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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Abraham Attah
(Beasts of No Nation) has been cast in Homecoming.
Maybe I was lucky but my high school didn't really have any of the cliche popular kids that would pick on the nerds. There were jocks, nerds, goths, and various other stereotypes but they were willing to be friends with people in other groups. Bullying also wasn't a huge problem from what I saw although there were definitely people that disliked each other.
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It wasn't the bullying I was referring to, but more Peter Parker somehow having no friends. Even the absolute nerdiest kids I went to school with still had plenty of friends, even if it was just other awkward, shy nerds like themselves.
That's not even getting into how a lot of geek stuff is more or less mainstream anyway nowadays.
In the original Spider-Man comics, Peter Parker didn't meet Gwen Stacy or Harry Osborn until he was an undergraduate at Empire State University (they actually appeared in the same issue
).
The thing of it was, in the original comics, Peter was only in high school for the first 28 issues. Marvel was still using real time in their comics, so Peter had started as a sophomore and then graduated two years later as a senior and then went to college.
If they are only going by people who knew Peter in high school, that would be Liz Allen, Sally Avril, Flash Thompson, Seymour O'Reilly, and Charlie. If you include Untold Tales of Spider-Man, then add in Brian McKeever and Jason Ionello.
They could composite the 616 high school cast with the Ultimate high school cast, like Spectacular did.
Though I think I'd like it if they adapted the super-early-days dynamic he had with Flash, Liz, etc. Like, the sense that he wants to be a normal teenager and aspires for immature things he can't have, but at the same time he's outgrown a lot of the ridiculous and selfish antics of his classmates and can't really connect to them.
edited 21st Jun '16 11:54:06 PM by KnownUnknown
If they go with the Ultimate Spider-Man classmates, that would be Mary Jane Watson, Harry Osborn, Flash Thompson, Kenny "Kong" McFarland, Liz Allan, and Gwen Stacy. (Gwen appeared a bit later than the rest, but she was still a high school classmate. In fact, Ultimate Spider-Man never left high school in the entire run.)
Honestly, I would love it if they adapted some of Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane.
edited 22nd Jun '16 12:24:58 AM by alliterator
There are currently jokes circulating over the web that the third night Nurse Linda Evans has the same name as the one who played Wonder Woman...this drives me nuts! Honestly, does nobody fact check anymore? The actress who played Wonder Woman was Lynda Carter (and yes, I wrote the first name correctly). Linda Evans is the actress from Dynasty. They are not even remotely the same person.

So there's three pawns at play. First you have the original "Night Nurse", the name of a short-lived medical drama from the 70s starring three nurses. Then you have Linda Carter, one of the "Night Nurse" protagonists who ultimately took the name for herself and became the secret hero doctor everyone today knows. Finally, you have Claire Temple, a doctor who serves as an occasional supporting character for Luke Cage.
It looks, to me, like Marvel allowed Claire Temple to be made the Night Nurse, on the grounds that they effectively fill the same niche, while attempting to preserve one of the few aspects that wouldn't work, namely the Night Nurse's romance with Dr. Strange. Except they seemed to have fucked up using the name "Christine Palmer" instead of "Linda Carter". Either that, the report's wrong, or, alternatively, they really don't want people to think she's related to Peggy/Sharon Carter at all.
edited 21st Jun '16 1:51:39 PM by Watchtower