The Spider-Man Of The Moment: 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' Nearly Took Its Ending From The Comics

If you are ready to get caught in Tom Holland's sticky fluid but haven't yet headed to cinemas to watch Spider-Man: Homecoming, seriously, where have you been? With a certified fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, a complex villain, and a brilliant post-credits scene, #SpiderManHomecoming spreads it eight legs among the very best of the MCU back catalog, however, we nearly got a very different ending.

From Spider-Boy To Spider-Man

If you remember back to the film's climax, we see a redeemed Peter Parker preparing to be initiated into Tony Stark's new era of the #Avengers. Offered a shiny new suit and for all his dreams coming true, a noble Peter then rejects his Avengers badge and returns to a life of sandwiches and Spanish class. It was a poignant climax and a key moment that showed just how much Peter had grown during the film.

While both Holland and Spidey are confirmed as a big part of the upcoming #InfinityWar, we can only assume Peter's Spider-Sense will start tingling before long and he will take Mr. Stark up on his offer. However, while #SpiderMan's future with Stark Industries remains up in the air, the original ending mapped out a very different course for our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.

According to Yahoo! Movies, the scene at the Avengers HQ played out with Parker facing a room full of journalists and admitting to the world that he is in fact Spider-Man. Instead, we see Aunt May realize that her nephew is a wall-crawling vigilante, which is a little more underwhelming, but still a decent send-off.

Ironically, had Peter faced the public, it would have perfectly mirrored the Civil War storyline from the comic books. Screenwriters John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein revealed to Yahoo! that their first idea for Homecoming's finale was a direct rip from the last page of Civil War #2:

Goldstein: "That scene with the press behind the door, that started off as a more clear opportunity for Peter to say to the world, 'I Peter Parker, am Spider-Man. And he decides not to do it and walks away. It’s still that, but it had been set up that if he could just tell the world who he is, he would get all his problems solved and be loved by everyone."

To Protect And Serve

As we have seen numerous times over the years with the likes of Batman and Superman, secret identities help protect those around our heroes. Although most of the #MCU's Avengers are out and proud with their hero status, Homecoming took Peter down a different route with the ending we saw in cinemas:

Daley: "What he realizes is that there is a virtue in being a secret identity and how he kind of has the advantage in many ways over his other superhero buddies."

Although we first met Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War last year, the plot was fairly light on including the newbie hero and the whole movie was slightly criticized for being only a loose representation of its #comicbook counterpart. Mark Millar's acclaimed run in the comic books may have seen Peter cast off his Spider-Man mask and reveal his true identity, but as Michael Keaton's Vulture threatened Peter and all those around him, Homecoming was just another example for why staying incognito might be for the best.

Also, if you remember back to the start of the MCU with Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark announced that he was Iron Man at a similar press conference. If Homecoming had replicated such a move, it could've felt a bit like a case of "been there, done that."

All in all, for a film called "Homecoming" that had about 10 seconds of actual homecoming, #TomHolland's first Spider-Man solo certainly paved the way for a bright future of red and blue web-slinging adventures. With only a handful of people knowing about Peter's arachnid alter-ego, the "I am Spider-Man" scene is certainly an idea that could be revisited in the rest of Spidey's standalone trilogy, but for the meantime, let's let him get back to building a Lego Death Star.

(Source: Yahoo! Movies)