I don't know if I'd really count the Japanese Spider-Man since it was a totally unrelated character who just happened to call himself Spider-Man.
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The Japanese Spider- Man appeared in the Spider-Verse event, so he is comics canon.
Well, the reference in Civil War was probably an error, fwiw.
But my only point is this: there's precedent for a compressed timeline that would allow multiple Spider-Man films in High School.
Because IM2 takes place six months later but is also supposed to happen concurrently with TIH and Thor? Or for another reason?
Sure, but I thought he were talking specifically about Peter Parker and the Japanese version is a guy named Takuya Yamashiro with a totally different background from Peter.
No, just that reason.
Yeah, it's probably easier to say Iron Man took place in 2010 and then IM2 and TIH in 2011 along with Thor. I imagine the opening scene in Captain America: The First Avenger happens after those three, and then it took several months for SHIELD to figure out how to thaw Steve Rogers without killing him, and then I'd say the ending scene where Steve wakes up happens no more than a month or two before The Avengers.
Well, I was covering most adaptations. I think the only one not on the list were The Electric Company segments (1974-77), because the Spider-Man in that series did not have a secret identity--he was Spider-Man even on his laundry day, or on vacation...and I'm not kidding about that.
Odd as that seems, I wonder what Marvel thinks of the 1973 Captain America & Santo vs. Spider-Man--
http://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=AwrB...pJRRiHFs/RK=0/RS=XuOOYH4NkodqhWHnoUhha.htvD8-
^Marvel.com actually had the whole series up a few years before then, and I saw the whole thing back then. It was quite formulaic and bizarre, but fun. It did a great job with Spidey's physicality, the way he moved and fought in a spiderlike way. Although the rest was bugnuts insane. I read once that there was a cultural difference in that the Japanese associated a masked figure like Spidey more with ninjas than superheroes, hence the thing about Spider-Man being "an emissary from Hell" on a mission of vengeance.
Maybe it was a case of the source being lost in translation, which I find odd, since the Japanese had Jiro Kuwata's, serialized Batman comic (in the Shonen King magazine) during the height of the 1966-68 TV series, and the Dynamic Duo were displayed exactly as we see them in the West. Was it Spider-Man's full mask that made the difference?
The reason is now or never. Marvel, unlike Sony, can only do Peter Parker in Highschool once. If they put him in college, that chance is gone and will not come back unless they reboot the whole universe.
is there any other character they could tell those stories with?
is there any other character they could tell those stories with?
Because third time's a charm? 
It grounds at least one Marvel character into the common realities of life--no other character shares that in the MCU, as they are all adults, independent to fight crime, join super teams or whatever. While their lives are exciting, they share little with a normal person's life. Teenage Peter does, and balancing life commitments he cannot avoid with his dedication to his costumed identity is something audiences (even those beyond high school age) can relate to. Its a breath of fresh air in the MCU.
2002 Spider-man barely showed him in high school. He was either in the cafeteria or on a class trip. Never in class.
2011- This is the best they could do with setting Peter in high school but Andrew Garfield looked too old to be convincing. At least he attended a class.
Homecoming will probably ramp up the high school setting to "11"
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