Spider-Man: Homecoming
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Spider-Man: Homecoming is a 2017 superhero film directed by Jon Watts. It is set after Captain America: Civil War. Tom Holland plays Spider-Man, with Michael Keaton as Vulture, Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark, Zendaya as MJ, Jon Favreau as Happy Hogan, Marisa Tomei as Aunt May and Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts. It was followed by Spider-Man: Far From Home in 2019 and Spider-Man: No Way Home in 2021.
In the aftermath of the Chitauri invasion, Adrian Toomes and his salvage crew are fired from their jobs of cleaning the debris thanks to Stark Industries and the federal government forming a joint venture. Toomes is left financially prejudiced and his frustration, reach the conclusion that he should sell alien weapons to refill his losses.
Eight years later, Peter-Parker, Spider-Man, after the events of Captain America: Civil War, has returned to New York and stumbles in one of Toomes' minions negotiating weapons with a criminal; Toomes has expanded his business significantly since the Chitauri invasion. While following them, Peter faces off with Vulture, actually Toomes using a bird-like super suit equipped with salvaged weapons, that almost kills him by throwing him into a lake. One of Stark's remote armors save him and Stark warns through radio for Peter leave the case to the police, but Parker is determined to prove he is really worth the title of an Avenger and decides to keep pursuing leads on Toomes' gang.
Produced by Marvel Studios, Columbia Pictures and Pascal Pictures. Distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing.
- Accidental Murder: Toomes actually didn't want to kill Jackson Bryce and thought he was using an anti-gravity gun.
- Bait and Switch: The montage of Peter trying to do something to pass the time as he is trapped inside a Damage Control facility tricks the audience he has already spent hours there, specially with him trying to learn how Stark's spider-suit works, but when he asks the "Karen" artificial intelligence how much time has passed, she reveals only thirty-seven minutes has passed.
- Big Bad: Adrian Toomes/Vulture, that leads a gang that sells super-powered weapons.
- Blatant Lies:
- Ned tells the librarian that he is watching porn even though he is helping Spidey.
- MJ affirms knowing what school activities Peter quit does not make her obsessed with him.
- Cerebus Retcon: Stark's dismissive treatment of Peter after putting a teenager through a life-or-death battle with Steve and his Avengers' faction make his actions look much darker than they already were, and to make things more abusive he simply said Steve had gone insane without explaining why they were fighting. He does say he counted on Rogers to enforce his Thou Shalt Not Kill policy though.
- Curse Cut Short: May yells "What the f-" when she saw her nephew dress up as Spidey.
- Establishing Character Moment: MJ's first scene is calling Peter and Ned creepy and losers for staring at a girl wearing a short skirt, and saying she has no friends, that, considering the previous sentence, makes a lot of sense.
- Mythology Gag: The 1960s Spider-Man theme song is heard during the score.
- Noodle Incident: Peter's teacher Mr. Harrington apparently lost a student during a school trip before the Washington Monument incident. It's Played for Laughs.
- The Obi-Wan: Tony Stark is Spider-Man's mentor.
- Race Lift:
- MJ and Herman Schultz are black unlike in the comics.
- Flash Thompson is Guatemalan instead of csucasian.
- Secret Test of Character: Subverted. Tony was really going to make Peter a permanent member of the Avengers, but Peter thinks he is testing his character and refuses it to keep being a street-level hero.
- Shipper on Deck:
- Ned ships Liz with Peter. Technically, he is with Peter and anyone, but once he sees Liz has a crush on Parker's alter-ego he grabs the earliest opportunity to set them up for a date.
- Karen also eager to help Peter in her romantic life, but as an artificial intelligence designed to help Parker that is obviously by design.
- Skewed Priorities: Flash cares more about a trophy he didn't take part on winning than saving his own skin.
- Status Quo Is God: Zig-zagged. Peter keeps being a street-level hero but Tony, in a hurry to have something to announce to the press something else in place of Spider-Man becoming an Avenger, finally proposes Pepper into marriage.
- The Stinger:
- Adrian meets Mac Gargan at prison.
- Captain America made a fake PSA for those who were waiting at the end credits.