And so, the angsty web-swinging rebootTheAmazing Spider-Manconcludes with a brief tease for the already-in-developmentAmazingsequel.
As far as post-credits scenes go,Amazingwins points for pure non sequitur obscurity.
Very little is revealed, although much is teased.
Let’s unpack it a little bit, shall we?
(Spoilers from here.)
The scene begins with the captured Dr. Curt Connors being locked away in a prison cell.
Suddenly, there’s another man in the prison cell.
A shadowy man, covered in shadows, murmuring shadowy words with shadowy implications.
“Hello, Doctor!”
says the man, in a raspy voice.
“Did you tell the boy?”
“Tell him what?”
“Did you tell the boy thetruthabout his father?”
The man steps into the light just a little bit.
“Well, that’s very good.
So we’ll let him be for now.”
The man walks away.
Dr. Connors screams, “You should leave himalone!”
But the man has disappeared.
That’sMichael Massee, a character actor who specializes in playing evil dudes with raspy voices.
Face-swapping spy The Chameleon?
Mysterio, the Master of Illusion?
Yeesh, freaking Kaine, why not?
Osborn is certainly wealthy enough to bribe his way into a prison cell.
But what the shadow man says is arguably more intriguing than who he is.
Most ofAmazing’s first act is focused on Peter Parker’s deceased father, played byCampbell Scott.
What is the “truth” about Richard Parker?
Does that just refer to Richard’s deathan accident that was clearly not an accident?
Or was there even more to Richard’s research that Peter doesn’t know about?
One intriguing answer may lie in the source material.
TheSpider-Manproducers have been teasing aVenommovie lately: Could this be a hint in that direction?
Or maybe…theory lightning round go!Richard Parker is actually still alive.
Peter’s real father is Norman Osborn.
The man in the shadows is Demogoblin, andAmazing Spider-Man 2is going to be a hot ’90s mess.
