The Amazing Spider-Man: Ten After-Credits Scene Theories

left us with a lot of questions, but one stands head and shoulders above the rest: who was that man in the scene that took place during the credits? A stranger enters the cell of Curt Connors by mysterious means, leaves the same way, and in the middle says some menacing things about Peter Parker. The initial response on the part of fans and critics was to assume that it was Norman Osborn, the CEO of Oscorp and erstwhile Green Goblin.In an interview with Ain’t It Cool News, though, Rhys Ifans–who plays Connors–denied outright that the man in his cell was Norman Osborn.”A representative from OsCorp appears miraculously in the room,” Ifans told AICN. “How he gets in there and how he leaves, we don’t know. Maybe we will find out. But it’s not Norman Osborn.” He went on to say that the intruder “is in the employ of Norman Osborn without question,” and agreed with the reporter, who characterized the man as “someone we’re familiar with, who we don’t know is employed by Osborn.” Whether that’s someone “we” as in the audience who have seen The Amazing Spider-Man would be familiar with or “we” as in fans of the character and the property is unclear.That said, there are a number of people who might have appeared in that room–some more or less likely than others–and we decided that it was a good idea to run down the ones we were considering as suspects.Norman OsbornOkay, so Ifans said no–that doesn’t necessarily mean anything. We’ve been told “no” when the answer is “yes” in comics enough times to choke a camel. Whatever Osborn’s ailment is might also explain theThat said, it’s still far and away the least likely candidate on the list, if only because he’s such an obvious answer that it seems likely if it were him, there would be no need to hide it.Curt ConnorsDuring the course of the film, Connors/The Lizard had a couple of conversations with himself as well as a running conversation with the camera he was using to document his unorthodox research.That fact, coupled with the mysterious appearance and disappearance of the man in the cell, has some fans convinced that Connors wasn’t really talking to anyone in particular, but to himself (which might explain the strange thing going on with the stranger’s hands) or someone he’s seeing in his head. Maybe…Richard Parker“Did you tell the boy the truth about his father?” is a really loaded phrase.It implies not only that it’s just Richard Parker, not necessarily Mary, about whom Peter doesn’t know the truth–something that runs contrary to what we saw in the film as well as to the comic book iteration of the pair as fairly connected in their extracurriculars.The use of the word “boy” might even suggest that the speaker considers Peter a child–not a sentiment that many of the people on this list would have, considering they didn’t know of him before he got powers.And, of course, there’s the fact that (as hinted above), Parker could be a likely candidate for Connors to see if he were delusional, since they were once friends.And on top of it all, there’s a Venom movie in the offing. In the Ultimate Marvel Universe, Richard Parker was instrumental in creating Venom.Kraven, the HunterCan you think of anyone else without powers who could get in and out in the blink of an eye? Kraven sure as heck could, and in addition to being a grounded, real-world villain (apart from the costume, which we don’t see here), he’s also a fairly mercenary guy and someone we could totally see working for Oscorp or anyone else who offered him something that he wanted.On top of that, there’s the fact that he was name-checked by Andrew Garfield (who plays Spider-Man) as a favorite villain in a recent interview.