Now, I will admit that I've only seen some of the pages from the latest chapter of OMIT from Scans Daily, but putting these pieces together with the previous issues, is everyone but Peter Parker getting the blame for his mindwiping everyone? It just seems like he's being really, really selfish, frankly - Although I don't suppose it helps when you're being written by a puppet master drastically trying to write himself out of a corner - Everything Peter is doing seems to be down to things happening to someone else. Does he have no spine or anything? It's either MJ is in trouble or Aunt May or Tony made him unmask, and so on.
Am I being unreasonable, here, or have we pretty much lost the core piece of responsibility from Spider-Man? Whatever happened all those times MJ was in peril before? Peter beat them up. Aunt May? He saved her dozens of times. I understand it has to work within the parameters of the status quo Joe Q has dug Peter into, but it just seems Peter could be actively making this choice without having someone he loves imperiled, since we all know he's saved them time and time again, and not from some fat thug who just happened to pin Spider-Man down and stop him reaching his wedding.
Well, almost all his life, he were caring about others, and look, what he got for that. Yeah, he act like selfish idiot, but I think, that many people would be like him in that situation.
Mary Jane made the deal with Mephisto to fix Peter's life. So all blame is basically on her, though nobody knows that. What they remember is that Spider-Man and Mary Jane did not get married because she only wanted to marry him to have children. She then said that she wouldn't put a child in their lifestyle, so she would stay with him but she won't marry him. So basically, every event has happened exactly the same up to Civil War except that they weren't married. They were still together the whole time though. During Civil War, everything happens the same up to May getting shot. After she gets shot, Peter manages to revive her at the hospital. Kingpin hires a hitman to take out Mary Jane and her family as revenge for Spider-Man beating him up in prison. Spidey saves her, but she is injured badly. He takes her to Dr. Strange who heals her and Spidey begs Dr. Strange for help. He asks him to cast a spell so everyone will forget that he is Spider-Man. He told him that he can't do it alone and that he'll be back. He enters a astral projection and goes to talk with Mr. Fantastic and Iron Man.
So Mary Jane and Mephisto are technically to blame, but that is the story that people remember. As far as accepting the blame for unmasking himself, he actually admitted it was his fault.
Right, so I guess I'm overreacting a touch, but I don't think it helps that this immediately follows a set of stories where Peter has been made a buttmonkey by situations of his own creation - Such as doctoring photos of JJJ, and I suppose stuff like that generally lends me a little biased toward how the writers are currently portraying Peter.
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