iirc, she didn’t make him think Peter was to blame, she basically told him that they deleted his memories that they took and that he could get them if he took them from Peter, basically having PIS take over to have Ben make a selfish call rather than actually talking to Peter.
We still don't know what it did to his body. We know it further corroded his mind, but with all the glowing green ether coming off him, not to mention it being described as "psycho-reactive quantum-shifting polymers in a liquid suspension," it ought to have done something.
The spider is always on the hunt.
It's time to get Tom DeFalco back and have him reveal that Norman has been keeping the original Ben Reilly clone in stasis all these years. Miles Warrens' tortured clone was just another clone Norman had made to further screw with Peter.
He was hallucinating and she told him they deleted those memories per Ben's own request and that only Peter could help him.
Also, they stated during Beyond that clone memories don't function like regular memories and that tampering with them can cause more damage than it would to a regular person. Obviously that's true since he becomes more cold, unstable and disoriented without them. Also, he fell in that stuff that rearranges matter and was given that weird piece of fruit in Limbo (which clearly implies some sort of corruption if it doesn't literally say it). There's clearly more to it than just amnesia.
I've said this plenty of times, but that would only serve to make Ben's story even more convoluted and inaccessible, not to mention ripping off the people that have been buying these stories for years. I don't think making it a cliche evil twin in a story notorious for bad plot twists is a workable solution.
There's a more elegant solution where they just...give him his mind back and give him a redemption arc. It's not like he's the first superhero to go nuts and become a villain for a while. In Ben's case, it's even easier to reverse since all of this was done to him. He's a victim.
We don't need Norman any more intertwined than he already is in the Spider-mythos. Judas Traveller, The Jackal, AI Harry, or even a total weirdo would be preferable, honestly. I don't think this particular retcon is necessary, personally - there are any number of clean slate options that'd work just as well.
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Yikes! Good joke, but at this point that no longer makes sense even more when recently in the reunion between Ben and Norman was highlighted again that it is still the same Ben of the 90's, because Ben still remembers how his life was fucked by Norman, even in passing Ben gave Norman a beating that was very satisfying to see, so I feel sorry for you but that will not happen.
Also I doubt Tom DeFalco will ever want to have any kind of relationship with Spider-Man comics again, unless Marvel pays good old DeFalco a nice sum of money .
Just have Chasm wear the blue hoodie and I'll be happy.
I think my 30 year love affair with Ben might be over, even if he redeems himself. Getting too much whiplash from all these bad-good-bad-good heel turns.
Mattie, your COPIUM is too high! Look, despite all our differences I really do appreciate you seriously, I really do. But you have to start accepting the reality that today's modern Ben Reilly is still the same old Ben Reilly, this Ben being poorly written and poorly characterized? Yeah, but it's the same old Ben Reilly, the sooner you start accepting that reality the better it will be for you.