Woke: he shouldn’t be Spider-Man because his dad is a cop

    • Lucas [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I've seen arguments that he's more of a working-class hero than others in comics. He's broke, tries not too go excessively violent and generally tries to stay in touch with his community.

      However, he's subject to comics and us copaganda in general.

      In the PS4 Spiderman, he works with cops regularly (he does in the comics too, but still) and pushes the hypothetical character of Spidercop.

      In the MCU, they alter the 'with great power' line to be more about punishment than responsible use of power. Here's an interesting discussion of copaganda in the MCU that goes into more detail.

      It's frustrating that capitalism twists any potential story into more apologia.