@stormshadow_x:
he's not above Peter in any real way
He never genuinely was in either version.
Thats were I disagree. He was more "handsome" , bigger, a star football player. As far as highschool life which he was a key part of he was Outdoing peter, his social status around the peers they shared was higher. It made it even better when down the line he realized how shallow that really was and that it didn't amount to much. Flash was always a good commentary on someone who was living the Highschool dream but had to realize that the dream would end.
I love the new Flash Thomson because he's exactly the sort of idiot from my high school that I hated most, yet was still the most common.
You can, He's not a horrible character but he's not what Flash is suppose to be and thats not just a big jock or whatever. It's someone who you can see why in HS life he's seen as above peter but in reality as readers we know he's not in character or even something as shallow as physique. This new character is a challenge to peter inteelect...but unlike with the original Relationship between classic Flash and Peter, Peter clearly is at least smarter and to his peers out of Flah's league ( He was an intern for Tony stark, the equivalent would be being the same for Elon Musk in the real world) IMO New Flash doesn't work because even in a shallow sense he's not Peters equal in anyway even to their shared peers it seems he comes of as the guy who tries to make everyone like him unnaturally.
If Flash actually tried beating spiderman up today, Spiderman has way too many options to get flash into serious trouble. Especially going to a good school in New York. People care too much for that today: if Flash really started beating Peter up, people in the audience might genuinely accuse him of being a villain.
You can say the same for their classic relationship, I'm not sure where this myth came from that schools pre 2010 just let bullies run rampant but at least classic Flash had something akin to coverage, he rarley ever really hurt peter physically and at best tried to make him feel like a nerd and a wimp AND he was the star football player so as long as he never hurt Peter in a physical sense he was fine. New Flash has no reason to be Flash and not just some random guy. Amazing Spider-man Flash in his one movie felt like he was a more interesting and better character than new Flash, he was a pigheaded bully sure, but you can tell he certainly has an inferioty complex despite having a superior social status, and when Uncle Ben was killed he showed alot of character by trying to be their for Peter making it clear he didn't hate him or whatever and truly felt sorry for him.
Also as someone who didn't overly care for the original spiderman films, Mcu Spiderman is amazing and leaves a much more memorable impression.
The most memorable thing about him IMO is that he's apart of the MCU and we can actually see him with other heroes which is nice. Honestly thought Andrew had a better version of the character even including his " Cooler" peter parker which had flaws.
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