Spider-Man 3 Theory: We Already Know The Villains...

5. Who Pulls The Strings?

You know the name already. You know his story.

Norman Osborn is coming to meet his arch-enemy sooner or later in the MCU and this is the perfect opportunity for him to step up.

There's a hint in Far From Home that something big is already coming to New York as the site of Avengers Tower is a construction site. Clearly, the buyer who invested in the site during Homecoming is getting closer to making their presence known and if it's not a new Avengers facility (which it's not because Stark SOLD it), then it's likely to be another huge New York institution from the comics: Oscorp.

Norman Osborn obviously has previous as a powerful political figure in the comics and for him to step up and present himself as the new protector of New York in place of the superheroes who made things worse and then left them to fend for themselves or wouldn't reveal their secrets makes sense.

So too does him weaponising a platform like Jameson's as a means to discredit Spider-Man to remove him from the equation by destroying the one thing that protected him: his reciprocal relationship with the friendly neighbourhood he protected. If New York turns on Peter, he is nothing and using Jameson to do that would be a genius move. There were also hints of a casting call that seemed to suggest a Norman Osborn type quite recently, using the codename 'The Benefactor', who has already been involved in pulling strings behind Ant-Man & The Wasp.

Doesn't the idea of a Benefactor mysteriously dipping into criminal pies to advance his own empire sound exactly like something Osborn would do?

But Osborn would need something more than just discreditation to keep Spider-Man away. He'd need a stronger solution and there are two options.