It Took Me So Much Time To Realise This Until I Recently Reread The Early Spiderman Comic And Rewatched

It took me so much time to realise this until I recently reread the early spiderman comic and rewatched tasm movie, is the way Peter discovered his power for the first time ever and how tasm movie was accurate to comic in that regard

Peter first displayed his power in the comic when he leaped to the nearby wall of the building on reflex as a response to threat (*which is the car fastly approaching him), similarly, in tasm movie, Peter first displayed his power when he leaped to the ceiling of the metro on reflex as a type of alarming response, the other common thing is that before the happening of the response, Peter neither noticed nor saw the thing upcoming due to in both cases he was either preoccupied or sleeping

There is a great reply on youtube that explains in detail the reason why Peter only reacted to the droplet of water but not the bottle being placed on his forehead:

Also something I really love about how Peter discovered his power in tasm movie, is that the movie really emphasised how Peter was having a hard time to control his power if he put a bit aggressive force into something which is just like how Peter first discovered his power in the comic, he easily crashed a steel pipe even tho he didn't intentionally put much force into it but because of his superhuman strength any bit of aggressive force can be enormous, I love that tasm movie expanded on this aspect more than the comic and other adaptations because it would be realistic to see in regular basis how someone having superhuman strength would break many things unintentionally and this power can be destructive, in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man movie we only got that on a very superficial level like when he hit flash, but that's about it, we don't get anything else besides that, we don't see how he interacts with objects like really hard solids, but I love that this aspect was more explored and emphasised in tasm movie and is more accurate to the comic

This is just one of the many reasons why tasm movie (in my opinion) is the best live-action adaptation of the comic, it has so many great overlooked details that I could spend time talking about

This meme perfectly sums it up

I don't think you really got my point, I'm talking about how 12 to 14 is an actual Jump in maturity 𝙗𝙞𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 (*I will talk about the mental one later) by the real life example I just mentioned, but yes different people mature differently, I didn't say there was "that big" of a maturity gap, but nevertheless there's a maturity gap and I didn't also mention that experience and life perspectives can be a factor in maturity, regarding what you said about Aang: "Aang suffered genocide that's gonna make anybody grow very quickly" I agree that this trauma is gonna force him to grow, but "Very quickly"?

Growing up from trauma doesn't happen that quickly as you think it is, yes Aang started to take his responsibility seriously after but he's still a kid who would goof off and have fun, there are many episodes that emphasize how he's still a kid and didn't really grow up, what separates Katara from Aang is that she already exprienced trauma and war since she was 8, she took mature responsibilities for herself and even takes care of Sokka, Aang got to have a normal childhood in the southern air temple before the genocide and didn't need to have responsibilities back then, so after this sudden trauma he exprienced it's hard to fully process it or to "quickly" mature from it

Regarding "They're still in middle school" I don't get what has school years to do with maturity? Maybe school years differ from a country to another, but in my country, 12 is supposed to be in the last year of elementary school not in middle school but yeah you already get my point

I find it hilariously stupid when some K̶a̶t̶a̶a̶n̶g̶ s̶h̶i̶p̶p̶e̶r̶s̶ undermine the maturity gap between Katara and Aang by saying: "Oh I love that Katara is taller than Aang, and Aang is short cuz it breaks societal norms"

IT'S NOT LIKE AANG WAS BORN SHORT AND KATARA IS BORN TALLER,

Aang is shorter than Katara In This PARTICULAR AGE PHASE because He's A 𝙋𝙍𝙀𝙏𝙀𝙀𝙉, he still hasn't hit puberty yet, meanwhile Katara is already a teen and older

To examplify that, me and my brother who have the same age difference as Katara and Aang respectively, when he was 12/13 I was taller than him, but when he started to hit puberty he drastically changed and even became Taller than me

In fact when Aang grew up, he became Taller than Katara, as seen from the photo of Aang and Katara as adults which destroys the argument that "Aang is short"

The "Shorter dude/Tall gal couple" only applies to Zaheer and P'li because when they're both grown adults (*given also that Zaheer is older) P'li is taller than him

What's even funny is that Zaheer himself is actually tall (he's 6'1) but P'li is just a giraff

Okay, but I am never going to get over the fact that Zuko basically exposed himself as being a fire bender to Jin just to make her happy since the lanterns weren’t lit. He probably thought he was being SO clever thinking that Jin didn’t figure out that he’s a fire bender but come on! Jin totally put two and two together. But the very fact that she knew that “Lee” was a fire bender but didn’t hold that against him at all speaks volumes of her character. I can’t believe that this series created the perfect love interest for Zuko in the span of 5 minutes with her being a great character as well yet they never did anything with Jin ever again 😤

Oh no it's totally fine! I think you explained my post more clearly and straight-to-the-point than I did bec op responded about how their maturity gap isn't that big even though my purpose was to explain how it impacted their heights (*I was gonna leave the topic of their maturity gap for another post in a big deep-dive) but he lead me into trying to explain their maturity gap to respond to his comments

I find it hilariously stupid when some K̶a̶t̶a̶a̶n̶g̶ s̶h̶i̶p̶p̶e̶r̶s̶ undermine the maturity gap between Katara and Aang by saying: "Oh I love that Katara is taller than Aang, and Aang is short cuz it breaks societal norms"

IT'S NOT LIKE AANG WAS BORN SHORT AND KATARA IS BORN TALLER,

Aang is shorter than Katara In This PARTICULAR AGE PHASE because He's A 𝙋𝙍𝙀𝙏𝙀𝙀𝙉, he still hasn't hit puberty yet, meanwhile Katara is already a teen and older

To examplify that, me and my brother who have the same age difference as Katara and Aang respectively, when he was 12/13 I was taller than him, but when he started to hit puberty he drastically changed and even became Taller than me

In fact when Aang grew up, he became Taller than Katara, as seen from the photo of Aang and Katara as adults which destroys the argument that "Aang is short"

The "Shorter dude/Tall gal couple" only applies to Zaheer and P'li because when they're both grown adults (*given also that Zaheer is older) P'li is taller than him

What's even funny is that Zaheer himself is actually tall (he's 6'1) but P'li is just a giraff