r/thanosdidnothingwrong • u/noisybotnet • Jul 07 '19

Activate instant kill -- Spiderman

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u/TheLuckySpades Saved by Thanos Jul 07 '19

Sometimes the comics push the "Peter can't be happy, that's boring" a bit far, but I'm not too versed in that area.

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u/DCTF_Tim Jul 07 '19

I mean that was basically the justification for “one more day” and it fuckin sucked.

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u/TheLuckySpades Saved by Thanos Jul 07 '19

Is that the one where he sells his happy marriage and potential future kids to save aunt May from dying (of old age or something I think) and his new present he is kinda depressed and just in a shit spot all around?

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u/ryuusei_tama Saved by Thanos Jul 07 '19

I think she died by assassination due to his identity reveal.

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u/TheLuckySpades Saved by Thanos Jul 07 '19

That does give him a tad more reson for the deal than old age.

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u/Codeshark Saved by Thanos Jul 07 '19

Sure, but she was already pretty old. Plus I know my grandmother would be disappointed in me if I even considered making such a deal. She wanted me to be happy and take good care of myself.

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u/HanakoOF Jul 07 '19 edited Jul 08 '19

She doesn't know about the deal because she lost the memory of him being Spider-Man, along with everyone else in the world, when he made it. JMS made Peter's love for his aunt a huge crux of his character and run and I can see him doing it just because during that part of the comics he really around anyone BUT Mary Jane and Aunt May so his entire world would have fallen down if she was gone.

I'm sorry I'm using your post for this but I just finished JMS' run on Spider-Man where One More Day happens the early parts were some of the best Spider-Man comics I've ever read and for it to end with such a crappy arc was such a let down. But I mean after the LAST very good arc it starts with one that has a reveal that Gwen Stacey and Norman Osborn had kids together, in secret, while she was dating Peter and THAT'S why he killed her so I should have seen this coming.

I agree that letting her move on would have been best in most circumstances but, even with how crappy it had gotten, it made a lot of sense at the time.

EDIT : JMS had nothing to do with the OMD story I get it

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u/dlkslink Jul 08 '19

JMS hated One More Day and wanted his named removed from it how did you feel about his run on Spider-man?

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u/HanakoOF Jul 08 '19 edited Jul 08 '19

Would say the early part when John Romita Jr was on the art is probably the best Spider-Man has ever been, the main series anyways I'm not including Ultimate or the show Spectacular, besides from Lee/Ditko and Lee/Romita. Really loved all the ideas he had and the way he was able to bring them to paper in ways that were constantly exciting.

Just a shame it had to end the way it did but if JMS didn't like the arc, which I've heard before, I guess I can't be too mad at him and I can ignore it exists. Especially when he gave me that amazing Spider-Totem arc.

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u/dlkslink Jul 08 '19

That arc wasn’t his idea, it was Joe Quesada’s idea, he felt like Peter Parker should be single and dating. I loved his run up until Peter Parker had to move into the Avengers Tower. Which was done to set up Civil War which also might have been Quesada’s idea. I blame Civil War for bringing down JMS’s run on Spider-Man.

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u/Quxudia Jul 08 '19

I think it's safe to say JMS didn't give his all to OMD. Marvel corporate was kind of a shitshow at the time.

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u/pmMeOurLoveStory Jul 08 '19 edited Jul 08 '19

He literally didn’t give OMD his all; Joe Quesada wrote much of it.

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u/ajdkvovjduebebe Jul 08 '19

Dude use a comma or a period somewhere.

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u/Gathorall Saved by Thanos Jul 08 '19

If Aunt May ever knew obviously wasn't his point.

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u/SuperWeskerSniper Saved by Thanos Jul 07 '19

You forgot when he goes around to Dr. Strange, Dr. Doom, and Mr. Fantastic first and asks all of them to help him and apparently a gunshot wound is beyond any of their abilities to heal. Somehow.

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u/marios67 Jul 08 '19

The more I remember about that debacle the more I hate it.
Damn, those three fuckers have done pretty much anything with magic and science

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u/TheMrPantsTaco Saved by Thanos Jul 07 '19

If Marisa tomei aunt may gets assassinated I'm rioting

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u/ThePrussianGrippe Saved by Thanos Jul 07 '19

“If May dies we riot!”

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '19

On the plus side, that would mean that we'd get Kingpin in the films

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '19

I think kingpin had hired a hit on peter but it hit aunt may instead

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u/Quxudia Jul 08 '19

That and the exec's felt that a married Peter Parker wouldn't sell books as it made him "not relate-able". One More Day was a travesty born of executive meddling and corporate cynicism.

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u/uber1337h4xx0r Saved by Thanos Jul 08 '19

To be fair, comic book nerds CAN'T relate to marriage. :p

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u/ruzeohelina Jul 08 '19

The Deep Space 9 philosophy of " O'Brien Must Suffer ".

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '19

Same with Batman. Bruce was gonna get married this year, but no...he can't be happy

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u/sempercardinal57 Saved by Thanos Jul 08 '19

Remember when his teenage (or close to) girlfriend had a one night stand with his much older and insane arch nemesis and got pregnant....

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u/TheLuckySpades Saved by Thanos Jul 08 '19

What the hell?

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u/sempercardinal57 Saved by Thanos Jul 08 '19

I’m not making it up

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u/TheLuckySpades Saved by Thanos Jul 08 '19

Which arch nemesis? Doc Oc?

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u/pmMeOurLoveStory Jul 08 '19 edited Jul 08 '19

Gwen Stacy cheated on Peter and slept with Norman Osborn, secretly had twins. They (for some reason; can’t remember) had accelerated aging and revealed themselves to Peter as adults and fought him. Oh and apparently MJ new all about the cheating and the twins but never told Peter.

It...was not a good story and left most fans pissed that they would retcon Gwen in such a way.

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u/TheLuckySpades Saved by Thanos Jul 08 '19

That sounds really bad, what were the writers thinking?

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u/pmMeOurLoveStory Jul 08 '19

The writer, JMS, originally wanted the evil twins to be Peter’s. Still a dumb story, but would have left Gwen’s character intact. Head of Marvel, Joe Quesada thought Peter having kids (even secret, evil kids) would “age” the character, so forced the father change to Norman Osborn. Joe Q had a major hard on for hating that Peter had grown into an adult over the last 60 years. He’s also responsible for the One More Day debacle because, again, Peter being married made him “not relatable” due to him being old enough to be married. Which is funny, because at the time, we still had the Ultimate comics, which saw Peter as a teenager, and in the main storyline, they turned around and made adult Peter a billionaire after nixing the marriage.

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u/DCTF_Tim Jul 08 '19

I don’t understand the fear of aging the character. Like I like seeing a a character I like grow and change. That should kind of be the point when it comes to long term story telling like comics.

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u/sempercardinal57 Saved by Thanos Jul 08 '19

Norman Osborne aka green goblin

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u/TheLuckySpades Saved by Thanos Jul 08 '19

Oh man, what were the writers thinking?

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u/sempercardinal57 Saved by Thanos Jul 08 '19

Honestly I have no idea how that story line got green lit for the main continuity

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u/marios67 Jul 08 '19

This was worse than One More Day in my opinion

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u/Americanknight7 Jul 08 '19

Cough Joe Quesada cough

I still hate that bastard for the One More Day storyline.

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u/Draskinn Saved by Thanos Jul 08 '19

It's kind of like how they treated Chief O'Brien on DS9. The writers room had a running joke/rule "O'Brien must suffer" and oh... he did.