Spider-Man: Homecoming

The Kingpin's criminal empire spanned a handful of city blocks. I think the Big Man can work as a better Kingpin.

Or make it Tombstone, a la Spectacular.

Be hilarious if the movie is blander than Spider-Man 3, but because it's Marvel doing a Spider-Man movie, it makes a lot of money.

I wonder if the Shocker as a thug to a crime boss could actually be a threat to a young Spider-Man.

I'm guessing you haven't seen Spectacular Spider-Man.

Spectacular's Shocker was a Composite Character of Shocker and Montana.

...sort of. He was Montana but with Shocker's powerset, so I'm not sure if that even counts.

If anyone remembers Spider Man The Animated Series, I kind of thought of the Big Man in relation to Fisk as being similar to how Silvermane related to Fisk there - a crime boss who has been in power for a while before the start of the series, now struggling to keep his power as people like The Kingpin and Spider-Man start to edge him out.

I remember that show's Silvermane being powerful enough to toy with the Lizard when his youth was restored.

He did get restored by some magical totem thing. That also turned him into a baby.

A talking baby with the intelligence of an adult, which probably landed him a role in one of those awful Baby Geniuses movies.

Aunt May.

Oh good, another hip young Aunt May to

Holy crap, she's 51? She looks really good for her age. Objection withdrawn.

edited 8th Jul '15 11:46:24 AM by TobiasDrake

Marisa Tomei is Aunt May? Marisa Tomei????

WOW. She....isn't someone that I would have seen as Aunt May at all.

edited 8th Jul '15 12:07:41 PM by higherbrainpattern

We only can hope she will have a darkly poignant subplot with a revived Ivan Danko.

edited 8th Jul '15 6:39:04 PM by NapoleonDeCheese

Well, Aunt May has dated at least one supervillain in the past.

Two, I think. Doc Ock and IIRC the Vulture.

Between them, Ben, Jonah's dad, Wille Lumpkin, Nathan, Jarvis, Richard Parker (well, in that comic we don't talk about anyway) and Agent Coulson (well, in the Ultimate cartoon at least), I think May gets more game than Peter himself.

edited 8th Jul '15 7:41:33 PM by NapoleonDeCheese

So, for anyone whose ever seen The Wrestler, congratulations! You've seen Aunt May naked.

I think it is a good decision to go with someone not too old. After all, we want Aunt May to be around for quite a while, right? We all know how stupid Peter gets when something happens to her....

Also with a younger actor playing Peter Parker, they also want a younger actress playing Aunt May just so she's still looks roughly one generation older than him. Go too old and the logistics of how they could be separated by only one generation start to break down without having some huge age differences between siblings or spouses.

Basically, they want audiences to say "yes these people are aunt and nephew" at first glance. Not "...well I guess if a set of grandparents had children 20 years apart they could be aunt and nephew...maybe"

There was a great scene is Sensational Spider-Man where(after finding out he's sick and is going to die in a few days(even with everyone helping him find a cure))Peter uses his connections around the world to do everything he wanted to do before he dies(which includes stuff like cheating in Vegas using his senses, going to space with MJ and staying there for a day all alone with no villains to disturb them etc). One of the things is to find out where a time machine is(he asks the FF and they tell him the best one is in Latveria)and then use it with MJ and May(they get to use old Iron Man suits to break into Castle Doom with Peter) to go back to the day he was left off at Ben and May's by his parents to see them and Ben one last time. They can't touch or change anything(they're like ghosts while in the past)and while MJ gets to see Peter's parents, Peter gets to become so overcome by sadness that he tries to stop his parents car from leaving(because they die soon after) but May?

May sits down on her old couch(she lost it in a fire an arc or so ago along with her house)next to past!May and past!Ben(who are like 15 or so years older than past!Peter's parents so they're like 47 or something)and just watches them talk to Peter about what they're going to do today and how they will take care of him until his parents are back from their trip(and also some of Ben's bad jokes). When Peter comes back and asks if they're ready to go back May has the exact same smile as past!May.

edited 9th Jul '15 3:41:00 AM by LordofLore

Yeah, most versions of Ben and May have them as quite older, if not elderly, giving off the impression of being grandparents rather than aunt and uncle. That's not so bad if Peter is starting to approach 30, but all movie adaptations have him either in high school or just a few years out. Casting a 40-something Aunt May (Tomei is 50, but can pass for much younger) is perfectly reasonable, although I know there is a worry that she'll be inappropriately portrayed as a MILF-like character.

Although she is actually older than Diane Lane, who played Martha Kent in Man of Steel and they made a point of making her look older with silvery hair.

Them being as old as grandparents makes sense, since they're in the same generation that Peter's grandparents would be.

edited 9th Jul '15 4:45:50 PM by KnownUnknown

Really? So are they his great-aunt and great-uncle? Or his regular aunt and uncle?

Because if they are his regular aunt and uncle, that would mean they are from his parent's generation. (In the 616-universe, Aunt May is his aunt-by-marriage - Ben Parker was the brother of Richard Parker.)

edited 9th Jul '15 4:47:52 PM by alliterator

They are? I've always been under the impression Ben was his father or mother's uncle - I think adaptations usually go with that.

Nope, in the comics, Ben and Richard Parker were brothers. (Same thing in Amazing Spider-Man.)

edited 9th Jul '15 4:54:52 PM by alliterator