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The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has introduced many memorable characters over the years.
In the upcoming film Madame Web, we’ll be introduced to a new and mysterious character named Ezekiel Sims.
But who’s playing Ezekiel Sims in Madame Web?
Who plays Ezekiel Sims?
Ezekiel Sims is played by French-Algerian actor Tahar Rahim.
In 2022, Tahar Rahim was spotted having a barefoot moment on Madame Web movie set in New York City.
For the scene, Tahar was spotted exiting the subway station at Grand Central Station and then going airborne while taking a really big jump into the air.
Is Ezekiel Sims Peter Parker?
Ezekiel Sims has the appearance of a black and red Spider-Man.
However, he is no hero and isn’t linked to Peter Parker (or Miles Morales).
He poses a threat to Madame Web and the three Spider-Women.
Who is Ezekiel Sims?
Ezekiel Sims was a rich businessman who, in his younger years, ritualistically gained powers similar to those of Spider-Man.
He wanted to use his powers to be a hero, but initially used them to found a corporation, believing that he could not do anything without a base of operations, and swiftly became too busy to use his powers on a daily basis.
When Spider-Man emerged, Ezekiel hired half a dozen independent private detectives to investigate Spider-Man’s life, allowing him to piece together who Spider-Man was from the various pieces of information they provided to him.
Ezekiel, in his 50s, contacted Spider-Man and explained to him the nature of animal totems: people who gain supernatural abilities from a mystic link with certain animals.
He suggested that the spider that bit Peter Parker was not mutated by the radiation, but actually trying to give Peter its powers before the radiation killed it.
This meant that Spider-Man was now part of the supernatural food chain, and became a target for other totems and beings who feed on totems. (Thus, many of Spider-Man’s foes were based on animals as on some level, they ‘sensed’ that Peter was a true totem while they were merely impostors and were thus driven to destroy him.)
He subsequently aided Spider-Man in fighting a being known as Morlun, a vampire-like entity that ‘fed’ on totems, apparently at the cost of his life, but it was later revealed that he survived and departed for Africa, where he aided Spider-Man in dealing with Shathra,another supernatural-based menace, by leading Peter to an area where he would have the advantage over Shathra.
It was revealed that a variety of supernatural menaces that Spider-Man had faced were really after Ezekiel, and Ezekiel attempted to direct the consequences of gaining his powers onto Spider-Man himself, taking Spider-Man to the temple where he had been given his powers and drawing blood to attract a massive spider that would take the ‘false’ totem warrior as a sacrifice.
However, in his last moments, he realized that he had done nothing with his powers but help himself, while Peter had selflessly risked his life to save others again and again. With this in mind, he attacked the spider that would have eaten Peter, giving his own life to save his friend in recognition of the hero that Peter truly was, and thus gaining a chance for redemption that he would have never had again
