Amidst all of it, Spidey appears to have been recruited by a corporation run by a personality performed by Severance‘s Tramell Tillman to seize Sadie Sink’s character. Who’s that character? Nicely, she’s sporting yellow and inexperienced and he or she has purple hair. Additionally, she appears to have the ability to take over folks’s minds, rather a lot like a sure mutant we all know.
Or is it? When Jean Gray first debuted in 1963’s Uncanny X-Males #1, by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee, she possessed solely telekinesis, the flexibility to maneuver issues together with her thoughts. We actually see her doing these issues within the trailer, probably even lifting automobiles. However the standout part of the trailer sees Sink’s character both controlling minds or probably leaping from physique to physique, just like the killer within the film Fallen, which isn’t historically one in every of Jean’s unique powers.
Jean doesn’t begin displaying telepathic talents till X-Males #43 (1968). A decade later, Marvel retconned her origin to disclose that Jean has at all times been a robust telepath, however Professor Xavier blocked out a few of her talents to stop her from being overwhelmed (or to regulate her as a result of, as we must always all bear in mind, Professor Xavier is a jerk).
That inconsistency in her energy set might level to Jean taking part in a special character, maybe the Spider-Queen—who controls and military of drones—or Shathra, the inter-dimensional monster who hunts folks with spider-powers. Each characters come from across the time of the comedian storyline The Different, which appears to be a serious inspiration for Model New Day, and each work as villains.
But, there are two issues within the trailer that time away from these villains and towards somebody who’s misunderstood as an alternative of evil. First, we see that the Punisher Frank Fortress helps this woman, presumably out of his personal volition as an alternative of mind-control. Second, Tillman’s character appears to be associated to the Division of Harm Management, the MCU Homeland Safety equal that has not been pleasant to superheroes like Spidey or Ms. Marvel. So if Frank is for her, and Harm Management is towards her, she’s most likely egg.
Most significantly of all, for those who watch the trailer with the subtitles on, you’ll see that the captions id Tillman’s character as “Metzger.” That’s William Metzger, a really minor character launched in 1999’s X-Males: Youngsters of the Atom #1 by Joe Casey and Steve Impolite. Metzger was an anti-mutant activist who gained traction within the U.S. authorities for a short while. Whereas Marvel has no drawback radically imagining minor characters from the comics (bear in mind when Man-Factor’s girlfriend Ellen Brandt turned an Extremis bomber in Iron Man 3?), the Metzger identify appears telling.
