When Marvel and Sony struck their deal to bring Spider-Man into the MCU, there was this brief glimmer of hope that maybe this would be the time to see a different person under the mask. Peter Parker had his run, multiple times actually, while many new comic book fans have come to accept black-latino Miles Morales as their Spider-Man. Maybe now would finally be the time for a different Spider-Man on the big screen? Uh, no. That was never gonna happen.
Gawker obtained a copy of the licensing agreement between Marvel and Sony and it seems to indicate it was always going to be Peter Parker. Plain, vanilla, boring, milquetoast Peter Parker.
Really? Ugh, was this guy raised on a compound or something?
While I think it's a little offensive that Parker can't even play the field sexually, what bugs me more is how rigid all of these standards are. They don't allow for even the tiniest bit of flexibility in who he is, and that explains why Spider-Man has been such a stagnant character and why the last attempted franchise failed. This contract was dated September 2011 so it's been in effect for a few years, and also means those fans who hoped Donald Glover would be Spider-Man were always barking up the wrong tree. It was never going to happen.
