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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
One big thing I've wanted to see from a superhero movie, but especially the Homecoming series because I think Spidey's Rogues Gallery and the series' tone in general could really work with it, is a sense that in between movies the character has been fighting supervillains and doing amazing things even when we haven't seen them. The MCU feels a lot smaller than it could be because they don't do stuff like that, so I've been hoping they would start.
I'm actually hopeful that Far From Home will do it, because I've been thinking that movie will be about Peter growing into having the reputation of a hero now that he has the temperament of one.
Like, we're introduced to Spidey in the film by having people mention a rumor about a guy who was brought in by Spidey, who people say could shoot lightning from his face. We see newspaper clippings where people wonder if there are actually giant lizards in the sewers, and if there's anything to the story that Spider-Man went down there to fight once. Or mention that a crimelord known as the Big Man was taken down by Spider-Man, with an expose by the Bugle about him being one of their own.
This could all be accomplished in a few seconds with, say, a pan across Peter's room with newspaper clippings of Spidey's exploits - followed by a cut to him fighting another supervillain unrelated to the main plot.
Basically, have Spider-Man's growing career against supervillains be a thing, but have the outside perspective be a plot point. And then have Mysterio's thing be taking advantage of that, pretending to be Spidey and playing on people's lack of surety of who exactly he really is.
Okay, here is one thing I can't stop wondering: Why is everyone leaping towards Hydroman? Wouldn't Namor be a more likely bet? There have been rumours that the Disney Lawyers have managed to entangle him from legal limbo, and if they want to generate interest, wouldn't the news that Namor has his first appearance in a Spider-Man movie a better draw than whoever Hydroman is?
Hydro-Man is a classic Spider-Man rogue — he'd be an in-joke for the comics fans if he showed up. Namor has nothing to do with Spider-Man, and it'd be weird to waste him on a little cameo like this. That and Namor's powers are geared more toward superstrength, flight, and swimming in water rather than blasting people with it.
He seems like an introduction they'd do in a more epic, less lighthearted franchise than Spider-Man. I could see, for example, "Namor, the Sub-Mariner" showing up around the same time they introduce the X-Men, in another flashback to olden times, maybe a newsreel. "First Mutant" and all that.
Edited by Unsung on Sep 11th 2018 at 4:12:23 AM
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And see, a cameo from the Fantastic Four in a Spider-Man movie, now that would fit nicely.
Just doesn't seem like something that's all that close to happening. We've already got Black Panther. Aquaman is coming. It makes the most sense to hold off on Namor until he can be used as a proper supporting character, in which case F4 makes the most sense.
Edited by Unsung on Sep 11th 2018 at 6:01:09 AM
Remy Hii could be playing Mr. Negative (the Chinese-Malaysian ancestry fits right with the character), but he seems too young and fresh-faced (even though he's 32) for a character that tends to be portrayed as in his late thirties.
We'll see how it goes I guess.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."Then again, it wouldn't be the first time the MCU age lifted a character. See Bucky, Aunt May and Justin Hammer.

Hii playing Hydro-Man is definitely a stretch, yeah.
Though, just thinking of the idea, I don't mind the possibility of seeing Hydro-Man in the film. I think Far From Home should absolutely begin with a scene of Spidey having a regular encounter with a strange, off the wall Silver Age-style supervillain. Like Batman taking down Scarecrow in TDK, or the chase in the beginning of Amazing Spider-Man 2.