About Heroes

This is part 2 of Spider-Ben's review of Spider-Man: The Other. Part 1 is here.

Finally accepting he is going to die, Peter takes advantage of his last days. While web swinging to the Daily Bugle, Morlun attacks Spider-Man. He throws him through walls, hits him with various objects and attacks, and takes full advantage of the weakened Spider-Man. In a final attempt, Peter Parker gives his final energy into an onslaught of punches towards his durable opponent. Then, his energy is depleted. Morlun rises unaffected, and rips out Spider-Man’s eye, eating it!! Then he unleashes his own assault of lethal blows, leaving Spider-Man blood, beaten, and left with one eye.

I hope you are still with me. Things only get worse. Morlun leaves Spider-Man’s broken body when the cops and ambulance arrive. Spidey is taken to the hospital. There we find out he has multiple broken bones, a punctured lung filling with fluid, oh yeah, and missing an eye. The Avengers rush to the hospital (good timing you guys, where were you when he was getting beat to death!) and rush Mary Jane to her dying husband. Morlun races to his room, preparing to feed off his fallen foes life energy. Mary Jane lunges to stop Morlun, forcing him to break her arm and kill her. Peter is hovering on death’s door, springs to life in one final assault to save Mary Jane. Long, razor sharp stingers emerge from his underarms. Peter slashes furiously at Morlun, striking his foe down, killing him. Morlun vanishes into dust.

Mary Jane rushes to Peter, who collapses in her arms. He tells her this is it, he is about to die. With his dying words he confesses his love for Mary Jane one last time. Iron Man and the other Avengers comfort Mary Jane the best they can, and Iron Man takes Peter’s body back to Avengers tower. No one must know Spider-Man has died. Back at the tower, Captain America tries to comfort May, while Iron Man helps Mary Jane come up with a story to explain how Spider-Man died without revealing he was Peter Parker.

The stress really gets to both May and Mary Jane. Loosing Peter has really crushed them, and I know how they feel. Just as things quiet down a crash comes from the morgue in Avengers tower. The heroes race to the lab to find Peter’s corpse cut open and empty. The window is also broken. Mary Jane faints and the Avengers search the city for any clues to who, or what, did this. Near a beach outside Manhattan, under a dark bridge lies a huge webbing cocoon.

Check back tomorrow for part three.