I wouldn't be dissappointed if Beck appeared in the Spider-Man 2: Video Game costume. It would probably look better in a movie than the classic spandex.
I personally would rather see Mysterio in #5 than in Spider-Man 4. I think that Lizard really needs to be used, and Kraven would make a perfect secondary villain. You could have a basic Lizard story, Kraven comes to New York to catch him, Spidey tries to intervene. Several battles ensue (in which Spidey gets beaten on by Doc Conners as he tries to prevent Kraven killing his old friend and teacher). Eventually, after earning the hatred of nearly all of NY for seemingly helping Lizzy escape time and time again, the three have a final climactic battle in the sewers. Kraven kills Lizard, and the remainder of the movie becomes similar to Kraven's Last Hunt. Kraven finally throws himself from the window of his mansion (rather than shooting himself). As for the Parker side of the story, he and MJ finally set the wedding date.
With Spidey 5, our main villain is Mysterio. Quentin Beck and MJ's stalker could be combined into one character. MJ starts in showbiz, meets the handsome (intelligent, and incredibly shallow) special effects wiz, and Beck decides to try to woo her. After being rejected, Beck tries to kill her in a masive explosion on set. Spidey intervenes, Beck is exposed, and the villain tries to run for it. Beck tries to frame Spider-Man for a crime-spree, inclusding several attempts at MJs life, then answers the Bugles call to arms as Mysterio. After a long fight, Mysterio is revealed and flees again. The film climaxes with Beck kidnapping MJ, Spidey giving chase. After battling Mysterio (and all his previous villains in the form of hallucinations) on some bridge or other, Beck tries to kill MJ and is arrested as Spidey saves her. Looking in the rear-view mirror of the cop car bringing him to prison, Beck is enraged to see the couple alive. He comandeers the car and tries to run them down, but drives straight off the bridge when Spidey grabs his wife and leaps to safety. After several scenes of soppy mushy-goop (love scenes), the credits roll. At the end we see a Daily Bugle paper with the headline amounting to "Car Recovered; Body Missing" tossed aside as a trench-coat clad figure jogs down the steps into a subway station. Cutting to an aerial viw of the entrance, we see a familiar purple fog roll out and several screams. I bet you can guess who's back!
However, avital detail I overlooked is the potential introduction of Opening Credits Battles. In SM 4, Rhino trashes an armored car and fights Spidey. The near invulnerable villain is summarily defeated when he charges into a gasoline tank and knocks himself out, potentially landing in wet cement.
For a SM 5 opening battle, I was thinking Shocker blasts his way out of a bank with a wad of cash. He blasts a couple incoming cop cars out of the way (the occupants of said vehicles are saved by our favorite arachnid) and the criminal finds his face at the wrong end of a big red fist. He is launched back through the hole he made in the wall and into the safe.
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