Apparently Spider-Man's no kill rule isn't as rigid as Batman's but I really don't see it Every time he comes even remotely close, something seems to pull him back. Most of the time it's just that stupid 'With great power...' mantra but every once in a while it's because writers back themselves into a corner, like Kingpin during Back In Black Can somebody give instances of Spider-Man deliberately and wilfully choosing to kill somebody in the mainline continuity? Or at the very least actively choosing not to save them?Why he hasn't just done away with Norman Osborne I will never, ever understand
>>153401966>Why he hasn't just done away with Norman Osborne I will never, ever understandNorman has a tie with May and Mephisto.
>>153401966>Why he hasn't just done away with Norman Osborne I will never, ever understandFirst off that's a bad example, the amount of time Norman has been alive and an active villain wanted by the police is relatively small. First he was a villain with an unknown identity, then had amnesia, then dead, then back from the dead as a secret super-villain who is a respected member of the community, then in and out of jail, then the leader of SHIELD/HAMMER, then back in jail, then out of jail but Peter is dead/body swapped, then a short stint of Peter being back from the dead and then Norman is cured of being evil.Spider-man doesn't want to be wanted for murder, He like kids looking up to him and being you're friendly neighbourhood Spider-man. Even if he knows the person he killed was evil that's the courts job. When people say he doesn't have a no kill rule it's because he has accidentally killed people like Wolverine's girlfriend in the Berlin in the Hobgoblin crossover but he treats that with humility and guilt. Yes, he won't hold back against bug aliens from the negative zone and there are some art panels where he is clearly killing some generic alien invader henchman because no one in the Marvel universe will care if a hero kills one of those. But his no kill rule is as strict as batman's
>>153402178It’s actually crazy they haven’t done anything major with Mephisto considering he currently owns the following list of souls. Peter Parker, Mary Jane, Miles Morales, Otto Octavius, Norman Osborne, Harry Osborne, and now Paul Rabin
>>153402575Secret Invasion/Dark Reign were when I started to really lose interest in the Marvel publications. It was literally>Marvel comics does Invasion of the Body Snatchers>Marvel comics does John Carpenter's The ThingThere were so many ass-backwards pants-on-head contrivances and plot holes. But it was written by Bendis and everybody knows how he ruins everything he touches. I still remember how absolutely nobody, NOBODY, was excited for him start working at DC. Day 1, story 1 and he immediately went after the Superfamily. Dark Reign was just too much suspension of disbelief. It really encapsulated the whole era of>Y'all got any good writing? We got hype moments and aura After Norman's stint as the Iron Patriot he should've been put under the fucking jail. He stopped being Peter's problem and became everybody's. Literally the entire Avengers should've made sure he never saw sunlight but of course he had to because recycling
>>153402690Does he still have his yearly fight with Doom or was the permanently resolved in Triumphs & Torments?
>>153402738I don’t think so, the last major story he had was in the Avengers a few years back
>>153401966>Peter x FeliciaSOUL.MATES
>>153401966I for once want a story where Spider-Man actually wants to kill the villain because he held back and it ended up causing a lot of people to get injured and some to die horribly. Hence why he wants to do it in order to prevent the same happening but on a larger scale with even more death and destruction.
>>153403621Maximum Carnage kind of flirted with this idea but then Marvel bitched out in the 90s.
>>153401966why is he touching her butt?
>>153401966Didn't Spider-Man kill Massacre during the superior run? Or has that been retconned somehow?(And yes I know it's SpOck but the general population didn't)
>>153401966There are a few moments in the late 80s where he actively let henchmen and low level villains take hits meant for himThat probably killed them. I’ve never liked Pete having a strict no kill code, his entire schtick is that he got his uncle killed because he didn’t act, how would that not naturally coincide with being fine with killing someone like carnage who is a ruthless unstoppable killer that was LITERALLY on death row already
>>153403621Sounds like you want him to have a Dark Knight Returns moment>Enough! All the people I've murdered by letting you live!
>>153401966no kill rules are stupid. Heroes shouldn't execute the defeated, but it's fine if they use lethal force in the life or death struggle. It's the only reasonable standard to hold them to
>>153404162Pussies I tell you.>>153404984And it would've been done in such a way that even the other superheroes with no-kill rules would actually have to agree with him and the build-up to this would further justify Spider-Man doing it.
>>153405010Fair enough.
>>153403570Not that kind of thread retard.
>>153401966He did away with norman when he dodged the glider, all those years ago.
>>153404925I believe he was one of the villains who got revived during Dead No More. Which was stupid, because he’s such a nothing villain that his death was the most memorable thing about him.
>>153402691It's weird to me to see the attempted rehabiliation of Bendis' Marvel event comics on twitter coming off forced as it is
>>153408116I don't know what was worse, his writing or his dialog. That horrible back-and-forth laced with repetition was just awful. I genuinely can't tell if people are looking back on it fondly now because of how awful the current crop is.
>>153401966This pic is so fuckin tuff
>>153409442hand on ass is a power gesture
>>153406116But it could be
>>153405010In most cases I agree, but specific ones like Batman where the no kill rule kinda makes sense or at least has an in-universe justification are fine.If you want to be realistic about it, every hero should realistically either have their own "code" on when or if killing is okay or have them conform to some ruling on the matter created by someone else like the government or some superhero association like the Justice League or SHIELD or something.
>>153405010idk i like it with batsy, otherwise yeah i agree
>>153406116cry us a river
