10 Insanely Dark Marvel Moments That Will Never Make It To Film
2. Spider-Man's Sperm Gives Mary Jane Cancer
Yes, you read that title correctly. Read it again. Let it sink in.
Marvel’s poster boy for so many years, it’s biggest selling star, it’s ultimate hero, Spider-Man was responsible for giving his ‘one true’ (sorry Gwen) cancer because he had unprotected sex with her over the years. Again, let that sink in.
The story itself was Spider-Man: Reign, which took just a little inspiration from Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns in that an elderly Peter Parker is encouraged out of retirement by J. Jonah Jameson in order to take down a collection of villains and save the city.
How that story plays out is pretty disappointing in and of itself, but it’s the backstory to Parker’s situation that is even more eyebrow-raising. You see, he keeps having visions of his long-deceased MJ, which we later find out is caused by the immense guilt of him having caused the horrid cancer that took her life.
Going one further, it’s revealed that the cancer was inadvertently caused by Spidey’s overactive little webshooter regularly going off inside poor Mary Jane…