SPIDER-MAN: 10 Things Sony Pictures Won’t Do To Fix The Web-Slinger When He Returns To The "Spider-Verse"

FTFY.

“With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility”
That’s the catchphrase of ol’ Uncle Ben
If you missed it, don’t worry, they’ll say the line
Again and again and again.

#1 Give Peter his balls back.
#2 Dump the entire high school supporting cast. I mean all of them.
#3 Dump the nano-tech costume bullshit.
#4 Put him back in Manhattan.
#5 Make his secret identity sacrosanct. It needs to matter. (One More Day?)
#6 Put Peter, and Aunt May, financially where each is financially stressed. No more sugar daddies.

I’m all for a more less-MCU-influenced Spider-Man

Man, the comments in this thread already make me tired of the franchise.

I've come to accept that Spidey isn't in the MCU anymore, so it doesn't bother me much now. He's always been more of a solo hero, so now there's chance to focus on him as an individual... Instead of a sidekick.

Oh, and for Gods sake, just put him in Venom 2. At this point, why the heck not?

@Nomis

JW said he still has lists ready and scheduled while he’s gone...lmao

Of course he does 😂

Great article! A time-jump would be a great idea. But I wouldn't be shocked if Feige & Marvel purposely screwed over Sony, with that mid-credit scene.😂 It felt like the wrong the direction to go in. Sony might as well just basically One More Day that sh!t. Downplay it, gloss over it, and then have him marry MJ, giving Marvel two middle fingers.😂

The number one thing should be things suggested in random list comment sections, because those suggestions are always as bad as, if not worse, than the lists themselves.

The only thing Sony can do to fix the Web Slinger is take the deal. That will fix the only thing that's (currently) broken



But if they opt not to, they're going to have a VERY interesting conundrum. They failed epically at telling basic Spider-Man stories where they controlled all the circumstances. If they have to tackle a Spidey story where they have to walk the high wire of branching off the lingering threads from FFH, I don't even want to think about the phuckery that will ensue. It's been 4 years and I'm still figuring out how anyone has a job after TASM2

There should be a list of 10 Species of Cactus Josh can ram up his ass for daily reminders Spidey is out of the MCU.

Fix Spider-Man now that he is out of the MCU? REALLY!?! Spider-Man was seriously BROKEN by Sony before he joined the MCU. Marvel FIXED Spider-Man by NOT rehashing what EVERYONE already knows. We don't NEED another telling of the origin. We don't NEED to see Ben Die again. We don't need a hamfisted reinforcement of the whole "With Great Power" idiom. And the fact that Josh is suggesting these things suggests he really doesn't know what he is talking about.

@TheDoctor1225 -
"I swear , it’s like people on this site don’t give two shots about character arcs . Feige had said Spidey would have the longest journey out of the characters and five movies in , he finally had become his own hero so people need to have some goddamn patience !!."

The simple fact is that Spider-man was going nowhere and Spidey having the 'longest journey out of the characters' was BS as instead of developing the character they reset him and do not give him acknowledgable moments of development with every major character aspect being glossed over.

A slow burn development of a character as they become a hero only works if you develop the character and shows the steps they take on the journey. You also need a clear sense of the character going from point how they start to how they end.

Spider-man in the MCU has two main points of potential development;
1. Self-Actualization
2. Self-Identity

The closest he gets for 'Self-Actulization' is where he realises he never wanted to be an Avenger, that he is best suited for being a street level hero. He realises this in Homecoming, but it's erased before Infinity War/Endgame and thoroughly destroyed when he chooses to abandon Edith in Far From Home. This is reset to zero by the time Far From Home has ended, he even forgives Nick Fury for putting him on this mission despite Nick re-inforcing the idea he should be an Avenger despite his own wishes.

The closest he gets to 'Self-Identity' is when he talks with Happy on the plane. This is immediately reset to zero when the movie gives him Tony's technology, plays ACDC and makes him visually similar to Thor & Captain America during the final battle. All the character development he's had in that film is gone when the movie once again portrays him as discount Iron Man/Thor/Captain America, even though he's just had a speech with Happy to acknowledge he does not need to be like the other Avengers.

So the two aspects the character should be growing/learning from are mishandled and ignored or reset to zero either immediately or the movie afterwards.