Marvel Is Doing Tom Holland’s Spider-Man Justice (Not Sony)

The MCU’s version of Spider-Man is getting a cartoon dedicated to his origin story, and it has the potential to do things that the movies never did.

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The new Disney+ Spider-Man show, Spider-Man: Freshman Year is giving the Marvel Cinematic Universe the chance to give Peter Parker the sort of justice that Sony never did. The MCU’s Spider-Man has been largely beloved by audiences, with many viewing him as a fresh and comic-accurate take on the character. One part of the character some have found lacking with their take, however, is the handling of his origin story, but the new show seems poised to rectify that.

When the MCU introduced Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War, and then gave him his own solo film through Spider-Man: Homecoming, they decided to forego showing the story of how Peter Parker became Spider-Man, instead opting to start with Peter already being Spider-Man and throwing in a few lines of dialogue across the two films to imply that the basic elements of it had already taken place. At first, people were happy that they weren’t retreading the basic beats of his origin story that were already covered in both the Sam Raimi trilogy, which is still widely beloved, and The Amazing Spider-Man, which came out only a few years prior to Civil War, but as time went on, that method of doing things became a point of contention among some fans, and the approach was criticized for skipping over key elements of Spider-Man’s history.

Thankfully, the upcoming show Spider-Man: Freshman Year is poised to rectify all of that. By being a prequel story for the MCU’s version of Spider-Man, Spider-Man: Freshman Year can go into all of the aspects of Peter’s history that the movies never managed to do. Listed below are just a few things that the series would be remiss to skip over in explaining Peter’s origins.

Peter’s Old Social Life

Most versions of Peter Parker have him originally being some degree of social outcast before getting his spider powers with little to no friends to speak of. After getting his powers and becoming a superhero, though, Peter slowly climbs up the social ladder thanks to his newfound confidence and finally having the strength to defend himself from bullies. The MCU films mostly skipped over all of that, though, and despite making Peter younger than he was in previous Spider-Man films, the time he spends in high school has ended up being mostly a means of showing what he does when he isn’t being Spider-Man; it gives the audience more to work with in that regard compared to previous films, but it still ends up not being a lot.

Spider-Man: Freshman Year is a chance to change all of that, however. By giving an entire season of television to Peter’s origins, the show has the chance of greatly fleshing out the trials and tribulations Peter went through both before and after becoming Spider-Man to a degree that the movies never did. Thanks to that, audiences might have a chance to see Peter’s full progression from awkward, friendless nerd to slightly less awkward, slightly more popular nerd with at least Ned Leeds as his best friend.

The Spider Bite And What Follows

The most basic way that Peter Parker becomes Spider-Man is the following: Peter is bitten by a radioactive spider while at a museum or a laboratory of some sort, he gains all of the powers of a spider brought up to the proportions of a human, and for one reason or another, Peter decides to use his new abilities to make money in an underground wrestling circuit. Most adaptations of Spider-Man’s story have some variant on that story while keeping the same basic beats, most famously Randy Savage as Bonesaw in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man. A quick line of dialogue from Peter in Spider-Man: Homecoming makes it clear that at least the part about him being bitten by a radioactive spider still happened. The actual incident was never shown, though, nor did Peter use his powers to be a wrestler or for other selfish reasons, although that was implied in Captain America: Civil War, and while it was good that the films didn’t waste time showing what most audience members would be more than familiar with, at the same time, it was a little odd that such a basic part of Spider-Man’s story wasn’t shown for the latest iteration of the character.

All of that, of course, can be changed in the upcoming show. With Spider-Man: Freshman Year giving audiences Peter’s origin story in the MCU, it would make sense for them to show him being bitten by the spider and gaining his signature Spider-Man spider-sense, and it would especially make sense to show him using his powers to act selfishly in some manner. The last point is especially important, as it leads into another part of Peter’s backstory missing from the movies that the show will hopefully provide in full detail.

Uncle Ben’s Death

The most crucial component of Spider-Man’s character is his relationship with his uncle, Ben Parker. Uncle Ben raised Peter as his own son in the absence of Peter’s parents, and in most versions of Spider-Man’s history, whatever selfish behavior Peter engages in after obtaining his powers leads to him ignoring a low-level criminal who Peter easily could have apprehended, and that criminal, for one reason or another, ends up shooting Uncle Ben dead-save for in the MCU. Peter blames himself for the death of his uncle, and from that moment on, he decides to take Uncle Ben’s advice of “With great power comes great responsibility” to heart and become the righteous superhero known as Spider-Man.

None of that was shown in the MCU. The films that feature Peter briefly allude to something like that happening prior to his introduction, but the actual incident is never shown, nor is Uncle Ben ever directly mentioned. The most done in the films to connect to Uncle Ben was a briefcase with his initials showing up briefly in Spider-Man: Far From Home, but the most important figure in Peter’s life has almost never been mentioned, nor has the trademark phrase “With great power comes great responsibility” ever been uttered by Peter or anyone else.

If there’s anything that Spider-Man: Freshman Year needs to show people in regard to Spider-Man’s origins in the MCU, it’s how things went down with Uncle Ben. The general downplaying of Uncle Ben’s impact on Peter’s life has been one of the things the MCU films have received the most criticism for over the years, but this show offers a chance to finally fix all of that. Uncle Ben already received a mention in the MCU in the fifth episode of Marvel’s What If…?, and while that episode didn’t take place in the main continuity of the MCU, it does show a willingness on Marvel’s part to acknowledge the basic history of Spider-Man that will hopefully be carried into the show.

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