Flint Marko
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| Flint Marko | |
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| Sam Raimi's Spider-Man and Marvel Cinematic Universe character | |
| First appearance | Spider-Man 3 (2007) |
| Last appearance | Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) |
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| Portrayed by | Thomas Haden Church |
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| Alias | Sandman |
| Species | Human |
| Occupation | Engineer |
| Children | Penny Marko (daughter) |
| Nationality | American |
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Flint Marko is a fictional character portrayed by Thomas Haden Church in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy (2002-07) as well as the Marvel Cinematic Universe film franchise, based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name—also known by his alias, Sandman. Marko is portrayed as a tragic villain, having been mutated through an accident into a shapeshifter endowed with the ability to turn himself into sand.
Church's portrayal of the character has been generally positively received by critics and audiences, though his retconned role as Uncle Ben's killer was met with a more polarized reception. Church reprised his role in Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), after the character's last appearance in Spider-Man 3 (2007).
Conception and creation[edit]
Fictional character biography[edit]
Background[edit]
Flint Marko was a small-time crook who turned to crime to pay for the treatment of his terminally ill daughter, Penny. At an unknown point, he teamed up with another robber named Dennis Carradine, and the two robbed an illegal wrestling group. During the robbery, he confronted Ben Parker and accidentally shot him whilst trying to steal his car. Marko was arrested whilst Carradine escaped.
Becoming Sandman[edit]
Marko escapes from prison some years later, and breaks into the home his wife and daughter are living in to tell them he has escaped. He flees, and is chased by the police into the testing site of a particle accelerator. He gets trapped within it and is fused to the surrounding sand, being reduced to grains. The next day, he gains the ability to control and reform his body with sand.
Desperate for money, Marko robs an armoured car and gets into a fight with Spider-Man and then escapes. Parker, now wearing a black costume and knowing that Marko killed his uncle, tracks Marko down and brutally attacks him. Upon discovering that Marko's weakness is water, he opens a pipe and turns him to mud, washing him away and seemingly killing him.
Marko later reforms himself, and is approached by Eddie Brock with an offer to team up against Spider-Man. Marko agrees, fusing with the sand present at a construction site and becoming a giant made of sand. He keeps the police at bay from Parker and Brock's fight, and helps almost kill him until the intervention of Harry Osborn incapacitates him. Once the fight finishes, he explains to Parker that he did not mean to kill Ben and that everything he did was to protect his daughter. Parker forgives him, and allows him to escape.[lower-alpha 1]
Entering an alternate reality[edit]
Due to a malfunction in Dr. Stephen Strange's spell to erase people's memories of this Spider-Man's identity, Marko was brought to this alternate reality. The alternate Parker (nicknamed "Peter-One") arrives in a military research facility to capture another universe-displaced individual, Max Dillon, with Marko assisting him in doing so. Marko starts turning against Peter-One when he learns he is different from the Peter Parker he knows, though he is captured and imprisoned in a cell alongside Otto Octavius, Curt Connors, and Dillon. Marko reveals to Octavius and Norman Osborn, who are from his universe, that they both died.
After the Green Goblin regains control of Osborn's mind, Marko flees alongside Octavius and Dillon from the duel between Peter-One and the Goblin in Happy Hogan's apartment. Marko, Connors, and Dillon are lured to the Statue of Liberty by an older Parker (nicknamed "Peter-Two"), Peter-One, and another alternate Parker (nicknamed "Peter-Three"). He initially attacks Peter-One, but is later cured by Parker. Afterwards, Strange casts a spell to make the world forget Peter-One's existence, causing Marko, Parker, Osborn, and Octavius to return to their own universe.
In other media[edit]
Video games[edit]
- Church reprises his role as Marko in the Spider-Man 3 video game (2007).
- This version of Marko appears in the 2007 game Spider-Man: Friend or Foe, voiced by Fred Tatasciore. The game is set in an alternate timeline where all of the villains from the Spider-Man film series survived their initial debuts and are still evil, even though Marko and Parker left in good terms at the end of the third film. Sandman fights Spider-Man alongside other villains until they are all attacked by P.H.A.N.T.O.M.s under Mysterio's command. The Sandman is captured along with the other villains, placed under mind control, and sent to Cairo to retrieve a meteor shard located there. Spider-Man later defeats the Sandman and destroys the mind-control device before the latter joins him to exact revenge on Mysterio.
Reception[edit]
Awards and nominations[edit]
| Award | Category | Recipient | Result | Ref. |
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| Teen Choice Awards | Choice Movie Rumble | Tobey Maguire and James Franco vs. Topher Grace and Thomas Haden Church | Nominated | [1] |
See also[edit]
Notes[edit]
- ↑ After this moment, Marko is brought to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and continues a cured life in a separate timeline.
References[edit]
- ↑ Finley, Adam (July 3, 2007). "Teen Choice nominees announced". AOL TV. AOL. Archived from the original on July 13, 2015. Retrieved November 13, 2021. Unknown parameter
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External links[edit]
- Flint Marko (Spider-Man 3) on Marvel Database, a Marvel Comics wiki
- Flint Marko at the Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki
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