What if Spider-man is playing the New
kid on the block?
Happy National Superhero Day! I know it
is a little late but I just got done watching Marvel’s Agents of
Shield on my DVR and I wanted to sneak in a post about the future of
Marvel, specifically concerning our favorite webslinger. With the
news about Spider-man returning to the Marvel film stable or at least
joining the cinematic universe in some capacity now long in the past,
comic book and comic book film fans alike have been going bonkers
with possibilities of what that means and how it could impact all the
films going forward, specifically with Spider-man playing a large
role in the civil war plot. But what does this mean for the Black
Panther’s role in #CaptainAmericaCivilWar and how will it change,
if at all. I put forth the theory that Spider-man will actually be
playing a much different part than fans might expect, mainly subbing
in for the New Warriors.
I apologize if this theory has previously been put forth as I can't keep up with every single article out there. Hear me out here, I know and understand
that in Marvel’s universe Spider-man is supposed to have been
established already. In other words, no origin story; however, the
producers apparently still want to have him be young enough to be in
high school. This has been reported on numerous times by one of my
favorite news sources comicbookmovie.com (if you like comic book
movies but don’t frequent that site, are you sure you like comic
book movies?)
Let’s first start with the new
possible, maybe, could be but might not be, rumored title for the
film that was dropped via Instagram by Mr. @elmayimbe himself Umberto
Gonzalez (if you didn’t know, he just recently left
latinoreview.com): Spider-Man: The New Avenger. Most of us have just
assumed that there is no deeper meaning to the title and some have
even said that it hints at Captain America dying (check
comicbookmovie.com’s Josh Wilding’s recent Spider-man article’s
comment section for those theories). But what if there is a hint even
within the title about the role played by the masked Peter?
Let’s assume that they’ll not
change the history laid down by The Avengers and that New York was
destroyed before Parker was bitten. Let’s also assume that it
really has been three or four—by the time
#CaptainAmericaCivilWar—years since then. This gives Parker enough
time to get the powers, have the “responsibility” talk with Uncle
Ben (side note: would it be racist if he was an old black guy that
cooked rice? Uncle Ben and Aunt May could be an interracial couple
and that have no affect on Peter’s identity. Just a thought) and
even have Gwen Stacy die and have to take a break from being that
Spider guy. This also gives him enough time to have been around but
not in a big enough way to alert Shield, the other Avengers or the
brewing Defenders. In other words, he hasn’t had some huge villain
outing just yet like in the Amazing Spider-man films or in the last
two Raimi films. Whatever villain he faced was small and easily
contained or he’s only had one villain battle, spending most of his
time honing his skills on street-level thugs and villains.
But now, as Ultron gets defeated new
powers and villains emerge all across the world and somebody like
Green Goblin emerges to truly challenge him in a way he never had
before. With some of his overly powered pumpkin bombs, he
accidentally (or purposefully) blows up Peter’s high school killing
the children just like in the original story. Hold on! You don’t
know the original story do you? That’s OK, because I actually
didn’t know the original story either because I had never actually
read the comics (gasp!). Thankfully, a quick search on youtube led me
to Comicstorian Civil War – The Complete Story which is a brief
overview of what happens. If you want a more detailed overview, visit
comicsexplained youtube channel where he goes into great depth about
nearly every panel in the Civil War storyline. Back to the theory.
To play into today’s youths’
obsession with fame, Peter maybe dabbled with it (under the guise of
Spider-man) before the Uncle Ben talk and had some cameras following
him around as did the New Warriors in the comic. But when the Green
Goblin attack happens everything changes. Now everyone is mad at
Spider-man and wants his identity revealed, which is why he would
feel compelled to reveal his identity... because of the
responsibility he bears to his fellow classmates. This, in turn,
could put even more enmity between Peter and Harry and put an extra
layer of tension into his future relationship with Mary Jane.
With this theory, they could have both
Peter and Black Panther seemingly at the middle of the controversy
and switching sides because the people are highly divided by
Spider-man’s actions who tried doing the right thing and had been
doing so for a few years, but didn’t succeed. But if he had, then
he could be counted as a true hero like the Avengers after their New
York scuffle.
It’s just a theory but it seems like
it could fit well, though they could use a new group of heroes on
#Marvel’s Agents of Shield or even better the Defenders and have
them responsible for the attack. Tell me if you think the theory of
#Spider-manIsTheNewWarrior is plausible. Let me know in the comments
section.
#Marvel’sAgentsOfShield comes on
Tuesdays 9/8c on ABC.
#Avengers: Age of Ultron hits theaters
May 1, 2015 in the USA. Wow! That is this Friday with early midnight
showing on Thursday. Is anybody else tinkling in their pants with
excitement? I am... not because that would be very embarrassing.
#CaptainAmericaCivil War is slated to
premiere May 6, 2016 in the USA.
You can
visit and subscribe to Comicstorian here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/comicstorian
You can visit and subscribe to Comics
Explained here: https://www.youtube.com/user/fluidicbeats
You can follow and tweet at Umberto
Gonzalez here: https://twitter.com/elmayimbe
You should definitely followe Josh
Wilding here: https://twitter.com/josh_wilding
And finally, you can and should be
visiting comicbookmovie.com
That was a lot of additions. Seeing as
how this is a huge entertainment weekend with the Mayweather-Pacquiao
fight, the NBA playoffs, the NHL playoffs, tons of you doing your own
Marvel movie marathons or plenty of you sittind down for a weekend of
good reading, I would love it if you came back and looked for my
first food recipe for Philly Cheese Steak Soup on Thursday. It’s a
delicious soup. You’re gonna wanna make it. So... yeah.
As always, I look forward to reading
your comments below. Follow me here and on Twitter. Join me on
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currently on Amazon. #BrandNewHome is coming May 7th.
#Darker is coming in June and so is #TheWriter. You will not want to
miss The Writer. Also, look for the short story #ThePowerOfTen.
And to try this sign off thing once
more, beware the Ides of March
P.S. Shakespeare’s ghost has been
haunting me forever. I don’t even think he likes comic books. He
also doesn’t know that about to be May not March. He just shows up
whenever he feels like it, that poetic son of a gun.
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