Spider-Man: Homecoming
Bringing Spider-Man into the MCU after two earlier franchises still fresh in moviegoers’ memories was also going to be tricky. Thankfully, Marvel realized that the key to making Spider-Man work in the MCU was to focus on what made him so different from the other heroes. The MCU is filled with a lot of folks who don’t have secret identities or even traditional powers. It’s a lot of gods, aliens, robots, mercenaries, and enhanced people. But for Spider-Man, Marvel producers kept the character a teen trying to balance crimefighting with high school while living in NYC. It’s a winning formula that is helped out a ton by the fact that Homecoming skips the origin story that everyone knows already. Add in one of the best villains in the entire MCU and arguably one of the most tense scenes ever included in a comic book movie and you’ve got yourself a damn fine Spidey flick. — ZZ
