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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Sheesh, 16 is still kinda young to be doing it. By that rule, Peter could be having sex in The Spectacular Spider-Man...
edited 20th Jun '15 7:36:11 AM by spashthebandragon
I've got fanfics for Frozen, Spectacular Spider-Man, Crash Bandicoot, and Spyro the Dragon.
Well, Peter is pretty firmly American, so...
The age of consent
in the US is actually between 16 and 18, depending on the state. In New York, it is 17.
It's old(from 2011) and from before Marvel and Sony remade their deal. Things could've changed but I don't think Marvel is ever going to have a non-white Peter Parker on the screen. A black and/or gay Spider-Man might happen but Peter won't be behind the mask in that case.
I wonder how Marvel's rules for Spider-Girl and Spider-Woman(since I think we had it confirmed there would be troubles with having someone called that show up in the MCU before the deal) looked if they even had any. One version of Jessica is gay in the comics but the main version was together with Hawkeye last I checked(her most popular fan pairing was her x Carol last I checked).
edited 20th Jun '15 8:33:03 AM by LordofLore
Yeah I've been annoyed that so many websites like Gawker and Comic Book Movie keep saying "This means Spider-Man can't be black or gay" in the headlines when that's not what it says. It just says that if they want to make Spider-Man a minority or an LGBT person, it has to be someone other than Peter Parker under the hood, which is reasonable since Marvel already has a number of non-white Spider-Men or Spider-Characters in other continuities. I'd much rather a Miles movie than a black Peter Parker anyway.
I don't imagine they have stringent guidelines like this for other characters. As we just witnessed, they cast a black guy as Baron Mordo and a white Englishwoman as the Ancient One, and those are far from the only instances of racebending in the MCU.
But if it came to that, the contract says that Spider-Man can be gay if it's an existing character published by Marvel. Spider-Woman would be fine since Jessica Drew is canonically a lesbian in the Ultimate Universe.
edited 20th Jun '15 9:33:10 AM by comicwriter
I don't see what that has to do with an MCU discussion.
An editorial about Spider-Man's villains in the MCU
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edited 20th Jun '15 12:03:21 PM by comicwriter
Alas, the reboot means we might never find out what shocked Peter so much about 616 Miles in the original continuity.
One of the things that's great about Spider-Man is that he's "in-between" in terms of power level, with enemies who could believably fight both Badass Normals and more powerful heroes. And much like Iron Man (whose larger rogues gallery hasn't really been used yet, unfortunately), he's got a lot of villains who can conceivably appear without necessarily needing to have plots made around them - career supervillains and powered mercenaries and the like.
I just want to see Doc Ock. We could use a guy who is just a quintessential, straightforward Mad Scientist (the closest we've gotten so far is Vanko and maybe Zola).
edited 20th Jun '15 12:11:08 PM by KnownUnknown
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Someone mentioned Miles Morales, and the plausibility of using him in a film over just making Peter Parker black cause why not. Miles is, or was, the Spider Man of the Ultimate Universe.
I think Thou Shall Not Kill has kind of been abandoned as a premise for Marvel movies. There are merits for it but of course it opens up a whole host of other problems in a shared universe...
It's never so much as touched upon. The closest we got was in Ultron, when Tony has non-lethal darts he uses on HYDRA soldiers when he breaks into the fortress proper. And that's not really Thou Shalt Not Kill, it's just basic good tactics to capture the enemy for information.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.The Daredevil series on Netflix gives the character a Thou Shalt Not Kill code, though that series is in general much more of a traditional superhero story than the other MCU titles.
edited 20th Jun '15 1:46:56 PM by RavenWilder
