Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is chock-full of interesting characters. Almost every single character on screen has a comics history, but even without the deeper lore, they’re just generally dynamic. For one, Peter’s bestie is now Nico Minoru, whose whole schtick hasn’t really been touched on, but she’s still an anti-establishment punk rocker ready to stick it to the man (in this case, OsCorp). Peter’s three fellow interns at OsCorp are all comic heroes, but even without seeing them masked up and in action, their big personalities bounce wonderfully together and they steal all the scenes they’re in.

Unfortunately, because everyone is so dang interesting, the character who ends up being the least compelling is Peter Parker himself.

[Ed. note: This post contains some spoilers for the latest episodes of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man.]

I want it on record that I love Peter Parker. Tobey Maguire’s take on the character was one of my first fictional crushes, to the point where before I even knew about fanfiction, I concocted a whole original story about a guy who just happened to be named Peter Parker. Andrew Garfield’s version of the character coincided with the era........

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