Kaine Parker: Scarlet Spider Appreciation 2019

[Batman Begins 2005]

Spiderfang, please can you add New Warriors (2014) to your list of books?

[Venomous Mask]

Remember when Kaine was an evil version of The Dude?

[Celgress]

Disagreeeeeee.

Kaine without degeneration is like Ben without web shooters on the outside of the costume!!!

-Pav, who demands tragedy for Kaine...

I couldn't agree with you more, on both counts.

PS I love Kaine. He has evolved into such a great character from his one-dimensional beginnings.

[Celgress]

My favourite time period for Kaine has to be him as the Scarlet Spider with Hummingbird....

Mine as well. I love me some Scarlet Spider II and Hummingbird.

[Huntsman Spider]

Remember when Kaine was an evil version of The Dude?

Kaine does not wait. Kaine abides.

That aside, yeah, looking forward to seeing a new Scarlet Spider series starring him (preferably him and Ben, with them finally getting to a place where they can relate more positively to each other while also dealing what's transpired between them in the past). Could also tie into what Chris Yost was foreshadowing with the rise of Mictlan, the Aztec underworld, and Kaine's part in it as Aracely's Champion, my idea for incorporating Ben into it being that he's forced to become Mictlan's Champion as his punishment for tampering with the dead back in The Clone Conspiracy. Speaking of clones and Chris Yost's foreshadowing, I did like the bond starting to develop between Kaine and Water Snake in the last New Warriors series, especially given Yost's intentions for her character if the series had lasted long enough and how Kaine might've likely reacted.

[Batman Begins 2005]

Mine as well. I love me some Scarlet Spider II and Hummingbird.

Thumbs up!

[Celgress]

Spider-Island begins and Kaine returns in this chapter of my What If OMD Never Happened? story -

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1281972...-The-Great-Web

Is so inclined, enjoy.

[Sectal]

Anybody else ships Kaine and silk?

[Celgress]

Anybody else ships Kaine and silk?

I prefer Kaine with Hummingbird, but whatever floats your boat.

[Sectal]

I prefer Kaine and hummingbird as brother/sister because that bond in comics is more permanent than romantic relationships. I would like to see silk and Kaine having some sort of relationship because of how different they are. For example, silk is someone new and excited to see the world while Kaine has unfortunately seen too much of its darkness. It’d work with Silk being the one to teach Kaine how to see things more positively while not taking any of his brooding seriously and Kaine being tsundere with silk on every turn.
Of course this is my opinion, marvel is probably going to make silk hate Kaine like they did with spider-Woman after spidergeddon

[Mr. White]

I prefer Kaine with Hummingbird, but whatever floats your boat.

Unless I missed something, isn't Hummingbird like a kid??

[Mr. White]

I prefer Kaine and hummingbird as brother/sister because that bond in comics is more permanent than romantic relationships. I would like to see silk and Kaine having some sort of relationship because of how different they are. For example, silk is someone new and excited to see the world while Kaine has unfortunately seen too much of its darkness. It’d work with Silk being the one to teach Kaine how to see things more positively while not taking any of his brooding seriously and Kaine being tsundere with silk on every turn.
Of course this is my opinion, marvel is probably going to make silk hate Kaine like they did with spider-Woman after spidergeddon

This actually makes sense.
Would have said Annabelle (think that was her name) from the Houston series.
Those first few issues were really good and it should have continued - in that vein.
The only thing is people will draw comparisons between Annabelle and MJ...

[Celgress]

Unless I missed something, isn't Hummingbird like a kid??

I think she is around twenty (give or take a year), I could be wrong. Either way, Kaine's chronological age (given all his deaths, resurrections and mutations) is probably mid-twenties or less as Peter is only twenty-eight at most so the difference in age wouldn't be that great between Kaine and Hummingbird.

[Pav]

Anybody else ships Kaine and silk?

I ship Kaine and tragedy.

-Pav, who's talking Shakespearean-level...

[Huntsman Spider]

I ship Kaine and tragedy.

-Pav, who's talking Shakespearean-level...

That's a good one.

As for Hummingbird's age, given the old saw of Marvel time being one year in-universe for every four real-world years and her age being explicitly stated as 16 years old in Chris Yost's Scarlet Spider/New Warriors run, she could have aged to 18 by this point. That being said, I do prefer Kaine as her platonic champion and guardian and not necessarily making her a love interest, though if I had to ship Aracely (Hummingbird) with someone, I could go for "Charlie"/Spider-Kid, the young delinquent A/U Peter Parker from Christopher Priest's Spider-Force, a tie-in to Spider-Geddon that Kaine had a major role in as well. Pretty much all of Kaine's grouchy, bitter cynicism (and a similar if more "mundane" story of parental abuse) in the body of a young teenage version of Peter/himself. It writes itself, almost.