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[spideyrambling]

Peter Parker before the spider bite

No but imagine that’s him when uncle Ben dies :(

[gracieparkerr]

homecoming is such a special coming-of-age film to me.

throughout the entirety of the film, peter parker is in a constant state of longing for the responsibility he knows he has the potential to hold— and yet he’s having the time of his life with the work he’s currently doing. he loves being spider-man. he’s so excited to wake up and be spider-man every day.

by the end of the movie, he declines being an avenger because he doesn’t need it. his ‘homecoming’ is his acceptance of being a friendly neighbourhood spider-man, and seeing value to it, being able to enjoy the simplicity of just helping people on the street.

and i think that especially hits different after far from home, because suddenly, he’s got everything he used to ever long for. harder responsibilities, and people counting on him to take care of ‘the big time’, and all he wants to do is be back home.

far from home is about his struggle and grief, knowing he can never go back to that. he can’t ever have that youthful energy, or excitement, or innocence back. it’s gone. ‘home’ looks different now. you cannot go back.

[queer-as-in-slightly-odd]

I don’t know if this makes sense but here goes:

although they did their best with homecoming and far from home, I feel like no way home was the spider-man story the producers wanted to tell from the start

before homecoming, spider-man had just been introduced: he was very much established as tony’s protegé with not much other development, so they used the film to ground the character and vaguely distance peter from the avengers - including having him decline the offer to become one at the end

then in far from home the writers were forced to deal with peter’s trauma from infinity war / endgame AND the wider-scale impact of tony’s death on peter’s world, which took up a lot of the story

but peter didn’t appear at all between ffh and nwh, so the writers were free to tell a peter-centric story without all the external influence on the narrative or characters which dominated the first two films

as a result, the story (and particularly the ending) was much truer to peter’s character and the feel of spider-man films as a whole, and made possible a final transition to a version of peter / spider-man that was almost entirely distanced from the elements of the mcu which influenced his previous portrayals

[sunkissedpages]

important

[incorrect-assvengers]

Peter, pulling out his webshooters: It’s real women protection hours

[tempestaurora]

hi was anyone gonna tell me that kenneth choi aka chimney on 911 played jim morita (one of the howling commandos) in captain america: the first avenger AND principal morita in spiderman homecoming or did I just have to find this out for myself????????

[lazy-cat-corner]

Peter: School doesn’t even teach me useful things like, how to do taxes. All I learned is that the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell!

Thor: Agreed. I never learned diplomacy in my youth.

Loki: [nods] All we learned was that the spirit of Shaggy is the powerhouse of Hel.

Peter: The wHaT iS ThE WhAt?!?

[chronicowboy]

they probably did this shoot because tony found out no one at midtown believed that peter had an internship and they were giving him a hard time