⚠️ Full spoilers start around 25:00.

We get into where it lands next to No Way Home, why Destin Daniel Cretton's Shang-Chi fight choreography and the PlayStation games are all over the web-swinging, and whether the new cloth suit is the most comic-accurate Spider-Man we've had on screen. Then the gripes: organic web-shooters vs. Peter's science brain, a Jean Grey who might be a little too mean, the Yelena spa scene, and the eternal question: how does a broke kid in New York afford the rent, the flowers, and that many Little Caesars?

Plus: a debate about theater-crowd etiquette ("on your left" cheerers vs. pin-drop-silence purists), the Hulk-remembers moment, and a villain wishlist that runs from Hobgoblin to the Jackal.

Beers of the Week

• Bero Kingston Golden Pils
• Bero Spider-Man: Brand New Day x Pils
• Sam Adams Summer Ale (2025 vintage)

Special Guest: Vactor.

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Beers of the Week:
Sam Adams Old Fezziwig spiced ale
Whistle Pig Piggy Back rye, with a water chaser

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We get into:

• The incursion, and why this is basically the first act of the movie (heroes miscommunicate, then find a bigger threat)
• The X-Men leading the cold open: Xavier's school on its last legs and what that window shot means
• Doctor Doom in live action for the "fifth" time, and why this one finally feels like it counts
• The RDJ voice debate: is that Downey under the mask, and does it matter if Doom just happens to have Tony's face?
• Crossover money shots Marvel wants you to care about (Shang-Chi vs. Gambit) and the ones that actually land
• Thor vs. Doom, and the magic rune on Doom's gauntlet that might belong to Wanda
• The Hydra Cap theory: how is a long-haired, bearded Steve worthy of Mjolnir?
• Is that Loki shot really pulled from the show? And is Doom collecting kids?
• The Kang problem nobody at Marvel wants to say out loud
• Where's Spider-Man, and why he's probably being saved for Secret Wars and Battleworld
• Tickets already selling out and a teaser that cleared 500 million views in a week

What we're drinking: Frank's on a Sam Adams Blueberry Lager (Red, White & Blueberry). Tim is drinking WhistlePig PiggyBack rye out of a porcelain Doctor Doom head he's had since childhood, whose brains have apparently been replaced by whiskey.

Next week: San Diego Comic-Con hype (and yeah, we still owe you Lois & Clark).

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Beers of the Week
Sam Adams Porch Rocker Lemon Radler (Frank)
Stormalong Legendary Dry Hard Cider — Millis, MA (Tim)

In this episode

• Sam Adams Porch Rocker returns — the annual visit, and this year it's slightly less tart (in a good way)
• Sam Adams's new can design — Sam covering his own letters with a raised mug (or is that Paul Revere? or Thomas Jefferson?)
• Stormalong dry cider, heirloom + bittersweet apples, and the cracking-tentacles Kraken can
• H.P. Lovecraft geography detour: Providence vs. Newport, the racism asterisk, where Arkham actually came from
• The main question: is Spider-Man a street-level superhero at all?
• Defining street-level: it's about the tone and the stakes, not the powers — Daredevil pounds the tar, Batman is technically anything but blue-collar
• Peter Parker's sci-fi problem: his origin is basically Fantastic Four, the web shooters make him genius-tier, and Frank once asked his dad to build a pair
• Kraven the Hunter's magic jungle potion goes golfing
• A live tally of Spider-Man's rogues gallery — chameleon, vulture, Doc Ock, Sandman, Lizard, Electro, Mysterio, Green Goblin, Kraven, Scorpion, Morbius, Venom — and where each one lands on street / middle / cosmic
• The verdict: 5 street, 6 in-between, 1 cosmic — Spider-Man's distribution skews low-end, but he's genuinely hard to pin down
• "Spider-Man is a street-level hero the same way Breaking Bad is a show about a chemistry teacher." — the Breaking Bad Test
• Why pigeonholing hurts long-lived characters, and why the supporting cast is really what makes a hero viable
• Reading from Superman: The Never-Ending Battle by Roger Stern — Clark Kent finally becomes Superman across an entire beautiful page of prose

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Boddington's Pub Ale
Chimay Blue Trappist Ale

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Concord Craft Brewing Apple Crisp Porter
Mighty Squirrel Festbier

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Smuttynose Pumpkin Ale
Black Hog Octoberfest

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Sam Adams Take-A-Day IPA
Sam Adams Summer Adventure Lager

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Peppermint Bailey's Christmas Cocktail (Bailey's + Peppermint Schnapp's)
Sam Adams Jack-O Pumpkin Ale

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Links:

• Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964) | YouTube — Aliens attack the North Pole! Martians kidnap Santa Claus because there is nobody on Mars to give their children presents.

Beers of the Week
Samuel Adams Cherry Wheat Ale
Mighty Swell Mango Raspberry Spiked Seltzer

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Shipyard Pumpkinhead
Lone Pine Carnival of Horrors Pumpkin Imperial Stout

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N/A

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Beers of the Week
Water
Polar Seltzer: Lemon

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No beer!

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Drinks of the Week
No beers! Seltzer this week from LaCroix!

Special Guest: Lauren.

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Links:

• Metropolis Podcast