Spider-Man shouldn't be working for Palantir. He was in a very strange political position in that game, and seemed completely jovial doing it.
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I still think its crazy that PS4 Spider-Man was beating up petty drug dealers in alleys and putting up unlawful surveillance towers across the city.
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I mean he's an unlawful vigilante to begin with. Although they seem to tolerate him only one cop is willing to work with him
Its a NYC where costumed super-powered villians are constantly running around trying to kill everyone...
I mean, there's a run with Peter Parker becoming a billionaire...
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Concerning Spider-man's pro-NYPD/surveillance state messages
I've been playing Spiderman this week and I can't get over the fact that it completely normalizes a dystopian surveillance state wherein the NYPD (with the help of Oscorp) has some of the most advanced and invasive surveillance towers spread all throughout Manhattan. And you, as Spiderman, not...
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Also those drug dealers weren't pedaling weed. It's a side mission that they're working for Tombstone
The drug dealers were a part of Kingpin's operations. Its not like he was going after Joe Blow selling the weed he grows in his closet.
I've never really liked the high tech aspect where he's working so intimately with the police and his suit has access to all kinds of networks. It feels a lot less like "smart kid haphazardly taking on the evils of NYC" and more like Iron Man or Batman.
You mean the run where Doc Ock is occupying his body and nobody can figure it out, sucks for Pete...
He's an adult man that's been on the job for 8 years and becomes homeless part way through the game.
Spider-Man is a street level super, beating up petty criminals is like a thing. The surveillance comes up periodically in comics but they'd prefer you don't thing about it overmuch.
Yeah exactly, there is no way to spin this iteration of Peter Parker an an Iron-Man wannabe. They've nailed the character better than 99% of other media to be honest
That's who Spidey is though?
He always had these types of gadgets after graduating. He used to make stuff using scraps.
If anything, the wrong Spidey is the one who gets all his stuff handed to him. Looking at you MCU...
Batman isn't a superhero though, so you can give him a pass on those as he needs the help.
I mean for all the right-leaning conservative shit surrounding Batman, this scene was vocalized as an unethical thing that painted Batman in a bad light, and was immediately blown up after. And he also wasn't handing it over to the cops.
Except that technology enabled him to do his job.
Lighten up, I'm joking about a made up persona.
This is like the people that lectured Tony Hawk about cops because he referenced Officer Dick.
eh Marvel NYPD isn't racist trash
ACAB except for in the Marvel universe, Iron Man & Reed Richards are far worse
Good thing it's not a game by Bill Gates then. People would immediately start conspiracy theories.
Feels like every super hero does this these days. It's really convenient for lazy CW style writing. Oh it'd be nice if this character could see through walls. Now his suit has detective vision or we adapted his powers stupidly to have detective vision. Then they always have a super tech support guy/team in the background who hacked the computer system in that 1970s car to set off the alarm and distract the bad guys.
This would be a great setup for alternate universe evil Spidey. Too bad the valley doesn't have enough skyscrapers.
Well who needs to swing around a city when you've got aWorld Wide Web?