History Headscratchers / SpiderManFarFromHome

[[folder:Realizing that Beck is a fraud]]
* Why is Beck's lie about the fused elemental drawing power from the Earth's core what causes Fury (actually Talos) to realize that he's a fraud, especially considering he believed all the other stories no problem? Sure in a vacuum, it sounds ridiculous and contrived, but given all the things that have happened in the MCU, is it really harder to believe than say, a giant purple man with a glove with magic rocks snapping half the universe away for five years, or being a shapeshifting alien posing as someone else?

* Fury (really Talos tells Peter that he used to know everything and now no longer does. But that's not even remotely true. Fury didn't know that the organisation he worked for had been undermined by HYDRA for decades. He genuinely thought that Tony Stark wasn't Avengers material, being too flaky and selfish. He also didn't realize the difference between a housecat and a Flerkin, and why you can pet one but maybe shouldn't pet the other if you value your eyesight, no matter how many characters told him that no, Goose was not a housecat. Talos was even there for the last one, so why would he act as if Fury had ever been all-knowing? Unless he thinks that this is what Fury would say - but while I can see Fury bragging about knowing everything, I have a much harder time imagining him to admit to not doing so.

* Fury [[spoiler:really Talos]] tells Peter that he used to know everything and now no longer does. But that's not even remotely true. Fury didn't know that the organisation he worked for had been undermined by HYDRA for decades. He genuinely thought that Tony Stark wasn't Avengers material, being too flaky and selfish. He also didn't realize the difference between a housecat and a Flerkin, and why you can pet one but maybe shouldn't pet the other if you value your eyesight, no matter how many characters told him that no, Goose was not a housecat. [[spoiler:Talos]] was even there for the last one, so why would he act as if Fury had ever been all-knowing? [[spoiler:Unless he thinks that this is what Fury would say - but while I can see Fury bragging about knowing everything, I have a much harder time imagining him to admit to not doing so.]]

* Fury [spoiler:that is Talos] tells Peter that he used to know everything and now no longer does. But that's not even remotely true. Fury didn't know that the organisation he worked for had been undermined by HYDRA for decades. He genuinely thought that Tony Stark wasn't Avengers material, being too flaky and selfish. He also didn't realize the difference between a housecat and a Flerkin, and why you can pet one but maybe shouldn't pet the other if you value your eyesight, no matter how many characters told him that no, Goose was not a housecat. [[spoiler:Talos]] was even there for the last one, so why would he act as if Fury had ever been all-knowing? [[Unless he thinks that this is what Fury would say - but while I can see Fury bragging about knowing everything, I have a much harder time imagining him to admit to not doing so.]]

** If ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' taught us anything, it's that people can be ungrateful even when being saved. Similar to what the first responder said, maybe their spite for Tony makes them incapable of taking in ''anything'' positive about the man, or at least shooting down the positives for the mass population compared to what they experienced. Something like, "Yeah sure he saved us from destruction, but his finger snap doesn't undo the humilation ''I'' endured or get ''me'' another job!"

** The point is that whether the pubic believes Mysterio's lies or not, [[TheBadGuyWins he would still get the last laugh to some extent]]. Even if Spider Man's "villainy" was not believed by the people, his secret identity still got exposed. So while his plan to become a VillainWithGoodPublicity even after death might fail, but his plan to ruin Peter's reputation in some way sure won't. Of course, whatever the next Spider Man movie might reveal about it, the only reason why anyone would fall for the whole "Spider Man is a criminal" lie would be IdiotPlot.

* You'd think after owning not one, but ''two'' suits made by Tony Stark with instant kill features, Peter would know what EDITH means by "target". So why Peter say yes in this situation?

** People refusing to believe things that can be plainly is unfortunately all too common.

** I figured that Peter ''didn't'' regain access to EDITH. It was all part of Beck's plan. Beck decides to try a FakingTheDead ploy, so he tells EDITH "The next time Peter Parker puts on these glasses, act like he's in control and tell him all the illusions are deactivated even though there's actually one remaining illusion that makes it look like I'm dead when in reality I already got up and ran away." Then EDITH just does what she's told.