The MCU Can Still Pay Off Spider-Man: Homecoming's Scorpion Tease
One aspect lost in the discussion of Spider-Man: No Way Home is that it made it even more possible for the MCU to pay off the Scorpion tease from Spider-Man: Homecoming. In the first movie, audiences were introduced to Mac Gargan — a character trying to get his hands on illegal technology, courtesy of Michael Keaton's Adrian Toomes, aka The Vulture. He was later seen approaching Toomes in prison to establish the possibility of them working together to bring down the webhead. Comic book fans knew Gargan better by his longtime alias, Scorpion. However, the character has never appeared again in the MCU or in one of Sony's movies. Spider-Man: No Way Home, however, made the character's costumed debut even more possible with the inclusion of the MCU's own J. Jonah Jameson and the brief cameo of another longtime Spidey adversary.
MacDonald Gargan first appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #19 (1964), where he was a private investigator hired by Jameson to look into how Peter Parker got his Spider-Man pictures. When that didn't work out, Jameson instead contributed to an experiment to grant Gargan abilities similar to Spider-Man's. The procedure ultimately drove Gargan insane and made him homicidally violent, creating the criminal nuisance known as The Scorpion. From that point on, the character had been defined by his hatred of not only Spider-Man, but also of J. Jonah Jameson, the man who made him a monster. The MCU may have given Gargan a different start, but it could still all lead to him donning the Scorpion tail in a future film, or a different suit.
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