History ComicBook / SpiderManReign

* CanonForeigner: Mayor Waters is not an established Marvel character, and has no relation to any of Spider-Mans enemies.

* 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, 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.]]

* AGodAmI: BigBad [[spoiler:Venom]] is likened to a Greek God, who requires sacrifice in order to be appeased.

->''[[MemeticMutation Is he strong? Listen, bud...]]''

''Spider-Man: Reign'' is a comicbook miniseries written and illustrated by Kaare Andrews. Taking place in the future, ''Reign'' finds New York turned into a fascist state closed off from the rest of the world. Peter Parker is a now a washed-up old man mourning the loss of his wife. That is until an old "friend" appears at his door with a familiar package...

* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler:For all the hype the Sinner Six gets, Peter easily trounces most of them. especially Mysterio and Scorpion, who are taken down with embarassing ease. The only ones who put up any real fight are Kraven and Electro]]

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Sandman dies after giving the detonator to Spider-Man.]]

-->[[spoiler:'''Sandman:''' I look down at the hand I'm holding and it's no longer cement. None of the little bits are either.]]

* TheAgeless: What Sandman has become (or perhaps always was, given how his powers work). Decades after Spider-Man's disappearance, he still looks exactly as he did in his prime (in contrast to the other members of the Sinister Six, who are all either decrepit old men or [[LegacyCharacter a legacy]]). It's implied that due to [[ExtraOreDinary his powers]], he's basically ''immortal'' so long as nothing kills him.

* 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.]]

* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler: For all the hype the Sinister Six gets, Peter easily trounces most of them. especially Mysterio and Scorpion, who are taken down with embarassing ease. The only ones who put up any real fight are Kraven and Electro]]
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Doctor Octopus has been dead for decades, but gave his mechanical arms, his "sons", one last command, to find Peter Parker and bring him to MJ's grave where he buried his original Spider-Man suit.]]

* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: Scorpion tells Spider-Man with his new tail, he can do anything. Spider-Man asks him if he can fly before kicking him out of a window.]]

* AGodAmI: BigBad [[spoiler: Venom]] is likened to a Greek God, who requires sacrifice in order to be appeased.

* 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.
* LastRequest: As [[spoiler: Mary Jane]] is dying in her hospital bed, Peter is apologizing for [[spoiler:being the cause of her illness]] and telling her how much he loves her, while trying ignoring police sirens and gunshots outside. Her last words have haunted him for years: "Peter, please... go...go..." [[spoiler:Years later, her ghost (or his hallucination thereof) finally reveals she wasn't chastising him, but was ''trying'' to say [[CatchPhrase "Go get 'em tiger!"]] one last time. She was always ''proud'' of his choices and never blamed him.]]

* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: Venom]] refers to himself as "The one responsibility (Spider-Man) shirked."

->''[[MemeticMutation Is he strong? Listen, chum...]]''

* TheAgeless: What Sandman has become (or perhaps always was, given how his powers work). Decades after Spider-Man's disappearance, he still looks exactly as he did in his prime (in contrast to the other members of the Sinner Six, who are all either decrepit old men or [[LegacyCharacter a legacy]]). It's implied that due to [[ExtraOreDinary his powers]], he's basically ''immortal'' so long as nothing kills him.

* 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.

->''[[MemeticMutation Is he strong? Listen, chum...]]

* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Doctor Octopus has been dead for decades, but gave his mechanical arms, his "sons", one last command, to find Peter Parker and bring him to MJ's grave where he buried his original Spider-Man suit]]

* CerebusCallback: The comical Hypno-Hustler shows up, forcing the Reign agents to dance with his boom box... only for the batteries to die. He's shot immediately after.

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

--> '''[[spoiler:Venom:]]''' No, you didn't. [[spoiler:How could the "world-revolves-around-my-existence" Peter Parker!? I was lonely, Peter. So lonely.]] So finally, I made arrangements to have some friends over for dinner. And they are having you for dinner. All of you.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The Venom symbiote's MotiveRant ''[[ItsAllAboutMe attempts]]'' to paint it as this.
--> '''Venom:''' You were always talking so much about responsibility and power. You didn't want them anymore, Peter. So I took them both. Something wrong? Not enjoying my little gift? Surprise, surprise! It was so easy to find someone like Waters. Together we did what you could only dream of! We saved this city from itself! Jealous?
--> '''Spider-Man:''' This... this whole thing... is about me?
--> '''Venom:''' Yes! That's it! My whole existence is about you! Why would you ever think that, Peter? Could it be because you brought me here, lured me from another world and left me to die!? Look at me, Parker! I am the one responsibility that you shirked! You brought me to this city and made me its prisoner!

--> '''Venom:''' No, you didn't. How could the "world-revolves-around-my-existence" Peter Parker!? I was lonely, Peter. So lonely. So finally, I made arrangements to have some friends over for dinner. And they are having you for dinner. All of you.

* TheNameless: The little girl who joins the rebellion is never given a name. [[spoiler:She dies before Sandman can ask her.]]

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The Venom symbiote's MotiveRant ''attempts'' to paint it as this.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The Venom symbiote's MotiveRant ''[[CompleteMonster attempts]]'' to paint it as this.

* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler: For all the hype the Sinister Six gets, Peter easily trounces most of them. especially Mysterio and Scorpion, who are taken down with embarassing ease. The only one of them who puts up any real fight is Kraven and Electro]]