Count Leon D'Algout deliberately pushes his way into he room on the pretext of speaking to Mercier.He spies the sparkling jewels and tells Mercier that he wishes to prevent their illegal sale: "Those jewels are the property of the Grand Duchess Swana and were seized illegally by the Soviet government.By shrieking, they scare away the other apes from he water and aggressively establish dominance and territoriality.He left his street clothes and backpack dangling on a tree - and disappeared as Spider-Man.In the midst of Times Square, Max was surrounded by massive electrical digital-billboard advertisements that looked like distorted surges of energy in his view.They were valuable to him, because they would be radioactively "lethal" to anyone from the planet, hence disastrous to Superman.