8 Best Comic Storylines Featuring Spider-Man: Far From Home Villains
6. The Chameleon Strikes! - The Amazing Spider-Man #1
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Another villain that looks nailed on to feature in Far From Home is the Chameleon, the wall-crawler's first ever comic book adversary introduced in the Amazing Spider-Man #1, which saw the character crossover with the Fantastic Four.
Played by Numan Acar, Dmitri Smerdyakov is a master of disguise whose primary talent is industrial espionage. He's also related to Kraven the Hunter (but we'll get to that some other time).
The Chameleon Strikes is must-read for fans of Spider-Man, what with the book kickstarting the legendary partnership between Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, and it all kicks off with Spidey looking for work with the Fantastic Four. The group spurn his request, offering no salary to the financially impaired Parker, but the exchange clues the Chameleon in on a scheme to steal plans from the Baxter Building, which he does by dressing up as the web-slinger.
It remains to be seen how Acar portrays the Chameleon in Far From Home, but with seven months to go until he appears, fans would do well to familiarise themselves with the character by giving his earliest appearances a read.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
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