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** As seen in [[Film\AvengersEndGame]] the definately built a kill feature into Peter's suits.

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** As seen in [[Film\AvengersEndGame]] [[Film\Avengers:EndGame]] the definately built a kill feature into Peter's suits.
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** As seen in [[Film\AvengersEndGame]] the definately built a kill feature into Peter's suits.
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** To be fair he does say "I thought this was the Anti-Gravity gun?" he seemed to really be surprised it was a Disintegrator, he does seem more surprised than shocked, and Brice was abit of a psycho, the only reason he goes after Peter afterwards is because Peter keeps interfering, he seemed fully honest about his intention to not only leave Peter alone as long as Peter kept out of his direct business, but to also keep his secret, probably also partly due to VillainRespect, Peter is just like Toomes in Regards to being one of the "little guys" trying to be bigger.
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** Also Mr. Delmar remarked that she was a "hot Italian woman" which they probably did add in accordance to MarisaTomei and her background, so it's possible she did just marry into the family. Apparently Parker is an English/French surname according to research.

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** Also Mr. Delmar remarked that she was a "hot Italian woman" which they probably did add in accordance to MarisaTomei Creator/MarisaTomei and her background, so it's possible she did just marry into the family. Apparently Parker is an English/French surname according to research.
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** Toomes had a contract with New York City, but Damage Control asserts Federal jurisdiction. In the US (in the real world anyway) state and city governments are not merely branch offices of the Federal government, they are separate entities. Federal jurisdiction overrides them, it’s not part of them. Damage Control is, essentially, saying that New York City had no right to enter into that contract with Toomes in the first place. He could be entitled to compensation from the city for their mistake, which is what they mean when they mention compensation to him, but it wouldn’t be Damage Control’s problem. Meanwhile, New York could drag out the issue of compensation for Toomes by saying they contracted in good faith not knowing the Feds would take over, so the city and Toomes are both out of luck together. No idea how that would eventually turn out in court, but it would certainly drag on long enough to be of no use to Toomes trying to save his company.
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** ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' further disproves the "8 years later" time card. The film shows via large text that the ''The Avengers'' took place in 2012, ''Thor: The Dark World'' took place in 2013, and ''Guardians of the Galaxy'' took place in 2014'', all the years the films were released in (the year for ''Guardians'' was already implied by the prologue, which was stated to take place in 1988 and the main story was shown to take place 26 years after that). 2014 Ebony Maw mentions that present day Nebula's time signature came from nine years in the future, putting the present day events of ''Endgame'' in 2023, which was specifically shown to be five years after Thanos' snap. That puts ''Infinity War'' as taking place in 2018, the year it was released, matching up with Tony's "six years" comment. So ''Homecoming'' could not take place eight years after ''The Avengers'', which would be 2020, as that would be during the five year period in which half of all life in the universe, including Spider-Man, had been snapped out of existence.

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** ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' further disproves the "8 years later" time card. The film shows via large text that the ''The Avengers'' took place in 2012, ''Thor: The Dark World'' took place in 2013, and ''Guardians of the Galaxy'' took place in 2014'', 2014, all the years the films were released in (the year for ''Guardians'' was already implied by the prologue, which was stated to take place in 1988 and the main story was shown to take place 26 years after that). 2014 Ebony Maw mentions that present day Nebula's time signature came from nine years in the future, putting the present day events of ''Endgame'' in 2023, which was specifically shown to be five years after Thanos' snap. That puts ''Infinity War'' as taking place in 2018, the year it was released, matching up with Tony's "six years" comment. So ''Homecoming'' could not take place eight years after ''The Avengers'', which would be 2020, as that would be during the five year period in which half of all life in the universe, including Spider-Man, had been snapped out of existence.
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** OK, I think I've found the answer. There was no mess up. Hector Navarro explained the timeline in the comments of an SJ News video, so I'll just shamelessly leave what he said here: "''Film/TheAvengers2012'' ''didn't'' take place in 2012. ''Film/IronMan'' ''did'' take place in 2008. Six months later was ''Film/IronMan2'', in 2008/2009. Along with ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'' and ''Film/{{Thor}}'', all three of these movies take place in the same week. And a bit after that, Nick Fury finds Steve Rogers thawed out from his suspended animation. Avengers took place about a year after that, in 2009/2010. Cut to ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' where Vision says "In the 8 years since Mr. Stark announced himself as Iron Man..." which yeah, puts that at 2016. ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' took place during and a few months after that, in 2016/2017. So if ''Film/TheAvengers2012'' took place in 2009, eight years later could be 2017. And Peter Parker would've been seven or eight years old in ''Film/IronMan2'', during 2008/2009."

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** OK, I think I've found the answer. There was no mess up. Hector Navarro explained the timeline in the comments of an SJ News video, so I'll just shamelessly leave what he said here: "''Film/TheAvengers2012'' ''didn't'' take place in 2012. ''Film/IronMan'' ''Film/IronMan1'' ''did'' take place in 2008. Six months later was ''Film/IronMan2'', in 2008/2009. Along with ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'' and ''Film/{{Thor}}'', all three of these movies take place in the same week. And a bit after that, Nick Fury finds Steve Rogers thawed out from his suspended animation. Avengers took place about a year after that, in 2009/2010. Cut to ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' where Vision says "In the 8 years since Mr. Stark announced himself as Iron Man..." which yeah, puts that at 2016. ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' took place during and a few months after that, in 2016/2017. So if ''Film/TheAvengers2012'' took place in 2009, eight years later could be 2017. And Peter Parker would've been seven or eight years old in ''Film/IronMan2'', during 2008/2009."
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*** Ross didn't write the Accords. The UN drafted them. Ross merely enforced them and was tasked with serving as their spokesman for the Avengers.
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** While Toomes has no problem with killing, he also does not seem like a vengeful person. Remember, he never went after the bureaucrat that cost him his job (like many other villains would have). He kills Brice after he threatened his family, but it didn't seem like he would've done it otherwise. He beats Spider-Man and then attempts to fly away before finishing him off; in his mind, he has his loot and Spider-Man will not come after him because he is beaten. And once he's in prison he has already lost; he has nothing to gain from killing Spider-Man. Basically, he will not hold back like Spidey does to avoid killing, but he won't kill somebody just because he feels like it.
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** Nah, he does want to kill people. He clearly said that he will kill Peter dead. He just gave Peter one chance to walk away for saving his daughter, and probably doing Peter another one last favor for saving his life by keeping Peter's identity secret.]

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** Nah, he does want to kill people. He clearly said that he will kill Peter dead. He just gave Peter one chance to walk away for saving his daughter, and probably doing Peter another one last favor for saving his life by keeping Peter's identity secret.]
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** ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' disproves the "8 years later" time card. The film shows via large text that the ''The Avengers'' took place in 2012, ''Thor: The Dark World'' took place in 2013, and ''Guardians of the Galaxy'' took place in 2014'', all the years the films were released in (the year for ''Guardians'' was already implied by the prologue, which was stated to take place in 1988 and the main story was shown to take place 26 years after that). 2014 Ebony Maw mentions that present day Nebula's time signature came from nine years in the future, putting the present day events of ''Endgame'' in 2023, which was specifically shown to be five years after Thanos' snap. That puts ''Infinity War'' as taking place in 2018, the year it was released, matching up with Tony's "six years" comment. So ''Homecoming'' could not take place eight years after ''The Avengers'', which would be 2020, as that would be during the five year period in which half of all life in the universe, including Spider-Man, had been snapped out of existence.

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** ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' further disproves the "8 years later" time card. The film shows via large text that the ''The Avengers'' took place in 2012, ''Thor: The Dark World'' took place in 2013, and ''Guardians of the Galaxy'' took place in 2014'', all the years the films were released in (the year for ''Guardians'' was already implied by the prologue, which was stated to take place in 1988 and the main story was shown to take place 26 years after that). 2014 Ebony Maw mentions that present day Nebula's time signature came from nine years in the future, putting the present day events of ''Endgame'' in 2023, which was specifically shown to be five years after Thanos' snap. That puts ''Infinity War'' as taking place in 2018, the year it was released, matching up with Tony's "six years" comment. So ''Homecoming'' could not take place eight years after ''The Avengers'', which would be 2020, as that would be during the five year period in which half of all life in the universe, including Spider-Man, had been snapped out of existence.
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** ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' disproves the "8 years later" time card. The film shows via large text that the ''The Avengers'' took place in 2012, ''Thor: The Dark World'' took place in 2013, and ''Guardians of the Galaxy'' took place in 2014'', all the years the films were released in (the year for ''Guardians'' was already implied by the prologue, which was stated to take place in 1988 and the main story was shown to take place 26 years after that). 2014 Ebony Maw mentions that present day Nebula's time signature came from nine years in the future, putting the present day events of ''Endgame'' in 2023, which was specifically shown to be five years after Thanos' snap. That puts ''Infinity War'' as taking place in 2018, the year it was released, matching up with Tony's "six years" comment. So ''Homecoming'' could not take place eight years after ''The Avengers'', which would be 2020, as that would be during the five year period in which half of all life in the universe, including Spider-Man, had been snapped out of existence.
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*** ''Infinity War'' shows that she was in fact a fugitive, and ''Civil War'' already implied that she would have been arrested for helping Steve and Bucky escape.
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** In a vacuum, sure. But look at everything else: 1. May knows Peter's been sneaking out. 2. May knows that Peter has been closely associating with Tony Stark, AKA ''Iron Man''. 3. Iron Man was just seen, like, ''yesterday'' publicly in Spider-Man's company. On the day that Peter was missing for hours. 4. Spider-Man just ''happened'' to show up in Washington, D.C., while Peter was also in Washington, D.C., and not only that, just happens to save his class. May isn't stupid, and Peter has given her a ''lot'' of dots to connect.
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** Cosplaying ought to have been a very plausible excuse. Because really, which scenario is more likely: "my nephew Peter Parker is dressing up as the Spiderman" or "my nephew Peter Parker ''is'' the Spiderman"? If anything, it should be surprising that Aunt May jumped to the latter conclusion.
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** Because Thaddeus Ross was ([[VoodooShark for some reason]]) stupid enough to put a "this ONLY applies to Avengers" clause in the Accords. Thus, Peter can't be forced to sign the Accords, or forced to obey Ross' whims, unless he becomes an Avenger. Which, in turn, explains why Peter refused Stark's offer.

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** Because Thaddeus Ross was ([[VoodooShark for some reason]]) stupid enough to put a "this ONLY applies to Avengers" clause in the Accords. Thus, Peter can't be forced to sign the Accords, or forced to obey Ross' whims, unless he becomes an Avenger. Which, in turn, explains why Peter refused Stark's offer.
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** It's also possible that Civil War takes place further in the future than we're, since we have no definite dates on any of the movies aside from Film/TheAvengers2012. The only evidence otherwise are some interviews stating the release dates of the movies are the approximate years the movies take place in. Of course it could be an error as the other Troper stated. Perhaps they'll fix it for home media and it slipped through the cracks.

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** It's also possible that Civil War takes place further in the future than we're, since we have no definite dates on any of the movies aside from Film/TheAvengers2012. The only evidence otherwise are some interviews stating the release dates of the movies are the approximate years the movies take place in. Of course it could be an error as the other Troper stated.error. Perhaps they'll fix it for home media and it slipped through the cracks.
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** Also, any actually lethal capabilities of the suit itself might have been disabled, but the programming might have been installed as part of a massive package. For all we know, triggering the insta-kill might have done absolutely nothing.
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***It didn't start flowing until after it was activated by the radiation from the security checkpoint x-ray.
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* Why are they shooting at him? Let's assume those cops in the helicopter don't watch YouTube, Peter must have been featured on the news dozens of times. I can't see a guy web-slinging around the city and fighting crooks, and not be on the 6 o' clock news. This Spider-man is not Batman where he is rarely seen by civilians, and operates mostly at night.

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* Why are they shooting at him? Let's assume those cops in the helicopter don't watch YouTube, Website/YouTube, Peter must have been featured on the news dozens of times. I can't see a guy web-slinging around the city and fighting crooks, and not be on the 6 o' clock news. This Spider-man is not Batman where he is rarely seen by civilians, and operates mostly at night.



** On top of that, Spider-Man hasn't been wearing his current Stark-designed suit in public enough for him to be easily recognized as the same kid in a red hoodie that was swinging around New York in some viral YouTube videos. The cops just saw a guy in a weird red and blue skintight suit scaling the Washington Monument and reacted accordingly. They may have thought it was Alain Robert up to his usual tricks.

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** On top of that, Spider-Man hasn't been wearing his current Stark-designed suit in public enough for him to be easily recognized as the same kid in a red hoodie that was swinging around New York in some viral YouTube Website/YouTube videos. The cops just saw a guy in a weird red and blue skintight suit scaling the Washington Monument and reacted accordingly. They may have thought it was Alain Robert up to his usual tricks.
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** Peter's original, home-made suit also had that, in a cruder fashion. In Civil War he mentions that when he's "on" as Spider-Man, his senses ratchet up, so he has them to filter light down as needed so he's not overwhelmed. Sort of like the actual irises in your eyeball do.
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* You know how characters in cartoons blink their eyes through their masks? I thought that was the case in this film, similar to Ryan Renald's Deadpool. If his blinking eyes are artificial, why would Tony add that in his suit? What purpose would it serve in battle besides giving Peter facial expressions?

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* You know how characters in cartoons blink their eyes through their masks? I thought that was the case in this film, similar to Ryan Renald's Reynold's Deadpool. If his blinking eyes are artificial, why would Tony add that in his suit? What purpose would it serve in battle besides giving Peter facial expressions?
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* You know how characters in cartoons blink their eyes through their masks? I thought that was the case in this live action film, similar to Deadpool. If his blinking eyes are artificial, why would Tony add that in his suit? What purpose would it serve in battle besides giving Peter expressions? A distraction?

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* You know how characters in cartoons blink their eyes through their masks? I thought that was the case in this live action film, similar to Ryan Renald's Deadpool. If his blinking eyes are artificial, why would Tony add that in his suit? What purpose would it serve in battle besides giving Peter expressions? A distraction?facial expressions?
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* You know how characters in cartoons blink their eyes through their masks? I thought that was the case in this film. If his blinking eyes are artificial, why would Tony add that in his suit? What purpose would it serve in battle besides giving Peter expressions?

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* You know how characters in cartoons blink their eyes through their masks? I thought that was the case in this film. live action film, similar to Deadpool. If his blinking eyes are artificial, why would Tony add that in his suit? What purpose would it serve in battle besides giving Peter expressions?expressions? A distraction?
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* You know how characters in cartoons blink their eyes through their masks? I thought that was the case in this film. If his blinking eyes are artificial, why would Tony add that in his suit? What purpose would it serve in battle besides giving Peter expressions?
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** Happy's poor judgement is a running gag throughout the franchise.


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** Tony's judgement when it comes to Peter is consistently poor and emotionally driven, from recruiting him in the first place to deciding halfway through the film that he was Peter would be an outlet for Tony's daddy issues. Peter's take down of the Vulture was stupidly heroic and helped Stark save face.


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** Toomes may not be "rich", but judging by his beautiful, gigantic home he's at the cusp. So he clearly just uses the money from his dirty dealings to give his wife and daughter a good, comfortable life. He's not a good person, but he's also not one of the many MCU villains opening up doom portals in the sky. And like Toomes himself pointed out, selling weapons to bad people is essentially where Tony Stark's money--and thus Iron Man--came from.


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** Flash being enough of a douche to copy his father's nickname or name himself after his dad's license plate is pretty in-character.


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** Stark said his first Spider suit was worth millions of dollars. A lot of that's going to be the internal tech, but chances are if May spends more than five seconds looking at the suit she'll realize it's not something a jobless teenager can piece together.
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* When Peter [[spoiler:arrives at the Avengers compound, there's brand new Quinjets in place and at least one is taking off to the horizon]]. Given the events of Civil War, and that the "legal" Avengers amount to, at most, Tony, Rhodey, and Vision, [[spoiler:and Tony is currently busy meeting Peter]], who do they have on call to take missions from the UN at this point?

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* When Peter [[spoiler:arrives arrives at the Avengers compound, there's brand new Quinjets in place and at least one is taking off to the horizon]]. horizon. Given the events of Civil War, and that the "legal" Avengers amount to, at most, Tony, Rhodey, and Vision, [[spoiler:and and Tony is currently busy meeting Peter]], Peter, who do they have on call to take missions from the UN at this point?



* Toomes is like Norman Osborn/Green Goblin in many ways, and I doubt it is unintentional. [[spoiler: He is the father of one of Peter's friends.]] The scene with Peter and Toomes in the car reminds me of Norman and Peter at the dinner table scene in the first Spider-man movie. Doesn't his "wings" remind you of the goblin glider? Don't get me wrong, I like Norman and Harry, but they already did the whole [[spoiler: "my-friend's-dad-is-my nemesis-and-I-must-So-stop-him"]] bit.

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* Toomes is like Norman Osborn/Green Goblin in many ways, and I doubt it is unintentional. [[spoiler: He is the father of one of Peter's friends.]] friends. The scene with Peter and Toomes in the car reminds me of Norman and Peter at the dinner table scene in the first Spider-man movie. Doesn't his "wings" remind you of the goblin glider? Don't get me wrong, I like Norman and Harry, but they already did the whole [[spoiler: "my-friend's-dad-is-my nemesis-and-I-must-So-stop-him"]] nemesis-and-I-must-So-stop-him" bit.



** Nah, he does want to kill people. He clearly said that he will kill Peter dead. He just gave Peter one chance to walk away for saving his daughter, [[spoiler: and probably doing Peter another one last favor for saving his life by keeping Peter's identity secret.]]
** He definitely has no qualms killing. Unless you think he didn't expect [[spoiler: to kill Peter by dropping a building on top of him.]]

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** Nah, he does want to kill people. He clearly said that he will kill Peter dead. He just gave Peter one chance to walk away for saving his daughter, [[spoiler: and probably doing Peter another one last favor for saving his life by keeping Peter's identity secret.]]
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** He definitely has no qualms killing. Unless you think he didn't expect [[spoiler: to kill Peter by dropping a building on top of him.]]



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*** How would Stark know ? He saw Fury show up in a mothballed old helicarrier with operatives who were dressed casually. As if he pulled them from civilian life and into a rescue mission. Nothing about their revival screamed SHIELD back was into action. Only that it’s former leader showed up with former agents to save the day.

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*** How would Stark know ? He know? Tony saw Fury show up in a mothballed old helicarrier with operatives who were dressed casually. As if he pulled them from civilian life and into a rescue mission. Nothing about their revival screamed arrival indicated that SHIELD was back was into in action. Only that it’s former leader showed up with former agents to save the day.
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*** How would Stark know ? He saw Fury show up in a mothballed old helicarrier with operatives who were dressed casually. As if he pulled them from civilian life and into a rescue mission. Nothing about their revival screamed SHIELD back was into action. Only that it’s former leader showed up with former agents to save the day.
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** He might not have intended to kill him, but it also served to show he wasn't all that bothered about doing it accidentally, either.

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