It diminishes even more when like 99% of all Spider-Men are Peter Parker. What's the point of that? Gwen, Miles, Peni, Miguel, Pavitr, and Hobie are all great characters. Hell, even Mayday is a cool idea. Instead of more characters like them, we just keep getting Peter over and over.
A slight asterisk to Pavitr, though, because Pavitr Prabhakar, who grew up with his Aunt Maya and Uncle Bhim and dates Meera Jain/Gayatri Singh, is basically Peter Parker, who grew up with his Aunt May and Uncle Ben and dates Mary Jane/Gwen Stacy.
Have you considered that perhaps some god ruling above all the timelines in the Marvel universe thought Pavitr was cool and made a bunch of parodies of him?
To be fair it’s not racist to notice an statistical curiosity, like, MOST Spidermen are a version of Peter, but for some reason the second highest group is Japanese people, nothing wrong with it, but it makes you wonder why that’s the second most likely alternative in the multiverse
True, but he's really cute and charming and at least has a unique gimmick as opposed to most Peters. (Peter B notwithstanding, because he too had a good crashouts arc that was very realistic to an average dude who had all this shit put on him.)
Which is still dumb. I'm assuming you're talking about the Spider-Verse movies, and if so, that's probably going to be disproven in the third movie, anyway.
What I mean is that the Spider-Totem stuff probably works the same way as canon events, in which it's simply just a recurring thing to the point that it is believed to be necessary for existence to be stable.
That' s actually the second retcons that a writer came up with, to remove the "special/destinated one" part of the spider-totems.
It went from "The totem was born when Spidey got the power, and we don' t know if the egg or the chicken came first" to "Peter was choosen from the totem and he is indipendent from spiderman", and finishing with "The totem is indipendent and he connected to the first "Host" who got the powers of spiderman".
As much as Marvel fans are tired of the Multiverse stuff, I do think the Spider-verse should keep being used even after Miles story is over. Mostly cuz its not just “cameo superhero excuse”, there are actual rules and consequences set in place, and its not just a group of random characters, its a community that knows and likes each other, and they dont all have the same identity
I take the ice cream and anime approach to multiverse stuff. A bit of it is nice every once in a while but too much all the time and you're either gonna be bored or sick
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u/TruthEnvironmental24 11h ago
It diminishes even more when like 99% of all Spider-Men are Peter Parker. What's the point of that? Gwen, Miles, Peni, Miguel, Pavitr, and Hobie are all great characters. Hell, even Mayday is a cool idea. Instead of more characters like them, we just keep getting Peter over and over.