For the third time in just 15 years, a new Peter Parker—the sticky-fingered web-slinger from Queens—is making a splash on the big screen. Following in the spandex-clad footsteps of Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield, Tom Holland is earning near-universal praise for the first Spider-Man film in which Sony studios is allowing Parker to play in the same pool as other Marvel figures like Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man. But however popular Holland’s Spidey may be, Sony isn’t interested merely in owning a satellite member of The Avengers.
The studio, which has faced a serious profitability problem that wasn’t helped by an embarrassing 2015 e-mail hack, wants to build an Avengers-esque franchise of its own—and it’s wising up to the fact that it takes more than a charming Spider-Man to create an entire cinematic universe. So naturally, the studio brilliantly worked a few spin-off options into the very fabric of Spider-Man: Homecoming. Did you catch the major seeds this movie planted?
In addition to Michael Keaton’s Vulture, word broke early on that Spider-Man: Homecoming would boast a villainous roster that included two Shockers (Bokeem Woodbine and Logan Marshall-Green), one bully named Flash (not that Flash), played by Tony Revolori, and one Tinkerer (Michael Chernus). There was some immediate concern among fans that Peter Parker would, once again, be squaring off against an excess of bad guys. After all, the Too Many Villains problem sunk both Maguire in Spider-Man 3 and Garfield in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. In the end, though, Homecoming effortlessly finds room for all of those villains—most of whom would better be described as henchmen—while also adding two more who could be the key to building Spidey’s massive new web.
Though you can now find it listed on the Wikipedia page for the film, the name of Donald Glover’s character in Homecoming was kept under wraps for months before the movie premiered. That’s because the name alone, Aaron Davis, is enough to send a ripple of…
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