Marvel’s Spider-Man 2

=== Characters and setting ===

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is set 10 months after the events of Spider-Man: Miles Morales (2020). As with previous installments in the series, it features a large ensemble cast of various characters derived from the history of Spider-Man comics and other media. The game follows Peter Parker (Yuri Lowenthal) and Miles Morales (Nadji Jeter), who both became the superhero Spider-Man after gaining superhuman abilities upon being bitten by genetically modified spiders. Peter serves as a mentor to Miles, who gained his superpowers during the events of the first game, though he struggles with balancing his personal life and duties as the city's protector. They are supported by several allies: Daily Bugle reporter and Peter's girlfriend Mary Jane Watson (Laura Bailey); Miles' classmate and tech guru Ganke Lee (Griffin Puatu); city councilwoman and Miles' mother Rio (Jacqueline Piñol); deaf street artist Hailey Cooper (Natasha Ofili); and Miles' estranged uncle Aaron Davis (Ike Amadi), who previously operated as the Prowler.
Other characters in the game include former New York mayor and Oscorp CEO Norman Osborn (Mark Rolston) and his son, Peter and Mary Jane's best friend Harry Osborn (Graham Phillips), who suffers from a neurological disease inherited from his mother, Emily; Yuri Watanabe (Tara Platt), a disgraced former police captain and ally of Peter who has assumed the vigilante identity of "Wraith" following the events of The City That Never Sleeps; J. Jonah Jameson (Darin De Paul), the Daily Bugle's chief editor and Mary Jane's boss; Danika Hart (Ashly Burch), host of the "Danikast" podcast; Peter's deceased aunt, May (Nancy Linari), who is featured in a flashback; and Miles' late father, Officer Jefferson Davis (Russell Richardson), who appears in a dream sequence.
Throughout the city, the two Spider-Men are faced with several supervillains such as Venom (Tony Todd), an extraterrestrial symbiote capable of bonding to human bodies and granting regenerative powers while negatively influencing their behavior; Sergei Kravinoff / Kraven the Hunter (Jim Pirri), the leader of a faction of mercenaries called the "Hunters" who seek to hunt super-powered beings; and Cletus Kasady (Chad Doreck), also known as "The Flame", the head of a nihilistic cult who seeks to perform a demonic ritual to bring about an eschatological event dubbed the "Crimson Hour". Returning villains from the first game include Martin Li / Mister Negative (Stephen Oyoung), Mac Gargan / Scorpion (Jason Spisak), Lonnie Lincoln / Tombstone (Corey Jones), and Felicia Hardy / Black Cat (Erica Lindbeck). Additional antagonists who were referenced in prior entries make full appearances in Spider-Man 2, including Flint Marko / Sandman (Leandro Cano), a lowly burglar who, through an accident, gained the ability to turn into molecules of sand and manipulate them at will; Curt Connors / Lizard (Mark Whitten), an Oscorp scientist who transformed into a giant reptilian creature; Dmitri Smerdyakov / Chameleon (Jim Pirri), a criminal master of disguises and Kraven's half-brother; and Quentin Beck / Mysterio (Noshir Dalal), a visual effects artist and reformed criminal who became the head developer of a virtual reality entertainment attraction called "Mysterium". Furthermore, Otto Octavius / Doctor Octopus (William Salyers), who is incarcerated in the Raft after the events of the first game, appears in a mid-credits scene.
The character Cindy Moon makes a non-speaking cameo appearance in the game's post-credits scene, along with her father Albert Moon (Tom Choi). The character Delilah, a skilled assassin who serves as the bartender at the Bar with No Name in an alternate universe, makes a cameo appearance during "The Message" side-quest. This version of the character was originally intended to appear in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) before her scene was cut from the final film.

Plot

10 months after the events of Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Peter Parker starts his first day as a physics teacher at Brooklyn Visions Academy with Miles Morales among his students, but they are interrupted by a rampaging Sandman, requiring both Spider-Men to subdue him. Fired for abandoning his class, Peter returns to his Aunt May's home in Queens (which he has moved into following her death) to meet with Mary Jane. They are surprised by their friend Harry Osborn, who has seemingly made a full recovery from a terminal illness. Harry invites Peter to work at his environmental technology startup, the Emily-May Foundation, so they can pursue Harry's dream of "healing the world". Concurrently, Kraven arrives in New York with his army of Hunters.
While overseeing a prison transfer with Peter at the Raft, a vengeful Miles fails to stop the Hunters from capturing Martin Li, who is responsible for the death of Miles' father Jefferson Davis. Investigating Kraven, Peter discovers he is hunting super-powered individuals in search of an "equal". Having already killed Scorpion, Vulture, Shocker, and Electro, Kraven attempts to capture Black Cat; however, Miles helps her escape to Paris by using the mystical Wand of Watoomb.
Peter, Mary Jane, and Harry visit Coney Island to reconnect. While there, the Hunters attack the park to capture a reformed Tombstone; as Peter rescues civilians, he is assisted by a super-powered Harry, who in turn learns Peter is Spider-Man. Harry reveals that, on his father's insistence, he was cured by Curt Connors via a powerful organic exosuit that physically augments his body. With the exosuit's powers rapidly developing, Harry helps Peter rescue Tombstone from the Hunters, while Mary Jane discovers that Kraven has also kidnapped Connors. The trio attempt to save Connors, but Kraven forcibly transforms him into the Lizard, steals a vial of the Lizard serum, and mortally wounds Peter. Moments before Peter's death, the exosuit transfers itself from Harry to Peter's body, saving his life. After Peter viciously defeats the Hunters with his newly enhanced powers, Kraven develops an interest in hunting Peter personally.
Peter reunites with Harry and Mary Jane and attempts to return the suit to Harry, but it refuses to leave him; the three conclude that they need Connors' help. Peter discovers that Kraven is terminally ill with cancer, and that he is searching for a worthy individual who can provide him with a "warrior's death" in combat, allowing him to die on his own terms. Peter manages to retrieve the serum from Kraven, who discovers the exo-suit's weakness to loud noises. While trying to synthesize an antidote at the Emily-May Foundation, Peter and Harry are attacked by the Hunters via a tracker Kraven left on the serum vial. Though they manage to successfully create the antidote, the ensuing battle destroys the Foundation, devastating Harry. Peter tracks down Connors with Miles' help, and eventually subdues and cures him. Upon seeing Peter wearing the exo-suit, Connors reveals that it is actually an alien lifeform called a symbiote, which he was responsible for procuring with help from Oscorp. The incident also cost Connors his arm when the symbiote latched on and refused to let go. Connors advises Peter to destroy it; but he refuses under the symbiote's corrupting influence, despite learning that Harry's illness has returned, which strains their friendship. As Peter goes on a symbiote-induced rampage against the Hunters (almost killing Mary Jane at one point), Kraven captures Miles and forces him to fight Li. Miles overcomes his anger towards the latter and helps him escape, telling him to find Peter. Once Li informs him of Miles' location, Peter storms Kraven's fortress to rescue him, nearly killing Kraven before Miles intervenes. Miles then fights Peter, helping him overcome the symbiote's corruption and removing it from his body.
Free of the symbiote, Peter takes it to Oscorp to be destroyed, but a desperate Harry reclaims it, transforming into a monstrous creature. After slaughtering Oscorp staff trying to remove the symbiote from him, the symbiote-possessed Harry escapes into Times Square, where he defeats several of Kraven's Hunters before overpowering and killing Kraven himself, to the latter's satisfaction. The symbiote convinces Harry to "heal the world" by infecting everyone on Earth with symbiotes, starting with New York. Now calling themselves Venom, Harry infects Mary Jane with her own symbiote, turning her into Scream, but Peter helps her break free of its influence, reconciling with her.
As Peter and Miles attempt to stop Venom, Peter is hindered by a trace amount of the symbiote still within him. After Miles settles his differences with Li, the latter uses his powers to convert Peter's symbiote traces into the Anti-Venom symbiote, which can destroy other symbiotes. Concurrently, Venom recovers the meteorite that originally brought him to Earth and empowers himself with it, accelerating his infestation of New York. Peter and Miles distract Venom, while Mary Jane steals the meteorite and destroys it with the EMF's particle accelerator, destroying Venom's symbiote horde. At Harry's insistence, Peter destroys the symbiote and frees Harry from its control, but the strain on his body renders Harry comatose.
In the aftermath, Mary Jane has quit the Daily Bugle to run her own podcast and moves in with Peter, who opts to take a break from being Spider-Man to focus on rebuilding the EMF, trusting Miles to protect the city on his own. Meanwhile, Norman blames the Spider-Men for ruining Harry's recovery; he visits an imprisoned Otto Octavius at the Raft to demand their secret identities, but Octavius refuses, taking glee in Norman's suffering while also planning revenge against Spider-men. Miles completes his college essay and meets Rio's new boyfriend, Albert Moon, who introduces them to his daughter Cindy.