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John Jonah Jameson, better known as J. Jonah Jameson, is a minor antagonist in the 2019 Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Spider-Man: Far From Home, a minor character in the Sony's Spider-Man Universe superhero film Venom: Let There Be Carnage, and a major antagonist in its 2021 sequel Spider-Man: No Way Home.
He is a reporter who works on the controversial online newspaper website called TheDailyBugle.net as a showman and online editor who is against several superheroes, especially the well-known New York vigilante Spider-Man, whom he describes as a great threat to the city just for wearing a mask, although he is a big fan of the supposed superhero known as Mysterio.
He is portrayed by J.K. Simmons, who also portrayed his Raimiverse counterpart.
History[]
Spider-Man: Far From Home[]
Exposing Spider-Man's identity[]
Jameson works as the host of the sensationalist news website TheDailyBugle.net. In 2024, Jameson is provided a doctored video exposing Spider-Man's identity as Peter Parker by William Ginter Riva, a former working associate of Mysterio, prompting him to broadcast it to the entire world. He frames Parker for the attack in London, claiming Mysterio as a hero, and Spider-Man as a murderer. After doing so, he wages a media misinformation war against Parker.
Venom: Let There Be Carnage[]
In the mid-credits scene of the Sony's Spider-Man Universe film Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021), Eddie Brock and Venom are teleported from their universe into the MCU as a result of Dr. Stephen Strange's first spell in No Way Home. In the scene, Brock and Venom watch a broadcast of Jameson's that focuses on Spider-Man's identity.
Spider-Man: No Way Home[]
Defaming Spider-Man[]
After exposing Parker's identity publicly, he focuses on proving further that Spider-Man is a menace or fugitive. He hires Betty Brant as an intern to manage the company's TikTok account and would correct her if she spoke too highly of Spider-Man. He also reports on Parker's first day of school.
Months later, The Daily Bugle crew set up an interview with Jameson and electrical worker Nelson Burke, who witnessed Spider-Man's fight with Electro and tells his accurate account of events. Jameson discredits Burke and ends the interview, before going to the building of the apartment where Parker is hiding, witnessing his fight against the Green Goblin. He then broadcasts a live stream from the site, reporting the death of May Parker and attacking Parker for the chaos he brought, all while Parker watches him in Times Square.
Hours later, Parker contacts Jameson so he could lure the multiversal villains to the Statue of Liberty to cure them and send them back to their respective universes. Afterwards, Jameson's memory of Parker is erased but continues his war against Spider-Man a few weeks later.
Personality[]
An experienced journalist, J. Jonah Jameson works for The Daily Bugle, a rambunctious web newspaper of dubious reputation for its exaggerated opinions based in New York City. Jameson is known for making stubborn reports and claims regardless of whether his sources are actually accurate. Usually, news of him is related to his own personal paranoia about any superhero or villain.
Since the Blip, Jameson's main object of contempt has been none other than the superhero Spider-Man, whom he regards as a criminal threat despite his heroic reputation, even resorting to lies to support his views: for example, when Spider-Man -The man helped the New York City Police Department take down the Manfredi crime family and, harmlessly joking about taking over the jobs of the NYPD, Jameson angrily accuses him of making the Cold War worse. of the mob, arresting the Manfredis under the instructions of his rivals and disrespecting the NYPD. When Mysterio showed up to "stop" Hydro-Man in Venice, Jameson immediately came to his support and hailed him as a hero, but he really didn't know that Mysterio wasn't actually a hero at all.
Trivia[]
- Jameson's mannerisms and slanderous attacks on Spider-Man without tangible evidence in Far From Home and No Way Home are heavily based on far-right political commentator and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. TheDailyBugle.net operates in the same fashion as Jones' website, Infowars.
- While he hates and slanders Spider-Man due to the web-slinger wearing a mask, he holds high regards and adoration for Mysterio, who, ironically, also conceals his face as part of his outfit, making Jameson a hypocrite.