Spider-Man: Homecoming Electronic Vulture, 12-inch

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The Adrian Toomes incarnation of the Vulture appears in the Sega CD version of Spider-Man vs. The Kingpin. [ citation needed] As Lee told me when I first asked him if he'd be up for it, grinning ear to ear, his favorite hero is Spidey and his favorite mutant is Nightcrawler. Put 'em together and what do you get? Another version of the Vulture from Earth-803 is a member of the "Six Men of Sinestry", the universe's version of the Sinister Six. [92] Spider-Gwen [ edit ] The Adrian Toomes incarnation of the Vulture appears in Spider-Man: Return of the Sinister Six as a member of the eponymous group. [ citation needed] In the context of UNCANNY SPIDER-MAN, I think what matters is that like knows like. Spidey recognizes that Kurt is a good person—he doesn't have to prove that. Whatever else mutants did or didn't do to the world, Spidey trusts Nightcrawler to be a decent person. He's more than happy to help. In fact, if anything, Spidey's more keen for Nightcrawler to start facing the Big Picture stuff than Nightcrawler himself. That will cause a little tension, down the line.

Adrian Toomes was apparently a kind and hardworking man who did what was best for his family. However, after losing his job, he becomes bitter and disgruntled because Tony Stark bought out his company. He opens a salvaging business in New York City and arms himself with Chitauri technology, specifically a pair of mechanical wings from being muscled him out of his government deal by Tony Stark, and for other criminal purposes.Mark Hamill showed interest in playing the character before Michael Keaton got the role. Indeed, Keaton originally turned down the role, but regretted it just in time and accepted the part before another actor could be cast.

On the same night of the heist, the Toomes family also prepared for the upcoming homecoming dance at Midtown School of Science and Technology, as Toomes personally warmly welcomed Peter Parker inside his home ready to take Liz Toomes out to the dance and tried to make small talk with the uncomfortable boy, who was seemingly turning pale from nerves before the homecoming dance. Vulture came out of retirement to claim vengeance on his former research partner Bestman who embezzled him out of the profits of their business. [25] He then confronted the Vulturions, a group of criminal youths who stole his designs. [26]

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Doctor Clifton Shallot was an expert on bio-mutation and a professor at Empire State University. [62] He also had one of Toomes' harnesses and costumes, which he had requisitioned from the State Prison Authority. When one of his courses was cancelled by the university trustees, he snapped, and underwent the final stage of the mutation himself when he donned the Vulture costume – his face, teeth, and fingernails mutated, and for a short time, the wings became part of his body and he could fly. The only ones who knew his secret was his lab assistant Dr. Christine Murrow and her roommate Gloria Jenkins. [63] The trouble with mining Marvel’s vast archive of comic properties for adaptations is that not every risk is going to pay off. For every Guardians of the Galaxy, you have a Morbius. Cloak & Dagger is one of those properties that has languished around Marvel Comics for years, occasionally getting a series, never selling too well. Its two leads are victims of illegal experimentation and always on the run; whether they’re mutants or not changes every now and then (ask a Marvel fan about mut ants versus mut ates if you’re having trouble sleeping some time), but their one constant was that they were just never very compelling. The adaptation for Freeform was a refreshing balm by contrast; making the leads younger and connected by tragedy gave them an intense emotional pull, and updating their origin to tie it to the collapse of a Gulf platform owned by fictional energy giant Roxxon made them relevant in a way their comic counterparts’ ties to the War on Drugs never really succeeded. Cloak & Dagger got two seasons before falling to the same cancellation wave that affected every live-action show prior to Disney+, but since it was set in the MCU, here’s hoping we see those characters again sometime.

Kyle, Scmidlin (13 June 2013). "10 Spider-Man Villains (And Combinations) Deserving Of The Big Screen (7. The Vulture)". What Culture! . Retrieved 2 January 2014. "He's been one of Spider-Man's most frequent and iconic antagonists ever since his first appearance in issue 2 of The Amazing Spider-Man . Kurt being flirtatious is a charm—lots of that coming. There's a truly ridiculous bit of pop music romance coming in #3, and foul despicable treachery coming in #4… On the whole, Jessica Jones was a show that was brave enough to try new things, and to present new sides to stories we’ve seen elements of before. In doing so, it created unmissable television and opened the door to long, long overdue conversations about the depiction of women in media, a thing we should be endlessly thankful for. Related To her? I'm not doing anything to her, Pete. I'm doing this for her." ― Spider-Man and Adrian Toomes [src] All of that is very much in the DNA of UNCANNY SPIDER-MAN, up to and including his recent period as an actual goat-horned monster (long story), his newfound ability to pull a shimmering sword out of his own heart (longer story), and his self-imposed exile from Krakoa. That last one meant he wasn't present for the horrific events of the Hellfire Gala.

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High Evolutionary | Venom | Carnage | Electro | Kraven the Hunter | Green Goblin | Vulture | Man-Wolf | J. Jonah Jameson During The Gauntlet storyline, he escaped from prison and goes after the mobsters responsible for his transformation. The first mobster he finds revealed Vulture's past as the Maggia's " cleaner" Jimmy Natale and then, lies about the transformation caused by J. Jonah Jameson. In truth, it is actually Dr. Charles Goss, a biochemist who used these machines that were previously owned by the Stillwell brothers so they can have a new Vulture. Dr. Goss fibs that Jameson had a hand in his creation, until he confessed to the proper authorities. [65] When Spider-Man fended him off, Vulture visits the mobster again, who came clean for being behind his mutation. After that, he killed him. Vulture was later seen soaring above the Daily Bugle ruins and flew past by a jobless Peter Parker at night. [66] Under the tutelage of Alyosha Kravinoff, Toomes briefly attempted a stint at heroism, but before long he returned to the other side of the law. [35]