10 Times Marvel Went Too Far

The Clone Saga is still by far one of the most infamous eras in all of Spider-Man's history, and considering the steep competition for that title, the fact that we are still talking about this conga line of pure unending stupidity is a testament to what nineties Spidey fans had to slog through.

Frankly you could make an entire list about moments from this saga, but the one that went too far for a LOT of people was the moment Marvel officially made their move to replace Peter Parker with Ben Reilly.

Now, they knew how this would be received, so they devised a scheme to explain it all away. See this whole farce started with a short arc during Gerry Conway's run in the seventies, where Spidey fought a clone of himself who, at the arc's conclusion, struck out on his own. No surprise that that clone was Reilly.

So during one of the most confusing arcs of an already brain melting saga, Marvel - who were obsessed with making Spidey a swinging single even back then - revealed that Ben was actually the real Peter Parker the whole time, while the one we'd been following since that story a decade ago at the time was the REAL clone.

Yeah uh, people did not like it. But the internet wasn't a thing QUITE yet, so it took a while for Marvel to get the memo that fans were REALLY not happy with this.

Easily one of Marvel's most laughably hare-brained schemes to date, no wonder we still remember it.