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Miles’s family is struggling to make ends meet, but the movie doesn’t make a big deal of it, because Miles has a scholarship to attend a prestigious magnet school. Yet even in Spider-Verse - a genuinely wonderful and magical movie - Miles’s presence in a magnet school is an easy shorthand for a talented kid from a working-class background pulling himself up by his bootstraps. In recent years, the mantle of the Spider-Man “who has to eke out a life amid adverse economic conditions” has increasingly settled on the shoulders of Miles Morales, an alternate Spider-Man from the comics whose story was turned into the Oscar-winning animated film Into the Spider-Verse. Unlike plenty of other superheroes (like, say, Iron Man), the fact that he has to scramble to make money gives Peter an added layer of relatability for many readers.
And just when Peter has some cool superpowers that might make him a quick buck, his uncle dies. He’s an orphan, who grows up with his cash-strapped aunt and uncle in a lower-class neighborhood. Peter Parker is a character built atop class conflict. (It has a very Harry Potter feel, where Peter slowly learns his destiny to be a superhero because he is the child of scientists.) And to be sure, the comics version of Spider-Man has also frequently had plenty of wealth - in many of his iterations’ storylines, Peter eventually gets married to MJ, and she’s a dang movie star.īut any time Peter starts to creep a little too close to genuine wealth and comfortable living, a writer will come along to yank the character back to his young and hungry roots. Spider-Man 2, for instance, made very clear that the slightest mishap could empty Peter’s bank account in an instant.ĭirector Marc Webb’s 20 Amazing Spider-Man films (the ones with Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone) paid lip service to this idea by initially settling him in a working-class milieu, but that version of Peter Parker already was starting to trend in a more upper-class direction. Peter and Mary Jane Watson came from a lower-class neighborhood, and over the course of Raimi’s three films, the couple scratched out a tentative hold on a more stable life in Manhattan. He had to win the heart of the girl who thought he was just a nerd.Ĭomic creators Stan Lee and Steve Ditko’s original version of Spider-Man mostly carried through to Sam Raimi’s original trilogy of Spider-Man films, which were released between 20. He had to get good grades in his classes. He might have larger-than-life problems, and he might have to battle a terrifying rogues’ gallery of villains. The very first time I ever thought about Spider-Man as a fictional character was when my superhero geek pal Ethan sold me on what made the character the greatest of all superheroes: He was just a kid.
Spider-Man: a hero who can’t pay his rent On the one hand, Spider-Man is just a lonely kid in these movies. But in these new movies, he’s downright gentrified. Spider-Man used to be a hero with a vague class consciousness. The idea that all a hero needs to win the day is cooler stuff is a very Marvel Cinematic Universe one - how else would the company’s merchandisers be able to sell new toys based on all of the new versions of the characters in this movie? But I found myself resisting Far From Home’s spin on this idea more than I already tend to do. With great power comes access to even cooler toys. Peter Parker sells himself as just a normal kid from Queens, but everything else suggests he’s the surrogate son of one of the world’s richest and most powerful men. Iron Man)’s old pal Happy Hogan, then use Stark’s impressive tech to make himself a new suit. So, naturally, what Peter does is call in Tony Stark (a.k.a. Peter has to find his way to London where his friends are to save them from the villain, and at the same time, he has to finally grow up and assume the mantle of superhero he’s been resisting all movie. And Mysterio has just learned that Peter told his friends - especially his best friend Ned and his would-be girlfriend MJ - that Mysterio wasn’t the good guy he seemed to be. Īs Spider-Man: Far From Home nears its conclusion, Peter Parker is at a low ebb.Ī confusing, terrifying encounter with the villain Mysterio left our young hero stranded in a small village in the Netherlands, when he had hoped to be in Berlin to warn Nick Fury of Mysterio’s duplicity. Warning: Spoilers follow for Spider-Man: Far From Home.
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