Quote Originally Posted by Agent Z View Post
Fury isnÂ’t available. The Avengers are. And again, they do not care about his secret identity and were willing to help. One of them has super speed and the other can shrink so it isnÂ’t like stealth will be an issue.


Again, no one in that room was asking for his secret identity. He is the one who makes a big deal out of it. The Avengers may have criticized him for having one but they werenÂ’t going to make him reveal it. This was a problem entirely of PeterÂ’s invention.



On that we can agree.


There is a time and a place for everything. And honestly, a lot of the instances of you bringing up class in discussions about Spider-Man are less about an honest examination of this theme and more about you trying to gas Peter up over other characters you dislike or apathetic to.



Yeah, superhero writers arenÂ’t always the best judges of what qualifies as rational behavior.

Btw, do you think Nick Spencer is wrong when he says Spider-Man's bad publicity is partly his own fault?




Except for Spider-Man apparently.




What writers intend and what the story shows are not always the same thing.


Most psychologists will tell you that being able to joke with friends does not preclude ving severe mental problems.
By your logic, Deadpool is a mentally balanced person.
I will concede the point that there are people who can laugh and have severe psychological issues like Deadpool or even worse Joker. But you also have to consider Peter’s job: Dealing with bad guys almost every day. If he makes a mistake people die (and that is not just Gwen etc, but average people walking down the street), the psychological stress is enormous. Watch a movie called ‘Running Scared’ with Paul Walker and Vera Farmiga. Walker is an undercover agent who infiltrated the mob for 12 years. Even his wife ( Farmiga) and son had no idea. He had to lie to them, every single day ( sound familiar to Spider-Man readers?), and he knew he could not slip up because he would put his family in jeopardy ( again sounds familiar?). Fortunately for Walker ( and a Russian boy named Oleg ( watch the movie and you will see why)) Farmiga was a strong woman, and can handle difficult situations. Taking this to Spider-Man, maybe without MJ, Peter goes full Frank Castle ( a character created by Conway only 7 issues after ASM 122), but the point is, in that issue she grew up and stopped Peter from acting on his worst instincts. But Peter thanks to MJ and now Theresa, does have people to talk to that he can trust, and along with the growth of Miles should have things easier ( provided the writers do not go Dan Slott on him).