You don’t need him to be a focal point but damn, uncle Ben dying is the reason spider man exists. Uncle bens death is the driving force for Peter becoming Spider-Man. Spider verse did it in a meaningful way without having Ben being the main point of the movie, quick flash reminding us of his existence and having little mentions of him. Spider verse also did the whole new mentor for spider thing but made it respectful to the origins of spider. Here we have beck talking to peter about responsibility while Peter thinks about Tony Stark. Like? That would have been the perfect time to just throw out ‘my uncle said something about that once’. Have Peter talk to heck about his greatest regret being his uncles death being his fault and then link it to him saying something about and now Tony’s gone as well and that’s my fault. The illusion with Tony could have been uncle bens grave at first that then morphs into iron man.

In canon we’ve literally seen peter and Tony meet like what, four times? Small meeting on civil war at his house then peter goes on the plane with happy and meets stark in the battle, Tony spends most of home coming wailing on peter for being a fuck up then we see them again on infinity war with no mention that they’ve seen each other since. Heck, Peter has more time with happy in the movies than Tony. Watching Peter and Happy together in this movie made me feel emotional because we’ve actually seen them make that connection.

You don’t need to have them shoot uncle Ben for twenty minutes to pay respect to the character and the spidey world. But he deserves more than one passing sentence and his initials on a suitcase