- What's going on, guys?
The new Civil War trailer dropped,
and we finally have our first look at
the new MCU Spider-Man.
I am so excited.
As some of you may know, Spider-Man
is my favorite superhero of all time, ever.
And I'm so glad that he's finally in the MCU.
And we have our first look at him.
But the way he was introduced in this trailer
was kind of interesting to me.
We had this line by Tony,
who introduces him as underoos,
but before that he says something along the lines of
"All right, my patience has run out."
And then he calls upon Spider-Man,
which is the first time we get a glimpse
of Spider-Man in this movie, in the MCU ever.
And I found this to be kind of interesting.
That line of Tony running out of patience
is kind of meta, in a sense.
I think it's supposed to represent us as the audience
because before this trailer,
there was an outcry of people wanting, demanding
pictures of Spider-Man, as if they were
J. Jonah Jameson himself.
But we didn't get anything.
We haven't heard anything until today.
And I think that line was supposed to represent us
and our demand for Spider-Man in the MCU.
Our patience ran out, and we finally, finally got
that Spidey that we all were looking for.
And what's also interesting about this line
is that we never actually see Iron Man say it.
If you go back and watch the trailer again,
he says it over the title screen,
which means, as somebody pointed out on Twitter,
this might not actually make it into
the cut of the movie.
It could specifically be just for this trailer
as a way to represent us, the audience.
So is this kind of like Tony Stark
breaking the fourth wall to introduce Spider-Man
to, not just Captain America,
but to all of us as a whole,
as a collective fan of Marvel movies?
Well, it's less like breaking the fourth wall
and more like leaning against the fourth wall.
Leaning against the fourth wall means
that you are saying something
that makes sense in context,
right, in the context of the movie,
but it also has a broader meaning for the audience.
As I've said, Marvel does this a lot.
One of my favorite examples actually comes from
the Agent Carter TV series,
where in the second season
they show Howard Stark is filming a movie
based off of a comic book,
to which Peggy Carter says something along the lines of,
"Who would ever watch a movie based on a comic?"
It made total sense within the scene they were in,
but also it meant something completely different
to us, the audience
because we know that, obviously,
lots of people will watch movies based on comics.
And in the Civil War trailer,
it made perfect sense in that context too.
Tony Stark was getting impatient,
so he called upon Spider-Man to make his big entrance,
but it also had a completely different meaning
outside of the movie for us, the audience,
as we were getting impatient waiting for Spider-Man,
and finally we got him.
And all was right with the world.
Unless of course you didn't like the design,
or the voice, or whatever,
but that's just, you know,
subject to opinion.
And similarly, Spider-Man's line of,
"Hey, everyone," could be referring to
all of the superheroes that he is in the presence of
in that particular scene,
but it also could be applied to us, the audience,
the fans who have been waiting
for Spider-Man to show up.
And now he is here,
and he is greeting us because we have waited.
What do you guys think of this new trailer?
And also, more importantly,
what do you think of this new MCU Spider-Man?
Do you like the costume design, and the voice,
and the actor who's behind it all?
Just give me all of your thoughts about it
'cause I love talking about Spider-Man.
We did like a whole Spider-Manuary month
two months ago, so yeah,
let's talk about it all in the comments.
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