Release date, trailer and status in the MCU – Destructoid timeline

Tilt your heads to the sky, you true believers out there: Marvel Studios has welcomed the new year with its first movie trailer. Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Mana new animated series set to put a fresh spin on Peter Parker’s rise to heroism.

Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man It’s already checked off many boxes from the standard “Spider-Man origin story” list: a do-it-yourself superhero suit, high school drama, and a variation of the old Spidey mantra about authority and responsibility. However, the series’ teaser made it clear that this retelling of the Wall Crawler’s early days sees major ups and downs and some things change.

Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man shows off Spidey’s new friends, enemies, and paint job

Your friendly neighborhood Spider-ManThe teaser follows Peter (Hudson Thames) as he goes through a truncated version of his typical day: waking up late for school, chatting with his friends Nico Minoru and Pearl Bangan, and sneaking out of class to get dressed and swing. New York beats up/ties up the bad guys.

Up until the end of the trailer, things look like standard high school-era Spider-Man exposition, with some fun twists like Peter’s friendship with Lonnie Lincoln (Eugene Pryde), who comic book fans probably know best as the white hitman. – Transformed into crime lord Tombstone. Next, we see the Oscorp logo and find out that Norman Osborn (Colman Domingo) will fill the role of mentor/technology provider to Spider-Man.

As his ultra-villain alter ego Green Goblin, Osborn is one of Spider-Man’s most persistent and dangerous enemies, and his ominous promise that he will help Peter “achieve greatness” reeks of ominous foreboding. The Spider-Man I grew up reading about in the comics never had or needed a mentor other than Uncle Ben, but I’m curious to know where… Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man It goes with Peter and Norman’s new dynamic.

The other notable element of the Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man teaser is the animation. The series’ art style is an overt homage to the shiny, stone look of the original 1960s Spider-Man comics, but fans seem torn about it. Some users on Reddit posts like this one They compare the animation to the graphics of the PlayStation 2 era, but others seem to appreciate its efforts to replicate the comics.

Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man isn’t part of the MCU’s sacred timeline

If you’re familiar with the incarnation of Spider-Man in the MCU, the Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man trailer will likely be confusing. While the MCU has never delved into Peter Parker’s early days as a costumed hero, it has established Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark as his mentor.

As is often the case with the comics and the films and television that inspire them, the answer lies in the multiverse. Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man Not part of the MCU’s “sacred timeline.” Instead, it’s set in an alternate setting where things play out differently than they did in the movies we all flocked to theaters to see.

in A recent interview with Phase Hero, Your friendly neighborhood Spider-ManMCU executive producer Brad Wiederdom explained that the series was originally going to be set in the Sacred Timeline, but the series’ creative team felt trying to squeeze the series into established MCU canon placed too many restrictions on the characters they could use and the ideas they could explore.

Although I’m sure some MCU Spider-Man fans feel a little betrayed, I’m excited to find out why Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man With her expanded creative freedom. The series will be released on Disney+ on January 29, 2025, so I won’t have to wait long to see where the web-slinger’s latest adventure takes him.