The look of both Captain America films, but especially the story of Captain America: The Winter Soldier is lifted from the pages of Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting’s spectacular run on the character from this era, as well. Jackson owes his role as Nick Fury, arguably the most important character in the entire franchise, to that character’s visual reinterpretation in the pages of The Ultimates by Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch. Visually, the Iron Man films owe much to the work of artist Adi Granov, and Iron Man 3 was the loosest possible adaptation of the Extremisstoryline by Granov and Warren Ellis.
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Much of Marvel’s movie output has been influenced both visually and from a story standpoint, by their comics output from the early 21st century. When you consider where the Marvel Cinematic Universe currently stands in its storytelling, Spider-Man is arriving at just the right time. We may see some kind of unmasking…it just might not be related to Spider-Man. Still, we’ve learned that Marvel have found ways to present iconic moments from the comics without being slavishly devoted to them, so you never know. There’s no putting the secret identity genie back in the bottle in this world, so it’s tough to see Marvel and Sony going down this road. Spidey will be showing up in six movies over the next five or six years. That’s the kind of continuity non-logic that you can get away with on the comics page, but not on the screen. The matter of Peter Parker’s Spider-Man as a matter of public record was soon erased from Marvel Comics lore as part of the reset that eliminated his marriage to Mary Jane Watson. There’s another, more practical issue with this, as well. “Hi, I’m a jerky kid who has been terrorizing muggers and car thieves in Queens for the last year.” Cue J. What’s more, even if we assume this is set during the earliest days of his career, Spider-Man certainly hasn’t been a public figure at this point, so a press conference unmasking wouldn’t necessarily be as big a moment.
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Secret identities aren’t much of a concern in the MCU, and Spidey may be the first one we meet who needs to actively maintain one. In the comics, there are thousands of masked superhumans with secret identities. It’s a nice gesture, but there are two reasons that I don’t expect this scene to play out in Captain America 3:įirst, there simply aren’t enough superhumans active in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to give Spidey the motivation to do this. The problem here is that one of the most iconic moments of Civil War was Peter Parker’s public, voluntary unmasking and revelation of his identity to the world, which he did as a show of solidarity with Stark’s ideals, and as an attempt to get other superhumans to come forward and do the same. It also makes it easy to introduce him as a gifted intern working for Tony Stark, for example.
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If Peter is indeed in his mid to late teens in these movies, then he’s at a particularly impressionable age, so he might not realize what a total douchebag maneuver the Superhuman Registration Act is.
In the comics, Spidey found himself torn between doing what his scientific idol (Tony Stark) wanted, which was to get superhumans to register with the government so that they could be more organized, and the more surprisingly anti-authoritarian stance adopted by Captain America. Spider-Man could be a pretty important supporting character in Captain America: Civil War. This does lead nicely to… The Civil War Problem Even with a new actor in the role and the understanding that this is (essentially) a reboot, nobody needs to see Uncle Ben croak again in order to understand that “with great power comes great responsibility.” They know the broad strokes of his story. They know what kind of world he operates in. In other words, audiences know who Spider-Man is. Spider-Man’s origin has now been told, in detail, in two feature films, and iconic moments from his comic book history have already been more than adequately explored (to varying degrees of effectiveness) across three others. Considering the backlash against The Amazing Spider-Man, even before it became obvious that the franchise was on shaky creative ground, Marvel and Sony have probably learned their lesson. Well, more or less… No More Origin StoriesĮven though the new movies are going to establish Peter Parker as a high schooler once again, chances are, we aren’t going to get another origin movie any time soon. Spidey now has to play by a different set of rules, and based on what has already been established in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, we can start to map out what to expect.
But you don’t just drop a character as big as Spider-Man into a mega-franchise that has, so far, done just fine without him.
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