to replicate his gear. When he starts committing crimes, Miles will fear that Aaron relapsed.
• The Spot: With the character gaining more popularity after Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, it's possible. His mission could function like the Black Cat chase, where you have to chase him through portals.
• Hobgoblin: Roderick Kingsley or Ned Leeds could have a supporting role in the story as a business partner of Norman Osborn, and after the Green Goblin is defeated, they find the Goblin gear and cause trouble in a DLC. If Harry wakes up from his coma, Peter will suspect he is trying to avenge his father.
• The Spider Slayers: As mentioned above, Norman could hire Spencer Smythe to build the Spider Slayers to destroy the Spider-Men.
• Morbius: He will be the final boss of a series of sidequests where the Spider-Men find and cure people he turned into vampires.
• The Jackal: He will clone the villains that have been previously killed to fight the Spider-Men.
• Bullseye: Though he's normally a Daredevil villain, he is often portrayed as The Dragon to Kingpin. Fisk hires him from prison to take out Spider-Man.
• The Thousand: He appears in a series of sidequests that plays out like a murder mystery where you have to find the source of empty skins. Could be a chance to had some more horror to the game.
• Iguana: Mainly as an excuse to bring a variation of the intelligent Mad Scientist Lizard after Conners was a feral version in the previous game. They could play up his origin as a test animal to make him more of a eco-terrorist with a grudge against humanity.

Doctor Octopus as the Master Planner will be the Disk-One Final Boss before Green Goblin takes over in the second half of the game.

Much like Spider-Man 1 and 2 before it, Spider-Man 3 will (after an introductory boss fight) have Peter and Miles (and possibly Silk) dealing with a new gang of criminals and a new Sinister Six, taking orders from someone called the "Master Planner". Ultimately, the Spiders track down the Master Planner to his lair only to discover that he's Doctor Octopus. While all this is happening the Green Goblin gets built up to, appearing shortly after Ock's defeat with his Goblin Nation.

The Daily Bugle is going to take a big hit in popularity

Thanks the JJJ's knee-jerk reaction that if Spider-Man was involved, he must therefore be in the wrong, he publishes a podcast claiming that stopping terrorists from blowing stuff up is infringing on their religious freedoms. That is NOT something that will go over well in a post-9/11 New York City.

Norman and Harry Osborn will both become Green Goblins as an Evil Counterpart to Peter and Miles

To try and gain an edge against the Spider-Men, Norman will force Harry to take the G-serum, which will wake Harry up from his coma but at the cost of destroying his sanity.

Norman and Otto will team up knowing their alliance won't last

Norman is absolutely aware that Otto still hates him and wants to either kill him or destroy what little of his life still remains with his company sunk and Harry once again half-dead. But they both hate Spider-Man, so they will shake hands and agree to deal with Peter first, then worry about killing each other once the webhead is in a casket. Or at least Norman will go into things believing that's the plan. Otto is likely to try and pull a last-second betrayal in hopes of killing them both in one fell swoop.

If Harry survives, he'll become Agent Venom again.

Since Peter still had some of the symbiote left in him, it's plausible that Harry does, too. He may not get an Anti-Venom form since he was never cleansed, but he may be able to form his old suit again with what remains. He could potentially join the team and atone for the things he did.

Anti-Venom doesn't have healing powers

In the comics the Anti-Venom suit has the power to heal others, prompting many fans to question why Peter doesn't use it to fix Harry. However in the comics it is a notable plot point that these healing powers can remove the powers of a Spider Man, meaning it can be inferred that if it had those healing powers, Anti-Venom would have removed Peter's powers as soon as he got it. The next game may see a moment where for whatever reason Peter is prompted to point out he doesn't have powers like that.