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Broke: Being bit by the spider fixed Peter's eyesight and his need for glasses.

Woke: The reason Peter has those big lenses on his suit is because he can't wear his glasses under the mask and the lenses are actually prescription.

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Hey, is it too much to ask we bring back their cleft chins? Cause I don't care if it is, I'm demanding it. Bring back their cleft chins.

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Alright second time's the charm. I am so sorry about your notifs but yknow, organization and whatnot

Oh yeah no I mostly agree. I feel like the whole "he can kill anyone, he just holds back" mentality that's been applied to fucking everyone is the same form of toxic masculinity as the whole Frank Miller and Zack Snyder ideology that lead to the Batgod debacle that still haunts DC today. With characters like Superman, I don't love it but I can accept it. But Spidey isn't some beacon of hope with a heart of gold. He is a flawed, often even wrong individual.

But like you said, he's not corrupt either. I feel like there are two extremes to writing him, and when either is broken it kinda ruins the stories. Like the black suit as you mentioned. Some jackass having an excuse to be a jackass is weak, an idol being corrupted is... Injustice. But a man who tries his best being corrupted by power not to the point that he foregos his own morals but just that his kindness and patience wear thin to a tipping point, especially towards people who would piss him off normally as is, now that's something.

I think a lot of people conflate superheroes as a whole to specifically Batman when it comes to the importance of a life. It makes sense, supers are meant to be put on pedestals and represent what we should all aspire to be. But it's weird when this gets applied to Spidey.

Just like everything else with Peter, he is a regular guy. Other superheros represent what we should aspire to be, but Spidey represents what we can be. He cares for every life. He hopes to give everybody a second chance. But if someone asks for it, Pete will beat their fucking skull in.

When his cop/detective friend Jean DeWolff was murdered, he hunted the man down and physically fought his way past Daredevil to kill the guy and ended up beating him within an inch of his life. When Kingpin got May shot, Peter broke into his prison, effortlessly beat him to a smear, and then promised that when May died, not if, he'd come back and finish the job- violently. There are just countless instances of him deciding "I'm actually going to kill him now totally" with Norman. Most notably of course is the glider incident, which Peter didn't actually go to with the intent to kill (weirdly enough despite Gobby killing his fiance). However, he took pleasure in beating him senseless and wasn't exactly broken up by the final thud.

Peter's a guy who meets every situation with the intent to help someone. He tries to find every opportunity to help another person, even someone who's trying to kill him, even if it's at his own detriment. He's not a perfect manifestation of morals and purity. He's just some guy. Some guy who cares a whole lot for people. And that makes it all the more special when he does help someone. When he talks a girl off a roof, or inspires a kid to be better than the system set him up for, or befriends his own rogues. It all feels so much more personal. This is just a person, one of us. Someone who fails more often than not, who makes bad jokes and gets angry and feels hate and love and pain all at once and most of all, someone who tries his best no matter what.

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I think a lot of people conflate superheroes as a whole to specifically Batman when it comes to the importance of a life. It makes sense, supers are meant to be put on pedestals and represent what we should all aspire to be. But it's weird when this gets applied to Spidey.

Just like everything else with Peter, he is a regular guy. Other superheros represent what we should aspire to be, but Spidey represents what we can be. He cares for every life. He hopes to give everybody a second chance. But if someone asks for it, Pete will beat their fucking skull in.

When his cop/detective friend Jean DeWolff was murdered, he hunted the man down and physically fought his way past Daredevil to kill the guy and ended up beating him within an inch of his life. When Kingpin got May shot, Peter broke into his prison, effortlessly beat him to a smear, and then promised that when May died, not if, he'd come back and finish the job- violently. There are just countless instances of him deciding "I'm actually going to kill him now totally" with Norman. Most notably of course is the glider incident, which Peter didn't actually go to with the intent to kill (weirdly enough despite Gobby killing his fiance). However, he took pleasure in beating him senseless and wasn't exactly broken up by the final thud.

Peter's a guy who meets every situation with the intent to help someone. He tries to find every opportunity to help another person, even someone who's trying to kill him, even if it's at his own detriment. He's not a perfect manifestation of morals and purity. He's just some guy. Some guy who cares a whole lot for people. And that makes it all the more special when he does help someone. When he talks a girl off a roof, or inspires a kid to be better than the system set him up for, or befriends his own rogues. It all feels so much more personal. This is just a person, one of us. Someone who fails more often than not, who makes bad jokes and gets angry and feels hate and love and pain all at once and most of all, someone who tries his best no matter what.

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I meant to post this on this blog but it's fine, it doesn't matter, I'm not frustrated.

Me, myself, and I, and him are all the same guy~ 🎶

Hopefully I made it clear who's who and made it distinct enough, but in case I didn't (and for those who can't tell) I added the color coding.

Blue is ATSV, Purple is Brakken's Makeoververse, Orange is 616, Pink is Ps4, and Green is just my own iteration.

This idea has been on my mind since ATSV came out but my recent redraws inspired me to start drawing again so I finally put those pens to the paper.

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Nearly forgot but happy Milla appreciation day!!

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So.. Cindy has to show up in the next film, right? Pretty much everybody showed up in ATSV, including characters like Sunspider and a redesigned Araña. The movie featured a lot of obscure references and jokes too, so you know the creators are heavily involved in the fandom. So with all that knowledge, there's no way they just missed Cindy... right?

Like she doesn't show up AT ALL. Not even in the background. I haven't found a single frame of this film with Cindy even in it. The popsicle showed up, for crying out loud! It would have reached a point where it becomes difficult to not include her, which means they must have plans.

Maybe she'll show up as like another anomaly to help Miles, maybe she'll just have a voice cameo, maybe she was there and I'm just an idiot who somehow missed the obvious appearance. But she has to show up in BTSV.

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JJJ's reputation has been tarnished and I will not stand for it.

This is the same man who punched out two (count em, 2) different white supremacists, who stood in front of a group of racists and called them wastes of time to their faces. He ordered a politician backed by the KKK to get out of his office. If this man actually ran a podcast, it'd be Civil Rights advocacy.

He hates Spidey because he hates the idea of masked vigilantes, beings who are above the law, who can't be documented. Who can do what they want with no consequences, despite the potential harm of innocent civilians.

In the Ultimates comics, this man gave multiple speeches about how he was wrong about Spider-Man. He describes how during the Ultimatum Wave, he watched Spidey dive in and out to save people and realized how wrong he was, saw in his own words what a real hero looked. And he started writing that BEFORE he learned Spidey had "died".

On Earth 65, he leads the charge against Gwen not because he just hates those Masked Menaces so much but because she was thought guilty of the murder of Peter Parker. He didn't even know the Parkers, but he still cared about the lives of every single stranger he came into contact with (hence why he became mayor).

He risks being murdered all the time to get the truth out. He's faced down masked supervillains and told them to fuck off. This is the same man who hired a 15 year old boy (not just bought photos from, hired) because he recently lost everything. In multiple universes, when he learns who Spidey is he starts helping him.

Making him an Alex Jones parody is funny for like two minutes, but it ultimately takes away from the depth in his character and kinda takes away from the Spidey story altogether.

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While The Amazing Spider-Man duology is about the hope of Spidey, the MCU trilogy is about the suffering of Peter Parker (and the need to keep going).

In Homecoming, he sacrifices his reputation, his idol's respect, and his relationship just to take down Toomes and stop the weapon-trading. And he keeps going.

In Far From Home, his identity is revealed, he's framed for murder, and his reputation is in turn tarnished. And he keeps going.

In No Way Home, he finally loses everything he loves. May, Ned, MJ, Happy. His superhero relationships are erased and he is literally wiped from existence. And he gets his GED, he makes a new suit, and he keeps going.

And then the Raimi trilogy is just like "holy fuck look at how cool he is".

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So many people and pieces of media focus on the "punching bad guys" aspect of superheroing and so few focus on the helping part. Like we have heroes helping regular folks all the time, but we rarely get to see the same treatment to the villains. It's always "get beaten, go to jail, break out, rinse repeat".

We have some other heroes who focus on this, Batman and The Flash being the most prominent examples, but it's not as core to them as Spidey (except Flash actually, they get pretty dang close there).

That's one of the reasons why I like No Way Home so much, it takes themes that were missing from the previous films (except TASM 2 the GOAT [and Homecoming]) and turns them into this really cool theme of regret for Peters 2 and 3 where, even though it may not change their mistakes, they do everything in their power to save the lives of the villains they let die.

Like I mentioned, TASM 2 has a big theme of inspiring hope in people, and this comes into play most with Electro. In the Times Square scene (peak btw), Peter does everything in his power to save everybody. He prevents the cops from being crushed, he pulls the people away from the electricity, and he even tries to talk down Max for both everyone else's and his own safety. Andrew Garfield does a fantastic job portraying the desperation and tension in Peter's voice. The way his voice trembles when he asks "how are ya" and how he screams "NO ONE SHOOTS AT MAX" both do great jobs at portraying the utter stress of the situation.

And of course Homecoming has the whole bit where he tries to save lives on the yacht and the WM and Toomes at the end.

I mentioned Flash earlier so I'm gonna use him again. You know that scene in JLU where Wally talks to Trickster? Yeah, that is the epitome of what Spidey does (and obv Flash). You could easily punch them out and toss them back in a cell, but that's not what being a hero is about. You talk to them. You learn about them. You make friends with them. With great power, there must also come great responsibility. The responsibility to do good. To help people. You don't just beat the bad guy, you save lives. And that includes those who may not save themselves.

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Some ground rules:

1: We respect the hyphen and the fat spider here.

2: We adore every Ben here.

3: No trash-talking TASM 2 or else I will look at you like a disappointed father.