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He compartmentalizes villainy and fatherhood. He is not a monster to his family, but a monster to the world. This duality makes him terrifying because we understand his motive, even as we recoil from his methods. Toomes functions as the perfect foil to Tony Stark. Stark is a billionaire who privatizes world peace; Toomes is a working man who privatizes world crime. Stark builds arc reactors in a basement with a box of scraps; Toomes builds alien-weapon disintegrators in a strip mall storage unit.

Adrian Toomes is Marvel’s most solid villain because he violates the cardinal rule of superhero fiction. He doesn't want to destroy the city. He wants to own the rights to the demolition contract. marvel toomes

This culminates in the now-famous in Homecoming . When Peter Parker picks up Liz for the homecoming dance, Toomes opens the door. The slow realization—Peter is Spider-Man, the boy dating his daughter is his enemy—is shot like a horror film. Toomes’s response is chillingly rational: "I’m gonna kill you, and everyone you love. But not tonight. Because I respect this night." He compartmentalizes villainy and fatherhood