Amazing Spider-Man #14

[cyberghostface]

(Basically the red crystal holds the essence of Morlun's father)



Spider-Man brings him to "Uncle Ben"'s dimension which is filled with radiation which is toxic to Morlun and co. Morlun says that this will kill him, and Spider-Man tells him to go to the bomb shelter. It will keep him alive, but barely.

Comments

[beyondthefringe]

The conclusion/solution was... frustratingly underwhelming.
Because look, yeah, I know that Spider-Man as a rule and heroes in general shouldn't kill. But these guys-this entire family-have been chowing down on Spider-people for a long time. They've slaughtered dozens, hundreds, maybe thousands, sometimes right in front of our heroes. Hell, imagine that you've just seen other versions of yourself die in front of you. Literally seeing yourself die, over and over and over.

And the best solution is to stuff these guys in a bunker on an uninhabited, radioactive world? Where they can barely survive and presumably can't escape? Because that works so well. How long before they are rescued/find a way off that rock/steal a passing spaceship/I don't know what else, and are back somehow?

I know, I know, heroes don't kill. And maybe we'll get lucky, and Earth-3145 will promptly be destroyed by an incursion and we'll never see Morlun and his clan again.

For that matter, I wonder if that's why we'll see Spider-Verse in Secret Wars: the mass annihilation of universes (where it suddenly dwindles to 22 or so left) literally means some of the Spiders can't go home again. Surviving because they were absent from their home universes during the big wipeout.

[silverhammerman]

I don't think it would work with the character to have the Spider-People just executing the Inheritors, so the climax would have to be changed significantly, but I do kinda agree with you, and the very Slott specific "no one dies" idea has never worked for me.

[fiddlingfrog.livejournal.com]

I thought it was very in character to have Miguel be the one second-guessing letting the Inheritors live.

[beyondthefringe]

Yeah, I'm not arguing for the Spiders to execute the Inheritors, because so many of them are inherently decent people and/or Peter Parker variants who don't do that sort of thing.

Although Otto aside, there are plenty of Spiders who'd probably be more expedient under the circumstances:

But certainly there could have been a better way to handle it. Because honestly, I don't want to see Morlun and the Inheritors again. They're a concept which has been played out and played out thoroughly.

And why spiders? Why, of all creatures, is that the totem that seems to resonate the most? I just wonder...