The Power of Nostalgia
As explained through the help of Spider-Man, Smash Bros. & more.
No Way Home spoilers. Obviously.
If you yourself aren’t a fan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, you are likely friends with or related to somebody who is. At maximum, I’ll bet that you are only 3 steps removed. The Marvel fever is stronger even than Kevin Bacon’s 6 degrees of separation.
For me, my infatuation started in 2002. Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2 film with Tobey Maguire was the very first film I ever watched in a theatre. And rule number 1 with nostalgia, is that looking back on your first anything is always moving.
In 2012, Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man was released the summer before I began high school. Andrew Garfield’s Peter Parker was anxious, a little angsty, and often carried a skateboard around. How did I start high school? Anxious, a little angsty, and although my skateboarding career was extremely short-lived, I did listen to an absurd amount of punk rock.
I first met Jon Watt’s and Tom Holland’s Spider-Man in Civil War, released at the end of my high school experience almost exactly 4 years later. Getting to know this particular character would span across my university experience. And now in terms of current day, having just graduated, I just watched the finale of this…
