This Spider-Man: Homecoming Trailer Has a Lot More Iron Man Than You’d Expect

It also seems to give away quite a bit of the plot.
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Spider-Man: Homecoming is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and it doesn't want you to forget it. The new trailer, out this morning, has loads of Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark/Iron Man, plenty of shots of The Avengers' New York tower, and even a small Captain America cameo. (Even trailers have cameos now! Wild.) It's also a pretty good summary of what's gotta be at least the first 45 minutes of the movie. Maybe even the first hour? You don't even have to read between the lines: The whole first act—and probably the second—is kind of all laid out in this trailer.

Our new Peter Parker is still coming down from the high of meeting—and fighting—The Avengers in Captain America: Civil War, and trying hard to get back to a normal high school life while getting his kicks taking on small-time crooks in New York. Then Michael Keaton puts on a big, scary robot-vulture suit and wrecks stuff and Tony Stark becomes very disappointed in Peter and takes away his cool high-tech Spider-Man suit, so Peter has to learn to be a hero while wearing the makeshift hoodie costume he used before he met Tony Stark.

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While none of this is particularly surprising stuff, it feels weird to see the scene where Stark demands Spidey's suit back, and the incident that prompts it, laid out so plainly in the trailer. And while there's plenty left to surprise—we still don't know Donald Glover's role, and the whole cast is pretty much incredible—it's strangely thorough for a movie trailer, even if it is the second one.

Whatever. I'm still hyped. This is the teen-superhero movie I've been waiting for, and for some reason, no matter how many reboots there have been, I just can't quit Spider-Man.


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