The big news from Hollywood this morning is that Spider-Man, who we have grown to love in his third iteration thanks to Tom Holland playing him in several Marvel and Sony movies, may not be part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe anymore.
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You can read more about that HERE, but basically a deal between Sony Pictures and Disney (who owns Marvel), allowed Spider-Man to appear in films by both studios. Long story short: that profit-sharing deal is now kaput, and so might Spidey be from future MCU projects. Honestly, we haven’t been this upset since he straight up died for a while in Avengers: Infinity War.
The people of the Internet has grown to love Spider-Man very much, so they’ve of course made #SaveSpiderman a trending topic on Twitter today. They have many, many thoughts and feelings about possibly never seeing him again.
They want to see if there’s a solution to save Spider-Man:
Me looking for a loophole to get Spider-Man out of Sony and into the MCU:#SaveSpiderMan pic.twitter.com/6kESteAi8m
— woah (@DeLaBreezus) August 21, 2019
https://twitter.com/hazel33004049/status/1163956989124390914
#SaveSpiderMan This is the first hashtag I need to complete its goal.
We cannot let this happen, Far From Home was an amazing movie that has brought us Spiderman to a whole different level.
It cannot end like this, WE MUST SAVE IT.
Whatever it takes. pic.twitter.com/mGqiWiku4c— Blue Lions | Fernando 🇺🇦 (@DairToDeath) August 20, 2019
Other Spidey stans are in a state of denial about what’s happened:
Me desperately clinging to the idea Marvel and Sony will somehow resolve their spat. #SaveSpiderMan pic.twitter.com/8SrxIBm3vl
— The Spider 🕷🕸 (@TheSpider1602) August 20, 2019
It’s just a nightmare it’s just a horrible nightmare, tomorrow morning everything will be okay #SaveSpiderMan pic.twitter.com/iFXTXUaIxg
— 🏳️🌈TFW2.0 desperate🦌🐿️🐝 (@MEBsSoul) August 20, 2019
Some fans are clearly in the shock and anger part of the Spider-Man grief process:
Kevin Feige did not just spend 10 years and 22 films setting up a whole universe to lose Spider-Man #SaveSpiderMan pic.twitter.com/i7K8tUYNIV
— Em ⚡️ (@emfarthingx) August 20, 2019
TOM HOLLAND DESERVES BETTER
SAVE SPIDEY pic.twitter.com/0cqc2bhXoO
— gixel. tus besos ♥️ (@gxssipsevilla) August 20, 2019
Tony Stark did not die to have his son Peter Parker kicked out of the MCU#SaveSpiderMan pic.twitter.com/pa4iANtBvd
— honeyaardvark⁷ (@AardvarkHoney) August 21, 2019
#SaveSpiderMan
“Sony taking spider-man out of the MCU”me: pic.twitter.com/tA0h3NyR6S
— 🙂 (@Hx12r) August 21, 2019
https://twitter.com/allenperez21/status/1163957997535662080
And some are just plain flat.
okay i can’t💔 #SaveSpiderMan pic.twitter.com/554p2rENUV
— عَلياء (@_bluealya) August 20, 2019
spidey fans we had to:
– see him get dusted
– see him lose ANOTHER father figure
– watch him get his identity exposed in far from home
– see him get taken away by sonyit’s been a rough couple of months#SaveSpiderMan pic.twitter.com/rNDJLtYufa
— frani⁷s first love (@SPIDEYOONGIS) August 21, 2019
There’s way, way more of these over on Twitter — seriously, just hit the #SaveSpiderman hashtag and you’ll be in a Spider-Man grief and anger vortex for hours. Whether the movie studio in question listens to the fans, well, time will tell. But tbh, it doesn’t look likely.
Let’s just hope we (and the Marvel heroes) get to see our pal Peter Parker again.
