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admonition ! Spoilers for Spine - Tingling Spider - Man # 4 ahead!Spider - Manhas broken bad before , but he just loose his full rage on an foe without the aid of a symbiote , judgment control or any other outside influence . Pushed to his break spot by his longtime enemy the Jackal , Spidey lets the villain finger the brunt of his thwarting . What ’s regretful is that the Wall - Crawler actually seems to savour it .
InSpine - Tingling wanderer - Man#4 by Saladin Ahmed and Juan Ferreyra , Peter comes face - to - look with Miles Warren aka the Jackal . Warren is the villain responsible for cloning Peter and Gwen Stacy , kicking off the infamous Clone Saga of the nineties . Throughout this most recent miniseries , he ’s forced Spidey to endure abominable horror . He unveil to Spider - Man that the veneration itself was his whole goal , as he wanted to leave Peter with traumatic store that will haunt him for years . A fed up Spider - Man then let loose on the Jackal , pummel him with his fists and break up his jaw .
Spider - Man is traumatize by what he ’s done to Warren . But perhaps more shocking is how he feel about it . “ I … I just broke an resistless man ’s jaw , " he says . " I did n’t have in mind to , I … just reacted . I ’ve been so afraid these past couple days . It felt … It felt so honest being the scarey one or else . ”
Spider-Man’s Previous Villain Turns Weren’t His Fault
This ishardly the first time that Spider - Man has embraced his dark side , but it ’s normally due to external forces manipulate his mind . Most excellently , when Spider - Man first bond with his symbiote suit in the 1980s , it made him more aggressive against felon . stun by how he ’d stop pulling his punches , he rejected the foreign costume , come apart it from himself and leading it to stick to with Eddie Brock to create Venom .
The most late example can be find in last class ’s storyline “ Spider - Man ’s First Hunt , ” appearing inThe Amazing Spider - Man#32 - 35 by Zeb Wells and Patrick Gleason . WhenSpider - Man is infect with the sins of the original Green Goblin , Norman Osborn , he becomes a full - on villain . He not only attempts to slay villains like Osborn , Kraven the Hunter and Tombstone , buthe actually tries to bolt down Mary Jane ’s new boyfriend . The evilness is eventually expel from his eubstance , and although he feels guilty , those closest to him put that guilt to catch one’s breath by remind him , “ That was n’t you . ”
Spider-Man’s Enemy Wins By Pushing The Wall-Crawler To His Breaking Point
Unfortunately for Peter , he does n’t have any similar loopholes to fall back on in this most recent scenario with the Jackal . It ’s true that he ’s been through the wringer as a result of the Jackal ’s handling . The miniseries sees him awaken in a domain where nobody remembers him and he has no powers . From there , he must brave a haunted train place and a preoccupied house , and experience his loved unity being tortured while he ’s unable to help . So when he learns it ’s all been a lie , his wrath at the Jackal is certainly warrant . But that choler and violence is coming from within him , not some malign force hit him dissemble against his nature .
The Jackal ’s whole programme was to fall apart Peter ’s spirit and create an experience that would frequent him for years . And Spider - Man agnize after pose him that the Jackal may have actually succeed . The memory that will belike plagueSpider - Man ’s nightmares wo n’t be any of the ghosts or other terrors he witnessed , but the monster that lie in wait within his own warmness .
Spine - Tingling Spider - Man#4is available now from Marvel Comics .
