>>106370963>This recent trend of absolutly shitting on himIt's not shitting on him. I don't like the way he was used in Spider-Gwen but calling it shitting on him isn't fair.
The issue is that Spider-Man has been adapted more times than we can count, and in a lot of those adaptions a grand swath of Peter's adventures are often taken and truncated for ease of storytelling.
Take an adaptation. Oh Peter was only in high school for barely a year and a half of real world time? Well High school is easy to write about so we're going to focus on that. He didn't have really an extended cast of characters to bounce off of, and his love interest was an older woman? Let's bring his extended cast and more affable nature from college to him in high school and even before being bit.
So the modern idea of who Peter is, is fundamentally different than what he was in Amazing Fantasy. It's just the nature of being such a popular character in a medium like comics.
So you have people whose fundamental idea of who Peter is, comes from the modern consensus of who he is, and even the modern idea of who his supporting cast was. And when they look at Peter and try to make him a villain they make him a villain based on that instead of the, ironically , far easier to make a criminal original version.
It's a far more widespread and subtle version of what happened with Danny Rand in Netflix Iron Fist, where they tried to soften a character's origin to make him appealing to modern audiences and inadvertently ruined him.
