"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
Hawkeye had a secret family and farm... But everyone knew his real name, so apparently nobody in the MCU knows how to Google.
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Replying to @AndrewEGlisson @Nymphomachy and
The property deed was probably under a trust, this is a common privacy thing for celebrities buying houses (Clint specifically says of the farm "Nick helped me set all this up")
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
Yeah, but surely his kids were in school, etc? Or does his family always use aliases?
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We don't get many details about their daily lives but it's not THAT hard to stay mostly off the grid for casual Googlers, especially if you just don't use social media
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