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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Melba Toast" data-source="post: 4580692" data-attributes="member: 80591">I know this is off-subject, but...I never got that whole "wah! emo-spiderman! wah!" thing.I'm not sure what "emo" is, but if I understand correctly, you are referring to when Peter Parker gets a little selfish and develops a mischeivous sense of self-entitlement in part because he is infected by the alien suit and in part because he broke up with Mary Jane. Apparently something about the way they dramatized that struck you as inappropriate?Having lived on my own in NYC and been something of a geek myself, I thought the way they portrayed his transformation was totally 100% spot on. That is EXACTLY the way selfish little pricks in NYC act. Maybe the scene plays different in Peoria, but Peter is a NYC kid.Again, I'm not sure what "emo" means but I thought it was a derogatory term for morbidly-obsessed suburban teenagers, which was not what I saw at all. I saw "urban hipster poseur". And I thought it was hilarious.</blockquote>