Originally Posted by
Revolutionary_Jack
Has anyone here read the actual Firelord 2-Parter? I am just asking. Because based on the responses I read here I don't seem to get a sense that anyone has read the original story, nor have they understood the tone, or the presentation of it.
Here's how the actual story breaks down.
-- Firelord comes to Earth to try Pizza. No seriously. That's why he comes to Earth.
-- Firelord doesn't know his own strength nor does he understand Earth customs very well. He causes a ton of collateral damage.
-- This leads Spider-Man to intervene. The initial fight goes poorly for Spider-Man.
-- He spends most of Part 1 and a lot of Part 2 trying to contact the Fantastic Four and the Avengers, but neither of them are available.
-- He and Firelord fight across the city, burning and destroying glasses and buildings, so Spider-Man tries to lead him to an abandoned and thinly inhabited part of the area (because Zack Snyder wasn't writing the story).
-- Spider-Man is finally at wits end and he unleashes a desperation attack on Firelord who underestimates him, and then at the last moment Avengers arrive.
-- Final panel is a shot of devastation as the Avengers and Spider-Man are small figures in the frame.
In other words, Spider-Man defeats Firelord because
a) Firelord gets afflicted by "Chronic loser syndrome", not knowing or understanding his own powers and making a total fool of himself,
b) Firelord underestimates him and doesn't use his full powers because again the story establishes he's an idiot or in an idiotic phase at the start of the story.
c) Spider-Man tries his level best to get the FF and Avengers and out of desperation and anger fights against him by himself.
d) The ending by showing Firelord's devastation, doesn't paint it as an entirely triumphant thing.
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