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made me look like the smartest
guy in the room. Simmons’
irascible, rasping JJJ was one of
the standouts of Sam Raimi’s
trilogy, and to see him in this
Spider-verse, busting Peter
Parker’s balls, seemed like an
impossible dream. But then he
popped up at the very end of
the movie, as the shock jock,
Alex Jones-esque figurehead of
The Daily Bugle(.net), and I
realised Gabrielle was right:JJJ JOINS THE SPIDER-VERSE
dreams can come true. We could
tie ourselves in knots all day
about whether this is somehow
the same JJJ of the Raimi
movies, but it’s clearly not.
Watts and co could have
reinvented Jameson as a teen
vlogger, but Simmons’ turn as
JJJ was so memorable that
filling his shoes would have been
tough. Now we get to see him
torment Peter in the next movie.
Not all villains wear capes.6 THE PETER TINGLE
Ben Travis: In Spider-Man 2’s ‘Spider-Man no more’storyline, Peter wanted to give up his Spider-Man
duties and his powers start to fade. Here, Peter
needs a short break from his heroic exploits,
and his Spider-senses are diminished until
he really needs to use them in the
fight against Mysterio.WARNING!
ILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILE
Chris Hewitt:A couple of weeks
ago, I drafted a tweet in which
I posed the question, “If you
could drop any character from
a non-MCU Marvel film into an
MCU film, who would it be and
why?” I never pressed send,
largely because that sentence
is so convoluted you need a
degree to figure it out. But I wish
I had, for my choice would have
been J.K. Simmons’ J. Jonah
Jameson, and that would haveRigh
“Sp
you
A w
return for
J.K.Simmons’
irascible media
nemesis, J.
Jonah Jameson.Below:
The Filth and
the Fury. Except
the Filth — the
Skrulls — were
the good guys
after all, led
by Talos.8 THE SECOND STING
Chris Hewitt:Marvel post-credit stings
tend to fall into two camps. Ones
immediately after the end of the film tend
to have narrative repercussions for the MCU.
So, Peter Parker’s identity being revealed to the
world falls into that camp. And the ones right at
the end of the movie tend to be a gas, a lark, a
laugh. AndFar From Home’s reveal that Nick Fury
and Maria Hill have actually been Talos and
a fellow Skrull from the off is certainly all three
of those things. But it also opens a can of
space worms. When the Skrulls were
announced forCaptain Marvel, it wasn’t too
hard to envisage a scenario in which some
major MCU characters turned out to have been
shapeshifting aliens all along. ThenCaptain Marvel
did its own rug-pull by turning the Skrulls into goodguys. But this twist shows that that possibility still
exists. A movie that constantly tells us not to
believe everything we see may have sowed larger
seeds of doubt.Ben Travis:The second sting not only reveals Talos
is back on Earth — but that Fury has embarked on a
boozy vacation to the cosmos. The S.H.I.E.L.D.
leader’s ongoing contact with the Skrulls is a
potentialCaptain Marvelsequel tease — and could
his trip among the stars bring him face-to-face with
The Eternals? The MCU’s fourth phase remains
unnannounced for now, but reports indicate that the
near-immortal group of space deities will arrive in
the movie universe sooner rather than later. Who
better to welcome them than the Avengers
assembler?I
ht:
ider-Man,
’re FIRED!”
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