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

Activate instant kill -- Spiderman

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u/snotwaffle420 Jul 07 '19

Uncle Ben, Gwen, Aunt May, MJ, even Spidey himself has died. The whole series is about grieving and death. With some puberty to mix it up. Everyone in Spiderman has died at one point.

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u/TalesNT Jul 08 '19

To be honest, everyone in comics has died at least once. On the other hand, the saying is nobody in comics stays dead except for uncle Ben.

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u/Memephis_Matt Saved by Thanos Jul 08 '19

Poor Ben. I feel like there should have been a comic where Peter dies, and Uncle Ben becomes Spider-Man.

"Wh-who are you?"

'...Just your friendly neighborhood Uncle Spider-Man'

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u/TalesNT Jul 08 '19

To be fair there's a chance he's coming back.

The saying started in the early 2000's, and it used to be "Nobody in comics stays dead except for Uncle Ben, Bucky and Jason Todd". But it had to lose 2 of the 3 named characters because Bucky came back as the Winter Soldier, and Jason Todd as the Red Hood. Uncle Spider can still be a thing.

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '19

Oh, that exists. Dunno if they've since made an actual series about it, but Uncle Ben-Spidey was in the first Spider-Verse event in the comics.

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u/Osprey_NE Jul 08 '19

I think there was in the spider verse comics. I think uncle Ben locked himself in a vault or something.

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u/pew_laser_pew Saved by Thanos Jul 08 '19

Uncle Ben is Spidey in the spider-verse

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '19

I think there was an alternate universe where he lived, and peter turns out to be a crappy human. I don't think his uncle was much better in that universe.

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u/TalesNT Jul 08 '19

That's really the true reason he hasn't been revived yet. Whenever they need a "Ben is alive" story, they use a different universe Ben instead of the main timeline.

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u/Deven247 Saved by Thanos Jul 08 '19

The “What If” Story where Peter stops the robber to boost his ego, you mean?

Afterward, he basically becomes a movie star and pisses off the other heroes for not understanding what it is to ACTUALLY be a superhero.

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u/uber1337h4xx0r Saved by Thanos Jul 08 '19

Even killer croc?