Info on Sandman

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The third villain to be featured... the actual killer of Peter Parker's uncle Ben according to the film series... the reluctant super-villain Flint Marko, aka SANDMAN (not to be confused with the Singapore cane-wielding ECW veteran)

His street name is Flint Marko, a man who wants to raise money to pay for medical treatment for his daughter, who has an illness, by stealing. He is at odds with his ex-wife, due to his frequently being in and out of jail. While on the run from the police after escaping from prison, he accidentally falls into a physics experimental site that molecularly binds him with sand, giving him shape-shifting sand abilities, and becomes the Sandman. A major focus of the plot of the film involves the Sandman's connection to the murder of Peter's Uncle Ben shown in the first film.

POWERS AND ABILITIES

The Sandman possesses the ability to convert all or part of his body into a sand-like substance by mental command. His brain has attained subliminal awareness of all granulated particles of his body. Through conscious effort, he can affect the degree of molecular cohesion between the numerous adjoining surfaces of his particles and thus cause locomotion of discrete volumes, down to the individual grains. His radically mutagenically altered body composition and increased density enable him to compact or loosen the particles of sand that make up his form.

Consequently, the Sandman can become as hard as sandstone, or disperse his body so that he becomes invulnerable to physical attacks. He can shape his sand-state body into any continuous shape he can imagine. He can project his sand particles outward at high speeds and, when in the shape of a bulky object, with the impact of a large sandbag. The Sandman is mainly seen transforming his arms and hands into a sand mace or a sledgehammer to battle Spider-Man and his other ememies. He can merge with natural sand if it is in his direct vicinity like a beach or desert, thus he can manipulate normal sand like his normal body, add it to his physical size and strength, or use it to reform himself.

The Sandman is vulnerable to temperatures of 3,400 degrees Fahrenheit can cause his highly impure silicate composition to fuse into amorphous silicate (glass). The Sandman maintains mental control of the particles of which his body is composed so that he can reform his scattered grains unless a substantial portion of his body mass has been isolated. Apparently, he can also convert common grains of sand around him into constituents of his body to replenish portions he might lose track of during battle. In this manner, he can increase his overall size and volume (to some as yet unknown limit), or that of his limbs. He possesses superhuman strength several times in excess of Spider-Man's, making him roughly equal to the Thing. If exposed to extreme heat, Sandman will turn to glass, but if shattered, he can control his glass shard form.