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Edited by MacronNotes on Jul 10th 2023 at 10:58:13 AM
I’ll throw some cursed energy out why not:
Peter sacrifices his life to save the fake kids because MJ is sad. Somehow this makes Paul the new Spider-Man
Forever liveblogging the AvengersAnd then Paul gets accepted into the Avengers, defeats Dr. Doom, Mephisto, AND Thanos at the same time, gets publicly lauded by every other heroes and they make a holiday in his honor.
Then Paul and MJ have a celebrity wedding to-
Oh god, I can't even finish this joke.
"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"I got nothing to say about Paul.
There's so much hate towards him that, insane as it is, I kinda feel pity towards him, since he never had a chance to be anything but the latest character who's getting in the way of Peter and MJ.
Even if he dies, I'm sure the bile and venom towards him will continue.
Is it deserved? Oh yeah. But still, for some reason I just can't hate him as it's literally not his fault he was made this way.
One Strip! One Strip!....
I should be annoyed that you slimmed down my post to that, but I'm too busy chuckling.
Anyway, my insanity aside, are we all expecting Paul to die horribly, or is there a hope to pull him out of that heap?
One Strip! One Strip!In pretty sure outside x men.. The only big a list villain in marvel to ever make a full Heel–Face Turn that's stuck in marvel is Loki (and they achieved that by splitting his evil side into an alternate version so theylong could have their cake and eat it too.)
Edited by miraculous on May 27th 2023 at 9:38:36 AM
"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."Oh woooooow.
Level with me, guys: we all expected something like this, right? Because ever since those "I hate the park" and "Do clowns have ears?" bits, I just had a feeling that something was up with those kids. And boy, good freaking riddance!
Catharsis aside, I'll be surprised if all the involved parties (Marvel Editorial, Cebulski, Lowe, and Wells) aren't having screaming fits while foaming at the mouth because someone is still leaking ASM #26.
Honestly, is it even worth saving him at this point? Guy has literally zero backstory that I almost expect him to suffer death by lightning strike.
If MJ gets sad over losing a loveless marriage, then that's laughably contradictive to the character because since the olden days,
she was born and raised in a loveless marriage. Ergo, being stuck in a loveless marriage is the very last thing she wants in her life.
It just goes to show that these guys really don't understand MJ in the slightest.
I think a basic rule of thumb for writing is that you shouldn't have fans unanimously cheering for something you intend to be seen as tragic.
Disney100 Marathon | DreamWorks MarathonHe probably should have done more to show us why we should like Paul.
I think the one good thing he did was pay off Peter's rent in secret, but I'm pretty sure that did nothing to endear people to him.
One Strip! One Strip!i first heard about this on twitter and the fucking replies are killing me
someone tagged the "explain this bob" twitter bot:
after someone said this fan base has become more evil than the Green Goblin:
seriously just watching twitter threads that are half people celebrating the kids disappearing and half people asking people for context and why people are celebrating the dead kids is hilarious
I think everyone is so enthused that the children-shaped plot devices are gone that we've all forgotten our original reason for hating this run, namely that the mystery sucked and it was presented in such a sloppy, ill-conceived, barely thought out manner.
Like imagine this as a set-up for an actual mystery in the Spider-Man universe, that would have the fans invested. Peter goes to the Daily Bugle to, IDK, celebrate Ben Ulrich's resurrection (I can't remember if he's dead or not, it's not important why he's there). He spots a picture of the staff, but notices that Robbie Robertson is missing from it, despite the fact Peter knows he's seen him in it. He asks Jameson or someone else where he is, and the answer he gets is "who?"
Flummoxed, he makes a polite but hasty retreat. He calls Randy, and the number is instead owned by someone else. He calls MJ, asking her if she remembers the Robertsons, she says no. As he's swinging his way across New York, he gets attacked from some kind of odd creature that jumped through a reflection in a window. Not the window itself, but the reflection. And the creature oddly looks like Tombstone....
There, an interesting mystery that ties in with the established Spider-Man universe, featuring a long-running side character that surely has some hardcore fans that would be interested to find out what happened to him.
My point is undo One More Day and give Peter the ability to not forget things when the universe gets magically fucked with. It'll be good character development.
See that would require Wells to be invested in actual drama that surrounds the supporting cast rather than the melodrama of Peter's failed love life. Which editorial since Joe Quesada have stated is the "real draw"
This mystery of "What did Peter do?" Only had me asking Wells
"What did you do to Peter?" after issue #25
Another Content Leak has surfaced, it shows Mary Jane asking Paul how the kids are and Paul has to give her the bad news

Guess he's not Mephisto then.
At least the NTR parts of this run is almost over.
"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"