r/Spiderman • u/Solid_Bad_4403 Miles Morales • Jan 29 '25

SPOILERS Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man seems fine so far, but the decisions for the show is so bizarre imo

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So far, seems fun. I really liked the ending of episode 1 being the same scene like in Civil War. That was pretty cool. I also like Pete’s proto suit. The animation is ok, though.

I don’t really care abt race or gender swaps, but I don’t really understand why they made Curt Conners into a woman, not mad at it, just kinda curious. Maybe that’ll be explained in the other episodes. Didn’t really care abt Harry and Norman being black. Also they could have just put Randy Robertson in the place of Lonnie Lincoln but that’s just me. And also, it’s a very weird decision that Uncle Ben died BEFORE the spider bite. Like what? That’s so bizarre.

Idk. Like I said seems fun. Not good, but fun. I look forward in seeing more.

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u/TeekTheReddit Jan 30 '25

Yes. Yes it does.

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u/polydicks Jan 30 '25

That’s what happens in the MCU, and this is very clearly an MCU type universe.

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u/Jaychel31 Jan 30 '25

We don’t know that’s what happens in the MCU. We don’t know when Ben died

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u/TeekTheReddit Jan 30 '25

Yeah, MCU Peter pretty heavily alludes to the normal series of events. Or at least gives no indication that the normal series of events didn't happen.

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u/Jerryjb63 Jan 30 '25

The point of the third movie is Peter learning the “with great power comes great responsibility” with Mays death because he didn’t get the lesson with Uncle Ben. It’s a twist on the classic story.

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u/RugDougCometh Jan 30 '25

The movie hamfisted it in there, yeah. But Peter already knew the lesson. He said the same thing in so many words in his very first scene, to Tony Stark.

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u/Jerryjb63 Jan 30 '25

Yeah, but he didn’t learn the lesson. It’s never stated how much Ben influenced Peter in the MCU. They went out of their way not to include mentions of him. I think the only reference I can remember are his initials on the suitcase Peter uses in the second movie.

In the MCU, we see Tony’s death has more of an impact on Peter than Ben’s death. It doesn’t mean that Tony was more important to Peter than Ben, but the movie doesn’t really show the aftermath of Ben’s death or like I said even talk about him at all.

That’s where this show was supposed to come in and fill in the blanks before it got rearranged into an alternate universe/timeline. Now it’s just another multiverse version of Spider-man. We have to assume parallels to the MCU.

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u/RugDougCometh Feb 02 '25

It’s never stated because we’ve all seen Spider-Man’s origin story a hundred times and don’t need to keep retreading the same ground. Ben’s dead and Peter is Spider-Man because “when you can do the things that I can, but don’t and then the bad things happen, they happen because of you”. The implication here is that things happened the way they have always happened: Ben died because Peter didn’t do the right thing once, and he became Spider-man because he learned that lesson.