Spider-Man’s role in the MCU

What better way to introduce Spider-Man than in the last Captain America solo movie. According to Kevin Feige, this trilogy is coming to an end next year – “one of the most unique and different trilogies ever around a single character.” (via Comic Book Movie)

As far as Spider-Man is concerned, Kevin Feige reminded everybody why Captain America: The Winter Soldier was such a great flick – it was because every character felt as if it was important, even if their story-arcs weren’t developed extensively. In the same way, as he suggests, it will happen with the web-crawler. Which once again comes and suggests that Peter Parker won’t have too big a role in next year’s Civil War.

Nonetheless, Kevin Feige did say that he wished for very long to bring this particular character in the MCU. And when they didn’t succeed, they always had contingency plans – as far as we are concerned, these plans worked pretty well, since we didn’t actually miss the presence of Spider-Man.

Nonetheless, the Marvel boss also said that it is very important when and how a character is introduced. But saying that he is very much different from all the Avengers is just a bit too much. Sure enough, all the Avengers had a proper kind of training (even Scarlet Witch, who was a HYDRA agent). And that is because Peter Parker is no longer an ordinary kid – he still has superpowers.

Moving on, Kevin Feige also said, “the most important thing as a standalone is relaunching Spider-Man in his own standalone movie with his own storylines that fits into this universe. That is job number one for us. … The connectivity is great, but it doesn’t drive the train.” (via Comic Book Movie) And this is a great thing – though we doubt it will be an actual solo adventure, since Robert Downey Jr. was all but announced to star in 2017’s Spider-Man reboot.

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