The Shocker Makes His Spider-Man: Homecoming Debut

The Shocker Makes His Spider-Man: Homecoming Debut

For a long time, the biggest question about Spider-Man: Homecoming was who out of Spider-Man’s impressive rogue’s gallery would be fighting the newest incarnation of the wallcrawler. We’ve since had confirmation of two villains, Vulture and the Tinkerer, and now new set pictures have revealed a third — the Shocker.

God bless the Superior Foes of Spider-Man. Art by Steve Lieber.

The Shocker Makes His Spider-Man: Homecoming Debut

While Shocker, AKA Herman Schultz, isn’t perhaps on the same level of Spidey’s most famous villains, he’s certainly a very recognisable one, thanks to his meme-worthy appearances in the Spider-Man animated series and his part in the excellent Superior Foes of Spider-Man comic. He’s actually been rumoured to be part of Homecoming for a while — with Bokeem Woodbine tipped to play the part — but now we actually have visual confirmation that he’s in the movie:

It’s certainly an interesting take on the character; most of the elements are there, even the diamond pattern has been etched into the material, although weirdly the crimson of his usual costume has been replaced with a light brown. It’s not the slickest of costumes (it looks very thrown together), but it fits as an “origin” costume if we’re getting to see how Schultz turned to a life of crime.

And what are the odds his vibro-smasher gauntlets are pilfered Stark tech rather than Schultz’s own design? Considering that a Stark has seemingly played a hand in almost every bit of tech in the MCU, it’s probably highly likely. Tony is in the movie, after all.

Spider-Man: Homecoming swings into theatres in the US 7 July 2017.


The Cheapest NBN 50 Plans

It’s the most popular NBN speed in Australia for a reason. Here are the cheapest plans available.

At Gizmodo, we independently select and write about stuff we love and think you'll like too. We have affiliate and advertising partnerships, which means we may collect a share of sales or other compensation from the links on this page. BTW – prices are accurate and items in stock at the time of posting.