Originally posted by Superman Falls
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She won't even talk about the film and I still can't get a clear answer on why it irritated her so badlyThere's a few fronts some less grating than others and I've noticed bits mentioned on other sites too that add to my puzzlement but basically:
The MCU timeline has it that Homecoming takes place in late 2016, just a couple of months after Stark and Peter first meet in Civil War. Infinity War takes place about 8 months later and that's when Peter dies. 5 years pass where Tony thinks that's it until Cap etc turn up at his door and persuade him to work on time travel to try and undo the snap. The whole plan moves quickly over the course of Endgames run time and against the odds, in those one or two days worth of events, Stark thinks 'this plan might work' and so we're led to believe effectively left something for Peter as though it were in his will - An entire spacial satellite installations worth of high tech military grade camouflage deadly drones... for a sixteen year old he's known intermittently for less than a year, has very questionable judgement regardless of his intent and has been dead for years - their reunion being no more than a few minutes before Tony himself died.
This isn't just a weapon of death being left for a teenager, it's a choice that tells us several things about Stark. The first is that he clearly has no understanding of Peter, nothing has indicated Parker is predisposed to want to kill enemies, also that the last act Tony does - the man who in the first MCU movie had an entire arc about learning about misuse of his weapons, the wrong in making them and swearing not to make them anymore - creates a literal death weapon and gives it to a child.
Now Tony, as stuff like Ultron showed, isn't a great judge of character but even Pepper and Happy sign off on this plan. Really it's once again undoing Tony's development and send off, putting him back in the prick area.
Others might be clearer on this but I'm unsure why Mysterio needed the drones too. He uses them and the hologram tech to create a huge monster that damages London but before Peter gives him the drone access he's doing exactly that plan without them anyway, he wants a bit of revenge on Tony but it feels pretty unnecessary to accomplishing his goal.
He sets Peter up at the end too, revealing his identity and making him look a villain. However Peter has the remaining Avengers, Nick Fury, Pepper, Happy etc all on his camp so is it going to be that hard to prove Peter's been framed?
There genuinely may be something that makes the motivations and events click cohesively that I've missed, none of this takes away the humour and fun of the set pieces etc but narratively looking back it currently feels like a bit of an 'up yours' to Stark and Peter.
Side note - When the film opens it has a comedy scene showing how people reappeared after 5 years where they had disappeared as shown by the band players appearing mid-basketball game. Brushing over the dark of that scenario there - given the millions who vanished mid-flight, drive, train etc who will therefore have reappeared only to die brutally instantly
Or that in the space of 5 years buildings may have been built where people vanished, so when they return they become one with the structure like Brundle-fly.
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