One Spider-Man Moment Shows Why Other Heroes Hate Him
Warning: contains spoilers for Dark Ages #6!
Marvel's Dark Ages event concludes with a rather abrupt ending and an astonishingly tone-deaf closing narration from Spider-Man, proving exactly why some despise Marvel's most popular superhero. Peter Parker's ending monologue comes at the end of a six-issue story arc taking place in the aftermath of a worldwide apocalyptic event in which the Unmaker nearly destroyed the world. While Marvel's gang of superheroes managed to save the planet from destruction, the apocalypse came nevertheless.
In a last-ditch effort to stop the Unmaker, Doctor Strange opened a portal to a dimension in which electricity was unable to function. This destroyed the living machine Unmaker — but Strange was killed before he could close the portal, causing all electronic devices on Earth to fail. Planes fell out of the sky, cars ceased to function, and people all over the world reliant upon power to survive — those hooked up to machines in hospitals, people in elevators, etc — were doomed to die a slow death. The heroes of the world banded together to salvage what remained of society, but even the great thinkers of the Marvel Universe (Reed Richards, Tony Stark, and others) could only help so many people.
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When the mutant Apocalypse revealed his grand plan to take over the body of the inert Unmaker, destroying the world in the process, the remaining heroes and villains banded together to stop him. Blade was able to kill Apocalypse after he was turned into a vampire, and the world was saved from destruction — but electricity still couldn't function. Nevertheless, Spider-Man feels compelled to conclude the story with perhaps the worst
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