Even tears withered

I have so many feelings about Hobie’s back patch you know the spider with the letters

And for the longest time before I saw the movie I was sitting there going “SFMN? SMFN??” Like I got SM is spider man and just could not for the life of me figure out the FN

Until I saw the movie and suddenly it clicked

Friendly Neighborhood Spider Man

Like be still my HEART you’re telling me that Hobie Brown Mr spider punk still came up with (in his universe, HIS canon) that moniker and liked it enough to put it huge on his back so everyone can see

There’s just something so wholesome about seeing a punk with the title ‘friendly’ attached to them (which they are, like they are the MOST friendly) because you know most people would see him and be like Oo scary punk spider but he’s like no I am in fact your friendly neighborhood spider man read my vest

I just have a lot of feelings about this and I love Hobie and Spider-Man and Spiderverse and uugghhh

One thing I really appreciate about Into the Spider-Verse that I don’t see people talk about very often is how competent they portray Peter B as.

Like, in any other movie, you’d have a similar character whose live has become a mess, and they’re sad and kinda pathetic to look at, and when the time comes for them to step up, they just sorta…flop. They’re held back by everything, and they just become incompetent.

But Peter B is different. Yeah, he’s a sad, lonely, middle-aged man who cries in the shower while wearing a spandex suit…

But despite all that…he’s still shown to be extremely good at being Spider-Man.

He escapes from being tied up while still holding a casual conversation

He takes down Miles in less than 10 seconds.

He strolls along the side of a building like it’s nothing.

And when you think about it, over the course of the movie, he kicks a LOT of ass. He’s a badass super hero, despite his flaws.

You ever notice how, when he puts on the mask, his gut sorta disappears? That’s too big of a detail to be an oversight. That’s intentional. I mean, in-universe, it doesn’t make too much sense, but to us, it’s meant to show that it’s not holding him back from being a hero.

He’s not held down by everything. Yeah, he’s a jaded, depressed, mid-life crisis Spider-Man. But he’s still Spider-Man.

They easily could’ve made Peter B sort of pathetic and had him be more of a hinderance than a help during battles. But they didn’t. And I feel like that was a really good way to pay respect to the character while still showing that he’s a heavily flawed individual.

And that’s not even mentioning when he managed to memorize a password instantly while watching from an air vent or the way he was deliberately animated in ones not twos to show how smooth and experienced he was!

Peter B Parker was many things, incompetent as Spider Man isn’t one of them!

The best Spider-Man stories recognize that Spider-Man’s schtick isn’t “a huge loser whose life is always miserable,” but rather “a person with problems, both real and fantastical, who struggles and suffers but still finds a way to be heroic.”  Spider-Man’s life is a process of taking two steps forward and one step back, not the endless parade of misery some make it out to be.

Spidey Sense vs Ghost Invisibility

Danny is visiting NYC with his fam for a ghost convention or something (as one does) and decides to do some sightseeing.