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This is Gamma, the third-born, when he was about 18MO.
Public Fears via Spider-Man
Oct
16
2025
I just watched the Spider-Man movie from 2002 with the boys, and the slight change in origin story got me thinking about art imitating life.
The traditional Spider-Man origin story has Peter Parker being bitten by a radioactive spider. That’s because it was written in the 1960’s when nuclear and radioactive stuff was front and center in the news and the schools and everyone’s minds.
The 2002 Spider-Man movie (with Maguire and Dunst) changed the story so that the spider was not radioactive but rather it was a genetically-modified spider. Why was that? Because genetic modification is the topic that was front and center in the news and the schools and everyone’s minds.
The 2012 Amazing Spider-Man movie retells the story and keeps the spider as GMO rather than radioactive.
The 2017 MCU Spider-Man doesn’t give much of the origin story at all, so we get no details on the spider.
Based on what I see front and center in the national stage, if a Spider-Man movie were made now, it would be a AI spider. I’m not sure how an AI spider could bite someone, or even exist physically, but I’m sure people who get paid to write scripts could come up with something clever.
His confidence is fragile, And his trust is a spider’s web.
Job 8:14
This little article thingy was written by Some Guy sometime around 9:46 pm and has been carefully placed in the Current Events category.
