A hero is nothing without the villains they face, and few rogues’ galleries are more compelling than Spider-Man’s. The pantheon of baddies who’ve gone toe-to-toe with the friendly neighborhood webhead is so extensive and memorable that many of them have gone on to star in their own solo comic-book series.

Luckily for Spider-Man fans, there are multiple villains introduced for the first time in “Kraven the Hunter.” Fred Hechinger plays the master of disguise Chameleon; Alessandro Nivola is the super-strong Rhino; Christopher Abbott is the mercenary the Foreigner; and Ariana DeBose is the mystical Calypso.

While Venom was relatively successful for Sony Pictures, movies like Morbius and Madame Web have caused the company to kill off its plans for the universe.

It’s really about the next Spider-Man film.” A Sony insider seems to agree that the studio is done trying to make its well of B-tier Spidey villains into main characters, and will instead focus on Tom Holland’s next Spider-Man,

Director J.C. Chandor preemptively asked all of us to be nice to his Kraven the Hunter film, imploring us to forget the past failures of Sony’s Spider-Man Extended Universe. Unfortunately for that man,

Johnson plays the titular hero in “Kraven the Hunter,” the sixth attempt in Sony’s sputtering efforts to stock enemies for Spider-Man in movies that don’t feature the webslinger. It’s stuck in time, a callback to years ago when convoluted superhero origin stories were hot,

Sony's Kraven the Hunter, the latest Spider-Man Universe film, debuted with a dismal 13% Rotten Tomatoes score, the lowest in the franchise. Critics panned the R-rated origin story despite Aaron Taylor-Johnson's performance.

Kraven the Hunter's Rotten Tomatoes rating declares it as one of the most rotten films in Sony's Spider-Man universe, and the SSU is reportedly dead (Movie Talkies news).