Spider-Man: Home Coming Should Have Donald Glover Play A Young Robbie Robertson

Now that people have had time to actually process the news that Donald Glover has been tapped to play a role in Spider-Man: Homecoming  it’s time for the knee-jerk reaction of “Donald for Spider-Man!” to come to a screeching halt. Let’s be clear. Miles Morales is that dude. And the idea of casting Glover as Spider-Man was too good to be true back in 2010. But dude’s 32 now and Tom Holland’s 20 but can play as young as 15. The two of them standing together in Spider-Man costumes is something that we likely won’t ever get. To be fair, Miles Morales’ look was reportedly inspired by Glover – with some help from Barack Obama – and he got to voice him in his first ever appearance on television on The Ultimate Spider-Man. While that was a wonderful thing to do and a great nod to Internet nerd culture, it was kind of diminished by the fact that Glover, you know, sounds like a 30-year-old playing 14. So, now that that’s out of the way, it’s time to start looking at some more realistic characters that Glover could be playing, assuming that he’s not playing a new character. My personal choice? Robbie Robertson.

Robbie is mostly known as the cooler headed Editor-in-Chief at the Daily Bugle that works under J. Jonah Jameson and balances out his insane temper. Whenever reporters or photographers get yelled out of the publisher’s office with their papers flying all over the newsroom, Robbie’s the one there to help piece it all back together and send them out on a story that deserves being …