There are many delights to be found in Spider-Man: Far From Home: Jake Gyllenhaal’s melodramatic shouting, Jake Gyllenhaal’s charmingly narcissistic sociopathy, Jake Gyllenhaal’s hair… oh, and the other 80 percent of this movie that doesn’t revolve around Jake Gyllenhaal’s immaculate genetics. That includes Night Monkey, the ad hoc alter ego foisted upon Peter Parker during his high school trip to Italy—for some reason this, and not the whole superheroes with magic powers and imaginary pew-pew weapons, is the surest sign that Far From Home is a work of fiction.
But back to the Tom Clancy video game sniper known as Night Monkey, who now has a silly superhero movie trailer of his very own. It’s Peter’s best pal Ned Leeds (Jacob Batalon) who comes up with the Night Monkey name in a panicked moment atop a ferris wheel with his temporary girlfriend, Betty Brant (Angourie Rice). And fortunately, to the amusement of the paying audience, this unfortunate nickname sticks. Thus, we now have a Night Monkey trailer, which gives off some Dark Knight vibes with title cards proclaiming very serious superhero things like, “When darkness falls, a new hero rises… The night belongs to the monkey.” Sure, why not.
Consider this your reminder that Spider-Man: Far From Home is available to purchase and/or rent to your nerdy little heart’s content.
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Fun fact, Peter taking on alternate superhero names has precedent in the comics.Diring the storyline Identity Crisis, Norman Osborn and Trapster (Formerly known as Paste-Pot Pete.) framed Spider-Man for murder and assaulting Norman. This forced Peter to create four new superhero identities, Hornet, Prodigy, Ricochet, and Dusk, to clear his name.
Note, they all sucked 🙂
Yeah the Post-Clone Saga, pre-JMS run of Spider-Man is at best forgettable. Aside from an attempt to make Peter single by killing off MJ only to later reveal that she was actually kidnapped by a stalker to undoing Aunt May’s death in the dumbest nonsensical way possible it’s incredibly dull.
Disagree. The JMD run on Spec with Osborn buying the Bugle was gold. “Citizen Osborn” is one of the best Peter/Norman issues, one of the best Spidey issues period.Plus you had Mackie/Romita Jr. doing stellar work on adjectiveless-Spider-Man. The issue with Peter and Norman stuck in an elevator (The Fall?) is one of the best single-issue Spidey stories ever. Mackie didn’t burn out on Spidey until he was writing both books in the reboot.
Paste….Pot….Pete
Yes, and this was his pre-Trapster outfit.
Strange times, man….strange times.
So…does this mean Disney still has the rights to Night Monkey?
This would be the greatest FU to Sony. It works with the ending to FFH, too. With his identity revealed, Spiderman retires all Spider-related personas and adopts something new. New actor Hom Tolland will take the lead role.
Is it me or is every new face in Hollywood these days named Hom?
No, some are named Chrip.
He was bitten by a radioactive monkey… in New York City. So it was probably Ross’ monkey.
Oh, there must be at least 30 radioactive monkeys in Central Park alone.
Nah, given the connection to the Russo Brothers, it was clearly Annie’s boobs that got him
This just seems like an underhanded way of reminding everyone that Sony owns Night Monkey.
I‘m a fleabit pea Night Monkey
And all my friends are junkies
That’s not really true
Night monkey, night monkeydoes what a monkey does at nightcan he swing from a threadonly if he’s a spider monkeylook out, there goes the night monkey.
He flies through the night air with the greatest of easeThat hairy mammalian superhero we call Night MonkeyI’m gonna be a Night MonkeyMonkey, Monkey, Monkey,Monkry, Monkey, Monkey….
Lol. What is an “imaginary pew-pew weapon?” Is that like pointing your index fingers at someone and going “pew-pew?”