You mean...it isn't? I mean, it's got...
Sexy, Badass FMC's (and Shipping Wars!):
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Absurdly powerful villains:
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Ridiculously awesome power ups and attacks:
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I rest my case. lol.
Note: Wells' run has caused the story to become even more disjointed(?) than it was back in Slott's days (with Spencer's run having peaks and valleys) but you can see the influences starting to creep in as far back as Spider-Verse with Solus killing Earth-13's Peter to show how much more powerful he is and then in Spider-Geddon we got Miles as Captain Universe amping up Sword Vigor to finish Solus once and for all. As for MJ, well...I'll admit I didn't read the issue that scan is from but its still a pretty badass moment.
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"The Enigma Force is not a tool to be manipulated by mortals. The Enigma Force comes to those it deems worthy. What temerity, what arrogance, makes you think you are worthy? Have you not all made mistakes? Unforgiveable ones?" - Captain Universe
"Call me an Avenging Angel, Baron, come to safeguard Earth...call me CAPTAIN UNIVERSE!" - Ray Coffin
"You're my heart, Mary Jane Watson...you're my jackpot." - Peter Parker
So far, the journey Wells has put Ben through has... not been my favorite, but if the end result is Ben's personality is restored and he has some different powers, that might be worth the pain - Ben with different powers might have a place in Marvel's plans that "he's Peter, but slightly different" does not.
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Some have even died only to come back like a chapter later (i.e., Ichigo Kurosaki from Bleach), which I heard Peter died like nine separate times during Spencer's run and once off-panel in A.X.E. Also, if you think about it, Mephisto is now essentially the true Big Bad of the entire series (i.e., Ywach also from Bleach) and represents the "final boss/true mastermind" villain with Norman being the penultimate foe (regardless of his current state).
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"The Enigma Force is not a tool to be manipulated by mortals. The Enigma Force comes to those it deems worthy. What temerity, what arrogance, makes you think you are worthy? Have you not all made mistakes? Unforgiveable ones?" - Captain Universe
"Call me an Avenging Angel, Baron, come to safeguard Earth...call me CAPTAIN UNIVERSE!" - Ray Coffin
"You're my heart, Mary Jane Watson...you're my jackpot." - Peter Parker
It's all adding up so perfectly. Obviously the fifteen year long "1 MOR DY" arc will end with Peter regaining his memories, become worthy of being Captain Universe again by going on a journey to find The Sword in the Star and train for 100 issues to become worthy of wielding Mjolnir so he can take on his greatest foes: a revived Solus, Carnage-Norman possessed by Kuurth wearing the Goblin-Destroyer Armor, Wayep with the Asgardian Casket of Ancient Winters and Mephisto and when all of them lie dead he will finally, properly reunite with MJ. It's a long shot but it's the only shot he's got!
lol
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"The Enigma Force is not a tool to be manipulated by mortals. The Enigma Force comes to those it deems worthy. What temerity, what arrogance, makes you think you are worthy? Have you not all made mistakes? Unforgiveable ones?" - Captain Universe
"Call me an Avenging Angel, Baron, come to safeguard Earth...call me CAPTAIN UNIVERSE!" - Ray Coffin
"You're my heart, Mary Jane Watson...you're my jackpot." - Peter Parker
Invincible Iron Man, post-Secret Wars, by Brian Bendis, issue 5. Best parts besides MJ --- since the Spider-Office didn't want to use her at the time --- were the Model-Prime suit that was basically a Swiss Army Knife in terms of combining all the features of his previous armors into one sleek new adaptive hexagonal package and the "Biohack Ninja" he fought in a couple of issues, because I am a sucker for tech/cyber-enhanced ninja.
The spider is always on the hunt.
"The Enigma Force is not a tool to be manipulated by mortals. The Enigma Force comes to those it deems worthy. What temerity, what arrogance, makes you think you are worthy? Have you not all made mistakes? Unforgiveable ones?" - Captain Universe
"Call me an Avenging Angel, Baron, come to safeguard Earth...call me CAPTAIN UNIVERSE!" - Ray Coffin
"You're my heart, Mary Jane Watson...you're my jackpot." - Peter Parker