20) Ben Reilly
Do you know how much this pains me, as a lifelong Ben Reilly fan? A man whose first Spider-Man comic was Sensational Spider-Man #2 and thus an utterly insane way to be introduced to the fact that Ben Reilly was Spider-Man, not some weird guy who’d gone off with his wife named Pete?
Anyway yeah, Ben sucks in this movie. He’s a one-note emo grimdark joke; worse, he’s one of Miguel’s most trusted henchmen so he’s pretty all in on the Spider-Cop vibe of it all. Even worse, although perhaps a relief for all seven of us Ben Reilly fans in 2023, the guy gets taken out by Gwen at the climax of the film in the chumpiest of manners—not just beaten but robbed of his mutiversal travel watch in a single sweeping move, so odds are he won’t be back for Beyond in a particularly big way.
