intersustainability:

the first time i heard someone call mcu spidey a white-washed version of miles i thought it was a fair, if exaggerated, way of criticizing the many plot points sm:hoco took from miles’s story. but the more i think about it…. is there anything about mcu peter parker that isn’t just miles’s story? he doesn’t have his photography, jewish identity/themes, relationship with aunt may, grief over ben’s death, desire to help people, poverty, loyalty to his city, his independence….

in hoco: he has a middle class background, an acadec team, a young parent, a chubby + nerdy best friend asian/pacific islander background….

it’s become very clear to me that the mcu was interested in making a spider-man movie, but– as has been said –they didn’t want to re-hash the same story over again. so what did they do?

they didn’t make a movie about peter parker is for sure. but they didn’t make a movie about miles morales either– miles is inseparable from his culture and background. so they went the safe route, and took EVERYTHING from miles’ story and pasted them onto a character who just…. isn’t anyone. his personality starts and ends with being the main character.

this works for an audience who are ready to accept him as a blank slate, an everyman, just there to take them through the story. they don’t seem to mind his lack of everything.

and i just find that really fucking upsetting.