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The 2 weeks the Spidey fandom had after NWH was perfect. Everyone celebrating the movies, people giving the other films a chance. It was perfect.

Now we're back to "Old Man Tobey", "Potential Man Andrew", and "Iron Boy Jr". Fucking take me back man.

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I feel like so many people tend to forget (cause of the casting), but almost every live-action Peter Parker is young.

Raimi Peter is like 22-23 in Spider-Man 3. TASM Peter is 18-19 by the end of TASM 2. And MCU Peter JUST turned 22 in Brand New Day if the 4-year time skip is correct.

Like these are YOUNG adults. Not grown-ass men. They really have no idea that they are doing.

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The Coffee Bean Gang of Earth-120703

An AU set during the events of TASM 2. With Peter still reeling from his breakup with Gwen, the last thing he expects is to end up as Flash Thompson's college roommate. Gwen, meanwhile, is trying to hold it together, tutoring Flash while pretending things aren't still complicated with Peter. Flash, for his part, is figuring out who he is outside of being the guy everyone underestimated. And Harry Osborn comes home from Europe carrying more than he lets on. None of them planned on a coffee shop study group becoming the thing that holds them all together. None of them signed up for this. All of them needed it.

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Peter Parker should wear glasses all throughout high school and only get rid of them once he goes to college.

[This is just me wishing we got more of Andrew in glasses]

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Tried my hand at this editing thing. It was my first real one in a while, and I rushed a bit at the end.

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Spidey Swap!

[Random headcannons on what would happen if the universe swapped Peter Parkers]

Andrew!Peter in the Raimi trilogy

The Daily Bugle job lasts maybe two weeks before he chews Jonah out and leaves. Betty misses him a lot.

Harry Osborn likes him just in a different way since Andrew's Peter is charming in a way Tobey's isn't. And I actually think that makes the jealousy worse with Norman. They'd be genuinely close in a way Tobey's Peter and Harry never fully were, which means their Spider-Man 3 fight would be so much uglier because of it.

MJ now has a Peter who probably flirt a lot more, but they both keep pulling back because neither of them knows if the other is joking or not. They'd drive each other crazy before they ever actually get together.

The bridge scene with the Goblin, I think, goes similarly to the end of TASM 1, except Andrew just wouldn't go to Norman's funeral at all. He'd just disappear that day, and MJ wouldn't hear from him, and that would scare her more than anything. No kiss or confession until she sees him randomly one day, looking for jobs.

Losing his powers in Spider-Man 2, I think, actually hits him harder than people would expect. He tries to joke about it, but I think he does worse in college because he becomes completely obsessed with not being able to stop Otto. I don't think he'd have a Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head moment.

MJ getting engaged to John Jameson is where he completely falls apart. Instead of the cafe scene, she probably goes to his apartment, and he won't let her in. Physically or emotionally.

The symbiote, I don't think, makes him push MJ away the way you'd expect. I think it actually does the opposite, and he starts to cage her instead. Becomes possessive in a way that reminds her of her father and that's when she goes to Harry.

Harry's death breaks him, and he would not forgive himself the way Harry would want him to. He'd still be Spider-Man, but I honestly think by the end of the trilogy, he'd be in almost the exact same place he was by NWH.

Tobey!Peter in TASM

Gwen would eat this man alive, but I honestly think it could actually work.

He'd be nerding out at Oscorp so much harder. Gwen has to drag him away twice because he keeps trying to get into restricted zones.

He skateboarded exactly once and probably fell on his face. He never brings it up anymore.

Captain Stacy trusts him almost immediately because Tobey's Peter just has that face, and he's way quieter. He looks at him and thinks, "Ok this kid is not lying to me. He's too quiet to be lying."

Gwen is faster than him at almost everything, and he is just silently amazed by her the entire time.

He actually keeps the promise to Captain Stacy and stays away from Gwen. She finds this completely annoying, but a small part of her understands. She just wishes he were more open.

Harry probably walks over him a bit more at first, but also sees that he is sincere and genuinely wants to help him. The spider blood thing goes the same way, except instead of going as Spider-Man, he probably goes to Harry as Peter and tries to explain why it won't work.

He and Gwen have the same argument as in TASM 2 except since he never went back in his word they'd be more tense. He has already decided he is not going to be the reason something happens to her. She does like him and wishes he'd open up more. They are both very stubborn about this.

When she tells him she's going to Oxford, he probably doesn't do the bridge thing. He just shuts down and then shows up at her place with a box of chocolates and wishes her well. Gwen doesn't know what to do with that but knows he isn't the pushy type.

The clock tower goes the same. I see no reason it wouldn't. Tobey's Peter shuts down afterwards just like Andrew's but I don't think he stops being Spider-Man. Spider-Man just stops being something he can balance, and he chooses to abandon his Peter Parker stuff instead the opposite of Andrew.

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There's a scene in TASM 2 that has always bothered me, and I genuinely never see anyone talk about it. Peter finally finds his Dad's old lab and uncovers the truth about his powers. This whole subplot is already shaky, but then comes the revelation.

"The human DNA implanted in the spiders was my own. Which means without me or my bloodline, Oscorp can never replicate my experiments."

And yet, for all the discourse about how Andrew is the perfect Spider-Man, or how Tobey and Tom are somehow not "true" Spider-Men for whatever arbitrary reason people have, this gets a complete pass.

How is that not completely against everything Spider-Man as a character stands for? The entire point of Peter Parker is that he wasn't special. He was a regular kid from Queens who got lucky and then chose to do something with it. That's the whole thing. That's why people love him. And sure, the bite was random, but if any other kid had been bitten, they'd be dead. Peter only survived because of his bloodline, so now it becomes a chosen one story with a different coat of paint.

TASM 2 is already a messy film, the Gwen and Peter stuff is genuinely the only reason to rewatch it, but the fact that people still insist this franchise was heading somewhere great under this direction has always baffled me. You can love Andrew's performance, I do, without pretending the writing didn't have serious problems.

And to be clear, I love Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone. TASM 1 was the first film I ever saw in theatres, and it holds a special place in my heart because of that.

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The way people call Andrew the most "comic accurate" Spider-Man when he has so many differences from 616/1610 and like sure he looks like Peter sometimes but you have to use panels from before 2012 to make your point not Slott era ASM where they explicitly drew Peter to look like him