He then ends the movie buzzing around on a glider as a grinning psychopath mutated by an injection of magic spider-blood. Played by Dane DeHaan, a moody actor at best and a comatose one at his worst, Harry speeds through an arc in perhaps 15 minutes of screen time that previously took James Franco three movies to complete.ĭeHaan’s Osborn begins his journey by coming home after a decade away at boarding school to be at the deathbed of his father Norman (Chris Cooper). In the confusing, jumbled mess that is The Amazing Spider-Man 2, perhaps no character–well, with the exception of Paul Giamatti’s Rhino–is given shabbier treatment than Harry Osborn. Truthfully, this interpretation of the Rhino character is awful, but I’m sure the paycheck was nice. Riffing on the Ultimate Spider-Man comics’ version of the Rhino, wherein Aleksei Sytsevich is turned into a man entombed in a giant body of robotic armor, Giamatti’s Rhino feels like a leftover from the Joel Schumacher era of superhero movies where every scene was played 568 times too big, and there was no such thing as good dialogue.

But then “cruel” might also describe what a respected actor like Paul Giamatti was doing to the Russian accent in his brief and woefully misjudged appearance in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. It seems faintly cruel to include a villain who was only ever meant to be a throwaway gag (and fodder for the trailers).

Yet with so many foxes in the Spidey henhouse, the question becomes who is the best Spider-Man movie villain-as well as who are the ones that never fully measured up? Well, we’ve taken a poll of the Den of Geek staff in order to provide a definitive answer on who is the best villain to ever get caught in Spidey’s web. Just look at the unbridled anticipation about Alfred Molina returning to the role of Doctor Octopus for proof. Despite existing across three continuities, and three vastly different interpretations of the Web-Head, popularity for the best of Spidey’s rogues can last for years-or even decades-after their first appearance. The kind that offers a performance as big and exciting as anything the do-gooders get up to.Īnd in the realm of superhero movies, few characters have had a stronger roster of such baddies than the Spider-Man movies. Nevertheless, there’s still something exciting about a comic book movie villain who does work. That conventional bit of Hollywood wisdom has been disproved by many a superhero movie in the last decade. Your hero is only as good as your villain.

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