• MudMan@fedia.io
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    5 hours ago

    Canonically people were supposed to assume they had a deal of some kind and set these up.

    Which ended up getting Peter targeted very often, so one has to wonder the point of the secret identity in the first place.

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      Look if a villain is gonna kidnap someone close to spiderman, it’s best if they kidnap actual spiderman and not someone he cares about

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        4 hours ago

        Half the time they take Aunt May or MJ instead!

        I thought it was fun they actually managed to hit that entire chain of events in Raimi’s Spider-Man 2. Doc Ock makes a deal with Harry in exchange for capturing Spidey and the first thing Harry does is go “target Peter Parker immediately”. So Ock goes and for some reason instead of ripping limbs off Peter until he tells him the truth he kidnaps MJ instead.

        He doesn’t even let her go (or even kill her) after he actually succeeds, for some reason. Which honestly I had never thought about. Why is he keeping her hanging from the ceiling of his secret lab? What was the plan there?

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        Sure. That’s fair for a high schooler.

        He keeps this going until he has a degree, a wife and, canonically, a published photography monographic book entirely about Spider-Man.

        It’s called “Webs”.

        I’m gonna say that excuse stops working at some point.

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          He cant just say one day that he and spiderman werent friends anymore. Could you imagine the bad news headlines you could make if that happened?