Spider-Man: Homecoming - Is There A Mystery Secret Character?

By Simon Gallagher / February 20, 2017

Just when you thought Spider-Man: Homecoming was taking its final shape and we knew pretty much all there was to know about it, it seems Marvel might be withholding one key bit of information.

Thanks to a tease of the forthcoming LEGO sets unveiled at the New York Toy Fair, it looks like there might be a secret character in Homecoming. That suspicion comes from the unprecedented step made by LEGO to conceal one of the characters on the box artwork for one of the tie-in sets...

While the scene itself captured in the set might not actually translate into an actual movie moment (LEGO have a track record of creative liberties for more engaging sets after all), it seems odd that they would remove a character without good reason.

So who could it be?

By the look of it, it seems the character is supposed to be driving a van carrying boxes marked DODC - or Department Of Damage Control, if you choose to believe the increasingly plausible rumours...

But even if they were a DODC employee, that wouldn't necessarily constitute a major spoiler in itself. Could it simply be that LEGO don't want to spoil Shocker's appearance (even though that has literally just happened on some Marvel artwork)?

It would make sense that there opening set-piece of Homecoming would be a heist on the DODC, which sees Shocker's gang break in and steal the Chitauri technology that goes into Vulture's flightsuit (and possibly the Shocker gauntlets?) So maybe that's all we're looking at here?

Who do you think the mystery character could be? Share your thoughts below in the comments thread.