THE SILLIEST SIX

Unlikely to appear in No Way Home: the half-dozen daftest villains Spider-man’s ever faced

BIG WHEEL

Corrupt businessman Jackson Weele enlists the help of regular Spider-baddie The Tinkerer to encase him in a big metal wheel, kind of like a weaponised London Eye, only smaller and stupider. During his first battle with Spider-man, he sinks in the Hudson River.

THE GIBBON

This simian-mutant acrobat originally wanted to team up with Spider-man, but was disillusioned when the hero laughed at his gibbon costume. Tellingly, he winds up in a group called The Legion Of Losers, whose other members include Grizzly and Kangaroo.

THE THUMPER

Most of Spidey’s foes are created by science going wrong. The Thumper’s origin story, though, involves her becoming embittered thanks to not getting a pony for her birthday. The spoiled brat vents by dressing up as Napoleon Bonaparte and biffing people with a boxing glove.

TYPEFACE

You know when someone is described as having something written all over their face? Well, Typeface takes that (and his own name) literally. This former signmaker’s visage is covered in letters, including a big, red “R” for retribution. He also throws bombs. With letters all over them. Called letter bombs. O. M. F. G.

THE WALRUS

Former cabbie Hubert Carpenter’s altered DNA gives him with the “proportionate speed, strength and agility of a walrus”, and the ability to hold his breath for quite a long time. All useless against Spider-man, who knocks Carpenter out cold with a single flick of his Spider-finger.

HYPNO-HUSTLER

Singer with psychedelic band the Mercy Killers, the Hypno-hustler’s law-breaking USP is his mindbending guitar, which hypnotises anyone listening. Including Hypno-hustler himself, as Spider-man finds when he removes the villain’s headphones. Guess you could say Hypnohustler was hoist with his own guitar.