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Dr Curt Connors a.k.a The Lizard is one of the main antagonists of Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man franchise, appearing as the main antagonist of The Amazing Spider-Man. He is also a major antagonist of the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Spider-Man: No Way Home.
He is a brilliant geneticist who works at Oscorp, who, an attempt to regrow his missing arm, injects himself with lizard DNA. This turns him into a lizard-human hybrid, who develops an alternate personality out to turn the entirety of New York in lizards.
Years later, in his lizard form, he is teleported to an alternate universe where he teams up with fellow Oscorp employee Max Dillon and an alternate universe Sandman and Green Goblin to escape going home.
He is portrayed by Rhys Ifans.
The Amazing Spider-Man[]
On top of Oscorp Tower, the Lizard and Spider-Man get into a fight. Lizard then chokes Spider-Man until Captain George Stacy arrives and shoots the Lizard multiple times, buying Spider-Man time to get free and retrieve the cure to Connors' mutagen from Stacy. The Lizard recovers and fatally wounds Stacy. He then attempts to stop Spider-Man stopping the Ganali device from unleashing his lizard formula but fails as Peter loads the antidote into the machine. Once exposed to the antidote, the Lizard transforms back into Connors, who saves Peter from falling off the building.
During the credits of the film, Connors is in prison. He then meets a character credited as "The Man in the Shadows," asking him if Connors told Peter the truth about his father Richard Parker. Connors replies "no" while the darkened figure says "Well, that's very good." Before returning to the credits of the film, Connors gives out his last words by stating "You leave him alone!"
Trivia[]
- The Lizard in The Amazing Spider-Man is missing several key features that he usually has in the comics, such as a snout and torn clothes (usually a white lab coat and purple pants). Marc Webb has stated that Lizard lacks a snout because Rhys Ifans is using motion-capture to play the character, and he believes that Ifan's emotions would have been lost if a snout was present. The clothes were also removed to give the character a more realistic look. Though he is seen wearing a lab coat a few of times, it's removed soon afterwords.
- The Daily Bugle viral site confirms that Connors was found guilty.
- Even if the Lizard in this version showed naked so he has a realistic look by filmmakers, this made him bears resemble some of his incarnation in other continuity regarding appearance without any clothes, notably his counterpart in Spider-Man: The New Animated Series.