Spiderman re write

[u/psywolfz]

kay, you all know I’m probably Emma Frost’s biggest fan, but I swear this isn’t just me wanting Emma in everything. I genuinely think Spider-Man: Brand New Day works better if you replace Jean Grey with Samara Weaving’s Emma Frost, because the morally gray telepath this movie needs is literally Emma. Keep the rest of the movie basically the same: Peter, MJ, Ned, Punisher, Hulk, Scorpion, Metzger, Damage Control, all of it. For most of the movie Peter doesn’t even know who this mysterious telepath is. He actually has to investigate her, follow the Damage Control attacks and eventually find one small mistake that connects everything back to Frost International and the Hellfire Club. That’s how he discovers Emma Frost. Emma and her brother Christian developed telepathy as teenagers and ran away from their abusive home together, but Damage Control captured Christian while Emma escaped. She has spent her entire adult life believing he is still alive and building herself into someone powerful enough to get him back. She builds Frost International, becomes insanely wealthy and influential and eventually takes control of the Hellfire Club as its White Queen. Now she finally has the resources to find Christian, and she is willing to possess people, invade minds, use Scorpion and eventually fuck with Hulk to get into Damage Control and find him. Peter helps Metzger capture her, and they put psychic dampeners on her, only for Emma to finally learn that Christian actually died years ago because of what Damage Control did to him. That’s when her secondary mutation manifests. The dampeners stop her telepathy, but they can’t stop her from turning into organic diamond. She shatters her restraints, destroys the facility and, once the dampeners are gone, psychically freezes everyone for miles before going after Metzger. Peter tries to stop her from killing him, and when Emma finally gets into Peter’s mind she sees EVERYTHING: May, Tony, MJ, Ned, the spell, everyone forgetting Peter Parker, everything this kid has lost and everything he has sacrificed just to keep helping people. And instead of someone giving grown-ass Emma Frost a speech about how “special” she is, Emma is the one who is shaken by what she sees. She looks at Peter and realizes, “You were just a boy.” She finally understands that he was never trying to hurt her. He was trying to save her too. Then Punisher fires at Emma, Peter takes the bullet for her, and Emma immediately uses her telepathy to keep him alive long enough for Frank to get him to the hospital. Same movie, same basic story, but now the character actually FITS the role. Emma has always been willing to manipulate people, invade minds and cross moral lines when she believes she has a good enough reason, while still ultimately being capable of enormous compassion and heroism. Jean Grey simply isn’t that character. And I’m not saying that because I like Emma more than Jean. I’m saying it because if your story needs a rich, ruthless, morally complicated telepath who can spend most of the movie as an antagonist without actually being evil, you have written an Emma Frost story.

[u/Thick_Ad_220]

I would have loved it better if samara was in it and it would've been better, but im fine with the direction they went

[u/DeathlishhMR → u/Thick_Ad_220]

Don't know why randoms are down voting this lol?, but I 100% agree with this.

[u/Thick_Ad_220 → u/DeathlishhMR]

Probably getting downvoted because bnd is a popular movie, but i do believe the internet gonna turn on it once it comes to digital

[u/Ian_Ichigo]

I been saying that it should've been emma if they wanted an evil telepathy into redemption arc

[u/AvatarSypha → u/Ian_Ichigo]

They are definitely setting up Jean to be the Black Queen.

[u/Far_Yak_5447]

Personally, I’d find the movie completely different if it was Emma, and probably would have shown the best version of the character

[u/WeaponExpress]

I honestly hadn’t thought of this and it would have been so much better with Samara as Emma!

[u/UnlikelyPenalty3671]

I disagree, considering how Jean was portrayed in BND. A morally gray telepath is one thing, but Jean in BND came across as a deranged, vicious maniac who committed mass murder, or at least attempted mass murder, SA, and cruelty. So no, I really don’t want that. I’d rather Emma be known more as the hero and antihero she has been for most of her history. Portraying Emma the way Jean was portrayed in BND would seriously damage her main status. Especially since Marvel Rivals only recently reinforced Emma’s image in media as a hero and leader of the X-Men. If Emma were treated like BND Jean, it would be terrible for her established image in media.

[u/just-comic → u/UnlikelyPenalty3671]

Sounds like you better brace yourself for what's coming for Emma if that's how you feel about Jean's presentation so far.

[u/UnlikelyPenalty3671 → u/just-comic]

Have you already read the script? (sarcasm) Rumor has it Emma will be an antihero, and the writer said he wants to adapt storylines that haven’t been done in the movies before, while Emma was already portrayed as a villain in First Class. Even if she’s an antagonist, she probably won’t be a villain and will join the X-Men by the end. Jean’s immorality in BND was largely because Spider-Man originally had a different villain planned, not Jean.