Review of Spider-Man

Spider-Man (2017–2020)
1/10
The only good idea is barely touched on
2 December 2019
The show really is a hard watch if you are a Spider-Man fan since they get about everything wrong what made the character so great in the first place. Instead of a smart yet troubled hero we get an embarrassing "big brain theory" light clown. Peter Parker of this show is nothing like the one you used to know and love. It almost as if the entire shows purpose is the ridicule and belittle him. He is more comic side kick then hero. Instead of the show focusing completely at Parker learning to become a great Superhero the actual hero stuff get's down by characters like Miles, Spider-Gwen, Black Widow or Ms Marvel, characters who unlike Peter are very marie sue like, as in everybody likes them and they never fail or need to be rescued/helped. Meanwhile the actual hero of the show Spider-Man like I said is more comic relief then hero, if he isn't humiliated he makes terrible jokes at his own expense or he needs to be saved. Having almost ever episode being about Spider-Man teaming up with another hero or group of heroes who are all presented as smarter and more competent then him is insulting form the very fist episode. Spider-Man is by far the most beloved hero of them all yet the show treats him terrible. He is set up to fail so that new heroes can look good. Most of the time while watching the show you will wonder why it is even called Spider-Man in the first place since the focus of the show clearly isn't on Peter. Peter's personal struggle of trying to balance a private life while also holding up to his superhero responsibilities never gets brought up, neither does romance. Women in general seem to really hate Peter with every word from them directed at Peter being either ridicule or annoyances but never being thankful. All the female characters in the show like I mentioned before have been turned into superheroes who are better then him at everything and are always very insulting to him, often calling him stupid or useless. You would think that the show would give Spider-Man a chance to proof himself and show them that he is actually not only just as good as them but better at being a superhero but nope. He never saves any girls and none of the superheroes ever apologize to him for constantly undermining and insulting him. The only interesting thing the show does is try to focus a bit more on Peters friendship with Harry but sadly that part is very underdeveloped to make space for yet more episodes of Miles, Spider-Gwen, Ms. Marvel, Spider-Girls, etc saving the day and ridiculing Peter.
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