History ComicBook / TheAmazingSpiderManJMichaelStraczynski

* SharedFateUltimatum: "Back in Black" has Peter Parker tell the Kingpin that he will come to finish him off on the day that Aunt May dies.

* [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane Maybe Magic, Maybe]] RadiationInducedSuperpowers: The totemic motif is written in a way that allows fans to choose their favorite from multiple interpretations of how Peter got his powers. Was it all a RedHerring and his powers are caused by radioactivity? Is Peter a ChosenOne of Anansi? And if he is, do his powers come from magic or is he the first one that got them from science? Did the spider bite him because it was scared, or because it wanted to pass its power on to a human before dying from radiation? Or maybe it was Ezekiel who was the ChosenOne and because he refused the call, all his duties and status were passed on to Peter? And if so, did Anansi give him the power, or are they two completely unrelated incidents and Peter could become the ChosenOne because of already having the necessary personality '''and''' powers? You decide. The end of that story arc has Peter discussing this issue with a South American shaman, who answers that [[MathematiciansAnswer none of these possibilities are mutually exclusive]].
-->''Miguel'': Tomorrow the sun will come up. You can tell me all the reasons of science that it ''does'' come up, the orbital mechanics, all the laws of thermodynamics. And I can say it ''will'' come up because it is ''meant'' to come up. I see no contradiction. Do you?

* AuthorTract: Mostly well-handled as JMS made Peter a teacher, which allowed him to introduce many social problems he wanted to talk about. Not so good during the ComicBook/{{Civil War|2006}}, through. Well, the Civil War in general was full of confused Aesops, but ComicBook/CaptainAmerica quoting Creator/MarkTwain's "river of truth" speech to Spidey is undeniably awesome.
* CharacterDevelopment: All Parkers got a lot of it. Peter and Mary Jane got a big amount of it by getting back together, Aunt May got a lot when she found out Peter is Spider-Man... and Creator/JoeQuesada removed all of it to make ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay''.

* DeadpanSnarker: JMS had a good handle on Spider-Man's well-known sense of humor.

* VerySpecialEpisode: Creator/JMichaelStraczynski's run had quite a few of those, though a lot of time the serious issues like bullying or school shootings were organic parts of the plot. Some of the straighter examples would be an issue in which Peter tries to help one of his students who has a junkie brother and turns out they're both homeless (and in a subversion to the way the trope is usually played this issue opens with a longer story arc and the girl is one of the central characters of it). The straightest example however would be an issue about 9/11 and it's still considered one of the better-written comics about that tragedy.

* RefusalOfTheCall: Because Ezekiel refused the call, Peter has to fight with all the supernatural villains he was originally destined to defeat.

* SharedFateUltimatum: "Back in Black" has Peter Parker tell the kingpin that he will come to finish him off on the day that Aunt May dies.

* AlmightyMom: Aunt May does this to Tony Stark and Reed Richards during ''The Other'' story arc, when they want Peter to take more tests instead of going out with Mary Jane. The two most brilliant men in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse are no match for Aunt May's stern reprimand.

* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Following ''The Other'', Spider-Man has retractile stingers in his forearms.

* EyeScream: "The Other" has Morlun pluck out one of Spidey's eyes and [[ImAHumanitarian eat it]] as he beats [[CurbStompBattle Spider-Man to close to death]]. Of course, [[DeathIsCheap Spider-Man got better]].
* FantasticFragility: Morlun is vulnerable while feeding, so much so that he is forced into a temporary retreat when the police begin to swarm him while he is in the middle of eating Peter in ''The Other''.

* TheHeroDies: During ''The Other'', Spider-Man sheds his body and gets a new one out of a cocoon, with many teammates and his loved ones believing he had died.

* ImAHumanitarian: As noted in EyeScream, Morlun ate one of Spider-Man's eyes during their second battle. Possessed by the Other, Spidey then repays this and the beating by eating Morlun's face.

* NextTierPowerUp: After becoming the receptacle of the totemic spider-deity called the Other in... ''The Other'', Spider-Man develops night-vision and venomous [[WolverineClaws stingers in his forearms]], and his strength gets boosted a second time to 20 tons.

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Morlun dishes one out to Spider-Man in "The Other," first by [[EyeScream tearing one of his eyes out and eating it]], and then literally beating him to a bloody pulp. By the time he's done and is chased off by the police, Peter's face is so bloody and swollen that not even Mary Jane, his own wife, can recognize him.

* SuperStrength: Spider-Man's strength is boosted to 20 tons following ''The Other''.

* TooManyMouths: Morlun has glowing suckers on his palms in ''The Other'', comparable to ones ComicBook/{{Morbius}} was given in ''Spider-Man: The Animated Series''.

* WolverineClaws: During the events of ''The Other'', Spider-Man developed poisonous ''hand stingers'' that he even calls [[LampshadeHanging a case of Logan Envy]]. When Peter protested that spiders don't have stingers, The Other responded that they ''will''... in the ''future''. Even before the CosmicRetcon of ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'' removed the stingers, they weren't used all that often (with [[DependingOnTheWriter some writers]] claiming that they only came out around "fellow totemic beings" as a defense mechanism). Peter's clone Kaine, the second [[Characters/MarvelComicsScarletSpider Scarlet Spider]], got his own stingers after dying and coming back to life in ''ComicBook/SpiderIsland''.

* ''The Other''

-->'''[[Characters/SpiderManPeterParker Spider-Man]]''': (from inside a large amount of webbing he's put up to keep the scantily-dressed "attendant" at bay} Just slip the food through the webs and no one gets hurt.