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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
My understanding of Peter Parker's age:
- Homecoming takes place in Fall 2016, in the first semester of Peter's Sophomore year of High School.
- Infinity War takes place in Spring 2018, towards the end of Peter's Junior year. Peter gets Snapped.
- Peter gets Blipped back to life five years later in Endgame. Far From Home establishes that this happens in fall (so Fall 2023), and that students needed to redo almost the whole school year.
- Far From Home takes place at the end of Peter's redone Junior year, in Summer 2024.
So, miraculously, it does make sense that Peter has only advanced one grade in between Homecoming and Far From Home, in spite of the nearly 8 year in-universe gap. Also he must have aged at least two years. And he still has one year of High School left to complete!
I expect that after the trilogy is completed they'll stop jumping through hoops to keep Peter young... although that makes me wonder if there will be a point in the future when Tom looks too young to play a mid-20's Peter.
Now here's something to consider: did the Covid-19 pandemic happen in the MCU?
If it still happened, and began in late 2019, that would be during the Snap years, so anyone who came back during the Blip got to skip over it.
Alternatively, depending on what people or animals got Snapped, that might mean the virus couldn't get going until after its carriers Blipped back, so you wouldn't see it happening in the MCU till 2024.
Or it could be that the Snap, as well as all the other breaks from reality in the MCU, mean the pandemic got For Want Of A Nailed out of existence. In which case ... props to Thanos?
Alternatively, the virus still happened even with the halved population and killed a greater percentage of people because of the Snap.
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Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Sep 18th 2020 at 5:59:04 AM
Well, yes, but iirc One More Day was largely met with criticism because Peter wasn't moving on, even when by all rights he should have.
So, let's hang an anchor from the sun... also my TumblrWell their was spiderman Ps 4 which got a lot of praise for having an adult spider man.
"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."Yeah. I've said before: Teenage Spiderman is kinda done. It's part of his history, and I don't mind him starting there, but with Miles around, there's no reason to bother with it long term.
That time has come and gone.
One Strip! One Strip!Speaking of Spider-Man, has anyone seen Tom Holland in the new Netflix movie The Devil All The Time?
Because seeing a clip of him deal with some bullies
is concrete proof that if Peter gets the Symbiote Suit later on, Tom's going to knock it out of the park...and maybe into a whole different state.
Rage like that could probably get even Doomguy's attention. Maybe.
The character must grow up, he must not remain a teenager forever.
Oh, believe me I'm not arguing against that. I'm just imagining a future where a 30 year old Tom Holland is playing a 25 year old Peter Parker who looks exactly the same as he did at 15 because that's just what Tom Holland's face looks like. The thought is amusing.
With regard to the widespread trend of keeping Peter as young as possible, especially in the comics: I recall arguments that Peter can't do X and Y and Z because "it would artificially age the character"... but we're talking about a character that has been in continuous publication since 1962, aging is natural, turning the status quo backwards in an attempt to make him appear younger is what's artificial.
I think currently, Peter's in his late mid twenties in continuity. He should be much older, but...
....well,
made that clear.
I do agree that the oldest we've seen him in media beyond Alternate Universe comics is Into the Spiderverse.
He was much older in Spiderman Reign though.
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Peter has officially passed his 28th birthday in the comics; he might be 30 by now.
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I recall the giggle people got when Tom tried to get a beer at a Marvel event but was denied because he's such a baby face and Hemsworth had to step in and get one for him.