MCU Writer Reveals 2023’s Dark Abandoned Spider-Man Story

MCU Writer Reveals 2023’s Dark Abandoned Spider-Man Story

Marvel’s What If…? abandoned a possible Spider-Man 2023 story because it would have been too dark.

Speaking to IGN, What If…? head writer A.C. Bradley revealed that a Spider-Man episode was cut because it was darker than season 2 of the animated series was aiming to be.

“It felt like the world was already ending and we didn’t need to add to it. And so it became kind of an escape and a fun release. However, I did write an episode, which is forever going in a drawer, that was very, very dark. I was calling it ‘Children of Men with Spider Man.’”

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