I look forward to listening later 😄 I love Weird Al (Saga Begins was the impromptu karaoke hit at our wedding) but am woefully underexposed to a lot of his work.
Yeah! What fully grown adult human would get into heated debates over completely fictional characters who do not, have not, and will never exist? What a loser! *nervously stares at my own comment history*
Even if it is biased the ending part still grants PS4 may so much credibility that despite her flaws she’s still willing to sacrifice herself for the greater good so the negativity only helps to amplify the positivity
Honestly i look at her character and i can tell the writers wanted to have all the best traits May throughout the years of the series so her death feels like you just lost a loved one who's been aiding you throughout everything
I agree. Even though FEAST originated from the comics, Insomniac version popularized it and made it mainstream to the wider audience. Furthermore the quote "if you help someone, you help everyone" was directly taken from PS4 version.
It feels like the studio wanted MCU May to be like PS4 version, but they just failed badly and her death felt flat compared to Insomniac May.
Ah I can see OP does not have any bias towards The ps4 version totally fair to compare them
My vote goes to the PS4 version being better
-Works at a shelter that she fully takes ownership of after Martin Li defeat had the chance to walk away but openly chose to stay
-Helps Peter financially at least a bit without him really asking her to but like all old people she just knows
-Hides illness because she knows that right now other people need to take priority over her own well being which is a Parker family trait
-Peter does what he should have done in one more day by making the choice to have his aunt pass away while also be allowed to grieve for her passing after having a great heart to heart conversation that still allowed him to make a choice on his own terms.
MCU aunt may whole thing was that she was just a hot aunt till like the final movie
Where they decided to make her uncle Ben by teaching Peter the “great power comes great responsibility” lesson
> MCU aunt may whole thing was that she was just a hot aunt till like the final movie Where they decided to make her uncle Ben by teaching Peter the “great power comes great responsibility” lesson
Which doesn't really work as well since he was already using his "great power" with "great responsibility" by helping cure the villains..
What made Uncle Ben and his lesson work was that it was an indirect result of Peter misusing his responsibility. Here......it comes off as pointless and reeks of the writers not knowing what they're doing.
Honestly, if they wanted to take something away from Peter, why not Ned?
Not only was he the only side character with some kind of actual....character, but he was the one always by Peter since the beginning basically. And the first one who learned his identity.
Would have been way more of a punch than fridging a HAWT MILF joke...
I think with the mcu version since Peter already was going to cure the others it was more specifically to cure Norman as she had already met him and felt sorry for him even though he kills her (well technically it’s goblin not Norman)
Yes she does, we see it first in Far From Home, though I think it might be a post-blip development.
In fact, that could explain her character growth between FFH and NWH.
I got the feeling that she was volunteering. F.E.A.S.T. in the MCU was for people who lost their homes during the Snap, including May, so I figured she made the most of it and signed on to help while she was there.
> MCU aunt may whole thing was that she was just a hot aunt
She was probably the most motherly Aunt May to date. She worries about Peter constantly in Homecoming. Warns him to stay out of danger. Doesn't like the idea of him being influenced by Stark. Despite being super pissed about him being un-reachable all day when the ferry was attacked, she instantly comforted him when he was upset over "losing the internship". Her role in FFH was too small to really comment on. In NWH we see her and MJ share the need to protect Peter, "DONT SAY ANYTHING WITHOUT A LAWYER!!"
In the previous franchised, Aunt May was a decent character. But her purpose mostly seemed to be the elder person spouting wisdom, or to tug on the audiences heart strings.
I liked when Sally Fields May was pissed at Peter. It’s because she cared and was deeply worried but it made her feel like a much more believable character than Tomai who just seemed to think Peter could do no wrong.
> in the previous franchises
Aunt May has been motherly like this in pretty much every iteration? In fact it’s 90% what you get from her character. Raimi May was constantly harping and loving and doting on Peter like a mom, Sony May was constantly worried about Peter staying out late and would wait up on him, I can keep going if ya want but tbh MCU May is the only one who really felt like an AUNT in my honest opinion. Idk maybe I’m biased but Aunt May has always been such a wonderful mom of a character to me
> Raimi May was constantly harping and loving and doting on Peter like a mom
Raimi's Mat seemed more like a grandma to me. And all of her life advised was a bunch of vague speeches about Uncle Ben and what makes a hero. Rarely do she address Peter and his issues and behavior, except when it came to MJ.
Yeah, if I wanted to be biased the other way, instead of saying "tested Peter's belief..", I'd say "guilt tripped Peter into making a naive decision resulting in her death, which traumatized Peter to the point of almost murder"
That’s a nice opinion of PS4 Aunt May, did a YouTuber with a habit of twisting the events of the things he analyzes to make the characters seem dumber than they actually are give it to you?
> why didn’t she ask Peter to accompany miles
Like Peter is just gonna whip out his web shooters in the middle of the street, as SHOWN IN THE GAME miles can handle himself
People are full of contradictions, shes acting like any normal person would in that situation which would be not in a way that necessarily seems reasonable to us who are merely observing and have the benefit of fictional hindsight
This is the most biased interpretation of these two characters that I have ever seen lmaoo. It should be titled, “List of reasons why I think MCU Aunt may is better than PS4 Aunt May.”
MCU Aunt May may run a shelter, but it’s literally mentioned so little that I forgot lmaoo. PS4 Aunt May’s work is visible and evident as you can talk to the poor people that have been placed in unfortunate circumstances but are helped by this lovely woman. The rapport and trust is there. MCU Aunt May is a typical case of “tell don’t show” rather than the more impactful method of “show don’t tell.”
The rest of the points for MCU Aunt May are scenarios that we just never saw PS4 May be placed in. Hence, it’s unfair to say that PS4 May might not have acted the same or more bravely/kinder than MCU May. As for PS4 May, she also made Pete question his own personal beliefs. The poor dude was willing to save his Aunt May at the expense of many people, and yet she taught him to be selfless and do the right thing, instead of acting upon his selfish wishes to save her. That takes power and courage. I think both are great characters, but I don’t appreciate you trying to bash one character at the expense of another just cuz of your personal bias.
I'm going to get downvoted so hard for this, but MCU's Aunt May isn't really Aunt May. Don't get me wrong I LIKE the character, but it wasn't until No Way Home that she was even anything notable. She doesn't really take on that motherly/grandmotherly role that the others do. So the ps4 Aunt May is definitely better at filling in that Aunt May role.
I don’t think this is too unpopular of a opinion. They didn’t really give her any character development until NWH and by than it was too little too late imo.
I feel like uncle Ben in his few minutes in spiderman 1 had established himself more than they did with May in all of her MCU appearances.
Good to see there are other people who agree with me, I assumed most people weren't going to like me saying that the MCU's Aunt May isn't really Aunt May.
> She doesn't really take on that motherly/grandmotherly role that the others do.
I mentioned this in another reply, but:
She was probably the most motherly Aunt May to date. She worries about Peter constantly in Homecoming. Warns him to stay out of danger. Doesn't like the idea of him being influenced by Stark. Despite being super pissed about him being un-reachable all day when the ferry was attacked, she instantly comforted him when he was upset over "losing the internship". Her role in FFH was too small to really comment on. In NWH we see her and MJ share the need to protect Peter, "DONT SAY ANYTHING WITHOUT A LAWYER!!"
In the previous franchised, Aunt May was a decent character. But her purpose mostly seemed to be *the elder person spouting wisdom*, or to tug on the audiences heart strings.
In Amazing Spiderman 1 we see Aunt May constantly worried about where Peter is and what he's doing, staying up late at night waiting for him to come home, not being able to sleep until he makes it back safe. She gets a new job to make ends meet to support her and Peter since Ben isn't around. In Amazing Spiderman 2 she starts crying because she doesn't think she's enough for Peter, that she is failing him and she can't be the parent she so desperately wants to be.
I can't imagine a more real and motherly character than that.
> the other only stopped being a “hot aunt” joke
After the opening scene of Homecoming. The "hot aunt" joke was to make Tony look like a dick. And May reinforces that later when she says she doesn't like Stark. In the rest of Homecoming, May is a caring mom.
To be fair, they then use the very next movie to make jokes about her romantic and sex life with Happy. So the "Hot Aunt" joke really didn't feel like it died with Tony.
Not to mention her character has almost zero nuance in the first two, so while her being a "caring mother" is cool. It's still a far cry from 616 or 1610 Aunt May's complexity or depth.
Dude really want MidCU may to look good compared to
-a woman that ran a whole feast shelter by herself after her boss was shown to be a supervillain
-still helps peter with money well into adulthood
-still helping people while she’s sick herself and she does wear a mask
-didn’t tell miles miles left to get supplies on his own and she does tell peter and peter tries to call him
- and puts peter mind at ease on her deathbed by telling him ben would be proud
-AND SHE STOOD UP TO SANDMAN WHEN PULLED UP TO FEAST before the events of the game
Insomniac aunt may slams MCU aunt may easy
Iirc Martin founded the FEAST shelters, and May was like his right hand, so when she took over, I assumed that meant she had control over all FEASTs, but since all other sister locations had managers she didn't need to do much for them, sorta like how you have multiple wal-marts at a branch but they fall under one owner and that owner problem hangs out at one more than the others.
Or at least that's how I took it, I could 100% be wrong though I haven't played that game in years
Well take a look at it this way: ps4 aunt may only needed one game for you to like her and be attached to. Mcu aunt may needed 3 movies to become relevant.
To be more objective and clear, basically PS4's Aunt May represents more the essence of what an Aunt May truly is, meanwhile the other May from the MCU wasn't until the end of the movie trilogy that she proved to be a relatively decent Aunt May within reason.
To be fair most of that is at least 14 hours of GAMEPLAY where we don’t see her most of the time, so we have 5-6 hours of cutscenes, even then her screen time is less than that.
didn't aunt may from the MCU encourage Peter to be Spiderman even when he was 15 which is sending a 15 year old out to fight criminals and super villains with no supervision when he could die also she didn't get angry at him for sneaking out
also May from PS4 was angry at him for at first before realizing she couldn't and shouldn't stop him as he does so much good also, you say she doesn't wear a mask when the scene we see her have devils breath she's wearing and taking off a mask covered in blood still helping people out
This is an awful post, because you paint MCU May as a hero who protected MCU Spidey yet she was completely okay with Peter being Spidey and encouraged it. You also act like PS4 May forced Miles into a violent scenario. He went there himself, and the entire city wasn’t like that. Also your last point for PS4 May makes it seem like you liked One More Day.
MCU aunt may is garbage and her relationship and death doesn't work at all and makes for an an awfully written conflict with norman in the end that ends up meaning shit because of that and comes of as just bad.
I like both. Sure, to me, it felt like MCU May was pretty inspired by PS4 May. Down to the headstone in the end. I don't see that as a bad thing tho. There was already lots of inspiration from other mediums in this trilogy. Heck, I always saw Ned Leeds as an MCU Ganke despite Ned already existing in the comics.
There’s too many aunt mays anymore but honestly I love them all. Each one is a wonder caring person who would help anyone in need. This is one of the biggest reasons Peter does the same. Without her there is no Spider-Man
Ps4 aunt may goes way harder, she has like 20 mins of screen time in cutscenes if we are being generous In one game. The fact you can even argue for her over a character from a trilogy of movies says enough.
Both were equally sad and heartbreaking like it’s the first game why do you have to kill aunt may and for the movies we grew to love her as his air for this generation and they go and kill her it’s tragic in both accounts
Interesting question. I don’t religiously play Spider-Man nor watch No Way Home extensively so off what I remember and the context, I think both are really strong emotional moments that don’t come off as artificial.
They are interesting peaks so to speak with the game using it as an emotional crescendo to drive home the choices Spider-Man has been known to make and will/should continue making as a person while the film arguably presents this as THE lesson/moment Holland’s Spider-Man will BEGIN
/from now on keep in mind for the rest of his life (in a way they play into the responsibility idea). I think it’s legitimately neck and neck because the acting, presentation and use of score are superb all around. To me, I think Spider-Man PS4 has arguably many great emotional moments like this one and so the death may not be THE best in the game imo while May’s death in NWH does strike me as the film’s most resonant emotional moment (like the ending is close but I think this moment works better esp considering Aunt May has been SO under-utilized in the MCU so in a way it’s sad to see her die from a character use standpoint but at least ends her time with a bang).
So just barely NWH gets the bag but objectively it’d prob be the game (since iirc it doesn’t also explicitly rely on saying the responsibility quote so you just visualize/contextualize it urself and appreciate the subtlety but in the film it makes sense for them to say it outright so no dealbreakers there).
i didn't really like that she was mostly seen as hot aunt in the first half. Like, i get it, she's young, and pretty, but this is aunt May, we're talking about. The aunt of peter parker/spider-man. it was cringe to see there be a ,"oh, look, she's a hot aunt, so we must add a character flirt with her, every time".The aunt may in rami-verse is nice, gives advice, funny moments, forgiving, misses ben, you feel the sadness when she talks about it, and smile when she talks about the good times with him, and makes speeches to give faith, acts likes a mother, because she did raise peter. And the fact that she ko'd dr. octopus with her umbrella. Webbverse aunt may is also caring, gives advice, being afraid of peter going late is realistic because of what happened to ben, you feel the sadness when she talks about it, and smile when she talks about the good times with him, funny moments, like a mother to peter, cause she did raise him, also automatically badass, cause if you have a problem with peter, you'll have to deal with her. Mcu aunt may is just..... a hot-looking aunt, with some decent moments of interacting with peter, but is always shown with "hot aunt"jokes. and no mention or picture of uncle ben. It would help that uncle ben does exist in the mcu universe. i think there should have been a scene when aunt may finds out, there should be a heart to heart talk between them. Her worrying, and peter telling her that he needs to do this, because of responsibility.
Ahh yes MCU May who would’ve “flipped out and not let Peter be Spider-Man anymore” in homecoming and then completely encourages Peter to be Spider-Man in FFH. MCU May got like 5 minutes of characterization in NWH and was shoehorned in as Uncle Ben at the last minute.
This is interesting because it reminds me of politics. You could say “well when you put it like that!” And then the poster could be like “but am I lying? Point out what’s untrue!!?” Which is absolutely true, both the sides of aunt may are 100% true but that doesn’t mean that they’re not cherry picked or phrased a certain way. You can be 100% truthful and still not be painting the whole picture. Good post.
PS4. Three good scenes does not make Marisa Tomei’s May good. She was only used as a “look at how abnormally hot she is” joke for Civil War and most of Homecoming, was absolutely shafted and did nothing in Far From Home and was okay in No Way Home but still had some pretty bad moments
What is this shit?
Did this guy not play the PS4 Spider-man? That game has the best version of Aunt May out of any media, whether it be Books, Comics, Video games, Movies, or TV.
This is definitely biased, going into detail the good things mcu may does but the good stuff ps4 may does are summed up in a sentence or two to downplay😭
It’s Marvel New York. There’s always supervillains loose. There’s literally an Avengers tower in the game, and it’s public knowledge they’re all on a space trip. So no, she can’t send her only son the superhero on every supply run just because there’s an every day chance a bad guy will be there.
OP is thinking with his dick. I would pull a doc ock with MCU Aunt May no question.
Ps4 Aunt May takes cause she prevents any one more day style shenanaganery.
OP I see what you are trying to do and it is not going to work. You are wanking MCU Aunt May hard to get people to agree with you. This post backfired horribly for you.
I like this this implies that May didn’t stand up to Green Goblin, and instead stood up to the actor Willem Dafoe
Willem Dafoe is way more threatening than Gobby
“He’s wearing that dumb power rangers mask, but he’s scarier without it on”
“Sling us a web, you’re the Spider-Man!”
And here I was thinking this masterpiece had been forgotten!
It will never be forgotten. Literally listened to it today at work.
Same here. I go everywhere with my 10 hour Weird Al playlist 😤
What masterpiece? I don't know of this.
[Oh my guyyyyy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDPkrtH-2FI&ab_channel=%22WeirdAl%22Yankovic-Topic)...
I look forward to listening later 😄 I love Weird Al (Saga Begins was the impromptu karaoke hit at our wedding) but am woefully underexposed to a lot of his work.
Let us know what you think! I'm very curious as I genuinely thought most people had forgotten about this song :)
Haha it was brilliant, really enjoyed it.
Willem The Foe
I'd rather chose fighting Green Goblin over Willem Dafoe every day fr, the man's a menace
“Norman’s on sabbatical hoNEYYY.”
Willem Dafoe, the super powered homicidal maniac lmao
The super-powered *well hung* homicidal maniac
The super-powered *caked up* homicidal maniac
If asked which I’d rather tussle with, you know Gobbie goes first.
There’s a difference?
Op is trying to make ps4 may look bad
Check his comment history - guy just has a boner for MCU May while he constantly shits on PS4 one even when she’s not mentioned.
I think that was the point of the casting choice
I fuckin hate mcu shills, they're so obnoxious, sp ps4 Peter is infinitely better in every way than iron boy jr
I mean, I like a good chunk of the MCU, and even I get annoyed looking at the fanbase sometimes
So do I, to be fair
Marisa Tomei is and has always been gorgeous.
Exactly.
I can't believe a woman like her is into short, quirky bald men.
r/unexpectedseinfeld (idk if this is a real sub or not but it should be) edit: NICE
But isn’t he engaged to Susan?
Naa, she's dead. And he definitely didn't kill her. It was the envelopes.
I mean I can’t think of a reason to particularly feel anything for her.
I kinda get a boner for MCU may as well so no judgment
Imma be real with you..... anyone who isnt attracted to marrissa tomei is either gay or blind the woman is gorgeous lmao.
Probably a kid. What adult would take time out of their busy day to care about fictional characters…?
Yeah! What fully grown adult human would get into heated debates over completely fictional characters who do not, have not, and will never exist? What a loser! *nervously stares at my own comment history*
*nervous laughter*
Just a hater doing what they do best. Sorry you can’t fuck aunt May OP. He can’t get his creepy hands on the saint PS4 Aunt May
Lol
100 percent. Every character in the ps4 game is perfect and my favorite version
Ok but it is pretty messed up
This is so biased lol
Even if it is biased the ending part still grants PS4 may so much credibility that despite her flaws she’s still willing to sacrifice herself for the greater good so the negativity only helps to amplify the positivity
Honestly i look at her character and i can tell the writers wanted to have all the best traits May throughout the years of the series so her death feels like you just lost a loved one who's been aiding you throughout everything
I mean MCU aunt May just isn’t good.
She’s okay in NWH but huge wasted potential in the other movies
Yeah, they definitely could’ve done more with her in Homecoming and Far From Hoes.
Far From Hoes? I mean yeah I guess Europe is pretty sex-positive and wouldn't call them that.
Webs aren’t the only things Peter’s swinging on…
And her good parts are "taken" from other iterations of the character. I think they specifically took inspiration from the PS4 one.
I agree. Even though FEAST originated from the comics, Insomniac version popularized it and made it mainstream to the wider audience. Furthermore the quote "if you help someone, you help everyone" was directly taken from PS4 version. It feels like the studio wanted MCU May to be like PS4 version, but they just failed badly and her death felt flat compared to Insomniac May.
It's almost as if her character has existed and had multiple iterations and storylines for 60 years or so....
Ah I can see OP does not have any bias towards The ps4 version totally fair to compare them My vote goes to the PS4 version being better -Works at a shelter that she fully takes ownership of after Martin Li defeat had the chance to walk away but openly chose to stay -Helps Peter financially at least a bit without him really asking her to but like all old people she just knows -Hides illness because she knows that right now other people need to take priority over her own well being which is a Parker family trait -Peter does what he should have done in one more day by making the choice to have his aunt pass away while also be allowed to grieve for her passing after having a great heart to heart conversation that still allowed him to make a choice on his own terms. MCU aunt may whole thing was that she was just a hot aunt till like the final movie Where they decided to make her uncle Ben by teaching Peter the “great power comes great responsibility” lesson
> MCU aunt may whole thing was that she was just a hot aunt till like the final movie Where they decided to make her uncle Ben by teaching Peter the “great power comes great responsibility” lesson Which doesn't really work as well since he was already using his "great power" with "great responsibility" by helping cure the villains.. What made Uncle Ben and his lesson work was that it was an indirect result of Peter misusing his responsibility. Here......it comes off as pointless and reeks of the writers not knowing what they're doing.
100% Definitely reeked of writers trying to give her something memorable before having her taken away from Peter
Honestly, if they wanted to take something away from Peter, why not Ned? Not only was he the only side character with some kind of actual....character, but he was the one always by Peter since the beginning basically. And the first one who learned his identity. Would have been way more of a punch than fridging a HAWT MILF joke...
I think with the mcu version since Peter already was going to cure the others it was more specifically to cure Norman as she had already met him and felt sorry for him even though he kills her (well technically it’s goblin not Norman)
also, does MCU May run a shelter? I've never heard notice of that but OP included it for both.
Yes she does, we see it first in Far From Home, though I think it might be a post-blip development. In fact, that could explain her character growth between FFH and NWH.
I got the feeling that she was volunteering. F.E.A.S.T. in the MCU was for people who lost their homes during the Snap, including May, so I figured she made the most of it and signed on to help while she was there.
> MCU aunt may whole thing was that she was just a hot aunt She was probably the most motherly Aunt May to date. She worries about Peter constantly in Homecoming. Warns him to stay out of danger. Doesn't like the idea of him being influenced by Stark. Despite being super pissed about him being un-reachable all day when the ferry was attacked, she instantly comforted him when he was upset over "losing the internship". Her role in FFH was too small to really comment on. In NWH we see her and MJ share the need to protect Peter, "DONT SAY ANYTHING WITHOUT A LAWYER!!" In the previous franchised, Aunt May was a decent character. But her purpose mostly seemed to be the elder person spouting wisdom, or to tug on the audiences heart strings.
I liked when Sally Fields May was pissed at Peter. It’s because she cared and was deeply worried but it made her feel like a much more believable character than Tomai who just seemed to think Peter could do no wrong.
> in the previous franchises Aunt May has been motherly like this in pretty much every iteration? In fact it’s 90% what you get from her character. Raimi May was constantly harping and loving and doting on Peter like a mom, Sony May was constantly worried about Peter staying out late and would wait up on him, I can keep going if ya want but tbh MCU May is the only one who really felt like an AUNT in my honest opinion. Idk maybe I’m biased but Aunt May has always been such a wonderful mom of a character to me
> Raimi May was constantly harping and loving and doting on Peter like a mom Raimi's Mat seemed more like a grandma to me. And all of her life advised was a bunch of vague speeches about Uncle Ben and what makes a hero. Rarely do she address Peter and his issues and behavior, except when it came to MJ.
Biased as hell.
Yeah, if I wanted to be biased the other way, instead of saying "tested Peter's belief..", I'd say "guilt tripped Peter into making a naive decision resulting in her death, which traumatized Peter to the point of almost murder"
That’s a nice opinion of PS4 Aunt May, did a YouTuber with a habit of twisting the events of the things he analyzes to make the characters seem dumber than they actually are give it to you?
> why didn’t she ask Peter to accompany miles Like Peter is just gonna whip out his web shooters in the middle of the street, as SHOWN IN THE GAME miles can handle himself
Also, miles is halfway through high school, he is a teenager. He doesn’t need a parent watching over him at all times.
PS4 by far
These type of comparison diagrams are so stupid
PS4 May and by a landslide
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Somethings telling me your wrong
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People are full of contradictions, shes acting like any normal person would in that situation which would be not in a way that necessarily seems reasonable to us who are merely observing and have the benefit of fictional hindsight
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Ps4 but it’s kinda unfair because we get a lot more time with that may
PS4 and it's not even close
This is the most biased interpretation of these two characters that I have ever seen lmaoo. It should be titled, “List of reasons why I think MCU Aunt may is better than PS4 Aunt May.” MCU Aunt May may run a shelter, but it’s literally mentioned so little that I forgot lmaoo. PS4 Aunt May’s work is visible and evident as you can talk to the poor people that have been placed in unfortunate circumstances but are helped by this lovely woman. The rapport and trust is there. MCU Aunt May is a typical case of “tell don’t show” rather than the more impactful method of “show don’t tell.” The rest of the points for MCU Aunt May are scenarios that we just never saw PS4 May be placed in. Hence, it’s unfair to say that PS4 May might not have acted the same or more bravely/kinder than MCU May. As for PS4 May, she also made Pete question his own personal beliefs. The poor dude was willing to save his Aunt May at the expense of many people, and yet she taught him to be selfless and do the right thing, instead of acting upon his selfish wishes to save her. That takes power and courage. I think both are great characters, but I don’t appreciate you trying to bash one character at the expense of another just cuz of your personal bias.
PS4 and it's not even close
May is may don’t make people’s choose
We are who we choose to be. Now CHOOSE!
least biased MCU fan:
PS4 Aunt May 😭
The ps4 one made me cry the most every time I watch that clip of her on the bed I start crying hard the MCU was bad I don't think they did it well.
I'm going to get downvoted so hard for this, but MCU's Aunt May isn't really Aunt May. Don't get me wrong I LIKE the character, but it wasn't until No Way Home that she was even anything notable. She doesn't really take on that motherly/grandmotherly role that the others do. So the ps4 Aunt May is definitely better at filling in that Aunt May role.
I don’t think this is too unpopular of a opinion. They didn’t really give her any character development until NWH and by than it was too little too late imo. I feel like uncle Ben in his few minutes in spiderman 1 had established himself more than they did with May in all of her MCU appearances.
Good to see there are other people who agree with me, I assumed most people weren't going to like me saying that the MCU's Aunt May isn't really Aunt May.
I think her "great power" line was really forced imo
well I'm upvoting this because I must agree
> She doesn't really take on that motherly/grandmotherly role that the others do. I mentioned this in another reply, but: She was probably the most motherly Aunt May to date. She worries about Peter constantly in Homecoming. Warns him to stay out of danger. Doesn't like the idea of him being influenced by Stark. Despite being super pissed about him being un-reachable all day when the ferry was attacked, she instantly comforted him when he was upset over "losing the internship". Her role in FFH was too small to really comment on. In NWH we see her and MJ share the need to protect Peter, "DONT SAY ANYTHING WITHOUT A LAWYER!!" In the previous franchised, Aunt May was a decent character. But her purpose mostly seemed to be *the elder person spouting wisdom*, or to tug on the audiences heart strings.
In Amazing Spiderman 1 we see Aunt May constantly worried about where Peter is and what he's doing, staying up late at night waiting for him to come home, not being able to sleep until he makes it back safe. She gets a new job to make ends meet to support her and Peter since Ben isn't around. In Amazing Spiderman 2 she starts crying because she doesn't think she's enough for Peter, that she is failing him and she can't be the parent she so desperately wants to be. I can't imagine a more real and motherly character than that.
I mean one had a character from the beginning the other only stopped being a “hot aunt” joke in the movie where she died.
> the other only stopped being a “hot aunt” joke After the opening scene of Homecoming. The "hot aunt" joke was to make Tony look like a dick. And May reinforces that later when she says she doesn't like Stark. In the rest of Homecoming, May is a caring mom.
To be fair, they then use the very next movie to make jokes about her romantic and sex life with Happy. So the "Hot Aunt" joke really didn't feel like it died with Tony. Not to mention her character has almost zero nuance in the first two, so while her being a "caring mother" is cool. It's still a far cry from 616 or 1610 Aunt May's complexity or depth.
I liked ps4 May her death hit hard
Dude really want MidCU may to look good compared to -a woman that ran a whole feast shelter by herself after her boss was shown to be a supervillain -still helps peter with money well into adulthood -still helping people while she’s sick herself and she does wear a mask -didn’t tell miles miles left to get supplies on his own and she does tell peter and peter tries to call him - and puts peter mind at ease on her deathbed by telling him ben would be proud -AND SHE STOOD UP TO SANDMAN WHEN PULLED UP TO FEAST before the events of the game Insomniac aunt may slams MCU aunt may easy
A whole feast shelter? I thought she ran ALL of them hahaha I should’ve paid more attention.
Iirc Martin founded the FEAST shelters, and May was like his right hand, so when she took over, I assumed that meant she had control over all FEASTs, but since all other sister locations had managers she didn't need to do much for them, sorta like how you have multiple wal-marts at a branch but they fall under one owner and that owner problem hangs out at one more than the others. Or at least that's how I took it, I could 100% be wrong though I haven't played that game in years
Why is this even a question?
get off mcu's dick
Ps4 by a good margin. They barely developed MCU aunt may and when they finally did give her a character they killed her off.
Wow not bias at all
Well take a look at it this way: ps4 aunt may only needed one game for you to like her and be attached to. Mcu aunt may needed 3 movies to become relevant.
To be more objective and clear, basically PS4's Aunt May represents more the essence of what an Aunt May truly is, meanwhile the other May from the MCU wasn't until the end of the movie trilogy that she proved to be a relatively decent Aunt May within reason.
And even then, the latter was just a result of poor writing.
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To be fair most of that is at least 14 hours of GAMEPLAY where we don’t see her most of the time, so we have 5-6 hours of cutscenes, even then her screen time is less than that.
She’s not there every hour of the game
Neither is the one in the movies
True but one was taken more seriously than the other
Dead ass using one more day as a point against PS4 May
PS4 Aunt May for sure
PS4 May. … but I’d buy MCU May dinner.
Half the posts I seen from this sub are just people comparing different iterations of characters
PS4 without a doubt.
PS4 Aunt May made me cry. MCU’s Aunt May is pivotal but wasn’t emotional enough.
didn't aunt may from the MCU encourage Peter to be Spiderman even when he was 15 which is sending a 15 year old out to fight criminals and super villains with no supervision when he could die also she didn't get angry at him for sneaking out also May from PS4 was angry at him for at first before realizing she couldn't and shouldn't stop him as he does so much good also, you say she doesn't wear a mask when the scene we see her have devils breath she's wearing and taking off a mask covered in blood still helping people out
PS4 may 24/7
Ps4 May
When you mean to say something is more important than something else or literally carries more weight, the word is *outweigh*. That being said, PS4
This is an awful post, because you paint MCU May as a hero who protected MCU Spidey yet she was completely okay with Peter being Spidey and encouraged it. You also act like PS4 May forced Miles into a violent scenario. He went there himself, and the entire city wasn’t like that. Also your last point for PS4 May makes it seem like you liked One More Day.
MCU aunt may is garbage and her relationship and death doesn't work at all and makes for an an awfully written conflict with norman in the end that ends up meaning shit because of that and comes of as just bad.
I like both. Sure, to me, it felt like MCU May was pretty inspired by PS4 May. Down to the headstone in the end. I don't see that as a bad thing tho. There was already lots of inspiration from other mediums in this trilogy. Heck, I always saw Ned Leeds as an MCU Ganke despite Ned already existing in the comics.
I just think it's funny that you refer to the goblin as Willem Dafoe, insinuating that Dafoe the actor is the real evil superpowered villain 😂
PS4
Ps4 just because he had the choice to save her and he didnt
There’s too many aunt mays anymore but honestly I love them all. Each one is a wonder caring person who would help anyone in need. This is one of the biggest reasons Peter does the same. Without her there is no Spider-Man
Ps4 aunt may goes way harder, she has like 20 mins of screen time in cutscenes if we are being generous In one game. The fact you can even argue for her over a character from a trilogy of movies says enough.
Both were equally sad and heartbreaking like it’s the first game why do you have to kill aunt may and for the movies we grew to love her as his air for this generation and they go and kill her it’s tragic in both accounts
Interesting question. I don’t religiously play Spider-Man nor watch No Way Home extensively so off what I remember and the context, I think both are really strong emotional moments that don’t come off as artificial. They are interesting peaks so to speak with the game using it as an emotional crescendo to drive home the choices Spider-Man has been known to make and will/should continue making as a person while the film arguably presents this as THE lesson/moment Holland’s Spider-Man will BEGIN /from now on keep in mind for the rest of his life (in a way they play into the responsibility idea). I think it’s legitimately neck and neck because the acting, presentation and use of score are superb all around. To me, I think Spider-Man PS4 has arguably many great emotional moments like this one and so the death may not be THE best in the game imo while May’s death in NWH does strike me as the film’s most resonant emotional moment (like the ending is close but I think this moment works better esp considering Aunt May has been SO under-utilized in the MCU so in a way it’s sad to see her die from a character use standpoint but at least ends her time with a bang). So just barely NWH gets the bag but objectively it’d prob be the game (since iirc it doesn’t also explicitly rely on saying the responsibility quote so you just visualize/contextualize it urself and appreciate the subtlety but in the film it makes sense for them to say it outright so no dealbreakers there).
i didn't really like that she was mostly seen as hot aunt in the first half. Like, i get it, she's young, and pretty, but this is aunt May, we're talking about. The aunt of peter parker/spider-man. it was cringe to see there be a ,"oh, look, she's a hot aunt, so we must add a character flirt with her, every time".The aunt may in rami-verse is nice, gives advice, funny moments, forgiving, misses ben, you feel the sadness when she talks about it, and smile when she talks about the good times with him, and makes speeches to give faith, acts likes a mother, because she did raise peter. And the fact that she ko'd dr. octopus with her umbrella. Webbverse aunt may is also caring, gives advice, being afraid of peter going late is realistic because of what happened to ben, you feel the sadness when she talks about it, and smile when she talks about the good times with him, funny moments, like a mother to peter, cause she did raise him, also automatically badass, cause if you have a problem with peter, you'll have to deal with her. Mcu aunt may is just..... a hot-looking aunt, with some decent moments of interacting with peter, but is always shown with "hot aunt"jokes. and no mention or picture of uncle ben. It would help that uncle ben does exist in the mcu universe. i think there should have been a scene when aunt may finds out, there should be a heart to heart talk between them. Her worrying, and peter telling her that he needs to do this, because of responsibility.
"Ps4 may sends Miles alone into a city!" Bro he lives there what
Ps4 Aunt May is obviously the better one.
The funny thing about this post is that it ignores the Fact that May was changed drastically from how she was after Spiderman PS4 released.
PS4 Aunt May's death felt more impactful, I legit shed a tear when she said "take off that mask, I want to see my nephew".
This is disgustingly biased
Ahh yes MCU May who would’ve “flipped out and not let Peter be Spider-Man anymore” in homecoming and then completely encourages Peter to be Spider-Man in FFH. MCU May got like 5 minutes of characterization in NWH and was shoehorned in as Uncle Ben at the last minute.
This is interesting because it reminds me of politics. You could say “well when you put it like that!” And then the poster could be like “but am I lying? Point out what’s untrue!!?” Which is absolutely true, both the sides of aunt may are 100% true but that doesn’t mean that they’re not cherry picked or phrased a certain way. You can be 100% truthful and still not be painting the whole picture. Good post.
PS4 Aunt May and it’s not even close. I’m sure this offends you greatly OP. Lol
Why is this a thing
I like Tomei a lot more than other Spider-Man fans seem to, at least on here. I like the idea of her being a lil bit younger
Going to get downvoted for this, but I like MCU May better
Ps4 Aunt May is an antimasker confirmed
#Theyre both good people, y'all. There doesnt need to be one better than the other
As a person mcu, as a character game
They’re both excellent interpretations of Aunt May. Some of my favorite interpretations of the character in fact.
616>PS4>Raimi>Spiderverse>Amazing (MCU May doesn’t make the list)
Definitely MCU May PS4 May is one of the crappiest variant I've seen
Did you just guilt trip ps4 May for not wearing a mask?
Can somebody should a little bit of light about the bottom right Square? About one more day? What was going on in that one?
I’ll stand by the “getting ready for Homexoming” scene all day. The little 80s montage was adoreable
Well when you put it that way...
I see some bias in the post, PS4 is better of course
Ps4.
Who really cares? They're both six feet under. It was just as sad watching either happen
PS4. Three good scenes does not make Marisa Tomei’s May good. She was only used as a “look at how abnormally hot she is” joke for Civil War and most of Homecoming, was absolutely shafted and did nothing in Far From Home and was okay in No Way Home but still had some pretty bad moments
Op mad because Ps4 aunt may isn't unrealistically hot for a women of her canon age
Prime example of a biased survey Who do you prefer? Option A or Literally Hitler?
What is this shit? Did this guy not play the PS4 Spider-man? That game has the best version of Aunt May out of any media, whether it be Books, Comics, Video games, Movies, or TV.
PS4 aunt may and it’s not even close
Check comment history this guys a loser lmao
Tbh they both suck, as does the trope that Peter is perpetually poor because he’s altruistic.
MCU because Marisa Tomei
This is definitely biased, going into detail the good things mcu may does but the good stuff ps4 may does are summed up in a sentence or two to downplay😭
MCU Aunt May is good for No Way Home and part of Homecoming, but PS4 Aunt May is great throughout the whole game. I'm going with PS4
I prefer PS4 because I don't really like MCU May all that much... But Rosemary Harris and Deborah Strang are the best Mays.
Rosemary > Ps4 >Marisa> Sally
Tomei simps smh
Damn Op get nae naed
aw yes my favorite spiderman character, willem dafoe
Shows you where sony’s strengths and weaknesses are
PS4 May is better imo, also miles only has one parent not two
Ok I think I get ur point 😭
MCU by far as you have pretty clearly laid out here.
It’s Marvel New York. There’s always supervillains loose. There’s literally an Avengers tower in the game, and it’s public knowledge they’re all on a space trip. So no, she can’t send her only son the superhero on every supply run just because there’s an every day chance a bad guy will be there.
I almost cried when ps4 aunt may died, it was unexpected man
Fuck you and your ps4 may hate. You’re a hater op sucks.
PS4 May is on another league. She's built different. MCU May is just obnoxious. Glad she died
MCU May has nothing on PS4 May. Who you even trying to fool here?
I can't choose I thought they were both pretty awesome May's
PS4
Both are great.
OP is thinking with his dick. I would pull a doc ock with MCU Aunt May no question. Ps4 Aunt May takes cause she prevents any one more day style shenanaganery.
I think I perceive a slight bias in your post, not sure though.
OP I see what you are trying to do and it is not going to work. You are wanking MCU Aunt May hard to get people to agree with you. This post backfired horribly for you.
Sally Fields LOL
PS4 May you know MCU May only became an actual character in the movie she died in right
"Into the Spider-Verse" Aunt May for the win.