Starting a whole new canon. A whole new Spider-Man!
Black.
Spider-Man (v.o.)
Amazing.
Smash cut: Ext. New York City street - day.
A man on a motorcycle is whizzing fast between the busy traffic of New York. The man has a hostage strapped to his back with duct tape over his mouth. The hostage is a man in his 50s with short cropped hair, the man driving the motorcycle has a helmet obscuring his face. The driver looks back in panic, up to the buildings, looking for something.
Cut back to black.
Spider-Man (v.o.)
Spectacular.
Cut back to the chase scene.
Long stringy webbing hits the side of a building as we pull back and see a swinging flash of red and blue. The motorcycle with the hostage swerves.
Cut back to black.
Spider-Man (v.o.)
Friendly neighborhood.
Cut back to the New York scene.
A crowd of civilians on the sides of the city streets watch up in awe as a woman points up to the sky.
Woman in crowd
It’s SPIDER-MAN!
We get a full reveal of SPIDER-MAN, swinging in full glory in a completely comic book accurate outfit, complete with the web wings.
Spider-Man (v.o.)
Yep, that’s what they call me!
Spider-Man lands on top of a truck and traces the fleeing motorcycle as we get a very ‘Sherlock’-y examination from Spider-Man.
Spider-Man (v.o.)
Okay, let’s see here: hostage, Mayor Greg Herman. Stolen from his home about 30 minutes ago byyyyy THIS GUY--
Close-up on the kidnapper driving the motorcycle.
Spider-Man (v.o.)
---and I have no idea who he is. Not a big name guy, not a goblin or a octopus by my examination, so it seems...he’s just some nut in a motorcycle helmet. Who stole the mayor of New York. Easy enough.
Spider-Man leaps off the truck and starts swinging in between the traffic.
Spider-Man
WATCH OUT, EVERYONE! BIG TIME SUPER HERO COMING THROUGH!
Spider-Man shoots a web-line at the mayor and pulls him off the moving motorcycle. He snatches him up and Spider-Man catches him in mid-air.
Spider-Man
I got ya, Giuliani.
The mayor starts muffling excited thanks to his rescuer as Spider-Man swings him to safety.
Spider-Man
Alright, alright, easy, big guy. I better get a key to the city for this.
Spider-Man drops the mayor off on top of a building. The mayor waves as Spidey swings off.
Spider-Man (v.o.)
Guy needs to invest in some Axe bodyspray or something.
Cut back to the motorcycle racing down the street. The driver still thinks the mayor is on his bike but he looks back and sees the opposite is the case. Spider-Man is behind him, with arms wrapped around the driver.
Spider-Man
Hi.
The motorcycle swerves and falls while Spidey jumps off, what’s left of it (And the helmeted driver) skidding down the street. Spider-Man watches from on top of a street light. The motorcycle stops and lays on top of the driver.
Spider-Man
Burnooooout! Oh, buddy, that looked like it hurt!
The driver pushes the motorcycle off of him, gets up, and brushes himself off.
Spider-Man
“Hey, I’m some guy in a motorcycle helmet, and this is ‘Jackass’!”
The driver pulls out a gun and points it at Spidey.
Spider-Man
No? Not even a titter? Tough sub.
The driver fires the gun at Spider-Man, but he swings off the street light and kicks the driver to his side.
Spider-Man
Hey, Arnie, if that old guy was John Connor, you were doing a HORRIBLE job at protecting him.
The driver sits up and points his gun again at Spider-Man.
Driver
Do you EVER shut up!
Spider-Man
Never been known to, just ask my aunt.
Spider-Man shoots a burst of web that holds the driver’s hand with the gun to the ground.
Driver
Is this seriously happening?
Spider-Man
Certainly appears that way. Why don’t you go ahead and tell me why you kidnapped the mayor, Boba Fett. Things will move a lot faster.
Driver
I’m not telling you anything. The Syndicate will rise and you will be--!!
Spider-Man
Okay, yadda yadda, whatever…
Spider-Man punches the driver in the side of the helmet, cracking the visor. He pulls off the helmet to reveal a kid young enough to be in high school. In the same school as Spidey’s alter ego, Peter Parker, in fact, because Spidey recognizes him.
Spider-Man (v.o.)
You have GOT to be kidding me.
Spider-Man
Herman?!
Herman looks confused.
Herman
How do you know my name?
Spider-Man (v.o.)
This kid is Herman Schultz. He’s like the biggest dork in my class, and this is coming from the king of the dorks. Did I mention that I’m in high school?
Herman
Hey, Spider-Nerd! I said, how do you know my name?
Spider-Man (laughing a bit)
I-I-I’m...I’m the eyes and ears of this city! Nothing goes past me! I’m the alpha and omega! I’m Zeus!
Herman looks unimpressed.
Herman
Do you go to my high school?
Spider-Man
What’s a high school?
Herman
Come to think of it...some kid did get bitten by some freaky spider on a trip to OsCorp last year…
Spider-Man
I didn’t get my powers by getting bitten by a spider! That-that’s stupid! I come from Arachnia, a planet from very far away! It was in imminent danger of blowing up and my father and mother sent me off in a rocket ship to protect the innocent people of Earth!
Herman
You sound like you’re 16.
Spider-Man
They sent me off not 16 years ago, if I remember correctly, so I believe in a way you are right, Earthling.
Herman
The Syndicate has your number, Spider-Man. And when we rise, we’re coming after--
Spider-Man
I’m really sorry (I’m not), but I just don’t care. I have to fight Syndicates, Leagues, evil corporations, whatever, almost every week. You’re saying stuff, but all I can think about is how much I wanna have an A.M. Crunchwrap and it’s 3:15 in the afternoon. Just my Spider-Luck. See ya, Herman!
Spider-Man swings away as police come driving up around Herman.
Spider-Man (v.o.)
That didn’t go nearly as well as it could have.
Cut to: Int. Aunt May’s house - day.
Peter Parker, the teenager better known as Spider-Man, sits at the table in his aunt May’s kitchen, eating Lucky Charms and watching ‘The Price Is Right’ wrapped in a blanket. Aunt May comes in and drops a plate into the sink.
Aunt May
Peter, are you going to do these dishes?
Peter (mouthful of cereal)
Mmf.
Aunt May
And you’re gonna finish that Chemistry project your teacher emailed me about?
Peter (mouthful of cereal)
Mmf.
Peter swallows.
Peter
Aunt May, it’s Saturday. Just let me...not do anything, please?
Aunt May
It’s a project, Peter.
Peter
With information that I’ll NEVER need in everyday life! I can slack off this one.
Aunt May
Don’t you want to be a scientist?
Peter
Not THAT kind of scientist. Besides, I know HOW to do it, I just choose not to. It’s below me.
Aunt May
Alright, well…
Aunt May props up her purse on her shoulder and starts to walk out of the kitchen.
Aunt May
I’ll be back later. Get stuff done, Peter.
Peter
Uh-huh.
Aunt May walks out. Peter runs up to the window, still draped in the blanket, making sure she drives off, and then rips the blanket off, revealing he is fully decked in his SPIDER-MAN outfit.
Peter (v.o.)
At one point I considered not doing the superhero thing on the weekends, but statistically, more crime happens on the weekends. That might not be true. I just made it up. But my point is, crime is always hitting the streets of New York. And it’s my responsibility to take care of it. With great power comes great--
Peter sees a police car mid-chase and rolls his eyes.
Peter (v.o.)
Ah, whatever.
Peter slips on his Spidey mask and web slings out the window of his house.
Cut to: Abandoned Warehouse - night.
We see a old, ugly warehouse, seeming to be on the skirts of New York. Moss is hanging off of it and there seems to be no activity coming from it. One lowly car comes driving up to the warehouse, stopping a few yards from the front. The driver is revealed to be Herman from earlier. He’s looking at the warehouse, nervously.
Herman comes around the very back of the warehouse and finds a small keypad. He puts in a pin number and a huge automated door opens. It is dark in the room Herman walks into, but then he advances into the next room, which is a huge dance floor with big, flashing neon lights and loud music. Lavishly dressed people are EVERYWHERE, dancing, buying drinks, getting into fights, the usual stuff for a club. We are in the most exclusive club for the supervillain community, the SINISTER SPOT.
You see quite a few of Spider-Man’s foes in the club as Herman walks through it, like the Rhino, Kraven the Hunter, the Jackal, even possibly Doctor Octopus. Herman walks up a revolving staircase all the way up to a private room at the end of the club. He puts in another pin and walks into the room: which is a simple room, with nothing but a long table, some chairs, and a window overlooking the club. The more interesting part, however, is who sits in those chairs. Around the table sits: Boomerang, a guy with an endless arsenal of tech-modified boomerangs, The Beetle, a megalomaniac in a robotic suit with retractable wings, Black Cat, an attractive female cat burglar, Morbius the Living Vampire, a man who got vampiric abilities through the wonders of science and now looks like something out of a Bram Stoker novel, and Mysterio, another teched out guy who looks like he has a fish bowl for a head and is constantly surrounded by smoke. These super-criminals, along with Herman, make up THE SINISTER SYNDICATE.
Facing out the window, however, is the Syndicate’s leader. He’s tucked away in shadow, but we can make out he is draped in a cape and hood, and he’s very scary.
Herman
Hey. guys.
Mysterio
Where were you, child? We have been waiting all day.
Herman
You didn’t see the news? The Spider-Man got in the way.
Boomerang
You didn’t just kill him or something?
Herman
He’s faster than you can possibly imagine.
The Beetle
Not too fast for me. Put me up against the Spider-Man and I will eradicate him faster than you would go through a drive-thru window, Schultz.
Black Cat
I’d like to sick my claws into him.
Boomerang
Cat puns, how original.
Morbius
How delicious the taste of spider blood must be.
Syndicate Leader
SILENCE!
All of the Syndicate focus their attention on the leader.
Syndicate Leader
Your initiation into the Sinister Syndicate was to kidnap the mayor and bring him here to our club, but you let Spider-Man get in the way. You have failed me.
Herman
I almost had him, boss, I swear. Spider-Man came out of nowhere.
Syndicate Leader
As he always does, but we must be prepared.
Mysterio
I believe our best course of action would be to get rid of the Spider.
Boomerang
It probably isn’t as easy as it sounds, Mysterio. This guy took down some of the greats. The Green Goblin, the Kingpin, The Chameleon…
Mysterio
We are better than those fools, Boomerang.
Morbius
They did not have the drive, the thirst that we do.
Boomerang
Then where would we begin? How do we even track the guy down? You think a guy in a bright red and blue outfit would be easier to kill…
Herman
...I think I may know who he is.
The Syndicate Leader turns his hooded head in interest.
Syndicate Leader
What was that?
Herman
He knew who I was. He recognized me, and he sounded like he’s around my age. I think he’s in my class.
The Beetle
He’s a high schooler?
Mysterio
He’s only a child.
The Beetle
He’s a threat.
Morbius
Youthfulness is not innocence, Mysterio.
Boomerang
I’d kill him if he was seven.
Syndicate Leader
Perhaps you are not as useless as I had thought, Herman. You can and will lead us to Spider-Man?
Herman
I want him just as bad as any of you do.
Syndicate Leader
Indeed. Spider-Man has foiled our plans for the last time. Black Cat, show Mr. Schultz his gift.
Black Cat touches a button on the long table the Syndicate is sitting at. The table opens up and reveals the Syndicate’s gift to Herman: A gold-plated suit with a mask, very villainous, and a pair of gauntlets, crackling with electric energy.
Syndicate Leader
This is what you requested, correct?
Herman puts on one of the gauntlets and fires it up.
Herman
It...it’s perfect.
The Beetle
I built it myself.
Syndicate Leader
It’s our token to our newest member.
The Syndicate Leader steps into the light, and we get a full reveal: his face demonic and his teeth sharp, his tattered cape draped around his around chest and shoulders, sword at his side. This is one horrifying bad guy. His name is the Hobgoblin.
Hobgoblin
Welcome to the Sinister Syndicate, SHOCKER.
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