How The Sinister Six Already Exist In The MCU

In the span of a single film, Spider-Man managed to encounter more of his classic foes than Iron Man did in ten years. The obvious one, of course, was the Vulture, but he's just the tip of the villainous iceberg. On the off chance that you missed it, take a closer look at Adrian Toomes and the cabal of high-tech arms dealers that used to be his construction crew, and you'll see both the Shocker and the Tinkerer — who debuted alongside the Vulture back in Amazing Spider-Man #2. As for the customers buying those high-tech weapons, there's an appearance by the Prowler and the Scorpion, who, thanks to Into the Spider-Verse, wound up being two unlikely picks for Spider-Foes who would both make it into two different movie universes in the span of 18 months. 

That's five major Spider-Man villains — well,four major villains and the Tinkerer, really — and they're just the ones we know for sure. Peter has a science teacher named "Ms. Warren" in that movie who might very well turn out to be the MCU's version of the Jackal, who in the comics is Peter's old science teacher, Miles Warren. Of course, that's just if, for some reason, they want to do a movie about Spider-Clones in spite of everyone who was reading Spider-Man comics in the '90s begging them not to. And hey, if you really want to get technical about it, they even have two different Venoms in that movie, too!

That leads us to Far from Home. We already know that Mysterio is going to be the star of the show in some form, although whether or not he's an actual "villain" (he is) remains to be seen. He's probably not the only bad guy who's going to show up, though. As many Spider-Fans have theorized since that first trailer hit — and as the movie's tie-in Lego sets seem to confirm — that big water creature, if it's not an illusion, might just be Morris Bench, better known as Hydro-Man. There's also a brief glimpse of a very sandy man and some kind of molten man (another one who shows up in Lego form) in there, too. Even if they do turn out to be Mysterio's trickery, that's a whole lot of villains for one spidery teen, no matter how radioactive his blood might be.