i mean they really painted themselves into a corner there 1: canonically, spider-man is an avenger 2: the avengers are a team of soldiers who fight planetary-scale threats 3: spider-man is a *child*
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Replying to @perdricof @loudpenitent and
"tonky stark called up a child soldier" is just something everyone agreed to not talk about
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Replying to @perdricof @loudpenitent and
like it works in, say, INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE when it's miles charging into danger because he's a good kid and he wants to help it's so wildly unnerving when it's "playboy billionaire who should absolutely know better giving a child weapons of war"
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Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect and
Yeah, exactly! And it's not like Tony is *lacking* in more capable and less morally compromised assistance! There's so many more effective paramilitaries, mercenaries, and low-grade supers introduced even in his prior outings! Peter isn't there for any narrative-sensible reasons.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @perdricof and
Peter is recruited by Tony Stark for entirely marketing and metatextual reasons, and so it's really unworkable to ever explicitly acknowledge it as a plot element. It's a gigantic creaking weakness.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
i actually think it's very in-character. sure, there's lots of metas, but none of them with spider-man's combination of power and weak will like every time this young demigod calls him "mr stark" it's such a hit of dopamine
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Replying to @perdricof @loudpenitent and
The circumstances of Peter Parker siding with Tony Stark are completely different in the comics version of Civil War but it still gets pointed out the Spider-Man being on the pro-reg side makes no sense because he has the most to lose of all of them from government oversight
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
It's weird because I don't actually think there are any instances of classical secret identities in the MCU prior to Peter Parker I guess just Scott Lang but that was in parallel
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @arthur_affect and
Yeah and Peter's only viable morally - or consistent with Stark's most driving motives - if he literally doesn't know he's a kid.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @Nymphomachy and
the point is that tony is driven by guilt but in a totally displaced and maladaptive way he feels incredibly bad about what happened and does less than zero soul-searching about what character flaws led him to the mistakes he made
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His guilt over driving away his only family, Pepper, and apparently losing the chance to ever be a father in Civil War, drives him to... adopt a new surrogate son who worships him and approves of all his superhero shit because he's already a superhero himself
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
honestly the verisimilitude there is a little much
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