Place your bets, people! Odds are good because it combines the words “internet” and “awkward” it’s because his dad is secretly really hot or something.
Or maybe he’s a murderer. Who knows.
Ahh, Marvel.
You’ve been a busy little mega-media corporation, haven’t you?
Between making what professional economists call “all the money in the world” with Avengers: Endgame and Disney+, you have a lot on your plate.
It’s all for the greater good of film… I hope.
You bring delight to so many people all over the world every day (and I mean so many freaking people).
And you start the careers of so many lucky actors while jump starting the careers of others.
One person in the former category is Tom Holland, the plucky young British actor who is our newest Spider-Man.
However…
While it’s true he may be plucky and young (and, well, British) he’s not free of controversy!
There has been one floating around the internet (not counting the one where he spoils every Marvel secret).
This, ladies and gentlemen…
Is Tom Holland’s dad, Dominic Holland (the one on the right).
Well, it looks like I was wrong in the opening paragraph. Not to say he’s ugly or anything, he’s just not secretly hot or whatever.
Dominic is a very low-level comedian.
He often does gigs at elementary schools or village pubs, and he recently wrote a book about what it was like being Spider-Man’s dad.
No, sit down Uncle Ben, not you.
The book is written in a very sarcastic tone.
It takes a stance that Dominic Holland might be very bitter about his son’s recent success as an actor (keep in mind it’s probably sarcastic).
Obviously, the internet went insane.
Most people were on the “ToM’s DaD iS a JeAlOuS WiEnEr” train, but other, more sensible people recognized that this was a joke.
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We start on the “anti-Tom Holland’s dad” train.
Someone is using the old(ish) “canceled” meme to tell us that he’s had just enough of his bitterness.
Sigh… it’s a shame people can’t take a joke anymore.
Here we go…
A much more sensible person is here trying to talk some sense into the rest of the Twitter world.
Unfortunately, you probably won’t get too far trying to do that, friend.
And a mix of both for you.
Seriously people, do you really think Tom Holland’s father is unhappy with his son’s super successful life?
You said it…
And now that I think of it, so did we in this title.
It is awful awkward when you can’t recognize truly masterfully placed sarcasm. Still, you know what they say about all press…
And finally…
We have this person who is trying to get on Tom Holland’s good side by going number 2 all over his dad.
Yeah, you tell him unknown Twitter person!
Here is Tom’s reaction…
Which I think is the best way to end this article.
Why he had to even come out and say this is beyond me, but this is the world we live in now.
What do you think?
Is Tom Holland’s old man being a jealous… well, old man?
Or is he just joking around like the comedian that he is? If you think the former than Twitter is that way, my friend.
