In SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME, Spider-Man is given a posthumous gift by Iron Man: A pair of sunglasses.

At first, Spider-Man doesn't know what they do, but he soon learns that they're high-tech glasses that contain an AI computer, and give him direct, unregulated access to spacebound missiles that can assassinate any human target on Earth with a single request.

It's so easy to use, that Spider-Man instantly orders a hit on a teen rival by accident. He nearly kills a guy because he just doesn't like him.

When he learns about these missiles, no alarm bells go off in Spider-Man's head. He was just given access to one of the most destructive possible things an individual can have on Earth, and he doesn't think to deactivate it immediately.

He doesn't think to ask why Iron Man - who originally sought to disarm the Earth and take back the weapons his corporation had earned its fortune selling - would have built such a thing and would need such a thing.

To Spider-Man, having access to death space missiles is natural, easy, and kinda kooky. His access to this weapon is played for laughs. He doesn't seem to understand that merely having access to these weapons gives him an overwhelming responsibility to dispose of them.

Long ago, Spider-Man's slogan was once "With great power comes great responsibility," but the Spider-Man in FAR FROM HOME doesn't seem to understand that responsibility exists. He has no ideas of his own and is only a superhero because he wants to impress Iron Man.

This Iron Man, as he came to be in the film series, was a warmonger. Once, Iron Man had a noble cause: Disarmament.

By the end of AVENGERS: ENDGAME, Tony Stark's once brilliant imagination was given access to a magical device that could grant any wish, and what did he think to do with it? Save people? Rewrite history? Save lives?

No. He uses it as a weapon. He snaps his fingers and kills thousands. By the end of the series, Iron Man had - morally speaking - fallen from a noble man who sought to destroy objects of violence into a man who became addicted to violence (he admitted as much in CIVIL WAR).

Spider-Man's whole raison d'etre was to impress a darkly reborn, newly violence-accepting Iron Man and seek to be in his good graces so that he can, essentially, "be on the football team." Any sense of responsibility is deferred to this idea.

When Spider-Man is finally left to fend for himself after Iron Man's death, he takes every opportunity NOT to be responsible. His superiors tell him to take time off, to laze about, to not think about the world. With great power comes the right to laze around.

The most appealing aspect of Spider-Man was always his guilt. He was ethically compelled to help people because the right thing to do is the only thing to do.

The FAR FROM HOME Spider-Man has no such compulsion, as it was erased by the overwhelming military mindset fed to him by the ultra-military Avengers. He wasn't so much a hero as he was a wannabe Marine. Someone who was or wasn't allowed to join the military.

When looked at a certain way, Spider-Man, who is quite callow, takes little responsibility for the death powers he was granted by a death-machine-building mentor. He was, in essence, the villain of the piece, one step away from hurting people.

The only person who thinks that a teenager with unsophisticated thoughts and a military mentor SHOULDN'T have weapons is Mysterio, the character presented as the villain.

Mysterio understands that Iron Man was not noble, and also that he abused his staff, became obsessed with his own cult of personality, and then, after his death, continued his military legacy by gifting missiles to a random teenager.

Is Mysterio the hero? For a while, he is. He is correcting an injustice. And not in a psychopathic way like a military dictator like Thanos. I would trust those missiles with Mysterio more than I would trust them with Spider-Man.

Mysterio seeks to undo superheroes. Well, if the world of superheroes is going to create an ongoing military force that will build death machine after death machine, why not undo it? In revealing Spider-Man's identity, Mysterio was - in a way - freeing him.

Spider-Man is now free to not be Spider-Man, to live away from the military of the Avengers. To learn to be a better person. Spider-Man is the villain who needs absolution, while Mysterio is the mentor.

Seeing Spider-Man depicted in this way - along with the glut of Spider-Man films we got in recent years - chased me away from the character. I don't want to see this kid anymore. We've spent years with him, and he's just not interesting anymore.

End late-night rant. You can correct all my errors in thinking tomorrow and tell me that I'm wrong wrong wrong in the morning. Yeah, I'm sure there are subtle details I'm ignoring, etc. etc. And you're right. You're more right than me. But this needed to get off my chest.