Each of the villains
represents something Pete has to work out within himself, whether it's the Sandman's (Thomas Haden Church)
past involvement with Pete's uncle's murder and Pete's desire for revenge, Pete's friend Harry's own quest for revenge and the strain his friend puts on his already - rocky relationship with Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst), or the oozy symbiote
from a meteorite that brings out Pete's demons and finds a new host in Pete's Doppelgänger Eddie Brock (Topher Grace).
While that
represents something of a decline
from the
past four years» double - digit growth, Baker added, «sales were most likely to plateau at some point... the fact that this slowdown coincides with the release of the iPad (well sort of) is hardly proof of cause and effect.»