What's the term for this again? Is it predictive programming?

I swear I haven't heard that term until those Stretch Armstrong conspiracy theories.

Sorry you have to hear it this way but the vast majority of people don't give a shit about Spider-man as a character they've been drawn in by Spider-man the brand.

Why did the story have to become that though? Spider-man is nothing but a brand? Everyone is completely and immediatly replacing? That’s a pretty depressing lesson to teach children

Kids get pretty psyched at the idea of being spider-man. Plus Disney gets to sell masks. Win-win.

Because many people can't afford to judge things on the content of their character and instead judge things on the color of their... costume.

Stan Lee himself had been pushing the angle that Spider-Man could be anyone under the mask since at least the early-2000's. I still have a copy of Mutants Monsters on Marvels on VHS where he talks about how that anonymity was a major contribution to the character's success, and this was just an extension of those themes. Hell Lee himself essentially delivers that line in the movie.

That wasn't the message. Peter was smart and kind with a strong sense of duty which are traits that anyone can look up too. It was turning him into a superman-like character.

>Stan Lee was paid to say something
Imagine my shock. What made the character good was the costume, what made the character iconic was peter. Yes the whole body stocking hiding the person completely makes sense in an “reader inserting themselves into the character” but you’d think the story from there would be NEW and DIFFERENT people making their own way and names. Not “this popular franchise is just looking for more go getters” but all of comics got worse when people started embracing bendis

Yes because everyone LOVES it when superman dies like a bitch to be replaced by a better substitute within two days of his bitch ass meaningless death

Yeah he was paid to say something in a movie after twenty years of saying it in interviews all over the place.

If that was the case, people wouldn't have been pissed at Ben Reilley

>it’s another “OP whines about Miles” episode

Please, please elaborate

Nerds aren't people.

It wasn't literally "anyone can be Spider-Man," retards. The point is that the Spiders were all people from different lives and backgrounds, but all stepped up to do good and help people. The message is that anyone can be a hero to someone just by being a good person. Spider-Man is just a visual symbol of that potential.

Yeah but I doubt he would’ve wanted characters to just use the name at the same time to lesser and lesser degrees. The things that made spider-man spider-man was his interpersonal drama, miles lacks that completely since EVERYTHING in his life is connected to the name he leases. It’s depressing but these empty arguments are the reason he was made, well that AND because it’s bendises fetish

Ben Reily was a way to backpedal shitty characterization without a reboot.

I can't believe you understood the generic “everyone can be a hero” as blasphemous speech to the almighty parker

Yeah. I'm not really a fan of Miles, and I do love me some Peter, but I took the message basically as "anyone can be a hero".

Yeah man people hate martyrs. There's not entire religions built around those guys.
You're not supposed to love it. You are supposed to be upset and angry that such a heroic person died. There is a void left afterwards. And then your supposes to think, "how can this void be filled?" And then you realize that you could start being just as heroic as Peter and live up to his example.

It’s stupid to turn a story about a hapless dude trying to do good while living his life into a man dying young for a pointless reason to be replaced by his betters

If you want to say "everyone can be a hero" then you say "everyone can be a hero"
"anyone can wear the mask" means anyone can be Spidey.
Wolverine in a Spidey mask is not Spidey.

Peter died saving the city from being swallow by a blackhole and then passed off a important virus he created to ensure it never happens again which Miles immediately destroys like a retard has to have fixed by someone else.

BANE?

>If you want to say "everyone can be a hero" then you say "everyone can be a hero"

Is patronizing, didactic speech like that your idea of good writing?

This is what decades of comicbooks and junkfood does to your brian.

Yeah, Brian really needs to stop eating so much junk food.

Jesus fucking Christ you obtuse autistic nerd it's delivering the same message using distinct languge instead of a generic phrase. You braindead mongrel.