Yes... yes... I have heard this shocker has cool powers.

Kind of wimpy villains, no? Were Neil Patrick Harris and David Hyde Pierce unavailable? What about Sean Hayes (Jack, on Will and Grace)? I can imagine Wolverine and Storm would be quaking in their boots faced with him as a supervillain.

I thought they might go with The Lizard, since they had a cameo or two by "Dr. Connors" in Spiderman 2.

However, oddly enough, Rebecca Romijn *did have* blue skin. Strange, that.

As for Spiderman, I've been bored with the movies. They're class acts, and I love Sam Raimi, but alas, they've made me yawn.

That said, the rumors have long been Lizard, but absolutely no Venom. I dunno why Venom always gets the shaft, but for some reason, I've repeatedly read that no one wants to do that story.

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Dave at Garfield Ridge

Oh, I bet Topher is on to play Venom. He's almost tailor-made as a mirror image of Tobey Maguire.

I'd like to see the villian in the next SM movie be Venom. I always thought he was the coolest SM villian ever.

Jesus Christ! Is that all your screenwriters can come up with? More comic book movies? Yech! Grow up already. You're not 13 years old, you geezers.

SWEET!!

Kelsey is PERFECT for that role!

Great casting move.

Well, Venom has an absurdly convoluted backstory, involving that whole "Beyonder" series.

They can just make up a new one, of course.

But then there's the problem that the entire character would have to be CGI-- how else ya gonna do that ridiculously oversized maw?

I know the SM films feature a LOT of CGI main characters, but usually just for longer-distance shots. Venom would be CGI even close-up, and we all saw how well that worked in the Hulk.

Yeah, the backstory for Venom would definitely be a deal-killer if you tried to adhere to the comic-book continuity. Then again, MJ found out that PP was SM in SM2, so I don't think they're holding strictly to the comic book continuity (and, yeah, I know MJ is married to PP and knows he's SM in the comics now, but she didn't find out until a long time after Doc Ock appeared).

Sandman and Hydroman are pretty cool - there's only so many time you can beat them with a vacuum cleaner or by mixing them into cement, so sooner or later, they have to win.

Sandman's best moment was the bar scene with Ben Grimm about 15 years ago when they spent a whole comic drinking, then finally decided not to fight.

Hydroman's best scene was his fight with the Black Panther about 5 years ago, where he flooded a plane in mid-air. (Yes, it could have been lame, but it rocked).

All that said, S3 should have an epic villian. I would use Green Goblin II/Hobgoblin, and keep people like Sandman to 5 minute cameos.

Yes, Charles, the Shocker is quite something. Or, so I have heard.

I think Sandman's best appearance was in an FF comic where Ben Grimm was laid up in the hospital and all the old foes tried to get to him, only to be outdone by heroes dropping in to visit. Only one foe gets through, Sandman, but instead of taking out the ever lovin' blue-eyed idol 'a millions, he brings a six-pack and cigars. Nice.

Venom? I stopped reading SM after he showed up. The entire symbiote storyline was lame.

Electro? Max Dillon was a psycho, hardly a deep enough character for a major film.

Shocker? Yeah, cool suit and all, and I sure which I had his gauntlets, but Spidey regularly kicked his tail.

I vote for Mac Gargan, the Scorpion, with JJJ's son and the whole revenge angle thrown in. That storyline rocked. Scorps was always a tough foe. Have cameos by the Rhino and Johnny Storm and all will be good.

Still waiting for the Thor movie though...and Iron Man...the list goes on. And will Captain America ever be properly done? Not by Hollywood, that's for sure.

I'd like them to do one of those "oh, no, a whole plethora of villains are after Spidey all at once" things. Then they can squeeze in the Kingpin and the Rhynocerous guy. The rhyno guy haunts me, how does he pee?