Every Spider-Man Movie Villain Ranked From Worst To Best
Is the Vulture any match for Gobby and co?
What makes a great comic book villain?
Is it their ability to raise the stakes, hold up a black mirror to the hero stood opposite, or the kind of dark charm that has us rooting for them against our better judgement?
It's all of these things and more, and Spider-Man's extensive rogues gallery is chock full of bad guys who tick all of these boxes.
Many of them have been adapted for the big screen with varying degrees of success, with some filmmakers recapturing these dastardly qualities while others have debased the legacy of classic comic rogues and incurred the wrath of fans for their efforts.
Spider-Man: Homecoming is the latest entry in the series to bring a classic villain from the page to the screen as Michael Keaton's Vulture takes flight opposite Tom Holland's fledgling web-slinger with his band of cronies in tow.
So how does our new big bad, Adrian Toomes, stack up alongside the classic Spidey foes from movies past? We've ranked every major villain from Peter Parker's adventures in celluloid to find out.
10. Rhino (Amazing Spider-Man 2)
It's easy, and very convenient, to forget that a lot of things from The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ever happened, and that includes Rhino's fleeting appearances.
Spidey's encounters with Aleksei Sytsevich may bookend the movie, but his role is so inconsequential that he was almost nixed from this list.
Maybe it's Paul Giamatti's cringeworthy Russian accent, botched attempts at slapstick comedy or the fact his suit looks like it was lifted from a Transformers salvage yard, but something about this incarnation of Rhino just doesn't sit right.
One also has to ask whether Amazing Spider-Man 2 would have suffered if Sytsevich was cut from the movie. It may even have benefited, given that one of its biggest problems was a script overstuffed with bad guys and sequel setups.
Maybe his presence could have been justified if Spidey had actually fought him properly in the film. Instead, we were left guessing whether Rhino's armour can stand up to a manhole cover to the face as the end credits rolled.