Mysterio

"Tony Stark is gone, there is a window of opportunity, and someone will step up. These days, you can be the smartest guy in the room, the most qualified, and no one cares. Unless you're flying around with a cape, or shooting lasers with your hands, no one will even listen. Well... I've got a cape and lasers. With our technology, and with you, Mysterio will be the greatest hero on Earth!"

- Mysterio

Quentin Beck is a former Stark Industries employee who sought to replace the late Tony Stark as Earth's next defender. Beck staged several Elemental crises across the world with the use of his drones and hologram technology, seeking attention and recognition from the public as a new superhero named Mysterio.

Beck exploited traits of charisma and his skills in illusions and trickery 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, as he sent modified footage of the Battle of London to several news outlets, framing Spider-Man for the attacks.

Working for Stark Industries
"The holographic system I designed, a revolutionary breakthrough with limitless applications, which Tony turned into a self-therapy machine and renamed "B.A.R.F." He renamed my life's work B.A.R.F., then he fired me, saying I was unstable."

- Quentin Beck

Quentin Beck was employed by Stark Industries, where he began working as an engineer. Beck was assisting in the inventing of the Binarily Augmented Retro-Framing prototype during his employment. However, he felt unrecognized as an inventor from 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.

Becoming Mysterio
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. Beck had also rallied disgraced members of Stark Industries who had similar motivations towards Stark, including William Ginter Riva, Victoria Snow, Guterman and Janice Lincoln. Furthermore, he developed a decorative and well made armour which made it appear as if it enabled him to control his abilities, as well as his holograms incuding a holographic version of himself in full armour, making his superpowers seem real.

Skirmish in Mexico
"You don't want any part of this."

- Mysterio to "Nick Fury" and "Maria Hill"

With his transformation into Mysterio, Beck used the Elementals to attack Mexico and Morocco, resulting the attention of Nick Fury and Maria Hill. After a battle with Sandman and seemingly destroying the Elemental, Beck revealed himself to Fury and Hill and shared his false story with them, manipulating them wisely enough into believing it. Sometime after this, he set Cyclone on Morocco and fought the air elemental, another battle that he won.

Battle in the Grand Canal
After the incident in Morocco, Beck unleashed the water elemental known as Hydro-Man at Venice, Italy. During the event, Beck arrived at the scene as Mysterio flying down from the sky and fighting Hydro-Man, however both himself and Hydro-Man were seemigly all part of his elaborate illusions. Peter Parker, who was on a school feild trip across Europe and was also in Venice at the time attempted to help, and working with Mysterio, lured Hydro-Man away from the inhabited bridge and out of the water, which allowed Mysterio to defeat it, destoying the third elemental. Mysterio then flew off into the sky, much to the awe of Peter's classmates, who had watched the fight. They later debated about the mysterious hero, who they named Mysterio.

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

Right after the Venice battle, 'Nick Fury' arrived in Parker's hotel and took him to a hidden base where Mysterio was working alongside them. Beck greeted Parker, and told him his false narrative and charisma to manipulate the teen, causing him to believe in the existence of the Multiverse and fabricating his the story of his Earths destruction by the hands of the final elemental, saying that he had lost his family to it as well. Beck later stated he knows when the next Elemental attack would happen and where, resulting 'Fury' attempting to recruit Parker into helping Beck against the Elementals. Although Peter turned it down due to not wanting the world to know his identity, 'Fury' hijacked school trip, sending them to Prague so Peter coUld be there to help, something Beck referred to as kidnapping the boy.

Prague Attack
"If I don't make it... It's been nice knowing you, kid."

- Mysterio to Spider-Man

A day later, Beck met up with Parker, Fury and Maria Hill, waiting for the final elemental attack. When Parker had doubts about his participation in the mission, Beck comforted him, and Peter trusted him. Beck then unleashed the fire Elemental, known as Molten Man, in order to attack Prague, which then led to him and Spider-Man, who called himself 'Night Monkey' to avoid suspicion, fighting Molten-Man. Beck made up that Molten Man could draw power from the Earths core by growing larger from metal. During the battle, Beck failed to notice Peter accidentally hit one of his Drones, causing it to loose a projector, which was then stolen by Michelle Jones. Mysterio seemingly attempted to sacrifice himself to stop Molten Man, flying into the elemental and destroying it. After the battle, Parker checked on Mysterio, and Nick Fury and Maria Hill arrived at the scene, Fury requesting Beck come to a meeting in Berlin, so he can stay on Earth and help fight future threats. Beck, wanting to keep up his deception, agreed, and then asked Peter if he wanted to get drinks, which the teen eventually agreed to.

Gaining the E.D.I.T.H. Glasses
"See? That wasn't so hard. Somebody get this stupid costume off me!"

- Quentin Beck to his Crew

Parker and Beck got drinks at a bar, which was secretly also an illusion, created to give the perfect atmosphere for Parker to be open towards Mysterio, in hopes he would hand over the E.D.I.T.H. glasses which he had accidentally dropped. The pair talked for a bit, Peter confessing his love for MJ, and his plan to tell her his feelings atop the Eiffel Tower. Trusting Beck completely, Peter offered the glasses to Beck, thinking he should be the next Iron Man. Beck acted like he wanted to turn it down, but accepted the 'honor' nonetheless.

But after Peter left the bar, Beck disabled the illusion set up there, revealing the other attendees at the bar to be his team, who cheered after Beck joked that getting E.D.I.T.H was easy. They the next went outside, Beck giving the glasses to his team to link to his system to gain masses of drones. Beck gave out toasts to each of his teammates, thanking them and celebrating their roles in the first step to his victory, and promising them a rich and powerful future in The absence of Tony Stark.

Tormenting Spider-Man
"You are just a scared little kid in a sweatsuit. I created Mysterio to give the world someone to believe in. I control the truth... Mysterio is the truth! Maybe if you were good enough, Tony might still be alive."

- Mysterio to Spider-Man

That night, Peter and MJ ended up activating the projector the latter stole, and discovered Beck's deception. Beck quickly found out about the missing projector during a rehearsal for his next planned battle, wanting to create an 'Avengers-level threat'. Furious that his plan could be compromised, he threatened his team at gun point before using E.D.I.T.H to discover that both Peter Parker and MJ knew. Beck was once again enraged, informing William Riva that once he had to kill Parker, The blamed would be on him. Beck then went to Berlin. At the same time, Spider-Man headed to Berlin as well.

Before Parker and Fury arrived, he set up the destination building as yet another illusion, and after shooting Fury with one of his Drones, trapped Parker in an elaborate maze of illusion, attempting to break him with them, showing him horrific visions, such as Mysterio in full armor dropping MJ from the top of the Eiffel Tower, and a zombie Iron Man crawling with spiders attacking Peter. He then attacked Peter will an illusion of Mysterio in full armor, and fought Peter, saying that Mysterio was made to give people hope and that as Mysterio, he could control the truth, before attempting to declare once again that people would believe anything they heard. However, the illusions suddenly cut out, as Beck, wearing a Mo-Cap suit, was shot in the back by Nick Fury.

Peter told Fury the other people who knew about Beck's real plan, only for the Fury present to be another illusion, and Beck told Peter that now his friends has to die too. Beck then said that for what it was all worth, he was sorry for what he had to do. Before Parker could react, he was hit and swept away by a train, as Mysterio had E.D.I.T.H alter Parker's school trip to London.

Battle of London
Beck then went to London, capital of United Kingdom and England with the Mysterio persona and then created his largest illusion yet: the Elemental Fusion in order to attack the city and cause maximum damage, to insure he will forever be seen as a hero to the world, and to use his technology in order to make sure that his plan would surely happen.

He then communicated with his ally Guterman, who was posing as a London Bus Driver, and instructed him to move the bus holding Peter Parker's classmates into a suitable 'kill zone' so the Drones that made the Fusion could kill them. However, the class escaped, and Beck to manually sent drones to kill his 'loose ends', Nick Fury and Maria Hill. Beck then staged the fight between the hologram of Mysterio and the Elemental Fusion.

However, Spider-Man arrived to stop his plans, going inside the Fusion illusions, and destroying drones inside, which Beck soon took notice to, as the massive illusion fell apart, revealing the Drones to the world. Beck sent all the active drones to kill Spider-Man, who used his variety of powers and abilities to fight the army of drones, until some hit him with a car and knocked him into the water around London Bridge, which Beck assuming he was finally dead.

Furious with the failure of his illusion plan, Beck attempted to hunt down and kill Ned Leeds, Michelle Jones, Betty Brant, Flash Thompson and Happy Hogan, the other people who were aware of his plan, by manually controlling one of the armed drones, trapping them in the. After finding Jones, Betty distracted Beck's drone by pushing down a suit of ornate armour, making the drone fire at it, giving Jones the time to destroy it with a mace, angering Beck even more.

Duel in the Tower Bridge
"How could you do all of this?" "You'll see, Peter. People... need to believe. And nowadays, they'll believe anything."

- Spider-Man and Mysterio

Beck then learned that Parker survived his fall, and was coming towards him. Beck then ordered the illusion to be shut down for a time, so he could deal with Spider-Man. Riva then began to set the illusion up once again, wondering how Mysterio would ever spin the story.

Beck was then ambushed by Spider-Man in the viewing area, grabbed by the web slinger and suspended in mid air, Parker told him he had lost and demanded he hand over E.D.I.T.H. Beck said he always had contingencies, before Drones knocked them apart. Beck, now furious and motivated to murder Spider-Man, arrogantly challenged Spider-Man to fight for the E.D.I.T.H. glasses, sending a last swarm of armed drones after him.

Spider-Man used his enhanced senses, dubbed "Peter-Tingle", to detect the now invisible drones, which were being easily destroyed. Beck then noticed the drones nearest to him were not firing. Even after learning from Riva that he was in the crossfire of the drones, Beck still ordered the attack, but Spider-Man still defeated all the last drones, sending an active firing drone at Beck, which shot him in the abdomen, knocking him to the floor as Parker took down the last orb the drones.

Parker yelled out to Beck, declaring that he lied to him and the world. Unknown to Spider-Man, the Beck he was talking to was another illusion. The Illusion Beck said that tricking Peter was the most disappointing part of his whole campaign. He then held out the E.D.I.T.H glasses for Peter to take, saying that Tony Stark was right all along, and Peter was worthy of them.

The mortally wounded Beck attempted to kill Spider-Man one last time after revealing himself to be simply another illusion. Spider-Man subdues Beck yet again, and reclaims the E.D.I.T.H. glasses. Beck drops down, and claims ominously that "people need to believe" and that they'll "believe anything", before being succumbing to his wounds and die, as Spider-Man looks on.

Exposing Spider-Man's Identity
"I managed to send the Elemental back into the dimensional rift but I don't think I'm gonna make it off this bridge alive. Spider-Man attacked me for some reason. He has an army of weaponized drones, Stark technology. He's saying he's the only one who's gonna be the new Iron Man, no one else. Spider-Man's real– Spider-Man's real name is– Spider-Man's name is Peter Parker!"

- Mysterio

Despite his great defeat, shortly prior to his assumed death, he took advantage of his being subdued from Spider-Man in order to release altered filmed footage of the London battle, implicating Spider-Man as the ringleader of the attacks. Upon Peter's return to New York City, the footage was already sent to various news outlets in the city, including  and The Daily Bugle, exposing Peter's alter-ego as Spider-Man to the world.

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 interdimensional warrior and expert on them and that they are entities from his dimension, stating they caused many allies of his to die, all as a move to advance his plan.

While portraying as a superhero, Beck would display a selfless and kind behavior, appearing to risk his life to protect innocents and allies. Beck would also become somewhat of a father figure to Peter, showing sympathy to his concerns and advising Peter to think about what he wants, rather than just following other people's expectations. This led Peter to look up to Beck, and made him trust Beck enough to give him control of E.D.I.T.H.

However, beneath Beck's superhero guise lies an extremely egosticial, dark, ruthless, destructive and above all manipulative man who would stop at nothing to get what he wants. While Beck may show some camaraderie to his crew that helped him become Mysterio, Beck would not hesitate to threaten their lives if they made even a small mistake, showing how truly ruthless he is. Beck also doesn't care about civilian casualties caused by his performances, citing that more deaths would mean more publicity for Mysterio. Another example of Beck's ruthlessness is when Peter found out about his secret and told his friends, Beck actively seeks to kill them to prevent them from exposing him. Despite his apparent care for Peter, Beck caused and coldly watched as Peter was hit by a speeding train in Berlin, and was willing to kill him and all his school friends, despite them being children, to insure his plan is not exposed.

Beck showed a far more horrific and sadistic side when creating illusions during his first fight with Peter, showing him choking MJ and throwing her from the Eiffel Tower, a twisted version of the plan Parker had with her, causing Peter to believe this illusion. He even used his illusions to create a dark ,terrifying, foggy dimension of illusions in order to outsmart Peter before attempting to lock him inside an illusion of a snowbowl of New York with Avengers Tower all a move to cause Parker to be broken mentally and physically.

Even in his second fight with Parker, he shown this ruthlessness and unleashed all of his destructive methods to make sure his plan would surely happen, but his arrogance, ruthlessness and dark nature were all proved to be his massively great downfall soon as he was shot presumably to his death, leaving his plan partially successful with even after his supposed death, he managed to remain as a hero with exposing Spider-Man's true identity and framing him to the world. However, Beck's sinister and dark nature were all only because of attempting gaining the same attention as his former employer and his enemy were receiving.

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

- Brad Davis


 * Holographic Projection: Beck had access to a wide range of advanced realistic holographic projectors controlled by William Ginter Riva's drones, which he used to make illusions of the Elemental attacks, and him stopping them. With the drones, he could cause real damage, and real casualties, which made the public believe that the illusions were real. Beck's Holograms extended to showing an extension of himself as Mysterio as well, the entire battle between him and the Elementals being pre-made before being unleashed on the public. Also, Beck trapped Peter Parker in an elaborate maze of illusion, showing him horrific visions, such as Mysterio dropping MJ from the top of the Eiffel Tower, and a zombie Iron Man crawling with spiders attacking Peter. He then attacked Parker will an illusion of an giant Mysterio in full armor.

Abilities

 * Genius-Level Intellect: Quentin Beck is a genius, his intellect on par with Tony Stark and his eventual protege, Peter Parker. Beck was a principal developer of the technology that would later be appropriated by Stark, who rejected his views on how the technology should be utilized and instead used it as the framework for what he would call B.A.R.F.. Beck displays his technical skills in the development of illusions and skillful applications of advanced drones, skills so refined that they are even capable of fooling intergalactic beings such as Talos and Soren, as well as the majority of the public who witness his acts of "heroism." Beck also masterminded his entire plan, which came close to succeeding, and in a way did, as after exposing Spider Man, the public believed that he was the real hero.
 * Master Scientist: While working with Stark, he proved to have uncanny skills in science, using them all to develop B.A.R.F. ,and also using his scientific knowledge to develop the drones.
 * Master Engineer: During the process of transforming into Mysterio, Beck used his engineering skills in order to create the suit and the helmet which would defend his identity secretive from the rest of the world.
 * Master Actor: Beck's narcissistic mentality and attention to detail make him a brilliant thespian. He showed genuine concern for Parker struggling to balance his normal and hero lives, even winning him over to make Parker chose to give up E.D.I.T.H. voluntarily. However, he is not creative enough to mastermind a narrative such as being a superhero from another reality fighting elemental entities. He instead had a member of his team, Guterman, devise the story of "Mysterio" and how to convey authenticity to his words so as make his deceptions believed, even by "Nick Fury" and "Maria Hill". His attention to detail also made him the "director" of the pre-render of every Elemental attack so the battle path and damage caused would seem real. A drawback to this are extreme reactions to unintended mistakes, such as threatening his entire crew with drones guns trained on their heads after learning of Jones' taking of evidence which Riva overlooked as minor damage.
 * Master Tactician: Beck's adaptability in tense situations allows him to adjust the spin of the story on the fly. This is most evident when Beck made Parker believe Fury saved him, only to effortless coerce information of who else could know of Beck's deception. Even as Spider-Man revealed his illusions, Beck turned the story of his reported death into martyrdom by having Riva edit the London footage to make it seem as though Parker commanded the drone attack and killed Beck, just to turn Spider-Man into a public enemy.

Equipment

 * B.A.R.F.: Beck used his uncanny skills of technology and science together with Tony Stark in order to create B.A.R.F. framework.
 * Mo-Cap Suit: Beck has ulitized a motion-capture suit in order to outsmart Spider-Man in the illusions dimension he has creaetd.
 * Mysterio Suit: Beck developed and created for years this highly advanced suit of armor, cape and foggy bowl mask helmet in order to master his illusions correctly and to carry out his master plan.
 * Stark Industries Combat Drones: Beck has used these combat drones in order to project holograms of the Elementals and to control them to carry out his plan, but also to wreak havoc across London when fighting Spider-Man.
 * E.D.I.T.H.: To be added.
 * Tony Stark's Glasses: To be added

Facilities
To be added

Allies

 * Quentin Beck's Crew
 * William Ginter Riva
 * Victoria Snow
 * Guterman
 * Janice Lincoln
 * Elementals - Creations
 * Sandman
 * Cyclone
 * Hydro-Man
 * Molten Man
 * Elemental Fusion
 * J. Jonah Jameson

Enemies

 * Stark Industries
 * Tony Stark/Iron Man † - Former Employer
 * Happy Hogan - Attempted Victim
 * Talos (disguised as Nick Fury) - Temporary Ally and Attempted Victim
 * Soren (disguised as Maria Hill) - Temporary Ally
 * Dimitri Smerdyakov - Temporary Ally
 * Peter Parker/Spider-Man - Temporary Ally and Attempted Victim
 * Michelle Jones - Attempted Victim
 * Ned Leeds - Attempted Victim
 * Betty Brant - Attempted Victim
 * Flash Thompson - Attempted Victim
 * Brad Davis
 * Roger Harrington
 * Julius Dell

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.
 * In the pub scene as Beck celebrates with his crew, he states that Guterman's story "about a warrior named Quentin-" indicates that Mysterio's real name is not Quentin Beck.

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.
 * 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.