History ComicBook / SpiderManReign

* KilledOffScreen: While [[spoiler:Mary Jane's death is heavily implied throughout most of the story and is eventually revealed in a flashback]], the death of [[spoiler:Dr Octopus]] takes place entirerly off-screen. They dont even mention how he died, presumably either natural causes due to his age or having been terminated by the goverment. There's also the complete absence of the Vulture, who has almost certainly died of old age. His spot in the new version of the Six is given to the Scorpion.

* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler:Venom. He claims that Eddie Brock is still alive within him, but he clearly is no longer Brock or the symbiote: he is only Venom.]]

* RetiredBadass: Peter Parker is a senor citizen and hasn't been Spider-Man in well over a decade. Yet he still is able to effortlessly mop the floor with 2 elite Reign officers in his underwear. Literally.

* PosthumousCharacter: Mary Jane is now deceased, [[spoiler:due to her husband’s…[[Squick fluids]]]].

* AndIMustScream: The fate of the Kingpin, who is kept alive via an intravenous drip for ten years and paraded out once a year in front of the mayor who eats a steak in front of him. [[spoiler:Until the sequel, where he becomes a monstrous creature akin to [[Franchise/AttackOnTitan a Titan]].]]

* AndIMustScream: The fate of the Kingpin, who is kept alive via an intravenous drip for ten years and paraded out once a year in front of the mayor who eats a steak in front of him. [[spoiler:Not to say what happened with him if he was stored in the mayoralty building when it exploded.]]

->''Is he strong? Listen, chum! He's got radioactive c--''

* FoeTossingCharge: Spider-Man plows through the Sinner Six quite easily.

* AdaptationalVillainy: To keep it ''quite'' brief, ''Reign'''s [[spoiler:Venom]] is '''''nothing''''' like any other incarnation of the character, and may in fact be the single most depraved adaptation of him ''period''.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Sure, Peter's wife is still dead, a lot of people have died due to Reign, and crime has returned to pre-Reign levels in short order... But the city is finally free, Venom and the Reign have been wiped out, and it has Spider-Man, and other superheroes, to defend it. Peter regaining happiness after decades of misery is something of a happy ending as well.]]

* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: Spider-Man and his villains are the only supers that appear in the story, others are not even mentioned, making it unclear if they even exist in this particular universe. [[spoiler:Doctor Octopus's corpse namedrops Baldur and Norse Mythology without any indication that there was once a guy with a hammer with the name of another Asgardian flying around beating up aliens.]]

* CityInABottle: New York is this thanks to the 'WEBB'. The intention is to protect New York from outside 'super terrorists' but it also prevents anyone from leaving.
* CoolOldGuy: Although Peter is now a depressed old man, he still manages to effortlessly defeat his old foes (Venom and the Sinister/Sinner Six) in combat.

* CradleOfLoneliness: One cover shows Peter in his heavily tattered costume, cradling Mary Jane's grave.

* CradleOfLoneliness: As the main pic shows.

->''[[MemeticMutation Is he strong? Listen, chum! He's got radioactive]]'' ''[[CurseCutShort c--]]''

''Spider-Man: Reign'' is a four-issue comicbook miniseries written and illustrated by Kaare Andrews.

* {{Pastiche}}: A deliberate one for ''Comicbook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns''. See ShoutOut.

** Hypno-Hustler attempts to uses his abilities on the Reign officers to help Spider-Man. RealityEnsues.

* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: Spider-Man and his villains are the only supers that appear in the story, others are not even mentioned, making it unclear if they even exist in this particular universe.

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