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You’ll have to be careful now that Spider-Man 3 has premiered in Tokyo, Japan.

TOKYO (Reuters) – Even superheroes get the blues, as “Spider-Man” discovers in this latest sequel during which he confronts a mutant made of sand, a vengeful former friend and, ultimately, himself.

“Spider-Man 3” is packed with stunning special effects such as the crumbling, morphing Sandman and an evil black suit with a life of its own that brings out a person’s dark side, but the characters also show a complexity rarely seen in action movies.

One screening equals lots of spoilers floating around the ‘net. For me, having the story spoiled doesn’t detract from my enjoyment of the film. It’s watching the visuals come to life that makes the movie worthwhile. Having said that, I don’t want to know everything before going off the see the film for myself.

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I guess this is the final, final trailer for Spider-Man 3 (May 4, 2007). Yahoo! Movies has an exclusive trailer and the only difference I see between this one and the Comcast Exclusive trailer is the above shot or Venom. The rest of the shots may be edited in a different order, but only one new image/sequence to see. Yahoo! also has the 7-minute preview that was previously only available on NBC.com for a 24-hour period. It’s definitely worth checking out.

Back to the Yahoo! preview, I’ve got to say Venom looks great. I wish he were a little bigger than Spider-Man (and I miss the white logo), but they’ve pulled off what I thought would be an almost impossible character to visualize. Throw in the Sandman, who is probably one of my all time favorite Spider-Man villains and this could easily be my favorite of the trilogy of Spider-Man films.

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Added the All New OHotMU entry from 2005 for Spider-Man.

Osborn also revealed Spider-Man’s identity to Mac Gargan, the Scorpion, and had him kidnap Aunt May, Osborn had been publicly revealed as the Green Goblin and jailed after murdering journalist Terri Kidder. He knew big businesses had been conspiring since the 1950s to create super-villains and, as a potential whistle-blower, was an easy target in prison, Osborn wanted Peter to break him out in return for May’s freedom but when Peter did, a battle erupted with the Sinister Twelve, including Gargan himself—now a new Venom after bonding with the alien symbiote. Around this time, Spider-Man met The Queen who had powers allowing her to control the world’s insects, eventually causing Spider-Man to mutate into a giant spider. She planned to detonate a bomb that would kill everyone except those with the insect gene but Peter returned to his human form and stopped her, albeit with enhanced powers. Recently, Spider-Man joined the New Avengers. No matter his change in powers or group membership, Spider-Man is always one of the world’s greatest heroes.

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It’s time for some Spider-Man. Since Spider-Man 3 is just around the corner, I thought I would start adding Spider-Man related characters to the Who’s OHotMU site.

Take a look at the entry, it’s quite detailed. All of that is from the 2004 All New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe – Spider-Man edition. I’ll add the info from the 2005 book in a day or two. Just reading makes a person crazy. Peter Parker has experienced a lot of death and loss in his lifetime. From the recent books, that may not be the end of it either.