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"Peter belongs in High School. It’s simple as that. You might say "HE ONLY SPENT 3 YEARS IN HIGH SCHOOL IN THE COMICS" or that "WE'VE SEEN THAT ALREADY!!!" I argue against that. When Stan Lee created Spider-Man he wanted him to be a teenager. He wanted a high school hero. Why don't we go back to the roots of the character. Peter was in High School for half of Spider-Man, and High School was merely a setting in TASM. High School should be a part of the story. We've never TRULY seen a superhero balance fighting crime and school work before. He should be quicker to join the Young Avengers than the Avengers. Casting a 16 or 17-year-old actor as Spider-Man also has other advantages. Think about it like this. Garfield was casted as Spider-Man at 27. He's 31 now and considered too old for Spider-Man. If you cast a 17 year old, he could be Spidey for 10 years and STILL be young enough to portray Spidey. We would invest in this Spidey and see him go from the young junior in high school, to the owner of a company. Logan Lerman and Dylan O'Brien, two fan favorites and rumored actors in the run for the role, will be too old. They'll both be 24 during shooting for the solo film. If you chose someone like Asa Butterfield, Zachary Gordon, Isaac Hempstead Wright, or Chandler Riggs, they'd be 17, 18, or 19 during shooting."