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"Spider-Man was one of my favorite characters growing up, If not my favorite," Joe Russo said in an exclusive interview with CBR's Sean O'Connell. "And what I related to was this idea of a kid with incredible responsibility, right? And I think you could manifest that responsibility through accidental death, right? And feeling the pressure, and the sense of loss in your life in a way that would keep the spirit that we wanted.

Russo continued: "[But] what Tom Holland is as an actor, if he blamed himself for his Uncle Ben's death, I think he becomes a very different character. So in our minds, no, he wasn't responsible for Uncle Ben's death. That would have been a different interpretation. A more intense interpretation of the character."

Because grief crushes you and guilt crushes you even more.

This is why the end of the third movie, where he blames himself for his aunt's death, has him becoming the emotionally crippled peter living in a crappy apartment, having sacrificed everyone he loves and every one of his dreams to live a life of suffering and punishment.

He had to grow through the tragedy to become a decent person. He didn't start out that way. He was arrogant; very similar to a supervillain in fact. The Holland movies are really strange to me; I just see them as an alternate world with no connection to Peter Parker from the comics. Substituting his aunt so you can squeeze in the same canon arc of redemption makes absolutely no sense, and I just skipped those movies. I have liked scenes with the different Spidermen I have seen on the internet, but as an old Spiderman fan is - I have no idea who that guy they put on the screen is, anymore than I know how they justified Zendaya as MJ.

"The comic redefined the modern American hero by making a flawed character, with a tenuous grasp on the moral high ground, the protagonist." You cannot start with him as having a moral character, then have his aunt die, then have him continue with external factors different but his character unchanged, and call that spiderman. Spiderman is the transformation from someone who was cold and selfish and convinced he was persecuted - again, he was not - into a hero through the recognition that his flawed nature meant that someone he cared about died. The movie spiderman is not flawed except to be perhaps a little innocent, a little naive? That is radically different and should have very different outcomes. If anything, he might react against naivety and become a cynical and selfish antihero afterwards.

"she remarked (in her head, of course) that he wasn't as husky as Flash Thompson and that he was quite attractive." Peter was, at the time, a self saboteur - convinced he was unattractive. But the most beautiful girls of his area liked the way he looked.

The most attractive and prestigious males all fought over Gwen, but it was Peter who she wanted.

And if you look at Tom, he's sort of a de-aged Peter, without the charisma. He's likeable enough, but can you really imagine the beauty queens fighting over him?

MJ was an international model, from memory.

The idea that Peter was a loser came much later, and I expect it was from people who hadn't read the early comics. Peter thought, long before the bite, that he was a loser, that women didn't want him, and so on. He was just immature, he had to grow out of it. That growth was something amazing to watch.

Most of what I’ve seen are people happy to see Lugnut, Breakdown, Knock Out, TFP Skyquake, and surprisingly TFA BlackArachnia in an era where Airachnid has usurped her. Even the idea the Matrix can manifest ancient Prime weapons is something people think is pretty cool… it’s still just Elita doing it, and people have pretty much nothing but contempt for her in this continuity.

I do get it since she’s a more aggressive version of her Netflix personality (which ironically pushed in this new era of Elita as the Autobot girl), and she has stock toxic girl boss tendencies that basically got rewarded in being gifted the Matrix, when it was pretty clear she didn’t deserve it (which more than likely is ultimately the point, but a lot of veteran fans have an increasingly disturbing lack of patience for stories to be completed).

Considering Bumblebee’s body is further obliterated in this issue, it’s clear Bumblebee just will not exist whatsoever here, but I do think had Bumblebee taken up the Matrix instead of Elita in a more rational way to help Optimus shoulder the burden, … people would still hate it anyway due to Hasbro overusing Bumblebee, in spite of a Bumblebee Prime being something fans have openly considered before.

There’s also a lot of people putting too much stock on a one off story with Jazz, but I think this is also due to Hasbro refusing to use Jazz much in modern media, that the one thing he’s actually used in in a setting he’s perfect for, gets yanked away and he’s plopped on Cybertron.

Like I get it, I would prefer Jazz have stayed on Earth too, and I would’ve preferred proper insight in why he chose to leave, but I do wonder if the intent is to mirror TFA Jazz who worked for Sentinel, but ditched him to go hang with Optimus on Earth upon realizing Sentinel was a borderline insane blowhard.

This being said I can at least appreciate Kirkman not meandering like IDW and IDW2 especially tended to do. So I’m fine with that.

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All shot practically using real figures, lighting and miniature sets. I wonder if I'm the first to mix Clive Barker with Laurel and Hardy?

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