Oh my god, Spider-Man: Brand New Day was SO good.
Honestly, I LOVED the emphasis on platonic relationships in this movie. It was so good that I didn't even think about shipping anyone with anyone the entire time!
The camaraderie between Peter and Frank, the rekindling friendship between Peter and Ned, the 'sure, we're not dating anymore, but that doesn't mean we completely don't care about each other' of Peter and MJ (also I *loved* that Peter told MJ about the kiss, because in so many other movies it would have just been forgotten), the short but fun moments between Peter and Yelena, the moment with Hulk, and of course the eventual understanding between him and Jean, because they both lost the only people that truly cared about them (Jean lost her sister and parents, Peter lost so many people), and they both felt rage because of that loss (Peter literally wanted to kill Green Goblin), and Peter finally voluntarily letting her into his mind, showing her that he understood, that their hurt mattered but they couldn't let it become all they were, that just destroyed me.
I know I may get massacred for this, but Jean was honestly my favourite character in this movie, on par with Peter. I know why she's seen as evil by many, she hurt a lot of people, some very badly. I'm not saying that she didn't, I just honestly think I get her motives. I mean, if I'd been abandoned at such a young age, simply for being different, and *my* older sibling got taken away from me, I'd stop at nothing to get to them. She's young (like, around Peter's age [pretty sure someone from the movie said that], sure, but that's still not forty or anything), she has powerful abilities, she's traumatized, and then she finds out her sister was murdered, and just snaps.
I *loved* that scene in Peter's mind, and honestly I genuinely could see the two of them keeping in touch after everything, becoming friends. I see why people would ship them, and honestly I could too, but right now I really see them more as a found family, and I really think they could work as a team (maybe after Jean goes to the X-Men and learns how to control her powers better?), since Peter did say something about not working alone at the end?
(Also THEY LITERALLY BOTH SAVED EACH OTHER'S LIVES AT THE END THERE SCNNXKDJD)
I don't know, I just love this movie so much.
(*cough* I could 100% see Frank being the half-reluctant tired father/older brother figure to Peter and Jean and nobody will change my mind, I now need a 100 chapter longfic about them working through their trauma together *cough*)
[So like, if anyone writes/finds a "Jean and Peter are siblings" fic anywhere, please drop a link in the comments, thanks in advance. (Bonus points if it has any references to Peter 2 and Peter 3 kinda being his older brothers, since P3 did say he'd always wanted brothers in NWH)]
[I also had an AU idea of streetkid!Jean meeting streetkid!Peter some time after Sarah got taken (maybe uncle Ben had just been killed and May was in a coma for like a few months, and he just ran from CPS?) and these two traumatised kids just bonding on the streets of New York]













