Me personally, I’m tired of seeing teen heroes, and teenage Spider-Man is done to death at this point. There have been eight Spider-Man movies, and at least twelve Spider-Man cartoons, and Spider-Man has only been an adult in two of them. That’s Spider-Man: The Animated Series and Spider-Man: The New Animated Series.
In the 1994 Spider-Man show, he was 22 because he’d been attending ESU for a while, and that’s at the start of the show. Then, in season five, he’s already married to Mary Jane. In Spider-Man: The New Animated Series that aired on MTV, he was again 21–23. And then he’s 23 in Spider-Man PS4. But that’s it.
The thing is, Peter graduated high school in Issue #28 and then graduated college in Issue #185. There are over 700 issues of The Amazing Spider-Man, and most of his iconic stories—the ones fans actually like—are when he’s either in college, graduated college, or still in college in his mid-20s getting his doctorate or something, because that’s how damn smart he is.
But for some reason, Hollywood keeps putting him in high school. And I also blame Ultimate Spider-Man for this too.
That’s the thing with rebooting stories, they usually start at the beginning, and run till they’re cancelled. Because of this you may only get one or two stories about Peter navigating his Medicare, but there’s 3000 versions of a teenager being bitten by a spider.