08 December 2009

Spotlight on Vulture

The classic Spider-Villain Vulture made his debut in the pages of The Amazing Spider-Man #2 in 1963.

Just a few years later, the vulture made his on screen debut in the 1967 Spider-Man animated series.


The flying menace returned in the 1981 Spider-Man animated series, looking as wussy as ever.

The 1990's Spider-Man series at least tried to make the character a little more intimidating. Like in other incarnations, the Vulture started off as an old bald dude, but was youthified and wore a costume that wouldn't be mistaken for pajamas.


This Vulture actually ended up being transformed into the Man-Spider, in a weird twist of fate.


The 1999 Spider-Man Unlimited series featured an "X-treme" Vulture from another dimension.

Finally, the 2008 Spectacular Spider-Man gave the Vulture a more traditional presentation, though giving him a new red and black color scheme after years of adorning pea green.

Although Vulture has not yet made his first live-action appearance, he is widely rumored to be one of the main foes in Spider-Man 4. My thoughts. I hope not. What a lame villain. While I admit, some aerial fights could be cool, I just have zero interest in seeing Spidey beat up on an old bald dude. I fear that the rumors are founded though as Vulture was originally going to be in Spider-Man 3 with Sandman until pressure was placed to use Venom instead. Time will tell, but there are plenty of other classic villains more deserving of their chance to tangle with Spidey.




5 comments:

  1. I`d rather the movie have Carnage, Black Cat, Rhino, or Mysterio.

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  2. The rumour, (http://superherohype.com/news/spider-mannews.php?id=8896), is that John Malkovich will be playing the Vulture in SM4. How AWESOME would that be?!

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  3. John Malkovich would be cool, I must admit.

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  4. I love Malkovich but I think Ben Kingsley would make an interesting Vulture also.

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  5. Come on I like Vulture. He is not a lame villain!

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