Superior Spider-Man: Mind Games

[auggie18]

I've got a few issues with the Superior Spider-Man plotline, mostly relating to the fact that Ock!Spidey is doing a terrible job of pretending to be Peter. (And didn't Secret Invasion happen less than a year ago in-universe? Two years at the most, right?)

But I'd be willing to let it slid if it weren't for this scene.



I...reimagined it a bit.




I mean, seriously. You coulda just given him "psi-blockers" or something to give him time to bullshit the X-Men.

Though we did get to see Wolverine getting beaten up. So there's that.

Comments

[chrisdv]

Better than canon.

[darth_cloudo]

I laughed at "you take over the planet and set it on fire*

*see most x-men comics"

Also really cool re-imagining. xD And it's true, in the time between Wolverine saying "read his mind" and Ock-spidey protesting, couldn't Rachel have already read his mind? She wouldn't even have had to dig that deep considering that Ock-spidey's foremost thought at that instant was, "Oh no I am not peter parker".

[maseiken]

Maybe so, but I'd like to think Rachel doesn't just have a hair trigger on reading absolutely anyone's mind the exact moment Wolverine tells her to. I would think that being told to telepathically scan a presumptive teammate right after they actually did something quite useful would give one at least momentary pause. For Ock-Pete, that pause is more than enough to come up with a plan. It passes for me anyway, even if some other parts of Supey-spidey don't.

[nyadnar17]

I thought the spell/technomagic/plot device that Iron Man, Reed Richards, and Doctor Stranger created to protect Spiderman's secret identity after Civil War was still in effect? Wouldn't anyone still under the effects of the spell(most everyone but Charlie and the FF) not be able to figure out that its Doc Oct in there?

[rickjonzz]

The spell got broken during Spider-Island when Peter was running around doing Spider-Man stuff with his mask off. (It didn't matter because most of Manhattan Island had Spider-Powers at the time.)

[icon_uk]

IIRC the spell was severely weakened by... something-or-other so that the mindwipe would still be in place but he could no longer reveal his face and assume it would be forgotten, his ID can now be ascertained just like it always could.

[captainbellman]

Reminds me of Ultimate Peter's first meeting with Ultimate Jean Grey.

"You're the first guy in six months who hasn't immediately pictured me naked...until now."

"Sorry."

"You done yet?"

"Yeah..."

(She glares at him)

"Okay now I'm really done."

[glprime]

Yeah, seriously.

I love Peter owning Mr. Publicity as much as the next fanboy, but this was an easy way to start people working against Doc Ock.

The least Rachel coulda done was "pretend" to not read his mind, then pull everyone aside later and reveal the truth.

[blackruzsa]

"She could see who I truly am!"

Just think of porn! Lesbian porn! It'll keep her out of your mind.
(or, idk maybe make her more interested, I have no idea what she likes)

[auggie18]

...I may have to do a Kitty/Rachel post now. They were Claremont!lesbians for a while there.

[philippos42]

It's been a long time since I read Claremont's Excalibur, but lesbians? Really? I remember it as a sort of triangle with Kitty crushing on the guy crushing on Rachel (and Rachel being preoccupied with her own psychological trauma to be sexually interested in anyone).

But it's been a long time.

[auggie18]

Actually, the stuff I was thinking of was from Xtreme X-men, while Kitty was helping Rachel get over the Bogan thing.

[philippos42]

Ah. Yeah, I never really got back into X-Men after he left the first time.

[philippos42]

Your reimagining is awesome. The official version just feels too wrong.