3 Awful Messages Spider-Man: Homecoming Mistakenly Gave

With great powers comes great reboots. Spider-Man's newest iteration has Tom Holland taking the roll of the web slinger. Marvel's grand scheme was to present Peter Parker as the struggling high school student who awkwardly bumbles through heroism, only to realize that he can be something greater. What ends up happening is Marvel inadvertently tells the opposite of that message. No amount of Ramones' songs and 90's montages can save it.

1. The World Does Not Need Another Hero

Meet Peter Parker. He was bestowed with awesome spider gifts and he can't wait to use them to save the world. Except there is one problem. His whole entire saga explains that the world would be better if Spider-Man did not become a super hero.

In every situation Spider-Man is the CAUSE of needless pain and anarchy. He destroys a business by fighting low level thugs in a bank. He causes serious property damage pursuing a truck of arms dealers. He steals some of the alien technology and gives it to his best friend. Later, his best friend puts it into his pocket and it detonates in an elevator. On the New York ferry, Spider-Man is the sole reason that the ship splits into two. In fact, The FBI were originally going to bust the arms dealers on the ferry, but Spider-Man mucks that up.

You could argue that Spider-Man eventually learns his lesson and uses his powers responsibly. NOPE. In the last scene he causes a billion dollar plane to crash right in the center of New York. He never learned his lesson and he definitely didn't earn the right to be the hero. You could argue that Spider-Man's heroic save of The Vulture on the beach was his redemptive moment, but don't forget it was Spider-Man who caused most of the peril. He is only slightly good at redeeming his own mess.

The message is clear. Not everyone should be a hero. Just because you were given powers doesn't mean you were meant to use them.

With Great Powers Comes Great Stay The %$& At Home.

2. Marvel is Rooting for the Bad Guy

Meet the Vulture. He was a simple contractor who got screwed over by Tony Stark's defense initiative. He starts his own side business of stealing alien tech and fashioning it into weapons.

Because he is a bad guy that means he is dangerous right?

Well, actually no. Most of the needless violence and peril is caused by Spider-Man. The Vulture actually does most of his crime destruction free. He even uses alien technology to seamlessly rob cargo.

But obviously he is a bad guy because he steals.

Wrong again! He is stealing from military warehouses that did not have ownership of the alien tech to begin with. It's like Comcast getting angry at you for making your own Wifi signals instead of buying theirs. Plus, Tony Stark probably has an insurance policy that can cover him in case of theft.

Okay, his plan has to have some selfish end goal.

To feed his family after being destroyed by big business. That is the same family that Spider-Man splits up and destroys. Who is the real psycho?

I get it Marvel. The Vulture is the modern day Robin Hood. He steals from the greedy corporations. Big business sends their super hero to stop him and the narrative is that Stark is using their powers to squelch the little man.

With Great Power Comes Great Stick it to the Man

3. Tony Stark Was Only In It For Himself

Meet Tony Stark. He is the father Peter Parker never had. He takes the boy under his metallic wing and trains him in the way of the super hero. Spider-Man even gets a sweet suit upgrade.

Tony Stark's goal was to prepare Spider-Man for the responsibility of being a super hero. He wanted him to prove that he could use discernment, proper management of powers, and morals to fight crimes.

So how does Peter win over Tony Stark?

He crashes a flippin plane into a major city. That is what wins over the leader of the Avengers! Keep in mind we established that no lives were lost and the Vulture had no plan to hurt anyone. So why would this be the tipping point to get Spider-Man into the Avengers?

Because it helped out Stark Enterprises.

Notice that Tony Stark does not consider Spider-Man a hero until it was his precious cargo that was  on the line. Once he saw Spider-Man risk life and limb to stop the major corporate mogul from losing money he instantly rewarded the boy with a ticket into the Avengers. In most movies the hero has to stop the villain from blowing up a building, killing someone or terrorizing the city. Nope! Spider-Man gets his recognition because he was looking out for Tony's weapon manufacturing business.

He probably only wanted him to join the Avengers because of Peter Parker's brand loyalty to Stark Tech.

With Great Power Comes Great Puppets of the Military Industrial Complex

In Conclusion: The big business military is recruiting reckless high school students to look out for them so that modern day Robin Hoods don't get justice.

Great message Marvel.