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drunkenpandaren) wrote2007-09-17 04:58 pm
drunkenpandaren) wrote2007-09-17 04:58 pm
Thoughts Upon The Ultimates
Something's been nagging at me since I got into the Ultimates universe.
Peter Parker: the first Ultimate. High School Student, bitten by a genetically hopped up spider on a serum known as Oz. The result is predictable -- Ultimate Spider-man.
Now the thing what gets me is that Peter, by all intents and purposes is one hairbreadth away from being BATMAN. While he had a great childhood up to the point of Uncle Ben's murder, there's so much stuff being hurled at him, its amazing he never became the Bat, if not for the sake of needless complications.
Peter has his support staff, people who believe in him, and in Spider-man. The regular universe of Marvel is doing its damndest to take it away from him in the form of One More Day, the storyline where Peter dons the black suit once more (not the insane psychopathic alien monstrosity) upon his Aunt May getting shot. His Aunt May has been his lifeline, next to Mary Jane, and this is turning him into Batman with Emo.
The Ultimate universe hurls everything at him, testing him time and time again, and quite frankly Peter holds up well. If he did have the urge to become Batman, it'd be early in the career. Somehow I'm very amused at that mental image -- Batman with Spider powers.
Hmm... I need to write a fic on this.
Peter Parker: the first Ultimate. High School Student, bitten by a genetically hopped up spider on a serum known as Oz. The result is predictable -- Ultimate Spider-man.
Now the thing what gets me is that Peter, by all intents and purposes is one hairbreadth away from being BATMAN. While he had a great childhood up to the point of Uncle Ben's murder, there's so much stuff being hurled at him, its amazing he never became the Bat, if not for the sake of needless complications.
Peter has his support staff, people who believe in him, and in Spider-man. The regular universe of Marvel is doing its damndest to take it away from him in the form of One More Day, the storyline where Peter dons the black suit once more (not the insane psychopathic alien monstrosity) upon his Aunt May getting shot. His Aunt May has been his lifeline, next to Mary Jane, and this is turning him into Batman with Emo.
The Ultimate universe hurls everything at him, testing him time and time again, and quite frankly Peter holds up well. If he did have the urge to become Batman, it'd be early in the career. Somehow I'm very amused at that mental image -- Batman with Spider powers.
Hmm... I need to write a fic on this.
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But Peter's resistance to Bat-emo is probably from his personality and the way Aunt May and Uncle Ben raised him. Most of the vengeful Bat-types (excluding Terry, who's just fun) are rich kids with very little ability to take care of themselves otherwise who lost their families at a very young age. I think the key there is that they didn't know how to take care of themselves. Harry Potter avoided going too Bat because he was forced to take care of himself; ironically, the one thing the Dursleys did right. Neville was expected to. And Peter Parker was old enough to take care of himself, and his aunt and uncle taught him well enough that he could if it came to it.
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