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This thread's for the Spider-Man comics and spin-offs, whether they're decades old or brand new.

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Since everyone likes talking about him. I know little about him(Ironically,I got nearly all I know about him from a Batman thread),but he's apparently important so I made this thread. Enjoy.

Edited by MacronNotes on Jul 10th 2023 at 10:58:13 AM

Joshbones Since: May, 2015
#28976: Jul 24th 2023 at 5:11:55 AM

Maybe if the next movie changes things, but MCU Spidey is not in a place to sue anyone, he doesn't even exist anymore.

Mrph1 he/him from Mercia (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: This is not my beautiful wife!
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#28977: Jul 24th 2023 at 5:21:48 AM

[up] Which puts him closer to Bailey than comic MU Peter, in some ways. I wonder if Bailey's arc is a deliberate nod to that?

Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 24th 2023 at 1:22:03 PM

RavenWilder Since: Apr, 2009
#28978: Jul 24th 2023 at 8:02:12 AM

Peter Parker doesn't exist anymore, but Spider-Man still does, and that's who'd be suing Jameson.

FKJ10 Since: Mar, 2012
#28979: Jul 24th 2023 at 8:19:19 AM

Yeah but do the Avengers even remember Spider-Man now?

RedHunter543 Crimson Paladin Since: Jul, 2016 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Crimson Paladin
#28980: Jul 24th 2023 at 8:54:19 AM

They all forgot Peter Parker, not Spider-Man, since Happy and JJJ mention Spider-Man.

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slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#28981: Jul 24th 2023 at 8:56:46 AM

Its a good thing Happy is out of his life at least, that guy was a creep only interested in how hot his aunt is. tongue

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Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#28982: Jul 24th 2023 at 9:10:50 AM

He should get a new nickname. He doesn’t have a lot to be happy about anymore

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#28983: Jul 24th 2023 at 9:15:55 AM

His nickname was supposed to be ironic.

In the comics, Happy rarely even smiled originally....or so I once read.

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RedHunter543 Crimson Paladin Since: Jul, 2016 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Crimson Paladin
#28984: Jul 24th 2023 at 9:17:20 AM

Honestly, all the hot Aunt May jokes were getting kinda old.

Unlike Aunt May herself here.

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HamburgerTime Since: Apr, 2010
#28985: Jul 24th 2023 at 9:50:18 AM

Marisa Tomei kinda hot though?

Honestly someone her age having a teenage nephew makes more sense than someone comic May's age. I really wonder why Stan and Jack didn't simply make her his grandmother.

Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Funny but not helpful
#28986: Jul 24th 2023 at 10:09:09 AM

How old is comic May? She looks like the crypt keeper but has it ever been explicit how old she is?

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slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#28987: Jul 24th 2023 at 10:11:15 AM

[up][up] The issue is more how everyone keeps bringing it up to Peter's face who's clearly uncomfortable about it.

You wind up feeling for him cause everyone, especially Happy, is a total creep about his aunt.

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RedHunter543 Crimson Paladin Since: Jul, 2016 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Crimson Paladin
#28988: Jul 24th 2023 at 10:12:02 AM

Pretty much this.

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Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#28989: Jul 24th 2023 at 10:17:10 AM

I don’t feel for him no because a lot of people react with disgust when they’re confronted with their parental figure being considered attractive or having a sex life

It’s usually a sign of immaturity.

Now if May is uncomfortable with it, that’s another matter. And depending on what is said, which I don’t specifically remember, it’s not something you should be saying at all no matter who you’re saying it to

Edited by Bocaj on Jul 24th 2023 at 1:17:50 PM

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lalalei2001 Since: Oct, 2009
#28990: Jul 24th 2023 at 12:00:49 PM

Previews for What If Dark: Spider-Gwen are out. In this timeline Peter jumps to save her and catches her, but the Goblin cuts his webline and he dies when his head/neck hit a corner of the bridge. Gwen revives in the water and tries to rouse him, taking his mask off, but he's already dead.

Then she lies to the police/everyone that Peter was also kidnapped and jumped in to save her without mentioning his secret identity, keeping Spidey's mask for herself and the costume at the bottom of the river.

The panel of Spidey's costume is meant to be haunting but I kept getting distracted by the cute fish in the river XD

Edited by lalalei2001 on Jul 24th 2023 at 3:05:17 PM

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#28991: Jul 24th 2023 at 12:09:08 PM

Conway returning to the moment that made him as a comic writer (and the character he sacrificed to make that happen) is gonna be really interesting.

Peter jumping down to save her is interesting, since the original implied he wouldn't have made it if he'd jumped down. But Conway wrote it, so is he now saying there was another option that Peter missed in the heat of the moment?

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slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#28992: Jul 24th 2023 at 12:25:32 PM

[up][up][up] It's not really a sign if immaturity when it's the people he meets who are the one's aggressively mentioning how pretty she is.

That's not something anyone ever wants to hear about their relatives but Peter has to deal with creeps constantly asking him to tell his aunt to call them.

Edited by slimcoder on Jul 24th 2023 at 12:27:57 PM

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lbssb The sleepiest good boi Since: Jun, 2020 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
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#28993: Jul 24th 2023 at 12:26:52 PM

It really mainly works as a meta-commentary on "ha ha, the decrepit old lady from the comics is young and hot now" rather than anything that makes sense to anybody actually living in 199999.

It's pretty much the "superheroes don't solve real problems" take applied to Adaptational Attractiveness. The fictional characters don't really have any context to make a big deal out of it.

[down]I mean, I'm not arguing that Marisa Tomei isn't hot, but the big deal the characters themselves keep making about it doesn't make a lot of sense from their perspective.

Edited by lbssb on Jul 24th 2023 at 3:32:06 PM

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CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#28994: Jul 24th 2023 at 12:28:45 PM

I dunno, man, it's Marissa Tomei.

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Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Funny but not helpful
#28995: Jul 24th 2023 at 12:44:43 PM

Damn that really is a cute fish

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LadyBlackwood The show must go on from Wouldn't you like to know? Since: Jun, 2023 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
The show must go on
#28996: Jul 24th 2023 at 12:47:38 PM

[up][up] Agreed. The worst is Tony in Civil War telling May that she's too young to be an aunt, which is completely nonsensical and only works if you assume she's an old lady which no one in universe would assume because 50 (Marissa Tomei's age at the time of filming) is a normal age to be a teenager's aunt.

Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Funny but not helpful
#28997: Jul 24th 2023 at 12:49:42 PM

That's fairly common flattery. "You're too young to be the mom, you must be an older sister" style of thing.

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Joshbones Since: May, 2015
#28998: Jul 24th 2023 at 2:18:17 PM

I think it's telling that when they were done making jokes about her being hot they just killed her off. A younger aunt may would have been fine if they did anything with it.

Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Funny but not helpful
#28999: Jul 24th 2023 at 2:30:34 PM

I think that has a lot more to do with wanting, for some god damn reason, to use elements from One More Day and to get a parental figure dead on screen saying a thing about responsibility.

I seriously do not think they went 'well we've made all the hot aunt may jokes we care to, lets fridge her.'

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CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#29000: Jul 24th 2023 at 3:22:57 PM

No Way Home is an enormous hatchet job on MCU Spider-Man that killed all unique elements of Tom Holland's version to make him as like the "stereotypical Barbie, I mean Peter" as possible.

This includes, "Peter's choices kill Aunt/Uncle."

Edited by CharlesPhipps on Jul 24th 2023 at 3:23:10 AM

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