There are a number of different websites that I like to frequent, and one that used to be my go-to site Screenrant.com While I don't hit them up as often as I did, they still do steller work and I enjoy reading a number of their writers. The article that I read most recently was done by Thomas Bacon (mmm...bacon.) Now I want a BLT.
I'm back, and that was a damn good sandwich. What was I saying? Oh yeah, so Bacon explained how when the patriarch of comic books Stan Lee created Spider-Man, he did it because there were heroes from other planets, super-rich guys in tights dressed as flying rodents, super-soldiers from WWII and villains aplenty that were each their own kind of crazy. Lee wanted to make a super hero that his readers could relate to, and surprise surprise, his readers were teenagers. Instead of having the world handed over to him, this hero had to find his own way, discover what powers he had and more importantly, who he was. "With great power comes great responsibility." Not just a catch phrase, but a motto to live by.
The MCU introduced us to Peter Parker in much of the same way. In a world that had the Avengers, he was a teenager that was wanting to help people, but be a normal teenager at the same time. He had the same problems as teenagers today, going through changes (he can climb walls), his body's acting different (his Peter tingle), his voice is getting lower (yeah, this one had nothing to do with everything else), you know, the typical stuff.
Then along come Tony Stark and he becomes his mentor, the father...er, well, Uncle...he never had and gave him a purpose. That didn't take away from all of the other stuff he still had to navigate in life. Now that Sony has complete control over where that story goes, I'm sure they will continue doing the great job that they've done with the previous Spider-Man movie franchises (hope you're picking up on the sarcasm here.)
So with Peter gone, Disney needs someone to replace the everyday, average teenager. That character comes in the form of Ms. Marvel. She was created in the idea of Spider-Man by Marvel editors Sana Amanat and Stephen Wacker. They wanted her to be the "every-man hero." Sound familiar?
We will soon be able to see this vision of Ms. Marvel on the small screen when Disney+ comes out, but plan on seeing her jump over to the big screen soon. Disney has a lot riding on this character (don't let anyone tell you otherwise), because without Spider-Man in the MCU, they have no one else that could do the job of Peter Parker. You can argue that there are plenty of other young heroes in the Marvel catalog that they could use, but they all pretty much come from an entitled life. They need that "every-man hero."
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