Jakarta – You definitely know Peter Parker is Spider-Man. But do you know who Madame Web is?
The film Madame Web is scheduled to be released today in Indonesian cinemas. Before watching Madame Web, you must read the background story, until you meet Julia Cornwall, Mattie Franklin, and Anya Corazon (played respectively by Sydney Sweeney, Celeste O’Connor, and Isabela Merced). Plus there is the villain Ezekiel Sims, played by Tahar Rahim.
Madame Web Played by Dakota Johnson
Dakota Johnson stars as Cassandra ‘Cassie’ Web, a young paramedic living in New York. He got superpowers after an accident.
He has clairvoyant powers, the ability to get information directly from an object or event, whether from the past, present or future. Madame Web can also project herself there, even changing the outcome.
Madame Web was written by Denny O’Neil and John Romita Jr. who first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man No. 210, in November 1980. Madame Web is one of the important characters that appears in the Spider-Man universe, like the character Venom.
In the comic, Madame Web is described as an old and paralyzed woman. Madame Web was able to survive because her husband made sophisticated tools as a life support system in the form of tubes and special devices that resemble spider webs.
Madame Web Photo: Dok. Marvel
Madame Web was killed in a story released in 2009, although before that, she passed her powers on to Julia Carpenter, Spider-Woman played by Sydney Sweeney in the film Madame Web.
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Dakota Johnson’s version of Madame Web is joined by three friends who are also Spider-affiliated heroes in comic books, although none of them have the same origin story as Peter Parker. They weren’t bitten by radioactive spiders, but instead had a more complicated background.
Sydney Sweeney plays Julia Cornwall. The character first appeared in the sixth issue of Secret Wars in 1984.
Footage of scenes from the film Madame Web (2024). Photo: Doc. Sony Pictures
Meanwhile, Celeste O’Connor plays Mattie Franklin. He debuted in the comic The Amazing Spider-Man No. 441 in November 1998.
Mattie headlined the Spider-Woman comic series from 1999 to 2000. After that, she rarely appeared in comics with the same experience as Madame Web, having been killed, resurrected, and dead again.
Another one is Isabela Merced who plays Anya Corazon. The character debuted in the comics in Amazing Fantasy No. 1 in 2004. Its origin is said to be the wildest, because it gained superpowers when caught in a gang war between two mystical clans gathered in Brooklyn.
Anya is saved when members of the Spider Society give her a magical tattoo that also gives her superpowers.
Ezekiel Sims Villain Madame Web
Ezekiel Sims dock Madame Web Photo: dock Madame Web
The Madame Web trailer shows a villain in a black Spidey suit attacking Madame Web and her friends. This villain is not Venom, but rather a new version of an obscure but important character from the comics.
The figure is named Ezekiel Sims, who made his debut in The Amazing Spider-Man No. 1. 30 in 2001. He gained Spider-Man’s powers thanks to a magic ritual involving the Spider-Totem, long before Peter Parker gained his abilities.
Ezekiel Sims once helped Peter fight Morlun, a type of multiversal vampire who preyed on the Spider-Totem’s power, and later died fighting The Gatekeeper.
Of course that won’t happen in the film Madame Web. But it seems like the film has a fairly complicated and interrelated background.
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