[quote=@GreenGrenade]
I dunno, I don’t think they’re dated if they work. Spider-Man (Peter, specifically) has probably the best supporting cast in comics, and I think the MCU kinda fudged themselves by trying to shove them aside and give us new, much lesser alternatives.
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MCU Spidey is positively [i]terrified[/i] of even sniffing a rehash of anything. Everything has to be different for difference's sake. Can't (directly) mention Uncle Ben. (Because God knows, say, the Batman movies have never returned to the "dead parents" well. Once you've told an origin, that's [b]it[/b]! You may never mention it again.) Can't use the line "With great power comes great responsibility." Can't go back to the Daily Bugle. Can't have the Osborns. Can't have Spider-Man web-swinging through Manhattan.

[i]Homecoming[/i] is a good movie. And in time, the MCU Spider-Man series may go back on some of these things; particularly since everything has to be watching the "evolution" of a character. (Because who wants the full version of the character anyway, amirite?) But when people say it's the [b]definitive[/b] Spider-Man movie, I have to stop and wrap my head around it for a second...