WHATEVERMAN said 🔗
Yeah, haven't seen the new one yet (I have my imax tickets for this Tuesday #cheapday), but I was actually reflecting on the same thing briefly earlier today that "I think Miles is a more interesting alter ego than Peter." What's weird is that when the character was first introduced years ago I immediately wrote it off as one of those lazy appropriation characters where they just take an existing character and just switch their race/gender and act like it's something new/different, but after watching the first film I realized that Miles Morales is actually all his own character and very much not dependant on any of the Spiderman canon established by Peter Parker. I think the scene that really sold me on the first film was basically the thesis of the movie "How do you know when you've become Spiderman? ...You don't. It's just a leap of faith." Still can't believe it's Sony animation that produced these masterpieces. They're literally singlehandedly revolutionizing the animation industry.
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I think a part of it is cause we relate more to him and he's more interesting as a person. Peter Parker is boring in his personal life. The only thing that makes him interesting as a person is that he's into photography. Miles is into hip hop, he's a fly n1gga, his family got personality as well as him. He got interesting hobbies. We know more about his likes, his tastes in music and everything. There's more attention to detail in his personality, fashion and who he is as a person. When you see Peter and then you see Miles in this film you see how lame Peter was compared to miles
Peter is the type of guy that be blasting Weezer and Dave matthews band while miles is the type of guy you'd hang out with growing up but he's still really smart at the same time
But I gotta admit I don't like the recreation of heroes. They coulda took all the miles aspects from spiderman and just went with static shock. It's another example of comic books and movies running out of ideas instead of making something new or molding a character that's just like that and bringing him out
Female Thor, black captain America, etc