Superior Spider-Man #25

[cyberghostface]

The Green Goblin and his cronies have kidnapped Carlie Cooper and exposed her to the Goblin formula.

 

Realizing that the symbiote is controlling him, Otto attempts to shun it.






However, the Avengers are still suspicious...

Comments

[crinos]

So, Peter actually has been around this whole time, he's just been laying low so Otto didn't notice him?

[cyberghostface]

Only recently; we saw him breaking out of the 'rubble' of Otto's memories a couple of issues ago.

[stillanerd]

Well, technically, this looks like it's actually Ghost Peter, who was hinted have been resuscitated in Superior Spider-Man #19 when Otto tried to access Peter's memories to figure out an equation to save Horizon Labs, only to find he had erased that memory. And in Superior Spider-Man #9, Otto states that Ghost Peter isn't actually the real Peter Parker but rather a "memory fragment" that somehow gained self-awareness due to Otto having kept Peter's memories during the mind swap.

[naebler]

"Harvey" Scorpius from Farscape... however I think it's Otto trying to rationalize the fact that Peter was never truly gone, Otto just put an approximation of his own mind over the body's owner. By SCIENCE! Peter is fighting back against the mind washing to become Otto!

[stillanerd]

"Harvey" Scorpius from Farscape

Exactly.

however I think it's Otto trying to rationalize the fact that Peter was never truly gone, Otto just put an approximation of his own mind over the body's owner. By SCIENCE! Peter is fighting back against the mind washing to become Otto!

Yeah, the idea that Doc Ock actually brainwashed Peter with a downloaded copy of his own mind would be the simplest explanation for how Peter actually comes back, I agree. Of course, that would also mean that Doc Ock really did die in ASM #700 thinking he was actually Peter.

[starwolf_oakley]

"You're not Peter Parker! You're a memory fragment. A leftover! An underdone potato or big blob of mustard that THINKS it's Peter Parker!"

"Nice Dickens reference. And its not like I'm the only Superhero that undergoes a perpetual existential crisis. As long as the word 'clone' is never used I'll be fine."