8 Reasons Marvel's Spider-Man Might Be A Total Let Down

4. More High School Adventures

In an ideal world, the Peter Parker who will be introduced in the Marvel Cinematic Universe would be an adult and not a child. Understandably though, that would have been somewhat hard to explain, but more high school adventures are hardly worth getting excited about. After all, all previous Spider-Man movies have taken place in high school or college, so it's an area (which accounts for only a very small part of Peter Parker's history in the comic books) which we've arguably seen more than enough of. Sure, there's been promises that this new Spider-Man movie is going to explore those years in a much more satisfying manner, but does a trilogy of Spider-Man movies set in high school really excite you at this stage?. From Peter living with his Aunt May to eye roll worthy high school drama between characters like Peter, Flash Thompson, and Liz Allen, it's hard to fathom just how fresh this take is going to be as of right now. If the Spider-Man reboot borrows the best material from both the Stan Lee/Steve Ditko days and Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley's early Ultimate Spider-Man work, then we could get something interesting, but that still doesn't change the fact that there's really only so many times that we can all sit through Flash bullying Peter and the nerdy superhero pining for a girl like Gwen Stacy or Mary Jane Watson. It's cool that Marvel has decided to reinvent Spider-Man from scratch, but the prospect of spending so much time exploring his high school years is not a pleasant one.