I stand by my use of the word clearly, although based on what you've said, I'd amend it to "Clearly you haven't read the comic in the last 12 years or so. Tony Stark designed a suit for Peter Parker, in the "normal," not Ultimate comic, dubbed the "Iron Spider" for Peter in 2005 or 2006. It went through various iterations, and without bogging you down with the details, Peter eventually worked some Satanic magic that erased a lot of his history, after which he began designing his own versions of the suit. Long story short, for the last 12 or so years, Spider-Man's costume has typically been an enhanced, armor-like suit with all sorts of gadgetry built in. And, sometimes, he dusts off the old spandex.
In any event, the film is a pretty accurate representation of Spider-Man around the time of Civil War, although in the film, unlike the comic, he is not an Avenger, and his identity is secret from the world.
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Underdog_73 (755)
6 years ago
I remember the iron Spider suit when it first came out, but it did not have any of the gadgets in the movie. I wanna say it just gave him extra arms, but my memory is failing. Things may have changed. This was around the time I found comics becoming no longer enjoyable. It was the time when new writers couldn't come up with good stories, so they just changed everything that existed previously. A cheap gimmick. It was really the clone story that started me down the road of quitting, but I lingered a little longer.
All that said, I'll stand by my initial remark. The suit is ridiculous and it's not based on the majority of the comic. Forty years of simple spandex vs. ten years of nonsense still gives spandex the edge by a huge margin. Based on the comic doesn't simply mean the most recent storyline.
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