Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (animated MCU D+ show)

[Pentay]

Help me out, guys. I've been watching everything MCU since it began, and I've seen everything. I'm not really big into animation shows, but I watched What-If... and the multi-verse saga doesn't have a lot of multi-verse story telling except for that series and this Spider-Man series, so I went into it gladly for the reason of it being an alternate universe with Peter Parker.

However, I quickly noticed racial relations that were completely inconsistent, so I'm struggling to continue with the show. Has anybody seen this? Can anyone tell me if it backs off at all or makes sense at some point? I don't normally have a problem with race swaps at all. Some of them make sense even. The ones that slightly don't... they do in the context of separating the film universe from the comic universe which is fine. But this show is taking such a strange turn that I feel like it's some kind of social commentary, and I feel like the whole plot and point of the show is buried underneath it.

First of all, the race relations are depicted perfectly in the sense that everyone is generally well represented. Peter goes to a school for genius kids, and there's plenty of diversity in the classrooms as well as the faculty. Now for some reason, stereotypes exist in this universe for no reason. Peter is forced to pair up with his love interest's black boyfriend that is also a jock on the football team. Peter cries because he knows he's going to have to do all the homework for him, but it turns out that the black kid is also a genius as well as an athlete. The teacher of the science class is also black, so I don't know where this comes from except from our living universe.

Almost all the criminals are white. The first victim he saves is a black man from a group of white guys that are trying to steal his wallet. I don't think Peter is racially biased against whites because he loves his aunt, but he beats the absolute ♥♥♥♥ out of these guys. He slams them into walls and even throws a brick into one of their heads. If this was depicted in live action, it'd make sense for these guys to be dead. Later a white bank robber is barking at his black getaway driver. The black getaway driver is constantly trying to comply with his white criminal leader but gets incapacitated. When the van is stopped in a twist version of Peter catching a car from youtube in Civil War, the white guy tries to say it was all the black guy's idea. Later a white girl is caught by Spider-man for stealing money from a black pizza shop owner. Peter even pleads for her to be forgiven, and the black guy complies. Are they saying white girls get a pass but white guys don't?

I wouldn't normally pay this much attention, but I can't comprehend why all these good black people exist, and then the black football player walks home begrudgingly (because he hates his home or neighborhood), and he is racially profiled by police. As he approaches his home there is the sound of a nearby break-in, and white perpetrators are seen running away across the street. He lives in a white crime neighborhood. He walks inside to a happy intact black family home where he is a happy contributor. So why is he racially profiled in this universe? IT MAKES NO SENSE!!!!!!!!! Why is racism in every universe even in a one where blacks are pillars of the community? Could they not have fully reversed the world so whites were racially profiled by black cops? The mixed messages are just ridiculous. They full reversed Norman Osborne too. He's black and he acts as a mentor to Peter.

Do they later explain what incidents have caused this sort of tension, or does it just get worse with the inconsistencies? They have the opportunity to flesh out an entirely different universe, but it makes no sense at all.

[Pentay]

I guess nobody watched this crap. Go Woke Go Broke won again.

[IAMFROG]

its typical selective social commentary that aligns with critical race storytelling. It saps any immersion from whatever the story is and replaces it with a message that fails to relate to the audience.