Spider-Man: Homecoming 2 - 10 Things Fans Demand

8. Pathos To Match The Optimism

This isn't to say that Jon Watts' first Spidey featured lacked emotion - quite the opposite. It possessed bags of the stuff, but it's fair to say that the film perhaps lacked the heavier beats that typified Raimi's - and to some degree even Marc Webb's - Spider-Man films.

The first Homecoming was mature - that much is true - but what if it ended up being just as devastating as The Breakfast Club? This isn't to ask Watts to conjure a work as groundbreaking or genre-defining as Hughes', but in examining the teenage experience - and in making Peter Parker even more relatable - that kind of pathos should be present.

It was alluded to in Homecoming when Peter referenced "all that May's been through", and by the fact their apartment had a wardrobe full of old suits (a blatant a nod as any to the presence of Uncle Ben), but the sequel needs to do more. It can't afford not to, in light of both Infinity War and its presumably devastating follow-up, and it would only be embodying the spirit of the character - and those other teen movies - in doing so.