The MCU Tony Stark creates demons we know this. It's more 'swing and a miss' than simple miscalculation (which is an improvement on both Electro and The Lizard), but it's a miss all the same. The brooding anger which made him compelling in 'Chronicle' simply doesn't jibe with the razor's edge madness required for Goblin, and 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2' stalls out as a result. He felt miscast in Quibi's 'The Stranger' and 'Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets,' and he again feels miscast here. But Hollywood doesn't always know what to do with Dane DeHann. To be clear, DeHann is a terrific actor with a bottomless well of talent and deft access to it. To that end, why shouldn't Harry Osborne go from disgruntled rich kid to madman in two hours' time? See, it works! That hurt to write, but I'll stand by it! Though 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2' moves too fast for its own good, there's an argument to be made that its breakneck pace is thematically sound and achieved so that the sudden ( spoiler alert) death of Gwen Stacy lands hard.

Electro is the weakest on-screen Spider-Man villain, but embracing Max Dillon's canonized weakness might change that distinction rapidly.

It makes him far more interesting than a template for ill-advised improvisation and upgraded costumes that only led to meme-based takedowns. That hatred makes him vulgar, even sorrowful. Few villains, much less Spider-Man rogues, loathe themselves as much as Electro. This is ironic, because Max Dillon, as frequently realized by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, was a disappointment to himself. The class conflicts which inform Dillon's comic book portrayal are completely absent, paving the way for a reliance on ineffective visual effects and the 'creepy' intoning of nursery rhymes. He's a bullied but brilliant scientist, transformed via reckless experiment. The primary villain of 2012's 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2,' Electro - aka Max Dillon - is presented as an Edward Nygma retread.

This was the moment, in retrospect, when audiences should've known that both Foxx and director Marc Webb had failed to capture lightning in a bottle with their take on Electro.

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