Spider-Man 6

***Spider-Man 6*** is a 2015 American superhero film, based on the Marvel Comics superheroes of the same name. The movie is the sixth installment in the Spider-Man film series. The film was released on April 8, 2015. After *Spider-Man 5* became a box office success, Sony Pictures and Sam Raimi were planning to shoot the film back to back with *Spider-Man 7* but Sony cancelled these plans because they felt that it was "a fitting finale to the movie series."

The film recieved mixed reviews, with critics praising the score, plot, fight sequences, screenplay, emotional tone, casting choices, product placement, and generally deemed it an epic finale to the series, but it was criticized for it's runtime. Regardless, the film made $980 million dollars worldwide, becoming the third-most-successful Spider-Man film and the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2015. DVD sales for the film garnered $10 billion.

## Synopsis

Three years after the events of *Spider-Man 5*, Peter finds himself in the biggest battle he's ever faced, with the Vultress, the Hobgoblin, and Electro, as he struggles to protect Mary Jane, who is now pregnant with their first child.

## Plot

Three years after the death of John Jameson and Peter's marriage to Mary Jane, he tries to do his hardest balance his heroic life with his normal life. He then submits a picture of the Vultress and the Hobgoblin in jail, and J.J Jameson admires the newspaper, and Peter drives off in his uncle's old car with the paycheck. Meanwhile, Liz Allen grabs out her hidden wristband, then calls over her electromagnetic harness to bust her out of jail. She then busts Roderick Kingsley out, and they escape.

Peter then takes Mary Jane to the ultrasound, where the doctor finds out that the child will be a girl, much to their delight. Moments later, Spider-Man hears about a robbery at a corner store, and fights the Vultress and Hobgoblin, but both overpower him, and they leave him laying down face first, and the two flee before the police even catch up to them. At the apartment, Mary Jane asks Peter if he's alright, and he answers that he was defeated by the two villains.

She tells her husband that there's always going to be a next time, much to his delight. He feels a kick in Mary Jane's womb, and he feels happy about it. Meanwhile, at the Liz Allen's lair, she starts up a new plan, and Roderick Kingsley is paying attention as she explains it all. At the Ravencroft Institute, the two find Electro thanks to the help of Donald Menken, and they tell him about the plan, and he agrees to go along with it with the sole intent of getting revenge on Spider-Man for defeating him and getting him incarcerated there.

Later, Peter wakes up one morning, and goes over to his calender, and discovers that his and Mary Jane's first child is to be born at any moment. Shortly after this, the Vultress attacks him, and throws him at a pole, then flies off. Peter tracks down Roderick, who he asks to help him in the fight against Vultress and Electro. Although reluctant at first, he agrees to help. After Spider-Man arrives at the abandoned Brooklyn Navy Yard Hospital, he sees the Vultress and Electro. They fight him and do some damage, where Electro restrains Peter with his electric powers, as Vultress flies in with her sword-like feathers, preparing for the kill, until a flash pumpkin bomb from the Hobgoblin goes off, momentarily blinding her. He uppercuts Electro, sending him flying into the sky, then lands on the ground face-first. He reaches out to Spider-Man, and after he takes his hand they fight the two villains.

During the course of the battle, Vultress revealed that during their freshman year in high school, he rejected her crush on him, leading her to side with Flash Thompson, who bullied him. Spider-Man then leaps next to the Hobgoblin, and they counteracted Electro's powers with their own abilities, killing him in an electrical explosion. Spider-Man was soon kidnapped by Vultress, with the Hobgoblin in hot pursuit. The two soon land inside the abandoned Neponsit Beach Hospital. Vultress begins taunting him about rejecting her crush on him in favor of Mary Jane, and prepares to kill him with her plasma pistol, before Hobgoblin intervened with two razor-bats, angering her. They briefly fight, before Vultress uses her feathers to smack Hobgoblin off his glider, then she fatally injures him by impaling him with it. Spider-Man battles her, then is beaten down. He lands next to the glider, where Vultress flies in, and prepares for the kill, only for Peter to pin her to the ceiling. He then summons some pumpkin bombs and sends them flying toward the Vultress, and they explode, killing her as Peter gets Roderick out of there as the adandoned hospital is about to collapse. The two then reconcile as Roderick succumbs to his injuries and dies. Peter then finds Mary Jane at their apartment, and takes her to the hospital in his uncle's car to give birth to their child, May Parker.

Five years later, Peter, Mary Jane, and May are now having a picnic at Central Park. He then gets out a scrapbook about his life, and shows it to May, who opens it to Peter's senior year in high school.

## Cast

* Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker/Spider-Man
* Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane Watson
* Aaron Eckhart as Roderick Kingsley/Hobgoblin
* Emmy Rossum as Liz Allan/Vultress
* J.K Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson
* Jason Momoa as Donald Menken
* Jim Carrey as Max Dillon/Electro
* Lily Pater as May Parker

## Production

*Spider-Man 6* was originally intended to shot back to back with *Spider-Man 7* but Sony cancelled these plans because they felt that *Spider-Man 6* was "a fitting finale to the series."

At San Diego Comic-Con in July 2022, Tobey Maguire made a surprise appearance at a panel headlined by director Sam Raimi to reveal the first teaser trailer for *Spider-Man 6*. The trailer confirmed the return of some characters from previous installments and showed scenes filmed in the USA, Japan, France, Germany, and Jordan.

Jim Carrey expressed interest in returning as Electro by saying "I really would be OK with coming back as some human-like electrical capacitor. Even with him being killed off, it's still so much fun playing the character."

## Trivia

In this film only, May Parker, the daughter of Mary Jane and Peter survives.

The song that plays when May Parker opens her father's scrapbook and during the credits is It's Been a Long, Long Time by Kitty Kallen.