Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 Launch Trailer Reveals Sandman – And Someone Else

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Sony has shared the official launch trailer for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2. This trailer shares quite a bit but is also perplexing for what it now takes out.

Getting straight to the chase, the trailer clearly shows a few seconds of a gigantic Sandman taking on both Peter Parker and Miles Morales. This Sandman has appeared in Insomniac’s games before, and is generally believed to be the same character in the comic books.

 As a strange aside, in Insomniac’s game he uses the alias William Baker, but in the 2007 movie Spider-Man 3, played by Thomas Haden Church, he goes by the name Flint Marko. But these are essentially the same character, with the same biography, powers, weaknesses, etc.

Another character who briefly appears first in the trailer, but casual viewers may not recognize, is Martin Li. Li is the character you will see glowing white, and attacking Peter with a shovel.

Martin Li is Insomniac’s version of Mister Negative, an original character they created just for their games. This Mister Negative  originally emerged as one of Peter’s enemies, but he is an even bigger villain to Miles Morales’ personal life – and a lifelong enemy to Norman Osborn.

As a child, Martin was experimented on by Osborn without his consent. Osborn gave him a serum called the Devil’s Breath. That serum gave him superpowers, but also caused an explosion that killed Martin’s parents.

Martin returned to New York years later as an adult, with a criminal empire of his own, and plans to exact revenge on Osborn. That led to a bomb attack on one of Osborn’s re-election rallies, but along the way he killed a lot of innocent people – including Miles’ dad, Jefferson Davies.

Martin is mostly like his comic book counterpart, with the same negative energy