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    Default Clone Saga - most cringeworthy moments?

    I'm curious what other fans would say are the individual moments during Clone saga where the story was the most cringeworthy or "jumped the shark?"

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    "Gwen"
    Spidercide in general
    Jackal's then new look
    The return of Norman Osborn
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    The ones that stick out are:
    -- Peter striking MJ after hearing that he's a "clone".
    -- Peter for a half-second agreeing to Jackal's plan to kill all humans

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    Every single line spoken by Jackal
    "The Batman is Gotham City. I will watch him. Study him. And when I know him and why he does not kill, I will know this city. And then Gotham will be MINE!"-BANE

    "We're monsters, buddy. Plain and simple. I don't dress it up with fancy names like mutant or post-human; men were born crueler than Apes and we were born crueler than men. It's just the natural order of things"-ULTIMATE SABRETOOTH

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    Quote Originally Posted by Revolutionary_Jack View Post
    The ones that stick out are:
    -- Peter striking MJ after hearing that he's a "clone".
    -- Peter for a half-second agreeing to Jackal's plan to kill all humans
    These, for sure.

    -Pav, who liked the Jackal's 90s look...
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    Nothing beats Peter beating a pregnant MJ.


    Finding out that Judas Traveller was a B-list Mysterio comes close too...

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    My top or bottom three

    1.) Peter deciding to help Jackal commit global genocide because he thought he was a clone.

    2.) An enraged Peter hitting a pregnant MJ (all be it by accident).

    3.) Naked slime-covered Gwen Clones
    "So you've come to the end now alive but dead inside."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Revolutionary_Jack View Post
    The ones that stick out are:
    -- Peter striking MJ after hearing that he's a "clone".
    -- Peter for a half-second agreeing to Jackal's plan to kill all humans
    Quote Originally Posted by AlexCampy89 View Post
    Nothing beats Peter beating a pregnant MJ.


    Finding out that Judas Traveller was a B-list Mysterio comes close too...
    Quote Originally Posted by Celgress View Post
    My top or bottom three

    1.) Peter deciding to help Jackal commit global genocide because he thought he was a clone.

    2.) An enraged Peter hitting a pregnant MJ (all be it by accident).

    3.) Naked slime-covered Gwen Clones
    Concurring with all of these, though the naked slime-covered Gwen clones were useful for showing just how slimy and sleazy Miles Warren's obsession with Gwen really was. And yes, while Peter was trying to kill Ben Reilly at the time he accidentally struck Mary Jane, that was also utterly cringeworthy.
    The spider is always on the hunt.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Huntsman Spider View Post
    Concurring with all of these, though the naked slime-covered Gwen clones were useful for showing just how slimy and sleazy Miles Warren's obsession with Gwen really was.
    Pun intended?

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    as someone who largely enjoyed the saga (at least the bits i read) as a wee wun, can't argue with any of these.

    though i actually thought spidercide's time as freakface was worse than spidercide himself...who was just hokey.
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    You know what was cringe? ‘Wizard’ magazine giving full-on obnoxious fanboy rants about it month after month. This was really the era in which toxic fandom was born.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HypnoHustler View Post
    You know what was cringe? ‘Wizard’ magazine giving full-on obnoxious fanboy rants about it month after month. This was really the era in which toxic fandom was born.
    Toxic fandom has been a thing since Gwen Stacy died. Back then, Marvel printed death threats in the letters' pages itself.

    Wizard Magazine was just this sad thing. It was the only big comics magazine for a time and that gave it disproportionate influence. At least in the internet there isn't really a single big site running things anymore.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lukmendes View Post
    Pun intended?
    Yes, very much so. I thought it was fitting.
    The spider is always on the hunt.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Revolutionary_Jack View Post
    The ones that stick out are:
    -- Peter striking MJ after hearing that he's a "clone".
    -- Peter for a half-second agreeing to Jackal's plan to kill all humans
    Things like this is a wonder why Spider-Man is still beloved by fans. Or why MJ still stood by him afterwards.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Skeleton View Post
    Things like this is a wonder why Spider-Man is still beloved by fans. Or why MJ still stood by him afterwards.
    It happened in a bad poorly-written story with a terrible concept that felt out of character and out of synch with the style and theme of the title. For the same reason Sins' Past is easy to discount. It's not a very well written story so nothing sticks. So it's easy to discount it. The Clone Saga is inherently anti-thetical to the style and nature of Spider-Man being this grounded low-end science fiction nature of the stories. The idea of Ben being the clone was ridiculous to pull off as a con with the readers which even editorial never believed in.

    Compared to when Hank Pym slapped Janet, it happened in a very well-written story, the concept and theme was logically consistent to the pre-established character of Hank and Janet and the nature of their relationship, and it's in synch to Hank Pym's overall story, as being the great f--k up of the Marvel Universe, the f--k up before whom all f--k ups are measured and found redeeming and gratified when placed against.

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