Small potato

[u/Myambi]

[u/unk1ndm4g1c14n1]

Yelena knows about that.

All she is saying is that the avengers should handle big stuff, since Spider-Man chooses to handle small stuff.

[u/Extension_Breath1407 → u/unk1ndm4g1c14n1]

And besides even if Yelena wanted to help, nobody on her team would be able to stand against Jean Grey as she would just easily mind control them before they know what hit them.

[u/rogerworkman623 → u/Extension_Breath1407]

They’d definitely want to keep Bob far away from her

[u/AvatarIII → u/unk1ndm4g1c14n1]

They weren't even the Avengers at that point in the film, they were just protecting people from a situation they were involved with.

No hero or even anti-hero is going to be like "nah, that's below me" if they are literally present where people are in danger. Being present and being asked to go out of your way to help are different things.

[u/Majestic-Marcus → u/unk1ndm4g1c14n1]

And to add to this… she literally maintains a direct line with Spider-Man.

The leader of the Avengers has his phone number and lets him phone her.

She deals with the big stuff and has him on speed dial if he’s needed BUT in the meantime he handles the e little stuff

[u/Fargoth_took_my_ring]

Peter has chosen to do small potaoes, mobsters, robberies, small street level crimes.

If he actually wanted to join the Avengers and do big potatoes, they would absolutely welcome him in

[u/Shapelessed → u/Fargoth_took_my_ring]

Just remember the ring happy carried pickling next to his left butt cheek for a decade… They wanted to definitely.

[u/MattThePl3b]

Well to be fair, in Infinity War Spider-Man was an Avenger. But Yelena only became an Avenger at the end of Thunderbolts, with Spider-Man no longer being an active member of the Avengers

[u/DaNoahLP → u/MattThePl3b]

She is an Avengerz

[u/SquirrelSuspicious]

Another day of people either pretending or being too stupid to realize she's talking about what each of them deals with currently, Peter is a friendlyNEIGHBORHOOD Spider-Man, he chooses to handle small potatoes while Yelena and her team look into big stuff

[u/Traditional_Mind9538]

To be fair. When Spiderman tries to handlte the big potato stuff, it usually ends terribly for him.

• Fought Thanos->Ended up being reduced to dust.

• Inherited Iron Mans planetary security system->Mysterio ruined his life by revealing his secret identity and making him public enemy #1.

• Got involved with Doctor strange and a multiversal incursion-> His aunt died and he was erased from everyones memory.

• Fought Jean Grey->Ended up in the hospital, almost dying.

So yeah, maybe he should try to stick to small potato stuff for his own sake.

[u/Steelthahunter → u/Traditional_Mind9538]

I mean the last one was Punishers fault but fair

[u/top10_bruh_moments → u/Traditional_Mind9538]

The biggest appeal about Spiderman is that he's always punching above his weight.

[u/kydontdie]

Spies sometimes say manipulative things, and this time it worked on the audience

[u/Ashwilliams2814]

Yelena is a small potato.

[u/hooka_pooka → u/Ashwilliams2814]

Which is why she is a part of Avengerzzz

[u/Any-Transition95]

Ik we're in the meme sub, but people who legit think Yelena is out of line for saying that are missing the point entirely. Spider-Man chose to be the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man right now, while Yelena and the New Avengers are tasked to handle Avengers level threats. She never said Peter is incapable of handling Avengers level threats.

[u/frogtrickery]

"character says a thing therefore the movie is saying it is true and fact" is one of the deepest forms of media illiteracy 

[u/Stompya → u/frogtrickery]

My theory is that Yelena said that as an excuse, she just didn’t feel like getting out of the tub

[u/coomtube]

Some Spider-Man fans really took it personally when she said that, huh?

[u/Efficient-Climate-85]

I think people misunderstand the critique of that scene. It’s not that Spider-Man’s threats are small, they generally are when in New York.

The critique is that the New Avengers are genuinely incapable of anything. They won against Void/Bob on a technicality because they and more specifically Yelena was friends with him. Her line comes across as pretentious. Place them against any Avengers scenario. Loki, Ultron, Thanos.

[u/wildjonquil]

If you actually watched Thunderbolts, you would know that the big potatoes was The Void.

[u/JacobSMGZ]

I feel like her whole “Small potato thing” is because no one probably remembers that Spider-Man was part of the Endgame events. Either that, or she undermines him as much as everyone else.

[u/NASA_vivasayee]

Thanos is small potato compared to this mf

[u/king_scootie]

She’s criticizing and manipulating him. He wants to just be “your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.” She’s saying, “Yo, dude, you want to keep it small and simple? Fine, keep it small and simple. You can’t have it both ways.”