Spider-Man: Homecoming fulfills 10-year old promise made by Kevin Feige

Ten years ago, Kevin Feige made a promise to adapt one of the most iconic Spider-Man stories, with the release of Homecoming, he fulfilled that promise.

For years, it seemed that the prospect of Marvel’s flagship hero joining the MCU was but a dream. That all changed in early 2015 when it was announced that Marvel had reached an agreement with Sony to allow Spider-Man to join the rest of the Avengers and take his rightful place in Marvel’s highly-successful cinematic universe.

Thankfully, Spider-Man: Homecoming was the Spider-Man film we’d all been waiting for and it was a triumph that delivered a near-perfect adaptation of the web-slinger to the big screen. Sony stepped aside creatively and allowed Marvel to make all of the creative decisions; this, of course, led to MCU supremo, Kevin Feige, being heavily involved.

While initially, Marvel didn’t own the rights to use Spidey in their films, it seems that Feige still had ideas about how to work the hero into the MCU if it ever became possible as an eagle-eyed fan on Reddit noticed.

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In the back of the “One More Day” trade paperback, Feige spoke of his desire to bring to life the moment that Aunt May discovers Peter Parker’s secret. In the final moments of Spider-Man: Homecoming, this all comes to pass, though, in true MCU-style, there’s a bit of a twist.

Unlike J. Michael Straczynski’s Amazing Spider-Man vol 2 #35, which showed Aunt May stumbling upon an exhausted and beaten Peter sleeping in his costume, Homecoming showed Aunt May walking into Peter’s room as he tries on his costume once more, only to voice her shock rather loudly.

The importance of Spider-Man to Marvel cannot be underestimated; when Marvel began their cinematic universe, they took a huge risk by starting their film-franchise with a lesser-known superhero: Iron Man. While today, he’s become one of their best known and most popular heroes, back in 2008, it was a very different story. Essentially, this was the equivalent of DC starting their cinematic universe without Superman.

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It could have all been very different, but thanks to Sony and Marvel reaching a compromise, we finally have the web-slinger where he belongs — and it’s because of this that Feige got to keep his promise.