Rumored Details About Spider-Man's Web Shooters in CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR

Captain America: Civil War could easily outgross Avengers: Age of Ultron to become the highest-grossing film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe next year, and with Anthony and Joe Russo at the helm — and theoretically not quite as much franchise-building on the docket as Joss Whedon was saddled with in Ultron — the film could turn out to be pretty fantastic.

There are a ton of reasons people are excited about it, but arguably one of the biggest is the fact that Tom Holland's new Spider-Man will be making his first appearance in the MCU in the film, and everyone's curious to see how he does and what decisions Sony and Marvel make in bringing the character to life for the third time in the past fifteen years. Here's where things are going to get a little spoilery, so turn back now if you somehow came this far by accident and want to go in cold.

We've heard that Peter Parker will wear two different suits in the movie: one that's a homemade version, and another that Tony Stark gives to him later in the film. Latino-Review points out that in the comics, Stark gives Parker a suit that's outfitted with Stark Industries technology, and some were wondering if that suit might make an appearance in the movie. According to their sources, though, the "Iron Spider will not be part of “Civil War” but instead Stark will be the one responsible for creating Spidey’s web shooters."

Obviously we'll need the full context to judge whether or not this development works in the movie, but my gut reaction is that I'm hoping this rumor isn't true. The fact that Spider-Man invented his own web shooters was a huge part of why I loved the character growing up, and to have Tony Stark just swoop in and hand them to him seems like it's cheating the character out of one of his coolest achievements. Is he going to just have Tony ship him new web fluid whenever it runs out? One of the biggest sources of drama in the comics was when Parker would run out of web fluid, forcing him to come up with inventive ways to get the best of his enemies in tight situations. It also gave him a reason to work at The Daily Bugle (he needed money to fund his web shooters), and working at the Bugle provided a whole different set of dramatic opportunities for the character. If you take all of that away, what are you left with? Not much.

Again, there may be a way for all of this to work out fine in the movie. But I still don't think any Spider-Man movie has properly given the web shooters the prominence they deserve, so it's a bit of a touchy subject since we've seen five movies thus far and they haven't gotten it right yet. Plus, Kevin Feige has said that Spidey already exists in the MCU and we just haven't seen him yet, so if that's the case and he's been swinging around New York City already, I wonder if maybe Stark just gives Parker a sleeker, more high-tech version of web shooters. Something to think about.

What do you all think? Does it matter to you if Stark gives Parker his web shooters? Or would you rather see Peter invent them himself?

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