Peter`s Parents

[Nathan84]

I was rereading the whole android story about Peter`s Parents. IMHO they should have never made them into androids. They should have kept them to be the real thing.
What is your opinion? Was this the best solution?

[bob.schoonover]

Peter's parents are best left to flashbacks or memories. They're not interesting in the present - they're just one more set of people Peter is trying to fool about this secret identity who end up disappointed. I don't think it was trying to, but I don't think that story ever made a compelling argument that having Peter's parents around was a good story engine. Maybe, maybe, they'd be interesting if Teresa was around a lot, too - that's a more interesting dynamic to consider - but I'll be happy if the never reappear

[Mercwmouth12]

Peter's parents are best left to flashbacks or memories. They're not interesting in the present - they're just one more set of people Peter is trying to fool about this secret identity who end up disappointed. I don't think it was trying to, but I don't think that story ever made a compelling argument that having Peter's parents around was a good story engine. Maybe, maybe, they'd be interesting if Teresa was around a lot, too - that's a more interesting dynamic to consider - but I'll be happy if the never reappear

They work better if they did one as an AU or an untold story or a flashback issue. Like with Logan had a slight run in with them. Anything in the present isnt needed or warranted

[Rift]

I feel like they should tie Peter's parents in to the rest of Marvel. The spy angle was great and fits with the tone, but making them mutants would be a great twist. Maybe Peter's dad had telekinesis and was a time-traveler.

[Matt Rat]

I remember one of my childhood fanfics was revealing Judas Traveller was Richard's grandfather.

[exile001]

Personally, the less the better. I'd be happy for them to never be seen or mentioned again.

Maybe there could have been a better resolution than the robots... Okay, there DEFINITELY could have been a better resolution than the robots but the best solution is to not bring them back in the first place.

[PCN24454]

I like hearing about them as well. It doesn’t make sense that Peter wouldn’t want to know more about them.

[Lee]

They're not important. They died when Peter was young, so he was raised by his elderly aunt and uncle. Everything else is irrelevant. Marvel answered the question of who his parents were, it was a stupid answer, and there's nothing more to tell.

[Will Evans]

I was rereading the whole android story about Peter`s Parents. IMHO they should have never made them into androids. They should have kept them to be the real thing.
What is your opinion? Was this the best solution?

Keep them in this past. But they’re also Peter’s connection to SHIELD.

[PCN24454]

Keep them in this past. But they’re also Peter’s connection to SHIELD.

I liked it better when they were CIA.

[Scott Taylor]

The best story I've read with Peter's parents was in the Clone Saga in Ultimate Spider-Man. Every other story with the parents has been disappointing to downright bad (including the ASM films).

I feel when the parents are introduced it tends to undermine the mythos.

[Lukmendes]

They work better if they did one as an AU or an untold story or a flashback issue. Like with Logan had a slight run in with them. Anything in the present isnt needed or warranted

That's exactly what happened in Untold Tales of Spider-Man#-1 lol.

I feel like they should tie Peter's parents in to the rest of Marvel. The spy angle was great and fits with the tone, but making them mutants would be a great twist. Maybe Peter's dad had telekinesis and was a time-traveler.

Weirdly enough, two Spidey comics written by different people connected them with LMDs.



(Spectacular#302)





(Spider-Man/Deadpool#31)

I wondered if Marvel was planning some story with 'em in ASM by using LMDs, but nothing happened, and when Spencer's run does talk about LMDs, it only talks about how Harry made LMDs of Spidey's parents and not anything else.

But yeah, them being the origin of LMDs could be one way of making them more connected with the rest of Marvel, without going too far, but that detail is probably ignored now.

Though, I really doubt they're mutants, but you never know withg Marvel :P.

I liked it better when they were CIA.

I mean, SHIELD or not, they generally are connected with Fury since Untold Tales at the latest, and before that, as far as I've seen, they were only vaguely said to work for the government as spies, which's as vague as it can be lol.

[Tabs]

Look at how Marvel does Howard Stark. Do we really want that for Peter's parents?