8 Things Nobody Wants To Admit About MCU Spider-Man

7. He's No Longer A Working Class Hero

Okay, so, ripping off the backstory and personality of Miles Morales is pretty dreadful. But do you know what else is dreadful? How the MCU has transformed Peter Parker from a working class hero into the successor of a billionaire tech mogul with limitless resources.

Peter Parker has always been from a working class background. He doesn't come from money and his responsibilities as Spidey have always made it difficult for him to get any kind of financial security. He has a heart of gold and constantly tries to help others, and he does so from a fairly precarious position (at least until his later years in the comics), which was all conveyed faithfully in the Sam Raimi films from 2002-2007.

The newer, MCU Spidey films make only cursory attempts at diving into this dynamic however. Civil War shows how he's been struggling to get the right equipment for school and it's clear there isn't much money in the May household - a dynamic further exemplified when Pete's putting on an old suit to go to Liz Toomes' swanky get together - but this is immediately off-set by the fact he's swinging around in millions of dollars worth of equipment, and is clearly being groomed to inherit the mantle of the world's wealthiest superhero.

Peter's status as a working class character is further eroded in Far From Home, where he's granted access to a near limitless array of weapons, gadgets and resources. There's a great message about not rushing into certain responsibilities at a young age, but the film ends with Peter fully assured of his neo-Stark status, fashioning his own suit using Stark tech, and retrieving the E.D.I.T.H. glasses off Beck for his own use.