You needn't be a comic book expert to have guessed that the identity of the villainous Tinkerer in Spider-Man: Miles Morales would turn out to be none other than Miles' friend Phin Mason.

Spider-Man: Miles Morales' Tinkerer is an interesting example because the supervillain's identity was hidden in plain sight through the sheer virtue of obviousness. In the comics, the Tinkerer is ...