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Post by Uatu the Watcher on Feb 12, 2007 18:39:10 GMT -5
Spider-Man: The Other
Peter Parker has recently been having black outs, dizzy spells, and enigmatic dreams, which includes supervillain Morlun rolling a bag into a morgue, Kraven the Hunter, frogs, Uncle Ben, furry dice that show two glowing red dots, one on each die...and an ethereal voice, muttering: 'Snake Eyes. You Lose'. Later, Spider-Man confronts a new villain calling himself Tracer who is robbing a bank. In the ensuing fight, Tracer wounds Spider-Man by shooting him with a bullet that follows him and eventually goes into his shoulder. Tracer escapes, while Peter goes to see Dr. Castillo, a doctor recommended to him by Captain America, who treats Peter's wound and takes a blood test. Later, Dr. Castillo calls Peter and tells him she has bad news. Morlun watches from outside, and Mutters: 'Snake Eyes. You Lose.'
Mary Jane overhears that Spider-Man might be getting killed on television. She rushes to a bar to see the live coverage on TV, and she sees Spider-Man fighting Tracer, who is controlling Iron Man's armor and forcing him to attack Spider-Man. Later, at home, Mary Jane confronts Peter, telling him she thinks he has a death wish, but Peter interrupts her to tell her the news from the doctor.
Later, May Parker, who wakes up from a strange dream and, after being yelled at by an emotional Peter, goes to the kitchen and finds Tracer. Tracer tells her that he is a reserve Avenger who is there to watch over her. During their conversation, he tells May that he is a machine god; in the same way that humans created gods, machines created him. Meanwhile, Spider-Man is fighting Tracer's robot followers in the city when his powers start to fail. Morlun confronts him and tells Peter that he would rather watch Peter deteriorate than fight him. Spider-Man returns home and, finding Tracer, attacks him. However, Tracer assesses his health and refuses to fight him in his current state. After his escape, Peter tells May what is wrong with him.
Peter goes to see Mister Fantastic, who tells him that his condition is not cancer or anything traditional, but Yellowjacket tells him that the infection is radiation-based. Therefore, Peter goes to see Bruce Banner, an expert on radiation-based mutation. Banner tells Peter that at the rate the infection is spreading, a cure could not be developed in time to do any good. Peter then sees the Black Panther (who had mapped the human genome fifty years before Western scientists) on Banner's suggestion, but he also cannot find the source of Peter's illness. Back in New York, Peter encounters "The Ox" and, thinking him to be Morlun, fights him. In his anger, Peter almost kills him before Daredevil stops him. Later, Peter goes to Doctor Strange, who tells him he cannot use his magic to cure Peter and tells Peter to prepare himself for death.
Peter, Mary Jane and Aunt May go to Latveria to use Dr. Doom's Time Machine to see past scenes in his life, like the day Richard Parker and Mary Fitzpatrick-Parker left Peter in the care of his Uncle Ben and Aunt May. After returning to Stark Tower, Peter plans a trip to Las Vegas with Mary Jane, namely in Tony Stark's penthouse suite. As he thinks of what it would be like in Las Vegas, Peter thinks about using his spider-sense to win at blackjack, in the hopes of making enough money for his family after he is gone, but of course, even Vegas would most likely be hit by super villains he would have to fight. In New York, Morlun is looking for Spider-Man, in vain, as Peter and Mary-Jane are in one of Stark's space pods, looking down upon the Earth.
Later, Peter tries to clear his head with something that is very traditional in situations like these: web slinging. However, Morlun is not only watching, but takes Peter off-guard. A fight ensues that sends Spider-Man flying through J. Jonah Jameson's office. Spider-Man then moves the fight away from civilians and to the birth place of Spider-Man: Empire State University. The fight gets intense as momentum swings from Morlun's side to Spider-Man's side. After an exhausting array of punches and kicks, Spider-Man starts to think that he has the victory. However, an unscathed Morlun tells Spider-Man that he fought the best he could, right before plucking Spider-Man's left eye out and devouring it. Morlun then begins and ends with a barrage of punches that leaves Spider-Man a bloody, unconscious mess.
Before Morlun can kill Spider-Man, the cops show up and Morlun leaves Spider-Man's bloody, unconscious body, planning to finally drain his life force when the hero is alone. The paramedics take the near-dead Spider-Man to the hospital, with the Avengers and Mary Jane Watson on the way as well when they hear what happened on television, and they learn that Spider-Man's injuries are too severe. Morlun goes to the unconscious Spider-Man's hospital bed to finish him off, but MJ attempts to stop Morlun, who effortlessly throws her across the room and breaks her arm. Peter suddenly wakes up, and using the last of his strength, the savage, animalistic spider-side of himself takes over (granting him sharp teeth and stingers in his wrists), and he attacks Morlun, pinning the villain and impaling his arms to the floor. Peter then bites into Morlun's neck, killing him. Reverting to normal, Peter says goodbye to MJ and falls to the floor, seemingly dead. As Aunt May and Mary Jane break down over the news, Iron Man takes Spider-Man's body, so that the public will not know that Spider-Man is dead.
Spider-Man is thought to be dead, and Iron Man transports his body away from the hospital. Mary Jane, Aunt May, and Jarvis, Iron Man's butler, meet together to grieve over Spider-Man's/Peter's death. After inspecting the body, Mary Jane talks to both Captain America and Iron Man over how to divulge the secret identity of Spider-Man. After being unable to sleep, Mary Jane has a conversation with another New Avengers member, Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew), who states that their powers are from the same base (the spider), and she could sense when Peter was going down, this obviously is through the mystical side of their powers. Both Spider-Woman and Spider-Man got their powers via radiation involving some form of spider DNA, and thus their powers are extremely similar. In the middle of the talk, there is an audible crash from the chamber where Peter Parker's body is kept. Mary Jane and the New Avengers arrive at the scene, to find that Peter's body has been desecrated. Judging by the amount of glass outside the window, Captain America judges that the killer escaped but not entered through the window. Mary Jane discovers the secret: all that is left is a skin. The scene cuts to a teacher explaining about spiders to her class and how a few rare species can shed their skin and begin anew. As the class goes to leave, we see a cocoon of webbing fastened to the Brooklyn Bridge, the very place where his first love, Gwen Stacy, died.
Several days have passed since Peter shed his skin and begins with Iron Man flying around searching for him. Under the Brooklyn Bridge, Peter sleeps inside his cocoon and has a strange dream. A voice tells him he never understood what he was, accusing him of being too scared to be truly a "Spider-Man", only focusing on the human part and neglecting the spider part. Morlun managed to kill the human part of Peter, but the spider in him survived and killed Morlun, saving them both. The voice (which is actually his subconscious mind dealing with the events in a metaphoric experience, and possibly remnants of his talks with Ezekiel) tells him that he will only be reborn if he accepts both parts, and warns him that Peter could be reborn very differently. Peter agrees and is reborn, outwardly human. He goes to the Avengers Tower and swears to Mary Jane and Aunt May that he will never leave them again. Later in the night, Peter goes to the lab where his husk is and recalls the final warning of the voice: "Are you the man who dreamed of being a spider? Or the spider who dreamed of being a man? Are you the one... or are you the other?" Shaking off the warning, Peter removes the wedding ring from the husk and heads back to bed.
Peter gets a check up from Stark. As it turns out, Peter's wounds from his old enemies have been healed, including his missing left eye and even the tonsils he lost in fourth grade have reappeared. As Stark puts it, Peter's 'odometer had been reset.' Before the test could continue, Aunt May stopped it and told Peter to "go play". So Peter and Mary Jane go out and swing throughout the city, talking about how they feel about the recent events that have occurred. Meanwhile, in Stark Tower, pirate spiders started to eat Peter's old and dead body. When Spider-Man returns, he finds the top of Stark tower covered in webbing. Inside the tower, Spider-Man finds the pirate spiders, with Peter's old body. Using the basis of his skin, they have formed a body of their own. Engaging in battle, Spider-Man finds that the stingers he used to fight Morlun appear once again, but he is confused because "Spiders don't have stingers!" Before anything else could happen, the pirate Spider punches through the walls of Stark Tower and runs off. Spider-Man chases it down and then it heads into the sewer. It forms a cocoon in a church (possibly the one Spider-Man fought off the alien symbiote). Spider-Man tells the New Avengers he has no idea about it and they want to run some more tests on him.
Simultaneously, Flash Thompson, awakened from a coma, attempts to get a job at the school where Peter teaches. This would most likely be a basketball teacher, his former occupation before being secretary to Norman Osborn. He is missing some memories, as he still calls Peter "puny Parker" and says that he hasn't seen him since high school.
Peter follows the otherworldly being (possibly “The Other”), only for it to inform him that they are both parts of the same whole, that spider-based cosmic forces are vying for control of his life and that she (the being possesses recognizably female build) is his antithesis. Apparently, although a spider-deity known as “The Great Weaver” thought that Spider-Man’s death was premature and pulled him back from his fate, others disagreed–and Peter feels his life being pulled in different directions as a result, at the centre of a metaphorical Spider’s web of which he is unsure if he is the predator or the prey.
Peter is still in a state of confusion and is having some sort of an identity crisis after his rebirth. With no time to contemplate the events of days past, Spider-Man rushes to the scene of an explosion, where a building was just demolished and people are trapped under the debris. Spider-Man quickly begins to "dig" into the remains of the building, and in his attempt and find survivors, he discovers that he has new powers. His new powers include night vision, the ability to feel vibrations through his webbing, and the ability to carry heavy objects on his back.
Spider-Man successfully rescues a few survivors and learns that his new powers have appeared because he is now "embracing the Other". Peter then returns home to be with Mary Jane, and they watch the nightly news which portrays Spider-Man as a hero. Shortly after, Tony Stark begins working on a new costume for Spider-Man.
Peter Parker has recently been having black outs, dizzy spells, and enigmatic dreams, which includes supervillain Morlun rolling a bag into a morgue, Kraven the Hunter, frogs, Uncle Ben, furry dice that show two glowing red dots, one on each die...and an ethereal voice, muttering: 'Snake Eyes. You Lose'. Later, Spider-Man confronts a new villain calling himself Tracer who is robbing a bank. In the ensuing fight, Tracer wounds Spider-Man by shooting him with a bullet that follows him and eventually goes into his shoulder. Tracer escapes, while Peter goes to see Dr. Castillo, a doctor recommended to him by Captain America, who treats Peter's wound and takes a blood test. Later, Dr. Castillo calls Peter and tells him she has bad news. Morlun watches from outside, and Mutters: 'Snake Eyes. You Lose.'
Mary Jane overhears that Spider-Man might be getting killed on television. She rushes to a bar to see the live coverage on TV, and she sees Spider-Man fighting Tracer, who is controlling Iron Man's armor and forcing him to attack Spider-Man. Later, at home, Mary Jane confronts Peter, telling him she thinks he has a death wish, but Peter interrupts her to tell her the news from the doctor.
Later, May Parker, who wakes up from a strange dream and, after being yelled at by an emotional Peter, goes to the kitchen and finds Tracer. Tracer tells her that he is a reserve Avenger who is there to watch over her. During their conversation, he tells May that he is a machine god; in the same way that humans created gods, machines created him. Meanwhile, Spider-Man is fighting Tracer's robot followers in the city when his powers start to fail. Morlun confronts him and tells Peter that he would rather watch Peter deteriorate than fight him. Spider-Man returns home and, finding Tracer, attacks him. However, Tracer assesses his health and refuses to fight him in his current state. After his escape, Peter tells May what is wrong with him.
Peter goes to see Mister Fantastic, who tells him that his condition is not cancer or anything traditional, but Yellowjacket tells him that the infection is radiation-based. Therefore, Peter goes to see Bruce Banner, an expert on radiation-based mutation. Banner tells Peter that at the rate the infection is spreading, a cure could not be developed in time to do any good. Peter then sees the Black Panther (who had mapped the human genome fifty years before Western scientists) on Banner's suggestion, but he also cannot find the source of Peter's illness. Back in New York, Peter encounters "The Ox" and, thinking him to be Morlun, fights him. In his anger, Peter almost kills him before Daredevil stops him. Later, Peter goes to Doctor Strange, who tells him he cannot use his magic to cure Peter and tells Peter to prepare himself for death.
Peter, Mary Jane and Aunt May go to Latveria to use Dr. Doom's Time Machine to see past scenes in his life, like the day Richard Parker and Mary Fitzpatrick-Parker left Peter in the care of his Uncle Ben and Aunt May. After returning to Stark Tower, Peter plans a trip to Las Vegas with Mary Jane, namely in Tony Stark's penthouse suite. As he thinks of what it would be like in Las Vegas, Peter thinks about using his spider-sense to win at blackjack, in the hopes of making enough money for his family after he is gone, but of course, even Vegas would most likely be hit by super villains he would have to fight. In New York, Morlun is looking for Spider-Man, in vain, as Peter and Mary-Jane are in one of Stark's space pods, looking down upon the Earth.
Later, Peter tries to clear his head with something that is very traditional in situations like these: web slinging. However, Morlun is not only watching, but takes Peter off-guard. A fight ensues that sends Spider-Man flying through J. Jonah Jameson's office. Spider-Man then moves the fight away from civilians and to the birth place of Spider-Man: Empire State University. The fight gets intense as momentum swings from Morlun's side to Spider-Man's side. After an exhausting array of punches and kicks, Spider-Man starts to think that he has the victory. However, an unscathed Morlun tells Spider-Man that he fought the best he could, right before plucking Spider-Man's left eye out and devouring it. Morlun then begins and ends with a barrage of punches that leaves Spider-Man a bloody, unconscious mess.
Before Morlun can kill Spider-Man, the cops show up and Morlun leaves Spider-Man's bloody, unconscious body, planning to finally drain his life force when the hero is alone. The paramedics take the near-dead Spider-Man to the hospital, with the Avengers and Mary Jane Watson on the way as well when they hear what happened on television, and they learn that Spider-Man's injuries are too severe. Morlun goes to the unconscious Spider-Man's hospital bed to finish him off, but MJ attempts to stop Morlun, who effortlessly throws her across the room and breaks her arm. Peter suddenly wakes up, and using the last of his strength, the savage, animalistic spider-side of himself takes over (granting him sharp teeth and stingers in his wrists), and he attacks Morlun, pinning the villain and impaling his arms to the floor. Peter then bites into Morlun's neck, killing him. Reverting to normal, Peter says goodbye to MJ and falls to the floor, seemingly dead. As Aunt May and Mary Jane break down over the news, Iron Man takes Spider-Man's body, so that the public will not know that Spider-Man is dead.
Spider-Man is thought to be dead, and Iron Man transports his body away from the hospital. Mary Jane, Aunt May, and Jarvis, Iron Man's butler, meet together to grieve over Spider-Man's/Peter's death. After inspecting the body, Mary Jane talks to both Captain America and Iron Man over how to divulge the secret identity of Spider-Man. After being unable to sleep, Mary Jane has a conversation with another New Avengers member, Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew), who states that their powers are from the same base (the spider), and she could sense when Peter was going down, this obviously is through the mystical side of their powers. Both Spider-Woman and Spider-Man got their powers via radiation involving some form of spider DNA, and thus their powers are extremely similar. In the middle of the talk, there is an audible crash from the chamber where Peter Parker's body is kept. Mary Jane and the New Avengers arrive at the scene, to find that Peter's body has been desecrated. Judging by the amount of glass outside the window, Captain America judges that the killer escaped but not entered through the window. Mary Jane discovers the secret: all that is left is a skin. The scene cuts to a teacher explaining about spiders to her class and how a few rare species can shed their skin and begin anew. As the class goes to leave, we see a cocoon of webbing fastened to the Brooklyn Bridge, the very place where his first love, Gwen Stacy, died.
Several days have passed since Peter shed his skin and begins with Iron Man flying around searching for him. Under the Brooklyn Bridge, Peter sleeps inside his cocoon and has a strange dream. A voice tells him he never understood what he was, accusing him of being too scared to be truly a "Spider-Man", only focusing on the human part and neglecting the spider part. Morlun managed to kill the human part of Peter, but the spider in him survived and killed Morlun, saving them both. The voice (which is actually his subconscious mind dealing with the events in a metaphoric experience, and possibly remnants of his talks with Ezekiel) tells him that he will only be reborn if he accepts both parts, and warns him that Peter could be reborn very differently. Peter agrees and is reborn, outwardly human. He goes to the Avengers Tower and swears to Mary Jane and Aunt May that he will never leave them again. Later in the night, Peter goes to the lab where his husk is and recalls the final warning of the voice: "Are you the man who dreamed of being a spider? Or the spider who dreamed of being a man? Are you the one... or are you the other?" Shaking off the warning, Peter removes the wedding ring from the husk and heads back to bed.
Peter gets a check up from Stark. As it turns out, Peter's wounds from his old enemies have been healed, including his missing left eye and even the tonsils he lost in fourth grade have reappeared. As Stark puts it, Peter's 'odometer had been reset.' Before the test could continue, Aunt May stopped it and told Peter to "go play". So Peter and Mary Jane go out and swing throughout the city, talking about how they feel about the recent events that have occurred. Meanwhile, in Stark Tower, pirate spiders started to eat Peter's old and dead body. When Spider-Man returns, he finds the top of Stark tower covered in webbing. Inside the tower, Spider-Man finds the pirate spiders, with Peter's old body. Using the basis of his skin, they have formed a body of their own. Engaging in battle, Spider-Man finds that the stingers he used to fight Morlun appear once again, but he is confused because "Spiders don't have stingers!" Before anything else could happen, the pirate Spider punches through the walls of Stark Tower and runs off. Spider-Man chases it down and then it heads into the sewer. It forms a cocoon in a church (possibly the one Spider-Man fought off the alien symbiote). Spider-Man tells the New Avengers he has no idea about it and they want to run some more tests on him.
Simultaneously, Flash Thompson, awakened from a coma, attempts to get a job at the school where Peter teaches. This would most likely be a basketball teacher, his former occupation before being secretary to Norman Osborn. He is missing some memories, as he still calls Peter "puny Parker" and says that he hasn't seen him since high school.
Peter follows the otherworldly being (possibly “The Other”), only for it to inform him that they are both parts of the same whole, that spider-based cosmic forces are vying for control of his life and that she (the being possesses recognizably female build) is his antithesis. Apparently, although a spider-deity known as “The Great Weaver” thought that Spider-Man’s death was premature and pulled him back from his fate, others disagreed–and Peter feels his life being pulled in different directions as a result, at the centre of a metaphorical Spider’s web of which he is unsure if he is the predator or the prey.
Peter is still in a state of confusion and is having some sort of an identity crisis after his rebirth. With no time to contemplate the events of days past, Spider-Man rushes to the scene of an explosion, where a building was just demolished and people are trapped under the debris. Spider-Man quickly begins to "dig" into the remains of the building, and in his attempt and find survivors, he discovers that he has new powers. His new powers include night vision, the ability to feel vibrations through his webbing, and the ability to carry heavy objects on his back.
Spider-Man successfully rescues a few survivors and learns that his new powers have appeared because he is now "embracing the Other". Peter then returns home to be with Mary Jane, and they watch the nightly news which portrays Spider-Man as a hero. Shortly after, Tony Stark begins working on a new costume for Spider-Man.