The point of my reply was to oppose the seeming general consensus that Holland was the definitive Spider-Man, when both previous live action film versions had those same Spider-Man characteristics to varying degrees. The thing that upsets me so much about Spider-Man in Civil War is he seems forced and unnatural. He almost seems like a "fanboy focus group" version of Spider-Man. It was like ok he has to be a science genius so let's have him create his Web fluid. He has to be funny and talkative during battle but we can't have his personality be redundant to Robert Downey jr so we will have other characters comment on him "not shutting up" even though he's not talking during the fight anymore than any of the other Avengers. He has to mention with great power comes great responsibility, so let's have him say a line that essentially means that same thing only worded differently. He has to be extremely strong so let's do an homage to one of the most emotionally powerful and iconic images in Spider-Man history but instead of putting that into an emotionally gripping storyline where Aunt May is in danger and Spider-Man has to push himself past his physical limits to beyond his breaking point, we will just shoehorn it into a glorified sparring session between two groups of heroes where some heavy object falls onto Spider-Man and he supports it. Underwhelming and disappointing,, and that isn't even mentioning how Parker was made into Stark's easily manipulated lap dog sidekick.
You're the man. Damn, Feige talks a good game but everything they've don is the opposite of what he promised and there seems to be a lack of understanding of the core of the character. You summed it up perfectly.
