Spider-Man arrives but doesn't remember Max's name. Donning a black hoodie, he escapes and makes his way to Times Square, where he accidentally causes a scene whilst trying to charge up himself with a power cable. They sting him multiple times until the tank shatters. He looses his balance and falls into a large tank of electric eels being used for experiments. Max climbs into the vent and attempts to reconnect the cable, but he is unable to stop the electrical current going into it and it malfunctions in his hands. He goes mad with "love" for Spider-Man and obsesses over him, sticking pictures of him all over his bedroom wall.Īfter he finds out that hardly anyone has remembered his birthday and his ideas for a new power grid were stolen by his colleagues at Oscorp, Max is forced by Alistair Smythe to fix an electrical problem in one of Oscorp's genetics labs. Being the "nobody" that Dillon was, he was thrilled to have been acknowledged by somebody, let alone the very famous Spider-Man.Īs Spider-Man leaves, Dillon starts to believe that he is the hero's friend. One time, the Manhattan hero Spider-Man saved him from a taxi hurtling through the air. Max Dillon lived his whole life without anybody merely acknowledging his existence. 2.1 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (video game).Following this accident, Max was made of pure electrical energy, was given a suit by Harry Osborn, and dubbed himself Electro. He was attacked by the eels, before finally breaking the entire tank. However, before he could get down, Max was shocked with electricity, making him fall down in to a tank of genetically-modified electric eels. He was able to successfully plug the line back in, fixing the circuit. He climbed all of the way up to the line and balanced on a railing. He was seen as a "nobody" before being saved and acknowledged by Spider-Man, who he became obsessed with.Īfter having to stay behind at work on his birthday, Max had to fix a broken power line. He was an electrical engineer formerly employed at Oscorp Industries. Maxwell "Max" Dillon is the main antagonist of The Amazing Spider-Man 2. "Don't you know? I'm Electro.” ―Electro and Doctor Kafka And everyone will be able to see me for who I truly am." The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Source “ I'm gonna kill the light, so everyone in this city is gonna know how it feels to live in my world.