Warning: This text incorporates spoilers for Madame Net.
Wasn’t it superb when the Avengers swept in to avoid wasting the day in Madame Net‘s third act? That’s one thing you’ll hear nobody say about Sony’s latest entry in its Spider-Man Universe With out Spider-Man, as the primary (and probably greatest) superhero film bomb of the yr incorporates no MCU connections to talk of. Heck, we’d have even taken a Venom or a Morbius crossover, however we don’t get that both.
One of many some ways during which Madame Net is failing to thrill Marvel followers, then, is its lack of connective tissue to the broader multiverse. Nevertheless, one factor the Dakota Johnson car does at the least try and do is honor the legacy of Spider-Man. Whether or not it succeeds or not is up for debate (it doesn’t, debate over), however the movie definitely options some character cameos that hyperlink into the webhead’s mythos. Right here’s all those we noticed.
Ben Parker
Congrats to your entire web and their canine (or perhaps pet spiders) for appropriately guessing this one forward of time. Though Sony tried to maintain the identification of Adam Scott’s character a secret within the advertising, all of us knew that Cassie Webb’s paramedic buddy would turn into none apart from Ben Parker. Though the long-lasting surname is rarely talked about, the truth that his entire character is “I can’t wait to be an uncle,” you don’t have to be a Spider-Psychic to work it out.
Aunt Might (talked about)
Firstly of the movie, when Cassie and Ben catch up, she asks him if he’s seeing anybody, at which Ben clams up. Cassie asks the fortunate woman’s title, however he elects to not inform her, leaving her to imagine that it’s critical. Ben’s accomplice by no means exhibits up for the remainder of the movie, however Spider-Man lore tells us that this should certainly be the one and solely Might, Peter’s beloved aunt. This could’t be the Marisa Tomei model, although, for causes we’ll get to in a second.
Mary Parker
Sure, it’s barely complicated that the title of Peter Parker’s precise mom is just one letter away from that of his adoptive mom, but when this was DC, they’d each be known as Martha. Emma Roberts performs Mary, who we be taught all through the movie is… a pleasant individual and closely pregnant? That’s about it. We’re fairly positive this model isn’t a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent like within the comics. Embeth Davidtz beforehand performed the character in The Wonderful Spider-Man movies.
Richard Parker (talked about)
Whereas Mary most likely isn’t a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent on this continuity, Peter’s father Richard clearly has some type of top-secret life occurring away from Queens. When he’s MIA from her child bathe, Mary jokes that her husband is all the time jetting off world wide, and proper now he’s both in “Mumbai or Shanghai.” Whether or not he’s on the run from Oscorp just like the Campbell Scott model from The Wonderful Spider-Man 2 stays to be seen… OK, let’s be trustworthy, it should by no means be seen.
Spider-Girl (Julia Cornwall)
Sydney Sweeney’s Julia Cornwall may be one of many movie’s leads, however her superhero alter ego is little greater than a cameo. In a perplexing waste of potential, the three Spider-Girls have a complete of three minutes of screentime, with their superhero selves solely showing in flashforwards to the longer term. Though her title is modified from Carpenter, as within the comics, Julia’s look and powers are replicated faithfully, simply all too briefly…
Araña
Anya Corazon has a a lot totally different look from her comedian guide counterpart, nonetheless, with Araña’s bug-eyed goggles changed by a lenses-less domino masks (I’m positive that helps keep her secret identification!). Identical to Julia bought to maintain her Psi-Webs — the glowy webbing she shoots — Anya’s traditional Spider powers are on show, together with additional power, agility, and stamina. It’s implied she’s linked to Las Arañas, the Peruvian Spider-Folks.
Spider-Girl (Mattie Franklin)
Final however not least, Mattie Franklin’s Spider-Girl is likewise solely featured briefly glimpses. Her look is rather more colourful than her comics costume, with the pink and blue clothes she wears all through the movie foreshadowing her spider-suit. It’s unclear if she has powers, however going by her very Iron Spider-like mechanical limbs Stark Industries might want to look right into a lawsuit. A extra comics-accurate Mattie just lately cameod in Spider-Man: Past the Spider-Verse.
Peter Parker
Final however definitely not least, solely smallest, we come to the elephant-sized spider within the room. Spider-Man doesn’t make an look in Madame Net, however Peter Parker does, as you’ve by no means seen him earlier than… in a diaper. Mary offers beginning to Peter prematurely — he’s born 4 weeks early — on the movie’s finish. His title is rarely spoken out loud, however numerous “delicate” hints (at one level, Mary feedback on how he “leaps” round in her stomach) inform us all we have to know. This ain’t Tom Holland, although, as he’s too younger. Are we about to get a fourth cinematic Spider-Man in Madame Net 2? No, no, we’re not.