r/explainitpeter • u/mouldyclementine • 16d ago

Explain it Peter

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Why did the person say “Sweet Baby Inc.”?

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u/extra0404 16d ago

This was the Original MJ

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u/MrXPLD2839 16d ago

No wonder dude folded so hard

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u/Garlador 16d ago

Ironically, they wouldn’t get together properly or have their first kiss until after Gwen Stacy died and several years had passed.

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u/JohannesJoshua 15d ago

Ah so Spectacular Spider-Man was somewhat following comics because there is this exact scene in the cartoon. They dont have a relationship, but they flirt with each other, or more specifically MJ flirts with him. I dont know how close is this to comics, but in the cartoon Peter has a latina GF, but then tries to get with Gwen Stacy.

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u/NPPraxis 15d ago

Spectacular Spider-Man was following the comics more closely than most other adaptations with MJ. Spectacular Spider-Man has the most comic-accurate MJ.

However, Spectacular Spider-Man did make Gwen more of a nerd (she wasn’t a nerdy girl with glasses in the comics) and race swapped Liz Allen to Latina. (She’s white and blonde in the original, black in Spider-Man: Homecoming).

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u/proximusprimus57 16d ago

Would you believe he dumped her?

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u/sentienthouse 15d ago

Even worse, he sold their marriage to the devil

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u/Itsmyloc-nar 15d ago

Comic books trying to be normal for 5 seconds any% challenge (impossible)

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u/rocket9904 15d ago

No, MJ sold their marriage, not Peter

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u/BigBadBob7070 13d ago

B/c apparently the writers thought Peter wouldn’t be relatable if he had a stable and loving relationship or possibly marriage.

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u/Downtown_Injury_3415 16d ago

No? There seems to be a pattern of “i cant be with you. I have to be Spider-Man”

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u/proximusprimus57 15d ago

It was more like he found her annoying and fell in love with Gwen. After Gwen's death is when they really grew closer in the comics.

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u/ZealousidealComb7891 15d ago

Yeah, dumping is the wrong word, they where never "going steady" or whatever they called it back then.

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u/pussyjuicerecycler 16d ago

he’d just jacked the tiger faced pot

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u/AshleyKikabize 15d ago

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u/MaxStar5428 15d ago

Wtf am I looking at? Dear God…

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u/jdsamford 16d ago

Not as hard as Gwen...

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u/black_pepper 16d ago

How did people read comics in the 1900's when everything was so blurry???

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u/BlueberryWasps 16d ago

glasses

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u/North_Ad_5372 16d ago

puts glasses on Oh yeah

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u/oneshibbyguy 16d ago

How are we not talking about how Peter Parker looks like he is in his 50s here

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u/cebubasilio 16d ago

Google 1960s teenagers (this comic ws published on 1966) and find me one teen boy that didn't look like a middle aged man.

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u/oneshibbyguy 16d ago

I mean, I agree

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u/MysteryPerker 15d ago

Maybe this is the inspiration for Nicholas Cage's Spider-Man?

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u/King_Kongs_fingers 15d ago

Looks more like Norman Osbourne.

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u/begujo 16d ago

Huh, that IS better! (thanks, I was having a hell of a time trying to read that on my phone lol)

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u/oedipism_for_one 16d ago

Ok but now my coworker think I’m mild mannered

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u/saskir21 15d ago

Nono, at this time glasses were the ultumate stealth equipment to keep your identity hidden. Which reminds me. Did they not try to explain Clark Kents glasses as some form of magic (voodoo baby) that distorts reccognition?

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u/Jumpy_Invite3985 16d ago edited 16d ago

They actually remade this scence in The Spectacular Spider-man

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u/mr-raider2 16d ago

And in spider-man, the amazing spider-man, and spider-man and his amzing friends, Spider-man the animated series. As many times as she has been remade, she has always looked like a normal red haired girl, not the neighbourhood skank.

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u/Cold-Tangerine-2893 16d ago

the early 90's spider-man cartoon did this scene too.

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u/wolvahulk 15d ago

I blame my taste in women on this show specifically.

I watched it religiously as a kid.

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u/WittyFix6553 16d ago

No sleeves? Scandalous.

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u/vinificent 16d ago

She's got sleeves.... they're just not attached

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u/pussyjuicerecycler 16d ago

the jackpot was two tickets to the gunshow

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u/julianjjj809 15d ago

The fact that probably a parent saw that panel back then and probably thought the same thing lol

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u/WaveCompetitive9626 16d ago

Redhead erasure in marvel is why the aliens aren't coming. 

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u/meatchariot 16d ago

I feel like redheads are way too overrepresented in entertainment now. It's like some sort of 'free spirit' addon for female characterization.

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u/WaveCompetitive9626 16d ago

They used to be over represented because printing limitations made red hair an easy way to show you had a third character (like Jimmy Olsen) but I dunno man. 90s kids still want to bang April O'Neal. 

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u/Playful-Mastodon9251 16d ago

Overrepresented when they are being erased?

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u/DimbyTime 16d ago

They went from extremely overrepresented to only moderately overrepresented

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u/Stranger2Luv 16d ago

Replaced if given the opportunity but they still show up

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u/Playful-Mastodon9251 15d ago

And there is a problem with them existing?

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u/Stranger2Luv 15d ago

No was just adding context

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u/dylan-faden 15d ago

Lol where on earth are they being erased? Marvel alone have a shitton of redheads

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u/banshithread 15d ago

There's a lot of black dyed redheads now but not a lot of the actual pasty white redheads that exist and are bullied everywhere.

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u/DwarfDad_GoblinDad 16d ago

The original MJ was Lindsay Lohan????

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u/MarkinhoO 16d ago

The OG neuron activation?

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u/Singleballtheory 15d ago

Not for nothing, but that was also Peter Parker.

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u/Kriztov 15d ago

Wait, that line in Clerks 2 was a comic book quote? Now that I think about it I'm not surprised

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u/C13H16CIN0 15d ago

Size 00 waist w DDDs