Now that Spider-Man has been kicked out of the MCU after his parents, Sony and Marvel/Disney, had an almighty argument over custody rights, ol’ mate has sort of found himself out of a job (for now at least).
Since a guy’s gotta eat and the employment waters are a little muddied thanks to Tom Holland and his overeager thumb, the webslinger has taken to a number of side-hustles to fill his time. While he may not be a friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man anymore, he’s still helping people out in other meaningful, non-punchy ways.
There’s his dabble in promoting safe sex when Durex India thought to jump on the whole “Spidey leaving Marvel” bandwagon. Technically he’s still in the web slinging business and… okay, I’ll stop there.
The webslinger isn’t just being used to help dudes to, uh, sling their webs safely during sex. While one half of the world is crying over the Spider-Man/Marvel deal being set on fire, the other half is literally on fire.
Thanks to the doings of inconsiderable humans with a dash of climate change (and not NGOs like what Brazil’s idiotic president, Jair Bolsonaro, wants everyone to believe) the Amazon Rainforest is going up in flames at a worrying rate, so much so the smoke can be seen from space.
Now two wrongs don’t necessarily make a right (outside of mathematics) but there’s an exception in this case. Since the Amazon is in dire need of saving, some folk on Twitter decided to turn Spider-Man into clickbait in order to get people to donate money to SOS Amazônia, a NGO that’s raising awareness about the destruction of the Amazon.
So while Sony and Marvel/Disney figure out a custody agreement over who should have Spider-Man on weekends, Tom Holland’s webslinger indirectly helped promote safe sex and raised awareness on the Amazon Rainforest fires.
If Tony Stark could see what you’ve done – albeit unintentionally – he’d be pretty proud and probably a bit weirded out.