10 Most Ridiculous Things Spider-Man Has Survived
8. Reliving His Parents' Death - Lifetheft
The nineties was a tough time for Spider-Man - and his readers - because, well, because clones. But before the Clone Saga really kicked into gear, Peter Parker had his emotions played with in the most cruel of ways.
When The Amazing Spider-Man #365 concluded, we had the jaw-dropping panel depicting Peter's mother Mary and father Richard alive and well. Until then, Spidey had been led to believe that his parents had been killed 20 years prior, but now we were informed that they'd instead been held as prisoners of Russia.
Mary and Richard spent the next 20 issues getting to know their son, yet Aunt May soon began to suspect that something wasn't quite right. While May had a private investigator looking into this situation, Peter did the unthinkable and revealed to his resurrected parents that he and Spider-Man were indeed one and the same.
The endgame of this was that Mary and Richard were merely androids created by the Chameleon as a way to decipher the real identity of the wall-crawler. After the Mary-bot took out her 'husband' as a way to protect Spidey's secret, the Vulture then killed off Peter's 'mother' - meaning Peter Parker again had to come to terms with the fact that his parents really had been dead for two decades.