Spider-Man 2 fans are wondering where the heck Taskmaster is during the events of the campaign, as he can be spotted on Kraven's hunting list but isn't seen or mentioned anywhere else.

Just like Insomniac's first Spider-Man game, Spider-Man 2 has the wall-crawler going up against a ton of different villains from his rogue's gallery, including Wraith, The Lizard, Venom, Kraven, Sandman, and a ton more. Although many of these were a surprise to see, we did actually see some of them teased during the PlayStation Showcase gameplay reveal trailer, which confirmed Wraith and teased another villain for the game - Taskmaster.

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During the PlayStation Showcase gameplay reveal trailer, Kraven was seen killing and unsuspecting hunter, before checking a tablet for a hunting list that contained pictures of New York's strongest heroes and villains, including both Spider-Men, Wraith, Tombstone, Black Cat, The Lizard, The Prowler, and Taskmaster, among others.

In the final game, that scene remains mostly the same, aside from Peter and Miles being replaced with Vulture and Sandman, who were seemingly being kept as surprises. Almost every single character who appears on Kraven's hunting list shows up at some point or another during the main campaign, even if they don't always have a big role to play (Aaron Davis isn't really even The Prowler in Spider-Man 2).

As pointed out by Twitter user Spider_Kaiju, the only exception to that rule is Taskmaster, who shows up as one of the targets on Kraven's list but is completely missing in action during the events of Spider-Man 2. Not only does he not appear in any of the story missions, but he doesn't even have any side content or references to where he might be.

Like Taskmaster, Rhino is also a no-show in the game. But that wasn't always the plan...

With Taskmaster not showing up or being referenced at all in the game, fans are wondering where he might be. Some fans have theorised that his appearance in the PlayStation Showcase trailer was just a placeholder, but if that was the case then he would have been removed from the final version of the scene like Peter and Miles, who were placeholders.

Other fans are suspecting that Taskmaster is going to be part of a DLC pack for the game, but that seems unlikely considering we haven't even had confirmation of DLC for Spider-Man 2 yet, and it seems unlikely that a villain who only appeared in side missions during the first game is suddenly going to be bumped up to the star of an expansion.

There's a possibility that Taskmaster was previously meant to make an appearance in the game, but was cut during development and simply not removed from the cutscene. This seems to be the case for Rhino, one of the first enemies you encounter in Spider-Man: Miles Morales, as his severed head can be seen mounted on a wall in a room that was cut from the game.

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