New 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' Trailer Is Missing The School Dance

Before we saw Tom Holland’s take on Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War, there was only one thing we knew about Spider-Man: Homecoming . According to Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige, the new Spider-Man movie would be “a John Hughes movie” where “he’s in high school for a lot of it.” Maybe that’s still the case. But the second trailer for Spider-Man: Homecoming shows us everything about the plot but the pivotal school dance and namesake.

Instead, the new Spider-Man: Homecoming trailer mostly reveals Peter Parker’s struggle with Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) — who only wanted his new superhero find to beat up on Captain America and then fade back into obscurity — and The Vulture (Michael Keaton), an angry anti-Iron Man who crafts his own wingsuit and armor out of pilfered alien and Avengers tech. Along the way we’re introduced to a strange Spider Mite drone, Spider-Man’s fetish-y self-sealing latex suit and a big action sequence aboard the Staten Island ferry that may invite some unfortunate comparisons to Superman Returns.

It’s a good trailer, but some of the best bits are the little tastes of high school life we get (there may even be a super quick shot from the high school dance at 1:58), which are definitely not the main focus here:

While I crave more teenage high school hijinks to make me feel young again, there’s still a lot to like in this second Spider-Man: Homecoming trailer. Perhaps the biggest surprise is the blue-collar Vulture, which looks like a promising new take on the character. While there have been many, many variations on the Vulture throughout the Spider-Man comics (which must be second only to the X-Men in confusing, mixed-up Marvel continuities), he’s typically a disgraced electrical engineering genius who originally developed his tech at a big, Stark-like company. In Spider-Man: Homecoming he seems more like a pissed-off garage tinkerer who hates the “rich and the powerful” institutions Stark and the Avengers represent.

And boy, Tony Stark seems even more like a villain than ever. While it feels fairly separate from the main Marvel movie universe, it will be interesting to see if Spider-Man: Homecoming will wind up having some wider ripple effects as we approach Avengers: Infinity War.

Spider-Man: Homecoming is out in theaters July 7.