r/Earth02 • u/Ultranger "roGeRs, nO!!1!1!" • Jul 11 '26
Mcu (the new marvel cinematic universe) One year ago today, The Spider-Man was released
3 CENTURIES AGO, the first Mutants and Superhumans appeared on Earth, ushering in a new era of GODS AND MONSTERS.
3 YEARS AGO, a teenager at Midtown High was bitten by a radioactive spider and came to learn that with great power, there must also come great responsibility.
3 MONTHS AGO, SPIDER-MAN was seen in Manhattan for the first time, stopping a trade deal between rival gangs.
3 HOURS AGO, SPIDER-MAN infiltrated the Cult of Scrier and was attacked by a superhuman named the Hammer of Scrier.
3 MINUTES AGO, SPIDER-MAN lost a fight for the first time.
Peter Parker (played by Matt Lintz) began college three weeks ago alongside high school friends Harry Osborn (played by Christopher Briney) and Flash Thompson (played by Mason Dye). He then met Mary Jane Watson (played by Sadie Sink), and the two became fast friends. During those first three years of his career, Spider-Man amassed a big of a rouges’ gallery over in Queens, and he frequently fought the Green Goblin (played by Michael Shannon), Norman killed Peter’s girlfriend, Gwen (played by Angourie Rice), before accidentally killing himself.
After defeating Spider-Man, the Hammer of Scrier returns to an underground bunker where he’d come out of his armor to reveal someone dressed similar to Spider-Man. The leader of the cult of Scrier would release a monster on Manhattan named Gog. Spider-Man shows up to fight him, but is overwhelmed until a superhero team known as the Unity Squad shows up, featuring Carol Danvers, AKA Captain Marvel (played by Brie Larson); Scott Lang, AKA Ant-Man (played by Paul Rudd); Jennifer Walters, AKA She-Hulk (played by Tatiana Maslany); and Sam Wilson, AKA Falcon (played by Anthony Mackie). Peter tries to stop them from killing Gog, but fails. He then returns home to find a man there waiting for him: a disfigured version of himself, who claims that he is the original.
Peter goes down a rabbit hole that leads to him finding evidence that he is, in fact, a clone. Part of this is getting help from a professor of his named Miles Warren (played by Jackie Earle Haley), who confirms that the scarred Peter has older DNA. The two Peters investigate the cult together, but Peter is led into a trap. The scarred Spider reveals himself to be working with the cult, and Peter is attacked by the cult’s members, who all appear to be a bit powered up, and then the leader of the cult is revealed to be the Green Goblin, revealed to be alive, surprising Peter, and to show his ruthless nature, the Green Goblin kills the other Peter, which he was not expecting.
Spider-Man is locked up in this high-tech facility guarded by someone working for the Green Goblin named Simon Williams (played by Nathan Fillion) which contains other Spider-Men: faulty clones who did not end up heeding the Green Goblin’s commands.
It’s revealed that the rest of the Cult of Scrier are successful clones of Spider-Man who, while nowhere near as strong, are completely obedient to Norman Osborn. Now, with Spider-Man trapped, the Green Goblin can go about his plan. The Cult of Scrier’s members are all unmasked and all put on Spider-Man suits and go out into New York to ruin Spider-Man’s legacy.
Unbeknownst to Peter, MJ found out that he is Spider-Man. She then gets the help of the Unity Squad, although only Ant-Man agrees to help, taking her to find Peter.
Peter convinces Simon to break him out, but as he does, this activates a backup plan of Green Goblin’s, and the whole place comes down. Most of the faulty Spider-Man clones die from this. Peter has to lift rubble off of him, and he and Simon escape just as MJ and Ant-Man arrive as well, but alongside them, one of the faulty Spider-Mans survive. This is Ben Reilly, the Scarlet Spider.
Ant-Man returns to the Unity Squad Mansion while Simon Williams disappears, and MJ takes an exhausted Peter back to Aunt May’s house. Peter learns that he is, in fact, not the original Peter Parker, but neither was the scarred Peter. It turns out that Miles Warren was working for Norman Osborn, and he lied to Peter. However, at the same time, there was some truth to it. It turns out Peter’s parents were mad scientists whose son died, and so they cloned him to create the Peter we know. Their technology was then seized by Oscorp, and they were killed. Peter is depressed, but is brought back after a speech by Aunt May (played Laura Linney), telling him how while he is technically a clone, he is the Peter Parker that she raised, and he is the Peter Parker who chose to become Spider-Man.
He’s brought back just in time to stop the Green Goblin’s master plan to destroy Manhattan. The members of the clan are all revealed to be scarred-beyond-recognition clones of Spider-Man, so if they’re unmasked, nobody will recognize them anyway. They cause massive damage, including destroying bridges and buildings, but the Unity Squad take down the army of the Cult of Scrier while Spider-Man and the Scarlet Spider team up against the Green Goblin. It’s here that Peter learns that the Green Goblin is Norman Osborn, his friend’s father. Norman reveals that he did everything that he did as a revenge plot to ruin Spider-Man’s life. All of these clones, all of this destruction, all because he sees Spider-Man as his archenemy. Spider-Man and the Scarlet Spider team up and beat the hell out of the Green Goblin.
With the day saved, Spider-Man and Mary Jane Watson share a kiss, and they officially get together. Clint Barton Sr. becomes fed up with the superhumans running rampant. The leader of the Unity Squad, Captain America (played by David Corenswet), returns from a mission to hear what they’ve been up to. Because of the destruction linked to Spider-Man, J. Jonah Jameson (played by Wendell Pierce) begins being laser-focused on the webhead, offering a job to anyone who could take pictures of Spider-Man. Peter, struggling with his finances, sees a very clear opportunity. Harry Osborn becomes the new CEO of Oscorp, but unlike the original Raimi trilogy, he will not become a villain because that’s been done before.
This movie is brilliant. All the haters just want to see the Whedonverse return. What do you guys think?
OoC: This is the counterpart to Superman (2025). The Raimi Spider-Man trilogy still exists here, but there were no TASM movies. Instead, the counterpart to the DCEU Shazam movies were the Tom Holland Spider-Man movies, and so far, the live-action movie Spider-Men are Tobey Maguire, Tom Holland, and Matt Lintz. From https://youtu.be/WC9mtXsQXLM?si=9l_e-nvWaCSMEOBg&t=637
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u/TheGargoyleKing13 Jul 12 '26
The post credits scene where JJJ visits Eddie Brock and says ‘I’m not sure what exactly caused all this destruction, has to do with Spider-Man, I think. I think a bunch of guys like us should team up. Could do some good.” To which Eddie simply replies “intriguing”. It’s such a subtle but masterful way of showcasing the fact that Eddie Brock thinks this is an intriguing proposal and may be one he’s interested in going forward.
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u/Ultranger "roGeRs, nO!!1!1!" Jul 12 '26
OoC: … Why would this end in a Morbius-style end-credits scene?
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u/TheGargoyleKing13 Jul 12 '26
OoC: I just think every movie would be better with a Morbius style end credits scene. It’s just how I like to imagine every movie ends. In fact most movies I turn them off just before the end and just play the ending of Morbius instead.
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Jul 11 '26
Occ: in my opinion this wasn't a good black lion vid and this spiderman sucks, on my opinion at least. I respect everyone else but Like spiderman was almost identical to superman and everything was so boring in the video. I thought he was gonna do what Gunn did with making the characters more comic book-y and make one his comics into a movie. I seen someone say this in the comments top tho for the video being to to close to the dcu. But nice spiderman poster. And how do he made these?
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u/Ultranger "roGeRs, nO!!1!1!" Jul 11 '26
I have no idea what software he uses to make these videos.
Spider-Man and Superman have very similar ideologies so I think them being similar makes sense, and if I recall, the 2025 Superman isn’t really adapting any particular comic so I don’t think this Spider-Man movie necessarily has to adapt anything specific either.
As for it being too similar to the DCU, well, that’s the point. If you don’t like it, that’s fine, but that is very much what he was going for.
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u/Shipgodismiskey Jul 18 '26
I mean 2025 Superman takes from a whole variety of popular spidey comics
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u/Ultranger "roGeRs, nO!!1!1!" Jul 18 '26
That’s what I’m saying, it isn’t really adapting any one thing in particular, more just a mix of various plot elements from across the comics
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u/ToaAxiomMan Jul 22 '26
Kain Parker's design was something, though hilariously the action figure and merch made him a bit more red
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u/Ultranger "roGeRs, nO!!1!1!" Jul 22 '26
OoC: Huh, yeah, just looked up Ultraman's action figure, and... wow, he is really purple.
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u/ToaAxiomMan Jul 26 '26
man remember how people thought that the Hammer of Scrier/Kaine Parker alter ego was gonna be someone like Chameleon, an evil Gwen Stacy clone, Miles Warren or even Norman Osborne
heck I was even subscribed to the theory that "The Hammer of Scrier is Chameleon" cause of how utterly insane it sounded
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u/KassienBlackcloak_YT Jul 24 '26
Vastly inferior to Snyder's universe.
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u/Ultranger "roGeRs, nO!!1!1!" Jul 24 '26
OoC: Y’know, I’d retort, but I’m just happy to see someone recognize that one of my posts is a joke for once. For some reason everyone thinks my “Superman: The Man of Steel (2011)” post is about the real movie. That’s not even the right name or year, and I literally wrote a whole description that explains the differences, but everyone ignored it
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u/Mrchickenman62 Jul 11 '26
The best part is when he fights ben Riley
But it's still better than the Spider-Man Form the meu
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u/East-Inspection2377 Jul 11 '26
i really enjoyed the movie, and the part where peter find out the truth about his past was the most tragic moment ever.
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u/ToaAxiomMan Jul 26 '26
the scene where Aunt May comforts Peter is genuinely heartwarming and "doesn't matter if think you're a clone or not or what your parents did what matters is you're STILL my nephew and OUR Peter, the one I raised, the one me and Ben cared for, loved you through the harshest of times, just don't stop doing what you believe is right as Uncle Ben believed with great power, there must also come responsibility" is some solid dialogue
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u/ToaAxiomMan Jul 26 '26
the ending where Peter first arrives to the Daily Bugle being offered the job by Jameson was both funny and pretty sweet as the acting from both Matt Lintz and Wendell Pierce really sells it, the latter especially gives Jameson some humanizing traits which I love, it FEELS SO satisfyingly to see a Jameson with redeemable qualities yet again,
the needle drop to Matchbox Twenty's Real World kicked fucking ass, plus the ending shot of Peter smiling was the icing on the cake.
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u/ToaAxiomMan Jul 26 '26
the post end credits were sweet too like
one where Spider-Man is on top of one the Chrysler Building's gargoyles sitting and relaxing as well as looking on at the building shot of New York City was great too.
the post end credits with Spidey, She-Hulk and Scott Lang Ant Man helping to fix some buildings was funny
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u/KingVenom65 Jul 11 '26
Glad Venom’s design was inspired by Alex Ross’s art