Spider-Man 3 Villain

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*See http://www.enworld.org/index.php?page=scifi and first paragraph under Movies*

Do I smell Venom?!

Let's see: Thomas Haden Church is about the same build as Eddie Brock and has blonde hair. I'm probably reaching here, but it wouldn't shock me if he was.

 

[Kanegrundar]

Venom was the first character to come to my mind. Out of the major Spidey-villains, Venom would be the next logical choice. Too bad they'll have to butcher his origin to get it to fit in with the movies.

Kane

 

[Gomez]

Early on I had heard that the Lizard might so up. They already had Professor Connors as a character in the last movie. With the return of the Green Goblin and another unknown villain it should be interesting. As for Venom, I never really liked him as a spidey villain.

 

[EricNoah]

I barely know Spider-man history, but I thought of Venom too.

The next villian has to kind of break the "scientific gizmo gone wrong" mold, and needs to kind of top Spidey in certain respects.

The best villain for Superman in the films was those three exiled Kryptonians because they had similar/equivalent powers.

 

[Mouseferatu]

See, I don't look at Church and see Venom. The face doesn't strike me as right for Eddie Brock.

OTOH, I look at him and I very much see Carnage.

See?

Not that I think they'd jump to using him as a villain without Venom. But then again, since they've got to change the origins anyway, why not? Venom has a long-standing grudge with Spidey that would have to be somehow introduced and/or explained in the first few minutes of the movie. Carnage doesn't; he can basically come out of nowhere, once they find a way to explain his abilities.

 

[Desdichado]

I agree; he'd be a great Carnage, but a Venom that's not big and buff just seems very weird to me.

 

[reveal]

I agree he would make a good Carnage, even though he doesn't have red hair.

I think it would be relatively easy to change the creation story of either Venom or Carnage. Just have Church be a character who comes to resent Spider-Man for some reason. Then an asteroid hits and there's some lab accident and organic matter somehow infuses itself with Church and he "grows" into Venom or Carnage.

And I think he'd be ok as Venom. They can do a lot with CGI to make him look bigger once he's changed. It would give a good perspective on how bad-ass the "suit" is in that it makes him look 3 times as large and mean.

 

[Taelorn76]

Well Jameson's son was already in space, they could easily say they brought back some rocks that contained "Venom" in them.

 

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Well Jameson's son was already in space, they could easily say they brought back some rocks that contained "Venom" in them.

NO! I want my Wolfman!

 

[Tonguez]

See, I don't look at Church and see Venom. The face doesn't strike me as right for Eddie Brock.

Yeah I don't see Venom their either - to small, too sophisticated etc

and since we already have three 'dangers-of-science' characters already (Spidey, Gobo and Dr Ock) having a biochemical accident = Venom is really gonna be cliche.

Then again are there any Spidey villains that don't have a bad science angle? - Lizard does, Scorpion and vulture would be fun to see