Spider-Man: Homecoming - 10 Major Ways Spidey Will Be Different

10. Uncle Ben Who?

In Previous Films

In both Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy and Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man movies, the death of Uncle Ben plays as big a part in Spider-Man's story as the death of the Waynes does to Batman. He might be dead, but his presence looms large, and almost every moral quandary Peter faces is fed back through the filter of his uncle and his death.

There was some attempt in The amazing Spider-Man to make Peter's past more about the death of his parents, but it was essentially just repainting the same backstory.

In Homecoming

Apparently, though Uncle Ben will be mentioned, it will only be in passing and we won't get the same sort of obsessive focus over the "mystery" of his death, in order to establish difference from the films that have gone before.

This is absolutely a good thing, as it leaves more room for traditional crime-fighting, rather than being drawn irresistibly back to yet another version of what really happened the night Ben died. We now get to focus on where he's going, rather than him always looking back over his shoulder at his ghosts.