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Ezekiel Sims

The man who saw his own death

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A man who stole a spider's gifts in the Amazon in 1973, saw his own death, and set out to kill the three girls he saw in it first.

Ezekiel Sims is the man Constance Webb hired for protection when her research team went into the Peruvian Amazon in 1973 looking for a spider with rare healing properties. Tahar Rahim plays him in Madame Web. He betrays the team, shoots Constance in a struggle and claims the spider for himself; from it he gains enhanced strength and health, and a limited clairvoyance that shows him his own death. It leads him to hunt three young women who have the potential to become Spider-Women, obsessively, before they can become it.

He can inject a neurotoxin into anyone he touches, and wears a black and red suit that Wikipedia describes as similar to Spider-Man’s. He is, in short, the film’s Spider-Man, on the wrong side.

Minor spoiler

Cassie Webb, Constance’s daughter, keeps getting between him and the girls: at Grand Central, at a diner, at a hospital. In the end the group lures him to a condemned fireworks factory and sets traps to disorient him, and Cassie guides the girls out and lures him into the last one.

Played by
Tahar Rahim
Role
Former explorer, hired protection who turned on the people he was protecting
Affiliation
Himself
What they can do
A spider's strength and healing, a neurotoxin in his touch, and visions of his own future.

The journey

What happens to this person, title by title.

  1. Madame Web2024

    Hunts three teenage girls across New York because of what he has seen them become, and finds Cassie Webb in the way every time.

Appears in

  1. Madame Web2024

Sources

Facts last checked on Sep 17, 2026