Does it matter that Spider-Man is a different character on TV, movies and comics?

As of this week , the comics version of Spider - Man is about as unlike as you may get from the movie variant , diddle by Andrew Garfield . And Marvel ’s also publish an Ultimate reading of Spider - Man who ’s now Miles Morales . Meanwhile , on tv set , there ’s a Spider - Man who ’s ostensibly the same persona as Garfield ’s , but 70 percentage less angsty and friends with the folks from S.H.I.E.L.D.

Over at Comic Book Resources , Graeme McMillan asksif it ’s a problem that Spider - Man has unlike continuity , as well as quite dissimilar takes on the character , in different media :

The notion that there are multiple interpretations of Spider - Man as a conception is curious , though , pushing the feeling of Spider - Man as sword or dealership over part ; it reduces the character to exceptional signifiers , scrubbed clean of the long story of the comic book embodiment . wanderer - Man ceases to be one entity , but becomes a generic name for a figure of like ones , self-governing of each other in the same elbow room that Batman did in the 1960s , with the Adam West incarnation seeming like a different person with the same name as the version that appear in the comics , yet becoming the version the world came to remember and believe in for decades afterwards .

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But is the brand name and fairly uniform costume enough to make all of these unlike fictional character “ Spider - Man ” in equal measure ? If that ’s the suit , then could an consultation embrace Miles Morales , the comic - record Ultimate Spider - Man as “ Spider - Man ” in a movie ? I ’m unconvinced ; I suspect that there ’s a core “ Spider - Man ” myth ( or , at least , identity ) in the mass pop culture mind , and that anything that does n’t conform to that is usher out by the bulk of people . For most people , Spider - Man has to have a Peter Parker who has to fall behind his Uncle Ben and go from zero to hero , even if most people in the story do n’t know that , and that ’s the basis of the theatrical role ; everything else within that is up for grabs .

As McMillan points out , this doubtfulness has been settled long ago for Batman — since at least the sixties , we ’ve accepted that there are different versions of the part in dissimilar medium . Meanwhile , Steven Moffat has plain put the brake on a planned Doctor Who movie , which would have present the character with a fresh persistence , on the ground that there can only ever be one Doctor Who persistence ( Peter Cushing aside . )

I ’ve always cypher that any fictional character who gets big enough to have a truly mass audience is going to get a looser and looser persistence , specially across media . You probably do n’t get to be as boastful as Batman without cause room for an Adam West variant and a George Clooney reading and a Kevin Conroy interlingual rendition . But what do you retrieve ? [ Comic Book Resources ]

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