8 Things Nobody Wants To Admit About MCU Spider-Man
4. He's Given Access To A Fleet Of Killer Drones... And It's Played For Laughs?
A small moment from Far From Home, but one that exemplifies the problems with the MCU's newest Spidey pretty well.
Far From Home is all about Peter Parker dealing with being given a HUGE responsibility. Power, responsibility - it's the bread and butter of Spidey's comics, and while Far From Home does make good on movements to unpack that it's sometimes okay not to accept certain responsibilities if you don't feel capable, Peter still ends the film in possession of the most ridiculous device in Iron Man's arsenal.
As Parker is getting to grips with the device, he uses it to try and intercept a risque photo that makes it look as though he was getting frisky with a femme fatale, which Brad Davis intends to send to MJ. Instead of merely intercepting the message, Peter unwillingly accesses an orbital defence weapon that deploys a killer drone to murder his classmate, and it's all just... sort of... played for banter?
Just think about it for a second. Tony Stark dies and decides to give Peter access to an arsenal large enough to invade a small country, Peter nearly kills a classmate with it, and the whole thing is laughed off like some nervous escape? Peter takes the glasses at the end and so clearly intends to use them again in some capacity, but doesn't the idea of a version of Spider-Man who can kill indiscriminately and at the push of a button not make you feel a tad, y'know... uncomfortable?
It's so macabre, so antithetical to the character's roots, and yet he accepts them as a part of his new identity in the film's conclusion.