What your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man can learn from invincible

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“Invincible” has returned for its third season in Prime Video, throwing simultaneously with the debut season of “Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man” in Disney+. With this new rival, “invincible” retains its title as “probably the best superhero series of the universe”? I would say yes, and it is reduced to how “invincible” writes his main character Mark Grayson (Steven Yeun).

It makes sense to compare these programs, because “invincible”, both the series and the original comic by Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley, is basically Spider-Man Plus “Dragon Ball”. (The Viltrumitas are Saiyanes more or less.

Although Peter Parker does not have an alien warrior for a father, he and Mark Grayson are quite similar people. Like Peter, Mark is a young man who receives super powers, but realizes that being a superhero is not as fun as it seems; You have to weigh your personal life against your career, there is no easy way to save the world, and curved balls and life loads often make it break, but never break. He is Invincible, after all.

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Invincible and Spider-Man have even known before in comics; The program made an evening reference to this at the end of season 2, “I thought it was strong .

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During the premiere of three episodes of season 3 “Invincible”, Mark changed to a new darker suit, abandoning the yellow of the first invincible costume with a new blue and black palette. This is similar when Spider-Man obtained his black Symbiote suit, especially because Mark is also losing some self-control this season. However, no alien parasite is influencing invincible, only the pressures of his life. When it comes to portraying a defective hero in the style of Peter Parker, “Invincible” surpasses Spider-Man’s cartoon against which he competes.

“Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man” is taking his advice from the Marvel film universe, with a Peter Parker modeling after Tom Holland (although expressed by Hudson Thames). Those films, in the face of the introduction of Spider-Man late after the Avengers were established, interpreted it as naive and sincere to contrast it with adult superheroes.

So yes, this safe spider man is friendly. It is Chipper, even shy, with endless patience and without true failures apart from the typical delay of Spidey and the poor lies. Every time Peter tries to excuse his delay, he racks some comically poor fibros and a comedy routine of Woody Allen. The program even rewrites Spider-Man’s story for Uncle Ben to die for reasons not related to Peter. This aid of his defining character is an arc of learning how with great power, it must also be a great responsibility, which can only learn by being irresponsible first.

Criticism with YouTube headquarters Captainmid Nightnightwhich identified Peter’s characterization as the main defect in “Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man”, described it as “adorkable” and I agree.

Case at the point: at the premiere of the series, Peter finds out that Lonnie Lincoln (Eugene Byrd) is dating his pearl hazelnut (Cathy Ang). Peter is jealous only for a little, then he meets Lonnie, he realizes that he is a fairly pleasant guy and, therefore, stops fixing after Pearl. I have feelings found about this. On the one hand, it is refreshing to overcome the love triangles a storytelling can be made. On the other hand, it is symptomatic of the show that Peter’s edges soften; His attitude is also Maduro and pleasant for a teenager, while Peter has always been convincing because he is a character of warts and everything. Peter Parker is a good guy, without a doubt, but good It does not mean flawless (or without thorns). It can be thoughtless, it is often prone to self -pity, and has a bad temper and arrogance maintained by its responsibility based on guilt.

In Spider-Man’s first stories, literated by Steve Ditko, Peter’s defects are more heinous. It shows that it is a wall flower not only because it is a nerd, but because it is a difficult guy to be close; Hosco, often removed on the edge of the breaks.

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A reason why “The Spectacular Spider-Man” is still The best Spider-Man show is because he understands how defective Peter can be. His problems are not just the universe that curse him with a bad “luck of Parker”, they are often also of his own creation. But the tension that puts in his unmasked life is still Spider-Man because he knows that other people need it. His superhero is a supreme act of disinterest that exceeds his sometimes rough edges.

However, it is when he is Spider-Man that Peter’s arrogance comes out. In “Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man”, much of the humor feels as if it were directed in Peter when he should be the one who directed it. The spectacular enemies of Spider-Man hate it absolutely: not only kicked their rear, without mercy they interrupt them all while doing so. (“I make fun of me! I am a mocker!”).

I love Sam Raimi “Spider-Man” movies, and to a large extent they capture the spirit Stan Lee/Steve Ditko quite well, but they are also the root that leads to “his friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.” Peter Parker of Tobey Maguire does not have the same dark side that the comics did; He is shy, even unfortunate, not thorny. The first “spider man” even softens Peter’s actions; After defeating Bone he saw McGraw (Randy Savage) in a wrestling party, the owner of the ring deceives Peter of his money owed. When the guy is stolen moments later, Peter lets the thief escape (and continue killing Uncle Ben) because he wants revenge. In the original “incredible fantasy” #15, Peter lets go to the thief because he simply could not bother, proclaiming that he is now “looking for number one.”

Like Spider-Man, Mark’s definition motivation comes from his father. (Well, paternal figure with Spider-Man, but the same difference). First, Mark wants to be invincible so he can be a superhero as great as his father. Then, Omni-Man shows his true colors as a conqueror, going to a juerga of murders with city levels and seriously hurting Mark. Mark’s goal from then on becomes No Being as his father, despite the fact that the other Viltrumites are pressing him to embrace his “destiny” and the director of the Global Defense Agency, Cecil Stedman (Walton Goggins), lives with fear that Mark listens. While Mark understands, part of you is also placed with Cecil; is Is our hero too fair for his own good?

The end of season 2 “Invincible” gets his title of the words that Mark says with horror about himself of furiously hitting Angstrom Levy (Sterling K. Brown) until death: “I thought you were stronger.” Of course, Levy was a villain who threatened Mark’s family, but Mark still violated her own moral code by killing him. Not only saw the villain who could reflect on him, he felt it. To continue the comparison of Spider-Man, this is Mark’s death by Gwen Stacy Moment, or a definitive failure to fulfill the promise he made.

At the premiere of season 3 of “Invincible”, the challenges are not leaving Mark. Discover that Cecil is using some invincible villains that he brought. Mark confronts Cecil, and neither of them goes back, so Cecil activates a sonic chip that the GDA surgically puts into Mark’s ear as a “failed.” It is a painful and horrible experience for Mark, but with the way the fodder of “resuscitter” guns of the GDA, and then threatens to kill Cecil, you understand why Cecil is afraid of him.

Mark’s weaknesses feel equally amplified this season because now he has to be a mentor for his little brother and aspiring superheroes, Oliver (Lincoln Bodin). Mix the typical immaturity, Oliver’s des it’s not), And you have a recipe for “Kid Omni-Man” becoming the original. Mark not only has to stay on the right path, but also have to make sure Oliver stays there. As Mark succinctly describes Eve (Gillian Jacobs) in episode 3, “Do you want a real costume, right?”, You have to discover “how can I be a son, a brother, a boyfriend and a superhero at the same time? time?”

Like many other superhero stories, “Invincible” presents a multiverse. However, he skillfully uses the “infinite possibilities” of parallel realities to underline the importance of their chosen environment. In most universes, Mark embraces his Viltrumita heritage and joins his father on the conquering earth. We are following this Invincible because it is rare that he did not become evil, but the most recent episodes showed us that he could still. Our brand still has many of the same qualities that their evil alternative beings did, it is only that until now, their good have proven even stronger.

The greatest battles of a hero can and should be his inmates, faced against his worst me that sometimes He even wins. “Invincible” understands that, but I’m not sure that “his friendly neighborhood Spider-Man,” he does.

“Invincible” is being transmitted in a main video, with new episodes that fall on Thursdays. “His friendly neighborhood Spider-Man” is being transmitted in Disney+.