Amazing Spider-Man 2: Who Are The Sinister Six?

With the recent announcement that one of the first Amazing Spider-Man spinoff movies will be The Sinister Six, there was a lot of curiosity regarding which characters might make the lineup.Spider-Man’s premiere super-villain team, after all, has featured dozens of characters in a handful of iterations over the years — and that’s not even counting when it morphed into the Sinister Seven or Sinister Twelve.(As an interesting aside, the concept of the Sinister Twelve — used during the Marvel Knight Spider-Man series and stocked with a lineup of villains secretly financed by Norman Osborn — is fairly close to what seems to be coming up in the movies. But that’s a different conversation.)There hadn’t been much in the way of hints as to who might be part of the team, apart from vague clues from the filmmakers that they liked this character or didn’t like that one (Kraven is a favorite of both director Marc Webb and star Andrew Garfield, for instance).During the closing credits of The Amazing Spider-Man 2, though, you can use a mobile phone app to access a series of images seemingly implying the identities of the Secret Six as they’ll appear in future movies.Okay, so there are a couple of interesting things at play here.First of all, this lineup — assuming it is the lineup — doesn’t include Electro. Since as Jamie Foxx has said, “you can’t kill electricity,” and since Foxx remains a marketable star in his own right, there was an assumption on the part of many fans that the film would feature his character. As it stands, without Fox, you’ve got just Paul Giamatti — who is a critic’s and audience favorite but not somebody who generally drives a big box office — and Dane DeHaan, who may be a box office draw in five years or so when he’s more established, but at this point even those who like him aren’t engaged enough to see a movie just because it has DeHaan in it.It’s also worth pointing out that while these end credits Easter Eggs might hint at the Sinister Six lineup, TheWrap was quick to point out that their sources have indicated that the final lineup has not been decided upon. The Easter Eggs are just meant to be teasers of a possible lineup.