Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man
Summary
BeforeSpider - Manreturns in his fourth solo movie , Marvel will explore another version of the entanglement - slinger in the animated seriesSpider - Man : Freshman Year , through which it will finally pay off a villain tease lay up age ago . After a fortune of speculation about his arrival at theMarvel Cinematic Universe , Spider - Man ( Tom Holland ) finally joined this universe inCaptain America : Civil War , and has since starred in three solo movies – Spider - Man : Homecoming , Spider - Man : Far From Home , andSpider - Man : No Way Home . Spider - Man has also conjoin other MCU heroes in huge engagement , as he did inAvengers : Endgame ’s Battle of Earth , so he has faced a variety of villains .
Spider - Man ’s first MCU scoundrel was Adrian Toomes / Vulture ( Michael Keaton ) , though with him derive other villains that were apace overcome . Far From Homesaw Spider - Man dealing with Quentin Beck / Mysterio ( Jake Gyllenhaal ) andNo Way Homebrought back scoundrel from past Spider - Man moviesin a multiversal crossover . However , Spider - Man : Homecomingset up a classic Spider - Man villain from the comics , but the MCU has failed to devote this off – but now , thanks toSpider - Man : Freshman Year , Marvel is at long last giving this villain a chance , though not as the audience would have expect .
Spider-Man: Freshman Year Will Finally Pay Off Homecoming’s Scorpion Tease
Spider - Man : Homecomingintroduced Mac Gargan ( Michael Mando ) , a criminal and one of Toomes ’ likely buyers of Chitauri and Ultron - based weapons . Gargan could n’t complete his steal as Spider - Man followed him and had him arrested , but the opposition with Spider - Man leave him with a big scar across his leftover heart . Gargan was last seen in themid - credit aspect ofSpider - Man : Homecoming , where he came across Toomes in prison house and told him about a rumour he get a line about Toomes knowing Spider - Man ’s identity operator , and he want to screw as he wanted revenge against the World Wide Web - slinger . Toomes consist and claim to not hump , and Gargan has n’t been find out since then .
While Gargan expect for a chance to go full Scorpio the Scorpion in the MCU , Marvel is pay offHomecoming ’s prickteaser in theanimated seriesSpider - human being : Freshman Year . The serial is set in an alternating reality from the MCU ’s main continuity and will explore Peter Parker ’s origin write up and other days as Spider - Man , which the chief timeline decamp . Spider - Man : Freshman Yearwill have Norman Osborn as Peter ’s mentor ( as Tony Stark did in the main timeline ) and feature Doctor Octopus and Marc Gargan / Scorpion as villain . At the clip of writing , it ’s unknown what Scorpion ’s backstory is about inFreshman Year , so it could be similar to the one in the main timeline or completely unlike .
Will Scorpion Ever Appear In The Mainline MCU?
By have Scorpio the Scorpion as one of its baddie , Spider - Man : Freshman Yearallows the audience to see what he would be like in the MCU , but it also raise more query about his futurity in the chief MCU timeline . While Marvel has ignored its own vexer for age and two movies , it ’s not too previous for Gargan to become Scorpion , and it ’s thanks to his mirthful book news report . In it , Gargan becomes Scorpio after J. Jonah Jameson hires him as the bailiwick for an experimentation with the design of avail him catch Spider - Man .
Jameson is now present and dynamic in the MCU , being the one who made Spider - Man ’s identity populace , but after the final spell inNo Way Home , Jameson no longer knows who Spider - Man is . Jameson , then , could be appear for way to catch Spider - Man , leading him to experiment on someone like Gargan . Another possibility is if Kingpin ( Vincent D’Onofrio ) returns inSpider - Man 4 , as he could be the one who take Gargan to experiment on him . Gargan becoming Scorpion does n’t have to be only forSpider - Man : Freshman Year , as he can still be the main villain in the MCU ’s chief timeline .
