#flash thompson

my least favorite erasure of peter parker friendship is flash thompson. peter and flash went through so much in the comics, from highschool rivals to begrudging friends (crushing over the same girl multiple times lol), flash bettered himself and peter realized his view of himself and others wasn’t as candid as he thought, that second chances are warranted even to people he didn’t like. they become friends, they even become roomies! flash and peter stand by one another, in spite of peter’s highs and very low lows, down to the whole hobgoblin debacle. when peter gets married, flash is his best man! yet the movies pay him dust, reducing him to a dumb jock or giving them a good moment but fundamentally ignoring flash post-highschool. they were friends too, good friends!

Everybody always likes to talk about Peter Parker having a thing for redheads like yeah theirs MJ but like what about his things for blondes Johnny Storm,Deadpool,Gwen Stacy,Flash Thompson,Betty Brant,Eddie Brock He has a thing going on with so many more blondes then redheads I guess you could throw Daredevil into the redhead thing but even then that’s only two redheads compared to five blondes and there is probably more that I am forgetting.

the constant high school-ification of spider-man has given flash thompson such a bad pop culture reputation. I bet 90% of people don't even know that he's been one of peter's best friends since like. the 70s