They should have full sent it with Man-Spider. I think they would have created something truly inventive and showcased something that not a lot of people (the general public) know about. They don't want Spider-Man to seem scary and that's fine and all but you've gotta take some chances and I think they missed that one.

Thoughts?

The pictures people have done of Tom as full Man-Spider are hilarious.

I also think it was a bit of a cop-out to not do it. Sounds like they were, to your point, worried he'd be too scary but... IDK, people get hit by cars in this movie. Haha.

The scary excuse is so weird. Raimi did a Doctor Strange movie where Captain Britain is cut in half with a shield without losing the PG-13, It's all a matter of how you use it. I would have loved to see the Man-Spider. Maybe in the future. Now we know that MC Peter can power up with stress, and I'm sure his life won't get any easier.

I would've liked to see them go further with Man-Spider too. Even if they didn't want to make him outright terrifying, they could've pushed the transformation a lot more and made it feel like Peter was genuinely losing control of what he was becoming.

That would've given the movie a completely different kind of tension, especially since Spider-Man is usually the one character people aren't expecting to be afraid of.

2 hours ago, Marco Vito Oddo said:

The scary excuse is so weird. Raimi did a Doctor Strange movie where Captain Britain is cut in half with a shield without losing the PG-13, It's all a matter of how you use it. I would have loved to see the Man-Spider. Maybe in the future. Now we know that MC Peter can power up with stress, and I'm sure his life won't get any easier.

I had to look that scene up because I had completely forgotten about it. I guess I wasn't paying much attention to the Multiverse of Madness when I watched it. Maybe it's time for a rewatch.

I think it's more they didn't want to go full body-horror. Plus it wouldn't have worked on a thematic level imo; Spidey needed to accept the two parts of himself, to bring them together. But if one of those parts is literally an inhuman monster, that becomes a much less empathetic choice!