Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
A young Peter Parker, who has already made his debut as Spider-Man, tries to balance high school life in Queens with his responsibilities as a superhero. Under the guidance of Tony Stark, he hopes to prove himself worthy of greater responsibility while facing the threat of the Vulture. As Peter uncovers a weapons-smuggling operation tied to advanced alien technology, he must stop Adrian Toomes before the danger escalates.
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Intro
After the Battle of New York, salvage contractor Adrian Toomes loses his cleanup work to the Department of Damage Control, so he keeps Chitauri technology with his crew and uses it to build black-market weapons and a flying Vulture suit, while in the present day teenage Peter Parker is balancing Midtown School, his secret life as Spider-Man, and his hope of impressing Tony Stark as a future Avenger.
Turning Point 1
At Liz Allan’s homecoming party, Peter notices mysterious weapons being used by criminals and tracks the dealers to a sale involving Aaron Davis; he saves Davis, but Adrian Toomes appears in the Vulture suit, defeats Peter, and drops him into a lake, forcing Tony Stark to rescue him and warn him to stop chasing the larger threat on his own.
Turning Point 2
When one of Toomes’s men, Jackson Brice, is killed by his own weapon and Herman Schultz becomes the new Shocker, Peter and Ned study the recovered alien device and discover it is powerful and dangerous; after a tracking lead points to Maryland, Peter joins the academic decathlon trip to Washington, D.C., secretly disables the Stark suit’s limiter with Ned, and tries to stop Schultz and Toomes from stealing more weapons.
Turning Point 3
Peter’s attempt to stop the theft goes badly: he is trapped in the DODC truck, misses the decathlon event, and later learns the stolen weapon core is a bomb that can explode under radiation; in the chaos he also sees Toomes’s crew operating in the open, realizes the scale of the criminal operation, and begins pushing harder to handle the situation without Tony’s help.
Turning Point 4
On the Washington trip, Peter eventually escapes, suits up, and returns in time to save his classmates when Toomes rigs the Staten Island ferry with stolen weapons; the ferry is nearly split apart, Tony intervenes to prevent a catastrophe, and Peter is shaken by how badly his self-directed heroics have endangered innocent people.
Turning Point 5
After returning to New York, Peter believes he has finally earned a normal life when Liz Allan agrees to go with him to Homecoming, but then he overhears her father Adrian Toomes in the car and realizes the Vulture is his date’s father; he abandons the dance, races to stop Toomes, and is attacked and knocked out in a brutal confrontation that strips away his suit and confidence.
Ending
Using only his homemade resolve and the damaged remains of his suit, Peter tracks Toomes to the Avengers’ cargo plane as Toomes tries to steal advanced weapons; Peter defeats him in a final aerial battle, saves Adrian Toomes from dying in the explosion, and later refuses Tony’s offer to join the Avengers, choosing instead to remain the neighborhood Spider-Man.
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