When Peter Parker Became Terry McGinnis

I bet that’s an analogy you didn’t expect to hear. But, seriously, it perfectly sums up the MCU Spider-Man that we’re unfortunately stuck with.

Peter Parker is a working class teenager who is desperately struggling to pay the bills and take care of his aunt after his uncle passed away. The original comic run and Rami movies both illustrate this perfectly when he uses he photos of himself in his suit to satisfy his boss at the Daily Bugle. It became a pretty funny meme for a while.

But in the MCU that is all thrown out the window to shove Peter into the world via Civil War. All the more insulting was the whole fight scene wasn’t taken seriously by the movie and the characters but I digress. Those two factors really lowered the bar before Guardians. Even than I still won’t forgive for that move because of how much that defined the MCU Peter Parker going forward.

Peter in Homecoming literary has nothing to do. That and Far From Home are all about living in the shadow of a “once great” man. His roughs gallery in both are all caused by Tony Bark. Those two have such a fucked up premise that I don’t even know where to begin.

The first movie is really insulting because the Vulture in the MCU is just a working class dad who got the rug pulled out from under him by Stark in the aftermath of the Battle of New York.

Not really a good message to send.

Going back to the Terry McGinnis analogy. Terry was just the right the guy at the wrong time. His father died by a shooting and was taken in by Bruce in an “internship” that wound up seeing him take on the Batman mantle and personally make up to what happened to Robin. That whole origin story gets undercut with Justice League: Unlimited where we discovered that it was all planned by Amanda Waller. The MCU Peter Parker feels like that.