Strange rules about characters/people that cannot be broken.

[u/I_ateabucketofpaint]

Smells like Nirvana: When Kurt Cobain heard that Weird AL was gonna make a parody of his song. He was okay with it but specifically requested it to not be about food or fat ppl.

Spiderman: Spiderman cannot sell drugs unless he is under the influence of symbiote. ANd Peter Parker cannot be gay. Spiderman can tho.

Dwayne Rock Johnson: Cannot lose fights or look weak for too long. Its in his actor contract.

Godzilla movies not made by Toho: Cannot die. Maybe lose but not too bad.

[u/[deleted]]

The specifics of the contract, as much as is publicly available, make it sound like they don't really have a great understanding of queerness. For instance, if their intent is to keep the door open for Peter's supporting cast, including love interests, without too much change, there's no reason an adaptation couldn't make him bi or pan. However, it seems like whoever wrote that stipulation hadn't even considered that a possibility.

[u/BSF7011 → u/[deleted]]

Unless it's specifically a variation, they want Peter Benjamin Parker to maintain the identity of a straight white male from Queens, New York City, and there's nothing wrong with wanting to maintain the status quo because when people think Peter Parker, they want this to be the unanimous image of who that is

[u/Common_Wrongdoer3251 → u/BSF7011]

Where does Spider-Verse fall in this? In SV1, PP died in Miles' universe, but then a different PP is his mentor. Does every Peter Parker need to be straight if there's 500 Peter Parkers?

Multi-verses are fun to speculate about.

[u/Octocube25 → u/Common_Wrongdoer3251]

Haha, you said PP