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Spider-Man and the Marvel Cinematic Universe

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So the new Spider-Man is up and coming in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and will appear for the first time in " Captain America: Civil War ", however, this will be the hero's third time on the silver screen and his third re-cast in Tom Holland after Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield. I wanted to talk about why this third iteration needed to happen, and why there is now a third chance for a new Spider-Man lore to be restarted on the big screen.  To do this, we'll evaluate Spider-Man throughout Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield's time as the web-crawler, and pose the question...why so many Spider-Men?  It should be noted as well that these are all different Spider-Men (Maguire - Original, Garfield - Amazing, and Holland - Marvel Cinematic Universe). Tobey Maguire The first iteration of Spidey was introduced in 2002 by Sam Raimi and his actor of choice, Tobey Maguire.  Although Raimi's casting of Peter Parker was on point, the acting in this nerd turned h...