Spider-Man Is Becoming Marvel's Most Powerful Villain: Theory Explained
Warning! Spoilers ahead for Amazing Spider-Man #85
After the latest issue of Marvel Comics' Amazing Spider-Man, Ben Reilly may be headed down a bad road, potentially being turned into a powerful villain rather than continuing as New York's newest webslinger. Filling in for Peter Parker who's been in the hospital, Ben Reilly has become Spider-Man after being hired by the Beyond Corporation. However, it's been known for a while that Beyond has ulterior motives. Furthermore, new revelations seem to be teasing Reilly's turn to the dark side as a result.
As this new Beyond era with Ben has gone on, the new Spider-Man has been having a harder and harder time with his new bosses who've been putting their bottom line above true heroics. Furthermore, while the Daughters of the Dragon have been working for Beyond as Ben's trainers, Colleen Wing and Misty Knight are actually double agents reporting to Monica Rambeau's Spectrum, who has quite a history with the Beyond Corporation and wants to know what it's really up to. Now, The Amazing Spider-Man #85 from writer Cody Ziglar and artist Paco Medina sees Doctor Octopus declaring war on the Beyond Corporation due to its acquisition of several of his assets when he built Parker Industries (when he was still in Peter Parker's body). In doing so, Octavius also ends up revealing the compromising reasons why Ben was chosen to be Beyond's Spider-Man.
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In the new issue, Ben learns that he was not hired for his strong will, but for his ability to be manipulated and bent into whatever Beyond wants him to be. Backed up with evidence and psych profiles from Beyond's own secret data recovered by Doc Ock and freely given to Ben,
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