With the CinemaCon Spider-Man announcements coming this week, Marvel’s favorite web-head remains at the center of the pop culture conversation. That’s also been helped by the merchandise. Since Spider-Man: No Way Home was released a few years back, the brand has been heavy on nostalgia. This has included new apparel collections, Funko Pops and action figures. The latter of which, Hasbro, has been leading the way in their popular Marvel Legends figure line. Now, Hasbro has just debuted their latest Spider-Man figures that will have Sam Raimi fans dancing.
Their latest addition to their six-inch-scale Marvel Legends collection is based on Raimi’s Spider-Man 3. Specifically, the symbiote black suit worn by Tobey Maguire in that trilogy capper. The figure comes with an anxious number of accessories as well. This includes two extra sets of hands, a symbiote face blob that has a sinister hint of Venom to it and a Peter Parker head sculpt. The unmasked head has Peter’s signature slick-down jet-black hair from his time with this aggressive alien life form. This is the second Maguire Spider-Man Hasbro has made in the last number of years. The first was based on the actor’s return in No Way Home. This mean mugged Spider-Man was also announced with another major wave of Marvel Legends figures for the upcoming MCU film Thunderbolts*.
“See Ya Chump!”

Spider-Man 3’s handling of the black suit is still one of its most talked-about aspects of the film. That’s even after almost two decades. A far cry from the violent and crazed version of the web slinger we have seen in the comics, TV shows or video games, this trilogy capper took the concept in a more comedic direction. This new relationship made Peter more “confident”. In the film, he can be seen in a jazz musical number, hitting on women like his co-worker Betty Brant and making his neighbor bake him cookies. Peter had moments of aggression like in the comics, but with the surrounding context, it mostly came off as campy. Because of that, and now iconic lines like “Look at little Goblin Jr., gonna cry?”, this black-suited Spider-Man was dubbed “Emo Peter” by the fans. His previously mentioned updated hairstyle didn’t help much either. While Spider-Man 3 is considered to be the weakest of the trilogy, holding a slightly positive 63% on Rotten Tomatoes, those extremely campy moments/choices have only made this wacky film more memorable in hindsight.
Where Can You Stream ‘Spider-Man 3’?

Spider-Man 3 is currently streaming alongside the rest of Raimi’s Marvel trilogy on Disney+. Before your next web-centric binge, you can pre-order Spider-Man’s Black Suit from the film on Hasbro’s website. Hopefully, this means we can get more Marvel Legends figures for other Spider-Man 3 characters like Sandman, New Goblin and Venom in the future.

Spider-Man 3

Release Date

May 3, 2007

Runtime

139 minutes

Producers

Avi Arad, Grant Curtis, Joseph M. Caracciolo Jr., Kevin Feige, Laura Ziskin

Source: Hasbro