14. Spider-Man (Dealing With Puberty)
The Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies (the ones starring Tobey Maguire) are extremely reflective of the problems associated with dealing with puberty. A teenage boy is bitten by a radioactive spider and his body goes through a number of changes – including his body becoming more muscular and a sticky, white substance excreting from it (webbing, incidentally).
It is also said to have other hidden meanings, including having more explicit sexual connotations and issues related to drug use (for example, there is a lot of phallic weaponry when it comes to the movies’ villains and Peter Parker’s altered behaviour is similar to if he was on drugs).
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