10 Weirdest Comic Fan Theories You Won’t Believe Exist

5. Spider-Man's Luck Is Being Stolen

Robin Double Agent
Marvel Comics

Peter Parker has arguably the worst luck out of all the various unfortunate souls that comprise Marvel's character roster. Every single one of his loved ones has died tragically at some point, and every good thing that happens to him seems to be retconned out of existence, seemingly just out of spite.

Some plucky theorists, however, have speculated that this may not simply be that writers love to dunk on the intrepid webslinger, but rather because he is having his luck literally removed.

With characters like Longshot and Domino being bestowed with the ability to be unusually lucky, it makes sense that this luck has to come from somewhere. And what would make more sense than this luck being extracted from the universe's most unlucky man, giving a logical explanation for why every bad thing under the sun always seems to happen to Peter Parker?

It's not the world's soundest theory, but it's a delightfully entertaining one nonetheless.

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