Now with all the hype and fame, more and more of Spidey's villains are popping up on the big screen. Most people are all like, "Ooooh, I know who Spider-Man is, let's go see it!" However most people don't know much about the villains, or their impact on Spider-Man/Peter Parker and his life. So, here's my next post:
The 5 Villains who've had the biggest impact on Spider-Man/Peter Parker's Life:
5) Eddie Brock and/or Flash Thompson/Venom- Venom is probably Spider-Man's biggest and most well-known villains. He's demonic-looking, ruthless, a complete brute, and it helps that Todd McFarlane himself helped develop the character. It's important to point out that Venom the entity is actually an alien-symbiote from another planet. Peter actually rejects symbiote. He's a parasite that needs a host, hence his suit-like appearance. Now what most people DON'T know is that there have been several people who dawned the symbiote-suit. Eddie Brock, which is the one McFarlane worked on, is a rival photographer to Peter at the Daily Bugle (yes, Eric from That 70's Show in Spider-Man 3 of the Tobey Maguire Trilogy). In the original version of the story, Brock is a journalist who exposes the identity of a serial killer only for the real killer to be caught by Spider-Man, and Brock had accused the wrong man. Disgraced and suicidal, Brock comes into contact with the alien Symbiote, which wasrejected by Peter Parker. The Symbiote bonds with Brock becoming Venom and together they seek out revenge against their mutual enemy. Another host for this parasite was Flash Thompson. Flash is actually Mary Jane Watson's Ex-boyfriend from high school, as well as rival to apeter (Flash being a jock and Peter and nerd). They become friends in College with the help of Harry Osborn. Now while flash become's the "host" for the Venom Symbiote, he actually becomes more of a military soldier/bounty for hire type guy. He's not a villain necessarily, but isn't always the most heroic guy. Anyways, seeing as how Eddie Brock became Venom because of his ill-will towards Peter/Spidey, he's on the list.
4) Norman Osborn/The Green Goblin- An already well known villain, being in the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man Trilogy. Whether it was Willem Dafoe or Chris Cooper, Norman Osborn had a very big effect on Peter's Life. Norman is the father of Peter's Best-friend Harry Osborn, and in some way a father-like figure to Peter. Since Peter's parents absence from his life (because of either death or abandonment, depending on if we're going by the comics or the movies) at a young age, Uncle Ben and Aunt May were Pete's guardians. However, as time went on and Peter grew older, he developed a love of science, and who to better to admire then the CEO of Oscorp, a company who does research into anything from Modern Medicine and Genetics to Bio-Electric Chemical Engineering and Advanced Military Combat Weaponry? So for Peter to discover that the man that he admired so turns out to be none-other then The Green Goblin was a devastating blow to say the least. Again, this is also Peter's Best friend's Father?! Add the fact that in the comics issue #121 The Green Goblin is responsible for the Death of Gwen Stacy, Peter Parker's First Love-Interest (Yes, there was a girl before Mary Jane) and High School Sweetheart, and that makes Norman Osborn/The Green Goblin someone who was wrecked Peter and Spidey's Life something fierce.
3) Harry Osborn/The Green Goblin- Yes, despite popular belief, Harry Osborn was NEVER the Hobgoblin. Harry, Peter Parker's Best-friend all through high school (or until he was shipped off to boarding school by Norman, according to the second Amazing Spider-Man film). They were both damaged, since both had estranged relationship with their father's, and they confided within one another. That is, until the whole Norman being a super-villain and all. Norman died during his time as The Green Goblin, and Harry blamed Spider-Man for the "murder" of his father. So, like any good son, Harry follows in his father's footsteps and becomes the Second Green Goblin. What makes this so impacting for Peter (at least to me) is that his Best-friend blames him (indirectly, or directly depending on what we're going by) for his father's death, when it was Norman trying to kill Pete/Spidey. His closes friend is trying to KILL HIM, making Harry/Green Goblin numbero dos the third baddy on the list.
2) Peter Parker/Spider-Man- Now this may be a bit of a stretch, but let me plead my case. There's always been a Constant battle going on within Peter about his double life. Being Spider-Man has caused him more pain than almost anything really. Always putting family and loved ones in danger, struggling to live up to the super-hero expectations, as well as well as fulfilling all of Peter's responsibilities, and not to mention that fact that he is ALWAYS putting Himself in mortal danger by fighting larger than life villains all the way down to the common thug. Peter is his own worst enemy. It's he that makes these decisions, and it's he and only he that has to evaluate the cost and live with the decision. No nemesis made him dawn the suit, it was him. Honestly, doesn't this at-least make a Little Sense?
& Finally
1) Richard Parker/Peter's Father- Yes, you read correctly, (to me) The most vicious and most impacting Villain EVER to be in Peter's Life is none other than his own Father. How you ask? Let me explain. From what we know in both the Comics and the Cinematic Universe we can piece together that Richard, like so many before him, was trying to re-create Captain America's Super-Soldier Serum. He, as well as Norman Osborn and Curt Connors (Lizard) were all experimenting to re-create it (as well as Bruce Banner, and re-creating the Serum also cause Black Cat to receive her powers). It was this obsession with altering man to become more that what God intended us to be that caused Peter to become Spider-Man. Richard's studies caused him to get in trouble with the government (S.H.I.E.L.D.??) It was this that led to Peter's parents to abandon him as a child (or die, or both). It was this that had such a traumatic and emotional scarring on Peter that caused him so much pain and heartache growing up; always feeling alone and unloved. No one, and I mean NO ONE had That big of an impact on Peter's life, not even Peter Himself. Richard Parker playing God and illegally trying to create this serum made him a fugitive (which is the very foundation of what it means to be a villain), andruined Peter's life, and that's why he is number one on my list.
Tell me what you guys think. Anyone I overlook? Have you ever looked at Peter's Dad, or even Peter Himself as Spider-Man's enemy? Let me know. Thanks Guys!
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