No worries! I’m not gonna dig up the original post but basically: the cameo I didn’t care for because it was gratuitous. It was an ad for Spider-man The Movie rather than a necessary or useful part of the story. I mean it was fun, I liked seeing it, I loved the Peter-Tony interaction, just thought it was waaaaay out of place in the narrative.
I don’t care that much about the million spider-man reboots one way or another – I don’t watch them, so *shrug* but a big long Spider-man product placement in this film wasn’t good for the movie we were watching, even if it was clearly great marketing for the Spider-man film.
So, in that sense, nobody would have had as much of an impact because nobody else had any reason to be there – Spider-man’s only purpose was to advertise his film. I’d prefer to see that aspect taken out entirely rather than replaced with another character. But if we were going to make a film that needed the boost and HAD to awkwardly shove another character into Peter Parker’s place in this film, I’d have preferred either Miles Morales or Kamala Khan. Miles and Kamala, as heroes of color, might actually need the boost; Peter Parker didn’t really, people were gonna go see his movie regardless. (As a friend pointed out, that would mean two nonwhite characters who survive the entire movie, and that probably breaks some kind of rule – ETA Sam and Rhodey do also survive; I was thinking of new-introduced characters, sorry that wasn’t clear.)
Disney doesn’t have the guts to do a Black Spider-man or a movie about a Muslim superhero, though, so we got Awkward Teenaged Cameo Peter Parker instead.
As Chadwick Boseman pointed out in a very salty interview – there were 3 black men and all of them survived the movie.
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