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The Russos Say Making Spider-Man Responsible for Uncle Ben's Death Would've Made Him Too 'Intense'
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The Russos Say Making Spider-Man Responsible for Uncle Ben's Death Would've Made Him Too 'Intense'

Gizmodo·James Whitbrook·26 days ago
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Uncle Ben’s death is one of the most defining moments of comics history: the origin story of one of the greatest superheroes ever created, a turning point so profoundly impactful that not only has it never been fully reversed or retconned , but as the mythology and multiversal existence of Spider-Man have expanded across decades, it’s become deified as a circumstance practically every iteration of the character must endure: A spider-hero is not a spider-hero unless they endure the responsibility of loss . So it’s kind of wild that, for  Captain America: Civil War , the Russo Brothers apparently decided that the MCU’s Peter Parker just didn’t need that. “Spider-Man was one of my favorite characters growing up, if not my favorite,” Joe Russo told CBR in a new interview looking back at a decade since  Civil War ‘s release. “And what I related to was this idea of a kid with incredible responsibility, right? And I think you could manifest that responsibility through accidental death, right?…

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