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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
My head canon has been that Peter actually lives in a pretty good area of Queens because May and Ben moved into that house instead of moving Peter to where they were to not upset him more than he already would be. As such, the place is a fair bit more expensive than two (semi?)retired people can handle on top of taking care of a teenage boy. The only thing they probably don't have to worry about his Peter's college; he's intelligent enough that he could easily get a full-ride scholarship to any place he wanted.
Honestly, I hope that they have Peter working as intern at Stark industries without anyone knowing who he truly is. That could be so much fun. He could actually uncover something going on there, some sort of scheme. Or even get Tony's attention as Peter rather than Spider-man.
Who says that Peter's parents are particularly wealthy? Or that Ben and Aunt May are retired?
edited 19th Jul '15 8:33:39 AM by Swanpride
Well, if Marisa Tomei is the new Aunt May, then maybe not...?
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"Seem to" is the key word there. As far as I remember it is never really specified, and even if Ben is already retired when he dies, it could be a very recent development. For all we know Aunt May is not really retired but simply has been a housewife all her life. And do we ever learn anything about Peter's real parents?
Going back to the Winter Soldier question, I would say he's an effective villain the same way the T-1000 is an effective villain. No personal motive, little character, but carries an aura of menace and ruthlessness that makes him command every scene he's in. Compare him to, say, brainwashed Hawkeye, who fit a similar theme of "what if your best friend was suddenly evil?" but couldn't carry the menace. I would even argue that there's been no villain in the MCU as dangerous in person as the Winter Soldier; no gloating, no games, just kill right now. Sebastian Stan also did great work in giving Winter Soldier subtle character bits, such as when he quietly goes from shock at near death to RAGE when Black Widow comes that close to killing him. Or how his two arms behave differently due to Stan choosing and training with the heavier prosthetic. Or how he even foreshadowed Winter Soldier's ruthlessness already being in Bucky way back in First Avenger, when he didn't even know if he'd play WS yet.
edited 19th Jul '15 8:50:47 AM by Tuckerscreator
We've discussed this extensively already but the Word of God is that they're looking to use a villain who hasn't been done already.
For example they could introduce the Chameleon as an expert in industry espionage. Peter, working as an intern for Stark industry, discovers him because his spider-senses tingle. He tries to deal with him in his spider-man personality but the Chameleon reacts by turning into spider-man and destroying his reputation.
I can see Chameleon working as a secondary antagonist. Either as The Dragon or a Disc-One Final Boss.
Maybe Kraven could be the Big Bad, and Chameleon, being his half-brother, could be The Dragon, with the two working together. Though after just watching Kraven's first couple of appearances in Spectacular Spider Man, here's a thought: Would you want a tradtional Bad Ass Normal Kraven, or man-beast Kraven from Specatular? On the one hand, man-beast Kraven has a better chance of appearing to be a much more credible threat to Spider-man, but I think there's something about Kraven that gets lost when he becomes a man-beast, as he stops using most of this skills and tricks, and just tries to deliver a savage beat-down, and his vocabulary even becomes more limited. Though I think having him become a man-beast can work, and actually make him a more nuanced villain, in that he becomes so fixated on taking down Spider-man that he's willing to become a man-beast in the last act of the movie. However, it eventually dawns on him that he's sacrificed part of who he was just to defeat Spider-man; something that I don't think really happened in Spectacular.
edited 19th Jul '15 11:23:38 AM by kkhohoho

Basically, she would work for anyone that gave her a chance to put herself first.
edited 19th Jul '15 8:23:42 AM by alliterator