Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Spidey's parents in SHIELD

[Human Torch]

What are the chances they do a story somewhere down the line involving Spidey's parents, now that Marvel has some rights to the SM characters?

I know TASM series already "tried" to do something with that story,(to varying degrees of failure) but in the MCU about 75% of it is based around SHIELD to begin with. It wouldn't be hard to work the story in.

Imagine a season final with Spidey taking on the Red Skull.

 

[Daltonio]

I doubt it. Not after the fan reactions to the TASM movies portrayal of the parents mystery.

 

[Mike Murdock]

Personally, I've always thought the only real purpose of Peter Parker's parents were to not be there so he can be raised by his Uncle.

But, if you insist, I suppose it depends on whether they're going 616 or Ultimate version of them. My understanding (but frankly, I have no idea) is ASM used the Ultimate version. But, while I'd prefer the original spy angle if anything, I think it's so far down the totem pole of story ideas as to not matter in any way. It's Peter Parker's story, not Agents of SHIELD's story so, if they go that route, they still need to save it for a story featuring Spider-Man.

Unless they just make them spy heroes rather than with the plane crash cover story with them being traitors. If they do that, they can go with an Easter Egg of them appearing on the wall of SHIELD agents who died.

 

[Alex_Kidd]

Personally, I've always thought the only real purpose of Peter Parker's parents were to not be there so he can be raised by his Uncle.

But, if you insist, I suppose it depends on whether they're going 616 or Ultimate version of them. My understanding (but frankly, I have no idea) is ASM used the Ultimate version. But, while I'd prefer the original spy angle if anything, I think it's so far down the totem pole of story ideas as to not matter in any way. It's Peter Parker's story, not Agents of SHIELD's story so, if they go that route, they still need to save it for a story featuring Spider-Man.

Unless they just make them spy heroes rather than with the plane crash cover story with them being traitors. If they do that, they can go with an Easter Egg of them appearing on the wall of SHIELD agents who died.

yeah!
an easter egg, or maybe died in Triskelion

 

[Mike Murdock]

Well, if they died in the Triskellion, Uncle Ben wouldn't have raised Peter.

 

[queendarkness12]

yeah!
an easter egg, or maybe died in Triskelion

That would be a good subplot to play with in Civil War, since they are introducing a new Spidey to fit into the MCU.

 

[hoy-small-fry]

I'm still trying to work out exactly what the point of them was in TASM, so let's not go down that rabbit hole again!

 

[InternetPeople]

Sometimes there can be too much connective tissue that it becomes burdensome and messy

 

[ericadawn16]

I always wanted Aunt May on the Ultimate Spider-Man to be revealed as the leader of SWORD.

But an Easter egg on AOS could be fun, like when they mentioned Dr. Vaughn multiple times last season.

 

[Human Torch]

You have to remember, the MCU is a continually unfolding universe. By the time they focus on Spidey's parents in SHIELD, I'm guessing TASM movies will be a distant memory.

But I think they WILL address it at some point. It's too interesting not to...

 

[MbJ]

I hope not. The only real purpose his parents served was to die and leave him to his aunt and uncle.

I kinda hate when fictional universes need to establish that everyone and every thing is connected so I never really liked the reveal that Spider-Man's parents just happened to coincidentally have been badass SHIELD agents.

You have to remember, the MCU is a continually unfolding universe. By the time they focus on Spidey's parents in SHIELD, I'm guessing TASM movies will be a distant memory.

The new spider-Man debuts next year and his solo movie comes the following year. That will have been a grand total of three years since the last Amazing Spider-Man film.

And that's assuming that Agents of SHIELD is still on by then.

 

[Spider-Gnome]

I could see them maybe throwing an Easter egg in there to reference the 616 comics (though, to be honest, I never liked the idea of Pete's parents being spies, took away from that everyman type thing). It might be fun.


On a side note, I think it's funny that a while ago I started a thread about the possibility of Fran Kranz playing Speedball on AoS and based on his arc on Dollhouse, following thru on Civil War. People said Marvel would never do Civil War. Now here it is all these months later, and not only are we talking about the confirmed Civil War, but SPIDER-MAN's involvement in the MCU!!! t:

 

[Knight_SV]

Well, they could made peter parents appear in AOS and they are friend to coulson

 

[metaphysician]

Honestly, I'd prefer if Peter's biological parents simply never get mentioned again. Have him be orphaned at a really young age, and adopted by his Aunt and Uncle. Make his parents 100% irrelevant to his character. . . like they should be, and unlike the Amazing Spider-man movies.

 

[Tymminator]

Personally, I've always thought the only real purpose of Peter Parker's parents were to not be there so he can be raised by his Uncle.

But, if you insist, I suppose it depends on whether they're going 616 or Ultimate version of them. My understanding (but frankly, I have no idea) is ASM used the Ultimate version. But, while I'd prefer the original spy angle if anything, I think it's so far down the totem pole of story ideas as to not matter in any way. It's Peter Parker's story, not Agents of SHIELD's story so, if they go that route, they still need to save it for a story featuring Spider-Man.

Unless they just make them spy heroes rather than with the plane crash cover story with them being traitors. If they do that, they can go with an Easter Egg of them appearing on the wall of SHIELD agents who died.

In the 616, they were Agents, first in the CIA then SHIELD. In Ultimate, they were scientists for SHIELD.

Well, they could made peter parents appear in AOS and they are friend to coulson

I guess I like the idea the pay homage to both and split the difference, have like the dad/Richard be a scientist, and the mom/Mary be a kick-ass agent and the two eventually hooked up, maybe Coulson and/or May knew both of them.

I think it could be for a cool one-off episode of AoS, but it should not have to be a huge plot point for Spider-man.


EDIT: Rereading the issue that on the cover says they were Agents of SHIELD in the 616, although they were recruited by Fury and save Logan in the story, it doesn't say they were actually "officially" SHIELD in the story itself...Fury may have just hired them for a one-off mission.

 

[InternetPeople]

Why can't Spidey's parents just be normal people who died like so many children's parents have? While I don't read the comics I know enough to know that I don't like how every single person that anyone ever knew is a hero or villain or related to someone who is something else. It just gets to be too much and too coincidental. There are a lot of people in the world, Spidey's parents don't need to be anything more than dead.

 

[Tymminator]

I doubt it. Not after the fan reactions to the TASM movies portrayal of the parents mystery.

For me, I didn't have a problem with it in itself, my issue was that it was presented as something that was even more important than Uncle Ben's murder from those who put this film together.

If Uncle Ben's murder was dealt with correctly and respectfully, solved and done, I myself would not have minded the parent sub-plot as much.

It was just annoying to have this parent sub-plot go through two movies when his Uncle's murder was never solved on screen in either of the two movies and seriously, Ben's killer being caught really should have been finished in the first movie.

Ben's murder is the part of his origin that really is at the very heart of Spider-man's motivation in the comics in both Ultimate and 616. For me, with that key storypoint simply being dropped, it tainted the interest and potential that the parents storyline could have been.

Simply put, Sony lost focus, they put a "cool idea" ahead of something that was key to the story of Spider-man, thus they have themselves to blame for messing up what could have been decent and a interesting plot-point.

 

[hoy-small-fry]

I would love to see what Webb's idea was with Spidey's parents one day, especially given that in the deleted scenes his dad is actually alive

 

[GRangerPrimeNYC]

Maybe in the MCU, Peter's parents found out about Hydra's infiltration of SHIELD and tried to spill the beans, but then got caught up in an "accident"

 

[kedrell]

I never liked Peter's parents being involved with Shield. Though I don't mind the reason they're dead and gone being something significant in the MCU just a few circumstances removed to give it distance but still show that things which happen here have a long lasting ripple effect throughout the entire continuity. Like say Winter Soldier kills someone or does something on one of his missions which he's thawed out for and it knocks over one domino which knocks over another and another and eventually many are being knocked down due to that one action even though the reasons of him doing it are long since passed and ultimately it ends up somehow leading to Peter's parents dying in a very round about way. You'd have to be Uatu to fully see the connections but they're still there. That kind of interconnectiveness I can get behind.

 

[Human Torch]

Maybe in the MCU, Peter's parents found out about Hydra's infiltration of SHIELD and tried to spill the beans, but then got caught up in an "accident"

Yeah,that's what I'm talking about!

 

[Dark Raven]

I'm bored of hearing about Peter's parents. Just let them be ordinary parents who died and not agents or scientists preparing Peter to meet his destiny as Spider-Man. I don't really want to see more of them in the MCU after they spent an inordinate amount of time on them in the ASM series.

 

[Tymminator]

The parents preparing Pete for his destiny was a concept from Hollywood/Sony. The comcs never did that.

The closest thing though that I actually thought was pretty cool, was in the Ultimate-verse the webbing formula was something his father was working on and never really got to finish, so when Pete finds the formula and finishes it, it was kind of like when the son inherits something from the father (not a sword or lightsaber, but you get it).

 

[Human Torch]

People are just objecting for the most part because Sony did the story so bad, and pushed it to the forefront.

All I'm advocating is that somewhere along the way,they do the storyline better.Have Peter learn his folks were shield.Maybe face the Red Skull like the comic to clear their names.

I'm certainly not advocating a return to TASM's "Pre-destined S-M" or "Wah,why did my parents abandon me?" take.

 

[InternetPeople]

Folks are not objecting because the story was poorly executed, we are objecting because the story itself is unnecessary.