#sm hoco

throughout the entirety of the film, peter parker is in a constant state of longing for the responsibility he knows he has the potential to hold— and yet he’s having the time of his life with the work he’s currently doing. he loves being spider-man. he’s so excited to wake up and be spider-man every day.

by the end of the movie, he declines being an avenger because he doesn’t need it. his ‘homecoming’ is his acceptance of being a friendly neighbourhood spider-man, and seeing value to it, being able to enjoy the simplicity of just helping people on the street.

and i think that especially hits different after far from home, because suddenly, he’s got everything he used to ever long for. harder responsibilities, and people counting on him to take care of ‘the big time’, and all he wants to do is be back home.

although they did their best with homecoming and far from home, I feel like no way home was the spider-man story the producers wanted to tell from the start

before homecoming, spider-man had just been introduced: he was very much established as tony’s protegé with not much other development, so they used the film to ground the character and vaguely distance peter from the avengers - including having him decline the offer to become one at the end

then in far from home the writers were forced to deal with peter’s trauma from infinity war / endgame AND the wider-scale impact of tony’s death on peter’s world, which took up a lot of the story

but peter didn’t appear at all between ffh and nwh, so the writers were free to tell a peter-centric story without all the external influence on the narrative or characters which dominated the first two films

Thor: Agreed. I never learned diplomacy in my youth.

Loki: [nods] All we learned was that the spirit of Shaggy is the powerhouse of Hel.