Ezekiel Sims to Cassandra Webb/Madame Web. Ezekiel Sims is the main antagonist of the 2024 superhero film Madame Web, the fourth installment in the Sony's Spider-Man Universe, which is based on the Marvel comic book character of the same name.
Madame Web is a superhero movie about someone with precognitive powers: To the extent that you can actually understand what her powers are, it's that she can see the future and in some cases act to stop terrible events from happening.
Cassandra "Cassie" Webb is a paraplegic blind woman, and former New York City Fire Department paramedic. After a near-death experience triggered her clairvoyant powers, Webb was forced to use her new abilities to protect Julia Cornwall, Mattie Franklin and Anya Corazón from Ezekiel Sims.
Madame Web never truly fleshed out the morally ambiguous aspects of Ezekiel Sims, a villain who not only went head-to-head against Spider-Man, but also proved to be an unlikely ally and mentor to him.
Ezekiel Sims was an enigmatic man that obliged himself to kill Julia Cornwall, Mattie Franklin and Anya Corazón to ensure an alternate future using his precognitive senses, leading to a confrontation with Madame Web.
The last scene of the movie takes place in Cassie's apartment, where she's living with the three girls she saved. Cassie seems unbothered by her disability. Thanks to her superpowers, she can see the future well enough that her lack of actual sight doesn't matter.
The superhero film starring Dakota Johnson is the origin story of Cassandra “Cassie” Webb who is later known as Madame Web. However, the film introduces Julia Cornwall (Sydney Sweeney), Mattie Franklin (Celeste O'Connor), and Ayna Corazón (Isabela Merced), who eventually become different iterations of Spider-Women.
How Madame Web Goes Blind And Becomes Paralyzed. During the final fight between Madame Web and Ezekiel Sims, Cassie is thrown into the water where she's hit with a blast from one of the explosions.
Why is Cassie in a wheelchair at the end of Madame Web?
Ezekiel falls to his doom but Cassie doesn't make it out unscathed, being blinded and paralyzed as a result of the fight. In the aftermath, Cassie is seen meeting up with the youngsters and wearing sunglasses while in a high-tech wheelchair.
Why can't Madame Web walk at the end of the movie?
Back in New York, Cassie uses her powers to save Julia, Mattie, and Anya from Ezekiel — but she essentially sacrifices herself to do it. Cassie is paralyzed by Ezekiel's neurotoxins, blinded by a neon Pespi-Cola sign, and nearly drowned in the East River.
And in Madame Web, it's everything around the bad guy being barefoot. Comic book devotees know the depiction of Ezekiel Sims in a dapper suit paired with no socks; no shoes is true to the source material. You see, his ability to scale walls like a spider is dependent on bare feet.
The first trailer for Madame Web introduced its villain as Ezekiel Sims. Clad in a dark version of the classic Spider-Man costume, he cut an imposing figure. He was also radically different from the Ezekiel Sims of the original Marvel comics.
What was wrong with Ezekiel's voice in Madame Web?
While there's been no direct reporting about this, because “why was your dialogue bad” is not the sort of thing you ask an actor during a junket, though it should be, there's a pretty clear reason: some poorly done ADR.
The answer is no, Madame Web does not have a post-credits scene. The film's director, SJ Clarkson, recently revealed why her film decided to break away from the long-standing Marvel tradition.
Richard Parker was away traveling, hinting that the film is taking from the comics canon where Richard and sometimes Mary were spies. As for the infant's identity, Clarkson was quick to point out that "the baby's born, but we never actually name the baby." But the implication is obviously that it's Peter Parker.
The Big Picture. Tahar Rahim plays Ezekiel Sims, the villain in Madame Web. He has the power of premonition and wants to stop a group of young women from acquiring their Spider-Women powers.
Madame Web was a victim of myasthenia gravis, a disorder of neuromuscular junction transmission. As a result, she became entirely dependent on external life support for survival. This is no longer the case as she was cured of the condition some time ago. She is also blind and relies on her powers to compensate.
We see her die, in fact, after being shot by the villain, Ezekiel Sims (Tahar Rahim), who wants to steal the extremely rare spider she's just discovered.
According to Madame Web's flashbacks, Cassie Webb and Ezekiel Sims get the power to predict the future from a rare kind of spider found in the Amazon. In Marvel Comics, Madame Web develops her abilities as a side effect of myasthenia gravis, a neurological condition.
As of Madame Web's February 14, 2024 release, a Madame Web sequel remains unannounced. Sony's Spider-Man Universe dominates the 2024 Marvel movie schedule with two other releases, August's Kraven the Hunter and November's Venom 3.
According to Marvel Database, Madame Web (née Cassandra Web) suffers from the rare neurological disease myasthenia gravis. She is blind and confined to a web-like life-support system designed by her husband.
