Spider-Noir Season 1 just wrapped on Prime Video, and fans are already hungry for more of Nicolas Cage’s world-weary Ben Reilly. It turns out, there was a villain that almost made it into the next chapter, and his power is as simple as it is terrifying.
Season 1 follows Nicolas Cage as Ben Reilly, a broke private investigator and former superhero navigating gangsters, sandmen, and the criminal underworld of 1930s New York City. The show has been a breakout hit, and the creative team clearly had more in the tank than they could fit into eight episodes.
Spider-Noir’s Scrapped Season 2 Villain: Who Is Sticks?
In a recent interview with /Film’s Ben Pearson, creator and co-showrunner Oren Uziel revealed that some storylines were cut from Season 1, but he’s hoping to bring one of them back:
“There’s a character … shoot, I’m hoping I’m going to remember his name, called Sticks, I believe, who, when he touches you, you die. And I love that idea, and I loved it for ‘Noir,’ and maybe I’ll use it in Season 2 if we do one,” he said.
That’s a concept that fits the show’s grim aesthetic perfectly. Uziel noted that Sticks’ story was fully mapped out, with the character becoming the leader of a workers’ rights revolution after accidentally killing someone with his touch. A reluctant revolutionary whose own power makes him untouchable, literally, is exactly the kind of tragic figure this show thrives on.
Spider-Noir currently holds a 91% “Certified Fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes, so there’s real momentum behind a second season pickup. The question is whether Amazon will greenlight it. Executive producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller have both said they’d be happy to continue, with Lord quipping, “We are television producers. We’re not gonna say no.”
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Uziel has made clear that the format lends itself to endless stories. “One of the magical things about any private detective story is, if you want another story, all it takes is another client to knock on that door,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. “So it’s conceived to be as many seasons as we want to go.”
Sticks is a villain with real potential. A character whose deadliest weapon is human contact, turned into a symbol of working-class rage, is a Season 2 premise that writes itself in this world. If Amazon greenlights the next chapter, fans should hope Uziel remembers where he left that idea.
Spider-Noir Season 1 is streaming now in its entirety on Prime Video.
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