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Curt Connors and the Secret of the Ooze

Curt Connors and the Secret of the Ooze

By May 14, 2012 Comics, Movies 0 Comment


Anyone care for some new Lizard footage from The Amazing Spider-Man? No? Well, what if I told you it features ol’ Doc Connors in mid-transformation? No? Look, just work with me on this. You know, what bugs me is how director Marc Webb points out how the Lizard isn’t a mustache-twirling villain, which is how I’ve always seen Connors — he’s a scientist who wants to help people, as well as himself, and he just overreaches and accidentally were-lizards himself on the way. I remember a lot of time in the comics and cartoon where Dr. Connors helps Peter Parker, because when he’s not a monster, he’s a genuinely good person.

But the shit Webb and Rhys Ifans are saying in this video notwithstanding, The Amazing Spider-Man‘s Curt Connors does seem a lot closer to a mustache-twirling villains. He’s clearly involved in some shady shit regarding Peter’s parents, and he’s made plenty of threats in his human form in previous footage — and he doesn’t seem to be upset that he turns into a murderous, rampaging Super Mario Bros. movie Goomba in the tiniest degree. At any rate, I’m pretty sure the movie is turning the Lizard into a much more generic villain than the comics version, and that kind of sucks. (Via Twitch)

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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.