Since Saimi Raimi kicked things off in 2002 with his Tobey Maguire-starring Spider-Man movie, weve seen ol web-head facing off against all manner of nefarious villains. Maguire donned the suit for three full villain-stuffed feature films, before Andrew Garfield took over for two further movies, beginning with Marc Webbs Lizard infested 2012 reboot The Amazing Spider-Man. Both of these pre-Tom Holland screen Spideys really had their work cut out for them. New York City isnt the friendliest place in the world at the best of times, but when Spider-Man is around it becomes a breeding ground for evildoers with silly names, impressive abilities and eye-catching costumes. And most of them seem to have an uncanny knack for kidnapping and/or attacking Peter Parkers girlfriends and family members. But which baddie is the best? Thats the issue were tackling today. Will it be a Raimi-wrangled supervillain or a Webb-helmed threat? Could it be one of the multiple versions of the Green Goblin, or a standalone evil-doer who only appeared once? Youll have to read on to find out if your opinions align, but few could surely disagree, though, that this guy this the absolute worst...
10. Rhino (The Amazing Spider-Man 2)
If wed ever got to see The Amazing Spider-Man 3 or the much-talked-about Sinister Six movie, perhaps we would have grown to love Paul Giamattis take on Aleksei Systevich, AKA the Russian mobster who becomes The Rhino. As it stands, though, all we got is a cheesy comic relief villain with no real backstory, motivation or character development. His two scenes (the van chase sequence and the big final bust-up) bookended The Amazing Spider-Man 2, meaning that we never got to learn what made this villain tick, or, really, anything about his character at all. Hes a bad guy with a silly accent, and thats all we really know. We know that he gets kitted out via some evil assistance resulting in that massive metal suit at some point in between the two scenes, but we never actually see him make the transition from crook to supervillain. This should be an important scene, but instead its just implied background detail. As a result, we end up with a cheesy villain with no memorable traits or dialogue. Its a real shame, that, because Giamatti couldve been excellent as a more fleshed out villain, rather than an unimpressive side show freak everyone would probably quite like to forget about.
