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spiderman. opinions on rhode island
your mom rhode my island last night
this might be my toughest foe yet
SPIDER-MAN: i hate you so fucking much norman you ruined my life
GREEN GOBLIN ON THE GLIDER:
Across The Spiderverse + Trivia
part of what made across the spiderverse so perfect was that it was largely centered on WHO spider-man is, in EVERY universe. not just Miles, or Peter, or Gwen, or Miguel. Spider-Man. it was about the ESSENCE of Spider-man. Spider-Man is love for humanity. Spider-Man is having to sacrifice and lose everything you love for the mask. Spider-Man is rebellion against the powers that be. Spider-Man is about trying to do both, in every universe. about not taking no for an answer or listening when everyone tells you your destiny. refusing to choose between the things and people you love. thatās why Spider-Man is so compelling: they want everything, even though everyone else tells them they canāt have it. that itās not meant to be. and they just. keep. trying. keep getting back up. they just keep going, man.
you: So, I was wanting to start working at your firm because Iām considering accounting as a career.
the man you agreed to interview with in this cafe: I see. I have to say, itās a welcome change to have someone your age looking for a career instead of something to support theirā¦.I dont know, rock band, haha!Ā
you: Haha, yes, well, I try to stay focused. [you take a drink from your coffee]Ā
the man: While weāve hired people with little to no experience, I have to askā would you happen to have any previous experience in this field?Ā
you: Oh! I understand completely. The past three years Iāve actually interned a-Ā
spiderman:Ā
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does a gay little walk across your dash to piss you off
lil spooder doodle
I feel like Peter Parker is someone who deep down hasn't accepted that he's not a regular guy, and that's why he's always trying to lock down these regular civilian women, and even when he wasn't for a short amount of time with Felicia, as traincat pointed out a while back, he was fantasizing about fitting Felicia. Felicia into this whole two and a half kids, white picket fence happily ever after. He's holding out for that. That's pretty much where most of the disarray in his life stems from. He's always trying to fit in both of these worlds at the same time despite it not having worked in over 60 years, but he can't do that without being honest and open with the people in his life, which is why when it blows up in his face the consequences range from barely being able to scrape by for his rent because he can't hold a job, alienating his loved ones, or even being indirectly responsible for their deaths, shoutout to 616 Gwen Stacy.
But it's like I said, Peter's holding out for that picket fence happily ever after because he hasn't fully come to terms with being a superhero, and as such is realistically destined to retire it once he gets a family or gets too old to put it off. I like to think it's supported by the average future Peter being someone who's settled down, with the obvious exception of Renew Your Vows and House of M, where he's still superheroing with a family at home (But if we're being honest that's as ideal as it can get, HoM was the closest Marvel's ever gotten to adapting Evangelion's Instrumentality).
And all this here makes me think Peter lucked out a second time when the universe gave him Miles Morales for a successor. All of Peter's baggage, this definitive inability to properly manage his home life and his work life, was not inherited down to Miles. And it's why he has a much easier time being Spider-Man than Peter, especially when he was Miles' age. Miles isn't trying to fit between two worlds as much as he's merged them into one, in a way Peter still can't manage despite now pushing 30. While that's not to say he hasn't made mistakes similar to his predecessor, he grew out of them much, much quicker, and they were regularly undercut by the all things he did right even despite that.
I'm talking about how even though Miles kept his alter ego from his parents, and then just his mother, and then his girlfriend, he ended up choosing honesty when it came down to it. Where Peter shut everyone out, Miles struggled with the thought of alienating even a third of his loved ones, and promptly folded, one by one. And with that still, he began his career with his best friend as the Man in The Chair helping him from the sidelines, he maintained a mentorship with Ultimate Jessica Drew, he founded his own superhero team and he wasn't afraid to open up to any of them about what was what. Because unlike Peter, Miles understood from day one that trying to shoulder all of that burden by himself was a poor man's game. And again, he's not looped in a deadlock between worlds destined to crush him and it's why in both possible futures for Miles written by people who know what they're doing imo, he's either Spider-Man with a family of his own (Sitting in a Tree, I think), or he's still Spider-Man well into his seventies (For some reason I can't find the exact title lol come back to me), because Miles doesn't put himself in positions where he has to choose. He's not Miles Morales trying to be Spider-Man, or Spider-Man trying to be Miles Morales, he's:
(TLDR) Peter isn't fit to be Spider-Man forever, and Miles has achieved a balance with the mantle in adolescence that Peter has yet to properly maintain well into adulthood.
Kids today don't like spider-man because he's funny or heroic it's because he's the only relatable super hero because his life fucking sucks. He gets his ass beaten and goes home to an eviction notice and a daily bugle headline that says "spider-man cringe compilation"
spiderman is so fucking funny dude saves like an entire country and then he goes home at the end of the day and opens his fridge and hes got like 1 egg and a half empty can of arizona tea no matter how old he is or what comic hes from thats just how peter parker lives
SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE | PART ONE, 2022
no but as cheesy as it was the train scene in spiderman 2 is truly untouchable. spider man risks his life (again) for his city, and prevents a train from going off the rails, but passes out from exhaustion. four hands come up from behind him, and pull him into the train. the passengers look down at him, his mask off, and comment about how heās just a kid. you can see it in their faces. heās not familiar. heās not memorable. he could have been any one. they give him back his mask, and help him to his feet.Ā
and then. and THEN. doc ock pushes his way into the car and saysĀ āiām here for him.ā and a passenger replies (to a super villain with metal destructo arms)Ā āyou have to go through me first,ā a statement the other passengers agree to immediately. so doc ock does as doc ock does and pushes them them out of the way, someoneās head goes thru a window, lights burst, etc etc. but the people on the back of the train are still holding spiderman up. they didnāt let him go even after they saw what doc ock would do to them. they hold him up!!!!!
Cross your fingers for Disney losing full Avengers rights
I understand the appeal of wanting every adult hero to instinctively adopt teenage Peter Parker, but can it really beat the hilarity of acknowledging that at 15 Peter was 5'10", unusually buff, went by a moniker with Man in it, wore a creepy full face mask, and had a tightly guarded secret identity and probably a Queens accent thick enough to have come out of a jello mold, and adult heroes reasonably responded to him by going, āWow, this grown man is an immature asshole for no reason.ā
Way funnier to me than adult heroes finding out Peter is a teenager and becoming Concerned is the idea of adult heroes Retroactively finding out Peter Was a teenager because he admits to being like. 22 and theyāre like āHang on youāve been doing this for like. Seven years.ā and heās like āHaha crazy right? Anyway itās too late for you to yell at me about that because the statue of limitations on that lecture ran out when I turned 18ā
YEAH this trope is instantly more tolerable if itās fully adult Peter being like, *listen up whippersnappers because Iāve been around the block voice* āIām thirty, andāā and Tony Stark, who vaguely assumed Spider-Man is maybe two years older than him because he just has that energy and hasnāt reassessed this for four presidential terms, is like, *drunkenly doing math* āYouāre how manyā
Okay butā¦them trying to talk about Old People Stuff with him, not realizing that he wasnāt alive to remember xyz thing happening, never used xyz technology bc he didnāt exist yet, not expecting him to agree with the fact that some ppl were saying songs they grew up to were oldies, etc
The thing about Peter Parker is that he was raised by senior citizens the way other heroes are raised by wolves. He has the body of an Olympic gymnast and the soul of a malcontented geriatric. This likely contributed to the perpetuation of the accidental ruse.
Itās when he channels Aunt May so hard he makes it sound like he was personally and immediately affected by McCarthyism that the time traveler fringe theory starts really picking up bets.
Pal, I JUST SAID he was raised by AUNT MAY.
Also not to get real on a ha ha comic post but the elderly are not your enemy. There are old progressives.
Peter has a lot of feelings about the woman that discovered DNA and he strikes me as the kind of person that thinks that distancing yourself from notable figures of history by using their last names is stupid, so heās going to say something like,Ā āRosalind worked so fucking hard to have that work snatched from her,ā immediately followed by,Ā āI woulda thumped him good,ā and inspiring Tony and Banner to frantically look through the 1930s and 40s yearbooks at Kingās College and theorize which one was Spider-Man. Captain America tries reminiscing about the good ole days with him. Peter, for his part, has been absently agreeing and making vagueĀ āIām listeningā noises about the Rolling Stones and Elton John for the majority of his life, so adding baseball, Duke Ellington, and Ella Fitzgerald to the list wasnāt thatĀ much of a stretch.
There are only like three genuinely funny additions on this, but this is one of them.
captain america pushing a get out the vote campaign:Ā āspiderman did you voteā
spiderāmanā at 16: uhhhh so about thatĀ
āIā¦canāt.ā āI see. Thatās why itās so important to restore voting rights to felons.ā
Thatās made funnier by the fact that I feel like Steveās natural assumption would be that Spidermanās a non-citizen, so him jumping straight to felon is like, Peter just has such strong criminal vibes.
Steve: Whatād you go in for?
Peter, panicking: Jaywalking!
Steve: This prison pipeline needs to stop.
the more i think about mcu spider-man the more i donāt like mcu spider-man
like mcu twink peter will never have the depth of our friendly neighborhood spider-man. literally any time they try and make spider-man super cool with access to a ton of sick tech and everything i start to really lose interest. the appeal of spider-man to me is that heās like just some guy who happens to have super powers. like you could just hang out with this dude. the ābiggerā they make him the more he loses that.
actually iām gonna elaborate on this further because spider-verse did this but they did it well and with purpose.
the peter from milesā dimension was super over the top, kinda larger than life. as pointed out by peter b. several times. however unlike other times theyāve done this it wasnāt just to try and make spider-man look cool, it was all a part of milesā narrative. miles was given huge shoes to fill and they used this as a tool to portray how small miles felt compared to peter.
but the difference between miles and mcu peter is that miles didnāt need any of that to become the spider-man he is today. one of his main role models in the film is peter b. whoās broke and off his game, but still manages to do amazing things.
thatās the appeal of spider-man. is that anyone can make a difference, no matter where youāre at in your life you can still be incredible.
Good comment via the person I reblogged from.
I think itās interesting that the scene from the end of The Amazing Spider-Man with the eggs is being put forward as the pinnacle of Spider-Man cinema ā and I agree, for the record ā because I donāt think people know how hard that scene got dragged when Homecoming was released. Iām fairly sure one of Homecomingās six screenwriters said something negative about it, although I canāt currently find the article where I saw it, but if you check out this review of Spider-Man Homecoming youāll see something along the same lines: āNo one wants to watch May chide Peter for forgetting the eggs when thereās way more interesting superhero stuff to get to.ā
Right, except I do, because the eggs in The Amazing Spider-Man were always there to remind the audience that Peterās great responsibility exists outside of his identity as Spider-Man as well as within it ā he has a responsibility to his aunt! Even over something as simple as bringing home the eggs heād previously forgotten to get! Itās meaningful because it shows us that responsibility is a multi-layered, multifaceted aspect of both Peter Parker and Spider-Man and something that is baked into the character, not just the costume. That he shows up beaten to hell, having played a large part in keeping New York from becoming lizard people, with his girlfriendās fatherās blood probably still on him, and that he pulls the worldās most busted package of like 100% broken eggs out of his backpack because he promised his aunt he would pick up eggs and that she embraces him is so important! And it got mercilessly dragged as not being exciting or cool enough! Not being enough of a superhero scene! TASMās Aunt May of the absolutely incredible āYouāre my boy and I wonāt hurt youā scene got called dowdy and not fun and pathetic because she was ājust waiting at home for the eggsā! And it drove me absolutely crazy! Justice for Peter treating May like sheās his mom and the most important person in the world to him and knowing he has a responsibility to her! Justice for the little humanizing elements that make Spider-Man ultimately a relatable story! Justice for the eggs scene!
One of the larger than life things that MCU Spider-Man badly remade is Peterās identity getting revealed.
This was one of the best scenes in the movieās franchise history:
Peter passes out after stopping the train and saving everyone in it, and gets carried by the passengers inside.
The juxtaposition of the superhero being saved by the people he almost died to help and repaying his kindness with a promise that his secret is safe. Thatās the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man the MCU could never conceive.
The only time I like techy spider man is the video game. The marvel spiderman one. Because while he has access to tech via docās lab. Heās not drowning in rich manās tech. Its very much peter threw this together with duck tape tech. Like video game peter is really good. Because heās still average man with powers that I could hang with. He canāt afford his rent, he struggles to ask for help> heās normal but can save the world. and even with his tech, he struggles with that. Heās real. MCU peter is the only spiderman that doesnāt feel like a real person. there are so many good versions of this character and mcu just failed to capture any of them.