Sony’s Spider-Man universe – as far as being a place where a series of films of questionably varying quality starring Spider-Man’s neighbors are never allowed to admit that they actually have Spider-Man in them are close – is dead. Long live Sony’s Spider-Man universe? The cinematic semi-universe formerly known as SPUMC breathes new life with the release of its misguided finale Kraven the Hunter This week the studio is trying to refocus on the webslinger rather than anyone loosely related to him that they can get their hands on. But that didn’t stop Kraven about throwing a few hooks at a possible future… all centered around an infamous architect in the history of Spidey comics.

It seems like Sony has never really moved on from its attempts to set the stage for some sort of Sinister Six movie. As Kraven In the third act, it is revealed that Rhino (Alessandro Nivola) received his torturous enhancements from a mysterious doctor in New York, and that Kraven’s younger half-brother Dimitri (Fred Hechinger) eventually went to the same mysterious figure to administer the transforming ones to him Powers that made him the chameleon in the comics. While this doctor remains unseen KravenRhino calls him when he tries to convince Dimitri to take the same path as him: Miles Warren.

Who is Miles Warren?

Miles Warren, also known as Jackal, was a renowned biochemist who taught at Empire State University. Warren was obsessed with the idea of ​​human cloning and put his obsession into action for another reason: his romantic interest in one of his students, Gwen Stacy. When Gwen was killed by the Green Goblin, Warren blamed Spider-Man for failing to save her and going down a rabbit hole with genetic samples from her and another of his students, Peter Parker, to try to create human clones to create. Upon discovering that Peter was actually Spider-Man, Miles created his first two clones: his first clone of Gwen became known as Abby-L, a grotesque figure whose mere touch caused living creatures to rapidly degenerate . Warren planned to kill Abby, horrified at his perceived failure, but Abby begged him to let her live in exchange for him giving up his cloning attempts to prevent someone else like her from being created. Warren immediately ignored this and moved on to his second attempt when she left him: a clone of Peter who suffered from cellular degeneration but escaped Miles’ attempts to get rid of him and took the name…Kaine Parker.

Yes, as you might have guessed at this point, Miles Warren is the villainous figure behind one of the most infamous Spider-Man stories ever written: the Clone Saga. Miles assumed the identity of the Jackal – a green, furry, goblin-like creature – after killing his lab partner in a mad rage. He escaped and spent months perfecting the art of cloning, while also preparing for his supposed revenge against Peter Parker. After a series of failed attempts at revenge, Miles put his greatest plan into action. Using a clone of himself to fake his death, Miles developed his latest clone of Peter to assume the identity of Ben Reilly in order to convince the real Peter that he had been living a lie as a clone of the “real one.” Spider-Man. The event dragged on for three years, culminating in Ben’s apparent death.

While Miles has had a few other storylines after the Clone Saga – most notably Spider-Island in 2011 – more recently he played a major role in Ben Reilly’s return during the events of the Clone Conspiracy event in 2016. It succeeds there Miles to revive Ben through a procedure that gave him all of his memories of the past until his death decades earlier during the Clone Saga, only for Ben to have his power and even his usurping identity as the Jackal and targeting Peter by using Miles’ cloning technology to resurrect the dead, almost bringing about a dark apocalyptic future in the process. Both Ben and Miles survived the events of Clone Conspiracy and went their separate ways, leaving Miles as the main villain in the first arc of that year Spectacular Spider-Man series in which he kills his brother Raymond Warren and takes his place in hopes of continuing his cloning research.

What did Miles Warren mean to Sony? Spider-Man Movies?

Well, now? Nothing. We will probably never see anyone take up the issues Kraven unless they’re eventually repurposed as an excuse to show us two Toms Holland in a straight Spidey movie. Miles, like Rhino and Chameleon, will likely join well over six potential candidates for Sony’s ever-uncertain Sinister Six film plans. But of course, setting the stage for Miles to be the architect of all this doesn’t just pave the way to the Sinister Six: The Jackal is both a major villain in his own right and sets the stage for a turn in one of the most infamous Spiders -Man comic saga of all time. Heck, he even gives us multiple Spider-Men in the form of Kaine Parker and Ben Reilly, really letting Sony have its Spider-cake and eat it if the company wanted to make Spider-Man movies that weren’t necessarily tied into the current MCU -Iteration of Peter Parker.

But all of that is once again off the table as the studio refocuses its Spidey franchise around, well, Spider-Man. Time will tell whether KravenThe film’s legacy will be to set the stage for Miles to eventually join the MCU, or, more likely, it will simply add a final bitter note to this particularly uneven era of Sony superhero filmmaking.

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