Sorry kid, it's not your time yet...
Greetings Ladies and Gents! It is I, The Shaman of Animation back with some more Superhero talk! If you've been living under a rock for the last twelve or so hours, Late last night, big news dropped that took everyone by storm: Marvel and Sony Pictures have strum up a deal that allows Spider-man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe meaning to put it in layman's terms, Spider-Man can now be in the Avengers Movies.
No longer will joke pictures like these be made. The dream is now REALITY!!!!
In this deal, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige and his own team will co-produce the movie with Amy Pascal, former Chairperson of Sony Pictures, while Sony will still finance, distribute, own and have final creative control over Spidey's film rights.The movie is set for 2017 and from the look of things, is set to be a complete reboot, meaning the previous two movies, The Amazing Spider-Man 1 & 2, are null and void. This of course has the internet abuzz and wondering who should be Spider-Man in the MCU. Not just who should be Peter Parker, but who should be Spider-man in the Marvel Movies period.
For those unaware, over his illustrious (and sometimes not so illustrious) Fifty years, there have been multiple versions of Spider-Man. You have Miguel O'Hara, the Spider-man of the distant future 2099. You have the character Spider-man Noir, and in recent years Doctor Octopus, one of Spider-man's fiercest enemies, has actually donned the mask before (Seriously Google Superior Spider-Man, then scratch your head in confusion as you ask yourself how the hell does that work?)
But there is one Spider-man in particular that fans have been asking and clamoring for a lot as of late in the MCU: That Spider-man is Miles Morales. To give a brief back story, Miles was created in 2011 as a sort of response to people campaigning for Donald Glover to be Spider-Man in the 2012 Amazing Spider-Man movie. He is the Spider-Man in the Marvel Ultimate Universe, an alternate Universe to the main Marvel comic continuity. In the Ultimate Universe, Peter Parker had died and Miles after some stuff went down, took up the Spidey mantle. In his three and a half year life span, Miles has garnered a fanbase that would LOVE to see him in the MCU and with this new Spidey movie reboot, they feel as though now's the time...but, to be realistic, that in itself, is a bad idea; and here's why it is such...
The biggest reason why Miles shouldn't be the MCU's first Spider-man is because it would just muck up continuity. Peter Parker HAS to exist before Miles becomes Spidey; a lot, if not, all of Miles's origins piggybacks off of Peter Parker. The Spider that bit Miles and gave him his powers was injected with a formula that was created with Peter's blood. The reason why Miles became Spider-Man in the first place was out of guilt that he could've helped Peter the night he died and prevented his death.
Before some fans come out and say it: No. You can't just have the MCU say Peter was always in the MCU and he died off screen because that would cause a lot of plot holes and retcons. The biggest being: Where was Spider-Man during the Chitauri invasion in the first Avengers movie? Where was he when Utron was raising hell in Age of Ultron (That movie's probably in Post Production, the best you can hope for with Spidey is an after credits scene where he's bitten by the Spider). It's just too much to try and iron out.
As stated earlier, Miles is still a relatively young character in the sense that he's only been around for not even four years yet. What this means is quite simply, there aren't that many stories you could tell with the character vs the FIFTY YEARS of story that haven't even been touched yet with Peter Parker (I.E. Kraven's last hunt, a proper Venom story, a proper Sinister Six Story, and if Marvel and Sony REALLY want to go out there, The Clone Saga done right). Mayday Parker has more stories to tell than Miles Morales at this point.
Here's some Homework for you non comic readers, Google Mayday Parker Spider-Girl.
The Final reason why Miles is a no go is because...there isn't a big draw to Miles Morales outside of comic books. Now I'm fully aware that Name Recognition alone doesn't mean anything in Superhero movies as long as the movie and the characters are great and fun (Guardians of The Galaxy and Iron Man are more than enough proof of that). But the thing about that is while Iron Man and The Guardians were more obscure characters to the mass media before their movies, EVERYONE knows who Spider-Man is, and not everyone who knows Spider-Man read Spider-Man comics. So if a movie were to come out with this new kid Miles, it might turn them away because it's not the Spider-Man they know and grew up with.
To end this whole long winded post, THERE HAS to be an established Peter Parker before there can be a Miles Morales in the MCU. If Marvel were to jump the gun and just throw Miles in there, they're shooting themselves in the foot. There's still a mountain of stories that have yet to be told with Peter, so let's get to those before we introduce a new Spidey. In a perfect world, you'd have three Spideys in the MCU's future: Peter, then Miles, then Mayday.
Till next time folks, I'm the Shaman of Animation saying: Follow Spidey's new Twitter!! Take Care...
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