Warning! Spoilers for The Amazing Spider-Man #34 ahead!Spider-Man’s recent turn to the dark side has revealed some chilling thoughts that have been lurking within his mind for years, including how he would kill each of his greatest villains. While Spidey has fought his rogues enough times to know their weaknesses, he’s also been holding onto plans for how he could eliminate each of them in the most personal and torturous ways possible.
The Amazing Spider-Man #34 by Zeb Wells and Patrick Gleason continues Peter Parker’s descent into villainy. After being stabbed with a spear mystically imbued with the sins of Norman Osborn, Spider-Man has begun thinking and acting more like the Green Goblin. Donning his old black suit, he’s already buried Kraven the Hunter alive and tried to unplug the gangster Tombstone from life-support machines. As he turns his attention to Mary Jane’s new boyfriend Paul, he reveals to Norman that he intends to go after everyone who has wronged him. “The people who hurt you…it feels so good to hurt them back,” he says. “I’m going to get all of you. I’ll throw Otto into a nuclear reactor…feed Eddie his own brain.”
Spider-Man Has Been Thinking About Killing His Villains
The deaths that Spider-Man has picked out for Otto (Doctor Octopus) and Eddie (Venom) are fitting for both villains. Doc Ock was a brilliant nuclear physicist before a radiation leak fused his tentacle-like mechanical arms to his body. Many of his criminal schemes have revolved around acquiring nuclear weapons and materials, so it’s appropriate he would meet his end in a nuclear reactor. Similarly, before Venom became an anti-hero, he was a straight-up villain who always threatened to eat Spider-Man’s brains. He even did eat the brains of some villains, explaining that he needed a chemical in the human brain in order to survive. Chances are he wouldn’t be too keen on eating his own brain, however.
Spider-Man Wants to Recreate the Worst Night of His Life
Before he starts rounding up his villains, Spider-Man reveals that he wants to borrow a page out of Norman Osborn’s book. He tells his longtime foe that he intends to throw Paul off a bridge and see if Mary Jane can catch him with her new powers. That’s exactly how the Green Goblin killed Gwen Stacy in 1973’s The Amazing Spider-Man #121 by Gerry Conway and Gil Kane. This event has haunted Peter ever since, and he even calls back to that night in this issue as he mercilessly beats up Norman. “Do you think I forgot what you did?!” he shouts. “What mercy did you show Gwen?” The fact that he’s willing to inflict that same pain on MJ shows how far he’s fallen.
The issue ends with Queen Goblin stopping Peter from attacking MJ and Paul, while Norman frees Kraven from the coffin he’s been buried in. In order stop Peter, they may need the help of even more villains. But this kind of fight may just be the excuse Spider-Man is waiting for to carry out his plans to kill his enemies once and for all.
The Amazing Spider-Man #34 is available now from Marvel Comics.
