Fun idea for a thread here: since both the MCU and Sony want to put more Spidey-characters on film, and since we’ve had multiple previous continuities on film in the lifetimes of even our youngest posters, why not have fun explaining how you could see various characters done on film for the MCU, Raimi-verse, Webbverse, Venom-verse, etc. You could even see how many continuities you could repackage a character into if you wanted.
Like so:
Hobgoblin (MCU)
Ex-SHIELD operator, ex-Hydra hitman Jason Macendale has a history of making and breaking deals in an ever-escalating series of ambitious maneuvers and retreat from consequences and responsibilities, always wanting more power and none of the responsibilities. A frighteningly dangerous and unforgiving combatant, his most recent Faustian bargain is with the Anti-Menace Task Force’s R&D department - a fancy way of saying he’s become an enhanced assassin and science experiment of Spencer Smythe for the “Spider-Slayers” publicized and funded by J. Jonah Jameson and secretly justified and coordinated by the Kingpin… though Macendale has both pressing debts and grander ambitions.
In personality and style, this Macendale is a colder, more pragmatic version of the Hobgoblin of the old 90’s animated series. He manipulates Smythe in opposition to Kingpin in order to receive a further enchantment and get equipped with a lot of anti-Spider-Man equipment… and then promptly murders Smythe, exposes Kingpin's involvement in the Spider-Slayers, and still thrashes Spider-Man in a fight by playing on the obvious issues Spider-Man has with the mysterious green figure who fought him at the Statue of Liberty months ago.
Packing an artistic flair reminiscent of the ‘89-Joker but with a hilariously simplistic goal of getting filthy rich, bossing around anyone he wants, and having fun, Macendale becomes the Hobgoblin as an menacingly well equipped and stronger fighter than Spider-Man, and effectively strong-arms New York’s underworld into paying him tribute and ending the threats on his head… but has now gained both Spider-Man and Kingpin as his enemies…
Kaine, The Scarlet Spider (Re-started Webb Universe)
A substitute hero for Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man, Kaine is a rogue experiment from the fallen Oscorp. Cloned as part of Harry Osborne’s desperate search for a cure for his condition, Kaine escaped when Garfield’s Spider-Man (fresh out of No Way Home) assaulted and defeated a Sinister Six team at Oscorp headquarters… and Kaine made his first mark by trying (and maybe succeeding) at killing Harry in the burning building.
Played by a different actor than Garfield, but plagued by corrupted memories of Garfield’s Spider-Man and his own trauma from experimentation, Kaine offers a way to “re-awaken” the Webb-verse without outright doing a Spider-Man movie. He becomes the Scarlet Spider and his adventures from Texas are adapted into the film.
If the film succeeds and a deal can be struck with Disney to allow for Garfield to play a larger role in another movie as part of an acknowledged live action multi-verse implicitly shared with the MCU, than Webb-Verse Peter is forced to seek out Kaine and team up against a multiverse wandering Merlun.