HOW SPIDER-MAN HOMECOMING SHOULD HAVE ENDED: Jaby Koay and Steph Sabraw Break Down HISHE's Best Jokes

Jaby Koay and Steph Sabraw sat down to react to HISHE's parody of Spider-Man Homecoming, and it turned into a full breakdown of every plot hole the animated short pokes fun at, from missing alien tech to Tony Stark's very questionable guardianship of a teenager.

This matters right now because, as Jaby points out, it is Spider-Man season, with the next Spider-Man installment on the way that winter, so revisiting Homecoming's biggest logic gaps felt timely before the new movie hits.

The Missing Alien Tech Never Gets Investigated

The HISHE clip opens on the Department of Damage Control's cleanup crew casually losing a truckload of alien technology to what becomes a supervillain operation, simply because nobody bothered to double check the haul. Jaby admits the setup never occurred to him watching the actual film: "yeah, those are the things that I never thought about." Steph pushes back that this is exactly the point of the movie's craft: "well, of course you're not supposed to, it's a movie... you did a good job covering it." Their takeaway is that Homecoming distracts you well enough with spectacle that you never stop to ask why there was no follow up investigation into the missing gear.

Vulture's "I Have a Daughter" Line Undersells His Real Motivation

HISHE's Vulture justifies his villainy with a flippant "I have a daughter, that makes it okay for me to break the law." Steph argues the actual film gave him a heavier motivation than that, framing him as representing "the forgotten folk," a more dramatic angle than the joke lets on. Jaby agrees the movie's real justification was more substantial, but he still loves the gag because of how often men lean on "but I have a daughter" as if that alone settles any argument.

MJ Should Have Figured Out Peter Is Spider-Man

The parody has MJ fail to connect the dots despite Spider-Man being suspiciously similar to Peter Parker, and both hosts think that stretches believability. Steph runs down the giveaways: "same height, same body type, same awkwardness when he's around her," concluding MJ "is as sharp as a freshly oiled katana" and should have clocked it immediately.

Peter's Mistakes Are Explained Away By Him Being a Kid

From the instant kill training wheels feature to grabbing a supervillain's arm and getting immediately overpowered, HISHE stacks up Peter's blunders. Steph frames all of it as Peter simply "thinking with his kid instincts," the same pattern she says shows up again in the No Way Home trailer, where "everything is just one conundrum after another because he's a kid." Jaby calls him "the baby of the Avengers" and says he is hoping the next movie gives audiences "a little bit more adult Peter Parker."

Tony Stark's Handling of Peter Gets Called Out as Kidnapping

The parody escalates the film's uncomfortable subtext: Tony hands a minor a weaponized super suit without ever talking to Aunt May, prompting the in-universe line "this feels like kidnapping." HISHE even has Tony threaten a rival with fictional kryptonite missiles rather than address the concern. The joke lands hardest on the parachute inconsistency, where Peter's suit has one and Iron Man's famously does not, which HISHE brands a "design flaw" Tony never noticed until Spider-Man pointed it out.

The Overall Verdict on HISHE's Take

Both hosts land on the same praise for the format: it dismantles plot holes "while tickling you like crazy at the same time," as Jaby puts it, without ever feeling mean spirited. Steph adds that the age gag works because every kid watching wants to imagine being Spider-Man regardless of the legal technicalities, which is part of why the character stays effective for both grown-ups and kids. The conversation closes on a tangent about Tom Holland's future in Uncharted, with Steph joking, "I'm very good at determining whether something's gonna suck," while both agree Holland is so associated with Spider-Man that it is hard to picture him elsewhere.

Do you think MJ should have realized Peter was Spider-Man sooner, or does the movie earn that twist?