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Absolute Spider-Man

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Huge missed opportunity. Should have made this the local version of Warren Worthington rather than Toomes.

You're also not really playing to the premise as you've outlined it. Almost everybody still has close to their 616 personality. Nothing's really all that surprising.
 
Rieverre said:
Huge missed opportunity. Should have made this the local version of Warren Worthington rather than Toomes.

You're also not really playing to the premise as you've outlined it. Almost everybody still has close to their 616 personality. Nothing's really all that surprising.
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Well, there's more than one Vulture. As for the premise, things are still happening. I don't really pay attention to the 616 verse. Never have, especially knowing what they've done to Peter in the mainstream universe. This was more aligned with how the new Ultimate comics was going and a touch of the Absolute comics. The massive changes are coming.
 
Speaking of vulture fight the most I'm not happy of how close you want to fly to the canonical Spider-Man verse theming. Someone close HAD to die. MC somehow decides not to finish a monster who murdered his family. The villain somehow gets away by literal Deus ex machina teleport. It's all a bit contrived. Would have been better if either both Ben and May survived or he killed the monster. That would break the canonical approach and make it feel like you are not trying to just play Spiderman straight again with same tropes. As it is now, I had to ask why replay the same thing but change the flavour a bit? Is free will a myth in this universe? Can canon not be broken? If so, then what's the point?
 
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Speaking of vulture fight the most I'm not happy of how close you want to fly to the canonical Spider-Man verse theming. Someone close HAD to die. MC somehow decides not to finish a monster who murdered his family. The villain somehow gets away by literal Deus ex machina teleport. It's all a bit contrived. Would have been better if either both Ben and May survived or he killed the monster. That would break the canonical approach and make it feel like you are not trying to just play Spiderman straight again with same tropes. As it is now, I had to ask why replay the same thing but change the flavour a bit? Is free will a myth in this universe? Can canon not be broken? If so, then what's the point?
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That's a fair question. So, admittedly I could have made Ben and May both survive. That is not something I'm going to stand here and refute. But in that regard, I was following the route of the new Ultimate comics where by the time Peter gets bit by the spider, May was dead for over a year in a terrorist attack that killed Norman Osborn and his wife. That's why I chose May, because that universe's route inspired me.
For the Vulture incident, this is a moment where the character's morals got in the way. He's never killed anyone before. Hell, he had only gotten into a few minor fights. Nothing like this. He was half-unconscious, ready to keel over, and as he goes to do it, not only does he hear a voice in the back of his head literally telling him 'no', but Vulture caught him off guard. The mixed variables had to do with the outcome.
The teleport can be seen as contrived, but I'd also argue that by that point we don't know who's involved with Vulture or whoever sent him. But, given what's known at the end of chapter 26.... the Jackal is running things behind the scenes for the two Vultures. We really don't know from a reader's standpoint where Jackal's influence and social circles run. For all a reader knows, this could go higher than Jackal.
Canon has nothing to do with this at the end of the day. I took bits and pieces of what I enjoyed most from different iterations of the characters, laid the groundwork, and started forming this universe. What's going to break the mold is yet to come.
 
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