Corrected entry: When getting dressed to go to M.J.'s play, there is a cute scene showing Peter staring into his closet, looking back and forth in the closet, trying to decide what to wear. A reverse angle of the closet's contents shows that there are only two items hanging there, the 'Spidey' suit, and Peter's one-and-only dress shirt/coat/ tie. The gag, of course, is that he is trying to decide what to wear, when it is obvious that he is going as a 'civilian', so he should wear the street clothes. However, after the play is over, Peter (who logically chose to wear his street clothes) is shown running down an alley, and he does the 'opening the shirt to reveal the 'Spidey' suit underneath' maneuver, and swings away on a web. Well.if he wears the costume underneath his street clothes most of the time, why was he looking in the closet trying to decide between the two of them when he knew he was going to be wearing them both?
Gary O'Reilly
20th Aug 2005
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
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Correction: The gag isn't "deciding what to wear", it's supposed to show how he's struggling to decide whether he should wear his Spidey suit underneath or not, as he's still wondering whether he should give up being Spiderman or not. It's a tougher decision than it seems because if he DOES wear the Spiderman suit underneath his normal suit, then he's under pressure to go off and be Spiderman if he sees anything happening on his way there (and thus disappointing MJ) but if he doesn't wear it, there's no way he can go off to save people anyway, so he'd make MJ happy, but potentially cause other people to die (as he did with his uncle). It's a lot deeper than a simple "he can't decide what to wear" gag.
Gary O'Reilly