Line #8 YMMV/OneMoreDay


1	* AccidentalAesop: The notion that a hard-working, selfless, altruistic young superhero who's too busy saving lives to focus on earning income for himself, can't afford to pay for his elderly aunt's medical treatment is probably among the sharpest (unintentional) satires of the American healthcare system in modern media to date.
2	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
3	** The decision to give up the marriage: Heroically sacrificing love to save a life (as Quesada says), unwisely giving up love for someone who has already had a full life and is ready to move on, or stupid by default (regardless of the first two) because [[DealWithTheDevil it was set up by a demon]]?
4	** Mephisto: Trying to induce suffering on two truly in love people by destroying it? Trying to off Peter and Mary Jane's kids using the marriage excuse to throw them off? Has ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}esque fourth wall–breaking powers, and is doing this to piss off the fans?
5	* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: The drawings look nice. You can see Spidey sell his marriage to the devil in beautiful detail. Although Quesada noted that part of the art was meant to be StylisticSuck, stating that he made Peter and MJ look older and older (saying he made them look in their '30s and near the end '40s) through those issues and intentionally bleak to make the finale where they lapse to YoungerAndHipper versions feel like a release. Whether he sticks the landing is up to the reader.
6	* BadassDecay: Apparently, no superhero or supervillain in the Marvel universe can heal a bullet wound. Even though there are multiple stories published beforehand where they have done exactly that.
7	* BileFascination: It's almost universally agreed that this is a bad story; practically anyone who wants to read it these days is only doing so to see '''just''' how bad it is.
8	* BrokenAesop: Breaks the [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility aesop]] that ComicBook/SpiderMan is supposed to embody, as instead of taking responsibility for his actions, he dodges it by making a DealWithTheDevil against the wishes of its main beneficiary and guilt-tripping his own wife into going along with it. However, in ''ComicBook/OneMomentInTime'', this is retconned so that ''Mary Jane'' is the one to have made the deal. For readers, rewriting history just to save the life of a single person who, in addition to wanting to die anyways and was telling you to let go, and is, let's face it, likely to die of old age in a few years anyway is simply asinine. The message then becomes "the ends justify the means", and that instead of learning how to cope with loss and move on with your life, you should hold on to what you have and never let go, even if the cost of doing so might be too high; for you and others.
9	* DesignatedHero: Peter makes a deal (or rather, guilt-trips Mary Jane into making a deal) with the devil to feel better about himself, despite it being healthier to accept he screwed up, despite his Aunt May's spirit telling him she is okay with dying, and even despite the One-Above-All (Marvel's personification of {{God}}) telling him to accept her death. And he's ''still'' supposed to have our sympathy.
10	* EsotericHappyEnding: Quesada has stated that he looks at ''One More Day'' and sees Aunt May saved through the Parkers' HeroicSacrifice of their marriage. Most fans see the OfficialCouple being forced apart, the hero selfishly and wilfully going against everything he proclaims to stand for, and the villain getting what he wants.
11	* FanNickname: In Spain, [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff one of the countries where Spider-Man is most popular]], the whole deal with the devil is known as the "''Mefistazo''". There's no direct English equivalent, but it would basically mean "the Mephisto screw up", or perhaps the "[[{{Pun}} Mefiasco]]"[[note]]The character's name is spelled "Mefisto" in Spanish[[/note]]. It has full-blown MemeticMutation status among Spaniard comic geeks.
12	* FanonDiscontinuity: A ''very'' unpopular story. And that's putting it mildly. The fact that the post-OMD storyline pretends that the real-time 20-year marriage and consequent CharacterDevelopment for Peter, MJ and others, of 20 years featured in some great all-time stories (''ComicBook/KravensLastHunt'' especially) didn't happen and closed that chapter with the all-time worst Spider-Man story makes it unlikely for Spider-Man fans to accept it as legitimate.
13	* HarsherInHindsight:
14	** Remember how Joe Quesada [[DiggingYourselfDeeper infamously said that]] people who wanted Mary Jane and Peter Parker to stick together would advocate for the latter to "grow old and die"? In the lead-up to the ''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan'' comic book, he did just that -- albeit in the body and consciousness of Doctor Octopus, who took over his form.
15	** The comic boils down to Peter doing the irresponsible thing—-making a DealWithTheDevil to save the life of his aunt who was shot due to his actions, who told him it was her time and to let her go. In the ''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4'' game, [[spoiler:he does the opposite, choosing everyone else's lives over Aunt May's]].
16	* HilariousInHindsight:
17	** One of the most commonly recurring arguments against the story was how unreasonable it was that Peter would do ''anything'' to extend May's life when she was basically at the end of a long and relatively happy life anyway. Of course, if they weren't going to permanently kill May off here, they were arguably ''[[LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt never]]'' going to- and indeed, well over a ''decade'' after the story went to print (and even after Peter and MJ have got back together again), the old bag is ''still'' alive!
18	** One of the more infamous parts of the story is how Doctor Strange (and everybody else in the Marvel universe) is unable to fix a simple bullet wound. In ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'', fixing a bullet wound is one of the very first things we see him do... ''before'' he becomes a sorcerer.
19	** Likewise, Black Panther is also unable to fix the bullet wound, despite Wakanda being the most technologically advanced country in the world. In ''Film/BlackPanther2018'', Everett Ross takes a bullet for Nakia and is transported to Wakanda, where he's healed ''overnight.'' In fact, his injury was ''worse'' than Aunt May's; whereas May got shot right below the chest, Ross got shot ''in the spine.''
20	* MemeticLoser: As mentioned below, the deal he makes with Peter in this story ''single-handedly'' destroyed Mephisto's reputation in the eyes of comic book fans because of its sheer contrived pettiness, and ensures that [[NeverLiveItDown he will now forever be seen]] as that guy who ruins people's marriages because [[TheDevilIsALoser he's a loser and has nothing better to do]], and whose greatest acts of monstrous supervillainy, compared to the rest of the great Marvel villains, are mostly on the scale of [[PokeThePoodle littering, not paying for parking tickets, and taking the handicapped spots at the DMV.]]
21	* {{Narm}}:
22	** Special mention has to go to how Peter expresses his despair when giving up his marriage, when he knows he must lose something that has so much value to him -- "NYRAAARGH!"
23	** "Tune your ear to the frequency of despair, and cross-reference with the latitude and longitude of a heart in agony. Listen. Listen." It's the narration of the first panel.
24	* NeverLiveItDown: Mephisto undoing the Parkers' marriage. The character ''used'' to be one of the biggest {{Chessmaster}}s in the Marvel universe -- as you would expect from an incarnation of Satan in everything but name -- now he's mostly known as that guy who [[PokeThePoodle ruins college students' marriages.]]
25	** Spider-Man makes a DealWithTheDevil.
26	** The smartest doctors, healers, magicians, and scientists of the entire Marvel universe [[ReedRichardsIsUseless being unable to treat a simple gunshot wound.]]
27	* OlderThanTheyThink:
28	** There was a very similar plot during Creator/PeterDavid's run on ''Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk''. Marlo, Rick Jones' girlfriend, is stabbed, and he starts to ask everyone for help: Dr. Strange (who pointed that [[NotThatKindOfMage his magic is useless with non-magical injuries]] in that story as well), Reed Richards, Dr. Pym, anyone. ReedRichardsIsUseless, as well as all the others. And, when he's in his deepest despair, he accepts the help of the only one who can save Marlo: the Leader (a Hulk villain who had committed genocide a short time before that), who has a {{Magitek}} idea in mind to help her.
29	** The ''Spider-Man'' newspaper comic strip had the ''same'' thing happen to Peter... and turned out to be AllADream.
30	* {{Padding}}: In Issue 3, just when the plot starts (sort of) going somewhere, it stops completely so Peter can talk to a video game designer version of himself, who goes off on a ''page long rant'' about how escapist entertainment is needed in today's times. It serves no purpose other than to stop the plot completely and act as [[AuthorFilibuster a mouthpiece for JMS]]. It doesn't help, of course, that it's [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment never mentioned again]].
31	* ShippingBedDeath: Joe Quesada's claimed this was the reason for this storyline, that Peter being single would open doors to more interesting storylines than a Peter who was tied down. To put it mildly, the fans do not agree, and the story has only fortified fan support Peter and Mary Jane as the OneTruePairing of ''Spider-Man'' media.
32	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot:
33	** The comic briefly setups Mary Jane getting shot, only to have Aunt May be the final victim. This situation would have put Peter in a MortonsFork, where he would have to decide to save her life at the cost of their marriage, or let her die but still keep his memories of her -- but instead, Marvel decided to go with the elder that had already lived a long and satisfactory life, robbing the setup of potential drama and preventing the ending from making a lot more sense.
34	** Early in JMS' run, Spidey had an encounter with Loki that ended with the Norse trickster-god saying he now owed Spider-Man a favor that he could collect whenever he wished. What better moment to use it than Peter's lowest of the lows? Instead, this never comes to pass in the storyline proper.
35	** Early on the story, Peter gets into a quick confrontation and fight with Tony Stark, who he blames for May getting shot. Peter mentions how he has no money and that he can't even properly take care of Aunt May because he's on the run. Stark quickly blows him off by saying that openly cooperating with a criminal would undermine his position. So, this means that Peter will get registered again and this way get help from Stark, right? Nope. Other than Iron Man bringing up multiple times that he has to arrest Peter, the confrontation only serves to remove yet another option for Peter. Worst of all, Spider-Man being unregistered is a such a non-factor on the post ''Brand New Day'' storylines that something like this could have been easily woven into the narrative with no issue.
36	** Mephisto could have made it so that Peter and MJ retained memories of their relationship but arranged it so that Aunt May would die again if they ever got back together. That would have been an actual source of torment. As it is the whole thing is just erased and Peter is unaware anything happened at all, meaning there's no potential for regret or exploring the implications.
37	* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Infamously so. Peter Parker, the TropeNamer for WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility, gets an innocent relative of his fatally wounded as a result of his misguided loyalty to Iron-Man in a ''Civil War'' whose stakes he never fully understood. He then switched sides midway without considering how the switch would affect the protection of his loved ones. When confronted with the tragic consequences of his own decisions, rather than [[CharacterDevelopment do the mature thing]] and own up to his mistakes like a functional adult, and accept that everyone dies sooner or later, he goes against the wishes and advice of everyone else, including ''Aunt May herself'', and gives up his happy, loving marriage with his beloved wife via DealWithTheDevil, part of which includes [[MagicalAbortion wiping their unborn child from existence]]. All to save the life of an elderly woman who just wanted to [[TogetherInDeath see Uncle Ben again]] and couldn't have more than [[ShootTheShaggyDog a few years left to live anyway.]]
38	* {{Wangst}}: Peter behaves like he's the only person to ever have lost a loved one to violence, let alone gun violence, or that the concept of Aunt May dying is entirely foreign or unexpected for an old woman with plenty of NearDeathExperience in the past.

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