Spider-Man: Homecoming Star Teases Really Fun Deleted Scorpion Scene

Spider-Man: Homecoming‘s Michael Mando teases a fun deleted scene featuring his character, Scorpion. The Marvel Cinematic Universe film was the first to feature Tom Holland’s version of the friendly neighborhood hero in a lead role, with his debut appearance having come in 2016’s Captain America: Civil War. Spider-Man: Homecoming released in 2017 and remains one of the most praised entries in the long-running franchise.

Though the movie’s primary antagonist was Michael Keaton’s Adrian Toomes, a.k.a. Vulture, he wasn’t the only comic book villain to make an appearance. In the end-credits scene that shows Vulture in prison, he runs into Mando’s Mac Gargan, who fans recognized as the cybernetic tail-wielding Scorpion. Gargan sports a scar that he blames Spider-Man for, and tells Toomes of a rumor that he had learned the hero’s true identity, though Vulture ultimately decides to protect Peter and stay quiet.

In an interview with Dan Allen Gaming, however, Mando teases that there was supposed to be another Scorpion scene somewhere in the middle of Spider-Man: Homecoming. The Canadian actor claims that the film’s director, Jon Watts, reached out to him expressing his regret when they decided to cut it, because he had considered the scene so much fun. The end-credits sting, meanwhile, was filmed very last minute. Check out Mando’s full quote below:

There was a great scene in the middle of that film, and Jon Watts, the director – they were cutting it, and he wrote me when they were cutting that scene, and he was telling me how fun that scene was. It’s too bad that they cut it… And then the last, the end-credit was a last minute thing that was done.

Mando’s criminal does appear in an earlier scene, as a potential buyer of Toomes’ tech on a ferry that Spider-Man tries to bust, only for Vulture to escape and leave Iron Man to clean up the mess. Peter does slam Gargan into the back of the ship after tossing him up in the air, which could explain the brace on his right arm, but nothing that audiences get to see could’ve caused the injury to his face. Whatever Scorpion scene was cut from the final edit must’ve featured Spider-Man doing some real damage to his future supervillain.

While Spider-Man: Homecoming was notable for its smaller scope, actively encouraging the titular hero to focus on the city of New York rather than the larger, world-ending concerns of most Avengers, the series has since turned away from local problems. Spider-Man: Far From Home took place after the events of Avengers: Endgame, with Peter contemplating his role following Tony Stark’s death, while the upcoming Spider-Man: No Way Home will be pulling villains from previous film franchises in a massive, multiversal collision. It’s hard to know if the series could ever get small enough again to focus on Mando’s Scorpion, but if it does, fans would surely welcome the Better Call Saul actor back with open arms.

Source: Dan Allen Gaming

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