Last year, when Marvel Studios and

Last year, when Marvel Studios and Sony announced that they’d reached an unprecedented rights-sharing deal that would allow Spider-Man to appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, one could be forgiven for feeling a pang of preemptive annoyance. Sure, we’d get to see the wall-crawler appear alongside the Avengers, and that would certainly be fun. But we were also getting yet another Spidey reboot—and that might mean having to see his origin story yet again. How many times must we dig up the corpse of Uncle Ben and murder him again in order to teach li’l Peter Parker about great power, great responsibility, and how the twain meet? The guy’s second only to Batman’s parents in terms of ad nauseum homicide.