SPOILER ALERT: This video and post contain spoilers for Avengers: Endgame, which, if you haven’t seen it by now, honestly what are you even doing?
The How It Should Have Ended team is back with an all-new video that pokes fun at the recent Spider-Man: Far From Home trailer. Specifically, it focuses on the pressure that Nick Fury puts squarely on the narrow teen shoulders of Peter Parker, as he demands that the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man step into Iron Man’s boots and lead the team.
HISHE focuses on what I found most ridiculous in the film’s trailer, namely that there are now dozens of Avengers more qualified and mature to save the world, yet Fury is putting all this pressure on Spider-Man. He does remember the kid is like, 17 right? And if anyone is going to step in to lead the Avengers, maybe it should be someone who has gone through puberty?
The trailer has Parker listing heavy hitters like Thor and Captain Marvel, both of whom are unavailable. But in HISHE’s video, he runs down the long list of Avengers who have more experience than he does. But Fury has an excuse for every single one. Black Panther? Running a country. Hawkeye? He’s got a family. Captain America? Retired. And Hulk is around, but he hurt his arm and doesn’t want to smash things anymore. “What kind of Hulk doesn’t like to smash?” an exasperated Parker wonders.
And he’s right. Parker rattles off several more names: Bucky, Falcon, Ant-Man, the Wasp, Doctor Strange, War Machine, Scarlet Witch, Valkyrie and her flying horse. And he didn’t even list any of the Guardians of the Galaxy! All of these Avengers are experienced adults capable of dealing with multiverse baddies. And speaking of multiverses, the Spider-folks of Into the Spider-Verse swing in for a cameo at the end of the video.
The only things qualifying Spider-Man to be the next Tony Stark are that Stark was his mentor and he has Stark-designed super suit of his own. I can’t help but feel that Fury is putting way too much pressure on this poor kid. I mean, at least let him eat a crepe in peace before he has to save the world again.
The trailer is very funny, but it also leaves me wondering who the de facto head of the Avengers will be. Tony Stark was always the obvious choice—he was the first one recruited after all. And the MCU got plenty of mileage out of the power struggle between Tony and Cap. But now that both characters are retired, who takes on the mantle?
The options are less clear cut. Captain Marvel is the most powerful, but there’s still Thor and the Hulk, who have been around since the start. It’s unclear whether this will all fall on Peter Parker’s shoulders, but the ensuing drama around seniority and rank promises plenty of complications for the next phase in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
(image: HISHE)
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