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Honestly I totally agrees also the way he's potrayed as an innocent charector just doesn't sit right with, like he's a teenager and he is shown as pre teen who can't make his own choices, especially in iron dad fanfictions, like what?
He's a grown ass 15-16 year-old please don't make him act like a baby unless he's actually a kid
What's your favorite version of spiderman outside the comic? Also why mcu is your least favorite. Just curious, not looking to stir hate or drama
Oh gosh, anon you’re fine.It’s almost midnight and I get to talk about Spider-Man opinions, lets go.So first off, I know you didn’t ask, but for the record my favorite version of 616 comics Peter is the JMS run of Amazing Spider-Man. It starts on issue #30 legacy number is issue #471. Sorry I don’t know how the “volumes” are divided out in Spider-Man books. If you’re reading online its issue 30 of the 1999 section. The run lasts until the infamous One More Day story line (which is a rant for another day.) It has some of my favorite Spider-Man stories in it, the first appearance of Morlun, the whole “The Other” story line and Back in Black which are personal favorites. I really enjoyed how he wrote Peter and MJ, how clearly passionate they are for each other, I liked how angry and full of emotion Peter is, that he gets wine drunk and talks with spiders. I loved the extra powers he got and how they talk about and deal with the relationship he has with his powers. Its a great run and everyone should read it. For my favorite movie Peter well… the original trilogy holds a special place in my heart, Spider-Man 2 is my all time favorite Spider-Man movie. Nothing has ever beaten it in my eyes. That Doc Ock is perfect. I will drop anything if someone says “hey wanna watch Spider-Man 2?”. However, my all time favorite rendition of Peter and his friends is the Amazing Spider-Man movies. They did such a good job with how Peter, Gwen, and Flash interact. The best by far. There were so many little things that just showed that they get it. I’m really fond of how Peter was played, and how Aunt May was played. There are scenes in those two movies where everything is just perfect. Another version of Spider-Man that was done really fucking well was the recent PS4 game Marvel’s Spider-Man. Without spoiling the plot, since it’s still a fairly recent game… just, everyone was written beautifully and gut-wrenchingly well. The MJ was great, May was fantastic (wow what a good depiction of FEAST), Peter was written and performed so well I cried, again another stellar Octavius. Everything felt great from the social media to the quips. So, why don’t I like MCU Peter? Or MCU Spider-Man as a whole.My number one complaint is how everyone is depicted. None of the side characters feel like the characters they are named after. I get what they were trying to do, but boy does it just not work with me. I think the only character I sorta like was MJ out of the whole bunch. The character that upsets me the most is Ned. You have to understand, coming from the comics, Ned Leeds is an awful person. He canonically abuses his wife Betty Brant, he’s the villain Hobgoblin, he’s just, not a great dude. And to name Peter’s best friend fucking Ned Leeds is just… I can’t ignore it. And in Far From Home, when they had him and that version of Betty date, it was just, upsetting and pulled me right out of the movie. And I know many people don’t read the comics. They have no idea. But I just… I see people talking about how great Ned Leeds is and how cute Ned/Betty is and I just cringe. I understand they’re talking MCU but god what whiplash they must feel if they ever try to look up the character they love in the comics because boy they’re in for a shock.
Flash Thompson is my favorite Spider-Man character next to MJ and I really, really, really do not like the MCU Flash. It’s not the actor, he’s fine, it’s the personality and way they wrote him that just… bothers me. In the comics he has a huge problem with alcoholism, even as early as high school, so to see them make a drinking joke with that character just… can we not?Other people have talked at length about this version of Peter, and I understand that the MCU is tied to Tony Stark in a way that can’t be diminished. But it bothers me to no end that Peter’s character revolves around Tony Stark. His suit was given to him by Stark, the tech is all Stark, his motivation is Stark, everything is Tony and I don’t like it. It honestly feels like he’s just Tony Stark Jr. and not Peter Parker. I know in Far From Home they make a point to have Happy say he’ll never be Tony, but the writing sure as shit seems to say otherwise. I have huge issues with how often MCU Peter unmasks. To like, everyone. In the comics he doesn’t even unmask when he’s on the official Avengers Team, and publicly unmasking (at Tony’s request/demand I might add) is what ruins his life to the point where OMD happens, (again a rant for another day). So to see him unmask all the damn time just bugs the absolute shit out of me.
He’s not shown making his own tech, (yes I know there’s a shot of him dumpster diving in Civil War but come on, I’m supposed to be happy with scraps?) he’s handed most of his tech from Stark, we don’t see him directly making things and I won’t count the little bit where he’s being mini Iron Man in FFH. I guess we can sorta count when he took apart that drone in FFH at the very end but again, scraps. I really enjoy scenes were Peter is shown building his own stuff and testing it.
I don’t like his stupid SHIELD outfit from Far From Home, I think it looks too much like a military/police outfit, which makes sense it was made by a military group. This is a minor complaint, I just don’t like the suit. lmao.I don’t like that Peter was given access to drones with a kill mode, I don’t like that his suit has a kill mode. His whole character is supposed to be centered around not killing. And these things just… they just add up? You know?
I don’t like that Uncle Ben is not mentioned ONCE in either of his two solo films. Ben is such an integral part to who Peter is and why he does what he does that to have him absent is just… It should have been Uncle Ben climbing out of that grave in Far From Home. The whole “father” dynamic with Stark is just… Peter Parker has a father and his name is Ben Parker!
All the villains he fights in his solo films are just people scorned by Stark. He’s fighting Stark’s battles for him and they don’t feel like Peter’s bad guys. It’s a lot of little things that just add up with me. From the way his friends are portrayed to the way that they gave a kid whose family is a victim of gun violence access to weapons is just….. Overall these things make the MCU take on Spider-Man my least favorite. Ok, I should stop talking, I’ve written too much…….