![]() ![]() Yet, there's a sense in which a Spider-Man movie is only as good as its villain. ![]() For years, his balloon flew through Manhattan in Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Spider-Man is arguably the world's most recognizable superhero. You know the drill: with great power comes great responsibility, and so on. His origin would be told and retold so often it became expendable. Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield, and Tom Holland took turns embodying the web-slinger in live-action, while a bevy of different voices brought animated versions of the character to life. That changed with the dawn of the superhero movie millennium, which brought a revolving set of Spider-Men to the big screen. Fans hoping for a real Spider-Man film could only fantasize about the James Cameron blockbuster that never was. Around the same time, a short film based on Toei's television adaptation, "Spider-Man," played in Japanese theaters. Two decades earlier, select episodes of "The Amazing Spider-Man" TV series enjoyed a theatrical release outside the U.S. In the '90s, Spider-Man was caught in a web of litigation that made it seem like he'd never get his own, proper film. ![]()
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