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Here it is, the absolute last entry for the Spider-Man project, Extra number 35, Spider-Verse!
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By the time of Miguel O'Hara, the study of genetic history had become incredibly advanced. In combination with advances in artificial intelligence, it could be used to recreate people from the past in the form of digital simulacrums--but it did not stop there. This method could be used as a predictor as well, a way of peering into future possibilities, as well as looking at alternate possibilities of what could have been in the past. It was a revolutionary way to study history, but its role in studying the future was limited in comparison, as it was revealed that the possibilities for the future, as well as alternate pasts, were, indeed, endless.
This was Alchemax's final gambit. Using this method, Alchemax recreated Morlun, considered by many to be the worst Inheritor to ever live, and followed that up with hundreds of potential past and future Inheritors--those that were, those that could have been, and those that could yet be if Miguel would surrender the full sequence of the Inheritor gene. Alchemax was backed into a corner, and their power had waned significantly. This was their last stand.
But Miguel had resources and friends in many corners of the world with many different talents, and he chose to fight fire with fire. He gained access to resources that allowed him to use the spider based Inheritor genome within himself and create digital avatars of spider people that were, that were not, and those that yet could be. An entire universe of Spider-Men and Spider-Women. Hundreds of them, from known heroes like Peter Parker, Miles Morales, and Mayday Parker, to other potentials, like a Mary Jane Watson who had the gift rather that Peter, a Peter that lived decades earlier, a hypothetical granddaughter of Peter from a potential post apocalyptic nightmare world... the possibilities were literally endless. Though they were merely digital avatars, simulacrums of what could be, they had the basis of their personalities and abilities, more than enough to stop Alchemax.
Though it seemed Alchemax had bit of quite more than it could chew, and wasting no time, the recreated Morlun and his Inheritor army overthrew Alchemax's power structure and took their corporation for themselves. Morlun was aware of their origin as digital recreations, and knew that meant their time on Earth was fleeting--especially as the genetic knowledge he was built from was incomplete. Only Miguel had the full code. With full knowledge of the spider army that Miguel had created, Morlun wasted no time in engaging in full open war. The fighting stretched for miles around Alchemax's last remaining headquarters, inheritor against spider as far as the eye could see. But when the spiders seemed to be turning the tide against the inheritors, the inheritors suddenly disappeared, their energies convalescing into Alchemax HQ, and the spiders realized what Morlun had done.
The spider army broke the door to Alchemax's board room to find Morlun alone standing on the bodies of the Alchemax executives, his digital form crackling with energy. He had installed something within himself that allowed him to draw the power of all of the other avatars into his body at once--it had been a fail safe switch Alchemax had intended to use in case the inheritors went rogue, now warped to grant Morlun extreme power. He had the strength of all of the avatars with their lifespan granted to him. Strength and time enough to take down every single spider on Miguel's side in order to extract the full genome from him and recreate himself for real.
A full blown melee broke out as the spider army threw themselves at Morlun, and one by one Morlun managed to rip their digital beings to shreds. It all seemed for naught as Miguel's forces began thinning at an alarming rate until there was only one member left--the recreation of the true Peter Parker. It was now just Miguel and Peter against Morlun. But as the two of them grappled with the supercharged inheritor simulacrum, Peter managed to grab Morlun from behind and Miguel realized his plan--in the commotion of the fight, Peter had used it all as a distraction to get another version of the failsafe switch from Alchemax and install it into his digital self, and he had been absorbing the powers of the spider army as Morlun cut them down. Even if he was just a recreation, the ingenuity of Peter Parker surprised Miguel. Holding onto Morlun from behind, Peter synced up his energy with Morlun, and the cross contamination of the spider and inheritor energies overloaded them both, and the room was engulfed in a massive burst of light and energy.
In the aftermath, all that was left was a rapidly degenerating avatar of Peter Parker. He took off his digital mask, and looked out the window at the city below. Even after all of the destruction, the simulated Peter said that the real Peter Parker would have found the view to be amazing, and what an honor it would have been to know that his legacy lived on in such a way with Miguel. Maybe this had been the way his legacy was written out, but knowing of all of the other potential alternate histories that lived in each of those Spider-Men and Spider-Women Miguel had created... it all could have been completely different. Just because this was the way it had happened here, does not mean it could not have just as easily happened another way. Any one of them could have been just as valid had any one little thing changed or had it all been seen from a different perspective.
As the energies that powered his form gave way, the Peter Parker simulacrum began fading. The last thing he said to Miguel, was that maybe MJ was right. Maybe Peter Parker's life was an amazing fantasy.
*--THE END--*
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Yep, it's finally all over.
Like, 100%. It's done. The Spider-Man Project, which I started like five years ago, has hit its final milestone, the finish line. 151 characters, 35 extras, and a good smattering of alternate Spider-Man costumes. I want to give a huge thanks to all of the people who have followed this journey and given me feedback along the way, I dunno if I would have finished it all without all of that good stuff.
Also! I want to tell you, that I have given it a lot of thought, and decided that this story should have an actual title instead of just "The Spider-Man Project." So I am hereby announcing that this story be officially known as:
Peter Parker's Amazing Fantasy
That little line at the end is a reference to this title I've had in mind for a while.
So, as for the story here, I'll admit it's not very detailed, but that was always the plan from the beginning--this story, as per the title here, is about Peter Parker. Everything after his last stand is falling action and is basically an epilogue. Spider-Verse itself is a fun concept but one that did not really fit into the way I had constructed the Spider-Man lore at all, where even Spider-Gwen was from the same universe as regular Spider-Man, so I decided to approach it from a different angle. So it's kind of a "verse" in name only, as the other spider people that Miguel fights alongside are not the real deals, they're digital avatars, representations of them. So maybe not as fun as the original story, but that was the angle I decided to approach it from.
For the art, I based it directly on Jorge Molina's cover art for Spider-Geddon #1 as I thought it was the best at conveying a bunch of spider people together in an action pose like this. But instead of matching up the characters that he drew, I decided to switch it up and make every single character different. The characters that he drew that I kept were moved to different positions to keep things interesting, and then a lot of the others were changed around. While the actual story here has the true Peter Parker avatar be the center figure that Miguel fights alongside, I elected to have Miguel be surrounded entirely by spider people I did *not* draw in the project just to give you interesting new designs to look at.
We got Spinneret and Spiderling from Renew Your Vows, Spider-Man and Spider-Woman from the Mangaverse, Spider-Punk, Spider-Man Noir, Venom from Earth X, Spider-Man Unlimited, April Parker aka Mayhem, Spider-UK, Spider-Bitch, Spider-Man: India, the Assassin Spider-Man, and Spider-Ham. I'll leave all of their potential origins and what if scenarios up to you, the viewer! This picture was really all just for fun.
So what now? The project is over. It's done. There still are a few things from it I wish to share--namely a proper timeline and maybe some sketches of characters that both weren't drawn but were mentioned as well as some people that did not make the cut. But any of these updates aren't going to be a regular thing anymore. This project is now behind me, somewhere I never actually expected it to be. Will I be replacing this with a new project or will I be putting double the work into the Greater Marvel Universe project instead? Well, for now, neither. I'm going to take a break from regular Saturday updates for a while. We'll see what the future holds. But I just want to give you all one last thank you for keeping up with all of this and hope you will continue to follow me as I continue the Greater Marvel Universe project!
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Right, I have now read through the whole thing lmao, hope I don’t look like a dickhead doing this but I may as well share my thoughts I think.
Overall I really enjoyed giving this thing a proper read through for the first time! There’s so much continuity and connective tissue in there that I’m pretty sure you can find ways to connect any two random characters from the project together no matter how disparate they seem, I love how even after a character is long dead they still have a lasting impact on events going forward. I really liked how you reinterpreted lesser-known and poorly-received characters and storylines to be major players in your universe, Identity Crisis and the Clone Saga in particular were very fun and I really liked your interpretations of Jessica Drew and Ben Reilly. I didn’t agree with every creative decision you made (I admit I wasn’t the keenest on the Inheritor stuff) and I did find the chronology of events to be a little confusing at times but overall I think this is a really great take on Spider-Man and extremely impressive.
I do have some follow-up questions so I apologise in advance for all of these lmao:
-I know you mentioned a few times that there were some characters who didn’t quite make the cut, I’d be really interested to hear about who almost got in and what roles they would’ve played if you did adapt them?
-What happened to Cloak and Dagger, Hobie Brown and Morbius? I don’t recall them being mentioned after The Sinister Syndicate, Identity Crisis and Superior Showdown respectively but that may be a me problem lmao
-Did Sable ever actually manage to get Rhino out of his suit, and if so what happened to him? Did she successfully cure any other supervillains who were still active like Hydro-Man?