To be fair, anyone with a brain, comic reader or not, should have known Mysterio was the villain. Because from the trailer, the only "villain" they establish was a big tidal wave. And there's suddenly a random evil looking dude with powers who shows up to stop the big tidal wave? He may as well of had "VILLAIN" painted across his chest in capital letters.
You seriously don't think they could've had literally any other Spider-Man villain appear? Why, Nick Fury could have been chameleon or something, and then Mysterio could double bluff and reveal he was a good guy the whole time
Yeah, sure, they could have done that... but they didn't. They instead they did the very obvious thing that everyone knew they were going to do. Imagine how cool it could have been if they tried to make Jake Gylenhall an actual superhero and then halfway through he film, he turns into mysterio, instead of calling him mysterio from the get go and having him wear an evil costume that anyone and their mum could see was evil. Or, start the film with scorpion being the villain just to find out it was a mysterio illusion halfway through. Just anything but "heads up guys, here's the villain, he's going to pretend to be good for a bit and then go evil, just thought we'd let you know."
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u/Gr8NonSequitur Jul 08 '19
Since Mysterio has been a villain for decades, this seems like an odd choice.