8 Reasons Why Spider-Man Joining The Avengers Is A Bad Idea (For Marvel)

7. It Completely Messes With The Game-Plan

Ever since Nick Fury swung by Tony Stark's pad late that night, Marvel have been ear-marked as a studio with a plan. That they didn't work out The Avengers plan until Thor (they were winging it up until then) doesn't matter - they knew they wanted to do The Avengers, and then Thanos, and then whatever fevered dream Kevin Feige had. So it's no surprise they're downplaying the other big change to the MCU brought about by the Spider-Man announcement - they've pushed back the release dates for Thor: Ragnarok, Black Panther, Captain Marvel and Inhumans to accommodate the web-crawler as soon as possible. What this means on a practical level is that in bringing Spider-Man into the world they've had to alter their game-plan. Heck, as Spidey is appearing in Civil War, then it means he's totally changed the introduction of Black Panther; it was widely accepted T'Challa would fill the Peter Parker chess piece role. But while the Russos were working on two versions of Civil War, it's unlikely there was an alternate version of the wider, up-to-2028 story that factored in Spider-Man, meaning that, for the first time since Iron Man 2, Marvel are free-wheeling just a little bit.