Last week saw the release of a character trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man video game featuring the reveal of The Rhino (you can find it by clicking HERE). IGN has also posted a series of images and a character bio for the villain which you can find below. There has been a lot of speculation that Oscorp's role in the movie universe would be to help introduce new villains and the information below may support that theory. To read an interview with Beenox's Stephane Gravel and Marvel's Chris Baker, be sure to click on the link at the bottom of the page.
Unlike all of the other cross-species, which were created after Curt Connors terrorized the city as the Lizard, Rhino was the result of a pet project belonging to a corrupt Oscorp executive with access to Connors’ research. Abusing this access, he applied this top-secret knowledge to black-market dealings.
Without the knowledge or consent of his superiors at Oscorp, the executive forcefully enlisted the help of Dr. Michael Morbius, threatening to end the reclusive biochemist’s career if he refused to help. Morbius reluctantly complied, applying the rhinoceros DNA with which the executive supplied him to a cross-species serum similar in nature to Connors’ own for the Lizard.
The next step was to test the serum, and the executive’s underworld clients were all too happy to provide his oblivious human test subject: a low-level thug named Aleksei Sytsevich. If it worked, the mafia would have a new weapon on its hands; if not...no great loss.
After an excruciatingly painful transformation, Sytsevich was now a hybrid of man and rhinoceros, ready to tear apart anything in his path – the executive’s clients would be pleased. That is, if they are ever to receive their investment…
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RELEASE DATE: June 26th, 2012.
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