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Top 10 Worst Things Spider-Man Has Ever Done


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worst things spider-man has ever done
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this list we’ll be looking at the most
disappointing regrettable and downright
awful things the spider-man has ever
done alternate timelines will be
considered so long as they aren’t
timelines in which spider-man was
explicitly villainous we also won’t be
including anything done by the superior
spider-man number 10 he kissed his dead
girlfriend’s daughter in front of his
wife this happened as part of the widely
despised sins past storyline in which
when Stacy is retroactive Lee made to
have had an affair with Norman Osborn
which apparently resulted in twins as if
that isn’t bad enough already
the writer went ahead and established
this weird sexual tension between Peter
and Sarah
Gwen’s look-alike daughter Pete seemed
surprised by the kiss but the dude was
also sending off some seriously mixed
messages you can claim to love her like
a daughter but your actions say
otherwise Parker that is both
disappointing and weird number nine
published fake news fake news it’s not
befitting of a regular journalist let
alone a superhero to be fair when
photographer Peter Parker took it upon
himself to stage some Spiderman picks he
was doing so before the era of fake news
as we know it but still even in 1963
there was a little thing called
journalistic ethics and try as you might
to justify yourself Parker but throwing
regular old sand in the air to recreate
a fight with Sandman is dishonest even
if it actually happened just minutes
earlier at the end of the day it all
boils down to the same thing you lied to
your employers and the public in the
name of profit number eight invaded an
independent nation this sounds like the
sort of thing that Otto Octavius is
arrogant superior spider-man would do
but Peter Parker that’s out of character
then again his long and complicated
history with Norman Osborn has made
Spidey a little hot-headed
so when Osborn began exploiting the
Eastern European nation of some Katya
Spidey sought fit to insert himself into
the foreign independent nations politics
by a subterfuge as is usually the case
he’s doing it with the best intentions
but using
corporate espionage to undermine a
democratically elected leader that’s not
the spider-man we know and love that’s
some morally gray CIA stuff oh and it
literally could have started war which
is probably why Nick Fury and shield
severed all ties with Spidey and Parker
industries as a result number seven had
an affair with a married woman will
level with you though spider-man has
often been written as a moral Paragon in
the world of comics Parker’s track
record with women isn’t exactly the
greatest generally speaking his super
heroics and tendency to being
scatterbrained make him a nightmare to
date but this this was more than a
confused kiss having just been dumped
Parker finds consolation with his first
love
Betty Brandt who is now married but is
seemingly separated from her husband the
two make out and then we get a several
hours later time-skip that has been
debated ever since sure her and Ned were
fighting but still not cool Parker
number six trapped a man in a virtual
world rather than mercy kill him
euthanasia is a complex issue but
spider-man’s refusal to take mendel
Strom’s life was an act of Cruelty he
put his own values over the wishes of
man suffering as a disembodied head a
slave to a machine desperate Strom puts
aside his past grudges and pleads with
spider-man to end his life before the AI
takes over entirely the two have a
lengthy conversation about the moral and
philosophical ramifications but in the
end rather than give the man what he
wants
Spidey rescues him by locking him into a
virtual reality loop spider-man promises
to find a proper cure but he instead
leaves mendel trapped there for years
number five he didn’t stop the robber
who killed Uncle Ben thanks a
superhero’s life is full of tough
choices one split-second decision after
another that can make the difference
between life and death both for the hero
and others around them it’s impossible
to consistently make the right one and
there’s no point dwelling on what could
have been at least that’s the general
rule but spider-man did not have a tough
choice to make in this 1962 issue of
amazing fantasy it was an easy one and
his decision to stand by and do nothing
was rooted in selfishness and a newly
inflated ego you
taking that guy apart now he’s gonna get
away with my money I missed the part
where that’s my problem had he done the
right thing and stopped the thief that
number four bought daredevil for
protecting a villain don’t let all the
jokes fool you underneath spider-man’s
mask of good humor and charm is a fiery
temper just waiting to rear its ugly
head should someone close to him get
hurt
so when detective Stan Carter threatened
the life of his ex-girlfriend Betty
Brant as the villainous Sin Eater and
also pretended to be Peters friend
spider-man seemingly snapped attacking
so furiously that daredevil had to
intervene only to find Spidey’s rage
turn on him
Spidey actually punches his ally out of
window now in hindsight we could chalk
this up to the influence of the alien
suit but ultimately Peter let his
emotions get the best of him number
three full-on manslaughter
believe it or not spider-man has
actually killed multiple people over the
years there is no act more shocking
however than when he accidentally killed
a woman
Charlamagne by punching her in the face
the irony he was actually fighting
Wolverine at the time and the reason he
was tangling with Logan was to stop him
from killing Charlamagne in the first
place in his exhaustion and paranoia
fighting Wolverine however he misjudged
who was behind him and wound up throwing
a fatal punch to her face number two he
hit Mary Jane it’s interesting how two
characters can do the same horrible
thing and wind up with very different
results for hank pym the decision to
have him hit his wife has gone on to
define the character for decades but
when peter parker’s similarly struck his
wife mary jane fans by and large
collectively forgot about it maybe it’s
a difference in popularity between the
characters or perhaps it’s because this
occurred during the often criticized
Clone Saga and so readers dismissed it
as bad writing regardless like Hank Pym
in a moment of frustration Peter Parker
committed an act of domestic violence
and that’s inexcusable
even worse he then ran away as Mary Jane
pleaded with him to stay number one made
a deal with the devil that’s not a
metaphor or a poetic turn of phrase
Peter Parker made an actual deal with a
literal devil Mephisto what sort of
superhero does that spider-man a Perrin
me in order to save a dying Aunt May who
Peter had put in harm’s way when he
revealed his identity during civil war
he makes a pact with this all-powerful
villain the cost his marriage with Mary
Jane and their future together including
the child they had yet to have but it’s
not just his own life that Parker
changed by making this deal he’s
basically rewriting history as you can’t
change your own past without changing
the lives of others in countless little
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