History Fridge / MarvelsSpiderMan2

** Said job also makes sense considering his main role in the first game, namely creating the armored vehicle for the Inner Demons. It's likely that doing so made him realize he could make more money using he and his crew's skills as professional mechanics instead of the riskier business of dealing drugs as a biker gang. Not to mention, with two Spider-Men running around, it would actually be a riskier investment to start up a new criminal enterprise as opposed to just going straight and not having to worry about Peter or Miles stopping him.

* WordOfGod compares the symbiote to a drug addiction and like any long term addiction, it can be easy to relapse. However, if they're strong enough and have enough support, they can use that experience and use it to help others battle theirs...sort of like how Peter obtains the Anti-Venom suit and its effectiveness against other symbiotes.

** Second is Venom. Greatest Villain of the Dark Age. Peter's EvilCounterpart and second ArchEnemy, the OutsideContextProblem in his life, Traumatized MJ and Peter and became Iconic in its own way.
** And finally, all the signs point to the Green Goblin being third. The ArchEnemy, DEEPLY personal, psychotic, rearose in the 90's, dedicated to causing misery for Peter. Norman here also fits even better as the GreaterScopeVillain for both BigBads of the two installments. A smart but well put together way of exploring all the great villains in a fun way.

* Otto was suffering an illness that makes his body useless while his mind is still intact. He's found writing something called "the final chapter" and given his desire for revenge, he's unlikely to be teaming up with Osborn to get revenge on Spider-man and more likely trying to show how... Of a master planner he can be to him.
* Despite the symbiote infection suffering NoOntologicalInertia after Venom's destruction, this is notably ''not'' the case for traces of it left in people's systems. Peter still had parts of Venom in him long after he was separated from the black suit, the Anti-Venom suit is still active after the game's events, and even Li couldn't ''remove'' the symbiote's remnants from Peter's system and had to purify them instead. Now consider just how many New Yorkers, MJ included, who would still have dormant bits of the symbiote in their bodies, just waiting for something to come along and potentially reawaken them...
** Moreover, Peter ''and'' MJ therefore have residual traces of symbiote matter within them, and Peter's is very much an active power than he can utilize in a fight. If they do wind up having Mayday and Benji down the line, what effect would the dormant symbiote matter from both of them have on their son and daughter, let alone what powers they'd already get from Peter's DNA?

* The way the Insomniac trilogy is set up is brilliant in it's BigBad selection. While taking a different tact in moving this Trilogy past the college years, the structure of it all happening is perfectly set up to follow Spiderman's comic villains in terms of infamy.

** It's only [=Earth-1610B=] Miles that the Spider-Society considers an anomaly because he was bitten by a spider from Earth-42. The existence of Earth-1080 Miles is probably fine in Miguel's eyes.

* When Peter first visits the Emily May Foundation, Harry tells Peter that when he was undergoing treatment, he heard his mother's voice saying that their planet was in trouble, and that it's up to Harry to save it. It seems pretty innocuous at first, but then we see Venom actually use Emily's actual voice to manipulate Harry into surrendering control to it. With that in mind, it's entirely possible Venom was trying to push Harry into going along with its AssimilationPlot since the very beginning of his treatment!

** Also note that the suit predominantly features blue as part of its color scheme. It’s possible that Miles may have been inspired by the discovery of where his new blue Venom powers came from and made the suit to show that he’s embracing the power after spending much of the game seeing it as potentially volatile.

* There’s a lot less police presence in this game. While from a meta-narrative this was done in response to the first game highlighting the police force, in-universe, a lot of cops and other first responders probably perished during the Devil’s Breath incident. That combined with the constant attack from supervillains, probably caused a large amount of police to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quit.]]

** Vulture despite his age and dying from spinal cancer had the advantage in the air which Kraven noted he wondered if he would be able to combat him due to his wings. But due to his condition, Vulture could only keep away from him. Plus Vultures in real life don't engage in enemies head on as they are scavengers and carrion feeders who go after dead or those who are dying. All Kraven had to do was feign an injury and bait him and when Vulture swooped in for the kill, Kraven was waiting to pounce.
** Electro was [[UnskilledButStong powerful but lacking in skill and ability]]. To Kraven it was no different than fighting a wild animal. Once he figured out Electro's pattern of attack, he was easy pickings.

* The way this insomniac trilogy is set up is brilliant in its BigBad selection. While taking a different tact in moving this trilogy past the college years, the structure of it all happening is perfectly set up to follow Spiderman's comic villains in terms of infamy.
** First is Dr. Octopus. King of the silver age villains, Master Planner, thematically connected in both being 8 legged creatures. Like in the 2010's, reinterpreted into being deeply personal after a great betrayal.
** Second is Venom. Greatest villain of the Dark Age. EvilCounterpart, OutsideContextProblem, Traumatized MJ and peter and became iconic in its own way.
** And finally, all the signs point to Green Goblin being third. ArchEnemy, DEEPLY personal, psychotic, rearose in the 90's, dedicated to causing misery for Peter. Norman here also fits even better as the GreaterScopeVillain for both these BigBad villains of 1 and 2. A smart but well put together way of exploring all the great villains in a fun way.

* There’s a lot less police presence in this game. While from a meta-narrative this was done in response to the first game employing almost Blue Lives Matter-level rhetoric at times, in-universe, a lot of cops and other first responders probably perished during the Devil’s Breath incident. That combined with the constant attack from supervillains, probably caused a large amount of police to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quit.]]

** Vulture despite his age and dying from spinal cancer had the advantage in the air which Kraven noted he wondered if he would be able to combat him due to his wings. But due to his condition, Vulture could only keep away from him. Plus Vultures in real life don't engage in enemies as they are scavengers and carrion who go after dead or those who are dying. All Kraven had to do was feign an injury and bait him and when Vulture swooped in for the kill, Kraven was waiting to pounce.
** Electro was powerful but lacking in skill and ability. To Kraven it was no different than fighting a wild animal. Once he figured out Electro's pattern of attack, he was easy pickings.
** Shocker gave him the most trouble as Shocker wasn't trying to fought and kill Kraven, he was trying to survive and his gauntlets which he could use to launch himself made him able to elude Kraven. In the end, it came down to a battle of stamina and who could outlast the other.

* Peter’s probably lucky that he got fired from his teaching job. If Ganke could figure out his secret identity within a few minutes, other students would notice too (Ganke has the advantage of knowing who the second spider-man is, but eventually people are going to notice that one teacher and student always running off whenever there’s a supervillain attack)) and not every student is as good at keeping secrets at Ganke...

** More likely it'd make it harder for them to locate where the frequency that is disrupting the symbiote mass from coming from and leave them even more vulnerable. Glass doesn't need to be able to hear sound to be shattered by it.

* After the fight with Sandman, Peter and Miles are trying to rescue civilians trapped in sand choked streets. Unfortunately, the city's entire telecom network is down, so residents are unable to directly petition the Spider-Men for help. Fortunately, Ganke comes up with a workaround, using some equipment set in place by a tech start up. He claims that he even got in contact with the head guy, who Ganke describes as super nice and excited about helping Spider-man. Taking a look at the equipment, it very clearly has the Emily May foundation logo on it.

* After the fight with Sandman, Peter and Miles are trying to rescue civilians trapped in sand choked streets. Unfortunately, the city's entire telecom network is down, so residents are unable to directly petition the Spider-men for help. Fortunately, Ganke comes up with a workaround, using some equipment set in place by a tech start up. He claims that he even got in contact with the head guy, who Ganke describes as super nice and excited about helping Spider-man. Taking a look at the equipment, it very clearly has the Emily May foundation logo on it.

* Miles going out of his way to rescue Hailey from the Symbiotes is actually super important if one thinks about it. Unlike in most incarnations, the Symbiotes only have one sole AchillesHeel, and that's to high-pitched sound. If one of them bonded to someone who is deaf like Hailey, it would mitigate their one weakness and make them practically unstoppable.

* After the Sand Man fight, Peter and Miles are trying to rescue civilians trapped in sand choked streets. Unfortunately, the city's entire telecom network is down, so residents are unable to directly petition the Spider-men for help. Fortunately, Ganke comes up with a workaround, using some equipment set in place by a tech start up. He claims that he even got in contact with the head guy, who Ganke describes as super nice and excited about helping Spider-man. Taking a look at the equipment, it very clearly has the Emily May foundation logo on it.

* Given that Peter wakes up after his rampage against Kraven's hunters and chasing MJ as if he'd gotten a refreshing night's sleep and with seemingly very little memory of what happened, and that failing in the gameplay segment sees the symbiote choke MJ to death, Peter could've very well woken up the next morning having personally killed the love of his life. ''And not remembering any of it.''

* Some Fans have cited the fact that the Carnage Symbiote doesn't dissapear when the Meteor is destroyed like the rest of the symbiotes, however, given that it was in Oscorp custody before Cletus accuired it, it is likely that it was a sample taken from Venom, before or during Harry's treatment, and thus not sustained by the meteor in the same way as the other symbiotes, similar to the Anti-Venom Symbiote, which also survives the game. Also, the fact that there are still Symbiote nests and crimes in the post-game clearly indicates that destroying the meteorite doesn't automatically destroy all of the Symbiotes.

* Many people have complained about the armored look the symbiote gives Peter. But when you remember that In-Universe the Advanced Suit ''is'' armored to some extent (WordOfGod is that the white areas are reinforced with carbon fiber and that the spider symbol is meant to help protect against firearms) it make sense that the symbiote would compliment this.