Spider-Man is not usually overshadowed but then again, he has never met The Terminator before.
The focus around Manchester City is on Erling Haaland — a brutal goalscorer and a global phenomenon — and that might well suit the wiry Julian Alvarez, whose arrival has been far more understated.
Alvarez, nicknamed The Spider, has been interacting with his new team-mates for the first time over the past week and ready to make a debut in the early hours of Thursday morning against Club America in Texas.
His is the unusual step of heading straight to the Premier League from Argentina, where it is more often the case that South American stars take a prior stop elsewhere in Europe.