YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN Producer Reveals New Story Details Including Why Ned And MJ Don't Appear

YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN Producer Reveals New Story Details Including Why Ned And MJ Don't Appear

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man executive producer Dana Vasquez-Eberhardt reveals new details about the Marvel Animation TV series, including why neither MJ nor Ned have made the cut. Check it out!

By JoshWilding - Jan 08, 2025 12:01 PM EST
Filed Under: Spider-Man (Animated)

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man started life as a series set on the Sacred Timeline which promised to explore Peter Parker's time as Spidey before he encountered Tony Stark in his apartment (the idea was dropped due to being "not fun").

It's since evolved into a story that essentially asks, "What if Norman Osborn had been Spider-Man's mentor instead of Iron Man?" That's an intriguing premise and new details about the show have been revealed by executive producer Dana Vasquez-Eberhardt on The Official Marvel Podcast.

"The conceit of it was, 'What happened within that time in the MCU and what if things jagged one way or another with the Multiverse of it all?'" she explains in the video below. "There are a couple different ways you can tell a Peter Parker and Spider-Man story. It starts with Peter in his Freshman year."

"In the most recent Spider-Man movies [with] Tom Holland we meet Peter [as a] sophomore but what happens when he's just into school with all the newness that brings?"

"We're starting at a point in the MCU where Civil War has happened, so the Sokovia Accords have been ratified so it's modern day and then Peter gets to his first day at Midtown...then a thing happens which I'm going to try and dance around and there goes our branch," Vasquez-Eberhardt continued. "It's a very recognisable world but Peter doesn't end up going to Midtown."

"It's a world where he never met Ned, he never met MJ. Who might he run into?" the producer, who has also worked on X-Men '97 and I Am Groot added, before revealing, "Nico [Minoru] is such a great fit for Peter. She's very different from Ned and they fit so well together."

So, this Spider-Man never encounters Iron Man and, by not going to Midtown High, also doesn't encounter Ned and MJ. This feels less like a "jag" from the Sacred Timeline and more like a completely separate reality, but it still sounds like a compelling new status quo for the character. 

You can hear more from Vasquez-Eberhardt in the video below. In that, she talks more about Tombstone's role in Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man and why the Runaways' Nico was a good fit for this latest Marvel Animation series.

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man follows Peter Parker on his way to becoming a hero, with a journey unlike we've ever seen and a style that celebrates the character’s early comic book roots.

The talented voice cast includes Hudson Thames, Colman Domingo, Eugene Byrd, Grace Song, Zeno Robinson, Hugh Dancy and Charlie Cox.

The head writer is Jeff Trammell and Mel Zwyer is the supervising director. Brad Winderbaum, Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Dana Vasquez-Eberhardt and Trammell serve as executive producers.

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man premieres on Disney+ on January 29, 2025.

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WhatIfRickJames
WhatIfRickJames - 1/8/2025, 12:14 PM
Hopefully the story is good because they're not selling me on the concept.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 1/8/2025, 12:17 PM
Okay I'm out.

One day someone will do the Stan Lee/Steve Ditko high school stuff justice.
The Jon Watts trilogy wasn't it.
This isn't it.
Fair enough.
HOTSHOT
HOTSHOT - 1/8/2025, 1:59 PM
@ObserverIO - Eh I thought the Jon Watts trilogy was a pretty great tribute to that era
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 1/8/2025, 2:03 PM
@HOTSHOT - In terms of the villains maybe, at least in terms of imagery, but not so much in terms of the supporting characters, not at all really.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 1/8/2025, 2:04 PM
Or any of the storylines.
HOTSHOT
HOTSHOT - 1/9/2025, 2:51 PM
@ObserverIO - In terms of the tone, theme, villains, imagery, and even the way Peter's world was treated. Many aspects of the story being told were also familiar to me from the Lee/Ditko and Lee/Romita eras.
HOTSHOT
HOTSHOT - 1/9/2025, 2:52 PM
@ObserverIO - They took the tone of that high school comedy written in the 1960s and applied it to gen z. It works for what it is very well, and I feel it captures the spirit of Spidey from that era perfectly.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 1/9/2025, 3:10 PM
@HOTSHOT - It's all too vague though. Does it capture the spirit? Maybe a watered down version filtered through John Hughes '80s movies. But it doesn't capture the complexities of storytelling or any of the real specifics. I feel like he just read wikipedia rather than the actual comics.
HOTSHOT
HOTSHOT - 1/10/2025, 4:31 AM
@ObserverIO - I disagree. I feel a lot of the previous Spidey films felt like they read wikipedia (Spider-Man jokes even when he wouldn't for example), but this trilogy felt like it understood Peter Parker more.

The complexities of the storytelling are there in ways that they weren't in previous films, with Peter no longer being forced to repeat the same lesson in each film, both the Peter and Spidey personas being equally important, a greater focus on the youth aspect, etc.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 1/10/2025, 8:38 AM
@HOTSHOT - The lesson he learns in No Way Home is that with great power comes great responsibility. This is the lesson he learns in the comics in Amazing Fantasy #15 and it's what propels him to use his powers for good, so it's ridiculous that he learns this lesson in the last movie of Watts trilogy.

The Marc Webb films weren't at all like the Stan Lee comics, except for getting those canon events in there with the death of the Stacys, but even then they changed Captain Stacy's last words to be the complete opposite of what he said in the comics. In the comics he told Peter to look after Gwen in the movie he told Peter to stay away from Gwen. Both are tragic, knowing what happens to Gwen later on, but it's weird that they flipped it.

The Sam Raimi films, however, are very much inspired by the '60s and '70s Spider-Man comics. Sam Raimi is obviously a very big fan of these comics and adapts as much as he can from them.

But Watts and his writers have obviously never read the Stan Lee run of Spider-Man. In the first movie they have Liz as his first love, like she is in the comics. You can maybe get that information from wikipedia or somewhere on the internet. But the story they craft is completely unlike the comics. It's a much more generic boy meets girl story. Whereas in the comics she was already dating Flash Thompson and doesn't like Peter at all until much later after she sees him display his strength heroically. She's quite fickle. At this point Peter is dating Betty already but he two times her for Liz, making both Betty and Flash jealous.

This is the sort of teenage drama that is true to life that Stan Lee captured perfectly that is completely replaced by a more typical boy meets girl scenario in the first two Watts films, with more traditional obstacles (an overbearing father in the first film and a romantic rival that the girl doesn't like anyway in he second film).

Betty works at the Bugle because she needs to raise money for her sick mother, her brother finds a more criminal means of raising money, falling in with gangsters. He is caught in the crossfire when Spider-Man comes to beat Doc Ock up and Betty sees it all and blames Spider-Man, which starts to eat away at Peter because he can't be intimate with her knowing that he's the person she hates. This and the Liz stuff puts their relationship on the rocks and Betty doesn't know where she stands. Then she's sent over to Europe on assignment and falls in love with reporter Ned Leeds.

But in the Jon Watts movie none of the above happens. Betty, Peter's classic high school girlfriend before the whole Gwen/MJ stuff in college, is not Peter's girlfriend at all. She's not jealous of Liz, she's Liz's best friend. She's in Peter's class rather than working at the Bugle.
Yes she falls in love with Ned Leeds on a trip to Europe, but you cam see how that might be something you read on wikipedia as a simplified version of the much more complex plot and character details above.

Ned himself is not Ned Leeds at all (Ned was a reporter at the Bugle not Peter's classmate and BFF). He's obviously based on Ganke from Ultimate Spider-Man, Miles Morales' classmate and BFF.

Flash is still a bully, but he can't be the tough high school jock anymore because Peter goes to an exclusive high school for smart kids who are all richer than him. Again this is all from the Miles Morales version of Spider-Man rather than the Peter Parker version as written by Stan Lee.

MJ was nothing like her counterparts from the comics or even movies. And Aunt May was also a reinvention. Her best friend and MJ's aunt, Anna Watson was also conspicuously absent.

I give Watts kudos for adapting elements of TASM #122 though at the end of No Way Home (which wasn't actually Stan Lee, but was not long after) and adapting more modern comics like One More Day/Brand New Day. I also give the team kudos (probably more a Feige decision than a Watts decision) to have Mysterio look like he did in the comics and to have him face some of the classic villains that he faced during the Stan Lee high school period such as Vulture, Lizard, Sandman, Doc Ock, Green Goblin, Electro, the Tinkerer, a dash of the Enforcers, a version of Chameleon that looks like Kraven and a version of Molten Man. But again, none of the stories that featured these villains in the original comics were adapted, their names and appearances were just pulled from the internet. And most of them came from previous films anyway.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 1/10/2025, 8:46 AM
Oh and of course there's the shot that homages the classic Steve Ditko pose in the Master Planner storyline, in Homecoming, but they don't actually bring that moment to life they just copy the classic image, which really just about sums up the whole trilogy's attitude towards the comics for me.

At least Raimi adapted elements of that story for the finale of Spider-Man 2, but even then he doesn't come close to the level of intensity that Stan Lee crafts that makes it a classic comics story in the first place.
HOTSHOT
HOTSHOT - 1/10/2025, 2:17 PM
@ObserverIO - The lesson he learns in Amazing Fantasy 15 is that he should use his powers to help people after his inaction causes something bad to happened. That is something he'd already learned by the time we met him in Civil War "when you can do the things that I can."

The line about responsibility in NWH is not about that. It's about continuing to do the right thing after the worst happens because of you being a hero. So not the same lesson.

While Sam Raimi adapted many visual elements and story beats from the comics (and I love his films), he also missed the point of several of the stories he adapated. This was because he wanted to do his own take on them and that's fine, but I'm not gonna pretend they were more faithful because of surface level similarities. Hell Peter's reason for giving up his responsibilities was adapted more faithfully in FFH than in Spider-Man 2.

In the comics, Betty Brant was actually Peter's first love interest as far as I recall. Liz was INTO Peter but Peter never dated her. Yet, both Homecoming and Spectacular had them date. That doesn't mean they didn't understand Stan's era. Just that they told their own story. It's still true to the spirit of the book because Liz was just a high school crush in the Lee/Ditko era, so you saying it's a "boy meets girl story" is actually showing that they were faithful to the core of who Liz was in Peter's life.

Also the love triangle was extremely comedic with no real consequences. I'm personally sick of love triangles so I'm glad they didn't go that route. They had a girl Peter liked and another girl who secretly liked him. That's fine.


Perhaps they could've covered those stories for Betty if they had made this a TV series, but since they had to make a focused movie, they went another route. Just like the Raimi films did with her. Just like the Ultimate comics did too. None of which had Peter really date her.

Even then, it's still nice that we got stuff Betty starting her career at the Bugle and her dating Ned after travelling to Europe. So they're already paying more tribute to that era than what came before.

While Ned has similarities to Ganke, they end at them both being asian kids who like LEGO. Ned is also Peter's guy in the chair while Ganke is not, and fulfills a different role overall. This isn't the first time that any of the movies have given traits of one character to another. MJ in the Raimi films has more in common with Betty Brant. Gwen in the Webb films is just blonde Ultimate MJ.

It's fine. As long as I like the character. I like Ned. He's ride or die bro. I certainly like him more than Franco or Dehaan's Harry.

Flash being more of an annoying bully than a jock one has been done before to in USM (and not for Miles). I have my issues with this adaptation of him ngl, and I hope they give him more character development in the college years, but so far he's fulfilled the purpose he was meant to. Being an annoyance to Peter in high school.

MJ has continuosly evolved in the comics and media. Generally the point of MJ is to be a counter culture girl. In the 60s/70s, that was the swinger partygirl. In the 2000s, it was the humble nerdy girl.In the 2010s, it was the outcast girl. So the counter culture girl who forms a bond with Peter and becomes a source of comfort for him? MCU MJ fills that role. Definitely better than the one in the Raimi films.

Aunt May had plenty in common with her Ultimate universe, Insomniac-verse, and Raimi-verse counterparts.

A lot of these just feel like a complaint about Watts not doing a 1-1 adaptation of every character and plot point from that era. Which was inevitable because movies are a limited time-frame. So instead, he paid tribute to that era with the tone, types of conflict, and characterization of Peter. Which is why I love it.

Most films don't do 1-1 adaptations anyway, so this hardly a new issue.

Even him lifting the rubble, while being in a different context, captures the spirit of that moment from the book: Spider-Man overcoming adversity by believing in his ability to get through it.

Overall: I'd say the Watts trilogy is the closest we've gotten to that era being treated with any kind of reverence, even if it's not a 1-1. The core is there, which I feel people overlook.

Heck I know I did when I first saw Homecoming. Then I decided to revisit that era and went "oh shit. This was actually great."
HOTSHOT
HOTSHOT - 1/10/2025, 2:18 PM
@ObserverIO - TLDR version: Raimi's films are more faithful in a surface-level "I recognize a similar plot beat from the comics" way. Watt's are more faithful in a deeper "this is the spirit of what happened" way.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 1/10/2025, 4:46 PM
@HOTSHOT - I really don't see it. I have to disagree, I think Raimi got the spirit of it moreso. The Russos got it also and that great power line is literally the same line from the book and means the same thing.

I think taking out the relationship complexities and character flaws actually dilutes the material. A TV series wouldn't be necessary, these beats were fairly simple and could be adapted faithfully into a film or trilogy of films.

What you're basically saying is that there has never been a truly faithful adaptation of this material and you're fine with it.
I agree with the first half of that.

However when you say him lifting the rubble captures the spirit of that moment because it's Peter "Overcoming adversity by believing in his ability to get through it"? No sorry, that does not capture the spirit of that moment. The spirit of that moment is intense. He gets through it not because of "C'mon Peter you can do it" but because he needs to. It's an all or nothing, balls to the wall intense action moment in a sea of intense action moments. It's not just one moment it's the culmination of a massive sequence that builds in intensity. He does it because his aunt is dying and needs him. Watts reduces it to a PSA at the end of a Masters of the Universe or something, "You can do it if you just believe in yourself".
HOTSHOT
HOTSHOT - 1/11/2025, 2:23 PM
@ObserverIO - Nah the majority of issues people have with MCU Spidey actually stem from the Russos, while Watts has to address those in the solo films.

Once again, the great power thing (which wasn't even a line spoken by a character and instead the narrator narrating in AF15) has different meanings due to the contexts of when it's spoken. One is following a selfish action. One is following a selfless one.

"He gets through it not because of "C'mon Peter you can do it" but because he needs to." The two aren't mutually exclusive. Peter doesn't just go home after lifting the rubble. It's part of the entire action-packed finale of the film which is followed by him preventing another 9/11 from happening.

The spirit of that moment is Peter rising up. It's a character moment. While the action around it does enhance it, it is not what it's about.

The Lee/Ditko era and early Lee/Romita era basically was a "believe in yourself" PSA. Peter would flat out say outloud or think outloud paragaphs about how he's learning to believe in his best self. It was even the conclusion of issue 50.

And yes. I'm okay with nothing being a 1-1 adaptation because outside of a few animated features, I've rarely seen that in superhero cinema. Would it be cool if they did? Sure. But I get why they don't: the filmmakers want to tell their take on the story.

Which is fine if the spirit of the material is there. I feel it is is in the NWH trilogy.

For example, Raimi loosely adapted Spider-Man: No More while also combining it with the character's first annual. However, many of the key plot points that made those stories effective were missing (similar to your complaints about Betty), even though he had a trilogy of films to adapt those.

Hell, Peter's entire motivation for quitting in that book was changed in Spider-Man 2. Rather than Peter inadverdently giving up his responsibilities due to him overthinking what the right thing to do is after his insecurities are manipulated by outside forces (similar to how FFH handled it), he quits for selfish reasons (I want a life of my own.)

But rather than nitpicking what I wish the film could've been, I appropach it as what it is. Same with the MCU trilogy.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 1/11/2025, 2:48 PM
@HOTSHOT - I think the reason we don't get more faithful adaptations of Marvel/DC superheroes in movies compared to the more faithful adaptations of novels, graphic novels, plays and just about everything else is because there's just so much material.
I think filmmakers look at all the material there, decades of continuity and hundreds if not thousands of comics for each individual superhero and are just overwhelmed.

The best way of looking at it would be to look at exactly what part you are adapting. Every superhero franchise starts with the original authors and they at some point stop writing or drawing or editing the stories. That's the original material. That's your Shakespeare play or your Jane Austen novel. But maybe you want to adapt a specific storyline or run, etc. You can do that as well by condensing all the information needed to catch the viewer up on where those storylines start.

There are ways of understanding the material, even if it looks overwhelming at first glance.

Another problem comes with the fact that these superhero comics were usually episodic self-contained stories every issue, usually with different villains, so you have to either expand those issues to fit a 120 minute feature or skip over large chunks of storylines and issues, picking out only the relevant beats to your overall story. Many cbms actually do a good job of this and Raimi's original Spider-Man movie is one of them. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) and Iron Man (2008) are a couple of other examples I can think of right now.

I think my problem with Jon Watts Spider-Man trilogy and this Freshman Year TV show is that they are specifically set in Peter's high school years and so there's an opportunity to more faithfully adapt those stories (especially in a TV series like this) and it would be very easy to do so. There's not that many of those comics and they could easily skip over a lot of things, so it's not at all overwhelming. But they choose to do something completely different and that just comes across as lazy (although they are maybe just not realising that what they are adapting is a much smaller amount of source material than many decades of comics).

It's disappointing to me, because it's made so much easier to be the thing that I want to see adapted. I don't care about rando TV creatives and what good or bad stories they have in their head, I care about the historically renowned classic story material that a lot of other people care about. That's why they call it 'Spider-Man'. I guarantee if this was just something completely whole cloth original of theirs nobody would even be talking about it.
Jon Watts Spider-Man movies are way more popular than that Cop Car movie he did, for example.
HOTSHOT
HOTSHOT - 1/11/2025, 3:19 PM
@ObserverIO - The thing is, the Steve Ditko/Stan Lee run was written about the high school experiences of a teenager in the 60s. The MCU wanted to integrate Peter into the current timeline so they made him Gen Z. Therefore doing exactly the same story (and tropes) of that era doesn't make much sense. Especially when that era was written in an episodic way with much of the most consequential long-term stuff not really taking much emotional root until near the end or at the start of the Lee/Romita era.

To me, the Watts films feel like lovely tributes to that era. I first read a comedic story about a young Peter Parker in the 60s annoyed by the circumstances around him while saivng the world and learning to grow up and believe himself. Then I watched a trilogy of movies about a gen z Peter Parker with the same tone and spirit of that book.

Even though it's not exactly the same story beats, I know I can read those anytime. They aren't going anywhere.

Again, this would be more of an issue if 1-1 adaptations were a common thing for Marvel and DC but they just aren't.
GiverOfInfo
GiverOfInfo - 1/8/2025, 12:23 PM
Garbage
MisterBones
MisterBones - 1/8/2025, 12:29 PM
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McMurdo
McMurdo - 1/8/2025, 12:31 PM
Whoever signed off on Norman doing blackface is truly behind the times.
Odekahn
Odekahn - 1/8/2025, 1:49 PM
@McMurdo - 💯
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 1/8/2025, 1:49 PM
@McMurdo - I don't mind. All I wonder now is that, since it's still vaguely connected to the MCU, is he black in the MCU as well. I wanted Norman with cornrows, but I meant the redhead cornrows.
BlackStar25
BlackStar25 - 1/8/2025, 2:36 PM
@bkmeijer1 - You know...No one talks about this but main MCU might not even have a Norman Osborne based on No Way Home. Granted, there are ways around that but Norman's line felt so important rather than a throw away line. Wonder why they made that choice.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 1/8/2025, 5:04 PM
@BlackStar25 - didn't he say he couldn't find an Oscorp? Don't remember something about Norman himself.

And I honestly don't mind it. With how Secret Invasion ended, I could see Norman as Iron Patriot and HAMMER be brought in to hunt aliens.
DrDReturns
DrDReturns - 1/8/2025, 9:41 PM
@McMurdo - McTurdo is right ;-)
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 1/8/2025, 12:34 PM
Interesting….

I feel like it’s moreso just a seperate reality then just one instance that goes a different way since it seems like Civil War & Sokovia Accords happen here before Peter has even joined Midtown while that wasn’t the case in the MCU if I’m not mistaken so what causes that to happen a bit earlier in this universe?.

I feel like Civil War happening earlier before it seems Peter even gets his powers (going by footage , it looks like he gets his powers early on being a freshman given the circumstances of the show) is moreso the branch then Peter not going to Midtown.

Maybe I’m not saying this right but that’s the best I can at this time…

Anyway , I think this could be fun so I’m looking forward to this new take on Spidey & his world!!.

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bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 1/8/2025, 1:48 PM
@TheVisionary25 - I get what you're saying. The timeline is all over the place, and that kinda makes me lose interest even more.

It started out as a Civil War prequel, then a Civil War What If, and now it is it's own thing. Or atleast, it should've been without the flimsy Civil War connection.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 1/8/2025, 1:51 PM
@bkmeijer1 - ehhh , I havent lost interest.

Honestly them being given more freedom increased my interest

Unless they bring special attention to it , I am just gonna treat it as more or less its own thing.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 1/8/2025, 1:58 PM
@TheVisionary25 - I will treat it like it is it's own thing, but like I said in the other comment the MCU connection feels kinda forced
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 1/8/2025, 1:59 PM
@bkmeijer1 - yeah

To be fair , maybe she’s not explaining it the best and it’ll make more sense in the show itself
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 1/8/2025, 5:02 PM
@TheVisionary25 - I certainly hope so. I'll wait and see before judging
TK420
TK420 - 1/8/2025, 12:38 PM
That is some low-effort shit, right there. I see why these turds are scared of AI...
grif
grif - 1/8/2025, 12:56 PM
lol the folks making this will be doing xmen 97 season 2


supermanrex
supermanrex - 1/8/2025, 12:58 PM
i think they couldn't get Holland so they switched it up to differentiate from main universe. should still be good show. though i am tired of spiderman cartoon reboots by now. really i want spiderman tas 97 to accompany xmen 97. spider man tas was the best animated spiderman and it brought to life so many great comic story lines
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 1/8/2025, 1:03 PM
@supermanrex - they weren’t going to get Holland anyway due to the Sony & Marvel deal

I buy their explanation in that doing a story about Peter as Spider Man before he met Tony in the MCU would have been too limiting & restrictive since he hadn’t really encountered any of his villains till then etc.
eagc1995
eagc1995 - 1/8/2025, 2:41 PM
@supermanrex - They already had a new actor doing Peter in What If, so seems they ain't afraid with recasting the character, it seems more that they realized they were limited on what kind of villains and stories they could tell and want to liberate the Spider-Man crew from the hanfcuffs they would be confined if they kept this in continuity
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 1/8/2025, 1:45 PM
"What if Norman Osborn had been Spider-Man's mentor instead of Iron Man?"

I feel that's not even the case anymore. This seems to be it's own thing. The only thing I guess that makes it MCU-adjecent is Civil War happened, but even that makes no sense.

If Peter was a Sophomore in Civil War, how come Civil War already happened and he's still in Freshmen year?
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 1/8/2025, 1:49 PM
@bkmeijer1 - yeah , that doesn’t make sense to me

Feels like that should be the branch instead of Peter not going to Midtown

Plus , it seems he gets his powers early on in freshman year which could be the branch that causes him not to go to Midtown unless he got his powers before that which would be weird
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 1/8/2025, 1:57 PM
@TheVisionary25 - yeah, I guess the branching off point is earlier. Think they should've just made it stand-alone. Kinda feels like theyre giving it an MCU connection because they have to and not because it fits the story
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 1/8/2025, 1:58 PM
@bkmeijer1 - yeah perhaps

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