Spider-Man: Homecoming - 13 Biggest Rumours You Need To Know (October 7th)

13. The Tinkerer Has Beef With Tony Stark

Hot on the heels of the news that Michael Chernus had joined Spider-Man: Homecoming as Phineas Mason aka The Tinkerer, Heroic Hollywood dropped some new details about the character’s role in the film.

Their source suggest that The Tinkerer is an ex-Stark Industries employee who was personally fired by Tony Stark a few years back, and who provides tech to The Vulture and The Shocker (possibly using Chitauri technology) to prove to Stark it was a mistake to fire him. Hell hath no fury like an employee scorned.

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It makes perfect sense: so far the MCU has been populated by villains who are mirror images of the heroes (especially in Iron Man movies) so having this sort of Edward Nigma/Bruce Wayne dynamic follows the model.

And the recovered Chitauri tech also fits, since that's just recently been explored in both Age Of Ultron AND Luke Cage.