10 Idiotic Mistakes That Almost Ruined Spider-Man

Another fairly predictable inclusion, the reasons for which will become immediately obvious.

Gwen Stacy is a figure in Spider-Man history that represents the character's early innocent years, her death being an obviously sombre moment that truly defined the great responsibility that comes with Peter's great powers. A death of such significance is one that should not be tampered with, and yet - once again - Marvel begged to differ.

No, instead, it seems that they believed the best course of action was to reveal Gwen had had an affair with Norman Osborn, an affair that produced two children and was also the supposed reason for her death.

It tainted a key part of the Spider-Man mythos, angered fans, and probably made a large proportion of readers feel physically sick. Idiotic doesn't quite cover it.