#adriano tumino

[malhare]

(Spoilers) Sorry but I have to talk about the Vulture's sequence and character design since no one else seems to be. This version of Adrian Toomes (rather, Adriano Tumino) comes from a Renaissance-stylized universe and is specifically based on Leonardo Da Vinci's art. He's animated in a stylized way that looks like old parchment, both his wings and weapons resemble contraptions Da Vinci would have designed, and when he fires off attacks scribbles similar to Da Vinci's appear on screen! It's just so wonderfully fitting for a character like Vulture

[neon-ufo]

my friend commissioned me to draw her newest crush

[sweetfishes]

[hollowsart]

Move your dump truck and let me see my grandpa, Miguel!!

vulture, translation: “grandfather”? me?

[diesaur]

miguel o'hara this miguel o'hara that. Where the old man fans at?

[bi-hop]

why the vulture scene in atsv is pure horror (spoilers under the cut)

As promised, I now have the mental bandwidth to actually talk about Adriano Tumino aka the Medieval Vulture in Across the Spiderverse. This is a spoiler fest, so I'm putting everything under the cut. Enjoy!

So, at some point when I was younger, I first heard about Flatland. It's this satirical novella from 1884. When I was looking it up again last night to prepare myself to explain it to other people, I was SHOCKED to hear it was satire on Victorian society and class structures. I had only ever heard about it in science and horror spaces. As a work, it's mainly known now for exploring the idea of 4th dimensions before Einstein, but it also continues elements that are straight out of horror. So, instead of breaking down the whole thing, I'm going to be focusing on that stuff specifically.

Flatland is about A. Square (yes, that's his name), who is a square. As you can imagine, his entire world is two-dimensional and functions as such. There's a lot of worldbuilding, but just keep in mind that

The people in his world cannot conceive of a 3rd dimension, and any mention of such is heretical.

Circles are the highest ranked people in this world.

One day, he encounters what he thinks is a circle. Said character is actually a sphere. Even as said sphere fucks with his perception by looking like disks sliding in and out of reality and tells him about the 'truth' of the world, A. Square can't comprehend the third dimension until his teacher lifts him into it, into Spaceland. The square is enlightened! His mind has been opened! He tells the sphere, if his reality is false and there's truly a third dimension, what if there are more? What if a fourth dimension exists with fourth dimensional beings who cannot be accurately perceived?

His teacher immediately casts him back down into Flatland, where he is subsequently imprisoned. No one believes that the third dimension and Spaceland exist. He only is able to write the novella and hope that one day Flatland will be ready for this knowledge.

All of this to say that Adriano is A. Square.

I read a lot of dimension-based horror. Maybe it's because the multiverse has compelled me since I was a kid, or maybe it's because I've heard way too many thought experiments about how every person on the planet may see the world differently, and we just use the same language to describe fundamentally different visuals because we can't accurately verify anything. The horror of it all, for both readers and writers, isn't necessarily the idea of seeing things others can't. At least, it's not in the hands of someone sincerely thinking about the 'eldritch'. Instead, imagine a higher being grabbing you and exposing you to a whole new, weighty aspect of reality you could never conceive without actively being dragged into it. And then you're thrown back into your reality. It consumes you, drives you, and no one believes you. How can they, when it's something so alien to your reality that no one can even think of it unless shown?

Because of the ripple effects of the collider, Adriano Tumino is dragged into Earth-65, the home of Spider-Woman (Gwen Stacy). We don't know a lot about his world. As far as I remember, we don't even get a number designation. But his design, dialogue, and track all communicate a great deal about him. Vulture Meets Culture as a track blends Gwen's theme with the sort of opera he might listen to back home. He's designed heavily on the aesthetics of Da Vinci notebooks. As he affects the world, you can even see notations a la research scribbles next to diagrams. From memory alone, disregarding the fact that he's Italian (though I'm sure the insistence on English in Earth-65 was probably disorientating if his entire world speaks Italian), he also finds this new reality to be abhorrent and lashes out. This alone, an exposure to new colors and strange art and even weirder people who look nothing like you and the rest of your world, would be hard enough to cope with.

And then Miguel, this Spider-Man from 2099, drags Adriano out into the modern day.

The thing with movies being in theaters is that I'm at the mercy of random people who film showings on their phone to get footage. Because everyone finds the helicopter scene directly after this more interesting (which is valid), I don't have a picture of this moment. But when Adriano is flying out into this future, when he lays his eyes on these towering skyscrapers alight with color, you can see his shock, perhaps even terror. It'd be rough enough being exposed to a version of Italy that's, say, his time period but in technicolor. But this is worse. This is his Spaceland moment. The opera builds almost mournfully.

Soon, he will be sent back to his reality. This will happen in an even more incomprehensible future dimension, with even more people who look nothing like him. Perhaps there's a version of his granddaughter there. Tiana Tumino? It doesn't matter. Imagine this though. Your grandfather is yanked out of existence. He comes back. And he tells you 'I have seen colors beyond the ones we live in. I have seen towers of glass and metal scraping the sky, all alight in these colors. I have seen art that contains more art, and it was hideous. No one understood me. Flying things neared me that were beyond anything even our greatest geniuses can make.'

Do you believe him? Can you even imagine it all, even if he describes it, even if he shows you drawings of what he witnessed?

What will you say?

[lazymonth]

We need more The Vulture (atsv version) fans. Too bad that everyone is obsessed with Miguel O'Hara.

SR. Grandpa have a very good design and concept I love him sm and he’s deserve more fans, but look like he doesn’t have enough screen time of making most of fans stuck with him,, and Miguel is zaddy . It’s gonna be sooo good if he’s back in beyond the spider-verse some how, LOL

[geek-of-fandoms]

Got the atsv concept art book as an early bday gift from my bf and I found this while reading vultures page and I don't think anyone else has posted about it yet

Vulture without his mask

[ghostflowerhotpotch]

HUH?!

That's not what she says the movie! This is!

When we didn't have her "Oh, great." Line after putting off the Spider-guin radio, I thought this script was of the digital version of the movie, but is not even that?.

...

IS THIS TECHNICALLY A THIRD, SECRET VERSION?!

(Ok ok, I am just using an hyperbole; this isn't weird in movies, this script probably predates both versions. I am still shocked.)

In any case, Gwen SHOULD had said that, is not a bad line!

New headcanon: That's what she was thinking at that moment.

(If you want to block this chain of posts, block the hashtag #screenplay react.)

[blankieisablankie]

Something about the vulture sitting like this is driving me just a liiiiiittttle bit crazy

[kdw0000]

Adrian Tumino (...but no bird suit?)

[bizarrebulb]

hey...bird time......

[scythevampire]

*redraws that one barbie and ken meme but with my spidersona and vulture, like a boss 😎*

[sweetfishes]

renaissance man take me by the hand

[hollowsart]

My edits of Adriano Tumino without his mask. I had to draw over and add parts of his face using the other expressions as references to figure it out.

I'm very pleased with these results! I did my best to make them believable/match the style (although with the nose, you can tell it ended up in my style a bit, oops)

My funny Italian grandpa, who is soooo cool I wanna take him to an art exhibit/museum and hear his incomprehensible rants about art/modern art

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[it-seemo]

I love how Vulture pretty much completely gives up on being serious once Miguel shows up.

When it's just Gwen, he's sassy, snarky, and dramatic. "I am the Vulture, the pinnacle of man's genius! What cursed world have you brought me to?!"

But then Miguel shows up and he devolves into a rejected Mario Bro "Take a look at-a my Greek-a Fire from-a my backpack!"

I love him.