Only instead of feasting on blood, he drains energy from people with totemic qualities, and spider-totems, like Spider-Man, in particular. Not exactly a very in-depth character, especially one so out-of-step for a more “street level” superhero. Yet for some reason, perhaps on the strength of Straczynski’s, “Coming Home,” readers mistook Morlun for an unstoppable badass. Or perhaps becauseMorlun has the dubious distinction of ripping out and eating Peter Parker’s eye in the otherwise inconsequential crossover, The Other: Evolve or Die. Never mind that he died twice during both stories. Then fans learned Morlun belonged to a whole family of steampunk-themed, inter-dimensional vampires called The Inheritors during 2014’s epic Spider-Man event, Spider-Verse. And the reason Morlun kept coming back to life? It’s because he and his fellow Inheritors are also clones. Eventually, the various Spider-Men and Women exiled Morlun and the Inheritors on an alternate Earth ravaged by a nuclear holocaust–as radiation is their one weakness–and readers bid them all good riddance.This is the one that killed the Andrew Garfield franchise after just two films, leading Sony to broker a deal with Marvel. Amazing Spider-Man 2 features another heartfelt performance from Garfield as Peter Parker, and it brings the death of Emma Stone’s Gwen Stacy to the screen in a heart-wrenching manner. But it also gets mired in a convoluted backstory involving Peter’s parents, Jamie Foxx’s Electro is a lame version of Jim Carrey’s Riddler, and all the Sinister Six set-up is distracting… and ultimately a dead end anyway. Spider-Man 3ĭespite the massive amount of dough this trilogy capper made, Spider-Man 3 suffers from its sizable cast - most notably the shoehorning in of Venom. Oh, and Peter Parker actually punches his girlfriend in the face. Still, there’s some cool stuff here, like Thomas Haden Church’s fantastic if underused Sandman, and the continuing thread of the Harry/Peter emotional rollercoaster which is finally paid off in this film. We have to at least mention Avengers: Endgame, even if Peter was dusted for most of the film. Admittedly, he’s not in the movie much, but our boy gets warmly welcomed back by his mentor Tony Stark, who worked so hard to get him and the others back, and Spidey does have a great little sequence trying to escape with the Stark Gauntlet… and he’s present for Iron Man’s death scene.
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