We are taught, from a very young age, to strive for the highest level of ourselves, and superheroes - as fantastical as they may be - are presented as examples of what extraordinary excellence can look like. His response: "If I knew who he was, he'd already be dead." Toomes then walks towards his visiting family, honor restored. Toomes, of course, does (as revealed in one of the all-time greatest MCU scenes).
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Later, the film's post-credit scene involves Toomes running into Mac Gargan (aka Scorpion) in prison, trying to determine if Toomes knows who Spider-Man is. "Spider-Man: Homecoming" is explicitly aware of the fact that Stark and his scrupulous heroics are the reason Vulture exists, but it's also interested in who Vulture will be once Peter Parker's foils his plans. "It's time we change, too." Toomes sacrifices his honor for business and riches - how many times has Tony Stark done the same? Toomes then takes an understandable pivot towards wrong-doing by keeping the Chitari tech. The government seizes his city contract to salvage Grand Central his house and family's well-being are at stake. Tony Stark already had a Damage Control he also had the hubris to turn an extraordinary teenage boy into another extension of it, to sift through the dangers that were afterthoughts in the dustiest corners of his mind.Ĭonsider: "Spider-Man: Homecoming" opens with Adrian Toomes (aka The Vulture) trying to maintain his dignity and honor in a world that's passing him by. His entire hero's journey - from the call to action to multiple passes through the abyss - exists and is still framed by genius playboy philanthropist behavior. But consider this: two films in, Spider-Man is still using that power to clean up Tony Stark's messes, even from beyond the grave. Yes, it is confirmed that Tom Holland's Peter Parker had an Uncle Ben and that his death led Peter to great power and responsibility.
What makes it worse? Tony Stark, for all intents and purposes, creates the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Spider-Man. He ignores Aldrich Killian's humanity in "Iron Man 3," his unnecessary buy-out of the GCT cleanup puts Adrian Toomes on the path to evil deeds in "Spider-Man: Homecoming," and his mistreatment of Quentin Beck almost causes the destruction of London in "Spider-Man: Far From Home." This is all very bad.
The MCU Tony Stark creates demons we know this. It's more "swing and a miss" than simple miscalculation (which is an improvement on both Electro and The Lizard), but it's a miss all the same. The brooding anger which made him compelling in "Chronicle" simply doesn't jibe with the razor's edge madness required for Goblin, and "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" stalls out as a result. He felt miscast in Quibi's "The Stranger" and "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets," and he again feels miscast here. But Hollywood doesn't always know what to do with Dane DeHann. To be clear, DeHann is a terrific actor with a bottomless well of talent and deft access to it. To that end, why shouldn't Harry Osborne go from disgruntled rich kid to madman in two hours' time? See, it works! That hurt to write, but I'll stand by it! Though "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" moves too fast for its own good, there's an argument to be made that its breakneck pace is thematically sound and achieved so that the sudden ( spoiler alert) death of Gwen Stacy lands hard. Electro is the weakest on-screen Spider-Man villain, but embracing Max Dillon's canonized weakness might change that distinction rapidly. It makes him far more interesting than a template for ill-advised improvisation and upgraded costumes that only led to meme-based takedowns. That hatred makes him vulgar, even sorrowful. Few villains, much less Spider-Man rogues, loathe themselves as much as Electro.
This is ironic, because Max Dillon, as frequently realized by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, was a disappointment to himself. The class conflicts which inform Dillon's comic book portrayal are completely absent, paving the way for a reliance on ineffective visual effects and the "creepy" intoning of nursery rhymes. He's a bullied but brilliant scientist, transformed via reckless experiment. The primary villain of 2012's "The Amazing Spider-Man 2," Electro - aka Max Dillon - is presented as an Edward Nygma retread. This was the moment, in retrospect, when audiences should've known that both Foxx and director Marc Webb had failed to capture lightning in a bottle with their take on Electro.
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