![]() ![]() Grace is strangely smug before he turns into Venom, and that smugness makes it difficult to find him too intimidating after he does. (And spoiler alert: We will be talking about the “surprise” baddie in Far From Home.)Įven before Tom Hardy played a muscular but extremely weird Venom in last year’s surprise (and truly bizarre) hit, Topher Grace was an odd fit as the journalist who becomes a symbiote with an alien being, transforming into Spider-Man’s hated enemy. None of them will ever make you consider rooting against Peter Parker. Here, a ranking of the 12 villains from the eight Spider-Man films made so far, including this week’s Spider-Man: Far From Home. But in the end, they’re beating up on a kid. That’s no offense to some of the excellent actors who have battled Spidey. It’s tough to find one, and it’s a reason that, throughout a few iterations of Spider-Man films, the villains just don’t stand out like they do in many other superhero movies. But how do you play off a Queens teenager? Who’s his natural flip side? The best villains are natural reciprocals of the heroes they battle: The Joker and Batman are two halves of the same coin, cursed to battle forever, and Lex Luthor represents the last vestige of human ingenuity trying to take out the all-powerful alien who reminds us of our own weaknesses. None of the bad guys in Spider-Man comics has ever come close to the cultural cachet of those villains. Spider-Man’s foes have never been the focus of the Spider-Man films in a way that the Joker or Lex Luthor or even Thanos has been in other superhero movies. ![]() Photo: Vulture and Sony Pictures Releasing ![]()
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