The “Repackaged Characters For Film” Thread

[godisawesome]

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.

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

For the Sonyverse-

The Slingers as the core superhero group. They also work as a way to revive the Raimi verse as they could be Maguire's Peter's successors.

Annex as a military focused hero.

Rocket Racer as the kid appeal character.

Nightwatch as a character who becomes a hero and wrestles with knowing how he dies- Batman meets Tenet

Puma is one of the supernatural heroes.

Jackpot is a version of MJ who gets powers. I prefer the luck based abilities over super strength. This could be tied to the Garfield movies as you could use Sharlene Woodley and bring back Felicity Jones as Black Cat.

Spider-Gwen as a former TVA agent. You could use Emma Stone and the Amazing Spider-Man cast.

John Jameson as Captain Jupiter- this might be better in the Raimiverse but it could also work in the Venomverse.

[bat39]

Mayday Parker AKA Spider-Girl (Raimi-verse)

She's basically the teenage daughter of Tobey Maguire's Peter and Kirsten Dunst's Mary Jane. She has most but not all her dad's powers - she doesn't have natural webs and so has to develop the webshooters which are so prominently a part of her costume. She could appear in a solo film that loosely continues the Raimi-verse and/or appear in the MCU through a multiversal adventure.

Hobgoblin (MCU)

Jason Macendale is a former mercenary who used to work for HYDRA and has now set his sights on the far more modest goal of taking over the New York City underworld. The Hobgoblin persona is inspired by his watching news reports of the Green Goblin from the events of 'No Way Home'. Macendale isn't the only Hobgoblin though...through coercion or bribery he manages to get others to take on the persona as well, including potentially one Ned Leeds...

[clonegeek]

For the Sonyverse-

The Slingers as the core superhero group.

Annex as a military focused hero.

Rocket Racer as the kid appeal character.

Nightwatch as a character who becomes a hero and wrestles with knowing how he dies- Batman meets Tenet

Puma is one of the supernatural heroes.

Jackpot is a version of MJ who gets powers. I prefer the luck based abilities over super strength. This could be tied to the Garfield movies as you could use Sharlene Woodley and bring back Felicity Jones as Black Cat.

Spider-Gwen as a former TVA agent. You could use Emma Stone and the Amazing Spider-Man cast.

John Jameson as Captain Jupiter- this might be better in the Raimiverse but it could also work in the Venomverse.

John Jameson as Man-Wolf

[K7P5V]

John Jameson as Man-Wolf

Indeed. Couldn't agree more. It's time to bring back StarGod

[godisawesome]

Here’s an entire “creepy cast” idea I have for the MCU, and I’ve tried writing it in “reverse” to see if I can sell the MCU stuff first.

The ostensible mastermind…

The Snap and the 5 Years after it ruined many survivors. One of them, a genetics expert on the cutting edge of that science, was ruined so bad he became obsessed with ending death itself. When the Blip occurred, he was further broken because the people he most cared about, including his niece, didn’t (she died in a selectee incident.) He went underground, and years later, emerges as the chief scientist of a new company, Alchemax. He has mastered cloning and genetic modification… but his skill goes beyond science, and crosses over into the arcane because he made a “deal”. Now, hidden by an Anubis mask and deploying a team of genetically modified soldiers, Miles Warren is better known by his creations and victims as The Jackal.

The thugs…

The Jackal started his experimentation with prisoner volunteers, and one particularly bitter and already motivated prisoner has emerged as his chief enforcer after stewing for half a decade in prison. As the only non-clone member of The Jackal’s strike team, the prisoner has been enhanced with the genetic profile of the spider’s natural predator, and further equipped with a fearsome prehensile tail as The Scorpion, and as such, Mac Gargan bears Spider-Man a personal enmity. The rest of the crew is made up of dumbed-down but freakishly empowered clones of the Jackal himself, known as the Carrion, and are frequently used as cannon fodder by Gargan.

The Would-Be Usurper…

When Peter sees the staff directory at Alchemax, one name formerly from the English branch of the company makes him double take with trepidation, and that turns out to the right reaction - because it’s Dr. Otto Octavius.

Given the MCU’s proliferation of fantastic technological weapons and cyborgization, Octavius’s mechanical arms are nothing more than mildly creepy prosthesis made to offset his quadriplegic state. He’s mostly a mechanical designer and cyber-neurological expert (Scorpion’s tail is his design). He is a tragic but very bitter figure, referred to as Doc Ock behind his back. He has also developed a frighteningly envious nature, and he supplies the final twist to this remixed Clone Saga, as the doppelgänger Peter faces isn’t Ben Reilly or Kaine, or any of the Clone characters from the ultimate unit set - its Otto hijacking The Jackal’s first cloned Avenger body, and becoming the Superior Spider-Man, hi-tech, Stark Enterprises reformatted suit and everything. Like The Jackal, his mastery of this high concept ability is hinted to involve making a deal with someone. Yes, in his new from he’s also played by Tom Holland with his natural accent. And yeah, he really likes the idea of replacing Spider-Man entirely…

The advisor…

This is the… entity… that The Jackal and Octavio’s have dealt with. The actor changes depending on who the entity is talking to - and usually, halfway through, stuff gets weird as the first actor ends up being mapped over another one who’s voice also replaced the first one, ramping up his unnatural things are around this thing. The entity makes deals - you do them a favor, they do you a favor or give you knowledge, etc. The favor you pay, though, is always something horrifying and dark. When confronting a Peter and trying to get him to make a deal, the form taken is Aunt May, as is the deal - give Jackal’s child clones to a certain “Mister Essex” and Aunt May will come back…

So Mephisto’s offer goes.

The kids (optional)…

Part of Jackal’s experiments are these kids. None of them are “normal,” and most of them come from already empowered stock. One (the last in the “X-series”) is a quiet girl who’d defends the others, and people who attack them get scratched. There’s a trio of blonde girls who donkt speak, but are somehow always understood. Another girl, their leader, is a clone of Warren’s goddaughter, who he’s empowered with spider-DNA and even given the memories of her template, the daughter of a cop named George Stacy…