Create your own Spider-Man What If's

[jetengine]

maybe not as exciting as most of these, but what if peter parker went to a different school and grew up with an entirely different crowd? i'd be interested to see how much of the peter we know today would still have evolved in a radically peer group.

Well he'd sound less like a school shooter in the Ditko era.

[TheRay]

Then he'll get hired by WWE, probably do fairly well until Vince inevitably tries to "Improve him"

You mean until his gimmick feels as though it has run its course.

[jetengine]

You mean until his gimmick feels as though it has run its course.

No I literally mean Vince will interfere or meddle because he doesn't get anything but giant hulking white guys and a luchadore style full body costume wrestler who focuses on acrobatics and improv mic skills will either be unprecedented (pre mysterio) or a potential money pile (post mysterio) that he'll want to ensure does well, thus the meddling.

[TheRay]

Except that literally never happens. We’ve had Jinder, Booker, Daniel Bryan, etc for over a decade now.

[Ursalink]

I have one: What If... Mary Jane had become "the Bride" instead of Cindy Moon? (Now THAT I would pay much to see it).

[Celgress]

I have one: What If... Mary Jane had become "the Bride" instead of Cindy Moon? (Now THAT I would pay much to see it).

So, you mean a universe in which MJ's folks move to NYC and she ends up attending the same school as Pete and thus also takes the fateful field trip? Another option is MJ could move in with her Aunt Anna being sent there by her parents who are having marital problems.

This could work. If I wrote the story playing up MJ's early rebellious streak (as seen in the 1970s) I'd likely make her the new girl who wishes she was anywhere else but the Big Apple. I might even have her be going through a tough chick phase before she finds her voice.

[Huntsman Spider]

So, you mean a universe in which MJ's folks move to NYC and she ends up attending the same school as Pete and thus also takes the fateful field trip? Another option is MJ could move in with her Aunt Anna being sent there by her parents who are having marital problems.

This could work. If I wrote the story playing up MJ's early rebellious streak (as seen in the 1970s) I'd likely make her the new girl who wishes she was anywhere else but the Big Apple. I might even have her be going through a tough chick phase before she finds her voice.

That could actually work. It'd at least be very interesting to see (and/or read).

[Ursalink]

So, you mean a universe in which MJ's folks move to NYC and she ends up attending the same school as Pete and thus also takes the fateful field trip? Another option is MJ could move in with her Aunt Anna being sent there by her parents who are having marital problems.

This could work. If I wrote the story playing up MJ's early rebellious streak (as seen in the 1970s) I'd likely make her the new girl who wishes she was anywhere else but the Big Apple. I might even have her be going through a tough chick phase before she finds her voice.

On the comics "Parallel Lives", we saw Mary Jane already lived in New York, next to the Parkers, before Peter was bitten by the radioactive spider. She even followed Spider-Man appearances on TV, wishing to be free like him to escape from her problems at home. And she even discovered Peter was Spider-Man the night Uncle Ben was murdered. Now, imagine if MJ would have had Silk's powers to escape from her home's problems, like she wished. What if the "connection" of their powers would have made them meet before they actually did? And what about if MJ's powers would have interfered with some of Spider-Man's most important moments in history? You know, like when Uncle Ben was murdered. Even more, if MJ would have Silk's "hyper spider-sense", it would have been useful to her in home.

[TheRay]

What if Spider-Man also possessed the ability to communicate with spiders?

[Huntsman Spider]

What if Spider-Man also possessed the ability to communicate with spiders?

He did, after he got enhanced spider-powers from his death and resurrection in the arc of Spectacular Spider-Man that debuted the Queen (and later in The Other: Evolve or Die, as well). Then One More Day happened and he lost those enhanced powers.

[gregpersons]

What if Peter Parker stuck with being a high school science teacher, and settled in with the "responsibility" of it?

[Huntsman Spider]

What if Peter Parker stuck with being a high school science teacher, and settled in with the "responsibility" of it?

That would've been cool, but Civil War kind of put the kibosh on that by him revealing his secret identity, which ultimately endangered his students because of his villains trying to get at him through them. Even if they don't remember that anymore thanks to OMD/OMIT, he would, and that would probably make him uncomfortable going back there. At least, that's my take on it.