Spider-Man MCU Will Be A Proper Web-Swinger After Five Movies

After five Marvel movies, Spider-Man: Far From Home will finally see the MCU's version of Spider-Man become a proper web-slinger. That's right: the character journey of Holland's Peter Parker is building to a head.

So far, the MCU has got to give us something we've never got well before; the story of how Peter Parker learns to become Spider-Man. Spider-Man is a fully-rounded hero; but the Raimi films riffed on the question of how Peter was doing his webbing, he seemed to learn skills like web-swinging with prodigious speed. Tom Holland's iteration of the wall-crawler is a lot more grounded, and has been given the time to grow into his superhero identity. He's been making countless mistakes along the way, struggling to acclimatize his hyper-senses. It's been an exciting journey, one that is going to pay dividends in the long run.

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A new Spider-Man: Far From Home set video shows Peter (in costume) and his classmate MJ meeting on Manhattan street and going for a swing. It's a fun video, suggesting that the movie will see Spider-Man and MJ get rather up close and personal (it's unclear whether or not MJ knows Peter Parker is Spider-Man). But it also clues us into just how Peter's growing as a superhero.

Simply put, Spider-Man MCU has not done so much web-swinging so far. There was not any in Captain America: Civil War – the airport battle in a comparatively small area – and in Spider-Man: Homecoming, we swiftly learned that the MCU's version of Spider-Man just was not particularly adept at using webs to travel just yet; he did not make it to Manhattan, and whenever he was swinging through Queens it was comedic. Jump ahead to Avengers: Infinity War, and Peter was a little more skilled, though New York's hero really came into the Manhattan sequence. And, given Spider-Man is presumably dead for the bulk of Avengers 4, it's unlikely to be more web-slinging in that movie.

We now know that the Spider-Man Far From Home is a competent web-swinger who will be making his way around Manhattan with a love interest in tow. That's some classic Spider-Man at last, which makes sense as part of the grander MCU plan. in Spider-Man: Homecoming, Peter only had his powers for a few months; Spider-Man: Far From Home is set "minutes after" Avengers 4This is a couple of years now. And, considering Spider-Man's going to be a headline hero going into MCU Phase 4, it's about time to become more well-rounded.

Some viewers were disappointed at how clumsy Peter was in Spider-Man: Homecoming. But that clumsiness was important; it allowed Marvel to show Peter's personal journey Spiderman we know and love.

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