Mysterio

"It’s a hard path, the life of a hero. People depend on you, even if you want a battle. Sometimes they die."

- Mysterio to Spider-Man

Quentin Beck is a former Stark Industries illusions specialist, who sought out to become the world's next biggest superhero in lieu of the late Tony Stark. Seeking to solidify a reputation for himself, Beck feigned several Elemental attacks across the world with the use of his drones, seeking attention and recognition from the public as a new superhero named Mysterio.

Skilled in the art of illusion, Beck exploited traits of charisma to gain the trust of "Nick Fury" and Spider-Man, even filling the void of a mentor figure for him in Stark's absence. After his fraudulence was uncovered, and his plan to continue his destructive rampage across the continent of Europe was revealed, Beck had proven himself to be a worthy adversary to Spider-Man, although his callousness and arrogance also proved to be his downfall.

Nevertheless, Beck was instrumental in exposing Spider-Man's identity to the world, sending modified footage of the Battle of London to several news outlets and framing Spider-Man for the attacks.

Fired From Stark Industries
Quentin Beck once worked for Stark Industries as an illusions specialist, inventing the Binarily Augmented Retro-Framing prototype during his employment. However, he felt unrecognized as an inventor from his co-workers and his superior Tony Stark, and the callousness he developed out of his need for attention prompted Stark to fire him. In 2023, after Stark's death in the Battle of Earth, the embittered Beck took it upon himself to seize the opportunity to become the world's next renowned superhero in Iron Man's absence.

Using his uncanny skills in trickery and illusion, Beck created a falsified narrative that he was a tragic warrior from the alternate reality Earth-833, fighting entities known as the Elementals. He formulated a plan to launch drone attacks disguised as natural disasters across the world, and used projections to disguise the attacks as the Elementals. Furthermore, he developed an armor which made it appear as if it enabled him to control his abilities.

Skirmish in Mexico
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Battle in the Grand Canal
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Meeting Spider-Man
"This is Earth, dimension 616. I'm from Earth-833. We share identical physical constants, level four symmetry."

- Mysterio to Spider-Man

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Prague Attack
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Assembly in Berlin
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Tormenting Spider-Man
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Battle of London
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Exposing Spider-Man's Identity
"Spider-Man's real -- Spider-Man's real name is Peter Parker..."

- Mysterio

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Personality
"You guys do have sarcasm on this Earth, right?. I like you, Peter, you're a good kid. There's a part of me that wants me to tell you to just turn around and run away from all of this and then there's another part of me which knows what we're about to fight and what's in stake. Saving the world requires sacrifice."

- Mysterio to Spider-Man

During his days as an employee at Stark Industries, Quentin Beck had always shown a glorious desire and hunger for using his uncanny skills of technology in order to work with Tony Stark. He designed and invented the B.A.R.F. prototype, but after Stark noticed his callous and unstable nature, Beck was fired, leaving him embittered. Beck later witnessed his former employer die in the Battle of Earth, seizing the advantage in order to use his skills to create advanced drones which project forms of elemental creatures and an advanced suit of armor with a helmet to shield his identity. He decided to use the Elementals to cause massive destruction across the continent of Europe and defeat them himself, later being seen as a great hero in the eyes of the wide public.

This plan would succeed, with people such as Flash Thompson giving him praise. Brad Davis states that Beck is similar to Thor and Iron Man together, implying how powerful he truly is without knowing the issue would require the attention of Spider-Man, "Nick Fury" and "Maria Hill". Beck manipulated the three by stating he is from another Earth, as well as the Elementals, presenting himself as an expert on them and that they are entities from his dimension, all as a move to advance his plan.

Seeing Spider-Man's feelings of being unworthy to carry on Tony Stark's faith in him, Beck encouraged Peter Parker, showing his caring nature. During the Battle of London, Beck released the Elementals to attack the capital city, with Spider-Man battling against them. Despite this, he had felt disgraced when Spider-Man took all of his attention, resulting in Beck revealing his true nature to Parker; that of an extremely vengeful, furious, cruel, destructive, and above all manipulative individual. Parker believed he would publish the footage he filmed from the battle that shows Parker's true identity to the world, making him furious and later tricked the Elementals into attacking their own creator, showing Beck's arrogance was his downfall as he was refusing to accept his fate. Despite his truly dark and cruel nature, Beck's direct motive for this was all because of failing to achieve attention from people around him.

Powers
"He's like Iron Man and Thor rolled into one."

- Brad Davis


 * Energy Projection: To be added
 * Shield Generation: To be added
 * Teleportation: To be added
 * Mist Generation: To be added
 * Flight: To be added

Abilities

 * Genius Level Intellect: To be added
 * Master Engineer: To be added
 * Expert Combatant: To be added

Equipment

 * Mysterio Suit: To be added
 * Mysterio Drones: To be added
 * Tony Stark's Sunglasses: To be added

Facilities
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Allies

 * Stark Industries
 * William Ginter Riva - Former Co-Worker and Associate
 * Dimitri Smerdyakov - Associate
 * Victoria- Associate
 * Elementals - Creations
 * Sandman
 * Hydro-Man
 * Molten Man
 * Whirlwind
 * J. Jonah Jameson

Enemies

 * Tony Stark/Iron Man † - Former Employer
 * "Nick Fury" - Former Associate
 * "Maria Hill" - Former Associate
 * Midtown School of Science and Technology
 * Peter Parker/Spider-Man - Former Ally and Attempted Victim
 * Michelle Jones - Attempted Victim
 * Ned Leeds - Attempted Victim
 * Betty Brant
 * Flash Thompson
 * Happy Hogan

Trivia

 * In the comics, Quentin Beck was a visual effects artist who wanted to make a name for himself in the film industry. Due to lack of recognition, Beck realized that his expertise in illusions could make him an effective supervillain, choosing his identity of Mysterio. Beck was also a member of the original Sinister Six, a group of supervillains that are united to fight Spider-Man.

Behind the Scenes

 * Mysterio was originally intended to appear as a villain in the cancelled film , part of 's Spider-Man franchise, which would've seen him be portrayed by, who had played cameos in all the previous three films.
 * Matt Damon reportedly turned down the role of Quentin Beck before Jake Gyllenhaal was cast. Damon previously played an actor performing Loki in Thor: Ragnarok.
 * James Cox, James Harris and Corbett McAllister were stunt doubles for Jake Gyllenhaal in the role of Mysterio.
 * James Payton was a stand-in for Jake Gyllenhaal in the role of Mysterio.