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[asha-mage]

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The MCU's Spiderman is not a poor execution of Peter Parker's character concept. He's not even poor execution of Miles Morales's character concept.

He is a poor execution of Terry McGinnis's character concept.

Peter Parker and Miles Morales both have so many fundamental pieces to their characters that are just missing for the MCU's Spiderman. Familiar names are floating around him- Aunt May, Mary Jane, Ganke Lee- but the fundamental ideas that make up Peter or Miles arcs just are not there. Themes like Miles's family expectations, Peter's constant money struggles, and the balancing act of doing good vs trying to live your own life are all absent. Even the idea of power and responsibility isn't properly introduced until the THIRD MOVIE when that really should been the central theme from the beginning.

Rather the MCU Spiderman has way more parallels with Terry McGinnis. Both are young hot shot teenagers who end up being taken under the wing of established and experienced hero who is on their way out. Both have complex relationships with their mentor which in a lot of ways serves as the driving force of their character arcs. Both gain high tech suits which enable their heroism. Both are viewed (or at least supposed to be viewed in MCU Peter's case) as heirs to the legacy of this hero.

It falls apart when you get into how they are different. While Uncle Ben is implied to have existed and be dead by the time MCU Peter is introduced in Civil War it's never actually confirmed and never properly comes up. Meanwhile the death of Terry's father is essentially the inciting incident of Batman Beyond: it's what motivates and drives Terry and the murder and it's fallout are the main focus of the first two episodes of Batman Beyond.

What's more MCU Peter's relationship to Tony is grounded in the fact that Tony just shows up one day and essentially taps him to join the Avengers. Bruce by contrast initially tosses Terry out on his ear, and when Terry turns up seeking justice for his father Bruce can't offer him anything but 'go ask the cops for help', and when that goes exactly as poorly as Terry said it would, Terry breaks into the manor steals the Batsuit and goes to stop Powers himself. Terry has active agency in his own choice to be a hero, which helps define his relationship with Bruce and to heroism. While MCU Peter was doing his own superheroics prior to Tony showing up in Civil War (not that he ever does much of that in future movies) his relationship to Tony is defined by Peter's dependence on him and his quest for Tony(/the Avengers)'s approval. And because they don't even bother name drop Uncle Ben or flashback to him, we're left with the impression that the main thing driving MCU Peter is that quest for approval. His motivations are never more complexly explored, and we don't even really see him just running around Queens stopping muggings or car crashes or anything that hints he enjoys or feels the need to actually help people.

And I think that gets into the final and most important difference between the two. Gotham not only needs Batman, it visibly and obviously and terribly needs Batman. Batman Beyond leans into this because decades without a Batman have left Gotham a cyperbunk dystopian hellscape. The city needs someone to stand up to the darkness, to be a symbol of hope, to be aspirational. Terry taking up that mantel means fighting supervillains, yes- but mostly it means doing what the original Batman did. Solving murders, stopping muggings, rescuing people from burning buildings or fighting off street gangs like the Jokerz.

But even in the earliest MCU movies, New York only needs superheroes when the current world ending threat shows up. Otherwise the city is all bright shinny clean streets filled with haplessly content citizens. This is the only reason that Vision's position of 'Our very strength invites challenge' in Civil War makes any sense- because the only purpose of these Superheroes is usually to fight a threat they where somehow responsible for creating. And this problem hits 'friendly neighborhood Spiderman' the hardest because he only has a responsibility to use his great power to solve problems, if their are problems in need of solving. Most of Peter Parker's (and Miles Morales's, Gwen Stacy's, or any other Spiderperson's) day is not fighting alien armies or netherworld gods. It's stopping break ins, rescuing people from car crashes, or dealing with other small scale local threats, that none the less benefit from someone with his abilities to make them better. Either New York in the MCU is an ideal utopian city where the police have everything handled apparently (which ha!) or Peter is apparently not interested in stopping bad things from happening. He spends so much of the first movie basically begging Tony to give him superhero things to do, not realizing that he could go outside and find people that need help on his own.

In conclusion MCU Peter Parker isn't 'regular Peter Parker but not an underdog', or even 'Miles Morales but white'. He's 'Terry McGinnis but without any agency in his own heroism'.

[edenfenixblogs]

Omg! Pratchett wrote a line about a kosher butcher in Ankh-Moorpork in Unseen Academicals!!! There are Jews in Discworld!!!!! I’m so happy!!!!

[booksbabybooks]

Anyone else think it's wild that Samuel Vimes not only has an entire Disc-wide network of the law named after him (Sammies, the Old Sam) but also inspired a super popular cocktail and a best selling book? Not to mention that time "Vimes the Butcher" helped stop a war. Again.

Honestly I would read innumerable books / fics on the widespread influence across the Disc of Lady "I have a hospital named after me honk if you love dragons of course Havelock is my friend" Sybil, high mistress of correspondence, and Blackboard Monitor Vimes.

[cluescorner]

Were y'all ever gonna tell me that Batman Beyond sounds like the worst, most corporate premise ever when simply spoken aloud, or was the only way I would ever find that out when I told my friends about it and one of them said 'I love you, that sounds like an AI made it'.

[billybutcherrtrash]

Nothing like your best friend outting that you haven’t had sex since before Covid hit when someone asks why you have a hyper fixation on fictional men that would ruin your life. 🙄 it’s been 4.5 years, leave me alone. 😭😭😭

[guyincognitojr]

[multi-muse-transect]

Same Energy.

@tokufan400

@spiderben2011

[realitys-ex]

One kinda fun/odd bit about Discworld is the place of Jews/Judaism in it (no, this probably won't go where you expect).

So there are the 2 obvious places and one arguably subtle/debatable place:

Feet of Clay/Golems very clearly drawing from Judaism (though in subsequent books that was toned *way* down)

Omnianism is a very clear stand in for/amalgamation of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism (the amount of each is left as an exercise to the reader).

and Lastly / debatably many people find a similarity between the description of the Dwarf religion and Judaism (I am not stating I agree, just I would have been remiss if I didn't bring it up)

Now the one thing that kinda gets forgotten is that: Judaism as a whole independent religion is somewhat confirmed in Discworld leaving arguments about the above somewhat moot! (you can't have a stand in for a religion if you already have the religion itself).

In both Feet of Clay and Fifth Elephant it mentions Vampires working at Kosher Butchers (for those unaware blood is not kosher so it needs to be drained extra well from meat, a perfect job for a vampire).

Now what does that actually imply? Absolutely nothing.

PTerry often had off the cuff jokes, as well as mucked about with continuity (remember how Trolls originally would continue to grow until they died, and could get up to the size of a small mountain, which only came up in one of the early books and was ignored in the rest?) and (I am sure) just liked that joke and did not intend to imply any theological ramifications or serious world building from it.

But dammit, it is (to me) incredibly funny to step into a (semi) serious discussion about Judaism in Discworld and completely derail it with a throw away line.

[quinnharlock]

After reading all of the Cosmere relevant novels Brandon Sanderson has published this year, I tried to fill the void in my heart with other series. It didn't exactly work, but some of these were good.

✦ Books Read This Year: 26

✦ Average Rating: 4.15 / 5

[sonhosdostemposperdidos]

Considering the fiction I read as a child.. my lack of having played D&D is a bit surprising

[spencerhixonauthor]

In the Beginning,

I started this account.

Hello, tumblr. I’m Spencer Hixon, and I am an author. So far I focus on urban fantasy. My debut novel, A Sinister Love, will be coming out soon, so watch this space!

If you are a fan of Good Omens, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files, or supernatural romance, then this book is for you. If not, give it a try anyway. It’s full of action, romance, comedy, and plenty of demons.

As I’m totally new to tumblr, it will probably take me a while to get used to it.

A Sinister Love:

What happens when a demon falls in love?

When a demon named Scribble loses her job in Purgatory and gets reassigned as a “Sinister” to tempt a human named Paul, she soon begins developing some very un-demon-like feelings for him. However, her mentor, Rotworm, has a plan that will all but guarantee Paul a place in Hell if Scribble gives in to those feelings. As she navigates the line between love and lust, she uncovers clues to a massive scheme by her superiors—one that threatens to tip the balance between good and evil, putting all of humanity at risk. Scribble and Paul must stand up against the diabolical machinations of a Demon Prince, which ultimately leads her to make a terrible choice: let the Prince carry out his scheme, or sacrifice their love to stop him?

Coming soon

[nerdypixel]

I have a blanket burrito day today. Just reading, drowning out the real world.

First I read a little bit of Small God's by Terry Pratchett, now The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. I'm half way through book 9 (White Nights I think, at least if the German translation of the title is not something strange or different) I started reading today. Already 300 Pages in...

Now I started writing one of the fanfictions stuck in my head. Ineffable idiots, AU, horror / mystery. It's a little bit inspired by the Magnus Archives (the diary entries of Aziraphale will have statement vibes). I started it with a diary entry of Aziraphale, regarding the strange manor house he will have to work in for quite a while, restoring a lot of old books. Soon enough he will find himself wrapped up in strange happenings and some murder mystery. Maybe the cute gardener can help navigate the mess they find themselves in.

I am still figuring out if I want to include miracles and demonic powers and such or if it's just vibes and weird phenomena. Feel free to add your ideas to the mix :)

I will continue writing...

[classicprowrestling]

Terry And Dory Funk vs Abdullah The Butcher and The Sheik - 1977

[guyincognitojr]

[g4zdtechtv]

X-Play Classic - Showdown: Legends of Wrestling Preview & Review

Bang Your Head!