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Jake Gyllenhaal is playing Mysterio, and in every comics continuity I can think of, Mysterio is a villain. Mysterio’s civilian name is Quentin Beck and he was a movie special effects expert before he became a supervillain. He uses that special effects knowledge to create complex illusions as a hallmark of his supervillain career. In short, he’s a super cool and very meta candidate for the villain of a supervillain movie – if he’s playing the villain. Like you mentioned, so far in the trailers and in interviews given the MCU’s Mysterio has been cast in the light as a good guy, a supposed traveler from another earth and an introduction to the multiverse. Promotional material has shown Peter interacting with him with his mask off, which, even if this Mysterio is a good guy, I really hate because frivolity with his identity even among the good guys is something no version of Peter Parker has ever been known for before, and it makes him seem very irresponsible and careless. But let’s move on.

Now, as many people have already pointed out, MCU Mysterio could be lying. Lying is, after all, what a showman supervillain who creates complex illusions does, and this is an adaptation of the character who once made Matt Murdock question whether a baby was the antichrist. (Comics!) So it’s not out of the realm of possibility that the plot of Far From Home is that this Mysterio is claiming to be from the multiverse and has somehow… tricked the greatest intelligence community in this fictional world… including Nick Fury himself…  to, I don’t know, rob Venice or whatever? 

But let’s leave the question of whether or not this Mysterio is lying for possibly nefarious purposes aside for a sec. I want to tackle two things about the decisions being made here that I really, really don’t like. The first is related to the mask issue I talked about a little above. Mysterio is being peddled in interviews with director Jon Watts as something of a mentor figure for MCU Peter:

“We thought it might be interesting to play Mysterio as almost like the cool uncle,” Jon Watts said. I mean, “interesting” is a word for taking a supervillain and making him into a mentor figure but I think if there’s one word you can’t throw around in Spider-Man without some serious consequences for your narrative, it’s uncle. Not only does the big Endgame spoiler appear to be affecting MCU’s Peter in Far From Home far more than they’ve even bothered to reference Uncle Ben, now Jon Watts is calling Mysterio “almost like the cool uncle.” It’s a real slap in the face to Peter’s origin story to discuss the character using that term no matter how the Mysterio storyline in the film ends up going down.

The second issue is something I often reference talking about the MCU’s Spider-Man adaptation decisions, and that’s the Miles Morales problem. Now, whether or not this Mysterio is from another earth or whether he’s lying, we have to address that there is a comic involving Mysterio, Nick Fury, and the multiverse: Spider-Men. Spider-Men is the first comic wherein Peter Parker meets Miles Morales when he himself accidentally travels to the multiverse. So once again we’ve taken the trappings from a comic that featured Miles and then removed Miles from them so Peter gets to be the plucky young Spider-Man coming into his own.

(Spider-Men #4)

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The first one with two Mehmeds will be up soon, we will try to post the other ideas a bit later.

I think he, may it be unconscious or not, tried to reach out because of hope of getting better. Suicidal people often want help at first, want to be saved and reach out in weird ways. Going by the opening there is something connecting them. So it could be also that in the darkest moment the fact that Kobayashi tries, makes it more special? Idk that he wants it but not sure why or how

It’s Ultimate Marvel. It was supposed to be the darker and edgier version of 616. There are parts of MCU that resemble it more closely than 616. It was a separate Marvel universe, so there were all the titles you might expect, Ult X-Men, Ult Fantastic Four, and there weren’t Ult Avengers, as in Ultimate Marvel they were called The Ultimates. (Okay, “Avengers” as a team showed up later, but it was weird, and didn’t have our faves on it.)

It also featured such awesome titles as Ultimate Comics: The Ultimates. Marvel, never stop.

It’s, uh, it is dark, but in such a cracky way. I honestly love Ults, they’re ridiculous, and then at the worst moments feels assault you. ULT TONY WAS SO SWEET AND SO SAD.

So, Ults went on for a while, until Hickman came last year with Secret Wars and blew up all of Marvel Universe, and Ults met their end in the appropriately titled Ultimate End (note: I LOVE ULT END, it had the bestest canon tonycest ever).