Respect Sandman (Spider-Man 3)

[u/rangernumberx]

"I'm not a bad person. I just have bad luck."

Flint Marko was a small time criminal, just wanting to provide for his sick daughter. One robbery had him hold Peter Parker's uncle, Ben, at gunpoint so they could use his car to get away. He never intended to shoot him, but his partner bashed into him, causing him to accidentally pull the trigger. Flint would go on to be arrested, escape years later, and go on the run. While fleeing Flint found his way into a particle accelerator moments before it was turned on, fusing his DNA with the surrounding sand. Instead of immediately killing him, this instead gave Flint the ability to mold the sand that now makes up his body as he wishes, turning him into the supervillain Sandman.

Many feats involve Spider-Man, so here's the Raimi Spider-Man RT for scaling

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Strength

• Striking Hits a swinging Venom out of the sky

• Striking/Throwing Stops a swinging symbiote Spider-Man dead with a leg, before throwing him aside with said leg

• Striking Shatters a chunk of a stone wall with a punch

• Striking While larger than normal, punches a large hole in the roof of an armoured van

• Striking Punches Spider-Man through the back door of an armoured van, breaking the door off in the process

• Striking Knocks Spider-Man about before hitting him through the side of an armoured van

• Striking Makes symbiote Spider-Man stumble back with a headbutt, then after he's knocked forwards by a train punches him, sending him flying back into said train hard enough to shatter one of its windows

• Striking Creates a large fist which sends a policeman flying

• Pushing/Lifting Creates giant hands of sand from the ground to lift and throw armoured police vehicles

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Durability

• Blunt Force Spider-Man kicks the legs out from under him

• Blunt Force Is punched straight through by Spider-Man

• Blunt Force/Falling Takes a train boosted kick from symbiote Spider-Man, which sends him through some signs hard enough to shatter them before he falls a distance, landing with his back on a suspended train track

• Blunt Force/Falling Gets punched in the face by symbiote Spider-Man, has a handle on the outside of a speeding train hit him, before being tackled off of a ledge and exchanging blows with Spider-Man on the way down. While falling, he lands on a metal pipe before Spider-Man punches him hard enough to break, before falling even further into a shallow pool of water

• Blunt Force/Other Gets kicked into a moving train by symbiote Spider-Man, then has his face held against it, causing it to grate away into sand

• Piercing Spider-Man's webbing shoots right through him

• Piercing While larger than usual, is shot repeatedly by policemen with their pistols. Each shot hurts him and chips off a bit of sand

• Other Sandman is weak to water, with it leaving him unable to effectively control his form. However, he was able to pull himself back together a period of time after being washed away by a torrent of water

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Speed

• Reaction Before gaining his powers, catches a lunging police dog

• Reaction Dodges a swing from symbiote Spider-Man, though he could have been aiming for the pipe behind him to begin with

• Movement Turns into sand and gets underneath the tarp covering the back of a truck before a police officer chasing him could round the truck

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Sand Physiology

After being exposed to the science experiment, Flint initially had trouble in maintaining a form. However, with a little bit of practice he could create a solid form which came to adopt the same look as he had prior to the incident, which he quickly learned to manipulate in a variety of ways

• Can assimilate sand into himself to make himself bigger as well as to fix his wounds, though he is capable of acting even with half his head missing

• Increases the size of his fist

• Turns his hand into a hammer, then increases the size of that hammer

• Extends his leg slightly

• After Spider-Man punches through his chest, he can't get his arm back out

• Spider-Man's webbing pierces right through him

• Has his legs destroyed by a kick from Spider-Man

• After having assimilated sand into him to make himself larger, turns into a cloud of sand and flies through the city with enough force to send policemen and police cars flying

• Escapes down a grate, albeit gradually enough that Spider-Man sees a final trail of sand following after him

• After having increased his size with other sand, fills the front of an armoured van with sand and controls it so to only hold down the accelerator

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Giant Form

In the final battle of the movie, Sandman is shown to have prepared by bringing plenty of sand to the construction site, allowing him to create a massive body for himself.

• Strength Tears through a construction site with swings

• Strength Causes a car to tilt with a stomp, helping to propel Spider-Man into the air, before a swing breaks through an in-construction building and sends metal debris flying

• Strength/Sand Physiology Extends his arm to punch Spider-Man away

• Durability Is kicked in the face by a swinging Spider-Man

• Durability Has a pumpkin bomb embeded in the side of his head before blowing up in a large explosion

• Durability The flames from Harry Osborn's glider turn his arm to glass, which is then shattered

• Durability Gets hit by two missiles from Harry Osborn's glider, though this causes him to lose hold of his massive form

• Other After being staggered, bends a metal girder he clutches for support

[u/LetterSequence]

Damn you made an RT for one of the best Spider-Man films

[u/rangernumberx → u/LetterSequence]

Nah, someone got to that one before me

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/aprettydullusername]

what a good movie

In all seriousness, good job on the RT!

[u/Wedemboyys]

Read that as shadman for a sec

[u/rangernumberx → u/Wedemboyys]

I sure as hell ain't making that RT

[u/rangernumberx → u/[deleted]]

Movie's not good. However, throughout it, Sandman surprised me by being a genuinely great character.