10 Terrible Mistakes That Almost Ruined Spider-Man For Everyone‏

2. When Gwen Stacy Did The Nasty With Norman Osborn

The last part of Straczynski's Spidey trilogy of terror is undoubtedly the worst. It was bad enough tearing apart the classic romance of Mary Jane and Peter Parker, one of the most beloved relationships in comics. MJ wasn't the first love of Spidey's or his readers' lives, though; that honour falls to Gwen Stacy, tragically killed during a confrontation with the Green Goblin, producing one of the most powerful storylines in comics and cementing Norman Osborn as Peter Parker's arch nemesis. Pretty sad, right? And all the more so because Gwen was such a sweet, innocent girl (even more so in the films, played by Emma Stone). Straczynski decided that he was gonna screw that all up, though, with the Sins Past storyline which revealed that not only did Ms Stacy have a couple of kids before she was shuffled off of her mortal coil, but that the father was the very man who later killed her: Norman Osborn. And if that wasn't stomach turning enough, you also got the above love scene before the wrinkly old villain and the young Gwen, which was SUPER GROSS. Honestly, the idea of Spidey's main villain bumping uglies with his girlfriend is not only icky but really, really stupid. Like something that happens in a teen movie, not a dark and dramatic superhero story. Like a lot of the other mistakes on this list, it messed with history, too, rewriting it so that one of the landmark Spider-Man stories - The Death of Gwen Stacy - had a whole different, nasty dimension. This came so close to ruining every character involved, in fact, that One More Day was partly inspired by it. In that they sought to completely erase it from history. So maybe that wasn't all bad? Sins Past definitely was though.