This thread's for the Spider-Man comics and spin-offs, whether they're decades old or brand new.
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Edited by MacronNotes on Jul 10th 2023 at 10:58:13 AM
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Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
One who only has a Master of Engineering and no Doctor Title.
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It would be funny to have Ock hit in the jimmies and honestly he's probably pissing off the various Peters that at least one of them has to be tempted
But he's not so far from the point where he completely fails at everything and hands things willingly back to Peter.
A nut kick on top of that would be excessive and plus those are Peter's nuts. Otto is just borrowing them.
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I was just thinking of how someone mentioned they wanted Otto to get his own Spider-body. I said that I only wanted Otto to get his own body if Peter got to beat the shit out of him.
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I really like Otto, myself. He's easily my favorite of the "big three" Spider-rogues.
Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
I still would like a Three Spiderteers teamup of ASM Peter, SSM Otto and Scarlet Spider Kaine.
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Same, although I'm probably in the minority of placing the Green Goblin at the bottom of the Big Three. Heck, generally speaking, I even like the Hobgoblins better than the Green Goblins.
I think Norman dropped a bit in my book when "seducing women half his age" was added to his evil portfolio. I cannot at all explain why this of all his dirty deeds causes him to give me the willies as a character.
Because a middle-aged man having sex with a teenage girl isn't villainous, it's skeevy and pathetic. Anyone who has sex with their child's friend is gross. A midlife crisis is not something that's intimidating.
Otto also has the appeal of being one of the few "LOOK AT HOW SILVER AGE I AM!" villains that still works.
I think so, anyway.
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If Venom keeps Agent Venoming it up, who is going to replace our favorite space oil slick as one of Spider-Man's biggest villains?
I sort of doubt he will though, eventually a writer is going to put him back with Eddie Brock because that's how things are supposed to be or something.
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Actually, Venom hasn't been with Eddie in over a decade, IIRC.
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2015 will be the year of Walrus Man, mark my words.
Of course, don't you know anything about ALCHEMY?!- Twin clones of Ivan the Great
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Yeah but time is no object if someone really really wants to put things back to how they were.
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I'm not actually sure. Like with Emma Frost's Heel–Face Turn, you'd think the inevitable Snap Back would've happened by now.
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I don't know, Marvel has wanted a heroic/anti-heroic version of Venom for about as long as I've been alive and Flash is the only one that's really worked. The memory wipe that went with OMD also cuts quite a bit of the threat of Venom.
I reckon the Eddie Brock Toxin will replace the older Venom. It's Marvel having their cake and eating it too. I mean, it will piss of Toxin's fans (all seven of them).
although he's cool with venom now and is out of symbiotes to kill. except carnage i guess.
He can go back to killing/being in love with Spider-Man.
There's still other symbiotes slithering around, they've just been forgotten about.
Speaking of Carnage, the Venom page has gotten too big, so he got his own.
My hunch is Eddie will become Venom again when/if the Venom movie premieres, although by now they arguably could make Flash the movie symbiote's host without too much trouble or negative backlash.
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Edge of Spider-Verse #3
Aaron Aikman Spider-Man is kind of interesting. I like the character bios they did of Red Eye and Naamurah.
The more armor-based Spider-Man getup is pretty cool and although we don't get much, him working in a lab reminded me of the Horizon stuff.
But considering it ended with Morlun staring down Aaron and "The End" instead of "Will return in..." yeah Aaron is super dead. And depressingly, it seems his setting is inevitably going to get cyberzombie apocalypsed. The creatures possessing the cyberzombies hints that there's more to whatever Morlun's deal is then just his family and the master weaver stuff.
Ah well.
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Unless someone plans to (temporarily?) kill off Flash for good, I think he's going to stay Venom for the foreseeable future, given the in-universe indication that he will die if separated from the suit.
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Which would be damn unfortunate because Agent Venom has been the most interesting take on the symbiote since probably the early days of the character, in my (kinda biased) opinion.
