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Huntsman Spider
Technically, all the big properties he wrote were team/ensemble books that went into high-concept sci-fi, and there are people in both the fandom and among the creatives and/or execs at Marvel who think Spider-Man works better, if not best, kept closer to the streets or ground where the regular people of the MU are. That said, given some of the more fantastical sci-fi ideas that were introduced or used primarily in Spider-Man comics --- symbiotes, clones, a cosmic superstructure in the shape of a web connecting and holding the Multiverse together --- I'd love to see what Hickman could do if he were unleashed on those. I could see him taking what was established by Donny Cates in his run and going even further, especially given that the symbiote hive where the memories and knowledge of past hosts are collected and stored and can even be retrieved to effectively revive a dead host could be considered slightly akin to Cerebro in Hickman's X-Men psionically recording and storing the memories and knowledge of every mutant that ever lived to upload into new bodies created from those mutants' DNA in the event of their deaths.
Speaking of the Krakoan Resurrection Protocols, that'd be where the clones could factor in, as the Jackal would look upon that achievement with more than a fair bit of envy and spite, and somewhat like what happened in Clone Conspiracy, he would market his own "reanimation" technology to human power brokers as a way for them to "solve for death" just like the mutants have and tilt the playing field in their favor. Of course, this could turn out like how some fear the ultimate result of transhumanism, namely, whether it's baseline humans or mutants, humanity as a whole still winds up under the eternal rulership of an elite class of effectively immortal, superpowered overlords. The cosmic superstructure that is the Web of Life and Destiny would be a great staging ground for Hickman to do more exploration of the Marvel Multiverse and what binds all those seemingly disparate realities together.