Tom Holland has been explaining that the "instant kill" function of Spider-Man's suit doesn't work like we think it does.

During Spider-Man: Homecoming, Peter Parker is giving a glimpse of the suit's "enhanced combat mode" that features an "instant kill" function that he quickly turns off. "I don't want to kill anybody," he tells Karen.

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It's no surprise that we immediately think it must be a seriously lethal mode, but it turns out that it doesn't refer to bodily harm.

"I don't actually think the 'instant kill' function does what everyone thinks it does," Holland told HeyUGuys. "I think it simply just shuts off electricity. I actually don't think it's a killing piece of tech. I don't think it is to murder people. I don't think Tony Stark's that dark."

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He jokingly added: "I don't know if instant kill would work against Thanos."

Perhaps not, but the former Peter Parker sure could have used it against Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

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Holland's Spider-Man suit gets an upgrade in Avengers: Infinity War, so perhaps the "instant kill" has already been taken off anyway.

Not that Marvel would tell him since he's notoriously bad with secrets. "I wasn't allowed to read the script because I have a tendency to tell people what's in it, so I have no idea what's going on or what the film is about," he recently joked.

"Most of time I was acting a scene with a tennis ball and when I asked who it was supposed to be they wouldn't tell me so I started ringing round cast members and doing my own research to try and work it out!"

Avengers: Infinity War is released in UK cinemas on April 26 and US cinemas on April 27.

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