Better Worlds

Spider-Man, Spider-Man
We watched the sixth movie of Spider-Man

He slings some webs
In the ‘burbs
We all thought it was pretty gurb

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Pre-show

• Trevor Slattery
• The Last Jedi is using red titles in marketing. Has Star Wars used red titles in the past?
• Jodie Whittaker is the next Doctor Who.
• Sinister notebooks

Main Topic: Spider-Man: Homecoming

Spoiler free (26:20)

General impressions, how Homecoming fits in with and/or stacks up against the rest of the MCU, and how it compares to previous Spider-Man movies.

SPOILERS (37:17)

• Humor in the trailers vs. the movie.
• Homecoming’s sense of place.
• Thoughts on the Vulture.
• Nods to other potential spider-people.
• Is the ring a long-game payoff for a joke that was never actually set up?
• The movie’s tribute to Amazing Spider-Man #33 (panel 1, panel 2)
• Trevor IMAXed a movie and didn’t like it.
• When people get upset that a character is a POC.
• When actors and/or directors lie about what’s in a movie to misdirect the audience.
• Asked if she’s playing MJ, Zendaya claims that Michelle is “definitely a different character.”
• Tom Holland Confirms That Peter Parker Appeared in Iron Man 2 and Then Completely Backtracks By Revealing It Isn’t True
• Star Trek IV cameo in Spider-Man: Homecoming
• Whiplash’s bird

• Sulphur-crested cockatoo
• Karen
• Karen Plankton
• The timeline of the MCU

Post-show