Spider-Man: No Way Home
Concept art forSpider - military personnel : No Way Homereveals Mysterio almost made his return in the motion-picture show - but it really would n’t have work . In 1964 , Stan Lee and Steve Ditko team up forThe Amazing Spider - Manannual - an heroic taradiddle in which six of Spider - Man ’s greatest foes united as the Sinister Six . The supervillain team has become a raw material of Spider - Man traditional knowledge ever since , and Sony has long been interested in bringing them to life on the big sieve . GivenSpider - Man : No Way Homefeatured Green Goblin , Lizard , Sandman , Doctor Octopus and Electro - five of the Sinister Six - many viewers assumed there was a last villain who was being concealed .
Recent conception art forSpider - adult male : No Way Homehas uncover there almost was a sixth supervillain : Mysterio , depict battling Doctor Strange . Mysterio ’s return would have completed the Sinister Six , although it ’s undecipherable exactly how he would have add up back . It easily might have been a Mysterio from an alternate dimension where he really was a sorcerer , explaining why he could go headspring - to - head with Doctor Strange . It might have been the Mysterio from the MCU pull from the past , instant before his decease . Or - in what is perhaps the most intriguing possibility of them all - it could have been the MCU ’s Mysterio , disclose to have manipulate his own decease at the end ofSpider - piece : Far From Home .
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Whatever the character may be , though , Mysterio ’s return only would n’t have process . The core trouble is that , thematically , Mysterio is completely dissimilar from the other villains who appeared inSpider - Man : No manner Home(which is likely whythe MCU ’s Vulturedidn’t make the cut either ) . Every one of them had been enamor up in some variety of experimentation conk wrong , one that had granted them remarkable powers but also affected their mind or exacerbated antecedently - held quiet desperation . None of them initially started out designate to be baddie . In contrast , Mysterio was motivated strictly by retaliation against Tony Stark and a lust for great power . There was nothing to " cure " him of , meaning he could n’t be cover like the others .
This disparity of intention would have been particularly debatable if Mysterio was indeed mean to be plucked from the end scenes ofSpider - Man : Far From Home . With the others , Spider - Man successfully changed their circumstances by curing them before they returned to their own timeline - effectively creatingmultiple novel timelines in Spider - Man ’s MCU multiverse . But because Mysterio could n’t be treat , Spider - Man would have been send Quentin Beck back in fourth dimension to pop off . Mysterio ’s demise inSpider - military personnel : Far From Homewas an chance event , but it would have thus been transform into an intentional deed on Spider - Man ’s part . Spider - Man would indeed be directly responsible for Mysterio ’s death .
crap matter worse , any sighting of Mysterio , whether during the Statue of Liberty struggle or before it , would have ruin the narration thread run throughSpider - Man : No Way Home . The cosmos would have seen Mysterio and clear Peter Parker had n’t in reality been responsible for his death at all . Mysterio ’s bearing would have been seen as abide Spider - Man ’s case that he was innocent , and J. Jonah Jameson ’s hate safari against him would have collapsed . That would have made the ultimate declaration ofSpider - Man : No Way Homefeel rather disjointed . So , Marvel and Sony were wise to scrap Mysterio , allowing the storey to menstruate much well .
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