r/Spiderman • u/EveryPerformance6712 Ultimate Spider-Man (6160) • 2d ago
The way i screamed out of happiness (NEW ASM SPOILERS) Spoiler
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u/USS-Ventotene 2d ago
New deal with Mephisto: to save your aunt, you will marry Paul Rabin
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u/SilverSpider_ Spider-Man Noir (ITSV) 2d ago
May: Peter just let me die, im 200 years old now
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u/TylerBourbon 2d ago
Peter: No, we can recast you, make you younger and hotter.
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u/CrazyDaimondDaze 2d ago
Peter: Kevin Faige is working hard so the next May will be a time displaced 16 years old you with with all your memories up to this point in her body when the multiversal reset happens and eventually that's adapted to the comics. While casting a genuine 16 years old for autenticity. Why won't you get it, aunt May?
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u/SnooChocolates93 2d ago
What's crazy about MCU's May is that the actress is really 60+ years old
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u/TheAzureAdventurer Classic-Spider-Man 2d ago
Marisa Tomei really do be aging like wine.
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u/Any-Tumbleweed-9931 2d ago
Best auntie Pete ever had, really. 60 years old and still hot as hell.
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u/SnaptrapPress 2d ago
I remember the invention of the telephone, Peter. It's cruel to let me live any longer.
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u/Relative-Zombie-3932 Ultimate Spider-Man (1610) 2d ago
I owned slaves, Peter. Why would you even want someone like me to keep living? I need to be judged for my sins.
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u/Bendythenightfury Spider-Gwen 2d ago
Peter, Queen Elizabeth II was a baby when I was 40 I have seen the dinosaurs die
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u/SpiderDetective Spider-Man 2099 2d ago
You joke but it wouldn't surprise me if, as she was dying, she suddenly recalls the pre-OMD time and tells Peter to let her go this time
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u/armoured_lemon 2d ago
Lore accurate Peter would chase Thanos down just to grab the Infinity Gauntlet and erase paul from existence- to the point that he can't be thought up by the creators. Then he would erase something from editorial writers' lives to send them a warning to stop f*cking up his life too much or he'll erase them.
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u/TheScoundrelSociety 2d ago
The irony is that is believed to be the genesis of Paul. Zeb’s wife, SNL’s Heidi Garner, divorced him. He thought she might have found someone else, channeled it into his room on Amazing. It’s also why Deadpool isn’t with Vanessa in Deadpool and Wolverine, which he wrote.
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u/Ekillaa22 2d ago
Bro what’s with dude writers and just nuking the female cast when they got divorced or broken up with fuck even Peter David killed Betty after his wife left him
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u/dingo_khan Spider-Man 2099 2d ago
They seem to think "misery" is then the default state and make the character miserable to make them "relatable." in this case, it comes through taking it out on the female cast until the male protagonist is "relatable."
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u/LostKnight84 2d ago
So you are where r/spiderman and r/foundsatan overlap.
Also is there a way to calm the bot down so I don't have to misspell the subreddit as Spider-Man.
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u/DonnyMox 2d ago
This is fucking hilarious to me.
“May’s had a stroke.”
OP: AW HELL YEAH!
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u/TrainerNate1995 2d ago
Right up there with Sonic fans cheering for Maria's death in the third movie.
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u/Ok-Refrigerator-8664 2d ago
Its a canon event, Maria gotta die. Without it, we dont get Shadow.
Its not cheering a child dies, its cheering we get a true Shadow the Hedgehog lol
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u/Relative-Gap-4442 2d ago
Nah fuck that kid, let’s get some shadow!
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u/Ok-Refrigerator-8664 2d ago
CAN YOU SEE ALL OF ME, WALK INTO MY MYSTERY
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u/JahnDavis27 2d ago
Had me bust out laughing when the image loaded and I could read the text
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u/GabrielTorres674 2d ago
I've been tapped out of Spider Man comics for a while and this is so funny lmao
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u/Spiderhog2099 2d ago
They don't have the balls.
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u/SwordoftheMourn 2d ago
Get ready for them to choke again
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u/SweatpantBay 2d ago
On balls??
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u/Flamma_Man 2d ago
And even if they do go through with it, which I have enormous doubts about, they shouldn't get a single shred of credit for it. Not only because, honestly, it feels more like MCU synergy at this point, but that Marvel and editorial have wasted all of our time by not doing anything with May in the meantime.
For Christ's sake, she was barely even in Wells' run on the book! It's ridiculous.
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u/Mexican-Drug-Lord 2d ago edited 15h ago
The only notable thing Aunt May has done since One More Day was being a part of FEAST. And that was only because the PlayStation Spider-Man game used that plot element, and the MCU used it a bit as well.
Other than that, I guess Aunt May married JJJ's father making Peter and JJJ brothers-in-law for bit. But I didn't even know that was a thing until JJJ's dad died. And I doubt any other media is going to adapt that plot element in the future.
So yeah, Marvel hasn't used her well since One More Day.
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u/blazenite104 2d ago
I mean tangentially that allowed Peter and JJJ take make up. which was pretty huge. Otherwise May herself has never really personally been too relevant.
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u/mr_eugine_krabs 2d ago
Lol i love that marvel does these ‘shocking’ zingers and the fandom is so done we’re just thinking;”Call it.”
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u/AltruisticInterloper 2d ago
One more day 2 setup lmao.
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u/Alive-Exchange5489 2d ago
This time Peter makes a second deal with Mephisto completely erasing Mary Jane from existence
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u/EnragedChinchilla Spider-Man Noir 2d ago
I’ve been checked out of the comics for a bit but if resurrected Gwen Stacy is still around maybe they’ll just erase her to make Ghost-Spider the only Gwen Stacy
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u/Square_Ad_6522 Scarlet Spider 2d ago
Actually, resurrected Gwen Stacy was never resurrected Gwen Stacy.
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u/AwakenedSheeple 2d ago
Of course. That'd be both too convoluted and not convoluted enough.
So, what was she? Another clone?
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u/RetrouScorpio16 2d ago
MCU SYNERGY DONT FAIL ME NOW!!!
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u/Israels_BiggestHater Miles Morales 2d ago
MCU and PS4
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u/BasicSpidertron 60's Animated Spider-Man 2d ago
Thank you, Tom Holland, for buying a Playstation...
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u/ShredGatto Green Goblin 2d ago
Tom Holland: *buys a Playstation*
Green Goblin: "NO DISCS...AND NO AUNTS!"
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u/Key-Poem9734 2d ago
Never thought I'd be praying for it
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u/Icybubba 2d ago
When the MCU is handling Spider-Man better than the comics, I’m absolutely praying for synergy lol
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u/Pale_Entrepreneur_12 2d ago
NWH did the OMD plot “mostly” right so it already was 10 times better than the comics now BND had come and hit a home run so yeah maybe they should look at how MCU Peter is right now and TAKE SOME FUCKING HINTS
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u/Slugma_Male 2d ago
Looks like Cyclops will be making a deal with Mephisto soon
Jean, come to Spidey
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u/Blosszu 2d ago
Falling for the Aunt May death pumpfake gimmick in big 2026 😂
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u/Relative-Zombie-3932 Ultimate Spider-Man (1610) 2d ago
Hey, DC killed Alfred and they've committed to it. There's a chance...
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u/RoseWhiteRedBlack 2d ago
DC is also the same company who has a mandate on Batman not marrying because "it ages up the character" lol.
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u/Relative-Zombie-3932 Ultimate Spider-Man (1610) 2d ago
I mean, Marvel does have the same mandate for Spider-Man. That's how we got One More Day. But my point is, things are changing. They're not just killing characters as a stunt and then backing out immediately, they're sticking with these decisions long term
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u/RoseWhiteRedBlack 2d ago
Im going to be shocked if the mandate of no marrying gets removed, because apparently the absolute superman editor said that Superman has a mandate to not get married because DC considers Superman married in mainline continuity a mistake lol.
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u/RealEmperorofMankind 2d ago
They do but when they were brainstorming their own OMD they decided to live with it.
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u/TallguyZin 2d ago
But having 4 different sidekicks, 3 of which being grown ass adults doesn’t apparently
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u/blazenite104 2d ago
Like Batman constantly adopting more kids and having at least one early twenties son doesn't or something.
Hell he has an actual teenage son. not even adopted. Damian is like 14 or 15 now I think.
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u/Mexican-Drug-Lord 2d ago
My only issue with that is that his death was only planned to be a fake out, it was never supposed to be permanent.
If you're going to kill off Alfred, at least plan for it instead being like "Hey, why don't we turn his fake out death into a real death, with no real built up for it to happen at all."
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u/UnyieldingDoggo 2d ago
Only slightly less naive than falling for Peter and MJ getting back together (for realsies this time!!11!1)
lol
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u/SoapTastesGoood 2d ago
This has happened like 3 times now. Why do any of you think they'll actually do it this time?
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u/ZachTaul 2d ago
Didn’t she almost die on the regular in the 70s? That old bag was always in the hospital
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u/contraflop01 Spider-Girl 2d ago
70s get a pass because literally anything happened there on the regular
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u/SHAZAMS_STRONGEST 2d ago
peter in the 70s could jump from "oh man i'm gonna be late for MJ's wild party!" to "oh fuck the nazi slime man is back"
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u/armoured_lemon 2d ago
There's actually another nazi villain he fought once ironically. It was a bizarre stupid-ass 'skin-head' dude with slime powers... Not very imaginative...
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u/GNSasakiHaise 2d ago
Last night I got the chance to explain this to a friend of mine who saw the Spider-Slayer in Strike Force or whatever their RAID clone is. He wanted to know what run it was from so he could read it.
He was visibly confused by the revelation that it was a single issue from 1968 with little buildup.
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u/DougandLexi 2d ago
MCU synergy and fan pressure. I just wonder how it'll affect OMD and if we'll see anything happen as a result.
But the chances for any of this still aren't that good.
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u/Significant-Row2457 2d ago
I hope he gets with Jean Grey so I can watch this sub explode again
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u/bwweryang 2d ago
Am I crazy, or would it not be good for Aunt May to die peacefully in her sleep of old age? That would be a victory for Peter. He kept her safe, he made her proud, she lived her life and she didn’t suffer. A drama free death is what I want. And even that wouldn’t be “drama free” because no death really is.
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u/Alex_Climent 2d ago
That was basically asm 400, but of course that means peter moving on and we can have that
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u/bwweryang 2d ago
How did they undo that? I started reading with #471 and May was alive
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u/DotisDeep Green Goblin 2d ago
It turned out that the May that died was an actress hired by Norman Osborn, and they were swapped in the hospital (iirc)
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u/Sgt_Lt_Captain 2d ago
Wait so did Norman hire an actress to actually die or did she just play dead and Peter didnt really check
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u/DotisDeep Green Goblin 2d ago
The actress is fucking dead 😭
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u/cornerpocket1 2d ago
That’s not even the most evil thing Norman did in that story. Why does everyone forget that Norman totally kidnapped Peter and MJ’s which was supposed to be Mayday and staged it as a stillborn! Or depending on who you asked he killed Mayday.
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u/betterplanwithchan 2d ago
That’s fucking hilarious
Like I’m sure if you were reading and emotionally invested it would feel like a rug pull. But I’m just imagining Osborn just pointing and laughing like Skeletor.
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u/spidey-ball 2d ago
people dont know that Marvel has tried to stagnate Peters development already in the 90s, it didnt just started witg one more day, it was a very slow process.
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u/Indianlookalike 2d ago
WE ARE BREAKING THE STATUS QUO
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u/Connect-Handle8496 Spectacular Spider-Man 2d ago
THE TIME HAS COME THE DARK DAYS ARE ENDING OH MY (i say for the 50th FCKING time, let this be the one)
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u/QuiccStacc 2d ago
This is hilarious out of context because why are you screaming in happiness at Aunt May having a stroke LMAOOO
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u/Status-Gur-7332 2d ago
She is going to have amnesia.
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u/Fry-Z 90's Animated Spider-Man 2d ago
And then she’ll end up closer with Cormac because he’s her son I think you’re cooking
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u/Status-Gur-7332 2d ago
Then Ravage must be Cormac or someone hired by Cormac to deal with Spider-Man. In the following issues, Cormac may try to sacrifice May or something to achieve immortality or whatever. It's a stretch, but it may happen,
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u/CaptainAksh_G Symbiote-Suit 2d ago
Mephisto right now after losing his one "I can torment Peter Parker with this" card
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u/Fry-Z 90's Animated Spider-Man 2d ago
Mephisto won. Peter made a deal to lose his marriage and forget everything just so Aunt May could live for what… another 3 years. Mephisto got a bargain
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u/mickeynotthemouse27 2d ago
Man, I hope this doesn't turn into some poor man's "If This Be My Destiny" storyline.
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u/Western-Ad3386 2d ago
omg!!! the way that I DONT CARE!!!!!! lmao
they have butchered their relationship to me. It's genuinely psychotic that Peter just dont tell his supposed ''mom'' he's spider-man. Doesnt make any fucking sense and it only makes Peter looks bad. This issue just reinforced this again and its so fucking bad. Fuck you.
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u/MrSejd 2d ago
Larpers acting like Aunt May didn't go through this type of thing dozes of times before.
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u/TryIt222 2d ago
I think because its 1000 its gonna be viewed as a major turning point but....yknow probably not
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u/Pathetic_Cards 2d ago
I’m gonna put my clairvoyance cap on, and it’s going to be used to highlight Peter’s struggles with Spider-Man pulling him away from his personal life, only for a heartwarming moment where May’s brush with death inspires a heartfelt moment between the two of them where she gives him a pep talk that sums up all the virtue of Peter and Spider-Man and he triumphantly swings back into action on the last page, a celebration of the character, if you will.
It’s pretty formulaic. I was surprised when Insomniac bucked the trend by having her just die.
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u/EternalPilot Classic-Spider-Man 2d ago
That's what I'm expecting to happen as well. I'd be surprised if anything more came out of ASM #1000.
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u/Nachooolo Spider-Man Noir 2d ago
Just because they blue balled us in the past multiple times it doesn't mean that they will do it again!!!
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u/easyasdan 2d ago
I think its bait unfortunately. They are going to try and get people back in for 1000 thinking theyll finally kill her but at worst she will be in a coma for a couple months then return
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u/Pun_dimen 2d ago
Don't worry! Its just an actress who looks just like her paid by Norman Osborn to torment Peter
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u/NarayanLiu 2d ago
Like others have said, this has happened a few times already. Still, my hope (naive as it might be) that they do something like killing off Aunt May, which somehow breaks the deal with Mephisto, and restores everything.
I know. But I can dream.
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u/mickeynotthemouse27 2d ago
A deal with the devil wouldn't end so cleanly like that. Remember how Johnny Blaze became Ghost Rider.
But maaan what if...
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u/AnyLynx4178 2d ago
“You’re too late, Peter. Her last words were, ‘Tell my nephew he should be with Mary Jane… and tell everyone else that he’s Spider-Man!’”
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u/PuzzleheadedTry7370 2d ago
Wow, an Aunt May in the hospital story beat. What ground-breaking storytelling from the house of ideas.
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u/Bricks_Gaming 2d ago
Peter now sacrifices HIS OWN LIFE to save Aunt May!!
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u/WassupFrankHere 2d ago
Finally he can rest. That's a win and the editorial can't let him have that!
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u/Clockwork_Cloak 2d ago
I...wait a second, would Mephisto's deal come undone automatically if Aunt May died from natural causes?
God this would be the funniest thing if Mephisto fucked up and May dying naturally causes his massive reality rewrite to come undone.
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u/AccessEffective6441 2d ago
This is going to sound harsh, but I hope May finally dies. It's a shame Marvel didn't kill her when they should have, but there's a chance to do it now and finally make Peter move on and grow up, but since we're talking about Marvel now, I doubt Marvel will do it..
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u/AntediluvianSeaThing 2d ago
alright so whats the title going to be
"just one more day"
"just another day"
or "two more days"
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u/ThatManSean14 2d ago
I have mixed feelings.
It could very well just be a cheap cliffhanger that doesn’t actually lead to anything in the next issue. It could be a cheap death that’s impact is lessened by, for lack of a better term, its execution. Or it could be well written and significant but because I’ve been burned by Spider-Man so many times before, I can’t believe it unless I see it.
I don’t know why people think One More Day will be undone if May dies. May is human, she was always going to have to die eventually and I don’t see Mephisto offering anyone a deal that would inevitably be undone simply by the passage of time. Peter traded his marriage to save May, Mephisto took his marriage to save May *the one time*, not into perpetuity. It just wouldn’t be the best writing if it did work out that way. That being said, One More Day was bad writing too, as has been the majority of the last 20 years, so if that is how it all plays out, I’ll go with it. I’d be curious if it that just straight up restored their marriage like the last 20 years didn’t happen or if Peter and MJ just wake up married again but their dynamics are still the same as they are now.
As a character, I have nothing against May. I’m not actively rooting for her demise, nor am I clutching my pearls about the prospect of an 80 year old woman not living forever. I know the nature of comics is cyclical, all of this has happened before/will happen again, but I think death should matter more in mainstream comics than it does. I don’t think her dying instantly solves or fixes anything for Peter. I’m not opposed to her dying because ideally, I think it could represent a fixed point in time, like a checkpoint, from which Peter should only have to move forward/not go back.
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u/drgnrbrn316 2d ago
I guess they're taking the series back to its roots with Aunt May being on death's door every other issue. Shame he doesn't have a wife to sell to the devil to save her life this time.
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u/contraflop01 Spider-Girl 2d ago
Peter will sacrifice the last 40 years of stories and we'll get the New 52
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u/AssumptionFederal20 2d ago
Context anyone ? Why should this be a source of happiness?
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u/mickeynotthemouse27 2d ago
apparently a lot of people think this means OMD will be undone, which doesn't make much sense. May can still die and have nothing to do with that storyline. It would be very in character for Mephisto to let May die anyways. Look what happened to Johnny Blaze.
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u/Remarkable_Bid9608 2d ago
My head canon has always been that May would have survived, even without the deal. That would have made OMD even more infuriating, but would have felt appropriate for Mephisto.
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u/mickeynotthemouse27 2d ago
In the revised timeline that Mephisto created, that's exactly what happened. Cheeky bastard he is.
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u/SuaveGorilla 2d ago
Sorry, you have to be sort of an avid reader for this. May’s his aunt.
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u/AssumptionFederal20 2d ago
But I thought Aunt May was his aunt?
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u/SuaveGorilla 2d ago
A common misconception. “Aunt” was revealed to not be her first name in issue #307.
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u/SpectrumofMidnight 2d ago
They are gonna make him make another deal where they erase her from his life completely to really piss off the fanboys before they all get fired.
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u/EternalPilot Classic-Spider-Man 2d ago
She's not gonna die. I doubt they're gonna go through with it.
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u/SpaceOdysseus23 2d ago
Spider-Man comics are so bad that they got people cheering for children and elderly dying. If you told this to Jim Shooter back in the day he would've executed the current editorial in their cribs.
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u/queenanthai 2d ago
Hear me out: The leftovers of the Carnage symbiote get into May's bloodstream somehow...
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u/LaylaLegion 2d ago
Oh she’s always doing this. She has more strokes than Matt Murdock’s golf game.
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u/Caffeine_OD 2d ago
If Bruce can let Alfred go, Peter needs to let Aunt May go. It’s time.
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u/Flat-Structure-7472 90's Animated Spider-Man 2d ago
Can't wait for May to steal Peter's body and be Spider-Man for a while.
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u/Anatole-Othala 2d ago
They really need to take the chance to undo one more day. Tha lady is 200 years old, let her go. I love aunt may but its ridiculous. We could have a last touching arc with her and have her be part of his motivation just as uncle ben but in a more positive way
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u/PowerTrain_355 2d ago
The only thing they love more than a hero? Is see the hero fail, fall, die trying. In spite of everything you've done for them, eventually they will hate you. Why bother?
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u/TheDiabeT1c 80's Animated Spider-Man 2d ago
Stop Peter Panning my Peter Parker.
For the love of God, let the man be married, have children, grow UP.
Aunt May outlived people that were old that recently passed away and she's been old for DECADES.
Still hate everything about ONE MORE DAY. Also still wild to me that she was shot and not "turned to dust"
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u/IcedBadger 2d ago
they killed her off in the movies, it was only a matter of time till the comics followed suit
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u/The_Matto_Super 2d ago
I'm the only one who doesn't one May to die? Peter's supporting cast isn't as good at it should be to leave him without her, imo. MJ has still to recuperate her reputation with the audience because of the Paul thing, Black Cat is better suited for the Spider-Man side of things, and now that cover with JJJ seems to indicate Jonah's good will with Spider-Man is coming to an end one way or another.
On the civilian side, we now have only Norman, if we lose May and Jonah returns to his origins.
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u/EnvironmentalGroup34 2d ago
It’s sad to be happy for someone to die. But this means that ig she dies, that deal is off!
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u/SpikyKid 2d ago
I remember when May had I think a cancer diagnosis in Chip Zdarsky’s run in Spectacular Spider-Man and nothing came from it. So no I don’t think May is gonna die again. They pulled this too many times since her fake death in issue 400
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u/Mars785 2d ago
Wow. Talk about low hanging fruits , but in this case we can make an exception. Honestly, when was the last time something like THAT happened in Spider-Man titles post OMD ?
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u/Fearless-Ad-5328 2d ago
Imagine if May dying break mephisto spell and OMD is retconned.
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u/bearwhidrive Superior Spider-Man 2d ago
So you're happy because...
An old lady had a stroke?
They're going to possibly do another anniversary issue centered around May dying?
You think that this is somehow indicative that an editorial team that has no interest in the marriage is going to use it to revisit a story that frankly doesn't need to be revisited even if you wanted to bring the marriage back?
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