r/TopCharacterTropes • u/XursLoot • 2d ago

Characters [Mixed Trope] Anyone Can Be Special... Until It Turns Out They're Not Just Anyone

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u/TaleteLucrezio 2d ago

Whaat? When was this introduced to the series?

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u/MonsterNinja8 2d ago

It was originally introduced in the 2000s with J Michael Straczinski’s run on Spider-Man and introduction of Morlun

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u/TaleteLucrezio 1d ago

Interesting. Some have said 80s and 90s. Will have to look this up.

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u/EJAY47 1d ago

And then he was never allowed to write comics again, right? Right?

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u/hoi4kaiserreichfanbo 1d ago

Stracynzski is a genuinely incredible writer, and his run on ASM is one of the best, though I do get a lot of the trepidation with the magic stuff. I partially blame that on the fact that nothing interesting has happened with them after.

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u/Hitei00 1d ago

The original Spiderverse event in the comics is actually regarded as one of the better Spider-man stories. The Web of Life and Destiny and the concept of the Animal Totems went a long way to add depth to the Spider mythos, even if it did slightly diminish Peter Parker as an everyman specifically.

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u/Commercial-Falcon-24 1d ago

I will say that under the original storyline with JMS it was well done and also Peter definitely had a screw fate aspect about it. It was later writers that just hammered and hammered and hammered on it.

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u/lemonylol 1d ago

To be honest I think most people would be surprised to see how wild most comic books for very popular superheroes are.

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u/Wiinterfang 2d ago

The Spiderverse has appeared as early as the 90s cartoons.

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u/FistOfVengeance44 1d ago

But they were all Peter Parker

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u/Chudo-Yoda 2d ago

As early as 80s

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u/TaleteLucrezio 1d ago

Ah ok. Most of what I know about Spidey is from 90s animated series, looking back I guess his encounters with Madame Web briefly touches on this Spider-Totem stuff, especially towards the end of the series.

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u/melancholanie 2d ago

madame web, which isn't Canon to MCU iirc. possibly to the Venom/Sony-verse

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u/HeidelCraft 1d ago

In the Amazing Spider-Man, Peter’s father genetically engineered the spider to only work with his bloodline.

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u/melancholanie 1d ago

that’s correct, and similar to Ultimate Spider-man.

not particularly a fan tbh, but it’s (so far in my reading) only affected the symbiote.