lamujerarana:tinyrats:spiderman homecoming i jus wanna talk.The really infuriating part is that it’s
lamujerarana:tinyrats:spiderman homecoming i jus wanna talk.The really infuriating part is that it’s not like Peter Parker doesn’t have a supporting cast that is already filled with characters of color in the comics. They could have made Randy Robertson, son of Robbie Robertson and who 616 Peter has known since he was in college and even briefly lived with, into his BFF. It’s what I would have done. They could have used Hobie Brown. Or Philip Chang. Or Steve Hopkins. They could have used Glory Grant, even. Or they could have racebent characters like Betty Brant, who he was in love with in high school in 616 (not Liz), and turned her into his BFF. They absolutely did not need to steal Miles’ best friend and name him after an abusive white man who Peter was never particularly close to in the comics — they were competing for the affections of Betty Brant, and Peter knew him only in that capacity. He did not like Ned. They were rivals and NEVER friends. So the MCU stole elements from Miles Morales’s life very deliberately, among them:the fact that he goes to an elite private school (616 Peter exclusively attended a public school)his best friend (616 Peter had exactly zero friends in high school — he didn’t meet Harry, MJ, and Gwen until he was in college, and he and Flash didn’t befriend each other until then either)his apartment in the city instead of a house in Forest Hills (616 Peter NEVER lived in an apartment when he was in high school)Miles’ whole entire personality (616 Peter was NOTHING like that when he was a teenager — he had a chip on his shoulder the size of Antarctica, he was standoffish, proud to a fault, stubborn, antisocial, etc.)Miles being desperate to live up to the example of another hero — in his case, the recently deceased Peter Parker, in MCU Peter’s case, Tony/the Avengers (616 Peter preexisted the Avengers by nearly 2 years. He was already an established hero at the time the Avengers were formed. He did not hero worship them or anyone in the slightest — he was consistently rude, unnecessarily violent, dismissive, insulting, and aggressive around other superheroes. This is why no one liked him.)And the thing that makes me furious is that it was all to the detriment of Miles Morales, since creators are now afraid to let him have the life and the characters that belong to him since it resembles MCU Peter too much.It’s almost like Disney really wanted to make a Miles movie but didn’t want him to be Afrolatino — so they handed his life to a white guy and thought no one would notice or care. -- source link