Far From Home and far from ever being Spider-Man
Based on the latest trailer for Spider-Man: Far From Home, one has to wonder if the web-slinger will ever become his own man.
The new Spider-Man: Far From Home trailer is out, which spoils Avengers: Endgame. We see more of Nick Fury, Happy Hogan and Mysterio in this new trailer. There’s also more action and more comed,y but there is one glaring problem. This trailer has an over saturation of Iron Man in Peter Parker’s life.
Understandably, Iron Man recruited Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War, and he plays this mentor role in Spider-Man: Homecoming. Top this all off with Iron Man now dying in Avengers: Endgame. In the Spider-Man: Far From Home trailer, we see various murals dedicated to him. One scene has a police officer asking him, “You gonna be the next Iron Man now?” Within the trailer, a monologuing Peter Parker states that “the world needs the next Iron Man.” Obviously, he’s referring to himself, as his new tech goes online during this scene. Why the next Iron Man? Why did Iron Man have to become so central to Spider-Man’s story?
Anyone can understand that Peter is going through grief due to the loss of Tony Stark, hence the context, and it all makes sense. Let us set that to the side for the moment. It is odd given Spider-Man debuts in Marvel Comics nearly seven months before Iron Man’s debut in Tales of Suspense. Iron Man was not needed to help Spider-Man in his original run, in the Ultimate series, the cartoons, video games or the earlier Sony films. Why now?
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Uncle Ben has been essentially side-stepped in the MCU’s incarnation of Spider-Man in favor of Iron Man. We Peter discussing Tony Stark, revealing how he wants to emulate him in Spider-Man: Homecoming and wearing the suit that Stark, not Peter, made. Adding further insult to injury in the trailer is a quick shot of Parker wearing Tony Stark’s style of glasses. Ladies and gentlemen, Iron Man Jr. or Iron Man II, which ever you prefer.
Does Marvel not trust in Spider-Man as Sony once did? Did they feel Iron Man is central to help sell the character of Spider-Man? One of the most internationally recognized characters; more popular than even Superman and Batman! One of the most interesting things about Peter Parker is that he lacks any father figure, and he has to venture through life on his own, making and learning from his own decisions, becoming a man and not somebody else’s man. Here we see him wondering what Iron Man would do with those puppy dog eyes.
Then Nick Fury bolts in, abducting the minor into his own war and, again, taking Peter’s own decision-making away from him. Marvel seems more interested in making him not Peter Parker the student, the orphan, the class nerd, the outcast or Peter Parker as The Amazing Spider-Man. Marvel wants Iron Man Jr./Avenger from the looks of this trailer. They are only interested in for his namesake, his trademark, his symbol and iconography, but they do not want the character.
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One can only hope Peter will find his own self, if not by the end of this film then by the end of his third film. Spider-Man: Far From Home looks far away from being a Spider-Man film in the traditional sense. Sadly, the movie looks more interested in pushing the ongoing MCU-Avengers narrative, keeping Samuel L. Jackson’s contract and being hip by introducing a villain as an ally.