Homecoming is the only MCU film where we see Tony Starkjustfrom an outside perspective, and it’s hilarious to finally see him the way people in-universe do: suave, Cool™, always in control, definitely not an unstable Jenga tower of self-loathing and anxiety who uses a Cool™ persona as a crutch because his sanity is held together by scotch tape…
It’s also the only movie where we see Steve from an outside perspective and that is objectively more hilarious.
“Do Avengers pay taxes? What does Hulk smells like? I bet he smells nice. Is Captain America cool, or is he like a mean, old grandpa? Hey, can I be your guy in the chair?”
It really spoke to me, because usually the job of teaching a boy to tie a tie is left up to the father figure. Peter’s parents are dead, and Ben died the year before. Ben would have taught Peter to tie his own tie for homecoming, had he still been alive. This means the job was left to May. As we can see she clearly doesn’t know how to tie a tie, and in true modern day fashion turns to videos on the internet, but get this. She’s learning to tie it with him. I repeat. Instead of putting the video on and letting him have at it, she’s also learning along with him.
I appreciate Iron dad and spiderson as much as the next person, but I think we often forget that May was forced to transition from aunt by marriage, to mother figure. Then when Ben passed, she took on the role of being an aunt, mother, and father to Peter. She’s raising a teenage boy all on her own.
Half of both her and Peter’s support system is gone, and she manages to keep on like a trooper, while still supporting Peter.
She truly is an amazing woman who deserves such love and recognition.
I cannot express how much I love the fact that Homecoming made Aunt May a woman in her forties, someone who might actually have been a sister to the parents of a fifteen year old. It changes the dynamic so much from the comics, because we get a sense of May as an agent in her own life, a woman who has a career she balances with her family, a woman who should’ve had decades more with her husband, a woman who is trying to be Mom to Peter instead of a kindly grandparental type. I can accept white-haired retiree Aunt May for an adult Peter out in the world, but this baby Spiderman ought to have a mom, and moms who watch this movie deserve to have Aunt May.
I was weary of a young Aunt May at first, but you’re right. He does need a mom in his life and for as much as I love Iron Dad, I gotta respect Momma May here because she is a fantastic pillar in Peter’s life.
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