Originally Posted by
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I’m hoping that when they revisit Secret War (again) in time for the MCU Movie, I’m hoping they do a clean-up across the board. Either from universe erasing/merging characters, kill off, or let them ride off into the Sunset. Some characters deserve a revamp, and others have been the horse, beaten to death over and over again.
Spider-Man as an example? Before Miles Morales was created, I WANTED Ben Reilly back as thee Spider-Man. Now I am content with the idea of Miles being thee Spider-Man while Ben continue on as the Scarlet Spider. Peter has been through more than any Marvel character I can thing of. If anyone deserves a happily ever after, it’d be him.
As a huge Ben Reilly fan, to me this would an excellent compromise.
While I’m not a big Peter/MJ fan, I would say let his MC2 future realign with his 616 self, lose the leg, retire, and raise their kid(s) with MJ. Peter can stay in the legacy cast member role, rotating between Ben and Miles casts/books, allowing readers to get their Peter fix as he provides assistance to Ben and Miles in a Barbara Gordon/Oracle type of role.
The way they handled Nick Fury Junior and his dad just recently? I would put money in it, that they are setting up Fury Senior to have a part in the next comic Secret War.
Steve Rodgers had the perfect set up to be retired as Old Man Steve before they backpeddled. I’d find some way to go back to that route. Let him still be active as a secondary character, to a new Captain America, but it would be Eli Bradley.
Break up the Fantastic 4. Finally let Reed go the villain route, and revamp the 4 to be a new crew. Let the Thing and Mister Fantastic’s powers evolve like their Ultimate counterparts.
And try to focus/revamp more of the B-List catalog characters to make them more mainstream. Like the Slingers. Clock and Dagger. Etc, etc. with characters like Tony Stark, Steve Rodgers, how many more stories can be told without retreading old ground, over and over again (as they do with Events such as Civil War, Secret Invasion, Secret War, etc).