8 Things Nobody Wants To Admit About MCU Spider-Man

by Ewan Paterson

1. He's Been Displaced As NYC's Hero

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Spider-Man is the quintessential New York hero. Sure, most of Marvel's library have taken a permanent residence in the Big Apple, such as Daredevil, Luke Cage or Iron Fist, but Spidey is definitively the city's super-mascot.

Admittedly, one of the most welcome changes about these new Spider-Man films has been seeing the character really stay close to Queens. It's Peter's home, and the opening montage in Homecoming really does a great job of setting the stage for how Spidey is owning the "friendly neighbourhood" title.

All that said, both Homecoming and Far From Home have uprooted the wall-crawler from his familiar stomping grounds. The former features a class trip to Washington D.C., while the latter sees Peter and co. embark on a school vacation across Europe.

It's pleasant enough seeing Spidey get out of his comfort zone, but without the New York link, something is definitely missing. Far From Home ends on a note that suggests Peter will finally get back to the Big Apple, but for now, it's clear that the next film will have a lot of catching up to do.

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WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well. In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.