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!
