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Spider-Man 3 Discrepancies with the Comics
— April 30, 2007 1 Comment
Following up my post yesterday, Spider-Man 3 According to the Comics, this post is on how Spider-Man 3 conflicts with Spider-Man’s comic book continuity.
We know that the movies that are based on comic book continuity typically try to combine many of the important comic book moments into one film. As a result, the movies often change the comic book continuity. From what we’ve seen of Spider-Man 3 in the trailers, here’s the list of what actually happened in the comics and what is different.
- Gwen Stacy makes her first appearance in Spider-Man 3. In the comics, Gwen was Peter Parker’s first love, not Mary Jane, who made her first appearance way back in Amazing Spider-Man #31, Dec. 1965.
- The Spider-Man 3 trailer depicts the police telling Peter Parker that his Uncle Ben’s real killer is the Sandman. Not only does this conflict with the comics, this also conflicts with the first Spider-Man movie.
- In the comics, Spider-Man’s black costume was revealed to be an alien symbiote. We don’t yet know whether this will be the case or not in the movie, but I am betting that we will see a different explanation.
Edit: this is, in fact, what happens in Spider-Man 3. - In the comics, after Spidey discovers the black suit is a symbiote and takes it off, he still wears a black costume for years after that and only later puts on the red and blue suit. In the movie, Peter puts the red and blue suit back on after taking off the black suit.
- Venom doesn’t appear for 4 years after the symbiote suit is discovered in the comics.
Those are the ones we know so far, but we haven’t seen the movie yet. If any of these are proven wrong, or I learn about any more, I will add them here.
Ugh, yeah, this stuff has been bothering me, especially numbers (1) and (2). Hopefully these lapses in “continuity” won’t detract from the movie too much…
I wonder how long it will take movie-Spidey to figure out all he needs to do is turn a hose on Sandman, and an ultra-sonic blaster (courtesy of Reed Richards) on Venom.