Who Is Delilah In Marvel's Spider-Man 2? (Backstory Explained)
25.10.2023 - 15:45
/ screenrant.com
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Those who complete one of the longest and grindiest side missions in are treated to the reveal of a mysterious character named Delilah. She's hard to find, she only appears briefly, and she isn't very talkative. But she is present, and as it turns out, may play an important role in the wider multiverse. Players will have to rack up a ton of collectibles in in order to meet her, though.
includes a ton of Easter eggs, referencing other works of and Marvel media, as well as related people, places, and things from the real world. Some of them are huge and obvious, from the Wakandan Embassy downtown to the Stan Lee statue on the Upper West Side. Others are more subtle and harder to notice, like utility hole covers with Insomniac Games' logo stamped into them, or all the rides at Coney Island's amusement park being named after classic villains. Delilah falls somewhere in between; her brief appearance is unmistakable, but hard to understand.
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's Delilah was supposed to appear in, but was apparently removed from the final cut of the film. Concept art for a character named Delilah, as seen in the tie-in art book, depicts a similar design. Delilah is easily recognizable by her red, hexagonal sunglasses, her long, braided hair, her harness-like suit vest, and her muscular, tattooed arms.
Her intended role in the film was similar to her role in the game: Delilah was to work as the bartender of The Bath with No Name, a favorite interdimensional hangout for supervillains. It's unclear whether this would've been a one-off gag or a major plot point, but Delilah and her patrons obviously would've played some kind of role in if they hadn't been cut.
There's plenty of flair around Delilah's cameo in. She appears on the other side of a hexagon-shaped, pink portal, much like the ones used for interdimensional travel in the trilogy. She's rendered in a totally different art style from the rest of the cast of characters in , with a blockier, more polygonal silhouette and comic-style cel shading.
Delilah delivers a handful of cryptic lines about her bar before taking back all the Spider-Bots, then mentions that someone made Miguel may come looking for them later. Naturally, this version of Spider-Man doesn't know of any Miguel, but this is almost certainly a reference to Miguel O'Hara, the antagonist of (and quite possibly its sequel, too).
Both versions of Delilah may also be based on a character of the same name appearing in the comics, particularly in, released in June 1996. Her design is slightly different — comic Delilah wears a magenta jumpsuit, but still has the same braid. She doesn't have anything to do with The Bar, instead teaming up with