10 Terrible Mistakes That Almost Ruined Spider-Man For Everyone

Miles Warren was a genius bio-chemist who cracked the code in human DNA, allowing him to create perfect clones.

Instead of using his research to better mankind and make billions of dollars, Warren turned into the supervillain, The Jackal. (Because that's how you pay the bills.) Furthermore, he created a duplicate of Spider-Man called Ben Reilly and dedicated his life to toying with both superheroes.

As silly as this story sounds, we're only getting started. Peter Parker eventually deduces that he is the clone and Ben Reilly is the real Spider-Man. Although the Marvel creators thought this would be a mind-blowing twist, readers felt cheated that the superhero they had believed to the one true Spider-Man was a fake.

But it gets worse. When Peter learns his wife, Mary Jane Watson is having his child, he decides to settle down with her and passes the Spider-Man mantle onto Ben.

And if you're wondering, yes, this entire scheme was concocted ONCE AGAIN by Norman Osborn for... reasons. The Clone Saga story was so universally reviled, everything was reversed so Peter became the real Spider-Man after all.