Warning! Spoilers for The Superb Spider-Man #34 forward!Spider-Man’s latest flip to the darkish facet has revealed some chilling ideas which were lurking inside his thoughts for years, together with how he would kill every of his best villains. Whereas Spidey has fought his rogues sufficient instances to know their weaknesses, he’s additionally been holding onto plans for the way he might eradicate every of them in essentially the most private and torturous methods doable.
The Superb Spider-Man #34 by Zeb Wells and Patrick Gleason continues Peter Parker’s descent into villainy. After being stabbed with a spear mystically imbued with the sins of Norman Osborn, Spider-Man has begun pondering and appearing extra just like the Inexperienced Goblin. Donning his previous black swimsuit, he’s already buried Kraven the Hunter alive and tried to unplug the gangster Tombstone from life-support machines. As he turns his consideration to Mary Jane’s new boyfriend Paul, he reveals to Norman that he intends to go after everybody who has wronged him. “The individuals who damage you…it feels so good to harm them again,” he says. “I’m going to get all of you. I’ll throw Otto right into a nuclear reactor…feed Eddie his personal mind.”
The deaths that Spider-Man has picked out for Otto (Physician Octopus) and Eddie (Venom) are becoming for each villains. Doc Ock was an excellent nuclear physicist earlier than a radiation leak fused his tentacle-like mechanical arms to his physique. A lot of his felony schemes have revolved round buying nuclear weapons and supplies, so it’s applicable he would meet his finish in a nuclear reactor. Equally, earlier than Venom grew to become an anti-hero, he was a straight-up villain who all the time threatened to eat Spider-Man’s brains. He even did eat the brains of some villains, explaining that he wanted a chemical within the human mind in an effort to survive. Likelihood is he wouldn’t be too eager on consuming his personal mind, nevertheless.
Earlier than he begins rounding up his villains, Spider-Man reveals that he desires to borrow a web page out of Norman Osborn’s e-book. He tells his longtime foe that he intends to throw Paul off a bridge and see if Mary Jane can catch him along with her new powers. That’s precisely how the Inexperienced Goblin killed Gwen Stacy in 1973’s The Superb Spider-Man #121 by Gerry Conway and Gil Kane. This occasion has haunted Peter ever since, and he even calls again to that night time on this difficulty as he mercilessly beats up Norman. “Do you suppose I forgot what you probably did?!” he shouts. “What mercy did you present Gwen?” The truth that he’s keen to inflict that very same ache on MJ reveals how far he’s fallen.
The problem ends with Queen Goblin stopping Peter from attacking MJ and Paul, whereas Norman frees Kraven from the coffin he’s been buried in. So as cease Peter, they could want the assistance of much more villains. However this type of struggle could be the excuse Spider-Man is ready for to hold out his plans to kill his enemies as soon as and for all.
The Superb Spider-Man #34 is out there now from Marvel Comics.