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Me personally, it was a solid trilogy. Spider-Man 1 and 3 could be solid standalone films itself, unfortunately Spider-Man 2 cannot be said the same since it introduces the Fantastic Four before their own movie in 2011, starts setting up the X-Men while dealing with The Vulture? Yikes. Unfortunately the fourth Spider-Man movie (which releases like 8 years after the last one??) aka Spider-Man: Enter the Spider-Verse is a hot steaming pile of dogshit. Tom Ellis as Morlun was wasted and he deserves better, considering he was Barry Allen for Christopher Nolan's The Scarlet Speedster trilogy. Overall, I enjoyed the trilogy IF you exclude that fourth movie, fuck that. Personally I enjoyed it more than the Fantastic Four and X-Men trilogy, even if Fantastic Four: Into the Negative Zone AND X-Men: House of M are very very amazing films. Kinda wish they didn't sideline Norman Osborn though. I mean it's crazy how Spider-Man never once fought Norman Osborn?? And instead for the 3rd movie it is Harry and Ned?? Even if I did enjoy Dafoe in Iron Man: Internationally Wanted as the Iron Patriot, I still would've loved to have seen his portrayal of him as Green Goblin.

Me personally, it was a solid trilogy. Spider-Man 1 and 3 could be solid standalone films itself, unfortunately Spider-Man 2 cannot be said the same since it introduces the Fantastic Four before their own movie in 2011, starts setting up the X-Men while dealing with The Vulture? Yikes. Unfortunately the fourth Spider-Man movie (which releases like 8 years after the last one??) aka Spider-Man: Enter the Spider-Verse is a hot steaming pile of dogshit. Tom Ellis as Morlun was wasted and he deserves better, considering he was Barry Allen for Christopher Nolan's The Scarlet Speedster trilogy. Overall, I enjoyed the trilogy IF you exclude that fourth movie, fuck that. Personally I enjoyed it more than the Fantastic Four and X-Men trilogy, even if Fantastic Four: Into the Negative Zone AND X-Men: House of M are very very amazing films. Kinda wish they didn't sideline Norman Osborn though. I mean it's crazy how Spider-Man never once fought Norman Osborn?? And instead for the 3rd movie it is Harry and Ned?? Even if I did enjoy Dafoe in Iron Man: Internationally Wanted as the Iron Patriot, I still would've loved to have seen his portrayal of him as Green Goblin.

After rewatching Iron Man (2025), I think it's a wonderful first movie for the MMU (Marvel Movies Universe). It feels way more of a proper beginning for our cinematic universe than the animated X-Force show, despite this movie taking place 3 years into Tony's career. Sam Rockwell's Justin Hammer is such an amazing villain and he is a perfect antithesis to David Corenswet's Tony Stark. I enjoyed the contrasting cat-and-mouse dynamic between Tony and Whitney and the subtle love triangle between Tony, Pepper and Happy. The Agents of Vengeance was certainly a nice addition as well, makes the world feel much more lived in, strangely enough I enjoyed the plot twist where it's revealed that Tony is NOT the biological heir to Stark Industries, and that it's Justin's main henchmen donning the "Superior Iron Man" title for some reason despite obviously being an adaptation of Iron Man 2020 (I do not complain though!), him acting as "The Black Knight of Latveria" is certainly a choice considering this probably means we'll never get an adaptation of Black Knight, and it seems that Latveria hasn't been ruled by Doom yet? Is Gunn setting up the Fantastic Four eventually? Whatever it is, I'm hooked. That gladiator fight between Tony and Hercules was certainly awesome, and I'm glad that Hercules joined the Agents of Vengeance at the end though! And James D'arcy's Edwin Jarvis teaching Tony learning to embrace the past to focus on creating a better tomorrow was really inspiring, considering out of that moment we get the action-packed final battle of Tony in his modified Model 1 taking on a horde of Crimson Dynamos and Arno with his stolen Model 4. It seems like the Agents of Vengeance is so obviously gonna be the Avengers, and that's so hype. The War Machine post credits was fun, can't wait to see Edi Gathegi's portrayal of James Rhodes in the upcoming War Machine (2026), alongside the other MMU projects Spiders (2026) and Gorr (2026). Hopefully the sequel Golden Avenger will be any good, considering it should also be the sequel to Bullseye season 2 and features Iron Man teaming up with Detroit Steel. Overall, I LOVED Iron Man (2025)! Way better than the MEU's Armored Avenger directed by Zack Snyder.