History Webcomic / TrueBelievers

The 2008 Website/PlatypusComix miniseries ''[[http://www.platypuscomix.net/miscellaneous/index.php?issue=11&page=1 True Believers]]'' takes place while the characters from the website's flagship comics have gone on strike. The Head Executive tries to tide readers over with a Franchise/SpiderMan comic, hoping he could get away with featuring characters he doesn't own when the characters he does own won't cooperate. The resulting story became Platypus Comix's TakeThat against Creator/MarvelComics' reviled ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'' comic, which had concluded two weeks earlier. In a 48-page, two-month-long, ''[[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit Roger Rabbit]]''-ish storyline, Spidey and Mary Jane Watson fight to save their marriage from being wiped out by their own editor, Joe Quesadilla -- a vicious [[Creator/JoeQuesada Quesada]] [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed caricature]].

** Creator/{{DC|Comics}} decides to [[ComicBook/FinalCrisis kill]] Franchise/{{Batman}}.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Doc Ock's justification to the police after decapitating Spider-Man:
-->[[NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization This was between two consenting adults!!!]]

** MJ asks Peter to [[Film/SpiderMan1 kiss her upside-down]].

* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:Mary Jane after Joe Quesadilla tries to kill her, following Peter's refusal of TheFinalTemptation, since again DeathIsCheap for Marvel characters.]]

->''I'll never let anything come between us, MJ. Not supervillains, not dictators, not mad scientists, or monsters, or hypnotists, or aliens, or dimensional vortexes....not even comics editors.''
-->--'''Peter Parker'''

** Joe Quesadilla's right-hand woman, Miss Teschmacher, shares a last name with one of SelfDemonstrating/LexLuthor's accomplices from the ''Film/{{Superman}}'' movies.

* DespairEventHorizon: After Spidey discovers that Quesadilla erased ''everything'' that happened in the last 30 years, he asks DoctorOctopus to MercyKill him. He gets better, "five miniseries, three crossovers, and one apocalyptic battle later."

* NeverMyFault: Joe Quesadilla is quite adamant about this.
--->'''Spider-Man:''' If your main concern is [[ThisLoserIsYou sympathizing me with the average schmuck]], then why don't you just cancel all my titles and start making a comic continuation of ''Series/MySoCalledLife''?
--->'''Joe Quesadilla:''' No. I'm still right. People are losing interest in you, and it's her fault.
--->'''Spider-Man:''' Maybe the problem isn't MJ! Maybe the problem is '''''your writing sucks!!'''''
--->'''Joe Quesadilla:''' ''(thinks for a while)'' No. No, it could never be that.

---> ''(to Peter)'' Whoo! Tough break. But you know, you can't blame anyone but yourself.

** Joe Quesadilla [[WesternAnimation/{{Spider-Man The Animated Series}} drops MJ into an interdimensional portal.]]

** MJ asks Peter to [[Film/SpiderMan kiss her upside-down]].

* DeathIsCheap: Comic book characters "always come back", as [[spoiler:Mary Jane]] explains after a revitalization.
** Happens to Spider-Man himself too, during his DespairEventHorizon detailed below.

* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic: As Peter dances with MJ the Friday evening after Quesadilla announces plans to erase their marriage, the song being played is Music/TomPetty and the Heartbreakers' "Mary Jane's Last Dance". Peter points out the irony of the song's lyrics[[note]]mis-reproduced; the chorus says "one more '''time''' to '''kill''' the pain", rather than "one more ''night'' to ''feel'' the pain"[[/note]], but MJ informs him the song's actually about pot.

-->'''Spider-Man:''' If your main concern is [[ThisLoserIsYou sympathizing me with the average schmuck]], then why don't you just cancel all my titles and start making a comic continuation of ''Series/MySoCalledLife''?
-->'''Joe Quesadilla:''' No. I'm still right. People are losing interest in you, and it's her fault.
-->'''Spider-Man:''' Maybe the problem isn't MJ! Maybe the problem is '''''your writing sucks!!'''''
-->'''Joe Quesadilla:''' ''(thinks for a while)'' No. No, it could never be that.

* OneTruePairing: In-universe, Creator/StanLee tells Spider-Man that he and Mary Jane were literally made for each other.

* [[spoiler:AndTheAdventureContinues]]: On the last page, [[spoiler:Peter and MJ walk off into the sunset. Green Goblin then swoops in and whisks her away.]]

* [[spoiler:NotQuiteDead]]: [[spoiler:Mary Jane after Joe Quesadilla tries to kill her, following Peter's refusal of TheFinalTemptation, since again DeathIsCheap for Marvel characters.]]

* [[spoiler: RetGone]]: [[spoiler:Joe Quesadilla and (unintentionally) [[ComicBook/ScarletSpider Ben Reilly]], after Mary Jane performs a retcon with the stolen stamp.]]

** After the Head Executive's intro, the comic begins by revealing that Doctor Octopus has once again kidnapped Mary Jane. He boasts to her that when Spider-Man comes to the rescue, he will fall into the DeathTrap he planted underneath the floor. To Doc Ock's dismay, MJ then reveals that Spidey was waiting I the hypothetical wings for him to reveal what he had up his sleeve. Spidey proceeds to pull Doc Ock into the trap, then take back MJ

** After the Head Executive's intro, the comic begins by revealing that Doctor Octopus has once again kidnapped Mary Jane. He boasts to her that when Spider-Man comes to the rescue, he will fall into the DeathTrap he planted underneath the floor. To Doc Ock's dismay, MJ then reveals that Spidey was waiting I the hypothetical wings for him to reveal what he had up his sleeve. Spidey proceeds to pull Doc Ock into the trap, then bring MJ to safety.

** After the Head Executive's intro, the comic begins by revealing that Doctor Octopus has once again kidnapped Mary Jane. He boasts to her that when Spider-Man comes to the rescue, he will fall into the DeathTrap he planted underneath the floor. Spidey overhears this, and pulls Doc Ock into the trap before freeing MJ.

* HoistByTheirOwnPetard:

** Joe Quesadilla's right-hand woman, Miss Teshmacher, shares a last name with one of SelfDemonstrating/LexLuthor's accomplices.

* AndTheAdventureContinues:
--> ''(after the Green Goblin whisks MJ away in the last panel)''
--> '''Spider-Man:''' Sigh... It never ends, does it?

** There's another from MJ even before at the start, when she finds out that Quesadilla was the one responsible for undoing their marriage: she calls him a "f***ing snake".

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Do they succeed? [[spoiler:Yes.]]

* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} wears glasses despite being completely blind.

* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse: The Platypus Comix Character Strike doesn't get brought up again after the first page. The return of the flagship series' characters a week or two after this storyline's resolution made up for that, but this still became the only comic released during the Strike in which the Head Executive does not appear on more than one page.
* AWizardDidIt: After [[spoiler:the RetGone of Joe Quesadilla drastically improves "the real world's continuity" '''and''' the comic book industry]], Peter remarks that he can't believe the afforementioned ChekhovsGun could cause such a great effect. MJ reminds him, "It's magic, Tiger," so Peter exclaims, "[[IronicEcho Yeah, it's magic! We don't have to explain it!]]"