Sebastian Geiger February 14, 2024 | 8:00 p.m
It’s a familiar problem for Sony Pictures: You’re stuck with the license for Spider-Man and all his friends, but you can’t do everything you want. Since Marvel Studios and the Disney company behind them have dominated the cinemas with the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), there is no way around them when it comes to Spider-Man. Sony’s strategy: In addition to animation projects like the Spider-Verse films, in which the star is not Peter Parker but Miles Morales, they have been trying for years to establish a kind of Spider-Verse without Spider-Man: the Spider-Man Universe ( SSU). The focus of this alternative Spider-Verse is the Venom films, although Sony has been trying for some time to put other, lesser-known characters from the Spider-Man comics, such as the bio-vampire Morbius or, later this year, Craven the Hunter, in the spotlight . And Madame Web, who plays an important role in the Spider-Man comics – but outside of that, hardly anyone knows her.
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Spider-Man: Who is Madame Web?
This is despite the fact that Madame Web plays an important role in Spider-Man’s mythology. In the comics, Cassandra Web is an elderly, blind lady who can see the future and repeatedly uses her abilities to help Spider-Man. She has access to the Web of Life and Fate, a mystical construct that gives all who have spider powers
Source: Sony Madame Web: Cassy Webb (Dakota Johnson, 2nd from left) is supported by three spider heroines. have, connects across the multiverse. That’s why she usually plays a larger role in the Spider-Man comics when Peter and his friends end up in the Spider-Verse again. But her ability to see the future isn’t just limited to Peter Parker. She knows the fate of all spider heroes and villains.
In the film, Cassy Webb has a different backstory. Here she is, at first glance, a normal and much younger paramedic, but she keeps having mysterious visions about the future. At first she thinks nothing of it, until three young women and the mysterious Ezekiel Sims invade her life and Cassandra realizes that her visions could actually come true. Due to Cassy Webb’s age and the fact that Mary Parker – Peter Parker’s mother – also appears in the film and is pregnant, Madame Web could be a prequel to the other SSU films.
Spider-Man: Spider-Woman und Ezekiel Sims
The other characters who appear in the film will also be familiar to at least a few fans. The comic book by villain Ezekiel Sims is also closely linked to the Spider-Verse stories. Ezekiel has similar abilities to Peter Parker, but is aware of the myth surrounding the spider totems that ultimately give heroes like Spider-Man their powers. However
Source: Sony Madame Web: Spider-villain Ezekiel Sims is the villain in the film. He uses his skills primarily to get rich and is otherwise a rather shady character.
Three women will have the code name Spider-Woman in the film. Madame Web is of course alluding to the fact that in the Spider-Verse there are not only countless variants of Spider-Man, but also of his counterpart, Spider-Woman. Julia Carpenter, or Cornwall as she is called in the film, is the most interesting of these. Not only is she the second person to bear the name Spider-Woman in the Marvel Universe, but in the comics she is also the second version of Madame Web, after Cassandra Webb gave her these abilities shortly before her death.
Spider-Man: And where is Spider-Man?
Cassandra Web, Ezekiel Sims and Julia Carpenter also show very well the huge problem that Sony’s Spider-Man Universe has: the fact that almost all of the heroes and villains who appear in the films are closely linked to Spider-Man in the comics he simply doesn’t see himself in the SSU films. There are primarily legal reasons for this – but there is still countless speculation as to how Sony could solve this problem. There is still a rumor that Andrew Garfield could appear as the Amazing Spider-Man at some point. Alternatively could
Source: Marvel Madame Web: One of the central questions of Sony’s Spider-Verse is: Which Spider-Man will show up in the end? Sony are trying to convince Disney to make a deal in which it is not Peter Parker who becomes the Spider-Man of the SSU films, but Miles Morales. This would fit in well with the Spider-Verse films, which have shown that Miles is still a fan favorite.
Finally, Madame Web features an appearance by none other than Ben Parker, who in the comics is one of the central catalysts for his nephew Peter becoming Spider-Man. It could be a way to create a new Peter Parker specifically for the SSU, or give Tom Holland’s MCU Spider-Man a chance to switch universes for a few films. To do this, however, the SSU must first reach a higher quality level. The first reviews for Madame Web were devastating and at some point Sony may also realize that a Spider-Man universe without Spider-Man can only be successful if the films are good.