Your Buddy Neighborhood Spider-Man, Disney Plus’ new Spider-Man animated sequence, takes numerous artistic liberties with Peter Parker’s backstory. For one, his spider powers got here from a mysterious interdimensional spider that appeared from a portal seemingly conjured by Physician Unusual. For one more, his highschool BFF is none apart from goth queen Nico Minoru. And although this model of Peter Park is barely MCU adjoining, in that Peter has an excellent wealthy mentor determine to assist finance his spider-activities, as an alternative of Tony Stark, it’s Norman Osborn.
With all these tweaks to Peter’s story, there’s chance for something, actually, and I’ve one massive idea that may simply shake the foundations of the Spider-Man story: I don’t suppose Uncle Ben is lifeless.
Hear me out! In contrast to within the typical model of Peter’s story from the comics and numerous film diversifications, Uncle Ben is absent earlier than Peter will get bitten by the spider. Additionally, within the first two episodes, nobody truly says Uncle Ben is lifeless. Could and Peter simply kinda speak about how he’s “not round.” Which leads me to imagine that there’s a selected cause that the showrunners have determined to not explicitly say he’s lifeless.
We’ve seen Uncle Ben die many, many, many instances in motion pictures and TV exhibits and it’s at all times particularly in order that Peter can sensible up and notice he wants to make use of his powers for good. We don’t essentially must see that story play out once more, however it’s jarring that he’s already out of Could and Peter’s lives earlier than the spider. It’s even extra jarring when everybody’s kinda speaking round what occurred to him. I get that perhaps it will be clunky for Peter to go “Man, when Uncle Ben received shot by that mugger final yr, issues have been tough for me and my aunt,” but in addition, each point out of Ben appears to be intentionally ambiguous.
So what occurred to Ben? Did he go away Could? Does he have a secret household within the New Jersey suburbs that he determined to dwell with full time? Or did he get kidnapped or disappear in some form of super-powered incident? Has he been recruited by SHIELD to go deep undercover? Or is he in jail? Or did he get a job that relocated him to a special borough and now he can’t make the commute to see his spouse and nephew, as a result of rattling, are you aware how annoying it’s to get from Brooklyn to Queens through public transport?
We’re solely two episodes into the present, however I’m side-eying the vagueness round Uncle Ben and can maintain an eye fixed out for any additional Ben mentions that verify or deny my idea.
Your Pleasant Neighborhood Spider-Man’s first two episodes are actually streaming on Disney Plus. New episodes drop each Wednesday.
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