This morning news broke that Jamie Foxx mentioned the possibility that the Sinister Six will be making an appearance in Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man saga currently being produced by Sony. We already saw the first of the four film order by Sony and we will be seeing the sequel next May, but not everyone who enjoyed The Amazing Spider-Man are familiar with what the Sinister Six are.

Never fear, FlickSided is here to help you keep up.

If you’re wondering why this is such big news, it’s because we’re taking about six major villains in the Spider-Man universe coming together to take on the web slinging hero; think of The Avengers but with villains. It’s a plot device that almost showed up in The Dark Knight Rises had Heath Ledger lived and been around to reprise his role as The Joker.

We’ve already seen a Sinister Six plot starting to brew, as at the end of The Amazing Spider-Man, Dr. Connors — who had transformed into the villain The Lizard — is visited by a mysterious figure who wants to recruit him to kill Spider-Man, however Connors refuses. This is exactly what in the first incarnation of the Sinister Six as Doc Octopus tried to recruit Connors before he was ultimately turned down.

Connors reason: he didn’t have a grudge against Spider-Man which is the exact same reason given by Connors at the end of The Amazing Spider-Man.

But just who are the villains we’ll see if the first villain we saw in this film series isn’t going to be joining the ranks? So far it’s looking like we will be getting the second incarnation of the original Sinister Six — yes hockey fans, that other Original Six — which consisted of Doc Octopus, Vulture, Electro, Mysterio, Sandman and Hobgoblin.

We already have Electro appearing in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 with both Doc Octopus and Hobgoblin having been heavily hinted at appearing. We can assume that the character at the end of The Amazing Spider-Man is Doc Octopus and Hobgoblin is really Harry Osborn, a friend of Peter Parker who is being introduced in the 2014 sequel.

If the Sinister Six are going to appear, they won’t fully do so until the third film with a fourth film possibly being an Avengers style film where Spider-Man takes on all six villains.

We won’t know for sure until we get a good look at The Amazing Spider-Man 2 this upcoming May, but once we digest that film, and based off of what we already know, the Sinister Six are more than likely to appear.