Spider-Man Finally Joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe

New submitter Chas writes: After years of Marvel fans screaming for a more unified approach to the Marvel Cinematic Universe between the property-holders (Sony, Marvel, Fox), Marvel has announced that they've reached a deal with Sony to bring Spider-Man into the MCU.

From the announcement: "Under the deal, the new Spider-Man will first appear in a Marvel film from Marvel's Cinematic Universe (MCU). Sony Pictures will thereafter release the next installment of its $4 billion Spider-Man franchise, on July 28, 2017, in a film that will be co-produced by Kevin Feige and his expert team at Marvel and Amy Pascal, who oversaw the franchise launch for the studio 13 years ago. Together, they will collaborate on a new creative direction for the web slinger. Sony Pictures will continue to finance, distribute, own and have final creative control of the Spider-Man films. Marvel and Sony Pictures are also exploring opportunities to integrate characters from the MCU into future Spider-Man films."

Comments

As long as he isn't the focus of the MCU

[slaker]

I want to see Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He's part of the living world created by Marvel comics, and the Daily Bugle needs to be part of the skyline, even if it's just background.

Spider-Man is also too much a tentpole character to live in the ensemble world that has been created in the Marvel Universe. I don't want it to become all Spidey all the time (as Fox has done with Wolverine in the X-Men movies). We don't even need an origin because it's been done. Just ground him in the world, establish that Cap and Iron Man are in that same world, that Nick Fury is keeping his eye on Spidey's exploits, and have him off to his own super-powered adventures.

In five years, if Sony actually manages to not fuck it up this time, bring him back as the guy who has seen twice as much of everything as Captain America, a science bro on par with Banner and Stark.

That would be just fine.

Re:As long as he isn't the focus of the MCU

[slaker]

Spidey should be the journeyman hero. He does have great powers. He's much stronger and faster than Captain America, and possessed of the same courage and sense of responsibility. He doesn't have experience or skills at first. He never properly learns to fight, but if you follow his journey long enough, he becomes the guy who has seen absolutely everything and not only that, had to DEAL with absolutely everything because whatever it is Spidey is doing isn't big enough to get Avengers out of the mansion, or because the Fantastic Four is out of town, or because it's two blocks out of Hell's Kitchen and Daredevil doesn't care.

Re:As long as he isn't the focus of the MCU

[Anonymous Coward]

He's Captain America with webs and magic grip. Seriously....

He can outrun a car.
He can pick up a car.
He can easily jump on top of vehicles and buildings from a standing position.
He's beaten Iron Man in personal combat.
Iron Man has made an Iron Spider suit for him before.
He's been a part of the Avengers.

The list of badass enemies he has had to defeat without assistance from anyone else is insane as well. his resume is easily as impressive as any member of the Avengers, if not moreso. His abilities actually get downplayed because he is not a slug-fest kind of guy, he stays out of range, he uses his head a LOT more than it seems to defeat enemies without killing them or lots of bystanders.

Seriously, you don't sound like you've paid him much attention. He's a lot more than a mildly smart mouth and some web shooter gadgets.

Re:Marvel's Cinematic Universe

[circletimessquare]

it's a fucking superhero story, why are you taking it so seriously

i would think the largest plot hole would be, gee, i dunno, maybe the fucking guy who can fling webs because he was bit by a radioactive spider?

it might be slightly unrealistic that a dude would get large and green when he gets angry because of gamma ray exposure

and yes, it is for kids. the kid in all of us

or, at least, some of us

get the stick out of your ass

Re:Marvel's Cinematic Universe

[Jane Q. Public]

Not all plot holes are the same. Captain America has plot holes because it relies on technology that doesn't exist, or didn't exist in the 1940s. I can live with that. Thor has plot holes that rely on magic. They don't belong in the same movie.

A distinction so arbitrary as to not really exist:

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.