{"id":1886,"date":"2017-05-11T07:50:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T07:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeatthemovies\/?p=1886"},"modified":"2017-05-05T08:13:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T08:13:24","slug":"misunderstood-in-spiderman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeatthemovies\/2017\/05\/misunderstood-in-spiderman.html","title":{"rendered":"Misunderstood in Spiderman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spiderman is a misunderstood hero. Heroes try their best serving society, but someone or something holds them up. They&#8217;re not doing something the right way. There&#8217;s a certain amount of suspicion. Heroes are misunderstood.<\/p>\n<h4>The hero<\/h4>\n<p>Peter Parker is student by day and Spiderman the crime fighter and hero by night.<\/p>\n<p>Spiderman is Peter Parker genetically enhanced\u2014but it serves the society he is in, as a crime fighter and protector.<\/p>\n<p>His ability to fight crime came with a bite from a genetically enhanced spider.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, his actions are called into question. But becoming a hero was a genuine event.<\/p>\n<p>Heroes have something in life that pushed them out of their zone. It probably wasn&#8217;t a spider, but something that prompted them to help or serve beyond what was their usual capacity.<\/p>\n<p>All the same, heroes are still who they are underneath. Still that guy or girl from that hometown or city who does those ordinary, normal things.<\/p>\n<h4>A regular guy<\/h4>\n<p>Heroes are still regular guys and girls.<\/p>\n<p>Parker is a student, a pizza delivery guy, and he\u2019s in love with a young woman who is a student by day and actress by night. He is a regular guy.<\/p>\n<p>He has his problems. He&#8217;s picked on and rejected. It may be because he&#8217;s a &#8220;nerd&#8221;, a science whizz.<\/p>\n<p>He makes tentative steps towards Mary Jane Watson, a girl he admires from afar, he&#8217;s the secret admirer.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, his life has its ups and downs, but takes his life with a steady stride. He&#8217;s not phased or distraught by the downsides. He lives on an even keel.<\/p>\n<p>However his newly found abilities enable him to do more. It doesn&#8217;t mean his life will change and he&#8217;ll become popular all of a sudden and win the admiration of many onlookers.<\/p>\n<p>It does mean that while his actions can be misconstrued as Spiderman, he is still protecting the masses and helping the world from going down the tubes.<\/p>\n<p>This year Spider-Man: Homecoming is released. After his turn as Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War (2016), Tom Holland is donning the Spidey suit again, after Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire before him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spiderman is a misunderstood hero. Heroes try their best serving society, but someone or something holds them up. They&#8217;re not doing something the right way. There&#8217;s a certain amount of suspicion. Heroes are misunderstood. The hero Peter Parker is student by day and Spiderman the crime fighter and hero by night. 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