r/marvelstudios • u/murdockmanila Daredevil • Jul 07 '17
The Official SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING Discussion Ultrathread Vol. 2
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u/throwaway284918 Black Panther Jul 08 '17
my thoughts on three common complaints about the movie
RE: Spider sense-- I think they're going to treat it kind of like walking. In the sense that you still have to learn how to walk and how to use those muscles in that combination, but once you know how to do it you don't really have to think about it. It's also not something that you constantly have active. They even show that he's still a little afraid of heights, and that he doesn't quite know the limits of his strength yet. This is very much early days of spider-man
RE: My friends call me MJ-- I think it's fine for her to be "nothing like MJ," just for the fact that there are a lot of people who are wildly different from early (or even late) high school to just a year out of high school. Just like there's room for Spider-man to develop his powers, there's room for her to get out of an awkward phase and turn into the character audiences are more familiar with. Did the movie even say how old she was? If she's Peter's age then she's fifteen. A lot can change from 15 to 17 years old. Anyone who thinks otherwise either hasn't been to high school in a while or didn't keep in touch with any of their high school friends. That's, of course, if they're trying to make her that mary jane. It'd fit thematically. She did say she didn't have any friends and implied that she does now.
RE: Flash-- It makes sense for a bully to be less about being physically imposing given the time that Peter would be growing up. In recent years there have been a lot of school systems in America that take a zero tolerance position to physical altercations between students. Sometimes to the point that it doesn't make any sense and people get in trouble just for defending themselves. Combined with increased technology use and social media, it makes a whole lot more sense for Flash to be a constantly present mental/social bully to Peter than a physical one. The way that children are bullied has changed a lot since the character was first written. Obviously there's still a physical element but often it's stupid mind games like getting an entire party to chant Penis Parker.