Van Lathan

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1,134 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 31 Jul

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The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ and the Spider-Man Movie Rankings · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

The only one that's kind of not that. matched

The only one that's kind of not that is Mysterio to a degree, right? matched

They even bring all of these characters back in No Way Home and still play to those same hits. matched

So to that end, Jean Grey being someone that starts off as villainous and is doing a villainous thing because of this profound trauma that she has is in line with other things that we've seen in Spider-Man movies. matched

And Spider-Man has been the superhero rehabilitator matched

as much as he's been the person that needs to defeat the villain, I thought it was a really interesting move to have her occupy that space in this movie. matched

I thought it was really interesting. matched

To your point, though, there gets to be a point in the movie where we're in Gene's story now. matched

And it was always going to be interesting how people related to that after three movies and coming to see Spider-Man. matched

I thought it was in the same tradition as... matched

Civil War being a Black Panther origin story. matched

Like, to a lesser degree, Iron Man 2 being a Black Widow origin story. matched

She occupies a much larger part of this movie than those characters do. matched

Black Panther is in a lot of Civil War and has an entire arc in Civil War. matched

But yeah, so I didn't have as much of a problem with it. matched

But, but I'll say, I'll say that like, there's a reason why, uh, matched

Jean Grey is just a much, much, much, much more fundamental, not to me, everybody, but a much more fundamental, nah, to me too. matched

She's a linchpin in Marvel storytelling. matched

She's one of the most important Marvel characters ever. matched

I don't know why I'm pandering. matched

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