Film Review: Character - Spider-Man: Homecoming

Fig 1: Poster.

Character 1: Peter Parker / Spider-Man

• Personal History: Peter is a high school students, and doesn't really have friends. He is a geek and is a very intelligent and good student.
• Personal World View: He is amazed by the world of being a superhero, with high technology, but he is also 
• Inherited World: He lives in the average world, goes to an average high school, but gets involved with the high technological world of the Avengers.
• Wants (Goals): He wants to help people and fight crime, but he also wants to become a member of the Avengers and take on bigger missions; he says he wants to be like Tony Stark (Iron Man). 
• Internal vs. External Traits: He is an average looking high school boy, with big ambitions and a quite innocent view of the world.
• Flaws: He sometimes takes on crime that are too much for him and he is very young and innocent to handle the harsh cruelty of the real world.
• Overall Story Arc: He starts out as a very enthusiastic person who wants to do bigger things, but by the end of the film he becomes more mature and cautious about everything.
• Conflict: He is bullied by another kid in school and he fights against Vulture; but he is conflicted by things such as revealing he is Spider-Man (even to Aunt May) or later on becoming an official member of the Avengers team.
• Value Change in a Scene: When the Spider-Man suit is taken away from him he is told to stop acting like a superhero, just go back to being an average kid.

Character 2: Adrian Toomes / Vulture

• Personal History: He is an average salvage worker and former owner of Toomes Salvage Company, who later turns to the criminal life stealing/creating weapons and selling them on the black market.
• Personal World View: He sees the world in its harsh and cruel reality and does not care about what people will use his weapons for.
• Inherited World: He starts out in the average world and a worker man, but takes his life to crime, thus seeing that world and lifestyle.
• Wants (Goals): He wants to provide money for his family, but also wants to stay hidden and sell the weapons he and his team stole/created.
• Internal vs. External Traits: He is an average man with a daughter and wife, but when he puts on the exo-suit he becomes very intimidating and frightening. He loves his family, but otherwise does not care for others.
• Flaws: He is ignorant towards others and does not care in whose hands the dangerous weapons end up in, he cares a lot about money.
• Overall Story Arc: He starts out as an average company owner, Adrian Toomes and when his company is shut down, he becomes a criminal and 'villain' known as Vulture.
• Conflict: He has a conflict with the Department of Damage Control, and later he fights with Spider-Man.
• Value Change in a Scene: He turns into a criminal after his company was forced to step down. Furthermore, he has the opportunity to kill Peter when he realises he is Spider-Man, but does not do it because of Liz (his daughter). 

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Figure 1: Poster. [online] At: https://www.cineman.ch/en/movie/2017/SpiderManHomecoming/ (Accessed on 19/10/2017)