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Edited by MacronNotes on Jul 10th 2023 at 10:58:13 AM
Here's the thing.
Paul's awfulness is actually unimportant to Spider-Man. This isn't about him. I'm interested in MARY JANE'S perspective on all this because this is so much suffering and trauma that she obviously had to become a superhero after this.
Her adopted children: murdered.
Trapped in an alternate universe for years.
Nice Pakistani American girl dies for you.
I'd be tend kinds of messed up over this.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Wait a minute, something just occurred to me about the MJ super hero business.
If Peter is scheduled to become a Goblin because of Norman's sins, does that mean she has to fight him at some point?
Edited by RedHunter543 on Jul 29th 2023 at 10:09:20 PM
"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"Peter: I killed them. I killed them all. They're dead, every single one of them. And not just the men, but the women and the children, too. They're like animals, and I slaughtered them like animals. I HATE THEM.
"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"I just saw a Marvel Dark What-if about if Gwen lived and Peter died.
The ending caption hinted that this was going to be Marvel equivalent of the DC Dark Multiverse. Are there more "what if dark" stories out there?
EDIT: Nvm, found them Marvel What-if Dark
stories.
Edited by FOFD on Jul 29th 2023 at 5:00:25 AM
Yeah, for a 'dark' story it wasn't that much different than a typical What If?, and even better in some cases.
Loki's on the other hand ended with the destruction of the universe, but even then it was restored at the end.
The Protomen enhanced my life.I like that MJ ends the "What If" issue all beaming and smiling.
Marvel officially announce the new 40th anniversary Secret Wars mini-series
, largely a team up between Peter and Johnny on Battleworld shortly after Peter first acquires the symbiote. Tom Defalco is the writer, Pat Ollife on art.
Edited by Zarius on Jul 30th 2023 at 2:39:41 AM
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Which one there are two What if Black Suits stayed on now?
What if Dark Reign just pushes one of my thoughts on Osborn. Marvel really wanna make him their version of the Joker rather than Luthor.
Think about it his version of torturing Spider-Man was oddly similar to Emperor Joker with Batman.
A constant death loop but it's Gwen dying and forcing Spidey to relive his greatest failure. Rather than Joker just killing Bats in various ways.

Plot twist, she's into that.
"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"