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Tried to go in depth with this but it turned into another essay and was mostly about -other- characters, so to be concise Peter Parker, Greg Weisman and Victor Cook's animated Spectacular Spidey version specifically. Because of scenes like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wix6oUJkFk&t=2s
@ami_angelwings Weisman talks about learning he got the job during a family vacation and immediately heading to the nearest comic store to buy a truck load of Essential Spidey trades to make copious notes for the show, and I fully believe this because his Peter is the kind of adaptation you'd only make if you knew stuff like -this.-
@ami_angelwings What's most interesting about the Spectacular version is that Weisman and Cook were contractility obligate to make a Venom storyline for the accompanying toyline and so had to omit Peter's New York temper in order for his symbiote mode to stand out, so Weisman instead focuses on what tends to get hastily left out in most other adaptations, Peter's entitlement complex.
@ami_angelwings John Semper's Fox Kids Peter Parker is a wish fulfilment fantasy, the idea that you're buff and handsome but everyone should feel sorry for you. Greg Weisman's isn't just an adaptation of the original material, it's the truth of it: his Peter Parker is as wounded as we are and as selfish as we are, and thus as capable of grace as we are. He just needs a few more, smaller, more painful life lessons first, not just The Big One.