User blog comment:ADour/First The Amazing Spider-Man 2 trailer debuts!/@comment-1895174-20131205135931/@comment-3317214-20131206003359

Yes, a good superhero movie with three major villains has no precedent. But that doesn't mean it's impossible. It's just hard. I'm cautiously optimistic about this movie. Well, it looks amazing, but I'm cautiously optimistic about the villain/story side of things.

Besides, I heard somewhere that Rhino's only in it for the first part. Kind-of setting up the film, with Spider-Man doing what he does, saving the day and such. And I have a feeling Green Goblin will be more of a lurking-type villain, that will have some kind of confrontation, but mostly stay out of things. They said Electro would be the main villain, and from the looks of the trailer (although they do place emphasis on the two other villains), he will be.

OsCorp and Electro definitely go hand-in-hand, since OsCorp is behind Electro's creation, along with all of these other supervillains. However, Electro will have his own motivations, which will fuel his actions, meaning that the two can go hand-in-hand, whilst keeping Electro as the focus. Also, I think that a lot of the trailer's emphasis on Rhino and other OsCorp shenanigans is the the film's draw card. To lure us in with three supervillains, but then give us something where Electro was definitely the main villain, and some other stuff happened that would be payed off in later films.

And this stuff will be payed off in later films, as it builds towards the sinister six. They've got a plan with two sequels to this planned so far. They've got time to tell a story. And with that in mind, I'd go so far as to say that theoretically, six villains could work, if they take the Avengers approach, like you said. Give the villains screen time in earlier films, before they team up. If it was possible for six heroes to team up against one villain, it should be possible for six villains to team up against one hero. Of course it'd be different, because we're talking about villains who aren't going to be the main focus of the story because the hero will be. It'd definitely be harder to pull off, but not impossible. I'm remaining cautiously optimistic. Especially considering the actors they've been choosing for the supervillain roles.

As for Sony's MCU, I can't really envisage any film other than a Spider-Man film, but I wouldn't mind them continuing with those, and expanding on his universe. However, I would also like to see things back at Marvel. Although... with it at Sony, and X-Men at Fox, it does allow us to have four Marvel films come out next year; all of which look pretty fantastic so far.

As for Fox's MCU, I agree that Fantastic Four isn't the best place for it, but not because the franchise is aging. It is getting older, but despite that, they're planning on growing it, and its popularity could rise again. We already got the Wolverine this year, which was the second highest grossing film in the franchise (inflation aside - however, if the first two X-Men films did gross more when taking inflation into account, the Wolverine still did better than the last two outings, at least). If Days of Future Past succeeds in selling the franchise to a new generation, we'll see a rejuvenation in the franchise, despite its age.