re: Kraven the Hunter Trailer (Marvel)

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Please help me out here. I am not a comic book guy. Just never got into them. Did this guy get super powers just because a lions blood mixed with his?

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Not in the comics, but it looks like they are going to do either that or a version of the Spiderman origin (something strange enhancing the lion's blood).

This wouldn't be a bad movie if it weren't Kraven. This attempt to make villains more empathetic doesn't always work, to quote someone far wiser than I on crazed movie villain psyches, "some men just want to watch the world burn". Sometimes you don't need anything more than misplaced drive, Kraven's original perverted drive to be the world's greatest hunter is plenty.

Hell, they could just portray him with being obsessed at being the world's greatest hunter and then have the potion he takes (original story) pushing that drive into the Crazy-sphere. That increase in obsession could make for some fun writing, but instead they're going with "daddy issues" (and likely a bit of "people more in touch with nature are more noble" or some similar stance).