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* During the Grand Central Station hostage situation, do we see any incoming passengers arrive only to find the gates are closed and there are masked criminals in the main area? I doubt the Demons were powerful enough to shut down all the trains coming into the station from elsewhere, so people would've gotten off at GCS, not knowing anything was wrong, and been blocked by the closed gates. Is this ever addressed?

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* During the Grand Central Station Terminal hostage situation, do we see any incoming passengers arrive only to find the gates are closed and there are masked criminals in the main area? I doubt the Demons were powerful enough to shut down all the trains coming into the station from elsewhere, so people would've gotten off at GCS, GCT, not knowing anything was wrong, and been blocked by the closed gates. Is this ever addressed?addressed?
* On a related note, the Demons placed the Devil's Breath amongst the hostages. Once they bolted, why didn't MJ swipe it to make sure the Demon's couldn't re-enable the bomb? Was it too cumbersome to carry?
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* During the Grand Central Station hostage situation, do we see any incoming passengers arrive only to find the gates are closed and there are masked criminals in the main area? I doubt the Demons were powerful enough to shut down all the trains coming into the station from elsewhere, so people would've gotten off at GCS, not knowing anything was wrong, and been blocked by the closed gates. Is this ever addressed?
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* How can Spider-Man have so many backpacks webbed up around the city if his webbing only lasts for one hour?
** How can ordinary thugs break Spidey's webs if he can use them to stop cars and hold up cranes? Unfortunately, the answer is, "it's a video game".
*** Alternately, he uses different settings on his webbings, having to use quicker 'blast' webbings, as opposed to the more string-like normal webbings. After all, he canonically has 'impact blast' webbings. Side effect of just webbing a little at a time is that there are openings to burst through.
*** When on a sidequest that temporarily disables his main, swinging-related web cartridges, Spidey's Web Zip still works and he [[DevelopersForesight exclaims]] that ''those'' cartridges are fine. Presumably, those webs can't withstand the twisting strain of swinging - in any case, using different cartridges for different purposes like that means he can switch between them ''very'' fast.
** Various sources have had Spider-Man use webbing that lasts longer than the traditional hour; These backpacks could just be other examples of this.
*** The issue is the webbing is known to last for a few hours but these things lasted for years exposed to the elements. Seriously Peter is sitting on a gold mine if he's developed a material stronger then titanium, within the budget of a poor man, and is light as a feather. Oh, and it lasts for years.
*** It's implied the very reason Peter hasn't been able to make money off his web formula is specifically because he ''couldn't'' find a way to make it long-lasting.
*** There's also no way for Peter to patent the formula without outing himself as Spider-Man
** Peter probably uses more durable web when leaving behind his personal belongings, just to prevent them from falling from the places he webs them to. After all, he doesn't know how long his heroics will take. And considering how many he has left forgotten around the city, those were probably some prolonged Spidey events.
** The backpacks are also intended to double as mobile resupply points, even if some of them date to several years prior, so it stands to reason that Peter would make sure they're wrapped with the good stuff.
* How did Aunt May afford so many backpacks?
** It's pointed out in one of the many backpack collectables that Peter won a science competition sponsored by Wilson Fisk, and one of the bonuses was a lifetime supply of backpacks (and a check he never cashed).
* Why wasn't Shocker part of the Six? He doesn't even have a station in Doc's evil lair, so it doesn't look like Otto even tried to get him to join.
** Maybe after his second escape the police got a clue and took his suit apart instead of leaving it in one spot to be easily reclaimed.
** The other supervillains recruited into the Six have personal vendettas against Osborn or Spider-Man, are promised something they really want by Otto, and are pretty viciously amoral. Mac is 'just' offered money and a clean criminal record but he's a complete CardCarryingVillain who might well have contributed for free; the others are less broadly AxCrazy but either can accept or outright don't care about massive loss of life. Members of the Six whose grudges may be less important to them are counterbalanced by wanting something enough.
*** In contrast, Herman's motivations seem to be money and not getting killed by Mr. Li, and fight dialogue suggests that he and Spider-Man sometimes talk science. He's far from harmless but is still closer to a PunchClockVillain than any of the Six. It's very possible that if he was in on the whole scheme he would have at worst [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere just escaped in the chaos]], at best decided that EvenEvilHasStandards. Otto couldn't control him with {{Revenge}} or greed and so just left him out of his plans. If he was let out in the general upset and escaped on his own then he probably decided to lie low until the plot was over.
** Remember, Herman is the poster boy for PragmaticVillainy; he only commits crimes for his own benefit, and avoids doing anything beyond bank robberies to avoid catching the attention of Punisher. Even if Otto had approached Herman, he'd likely have taken one look at Otto's plot that ''begins'' with an act of bio-terrorism and he'd immediately want nothing to do with it.
** This is addressed in the game. After he's arrested and sent to the raft, Spider-man gets a message that Shocker is being placed in protective custody. At that point it is known he is being coerced, and Spidey figured out it was the Demons and told Yuri. Shocker KNOWS that if he leaves protective custody, the Demons will kill him. It's in his best interest to stay put, even if the prison is blown wide open.
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** Jameson actually gives a reason that makes sense; a power vacuum. Fisk ran a large ciminal empire with vast resources. With him out of the way, all manner of thugs and criminals would want to be the new bigshot. This includes the likes of the Maggia and Demons.
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*** After completing some of his challenges, Taskmaster specifically points out that Spider-Man is pulling his punches. Spider-Man points out he's not trying to kill people
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** I don't think he was implied to be supplying the others for years, in fact Electro explicitly calls attention to his new suit, which he describes as a perk of his 'exclusive club', implying it is something he's just got in return for joining up with Otto, I think the implication is supposed to be, that rather than the neural interface, it is the electrocution that Otto suffers in the malfunction in the first scene is what caused his descent into darkness, with the neural interface only making things worse, given that over time we see him building parts of Electro, Scorpion and Rhino's gear in the lab, presumably he did research over the course of the game before making his offer, as to exactly how, I'm not sure, maybe he literally showed up at the raft in the breakout with their new gear and said "help me and you'll be rewarded."
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** It's specifically stated in-game, after Shocker is sent to the Raft, that he's being placed in protective custody. It's likely Peter informed the authorities that he was being threatened and coerced to rob the banks.

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** It's specifically stated in-game, after Shocker is sent to the Raft, that he's being placed in protective custody. It's likely Peter informed the authorities that he was being threatened and coerced to rob the banks. He knows that if he leaves protective custody in the prison, it's very likely that the Demons will kill him. So it's in his best interest to stay put even if the prison is broken wide open.
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** It's specifically stated in-game, after Shocker is sent to the Raft, that he's being placed in protective custody. It's likely Peter informed the authorities that he was being threatened and coerced to rob the banks.
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* How Long was Otto planning his actions? When Peter goes back to the Lab there are implications he’s been supplying weapons to other members of the Six for years, and he would have needed time to whip up that gear for them and do the research to make them the offers. Was he planning it for years or just since the City Hall bombing?
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** It was also an in-lab nickname, basically a morbid inside joke, never intended to become public knowledge.
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** Most of his gadgets are controlled remotely, including the system that rotates the wrist launchers to the new gadget. Her virus could intercept the activation signal, keeping them from being used.
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** Presumably it got the name after seeing the sickness it causes.
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* What were the scientists developing GR-27 thinking, calling it "Devil's Breathe"? Although it functions as a bioweapon, it was developed with the intention of being a cure for Harry's disease and "Devil's Breathe" is not exactly the warm welcoming name you'd expect a cure to have. That would be like if a cure for cancer was discovered and it was called "Cthulhu's Spit" or a cure for diabetes was called "Venomous Bile" or something like that? Okay, those are terrible names but you get the point.
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** In ''Ultimate Spider-Man'', he was asked by a heroic Triad vigilante why he does not possess refined combat techniques, to which Peter answers “I would LIKE to not fight like a mental-patient; but if I go to a Dojo, with my strength I will definitely hurt people during training.” Ever the NiceGuy, Peter for the last 50 years refuses to learn martial arts so he would never worry about potentially hurting classmates. So, without a proper teacher, much less a Wu-Guan/Dojo/Gym with training partners to practice with, how the heck does Peter Parker in the [=PlayStation=] 4 Universe become such a precise, skilled and elegant martial artist trained in proper Capoeira and La Lucahdores wrestling and even a bit of boxing?

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** In ''Ultimate Spider-Man'', ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'', he was asked by a heroic Triad vigilante why he does not possess refined combat techniques, to which Peter answers “I would LIKE to not fight like a mental-patient; but if I go to a Dojo, with my strength I will definitely hurt people during training.” Ever the NiceGuy, Peter for the last 50 years refuses to learn martial arts so he would never worry about potentially hurting classmates. So, without a proper teacher, much less a Wu-Guan/Dojo/Gym with training partners to practice with, how the heck does Peter Parker in the [=PlayStation=] 4 Universe become such a precise, skilled and elegant martial artist trained in proper Capoeira and La Lucahdores wrestling and even a bit of boxing?



* How can certain characters (i.e Mr. Negative, Taskmaster, Scorpion, Vulture, [[spoiler: Doctor Octopus]] etc. take so many ''punches''?

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* How can certain characters (i.e Mr. Negative, Taskmaster, Scorpion, Vulture, [[spoiler: Doctor [[spoiler:Doctor Octopus]] etc. take so many ''punches''?''so many'' punches?



* When [[spoiler: the prisoners escape]], why don't they ditch their orange jumpsuits for normal clothes as soon as possible? I'm willing to bet most of them aren't eager to be going back, so why are they making themselves easy to identify and recapture? All it would take is one robbery of a department store to have regular clothing and be able to blend back in to society.

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* When [[spoiler: the [[spoiler:the prisoners escape]], why don't they ditch their orange jumpsuits for normal clothes as soon as possible? I'm willing to bet most of them aren't eager to be going back, so why are they making themselves easy to identify and recapture? All it would take is one robbery of a department store to have regular clothing and be able to blend back in to society.



* Why is Spider-Man the only hero saving New York? It makes sense at the beginning of the game when everything is going on behind the scenes, but after [[spoiler: all of the prisoners escape and NYC turns into a war zone, with bioweapons and 6 dangerous supervillains on the loose, no one is there to help Spidey?]]

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* Why is Spider-Man the only hero saving New York? It makes sense at the beginning of the game when everything is going on behind the scenes, but after [[spoiler: all [[spoiler:all of the prisoners escape and NYC turns into a war zone, with bioweapons and 6 dangerous supervillains on the loose, no one is there to help Spidey?]]



** Possibly Norman Osborn's insistence that he has the situation under control keeps the Governor/President from activating the National Guard. Legally, they might have the power, but as NYC mayor and politically active oligarch, Norman might be able to slow that down. [[spoiler: After the Devil's Breath is released, the quarantine would keep everyone out, though the National Guard/Army might be enforcing it from the other side.]]

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** Possibly Norman Osborn's insistence that he has the situation under control keeps the Governor/President from activating the National Guard. Legally, they might have the power, but as NYC mayor and politically active oligarch, Norman might be able to slow that down. [[spoiler: After [[spoiler:After the Devil's Breath is released, the quarantine would keep everyone out, though the National Guard/Army might be enforcing it from the other side.]]



* Why, exactly, does this version of Norman Osborn have a beef with Spidey? While having a vigilante running around doesn't look great (since it says the police can't handle things), Spider-Man isn't a threat and shares many enemies with Osborn. JJJ has apparently been ranting against the Oscorp surveillance system and raising (very legit) concerns about Norman's use of his office to help Oscorp. Mr. Negative and the Demons are openly out to destroy Osborn.[[spoiler: Doc Ock is similarly motivated by a vendetta against Norman.]] Despite this, Norman has the Sable Agents focus on Spider-Man rather than on the people trying to ruin and/or murder him. This seems personal and beyond just needing a scapegoat.
** Norman is hiding secrets, [[spoiler: like his part in creating the Devil's Breath, his role in turning Martin Li and Otto into supervillains, and hiding his son in a tank with a symbiote (although that last bit isn't immediately relevant)]] and Spidey was a convenient scapegoat for the shitfest in Manhattan. So Norman decides that by blaming Spidey, he gets to keep his own hands clean, and no one has to know about the shady shit he's doing.

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* Why, exactly, does this version of Norman Osborn have a beef with Spidey? While having a vigilante running around doesn't look great (since it says the police can't handle things), Spider-Man isn't a threat and shares many enemies with Osborn. JJJ has apparently been ranting against the Oscorp surveillance system and raising (very legit) concerns about Norman's use of his office to help Oscorp. Mr. Negative and the Demons are openly out to destroy Osborn.[[spoiler: Doc [[spoiler:Doc Ock is similarly motivated by a vendetta against Norman.]] Despite this, Norman has the Sable Agents focus on Spider-Man rather than on the people trying to ruin and/or murder him. This seems personal and beyond just needing a scapegoat.
** Norman is hiding secrets, [[spoiler: like [[spoiler:like his part in creating the Devil's Breath, his role in turning Martin Li and Otto into supervillains, and hiding his son in a tank with a symbiote (although that last bit isn't immediately relevant)]] and Spidey was a convenient scapegoat for the shitfest in Manhattan. So Norman decides that by blaming Spidey, he gets to keep his own hands clean, and no one has to know about the shady shit he's doing.
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** And/or Spidey is intentionally pulling punches and only over the course of the fight does he increase the amount of force until he finds the right amount of strength to use. After all, Spidey can, in most interpretations, lift around 10 tons. Even a 1/10th of that would be enough to seriously harm someone. And if one then asks why he doesn't go straight to that amount from the beginning, well... it's not easy to dial in that kind of precise effort if you're not doing it regularly so unless he's fighting the same villain daily, he's just not really able to gain that kind of precise knowledge.

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** And/or Spidey is intentionally pulling punches and only over the course of the fight does he increase the amount of force until he finds the right amount of strength to use. After all, Spidey can, in most interpretations, lift around 10 tons. Even a 1/10th of that would be enough to seriously harm someone. And if one then asks why he doesn't go straight to that amount from the beginning, well... well… it's not easy to dial in that kind of precise effort if you're not doing it regularly so unless he's fighting the same villain daily, he's just not really able to gain that kind of precise knowledge.



* In the last act, Spider-Man is severely injured by Doctor Octopus to the point that he can't even walk, and it requires Dr. Michael, Silver Sable, and the people at F.E.A.S.T. to heal him up. The question is, how did they do all that without actually removing Spider-Man's costume to look at the wounds? He definitely received some nasty head blows when Doc Ock curb stomped him, so his head undoubtedly needs to be checked. I know, if they remove his mask, then everyone at F.E.A.S.T. would know Spider-Man's true identity, but still... how'd they manage to heal him back to a functional state without actually checking him up thoroughly?

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* In the last act, Spider-Man is severely injured by Doctor Octopus to the point that he can't even walk, and it requires Dr. Michael, Silver Sable, and the people at F.E.A.S.T. to heal him up. The question is, how did they do all that without actually removing Spider-Man's costume to look at the wounds? He definitely received some nasty head blows when Doc Ock curb stomped him, so his head undoubtedly needs to be checked. I know, if they remove his mask, then everyone at F.E.A.S.T. would know Spider-Man's true identity, but still... still… how'd they manage to heal him back to a functional state without actually checking him up thoroughly?



* Peter is shocked to find that the villain at the end of one of the side missions is... ''Screwball!'' Okay. A) The plot of the mission was you taking "the Screwball Challenge", and B) She's been talking to you this entire time via phone. There should have been absolutely no mystery about who was behind this, Peter. Why are you surprised?

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* Peter is shocked to find that the villain at the end of one of the side missions is... is… ''Screwball!'' Okay. A) The plot of the mission was you taking "the Screwball Challenge", and B) She's been talking to you this entire time via phone. There should have been absolutely no mystery about who was behind this, Peter. Why are you surprised?



-->'''Li:''' I'm sure you and May have nothing to worry about... as long as you stay away from places you're not supposed to be. ''[Later, sicks brainwashed homeless people on Peter]''

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-->'''Li:''' I'm sure you and May have nothing to worry about... about… as long as you stay away from places you're not supposed to be. ''[Later, sicks brainwashed homeless people on Peter]''



*** Li's character bio claims that he was a billionaire shipping magnate before he opened F.E.A.S.T.

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*** Li's character bio claims that he was a billionaire shipping magnate before he opened F.E.A.S.T.T..



*** Actually, when he's looking around just before the bombing, Peter ''did'' see Li, he just wasn't knocked out. Meanwhile, Miles actually didn't see Li, Li called out to his men from a distance and Miles was focused first on the guy about to kill him, then on his dad's corpse. After GCT, he specifically mentions contemplating quitting when he found out; if he'd seen Li, he'd never have agreed to work for F.E.A.S.T.

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*** Actually, when he's looking around just before the bombing, Peter ''did'' see Li, he just wasn't knocked out. Meanwhile, Miles actually didn't see Li, Li called out to his men from a distance and Miles was focused first on the guy about to kill him, then on his dad's corpse. After GCT, he specifically mentions contemplating quitting when he found out; if he'd seen Li, he'd never have agreed to work for F.E.A.S.T.T..
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* On the main page, it's mentioned somewhere that despite her claims, there are several crimes Screwball ''can'' be charged with from the main game sidequest, including reporting a false crime, namely her "kidnapping". Did she actually report that? The person is told that there is a kidnapping victim is Spider-Man, a vigilante. Unless we assume ''he'' called Yuri about it.
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** They addressed this in the sequel. In ''Miles Morales'', the fast travel locations are Subway stops and the animation shows him running up the steps after using it.
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** Alternatively it's possible he ''did'' they just didn't show it on screen.
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* How do those whips work, real whips cannot wrap around someone and yank them out of the air.


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** It's possible that he's concerned about her hacking him through his account, paranoid perhaps, but you can never be too careful, alternatively it's possible that he didn't want to indulge her, or even, if his social media account publicly displays his subscriptions, he might be embarrassed to be seen subscribing to Screwball's stream.
*** Furthermore it's possible Peter may be under scrutiny, given his role in developing Otto's arms, and he doesn't want to risk being seen to support Screwball's stream, given the illegal nature of her actions.


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* How exactly did a virus allow Screwball to block the use of Peter's gadgets?
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*** True, but the times we get to actually inspect the masks the back appears to have no holes, and close ups of the demons during cut scenes there are no visible eye holes, that scene does exist, but it is the exception, not the rule.
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** For that matter do we know it ''wasn't'' cleared? The police make no reference to Oscorp acting illegally here, just that they had to keep the tech out of Hammerhead's hands.
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** I am pretty sure there was a part of a cutscene when we had a first person shot from a Demon where Peter took of his mask, and he sure could see out from that.
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* The Demon's masks have no eye holes and seem to be made of wood. How exactly do they see?
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* Something about the gadgets that don't automatically refill doesn't make sense to me. The trip mines, web bomb, spider drones and suspension matrix make sense, they are all physical items Peter can only be carrying on his person and once he's thrown them they're gone. But the impact web is just a higher pressure web shot, so why can't that auto refill? I would mention the concussive blast and electric web but I'm not entirely sure where they stand, the concussive blast seems to just be a burst of compressed air or something similar but it may need some kind of ammo canister, and I don't know if there is something added to the electric web or if it's just electrified by the web shoot as it's launched.


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** Presumably it was manufactured during the Devil's Breath crisis, there may have been some loophole given Sable was in his employ.
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** Given that there are about a dozen NY National Guard units based ''in NYC'', several of them in Manhattan, you'd think their officers would be making a public stink about not being permitted to protect their city while foreign nationals patrol the streets and routinely violate the public's civil rights in the process.


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* How was Oscorp able to make brand new weapon designs for Sable International? Does Osborne not know of export laws? Selling military hardware to foreign nationals without clearing it with the Department of Defense is a federal crime. The fact that a paramilitary unit based in a highly unstable Eastern European country, which recently occupied NYC and caused a major stink while doing so, is receiving munitions that have not been submitted for export approval from a company owned by the man who invited them into New York is inviting the FBI to come swarming all over Oscorp digging everywhere, assuming the whole bit about accidentally making a bioweapon through a reckless and inadequately monitored gene therapy project run in the middle of Manhattan didn't do that first.
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*** I wouldn't be so sure, people have noticed that Spidey has been doing various odd jobs like chasing Pigeons and swinging through smog, but certainly going by JJJ's Podcasts they don't know the context, with JJJ speculating that he's chasing the pigeons to eat and swinging through smog to get high, and we don't even know for sure Peter's crediting himself at all or just logging the data at the research stations, certainly by the time Harry wakes up even if he takes the time to look through he reports from the research stations it's unlikely that he'll connect them to some odd activity from Spidey from months earlier at least that will probably have been buried both on Social Media and JJJ's podcast given all the larger events (Devil's Breath, Hammerhead, The Underground V Roxxon) that have occurred at the same time.

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*** I wouldn't be so sure, people have noticed that Spidey has been doing various odd jobs like chasing Pigeons pigeons and swinging through smog, but certainly going by JJJ's Podcasts podcasts they don't know the context, with JJJ speculating that he's chasing the pigeons to eat and swinging through smog to get high, and we don't even know for sure Peter's crediting himself at all or just logging the data at the research stations, certainly by the time Harry wakes up even if he takes the time to look through he reports from the research stations it's unlikely that he'll connect them to some odd activity from Spidey from months earlier at least that will probably have been buried both on Social Media and JJJ's podcast given all the larger events (Devil's Breath, Hammerhead, The Underground V Roxxon) that have occurred at the same time.
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** Beyond causing chaos to discredit Osborn, initially the Demons are posing as a street gang taking advantage of the weakness of Fisk's gang now that their leader is in prison, both in order to acquire the weapons they would need for the real plan and to mislead the police, if Jefferson and Spider-Man had identified the Demons as what the really were, a Terrorist Organisation operating within a Major US city instead of the street gang they were pretending to be at first, the police response would've been faster and harder and the Demons may not have been able to act as they did later.
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*** I wouldn't be so sure, people have noticed that Spidey has been doing various odd jobs like chasing Pigeons and swinging through smog, but certainly going by JJJ's Podcasts they don't know the context, with JJJ speculating that he's chasing the pigeons to eat and swinging through smog to get high, and we don't even know for sure Peter's crediting himself at all or just logging the data at the research stations, certainly by the time Harry wakes up even if he takes the time to look through he reports from the research stations it's unlikely that he'll connect them to some odd activity from Spidey from months earlier at least that will probably have been buried both on Social Media and JJJ's podcast given all the larger events (Devil's Breath, Hammerhead, The Underground V Roxxon) that have occurred at the same time.
** It's not uncommon for people to think there's some personal connection between Peter and Spidey, I remember at least once a villain (Rhino I believe) turning up at the Daily Bugle because he thought Peter might have a way to contact Spidey, since he's the only guy who can get a decent picture of him, and I think that, in the comics, he did at some point confess to making Spidey's gear, around the time of Horizion labs if my memory is correct. Even without the latter link it's possible anyone who realizes what Spidey was doing and is aware of Peter's connection simply assumed Spidey got a call from his old photographer about some minor crises that he could help with and, being Spidey, he quickly swung over.

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