Spider-Man PS4 New Trailer: 12 Things Everybody Missed
2. Lieutenant Watanabe
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Confirmed in the E3 demo earlier this June, Yuriko Watanabe again features in Spidey's latest trailer, under fire and in urgent need of assistance.
In the comics, Watanabe is a police officer turned vigilante who goes by the name of Wraith. While it doesn't look as though she'll be donning the purple and gold outfit yet, Watanabe is placed to be the key ally on the police force for the player, which again, poses a question regarding Spider-Man's relationship with the NYPD.
Any fan will know that the wall-crawler and New York's finest haven't always seen eye to eye over the years (a trend exacerbated by the ramblings of J. Jonah Jameson), but if the story does take place during the latter years of the hero, then the Watanabe-Wall-Crawler partnership could, potentially, indicate a general change in attitude from the police towards Spidey.
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.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
