The MCU is going to be such a mess between the ridiculous five-year-half-genocide-oops-theyre-back they're stuck with, and rolling in the X-Men somehow, and now they're going to roll in the Sony movies? Well, good luck I guess.
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(Tom Holland still playing a high school student even though he's 25): "Geez, I was so excited meeting Mr. Stark, I forgot to mention the time I got a Venom suit." (Zendaya): "Or how there have been Mutants for 60 years."
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(It's funny to me how big a deal they made of "this Spider-Man is a REAL kid, I mean, he's 19, but he looks young". Out of some idea that the "real Spider-Man" was the three or so years out of the past 60 that he was a high school student.)
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Spider-Man in the comics was introduced in 1962 and graduated high school in 1965. It must really loom large for the public though, since all three movie franchises started with him in high school.
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Replying to @xenocryptsite
I mean, Spider-Man's origin story is built around his losing his father figure. That looms larger at sixteen than at forty. Obviously you can't keep him that age forever, but it's not that hard to see why they started with it.
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I found a strange site once that focused on how the Marvel comics started out as basically being in real time and in the real world, and then just gave up on that, ruining the entire project in the author's opinion.
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Replying to @xenocryptsite
It's hard-they've historically been sold to young people and they tend to want youngish-to-adult heroes. No 12 year old wants to read about a middle-aged Spider-man doing his taxes.
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Replying to @Fyodor32768 @xenocryptsite
The plot about trying to contain and care for a frightened, angry Superman with advanced dementia was an ordeal for readers of any age
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