A Primer for Mysterio, One of Spider-Man’s Strangest Villains

After days of fighting more modernised versions of his rogues ’ gallery , Spider - Man is ultimately pose the chance to agitate a baddie who , at least visually , is going to be every bit as campy and downright weird on the bad screen as Stan Lee and Steve Ditko in the first place envisioned him in Marvel ’s comic back in the mid-‘70s . Mysterio ’s coming toSpider - Man : Far From Home .

peculiarly , actor Jake Gyllenhaal is fall in theMarvel Cinematic Universeas a seemingly heroic reimagining of Quentin Beck , the original Mysterio who first appeared in The Amazing Spider - Man # 13 . In Marvel Comics ’ pages , after come to the ratiocination that his career as a stuntman and special effects creative person was n’t going anywhere , Beck wrench to a lifetime of criminal offense and used his attainment to develop a number of fighting techniques involve illusions and weaponized gas with dissimilar result . Once Spider - Man managed to play a trick on Mysterio into admitting that he ’d set about to rob the Midtown Museum , the villain became fixated on the musical theme that Spider - Man was responsible for his lot in life , and set out on a lifelong delegacy of trying to tug Spider - Man harebrained as vengeance .

Because Beck was originally written as being a baseline human being , most of his abilities are strictly technological in nature and play into the overall staginess of his villainous persona . What Mysterio lacks in actually being able-bodied to killSpider - Man , he more than fix up for in dramatics and genuine cleverness , which make him a very interesting fiber to see in action .

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While Spider - Man : Far From Home ’s Mysterio is free-base mostly on the original Quentin Beck , the fantastical nature of his power advise that the picture will be retread specific aspects of his power in curious way . In the brief appearance he make in the trailer , he shows up in his classic costume with his touch smoke zooming around in the air as he defend against what is likely Hydro - Man . Interestingly , the flick ’s Mysterio fends off his foe using some kind of ability thatbears a striking resemblance Doctor Strange ’s magic , which suggests the film might be taking Beck ’s magician line of descent much more seriously for make him a bigger world power player .

Mysterio ’s seeming turn for the heroic is almost for certain meant to be a phony out of some form — or just the kickoff of his arc in the MCU that begins with him work alongside Peter Parker to combat a quartet of monsters known asthe Elementals . With Michael Keaton credibly come back as Adrian Toomes ( aka Vulture ) at some point down the job — if not needs in Far From Home — it stands to reason that the Homecoming sequel could potentially be play a much longer game in terms of repose the groundwork for the MCU ’s Sinister Six . Even if Beck does n’t go full villain over the grade of this movie , it ’ll provide plenty of backstory and excited link between him and Spider - Man that ’ll make his pivot to villainy that much more satisfying to see .

Really though , the most important thing about Mysterio that one needs to live is that he is n’t himself without that big , flashy fish bowl he ’s so partial of wearing on his head , because putting on a show is Mysterio ’s whole matter . He ’s a twisted , alternate realism rendering of Liberace hellbent on struggle with a teenager dress up like a spider , and as unusual as it is to view , he might end up being one of the MCU ’s coolest villains yet .

William Duplessie