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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
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I think that the point here is to show the danger of having such power be abused (and also Cap was not around this time to stop Tony). Tony's main motto has always been that any tech is not bad as long as it is him controlling it, and EDITH is basically what he wanted to do with Ultron. And we got to see the horrific downsides of such plans going wrong, be they Insight, Ultron, or EDITH.
The question is whether Peter will keep using EDITH in the future, but my take on it is that he will save the killer drones for the emergency situations like the Instant Kill mode of his suit.
Edited by C105 on Jun 9th 2020 at 10:14:31 AM
Whatever your favourite work is, there is a Vocal Minority that considers it the Worst. Whatever. Ever!.I remember seeing this tweet
saying:
And it strikes me as a very odd thing to keep as part of Spider-Man's arsenal at the end. Homecoming straight up calls him the "working class hero". But giving a billionaire's inheritance and global surveillance system clashes with that archetype immensely. It's an aspect of the film's "Spidey is the new Iron Man"-ification that really doesn't mesh with why the character has been popular across generations.
Edited by Tuckerscreator on Jun 9th 2020 at 1:25:43 AM
In a story where Tony creates yet another item of untold death, one that's functionally identical to the weapon of another movie's big bad, along with yet another villain Spidey has to fight in Mysterio, the film seems completely averse to judging him in any way.
Like, I get why the characters would be hard-pressed to judge him given his death, but the story goes out of it's way to undermine any blame you could want to give him anyway.
The story frames Edith falling into Beck's hands as Peter's mistake. He fucked up he responsibility someone else gave to him, never bothering to question whether that responsibility should even exist in the first place. And Beck is such a complete lunatic, any legit grievances he might have had with Stark are completely buried under how monstrous he is.
Edited by GNinja on Jun 9th 2020 at 8:36:24 AM
Kaze ni Nare!I still hold that EDITH was either never meant to see the light of day, or was only going to be given to Peter when he was MUCH older. NOT when he was still in High School.
Note we only have FURY'S word that Tony wanted Peter to have EDITH, in seriousness I'd say Tony would have entrusted that task to either Happy or Pepper NOT FURY given that Fury was never than close to Tony at best. And the Former two, after FRIDAY would have given them the details on what EDITH was would have looked at each other and gone "Oh hell no." when it came to the decision on giving it to Peter.
Pepper/Happy would have destroyed the Glasses themselves or locked them up till Peter was older and could make more rational decisions with it.
This leads to the theory that Fury outright STOLE EDITH from the Stark Home post Tony's Death.
Come to think of it, Iron Man's armour pack up some incredibly lethal stuff. He seldom uses it against normal people, but in any other hands it would be a weapon of mass destruction. It is quite possible he simply thought of EDITH as a similar device.
It is also possible that Fury had no idea of the killer drones when he gave the glasses to Peter and thought it was only some kind of superhacking tool. Or maybe he simply hoped that Peter would transfer the glasses control back to him instead, since they were keyed to Peter's biometrics (which leads me to wonder if a Skrull could have fooled them).
Edited by C105 on Jun 9th 2020 at 8:22:29 PM
Whatever your favourite work is, there is a Vocal Minority that considers it the Worst. Whatever. Ever!.The FFH vs. WS thing is kind of in line with the philosophy established in the Iron Man movies, where "Super tech in government's hands = bad; Super tech in responsible private citizen's hands = good."
That said, I really don't want the murder drones to feature in the next Spider-Man movie. It's hard to see the murder drones as a good guy tool rather than a supervillain tool, and also they aren't spider-themed.
Honestly, given the little bit we've gotten of JJJ and the Bugle so far... I know they wouldn't, but I think it'd be really funny if the next Spidey movie opens with Peter talking to Happy, freaking out about the whole thing and weighing the options of what to do next... and then Happy just goes "Peter, it's the Bugle. Nobody believed it, everybody stopped paying attention."
Like I said, I know they won't and I can think of several other story directions I'd prefer, but I still think it'd be funny if the solution to the big cliffhanger ends up being "it's actually not that big a deal, Peter has (presumably) SHIELD and Stark Enterprises behind him, and nobody really trusts the Bugle as a reputable news source, maybe it inspires some especially weird villains to come crawling out of the woodwork, but it isn't a big crisis".
I still want the 3rd Spiderman film to begin with a montage of various people helping Peter...
First it's Pepper/Maria and a small army of lawyers... ...Aunt May with a bat might be among them. Then we get Old Steve giving JJJ "I'm not mad just disappointed" speech... A Princess of Wakanda is now showing JJJ how that footage was doctored with a very...long...presentation...
It just gets crazier from there.
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Nah, that's a 2019 statement. The 2020 statement is [Arrested Development Narrator]: "It wasn't."
Edited by wanderlustwarrior on Jun 9th 2020 at 3:07:33 AM

Except Blade is British, so John can just use his natural British accent.
In the comics he also still considers himself a Brit.
Plus Adam's powers age him slowly anyway.
Though personally i'm pulling for Lance Reddick for the role.
Edited by Cortez on Jun 9th 2020 at 4:18:26 AM