Why Are There So Many Spider-Man Villain Movies?

• Morbius

  , directed by Daniel Esponisa and starring Jared Leto, hits theaters on Wednesday.

• The story of a doctor suffering from a rare blood disease, and who is transformed by a cure into an overpowered vampire.

• Morbius is part with Venom, soon Kraven and perhaps the Sinister Six, villains of

  Spider-Man 

  brought to the big screen as anti-heroes but heroes nonetheless.

While with great power comes great responsibility, a good superhero often involves a good nemesis, a good supervillain.

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The recent

brought back all of Spider-Man's enemies, if not a few more, from across the multiverse: Doctor Octopus, Green Goblin, Electro, Lizard, Sandman, and even Venom for a post-credits scene.

The latter also had the right to his own film with Tom Hardy in 2018 and a sequel in 2021. However, other Spidey nemeses are expected on the big screen, this Wednesday with

then in early 2023 with

.

Before a hypothetical

, the Evil Avengers?

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Villains Not So Villains

Other villains have already distinguished themselves in solo, like the Punisher or the Suicide Squad, but it is more reasonable to speak of anti-heroes.

This is the bias of the film

, directed by Daniel Esponisa and starring Jared Leto.

Doctor Michael Morbius is stricken with a rare blood disease, and when he believes he has found a cure, he transforms into a superpowered but bloodthirsty vampire.

Introduced in 1971 as an opponent of Spider-Man but also of Blade, Morbius quickly became a tragic figure, an anti-hero, and made him the hero of his own comic book series.

Although he could be considered the sworn enemy of Spider-Man, Venom does not return this image at all in his cinema adaptation with a comic approach, of

between Eddie Brock and his symbiote.

Moreover, Venom, Morbius or Kraven are never the “real” villains of their films, with always a Nemesis of Nemesis, so to speak.

trailer

also doesn't sell a villain or an anti-hero but "a new Marvel legend."

Sony lends 

Spider-Man

and focuses on villains

While it took eight

movie

, starring Joaquin Phoenix, the

villain gallery is starting to get comfortable in the movies.

They should even have arrived earlier in the room.

Indeed, it's time to remember that unlike other Marvel superheroes, the film rights to

do not belong to Disney / Marvel Studios but to Sony.

After the 2012 reboot with Andrew Garffield, the studio intended to fully exploit the license and wanted to make

the launch pad for several spin-offs, devoted to the Sinister Six, Venom and Carnage or even Black Cat.

And thus create their own universe, the Sony's Spider-Man Universe, in parallel with the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

A pool of 900 Spidey-related characters

Unfortunately, the critical and public failure of the film forces them to revise their plans.

Sony decides to "lend" Spider-Man to Marvel Studios, and thus integrate him into the MCU, to restore his image, and to focus, on their side, on solo films and independent of each other.

's success

is the sign they've been waiting for, and they relaunch their projects, including

,

, and still

, which Drew Goddard (

) was and still must direct.

Still, the multiverse has been there, and the SSU and MCU are no longer so impermeable to each other, as proven by 

, but also

in yet another sacrosanct scene. post-generic.

Sony owns the rights to nearly 900 characters directly or indirectly related to Spider-Man, and perhaps as many films and series.

According to Tony Vinciquerra, CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment, "the next 7-8 years of Sony's Spider-Man Universe are already planned."

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