Some SpiderMan Variants Were Banned From Original SpiderVerse Comic

Some Spider-Man Variants Were Banned From Original Spider-Verse Comic

The Spider-Man: Spider-Verse event involved an insane amount of Spider-Man, but sadly some variants were left on the cutting room floor.

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Some SpiderMan Variants Were Banned From Original SpiderVerse Comic

Marvel’s Spider-Man may be one of the few heroes in the Marvel Universe without an extensive support network, but he often works with the next best thing: versions of himself. Peter Parker has encountered dozens of Spider-Man variants across the Marvel Multiverse, most of whom are more than willing to help him defeat supervillains in whatever version of New York they happen to attack. One of these crossovers was memorably chronicled in Spider-Verse – but not every Spider-Man was able to be used.

In 2014, the Spider-Verse event began in earnest. The villain of the entire event was a man named Morlun, a vampiric antagonist who seeks to eliminate all those who bear the name Spider-Man across the multiverse in order to collect their Spider-Totems. To stop him, practically every single spider-being from alternate realities was contacted and thrust into a massive crossover event.

These ranged from mainstays of the franchise like Peter Parker to heroes that didn’t even bear the name Spider-Man, such as Spider-Gwen (Gwen Stacy in reality), Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew), and Silk. Spider-Verse also saw appearances by Spider-Ham, Peni Parker (who piloted a robot called SP//dr) and even a version of Uncle Ben who was bitten by the fateful spider instead of his nephew. But some spiders couldn’t be used; in a tweet, writer Dan Slott admitted there were seven Spider-Men that were forbidden from inclusion in the event. “Zombie Spider-Man was one of those. As were Spider-Boy (co-owned by DC) and any of the Sony co-owned Spideys.”

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While Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield were previously referenced in the comic, this is the first Marvel fans have heard of other Spider-Men being banned from an event. While the partially DC-owned Spider-Boy’s absence makes sense, Zombie Spider-Man is not included for a very dark reason: Zombie Spider-Man has the highest bodycount by far of any Spider-Man in the multiverse…and thanks to his insatiable hunger brought on via the zombie plague, he ate his Aunt May and Mary Jane. The Spider-Man of the Marvel Zombies universe is not a villain, but he certainly isn’t a hero either, and is perhaps a tad too dark to include in the ultimate Spider-Man crossover story.

The dark Zombie Spider-Man antics aside, the rest of the banned Spider-Men make sense. Marvel wouldn’t want to infringe on DC or Sony’s intellectual property, no matter how much of a tangential reference their inclusion would make. Ultimately, the fact that so many spider characters were included in Spider-Man’s Spider-Verse proves that the missing characters were not missed too much.

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