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fellhellion · 11 months

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My spiderverse post for the day but I don’t see the point - in fact I think it’s counterintuitive to what the story is driving at - in twisting ourselves in knots arguing whether Miles is a definitive spiderman of his universe because he actually hits the canon checkboxes like his uncle dying etc and his universe hasn’t collapsed like. That’s still a validation operating by the parameters Miguel outlined, when the entire point is that those factors are meaningless to the identity of “spiderman” in isolation. What makes their hero mantle one of worth is the choice to always try save the little people, even when they don’t succeed, and becoming fixated on the loss and it’s supposed inevitability has put them all in a place of stagnation.

Even if Miles hadn’t had a single person die in his journey thus far he’d still be a worthy spiderman. <- a point literally crystallised in Pavitr.

#insert the nice binary idiot now what’s outside it post here #I keep seeing posts like HA miguel is so dumb because Miles actually DOES fit the parameters of the binary he’s outlining when like #IT DOES NOT MATTER. THE BINARY. THE PRECONCIEVED STORY. IT DOESNT MAKE MILES SPIDERMAN #also in the extratextual space.#miles is carrying all of this extratextual subtext about being the first black spiderman #and how that already was a challenge to the spiderman identity #‘canon’ as a lit concept irl always caries an air of exclusion #that application doesn’t map perfectly into how it’s being conceptualised in this film #because Miguel isn’t like. an allegory for brand IP #but the point is ‘canon’ is still a FRAMEWORK being applied to their understanding of the multiverse #it’s happened to everyone so far so it becomes thought of as an immutable destiny #because these are characters who can’t see the fact that as a plot device #the death of the cop is a reminder that you can’t save everyone - and that HURTS - but you must try #and the trying was valuable #all of this is why lyla hesitated when she says it’s part of the model projection. it’s a MODEL #tunes talks spiderverse

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