‘Madame Web’ Trailer Has Everyone Researching Spiders in the Amazon
Sony’s Spider-Man Universe films, an attempt to take villains and supporting characters they have pre-MCU rights to and make them A Thing, have had at best mixed success. But since the first “Madame Web” trailer dropped, fans have latched onto star Dakota Johnson’s delivery of a line describing the movie’s villain, Ezekiel Sims.
“He was in the Amazon with my mom, when she was researching spiders, right before she died,” Johnson’s Cassandra Webb intones as part of a number of voiceover lines that don’t seem to draw much emotion from the actress. And yes, “Webb” is her character’s last name even before developing precog powers allowing her to see events before they transpire — and change them.
The text has been joined with the bashful Kevin James meme:
What am I, some kind of researcher in the Amazon with your mom when she was researching spiders right before she died? pic.twitter.com/7GZHo2BpEj
— (Not) Andrew Garfield (@peteandrepete_) November 16, 2023
… George Santos’ ethics investigation:
He also used campaign funds for his trip to the amazon with my mom when she was researching spiders right before she died https://t.co/pzdbW7KcPv
— Ira (@iramadisonthree) November 16, 2023
… “Everybody Everywhere All at Once”:
In another life, I would have really liked… just being in the Amazon… with your mom… when she was researching spiders… right before she died pic.twitter.com/H5uTqdOHpg
— Isaac Feldberg (@isaacfeldberg) November 16, 2023
… “The Godfather”:
i know it was you fredo who was in the amazon with my mom when she was researching spiders right before she died pic.twitter.com/ezpCNgXT1s
— ana (@pelicinema) November 16, 2023
… “Oppenheimer”:
Are you saying there’s a chance he was in the Amazon with my mom when she was researching spiders right before she died pic.twitter.com/J0oyoy4dFU
— bort (@tacobort) November 15, 2023
… and a million more prior formats and new ones:
— Jared Gilman (@realJaredGilman) November 15, 2023
The line exceeds the exposition-riffic line from the “Morbius” trailer, “Dr. Michael Morbius, you’ve been missing for two months. Then you were found on a container ship that washed up off of Long Island.” The “Madame Web” line benefits from feeling less like one character telling another something they at least partially already know.
Of course, that “Morbius” trailer did give us other iconoic lines, like Michael Keaton’s Vulture awkwardly shouting out, “Hey uh, Dr. Mike — you and I should stay in touch.” We also get it closing with the somewhat meta joke of Morbius, in response to a scared civilian asking who he is, replying, “I… am… Venom. (growl) I’m just kidding! It’s Dr. Michael Morbius, at your service.”
Next year, Sony’s set to release three Spidey-related films: another “Venom” sequel, the delayed “Kraven the Hunter” and “Madame Web.” Be sure to put them in your calendar, alongside the date you sit and solemnly remember the guy who was in the Amazon, with your mom, researching spiders, right before she died.
Watch the line, and the rest of the trailer, below:
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