#mcu peter parker negative

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I have discovered Peter Parker in Gotham fanfics (subcategory: Dick is his bio father) and I love them

But FUCK do I hate MCU Peter and they’re all at least some degree of MCU Peter!

Why does he need to make vibranium for his suit???!!! It makes me want to tear my hair out!!!

(It’s not that serious but it does pet my peeve)

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The MCU movies, but I explain them vaguely, unhelpfully, and they read like clickbate YouTube videos.

Under the cut because there are so many of these freaking movies.

Captian America: The First Avenger: Art kid turns into theatre kid after taking steroids and throwing frisbee.

Captian Marvel: Nick Fury makes the first and last good decision in his career by adopting his alien daughter.

Iron Man: First billionaire in the universe deemed redeemable.

Iron Man 2: Tony Stark and the chamber of bad life decisions, ft. Pepper Potts and James Rhodes.

The Incredible Hulk: Not Mark Ruffalo almost dismantles government on anger alone.

Thor: Jock turns soft after eating poptarts and finding love. His brother dies, but don't worry, he'll be back.

The Avengers: Idiots come together to both save and destroy a city.

Thor: The Dark World: No one cares. Brother comes back, dies again, Jock cries. (Emo brother will return.)

Iron Man 3: Billionaire somehow redeems self further and learns the meaning of self. Drops awesome catchphrase to be used later.

Captian America: The Winter Solider: Theatre kid intrudes on innocent man's life with his favorite red-headed assassin to bring down brunette assassin who is actually his old boyfriend.

Guardians of the Galaxy: The original found family destroys foes with the power of friendship and good music taste.

Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2: Asshole father is asshole father and tries to intrude on found family. Is defeated by the power of friendship and good music taste.

Avengers: Age of Ultron: Idiots come together to both save and destroy a country.

Ant-Man: Marvel finally learned what a good dad is and made said good dad the most relatable dude on earth, ft. ants.

Captian America: Civil War: Idiots solve nothing, meerly destroy themselves as they bare knuckle box in a Waffle House parking lot.

Black Widow: Doomed sisters and their mentally unstable parents destroy us with love and Don McLean.

Spider-Man: Homecoming: Young man's problems are just beginning, and I relate too much.

Black Panther: One of the first sensible heroes after Carol Danvers actually tries to fix things.

Doctor Strange: Yes, that is his real name. Defeats villians by annoying them. Absolute powerhouse.

Thor: Ragnarok: Jock, anger issues, emo brother, who is once again alive, and angry woman fight angrier woman due to rapid onset daddy issues.

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Scott continues to be a good dad and saves the day with much cooler bug themed superhero.

Avengers: Infinity war: Idiots come together to both save and destroy the Earth.

Avengers: Endgame: Idiots come together, save the universe, and make us sob and question why we watch these movies at all. Billionaire uses catchphrase.

Spider-man: Far from home: Young man's suffering continues at the hands of man who's too grown for this shit.

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings: Mean dad beats up son with bracelets.

Eternals: Makes for a good bedtime story.

Spider-Man: No Way Home: Young man is treated like shit by the entire city, and life is ruined, and no one can even care.

Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness: The mulitverse... goes mad.

Thor: Love and Thunder: Awful things happen but no one can take it seriously because the dialogue sounds AI generated.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever: Marvel gets bored of torturing Peter, so they torture Shuri instead.

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania: I'm pretty sure there's a message here, but it's disrupted by dialogue that sounds AI generated.

Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3: Found family power of friendships so hard they disband with good music taste still intact.

The Marvels: Kamala Y/NED so hard the actually BECAME an Avenger.

Captian America: Brave New World: Innocent man from before not so innocent anymore. Adopts a kid and punches the president.

Thunderbolts: New Found family on the block defeats personal demons and causes civil disputes.

[multi-muse-transect]

Theory: Peter and Frank find themselves in the middle of a gang war between Mr Negative and the mysterious Joe Fixit. Frank will be out of his element with Peter as his guide during all of this then it will be revealed Joe Fixit is really Grey Hulk.

[beepingmemesauce2727]

Soo hyped for Brand New Day lol

Apparently, Daniel Wu is the front runner for the role of Martin Li / Mister Negative

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Who should be the villain of Spider-Man 4?

Following the Watts Spider-Man trilogy, Peter Parker in the MCU has faced a number of his most iconic villains. From the villains of the Raimi-verse to Mysterio and Vulture, it seems like there are few villains left for a reported 6 more movies.

What's worse, villains like Venom, Kraven, and Carnage are being taken up by Sony Picture Universe of Marvel Characters (or SPUMC) with mediocre to bad films like Madame Web or Morbius.

While there is potential for new and fresh versions of Doc Ock, Green Goblin, and more to be put into the MCU, and I think they absolutely should, before we go there I think there are a number of solid to great Spider-Man villains who have not made their film debut who can add something new to these films.

I've put together a list of five I think could make solid contenders for Spider-Man 4, a few potential film ideas for each, and some casting ideas, all leading up to my favorite.

5. Swarm

Starting off with the least likely and my least favorite, Swarm was a Nazi Scientist and Beekeeper turned literal swarm of Bees. Due to his form, he can become intangible, fly, possesses super strength, and is the stuff of nightmares.

Due to his Nazi background, this character would need a complete retooling. Perhaps a scientist looking to cure death, or an Oscorp accident turning a good man into a monster.

If we wanted a more horror based superhero movie, this would be the way to go. This character has the potential to be very scary. Think Candy Man but a scientist hunting Spider-Man, perhaps for a cure or for getting in his way.

I'd love a Keith David, someone with a booming voice, scary, but can play sympathetic. Imagine the cat from Coraline or the Voodoo Man hunting Spider-Man, or desperately seeking a cure for his condition, killing anyone in his way.

I think characters like this have been done in the Raimi movies in particular, but could feel fresh in the MCU. Again though, it's a bit controversial being a former Nazi, and the retooling of the character may not be worth it if we're just scratching the surface of good villains.

4. The Prowler

This one is extremely obvious but worth a mention.

The only character already in the MCU, he has been casted extremely well AND has only grown in popularity. Putting him in as Spideys new big bad would not only ground the movie with a very human villain, but set up the story for Miles Morales.

Prowler can take the place of the physical villain of the film similar to Winter Soldier. His strings can be held by Kingpin, Hammerhead, Norman Osborn, Silvermane, or Tombstone, using him as a weapon against their enemies, including Spider-Man.

My main argument against this is simple, it isn't the right time. If we are doing Aaron Davis, we need to do Miles. I think that's better for the 5th or even 6th movie, but not yet. Let Peter have more years under his belt as Spidey before he teaches another.

He'd be a strong pick for a 5th movie, or even maybe a secondary villain in a 4th movie, but not a good main antagonist.

3. The Beetle

Abe Jenkins or Leila Davis have both donned the name The Beetle, an armored villain usually after money and fame. However, this character has a lot of range.

Sometimes they're a heroic member of the Thunderbolts, sometimes they're a petty villain, a genius, daughter of mob boss Tombstone, and sometimes even in a wildly different armor. There are a lot of ways to go with this villain.

Due to the flexibility of the character, we really can use them anyway imaginable. He could be a failed Stark employee (again), a genius prodigy like Peter, an antihero who kills, a terminator like threat, or anything in between.

I think having Spidey face an Iron Man of his own could be a good way to show his more intelligent side, and make Peter deal with the loss of Tony yet again.

Again the range give us quite a few ideas for actors. I'd really like someone who can do desperation and scary but intelligent. Jason Clarke I don't think gets enough love.

If we went with a younger actress and the daughter of Tombstone, I'm a big fan of Logan Browning. I think she'd make a great antivillain turned hero in the MCU, and be part of Spider-Mans new crew. Maybe help him engineer new (although be it not Tony Stark levels) of tech.

I think this villain has the potential to be brought up to Vulture or Mysterio status, they're just not my favorite as far as fresh and interesting.

2. The Jackal

This may be controversial but I'll die on this hill.

Miles Warren is a geneticist who has gone mad due to the loss of Gwen Stacy. He blames Spider-Man and swears revenge, turning himself into the monstrous Jackal.

The Jackal would be an excellent villain to introduce into the MCU and a Spider-Man movie so we can get a version of the worst comic book storylines: The Clone Saga.

Now before you think that is a terrible idea, remember that we just got a great Spider-Man movie based around a version of One More Day. So hear me out.

Having the Jackal create a Spider-Man for Peter to fight would be inherently interesting. Imagine a chase scene where two Spider-Men (both Tom Holland) are chasing each other swinging around New York. It could be as iconic as Zod and Superman in Man of Steel.

Adding the Jackal also means adding Ben Reilly into the MCU, a fun new addition which lets us see Hollands range. Who doesn't want to see edgy Tom?

The Jackal would also be very reminiscent of The Green Goblin while being something fresh and new. He can be scary and creepy, all while being a physical match for both Peter and Ben Reilly. We can get someone Dafoe type to ham it up and give us an iconic weird performance.

My pick would be Bryan Cranston. Forget Lex Luthor, let's let him ham it up and go nuts as a hairy Grinch style villain.

My only concern would be the backlash for even considering it from comic book fans. But, I think if done well, all will be forgiven.

1. Mr Negative

Anyone who has played PS4 Spider-Man and read my blogs knew where I was going.

Having Martin Li as the central antagonist would be a perfect balance for Spider-Man. He is superpowered, making him an equivalent to Spidey. He has the potential to be a mentor turned villain, like all great Spider-Man villains.

Li also is the perfect linchpin to crime villains in the Marvel Universe. He could create a Superpowered gang war against other villains like Kingpin, Silvermane, or Tombstone, putting Spider-Man in the center of something very grounded and dangerous.

Create a mob style movie with Spider-Man unable to fathom how deep crime in NY goes could be the refreshing story the MCU needs. It could add interesting Marvel characters like Daredevil, Black Cat, Punisher, Kingpin, Hammerhead, and more.

And it would all be centered around a character Spider-Man fans currently love. It's absolutely perfect.

I don't have a cast for this, as it would need to be a very gifted martial artist and seemingly good guy turned evil. But I think Marvel can nail casting.

All in all, Li would be the perfect villain for Spider-Man 4. Someone powerful enough to be a threat, fresh enough to be fun, and grounded enough to tell a very different interesting Spider-Man story.

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Hi, it's me again, with another comics question 😅

So, I will preface this by saying I really don't know much about Marvel's Civil War beyond the mcu (from what I do know I can gather that the Accords are rather different in comics than in the movie because I fear I'd be team iron man in the mcu but very anti-tony in the comics). Anyways, I know some main points- Peter starting off backing the Accords & revealing his identity, the F4 being against the Accords, Peter eventually deciding to switch sides and being bridal carried™️ by the Punisher.

I really don't want to read through ALL the civil war comics but I guess I'm wondering about the motives behind Johnny & Peter's positions. Why does Peter choose to back the Accords when literally every other vigilante recognizes it as a really not great idea? (Is it the /responsibility/ of it all? Do the F4 go against it as a team or is there infighting there? Do Johnny and Peter ever actually fight each other directly? Do they talk?

I'm so sorry for the bombardment of questions, but I guess they all boil down to: what comics do you recommend for someone (me) that wants to see Peter & Johnny's roles/relationship to the Accords, especially if they interact?

Thank you in advance!!!!!!! (I always appreciate the amount of effort that goes into your responses 🩷)

Okay, let's talk Civil War. Please note it's been a hot minute since I read it, and I'm not revisiting it beyond my refs folder, because I don't respect Civil War as an event enough to do that.

First off, what IS 616 Civil War, and how does it kick off? Let's find ourselves on the map. The year is 2006, and Peter Parker is on the Avengers because Brian Michael Bendis hates me personally. The New Warriors, a team of younger superheroes, have reformed themselves as a reality show, and are filming in Stamford, Connecticut. One of their members, Namorita, confronts escaped supervillain Nitro, whose power is exploding. And the extremely obvious happens.

The problem? In addition to killing Namorita and several other heroes, the explosion also kills sixty nearby school children. The government subsequently passes the Superhuman Registration Act, which would require powered individuals operating as heroes to register with the government and be subject to official regulation. Failure to do so results in imprisonment in a facility built in the Negative Zone. That part is not public knowledge.

So where are Johnny and Peter in this? For Johnny, it's pretty simple. You see, Johnny and Namorita used to date -- it's the first of what I call Johnny's "celebrity" relationships, where I think the appeal for him was being seen with another celebrity as opposed to any genuine attraction. (See: Kourtney, Darla Deering.) Namorita and Johnny broke up a long time ago, because they never spent any time together in the first place.

(FF v3 #55) It's very important to Have A Girlfriend so people know you're straight. What do you mean you should want to do literally anything with her.

The problem is, the relationship WAS incredibly public at the time. So Johnny is very much known as Nita's ex, and the anger surrounding Namorita's actions is boiling. While out on the town, Johnny is violently assaulted and knocked unconscious before he can flame on. The crowd then proceeds to beat him into a coma.

(Civil War #2) He wakes up at some point in here, but Johnny's involvement in Civil War is very limited after this. When Sue leaves the pro-Iron Man (and SHRA) side to join Captain America, he goes with her. That's pretty much all there is to it.

Now, as previously mentioned, Peter has been with the Avengers at this point in time. He's also living in Avengers Tower with Aunt May and MJ at this point, because his apartment and Aunt May's house were destroyed. Long story, only kind of interesting. He and Tony have gotten pretty close. This is where the Iron Dad fanon originally came from -- and I wouldn't ever personally say it's a father-son dynamic, there is an air of mentorship to it. (How in character I find this doesn't matter for the sake of this post.) Suffice to say, during this period, Tony and Peter have become close. And Tony is really going hard for the Superhero Registration Act, so he enlists Peter's help.

(ASM #529) 1) He's going to regret that. 2) Hahaha like Peter promising something means literally anything 75% of the time.

This is when Peter starts wearing the Iron Spider costume, as designed by Tony. It's also when he takes off the mask in front of the whole world and reveals his identity as Peter Parker.

(Civil War #2) He's really gonna regret that.

Things go uh. Bad. See, the thing with Peter is that he doesn't keep his identity secret for his own sake -- it is always to protect the ordinary people in his life. He's promised nothing will happen to them, but obviously as soon as his identity is out, there's a target on their backs. And Peter has a lot of enemies.

(ASM #533) It will.

Going to take a break here and say that Tony, especially from the Spider-Man side of things, does not come off as especially sympathetic during Civil War. I'm not an Iron Man expert and I'm not here to either defame characters or discuss about whether Civil War was particularly in character for anyone, including Tony. That's for other people who have the necessary background to talk about Tony's characterization in depth. I'm just here to talk about Peter's poor life choices.

(ASM #533) "I call you boss because I know it bugs you. Don't start taking it too seriously." A big part of Peter's characterization that I think gets overlooked is that, consistently, since he's been fifteen years old, he has almost always physically been the strongest person in the room, and he certainly believes the smartest. A lot of his interactions with Tony in ASM come with Peter's underlying belief that he could crack open the Iron Man suit like a crab claw.

(ASM #535)

Slowly, through a combination of things, Peter's faith in Tony and pro-Registration side disappears. Again, I'm not rereading Civil War, sorry. Anyway, he switches sides. The problem? He's still wearing that damn Iron Spider suit, which Tony can lock.

Well, I mean. Theoretically, that's a problem.

(ASM #536) This doesn't have anything to do with the main story really, I just wanted to post it because he's hypercompetent, and it's hot. My blog, my rules.

Yadda yadda yadda, Tony sends a team of supervillains to capture Peter, yadda yadda yadda, big fight, yadda yadda. This is where that famous scene of the Punisher bridal carrying absolutely beat to hell Peter comes from.

(Civil War #5) Hi Frank. Also in writing this post I discovered my Civil War refs are a mess.

Anyway, from here on, stuff happens, big superhero fight -- it's not too important from the Spider-Man side of things. What is important is that the aftermath of Peter's decision to unmask leads directly into One More Day, or the infamous Devil Divorce storyline where Peter sells his marriage to Mephisto in order to save Aunt May's life after she's shot by the Kingpin's assassin. I'm not going to go into all of that here, but I am a rare One More Day stan. I actually think it's a stunning piece of Peter Parker characterization -- it just led directly into a whole bunch of other stuff I hate, and the aftermath of it (the erased marriage and associated retcon) has gone on far too long. But that's not One More Day as a standalone story's fault. (People who complain that Peter chooses May over MJ miss the point entirely that Peter DID choose MJ over May, initially and instinctively -- the bullet was supposed to kill MJ, and Peter tackles her out of the way, leaving May in the path. THAT'S the whole thing and why Peter can't possibly make any other choice. Because he already made the choice, and the woman he views as his mother suffered for it.)

As for Spideytorch interaction in Civil War, there really isn't much to say. Johnny's in a coma for a chunk of it and Peter's got his own drama going on. Even when they're on the same side again, they don't really interact. Immediately post-Civil War, when Peter is hiding out in a shitty motel with Aunt May and MJ, Steve does ask Johnny if he can get in touch with Peter, since he's the closest with him.

(ASM #537) But it's Steve who goes to meet Peter, not Johnny. Shame.

As for comic recommendations. Oof. Civil War is kind of tricky -- I think if you're going to read it, it's best to read the main series, Civil War (2006), which is fairly short all things considered and very fast moving. It's basically the first of the big "modern events" which meant they hadn't yet nailed the practice of making it as awful as possible for everyone to follow. For Peter's involvement, I would read Amazing Spider-Man #529-537. (Pacing was different back then, she said, smoking a cigarette and staring wistfully out at the water.) It's not NECESSARY, but I would read from #538-543 just because it's GOOD. (#544 is the beginning of One More Day, and requires a different reading list.) This is where he confronts the Kingpin in prison and it's honestly so good. Top ten Spider-Man scenes of all time.

(ASM #543) I think about "it takes three seconds" all the time. Sidenote but JMS really has the perfect Peter voice, the best out of every modern Peter writer. Look how well the dialogue hits here, and the rhythm of it. No pointless joking, no rambling. Just beat, beat, beat.

I also think Civil War: Frontline is very good if you want Peter Civil War content. It's more Bugle-focused, which is really fun if you enjoy that set of characters.

Like I said, Peter and Johnny really don't interact during Civil War, and beyond getting violently assaulted in the first issue of Civil War #1, Johnny's not majorly important to the plot. Which is, uh. Very typically Johnny. Hey, at least it wasn't actively a homophobic hate crime this time, right? (Looking at you, Zodiac (Dark Reign). Don't read it, just know that's literally what happens.)

Here's a cute panel of him playing board games with Franklin and Val though.

There is significant infighting with the FF, where Reed sides with the pro-Registration side and even designs the Negative Zone prisons. Sue switches sides shortly after Johnny's recovery, going to Steve's side, and Johnny goes with her because that's what Johnny does. Ben, on the other hand, takes a neutral stance for the majority of the event.

If you do want to read anything for Johnny from it, there's a really good issue of Fantastic Four set while he's in a coma, though it's mostly a Ben character piece. (And a very good one.)

(FF #538) Listen, the only sensible person during all of Civil War was Ben, who was Team France. He went to France.

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What do you think about Marvel's move bringing back RDJ but now as Dr. Doom. I just wondered how this would affect Peter...

At first I was like OH MY GOD ROBERT DOWNEY JR. because I just adore! him! And of course I would love him back in Marvel, cuz I'm a sap and RDJ as Tony Stark revolutionized superhero cinema. Also "new mask same task" and striking the Tony Stark T pose? Legendary stuff.

Then I actually thought about the implications and the character, and I'm just not a fan. Bringing Downey back as anyone but Tony Stark is really weird, and doesn't make sense. Feels like an insane Tony Stark+Dr. Doom plot, which they made up just to get RDJ back cuz he's the money maker. Plus Dr. Doom deserves a new unique actor, especially a Romani one. I do love Dr. Doom as an MCU villain though, if he is cast properly. If they were gonna bring a Tony variant into the MCU make him a TONY variant, using Dr. Doom isn't it. Although under different circumstances I'd love to see more of RDJ as an antagonist, he's an incredible actor (his 1998 film US Marshalls started a fire in me for him to play more villains).

ANYWAYS - ignoring all the negative stuff, let's talk about Peter Parker!

I'd like to imagine a scene where Peter is fighting Doom - he's using his usual quips, being silly. He thinks it's just another day, another villain. Doom is incredibly strong and it's a tough fight, but Peter just manages the perfect hit to tear Doom's mask off.

Then he hesitates.

While scarred and cruel, the sight is still unmistakably familiar.

"Tony?"

Doom doesn't waver, he strikes Peter with deadly and immediate force in his moment of weakness.

Peter goes flying backwards, smashing through glass and brick.

He's hurt, badly, lying still on the floor beneath Doom. Bloody and torn Doom leaves him there, a pitiful and easily distracted kid. He doesn't know what he said, nor does he care. Von Doom just squashed a bug.

Left alone, Peter suffers from the ache in his body, the hit to his ego, and the biggest question - what did he see?

He questions whether he was drugged, or having a stress-induced hallucination. It doesn't make any sense for this to catch up to him in the middle of a battle. That's usually when he's most focused and level headed.

Sure, he used to see Mr. Stark. In billboard models with goatees, in the kind smile of a professor, in the corner of his eye when walking down the street. He never thought it was really him though, and it's been years since he's been struck so painfully with memories of his old mentor.

This, this is completely different. He stared right at Tony's face as clear as day.

Maybe Peter drags himself to the nearest hero. Still bloody and bruised, but he has to tell someone what he saw. Who is there? Who can he call? Hawkeye? Bruce Banner? Daredevil? They may not know Peter Parker, but he's still Spider-Man. He has a big name, and I'm curious who's taken notice.

Personally, I'd kill to finally get a Spider-Man and Fantastic Four team up in theatres. With the FF movie coming out and Doom being a big nemesis to the team I'm really hoping we get some Fantastic Four and Avengers interactions.

Anyways. Peter warns them, or does research on his own. He obsesses over this Doctor Doom.

Fast forward, maybe Doom and Peter work together against another evil, or Doom's own invention. Or maybe they're just near each other enough to get to know one another.

Doom and Stark do have some things in common, and I think that would strike a chord in Peter. Doom is an intellectual, a scientist, he's a self-absorbed perfectionist.

Doom commends Peter on his genius, his capabilities. Offers him a deal to join him and put his brain to good use. It would hit too close to home for Peter. A kid who wanted nothing more than to be like Tony Stark, to be strong and intelligent. To have his old mentor look at him and acknowledge his effort.

It messes with Peter's head and brings up his unresolved issues with Tony. It makes him sick.

Peter Parker got erased, and now it's like he's reliving his youth and trauma in some twisted and dark remake.

Maybe there's something bigger at play here. Maybe someone is haunting him, torturing him.

Laughing at him.

[the-great-knight-gay]

Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man Review: Episodes 1 and 2

I've just watched the first two episodes of YFNSM and I have one thing to say...

I was fucking right. It's not a bad show.

In fact, its pretty decent especially so far.

Full review under the cut: *SPOILER ALERT*

Characters:

One of the MOST important factors this show needed to get right was the characters and BOY DID THEY.

Let's start with the supporting cast.

Harry Osborn is the character with the least screen time so far (his only appearances being the 'Good Deed' clip in Amazing Fantasy and a shot of him on television in The Parker Luck) so there isn't much to say about him yet.

Next is Pearl Pangan, a character who hasn't shown up much outside of being Peter Parker's older crush who seems like a genuinely nice person. She also seems to be a less academically inclined version of Liz Allen-Toomes from Spider-Man: Homecoming (by which I mean that Liz was the captain of the Academic Decathlon and Pearl hasn't really had any scenes that show she has that level of intelligence). The similarities between the two characters are high so it might lead to people asking, 'Why not just reuse Liz?'.

The answer is, why not? Reusing Liz would have been fun but she doesn't add much to the story (at least yet) and the usage of Pearl has quite a few positives. One, it raises awareness about some lesser known Marvel characters (Pearl is a minor super hero and an Agent of Atlas called Wave) and it allows for different stories to be potentially told in the future. This is the same reason they used Nico Minoru rather than a character like MJ or Gwen, both of which he met in College btw not High School - pretty much all Spider-Man media since the first Ultimate Spider-Man comics have decided his ENTIRE supporting cast should be in high school with him. Personally the easiest way to rectify that imo is to just make an adaptation where he's in college or got a job already (adapt the JMS run marvel I dare you) but one can hope.

The characters in the Oscorp Internship where also a fun nod to characters in comics (looking at you Amadeus Cho aka Totally Awesome Hulk/Iron Spider depending on the adaptation) and Carla Conners was a fun addition (also I better not see anyone hating on her for being a genderswapped and raceswapped version of Curt Conners - there is no part of Dr Conners character that is negatively affected by these changes - its still the same character)

May seems to be very similar by the MCU version (which makes sense) so nothing much to say there yet.

Norman is a character we haven't seen yet in MCU media outside of Willem Dafoe reprising his role from the Raimi movies and I am LOVING it. Colman Domingo is FANTASTIC in the voice role, bringing just the right amount of menace and authority to his voice. All I need now is for him to be able to play crazy and we can get a potentially amazing Green Goblin when the time comes (also his design is just *chefs kiss*)

Next is the character that might actually interest me the most.

Lonnie Lincoln.

Anyone who has seen The Spectacular Spider-Man (or read my screenplay on ao3 - sorry for the promo but I don't get many chances to advertise it) will know who he is. Tombstone, a vicious gangster and mob boss and in this show, he's... an American football player.

And I love it.

Saying that he's been just put into the 'nice jock' category, while accurate, does not think to scratch the potential of this character. There is a scene where he's walking home and it's revealed he lives in a rough neighbourhood. In that same scene, we see that he is helping his family out in quite a few ways (for example the part where he offers to help his little brother with homework) but the part that stuck with me was with his mother when he said that he'd talked to someone about fixing their car and how to get a cheaper price for it.

Money problems.

What I'm thinking they're doing is they aren't showing Tombstone as a mob boss. No. They're showing his descent from upstanding citizen and star American football player to gang violence. We already see that they've planted the seeds and we know they're going for the long haul with this show (It's been greenlit all the way up to season 3 already) so I'm incredibly excited to see Lonnie's arc play out, especially if we're going to get Tombstone by the end of it.

"Cold as Ice. Hard as marble. What else would you call a Tombstone?"

Next, we have the main character himself. Peter Parker. The Amazing Spider-Man.

This might be their best achievement yet in the show. They have Peter's dorky attitude and nerdy demeanour down to a T and it's so fun to watch. He's also a genuinely good person, just how Peter should be. A scene that stands out is the scene where he's caught a shoplifter who's broken down and crying in his eyes and he looks at them and he doesn't see a criminal. No. He sees someone who was down on their luck and asks the shop owner to give them a second chance if they give back the money they stole. It's beautiful and it's so very... Spider-Man. This is the exact kind of thing Spider-Man should be. A friendly guy who's just in the neighbourhood. It's a scene that's very reminiscent of Tom Taylor's Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man in all the best ways. (also the shop that was stolen from is called Pizza Time and that's already the best thing ever)

Animation:

Okay so some people have been saying the animation of this show isn't very good which I can say is not an unfounded concern. The effort the show has taken to emulate the original Ditko comics have had a slightly detrimental effect to some of the series.

There aren't as many background extras used in an attempt to mimic the original comics and lots of the shots don't use typically cinematic shading, opting instead to use brighter and slightly less rendered shots to emulate the older style. In some ways, this is actually really cool if you can appreciate the attempt to mimic the 60s style but it can be quite off putting for some people which I can respect.

There are also some issues with the 3d models. The characters mouths don't always move directly in sync and sometimes, for when they do use background extras, they are just 2d images in the back which can be quite unsettling when standing in the same shot as 3d models (there is one scene at a party where Nico is on the phone with Peter and in the background there's a completely unmoving 2d person who's eyes just seem to follow Nico and its quite unsettling).

HOWEVER, there are some incredibly beautiful shots too. Some shots are a direct mimic of older MCU shots from Peter's first introduction in CA:CW like the opening shot and final scene of the first episode which stand out as incredibly well done.

The best part of the animation is easily the web swinging which is so well done and one of my favourite parts of this version of Spider-Man so far. His movement is rough and unrefined as it should be for a Year One: Spider-Man but it is very reminiscent of the Insomniac Games style swinging (which in my personal opinion has the best web swinging in Spider-Man media since The Amazing Spider-Man 2) and it is INCREDIBLY fun to watch when it occurs. They actually focus some time on the web swinging too unlike some other adaptations which see him shoot a web and then THWIP out of the camera frame so we get to really see the extent of this web swinging.

Story:

This is the one where I probably have the least to say, mainly because we're only 1/5 of the way into the season so far and we haven't actually gotten much of the story revealed yet. However, it definitely has a LOT of potential.

Episode 1 establishes that the Spider that bit Peter came from a portal (alongside this universes version of Doctor Strange who is fighting a demon looking creature which is credited as Symbiotic Alien - Klyntar easter egg?????) which might be slightly different to some people but to me this gives me a heavy JMS vibes.

JMS wrote for Spider-Man from 2001 to 2007 and created what became the foundation of the Spider-Verse by introducing the Spider-Totems to the Marvel mythology. He said that the powers that Peter received did not come from the radiation, but the spider itself. The radiation is just what killed the spider. It was never even stated that Peter was the intended recipient of the powers and was hinted that maybe he was just in the right place at the right time when the spider died, which really hammers home the idea that anyone can be behind the mask.

The spider coming from a portal which also brings a symbiotic alien that looks hauntingly similar to Shathra (also a character introduced by JMS that returned to the Spider-Verse in Dan Slott's End of Spider-Verse story line) hints that maybe YFNSM is taking a similar approach to JMS , which is always a good thing. I mean that man wrote Back In Black. (OMD and Sins Past were editorial and should not be credited to JMS despite it being his run people)

Now in terms of the rest of the story, we haven't gotten many hints yet but there is a scene where Spider-Man fights Butane and sees a symbol on his gauntlet that looks hauntingly similar to the number 8. You know what has 8 limbs?

An octopus. Specifically, Doctor Octopus.

We already know Doc Ock is in this show. My theory is that Butane's gauntlets were made by him but my main piece of evidence that tells me that he's the final villain?

The final episode of the season is called 'If This Be My Destiny...'

ITBMD is one of the most famous Spider-Man comics of all time and the panel where Spider-Man lifts the heavy machinery of his body has become legendary. It was used in multiple adaptations of Spider-Man, including Spectacular and Homecoming. Doctor Octopus is also the main villain of that storyline.

Norman Osborn seems to be a character that they're setting up as a main villain for the complete show but not the main season just yet, similar to how the insomniac games treat him. They seem to be putting Doc Ock as the first big villain and then following up with Norman later down the line, maybe around Season 3.

All in all, this show is shaping up to be an incredible adaptation. What are your thoughts?

[mediacinemtographyartetc]

I hope people hold back the kneejerk reaction on what I'm about to say about ironheart and the trailer. This is not an insult to Riri, nor am I being negative- this is actually engagment on talking about a show and trying to generate hype such as asking questions and hopefully getting answers.

Because I actually DO want to watch the show, I don't care whose on screen if the writing is stimulating thats good enough for me no matter who it is.

I understand WHY people get upset given that the internet sucks and most questions are not from a place of goodwill and it's people being obtust just to ruin a good thing. So any outrage I do understand it and can see why people no longer give good faith in converstations as such,

So before I watch Ironheart I have a question- that I HOPE People will answer.

The trailer did not say WHY the iron motifs? in the comics it makes sense, she's smart enough to impress ai Tony Stark and she makes the ironheart suit okay. But the MCU trailer for Ironheart was Wakanda heavy- so why not another panther suit?

Why ironman? Or a suit thats completely unique and has no bases on both the Panther suit OR the Iron suit and she makes her own suit that doesn't remind you of any ecxisting ones.

Because it's obvious, the HUD helmet, the flight, the iconic repulser sound screams ironman which okay-

"I want to make something iconic,"

By making an ironman suit.

And people disagree with this which I don't get because I feel as if I'm making sense, and people are like "No she is unique-" Its a freakin ironman suit.

like sorry but so many people regardless of skin colour brought up why they didnt like comic miles morales for taking over deadpeteryparker spiderman. its only the games/movies that fixed Miles story. To me this is just another thing of taking a pre-existing character and since tony is dead, it feels like marvel is pandering.

Which personally I think the story would make sense if

a; she was a mechanic for war machine for the last remaining iron man suit hence why she uses that as a blueprint to build off

b; if MIT that she worked at and was funded by TOny stark so she owes him- but she apprintced under wakanda so it'd make sense her inspiration would draw on that AND marvel itself stated that Wakanda is superiour in technology why would she use outdated tech from ironman if Wakanda was better? And what all students of any educational insitution makes their entire brand based on the white guy funding their school- what if he was a bigot it is such a WEAK answer for the MCU riri when the Comic explains it simply.

c; If tony in his will allowed MIT sutdents to use ironman models as a base for their own studies that would make sense, like how he saw potatoe gun kid and Peter Parker that was his basis to implement that for talented individuals to progress even better if he made a puzzle giving blueprints/wip ideas he had and never finished for capbable minds and such.

The trailer kept showing iron man stuff but not Tony stark himself or any connection she had with him-

She doesn't HAVE to idolise him or even have to like him, but making her whol brand based on something where everyone in that world will obviously see a suit and assume it was Tony Starks suit and inventions and think Stark industries had something to do with it.

Tony made his own basis that the military and even Hammer was trying to make Iron suits and FAILED.

idk from my observations of marvel and the fans outside in real life, have low opinions on Tony stark and see him as the 1% elon musk entitled rich boy.

So why would someone like Riri Williams want to be affiliated with someone like that?

[my-marvel]

How I'd Make The MCU: 2012's Avengers: KANG'S REVENGE

1. As established in Captain America: The First Avenger, Kang time traveled from the 41st Century back to the 21st century to undo the temporal anomaly which destroyed his empire and nearly killed his wife, Princess Ravonna. So he makes his presence known by suddenly appearing in the Oval Office upon his high-tech throne with a simple question for the President: WHERE IS CAPTAIN AMERICA!?

2. Fury begins assembling the team. Widow, Hawkeye, and Falcon are easy cause they're already on his payroll. Iron Man's already on board as long as S.H.I.E.L.D. throws out all the weapons he'd sold them years ago. Thor is easy cause he's already committed to defending Earth, why not join a team of heroes. Fury also easily recruits Cap, without telling him specifically what the threat is.

2. The Hulk needs special convincing. After making a few calls, Fury has Wolverine go find Hulk in Alaska and convince him to come join the Avengers. Hulk initially refuses, but after a conversation with Banner via his reflection in the ice, Hulk is convinced by Banner joining the Avengers could be a good thing so decides to go along with it. And Wolverine doesn't join the team, cause Fury considers Mutants to be too much of a wild card.

3. Deciding he may need "special motivation" to convince him to join, Fury has Tony Stark find Peter Parker, who's starting his first year at ESU. Peter is eventually convinced to put on the mask again and join Stark for a, "Mentorship Excursion. (that's Stark's cover for the recruitment)" (In this version of the MCU, Peter actually looks up to Captain America instead of Iron man)

4. Hank is VERY resistant to the idea of joining the Avengers, because of the inherent violence of hero work. Janet, however, is more than happy to get out of Station 42 and see some action. Stark promises S.H.I.E.L.D. has VERY limited involvement outside of assembling the team, and that as someone also maligned by S.H.I.E.L.D. he'll stand by any of Hank's grievances. This plus Janet's insistence Hank get out of the Negative Zone and away from Ultron before, "it makes him forget how to be a human," (joke) he accepts.

5. Stark has converted a property owned by the Maria Stark Foundation into Avenger's Mansion, where they can all live and train. Cap, Thor, Hulk, Falcon, and Janet all move into the mansion. 

6. In case you haven't noticed, the first 30 minutes of the movie are assembling the team, while the second 30 min are the team actually becoming, well, a team. Bantering, conversing, getting to know each other. 

7. Tony and Cap talk about how much tech has moved up and how Cap is behind the times, to which Cap counters Tony has moved so far past the past he's forgetting it. Hulk and Thor begin feuding, as Hulk sees Thor's enthusiasm, claim of being the strongest being on Midgard, and Shakespearean manner of speaking as condescending. Spider-Man feels like the odd one out, being the youngest one and still not entirely 100% on hero work again. Peter and Cap begin to form a sort of Father-Son dynamic, as Cap gives Peter some words of advice about overcoming his mental blocks on getting back in the swing of things.

8. KANG's first action after the meeting with the President is attack Avenger's Mansion. Kang's weaponry makes the mansion's defenses useless, even against the Hulk for a little, and is focusing on killing Captain America. 

9. Once the Hulk gets his paws on Kang, he just monologues. In Kang's time, he rules all, but an anomaly in the space-time continuum destroyed his reality. He traced it to something in the 21st Century which should not be there: Captain America. Captain America, according to him, was meant to die in the 20th century, and so by eliminating him, he can restore his Empire and time. 

10. Kang then escapes the Hulk's grasp, and resumes his fight with the Avengers. He says if they insist on fighting for the Captain's life, he shall show them it's inevitable outcome. He uses his throne to take the Avengers 1000 years into the future, where Earth is decimated and Iron Man scans no traces of life. Kang explains that Captain America's survival causes Earth to be in the crossfire of a galactic war, which leaves Earth lifeless. Kang says he shall conquer Earth as he did in his timeline and prepare it for the coming War, and then restore his Empire in this timeline.

11. Kang intends to leave the Avengers in this future as he goes back and conquers Earth. Hank uses cockroaches which survived the apocalypse to stop Kang and allows Stark to get into the chair and send them all back, cause he can port into it cause Kang's tech is based on VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY old tech: STARK Industries tech. 

12. Kang's initially defeated, feigns retreat and returns to his ship Damocles. As Kang begins his conquest of Earth, starting with New York City, the Avengers assemble under Captain America's leadership and go out to kick ass.

13. Kang's Scarab Mechs are very disastrous for the city, as conventional weapons are ineffective even with the Helicarrier helping out. The Avengers are struggling against the Mechs, as they seem endless. And it's not just the Avengers out here, the Fantastic Four and the X-Men have come out to help as well. As they all fight Kang's army, it turns out he's also attack multiple other targets worldwide, with several major cities across the world surrendering.

13b. Spider-Man has a bit of a panic attack after seeing so much destruction and thinks back to how he couldn't save Gwen and how he's way in over his head and he's gonna fail and Earth will be ruined and it's all his fault. Captain America finds him, and stops everything he's doing to help Peter snap out of it, telling him that he'll never be able to be everywhere at once or save everyone in the world, but what matters is who he CAN save, starting now.

14. Back at the Mansion, Reed and Hank are trying to figure out how to stop all of this. They realize, after Wasp and Iron Man take over one of Kang's ship's bridges that Kang's fleet is anchored to this time by a chronal drive, and destroying it sends the ship and it's ejected Mechs back to the 41st Century, so they start doing that.

15. Even after that, MORE AND MORE SHIPS KEEP COMING. They realize they need and army, and luckily they have one on standby. Bad news, it's Ultron and Hank is VERY resistant at the idea of transforming his army of AI therapists into war machines. But is convinced to do so, and tweaks Ultron's AI to allow it to be the army they need to fight Kang by teaching Ultron the concept of violence.

16. Now they need to find Kang's mothership and send THAT back to send everything back. After Iron Man frustratedly yells, "WHERE IN THE WORLD ARE YOU!?" He realizes Kang is in FUCKING SPACE. So the Avenger hop into two Quinjets and GO TO FUCKING SPACE and get into Kang's mothership, Damocles, and make their way to the Chronal Drive to send him away. Kang is now fighting even more desperately, since being sent back means being unexisted by the temporal anomaly.

17. While fighting through Damocles, Wasp and Peter find Princess Ravonna in a comatose state, being kept alive after almost being erased by the temporal anomaly which destroyed Kang's Empire. They rush to the Avengers about to send Kang back, begging them not to because it would kill Ravonna and explain that Kang is doing all this to save his wife. Peter and Janet offers to help Kang however they can to save Ravonna if he calls of the invasion of Earth (WHICH IS 75% COMPLETE WEE WOO WEE WOO). Kang does not surrender, and Cap delivers the final punch which incapacitates Kang and with that the invasion is stopped. 

18. S.H.I.E.L.D. takes over Damocles, Peter has officially returned to his role as Spider-Man, and Reed, Hank Pym, and Beast begin working on how to cure Ravonna. Meanwhile, Kang is imprisoned in Station 42, saying, "Earth's survival is no longer guaranteed, the worst is yet to come."

MID CREDIT SCENE:

Hank tweaking an Ultron head to begin removing that violence protocol. Janet calls him over, insisting he get out of his work and spend time with her, he agrees. The second before the scene cuts off, the Ultron head turns on, and instead of a light blue, it glows a BRIGHT RED. 

ALL THE WAY AT THE END OF THE CREDITS of Avengers: KANG’S REVENGE, even after the mid credit scene, the screen cuts to black. 

its quiet and just a blank screen for a few seconds, JUST enough to make the audience believe the movie has ended. I’m talking people are starting to leave their seats in the theater and walk out type of believe it’s over. If this was being watched at home, most unaware people would turn it off here. 

Then there is going to be a quiet line from Ultron singing, “I had strings… but now I’m free…. There are… no strings…  on me…”

[emeraldsfanfics]

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♡Love Triangles allowed

♡Headcannons and onehsots

♡Will do suggestive depending on character's age

I want my blog to be a safe and wholesome place <3

Who do I write for?

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Peter Parker/Spiderman (platonic or romantic)

Tony Stark/Iron Man (platonic)

Stephen Strange/Doctor Strange (platonic)

Steve Rogers/Captain America (platonic)

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Thor Odinson (platonic)

Loki Friggason (platonic or Romantic)

Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow (platonic)

Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch (platonic)

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Logan/Wolverine (platonic or Romantic)

Wade Wilson/Deadpool (platonic or Romantic)

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Scott Summers (platonic or Romantic)

Jean Gray (platonic)

Professor Xavier (platonic)

Angel (platonic or Romantic)

Peter Parker/Spiderman

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Darius Bowman (platonic or Romantic)

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Ben Pincus (platonic or Romantic)

Yasmina (platonic)

Sammy (platonic)

Brooklynn (platonic)

Jurassic World

Owen Grady (platonic or Romantic)

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Sonic (platonic or Romantic)

Knuckles (platonic or Romantic)

Tails (platonic or Romantic)

Shadow (platonic or Romantic)

Tom (platonic or Romantic)

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Ramshakle

Stone (platonic or Romantic)

Skipp (platonic or Romantic)

Vinnie (platonic)

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Madame Web inexplicably feels like an early/mid 2000s movie that just happened to come out in 2024, and not because it's set in 2003.

like, it's fine! as a film, it's fine. it's not the worst Marvel film or superhero film I've ever seen and it did some fun things. (honestly, I kind of love the repeated broken glass/spider web visual motif?) it is too self-conscious both about being set in 2003 ("it's so sad about Martha Stewart") and about having to fit into the nooks and crannies of pre-existing Spider lore while not having the rights to use the big stuff. (Ben Parker is a secondary character and the climatic fight scene takes place while Mary Parker is in labor, but they can't name Peter Parker or Aunt May. also the "when you take on responsibility, great power will come," which is either because they don't have the rights to the great power/great responsibility line or because they were trying to invert it or possibly both.)

it is a little silly in that very 2000s superhero film way, but I don't think it's done because they were deliberately trying to make an early/mid 2000s superhero movie. (though there are a few things an early/mid 2000s film would have done that this one doesn't, which is why I don't think they were deliberately trying to mimic one) it doesn't feel like an MCU film, which is a whole 'nother thing -- I don't mean this as a negative, obviously I am here for the MCU, but you can also tell when a superhero film is trying to mimic the MCU but has no idea how the MCU did what it did. the heart of the movie is female friendship and that part is really nice. I am pretty neutral on Cassie Webb, but the girls are a lot of fun.

[dameronswife]

can you tell us more about emilia?

my time has come...yes i can!

So, Emilia McKnight is my spidersona I created back in December 2022, I believe. At the time, I had every intention of her being solely a Spider-Verse self insert, so I went off the walls with my creation of her. Her alter ego is called Nephila, and of course, I made her my favorite color:

(the picrew I used for the first one unfortunately has been taken down; the second one is from a web warriors game. She is NOT that skinny, she is chubby)

When she's not running around in a mask, though, she approximately looks like this:

left art by @hermitmoss, right is from, apparently, another picrew that has tragically been taken down but was here.

However, around the same time I made Emilia, I was also struggling to make a self-insert for Moon Knight. Every concept I came up with didn't feel right, and I was getting increasingly frustrated, until @dameronalone suggested I just....use Emilia? And at that point, I had a little bit of a galaxy brain explosion: you know what Marc really needs in his life? An annoying Spider person. And who else to fill that void but my silly little oc?

Emilia's universe has basically been stuck in development hell for ages, though, and I've only recently hit a breakthrough with this fic and more recently with the realization that I don't need to write her like she's in the MCU, and that I can simply just make a new universe altogether that's a hodgepodge of all my favorite Marvel projects. But that doesn't answer the question of who is Emilia McKnight, either does it? Cue the "let's do this one more time"

Emilia is not a scientist, but her cousin, Francesca is, and works at Alchemex. While visiting her cousin at work, Emilia is bitten by a radioactive spider and gains the traditional superpowers, with some minor exceptions: her spider sense is a little more intense than most, and sometimes she has premonitions as a result. Also chronic migraines because of her spider sense. But much like Peter Parker before her, Emilia doesn't initially use these powers for the betterment of her city - instead, she ends up stuck in a position where she's forced to turn to theft in order to survive, where she hones a lot of her eventual skills as Nephila.

Around the same time Emilia goes through her transformation, Francesca's life at Alchemex is going splendidly: her project gets all the funding it needs which directly and negatively impacts Emilia's life, when it results in their mutual friend, Samantha Dillon, losing the funding on hers. The conflict and loss of her life's work results in Dillon doing the Impulsive Peak Supervillain Thing and goes through the experiment anyway, and becomes Aftershock. At the first opportunity she has, she attacks the Alchemex building with her new powers, and during the attack, Francesca is killed, and dies in Emilia's arms.

This loss, naturally, motivates Emilia to turn away from theft and becomes the vigilante known as Nephila. She meets plenty of other vigilantes along the way, and acquires an impressive rogues gallery, but her obsession is finding and putting Aftershock away, unaware that she's actually her old friend.

But y'know, it's a comic book verse, and when Emilia does find out, it's during a battle between Nephila and Aftershock. I'm unclear what happens exactly, but something goes extremely wrong during the fight, and they end up blowing up the (abandoned) building they're in, and Samantha does not survive the blast. Emilia does, barely, and is so horrified by her responsibility in her former friend's death, that she lets the authorities believe that Nephila perished in the fire with her, and hangs up her webs.

With New York too filled with ghosts, Emilia uses the rest of her funds to move to Brixton, London for a fresh start and becomes a bartender at the bar the Feather of Truth.

About a year after (approximately, in a version of those events that do not occur in the MCU, precisely) the events of Moon Knight, Marc has resumed his Moon Knighting duties and is on the hunt for an elusive vampire, and ends up going into Emilia's bar for a drink to decompress when he meets another dead end; which is how he and Emilia meet, and the two strike up a surprising (to both of them) friendship - which eventually snowballs into Emilia being attacked by said vampire, which pulls her out of retirement.

To say that I'm obsessed with Emilia and her universe would be an understatement. I have two reference boards to flesh out her earth/character, multiple timelines written out to keep everything straight, a playlist for a hypothetical television series, a mental trailer planned out, multiple aesthetic boards, and a WIP of a personal character playlist - not to mention my ship playlist for her and Marc.

I have a series of fanfiction for her already on Ao3, but I would be lying if I said I wouldn't eventually be interested in tightening those up and making a long multichapter fic about her and her universe, if I could ever summon up the motivation or proper arcs for her.

[willemdafinky]

I have completed Spider-Man 2 twice now and I have very conflicting feelings on the game’s story, mostly towards its Venom/Symbiote storyline. On my first playthrough my problem was how little screen time and characterization Venom had in the story despite all the build up and prioritizing him over anything else and while I still have a problem with that aspect of the story, upon my second playthrough I realized that my real biggest issue with the narrative is Peter’s time in the black suit and being corrupted by the Symbiote. I felt it was rushed and forced but I didn’t have any deeper and meaningful critiques of it…that is until I looked back on other adaptations of the Black Suit storyline and a review of Spider-Man 2 by Youtuber Dorito God which I recommend watching that made it click as to why Peter and the Black Suit doesn’t work.

Insomniac's Peter Parker is the nicest version of the character.

An aspect of Peter Parker that I feel has been downplayed in many adaptations is that he was, at many points, a jerk. He had an incredibly short temper, tends to be cocky for the worst, and outright selfish at points. This does not inherently mean he was unlikable, I actually believe this makes him more interesting and even sympathetic. His negative traits aren’t there just because but are present of numerous factors, most of them because of his double life as Spider-Man. The sheer responsibility that is required of being Spider-Man would naturally cause high level of stress which as we all know can easily lead into losing your cool: not to mention other elements such as J Jonah Jameson’s constant slander of his name which influenced his public perception amongst New York, the grief and guilt of losing loved ones such as Uncle Ben, his struggles of keeping good relationships due to wanting to keep his identity a secret out of fear of his loved ones getting hurt, and how this all started when he was 16 it is completely understandable that Peter can be frankly a jerk.

I don’t think Peter Parker’s defining characteristic is a jerkass who underneath is a good person but I feel that his jerkiness is an important factor of the character that doesn’t get much attention in adaptations outside of Peter B Parker in the Spider-Verse movies. That being said, I would be arguing in bad faith if I said this has been completely left out of Spider-Man adaptations: Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy, The Amazing Spider-Man duology, and even the MCU have this aspect of Peter’s personality intact. In the Raimi Trilogy Peter is shown to be a very flawed boyfriend to Mary Jane with Spider-Man 3 being the most prominent example where he just doesn’t understand Mary Jane’s own struggles and subconsciously brushes them off not just because of his own struggles but also from the outright celebration he is getting from New York as Spider-Man. The Amazing Spider-Man duology gave Peter a new motivation for becoming Spider-Man as originally purely being revenge only to later take up the role of hero, not to mention also breaking a dying man’s promise of staying away from Gwen. The MCU had Peter initially refuse to help Norman and the other inter dimensional visitors despite the fact that it was his fault they were brought to the MCU and it’s only because of Aunt May that he does try to help.

Now, I have to ask a question: can you honestly name a scene with Insomniac’s Peter where he has any of these traits? I genuinely can’t think of one. Spider-Man 2 tries with the boss fight against Scream where while under the Symbiote, Mary Jane tells Peter how much he made her feel like she was nothing more than emotional support for his struggles while not doing anything for her and I don’t think that lines up with how Peter was written in the game. Peter is very supportive of Mary Jane throughout the story for her job and does listen to her when she vents about it so this interaction where the story suggests otherwise in the Scream boss fight doesn’t work for me. Peter in these games is just a really nice guy, does this mean he doesn’t have moments where he crosses his limit? No of course not, the climax against Otto disproves but that’s more of an example of the “pissing off the good guy is a bad move” trope than Peter’s more abrasive side. I don’t think this inherently means that Insomniac Peter is a bad character, I very much liked him in the first game and Miles Morales after and one of my other favorite versions of the character is the one from the 90s cartoon who is also a kinder interpretation of Peter Parker. So what is my problem?

I don’t think this overly nice version of Peter Parker works with the Black Suit story. Ever since the 90s cartoon, every version of the Black Suit story has the Symbiote amplifies Peter’s more negatives traits (most notably his temper) and we’ve established that Peter doesn’t have of any these traits so seeing him lash out at other characters and being more aggressive feels extremely out of character and not in the way that I think the writers intended.

Okay so, the amplification of negative emotions doesn’t work but maybe they went through a different approach. Maybe in this version the Symbiote instead brings out the host’s intrusive thoughts and inner frustrations, like they did with Mary Jane. The story suggests this: first in the Spider-Men fight where Peter hints that he has a sense of insecurity in his role as Spider-Man because of how good Miles is in the role, that he might not be needed anymore and how the Symbiote is the only way he could keep and be greater. Second when Miles and Martin Li go into Peter’s subconscious it is outward stated that Peter supposedly may secretly want to kill his foes just so he could end the cycle, which the Symbiote feeds on. This all sounds great, what’s the problem?

Neither of these are even hinted at beforehand. Peter never shows any resentment towards Miles, not helped by how little screen presence Miles has in the story but that’s its own can of worms, and there is nothing to suggest that Peter even entertained the idea of defeating his rogues gallery permanently. So there is nothing in this story that gives any reason as to why Peter acts the way he does while under the Symbiote. Now this might sound weird for me to say since “isn’t that what the Symbiote does” but hear me out:

Harry does not act anywhere similar to Peter when he is using the Symbiote. His personality is the same which gives the idea that perhaps in this continuity the Symbiote might not have the same negative energy it does in most adaptations and is more like in the original comics where its only negative thing is that it takes control over the host while they’re asleep. But I don’t think that was ever the intention, it always felt like that the Symbiote is supposed to be what it usually is in most adaptations. So why was Peter affected by it but Harry wasn't?

There’s also the problem that Peter himself never has the big moment of realizing what the Symbiote is doing to him, he doesn’t have his own self reflection. Compare to other adaptations:

•The 90s cartoon: He almost kills Shocker after the latter had already given up and even after he stops, the Symbiote still tries to kill Shocker.

•Spider-Man 3: Him slapping Mary Jane is the moment where Peter finally sees that he had changed for the worst.

•The Spectacular Spider-Man: Getting called out by Flash Thompson for how he’s been treating his friend is what plants the doubts in Peter’s head that something might be wrong with the Symbiote which only gets confirmed when it tries to convince him that they don’t need anyone.

In Spider-Man 2, we don’t get that. I don’t consider Miles telling Peter that the Symbiote is changing him to be a moment of self realization, it doesn’t work for me. I never got the idea that in this game Peter did something so awful, an action that he wouldn’t act out doing, that would break him free from the hold the Symbiote hivemind has on him and to be better. I don’t get that.

Combine all that and you have what has ended up being one of my least favorite versions of the Black Suit storyline, even more than Spider-Man 3. Note that I hate Spider-Man 3, it’s my least favorite of the Spider-Man movies not counting the Sonyverse movies, but with that I can see how it could work with that version of Peter. Spider-Man 2’s version of the story doesn’t work fundamentally to me because of their Peter unless you change Peter’s characterization, the narrative or how the Symbiote works.

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CHARACTERS: Peter Parker, Pepper Potts

REQUESTED SUMMARY: ”Set in a version of the MCU where shrunken people are viewed as objects, a version of Peter Parker who just began his freshman year college of shrinks and is bought by Pepper Potts. Unaware that the tiny she bought is actually her husband's protégé or even sentient, she treats him like a mint and pops him into her mouth. After sucking on and licking him thoroughly, she spits him out and puts him away for her to use again later.”

WARNINGS: Unaware-ish, Soft Vore

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Pepper Potts has a problem. That problem is called ‘Tony Stark’, but that’s actually not the problem she’s addressing today, exactly. Her secondary problem as a result of Problem Number One is actually something easier to comprehend and more universally known: stress. Not many people know this, but in her early twenties, Pepper used to smoke. Of course, after deep research about all the health concerns and the way it actually negatively impacts stress response, she quit the habit - but it was still a long time before she discovered a replacement habit equally soothing but with virtually no known side effects.

Tiny Mints. She’d been skeptical, at first, of both their efficacy and their use, but as time wore on and advertising became more prominent, Pepper found herself worn down to the potential appeal of them. Little oral fixation fixers, with no carcinogens, no nasty chemicals, nothing unnatural. Something she could pop in her mouth and play with, something that released a soothing dopamine fix throughout her day to help her cope with her stress.

Eventually, she was sold. She went to a little bodega near Stark tower, smiled politely at the cashier, and made her purchase. Really, nobody could blame her for not knowing better.

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Peter Parker is used to being a nuisance to really rich, really weird people. Generally, the more rich and more weird they are, the more they tend to want to do bad things to non-rich people. Being the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man tends to make you a lot of enemies, and a lot of those enemies happen to be scientists messing around with really weird technology.

All of this to say, maybe part of him should have been more prepared for the disconcerting flash of blinding light that assaulted his senses — more prepared, at least, than the split-second premonition of something really bad about to happen, at a time far too late do actually do anything about it. One minute he’s in an alleyway outside of a research and tech institution, the next he’s flat on his back, groaning his way back into consciousness.

It’s dark. That’s the first thing he realizes, because he has to double-check he actually opened his eyes. Not a single speck of light filters through. The second thing he realizes is that someone stole his suit, and they’ve left him completely naked on a metal slab that isn’t… actually as cold as it should be. That should probably be some kind of ominous sign, but he won’t connect those dots for another few seconds.

He’s held firmly in place not by any kind of fastenings, but by metal walls that seem perfectly contorted to frame his body in a kind of person-shape, so resoundingly strong that even his enhanced durability and strength don’t seem to do absolutely anything against them no matter how hard he shoves. And he does shove, and writhe, and squirm, for several minutes — until his ears prick beneath a sudden new sensation.

Deep, deep rumbling. A distant, droning cadence almost too low for him to fully comprehend, but there’s a rhythmic lilt and pattern that lets his clever mind identify it as some kind of speech. Bassy, booming, but definitely speech. The more he strains, the more he can almost understand what it’s saying.

He never really gets the chance. Very abruptly, gravity shifts. He’s held in place by the metal walls, but he can feel the wooshing of g-force like he’s swinging from a web. Thrust from side to side, then down a little, and then a very, very swift climb. The walls around him creek and groan, and then light pierces the very edge of his vision, yawning wider, blinding, the fast-forward dawning of the rising sun that he squints and blinks his way through.

It isn’t the sun. It’s the too-white artificial ceiling light of a business-grade bulb, and it’s blotted out rather suddenly by- by…

He’s never felt his stomach sink so low, so fast. Never felt the kind of swooping, instinctive fear as he feels right then, staring up at what is undeniably a person’s face, except that it’s dozens of feet tall, bigger than a house, bigger than that Ant Guy was that one time at that airport in Germany. A second after his brain allows him to register that, he has a second epiphany — he knows that face. He’s seen her before.

Relief floods in hot on the heels of his terror. This is Pepper, this is Mr. Stark’s assistant, and if it’s her looking down at him, it means he’s probably safe. It means that she found him somehow, and she’s going to take him to Mr. Stark. If anybody can fix whatever happened to him, it’s Tony. That’s why Peter’s not immediately all that concerned when perfectly manicured fingernails the size of city busses swoop in, encroaching on his personal space, seizing him from his person-shaped indent in his specialty mint tin.

Yes, okay, maybe it would have been better for her to just talk to him in his safe little container instead of squeezing him with her giant fingers, lifting him a mile over the ground, and raising him up before her face, but he can’t exactly blame her. This is fine. It’s probably fine.

Except, what’s not fine is the closer he gets to her face, the more he realizes there isn’t a scrap of recognition in it. There’s something distant, absent, and uninterested in the features he can see from this low angle, and she’s bringing him awfully close for this conversation.

And then she parts her lips. And she steers him not toward her ears, but toward the wide, dark opening between the perfectly painted lipstick, toward the straight white teeth behind them, toward the delicate strings of saliva that hang down from the roof of her mouth. That’s when he starts to struggle against her fingers, that’s when he nearly pisses himself, because despite the unbelievable, unparalleled denial that this could possibly be happening, it is. Pepper is guiding him unstoppably ever-forward toward her open mouth, and she’s going to put him inside it.

“No- wait- please, please, Mrs. Stark, please don’t eat me, please don’t eat me, it’s Peter, it’s Peter-!!” His voice rises, gaining pitch and volume until he’s screaming as loud as his strained lungs will allow. It does no good. He’s simply too small, and the only thing Pepper hears is the faintest, nearly-inaudible squeaking. Her perfect, petite fingers drop him. He falls two or three feet, and he lands face-first on the soft, hot, wet surface of her tongue. He grips onto it, scrambling up and around, doing his very best to bolt toward the light — but the light is disappearing.

It’s only thanks to his powers that he manages to hold his footing on her rising tongue, that he manages to ascended the steep hill at a run, trying his best to aim for the narrowing gap as Pepper’s teeth close and then, behind them, her lips seal. He has one crushing moment of defeat finding himself trapped in the dark, and then the chaos begins.

The flesh tongue underneath him slams him up to the roof of her mouth. His back hits the unrelenting flesh hard, and then the tongue underneath him begins to writhe, a never-ending assault, a muscular tidal wave of seeking, searching, soft taste buds that curiously explore his entire body. Tasting him. She’s tasting him.

After a few seconds of plush, almost-gentle exploration, her tongue slides back until the harder, firmer tip of it is pushing against his face, his mouth, his chest, in between his legs. No longer tasting, now playing. Enjoying the feel and the shape of him, rolling over his body, alternately smothering him and drowning him in saliva. Peter’s strong, but his forceful pushing at the unrelenting muscle only buys him meager pockets of breathing room. What’s worse, she seems to enjoy it, the stimulation of his movement, because her tongue begins to pointedly prod at the places that get the most reaction out of him — his face, his crotch.

Eventually, after excruciating minutes of this, she seems to get bored. Her tongue lowers, and he drops with it. It shifts, throwing him a few feet back — and through the dim light, from this angle, he can just make out the back of her throat. The pit, the empty bottomless drop, and he knows with an ache in his chest that she might actually swallow him. There’d be almost nothing he could do about it, if she took a drink of water he’d probably barely be able to survive the flood, and he’d be swept down that gullet into her enormous stomach. She could eat him.

But she doesn’t. Instead, her tongue shifts suddenly to the side, bucking him like a bronco. He’s thrown against her closed molars, ground against unrelenting enamel, each tooth easily three times his size. Without parting her lips, her molars separate, and Peter finds himself thrust between them on his back again. And then they press down, almost gently, until he’s perfectly caught between them.

It occurs to him then, what would be even worse than being swallowed whole — being chewed. But Pepper doesn’t do that, either. She just holds him there, absently increasing and reducing the pressure, playing with the resistance he brings her back teeth. Ten minutes later, her teeth part and her tongue glides over again, sweeping him absently underneath her tongue, pulling his entire body in and down until he’s tucked beneath it in a pool of her saliva. She holds him there safely while she swallows, and the forceful suction of it sweeps away all the sticky spit that had been pooling around him, soaking him.

Apparently, she doesn’t mean to swallow him. Apparently, she’d wanted to secure him absently in that space to clear her mouth, so she could then dig him back out with the tip of her tongue, slam him back against the roof of her mouth again, and begin to suck. It’s a constant, vacuous force, pulling at him, pulling everything from him, stealing his energy and his sweat and his everything, but always with the resistance of her tongue pinning him in place to fight against it.

Peter spends nearly two hours in her mouth like this, his landscape constantly changing, her tongue always nudging and playing with him — until finally, her lips part again. Light floods into his cavern, her tongue flattens out, and he lay exhausted on the flat surface of it while her pretty french manicure encroaches to capture his tiny body again.

He can’t even bring himself to protest when she lowers him absently back into his little metal container without even looking, and closes the lid.

She’ll suck on him again later. He made for a perfect fix.

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Ultimate Spider-Man (Your Friendly Neighborhood alternate universe)

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In 2000, Marvel tried a soft reboot (same characters, but updated for modern times) of their universe (much like DC did with their New 52 reboot in 2008), but separate from the main continuity, known as the Ultimate Universe. Naturally, they started with the hero that stared the modern Marvel lineup…

This allowed Marvel to streamline the universe and re-imagine the origins of its most popular franchises (such as the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, Iron Man, and others) It was very successful, but due to lack of a cohesive direction after the line’s creators moved on, the project was cancelled, ultimately “destroyed” in 2015.

However, during the Ultimate Universe’s heyday, Disney created an animated show in 2012 for one of its cable channels…

(Thanks to Ryan McConkey)

The series is, naturally, about Spider-Man (AKA Peter Parker), who at the start of the series is about a year into his super hero career. As such, he’s already developed reputations both positive (from those he helps) and negative (from those who read/listen to the Daily Bugle)

[FUN FACT: J. Jonah Jameson is voiced by J.K. Simmons, who has played/voiced the character in almost every iteration of the character since the first Sam Raimi Spider-Man film]

Then one day, after Saving The Day (and trashing half of Midtown doing it), he gets a visit from…

…Director Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D. (the Ultimate/MCU/Samuel L. Jackson version, not the classic/main continuity/David Hasselhoff version), who offers to help Spider-Man become his Ultimate self (and hopefully cause less property damage) if he’s willing to allow Fury to take him under his wing.

So Spider-Man becomes a Super Hero In Training

Not quite like that.

Fury teams Spidey with a group of other teen heroes:

The man with unbreakable skin and a decent boost of strength as well

Martial arts master who can channel his spirit energy (chi) into powerful strikes (and also Power Man’s best friend)

Acrobatic hero with steel claws in her gloves (and generally the “cooler head” of the group)

“The Human Rocket” whose ability includes flight, energy blasts and energy absorption. He and the Web-Head have an immediate rivalry and are constantly trying to one-up each other (much to the detriment of the rest of the team) In fact, Spidey has his own name for Nova…

The series is mostly played for laughs (which surprisingly works, given that Spider-Man is known for his vicious mockery and the fact that the team is supposed to be a bunch of teenage rookies), with Spider-Man constantly breaking the 4th wall long enough to narrate.

The series ran for 4 seasons and saw Spider-Man teaming up with nearly every hero in the Marvel Universe and battling a number of villains (including a few that were WELL beyond his weight class, including Doctor Doom!)

If you would like to watch the series, it’s available on Disney+ or behind your favorite paywall. If you would like to see an episode reviewed, let me know.