10 Problems With Spider-Man Nobody Wants To Admit
7. Spider-Verse Breaks The Character
One of the developments in Spider-Man's life which totally doesn't make sense is the Spider-Verse crossover event.
Apparently building on some multidimensional gobbledigook that was going on in Jonathan Hickman's Avengers and Fantastic Four books for years (all building to the Secret Wars event), this current crossover sees Spider-Men from alternate realities teaming up against a common enemy.
It's basically writer Dan Slott's love letter to the Spider-Man mythos, which is to say it's Dan Slott's time to show off how much obscure Spider-Man trivia he knows. It's also a chance for him to atone for the Superior Spider-Man arc that saw Doctor Octopus take control of Spidey's brain for, like, a year, attempting to be a better hero than he ever was.
The thing is, both Superior and Spider-Verse totally break the character. Spider-Man is supposed to be a put-upon loner, a character who scrapes by, does the right thing without any help, and rarely gets congratulated. Finding out he's a big deal not just on Earth-616 but every universe? He's gonna get an ego the size of... well, the multiverse.