>>111135421I agree. This is a weird comparison, and I think OP did this to create a “controversial topic.”
We can talk Mask of the Phantasm if you want, OP. No need to shit-talk spider-verse.
Though you know what I like about both movies? They both explore “what could have been” with their heroes, and I love those kinds of stories. Here I’m talking about Bruce Wayne and Peter B. Parker, but they both handle it differently.
For Bruce, I liked how instead of working in some dumb twist of his past, like the Wayne’s being Satanists or gangsters, it explores the period where he was training but not fully committed to being Batman. It explores his humanity and how his fate wasn’t as written in stone as we came to believe. He was a young man who had a real chance to be happy, but chose not to, and we get to see that journey.
It’s similar with Parker, but it moves forward, and it’s what is most likely for the Spider-Man we know and possibly the most horrifying. He never grows up, never accepts good things in his life, and stays a burnt-out manchild. He’s still a good person, he’s still spider-man, but he acts like that guy at work that’s stayed in his position too long and it’s getting uncomfortable. It’s played partially for laughs but that shit felt very real, not like an alternate Asian or cartoon version.
