One More Day Discussion Thread

[Ion Kenshin]

The same reason people care what happens to a "peter parker" who runs around threatening to kill people and going bat**** crazy over various people because his aunt got shot and is dying. Emotional attachment and the fact that it's going to end up going somewhere.

You can't honestly tell me that if you were in his shoes, and I mean in his shoes 100% through everything that you wouldn't of taken that deal as well. The deal makes him human. And in a world robots flying around and giant green monsters comming, where people can kill the planets population through mind-powers and where theres always some kind of outside force invading earth, sometimes you have to have someone act like the human he is and make the big mistakes.

I can actually cause i know where i stand in life and making a literal deal with The Devil is something i'd never do and i truly believe it to be something his aunt would not agree with either.

 

[Doc Destruction]

Anyone who would take that deal is an idiot. Aunt May probably will die of old age soon, and MJ represents the FUTURE.

Those of you who've never been married (in a good marriage) just don't get it.

 

[Xofenroht]

He didn't actually make the deal. MJ did.

 

[PhotoJones]

It's stupid to argue who would have done what, because logic has been thrown out the window with this story. The characters are acting out of character, and things are conveniently forgotten or ignored to make the story "work".

 

[Xofenroht]

You know, people were saying that about Reed Richards in Civil War, but I remember when he made Ben Grimm turn back into the Thing.

Peter Parker has always been known to be impulsive. MJ never seemed to "quite get it" either. It's making more sense to me.

 

[Blader5489]

Anyone who would take that deal is an idiot. Aunt May probably will die of old age soon, and MJ represents the FUTURE.

Every time I see people make this comment, I can't help but think that they didn't even read OMD. Peter says, quite clearly, in part 2 that he knows Aunt May will die sometime, but that the difference between May dying then and her dying now is that if she dies now, it will be Peter's fault.

 

[Doc Destruction]

Hmmm, nope, still an idiot.

 

[The Leaguer]

Total idiot.

 

[Xofenroht]

He does have a long history of doing things like that.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Every time I see people make this comment, I can't help but think that they didn't even read OMD. Peter says, quite clearly, in part 2 that he knows Aunt May will die sometime, but that the difference between May dying then and her dying now is that if she dies now, it will be Peter's fault.

Which just means that Peter's still a child. He made the deal to assuage his own guilt rather than for May's sake.

 

[Darthphere]

Every time I see people make this comment, I can't help but think that they didn't even read OMD. Peter says, quite clearly, in part 2 that he knows Aunt May will die sometime, but that the difference between May dying then and her dying now is that if she dies now, it will be Peter's fault.

Wow, that's even worse.

 

[BrianWilly]

Considering that May herself said she was perfectly fine with it, since taking a bullet meant for Spider-Man meant that she was saving untold numbers of lives down the road and doing unimaginable good for the world? Yeah. Idiot.

 

[arachnid-guy]

Bah.

This hurts my heart to hear.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I hate to play devil's advocate on so universally loathed a story, but has anyone considered that that wasn't really May whom Peter saw in that dreamy vision thing? I can't imagine why he would, but Mephisto would easily be capable of hijacking Madame Web's mental transmission or whatever and impersonating May in that scenario. Just to **** with Peter, 'cause, y'know, evil incarnate and all.

 

[Stallion9979]

they will fix it by saying MJ was a skrull and that the real MJ is being held captive so the deal wont be valid and there will be some half***ed way for him to put everything back the way it was and still let him save May and keep his identity...

 

[Harlekin]

Why? May says to let her go, the complete opposite of what Mephisto wants Peter to do.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Because, like I said, evil incarnate. Mephisto lives to toy with people.

Granted, it's a thin justification, but I just thought someone should mention the possibility that maybe it wasn't really May telling them that.

they will fix it by saying MJ was a skrull and that the real MJ is being held captive so the deal wont be valid and there will be some half***ed way for him to put everything back the way it was and still let him save May and keep his identity...

I think that might be too crappy a story idea even for Joe Q...

 

[Harlekin]

Still wouldn't change a thing though, since nothing suggests Peter doesn't believe it's May, which really, makes Pete's decision so friggin' ******ed.

 

[Obi-Ron]

The History Eraser Button was a dumb idea for Ren & Stimpy, for Superman, and now for Spidey.

 

[DBM]

Maybe this has been brought up already (since I haven't read the whole thread) but are we not worried (and correspondingly shouldn't Peter and MJ have been worried) that Mephisto is going to pull a Crash Simpson on Aunt May?

 

[BrianWilly]

I hate to play devil's advocate on so universally loathed a story, but has anyone considered that that wasn't really May whom Peter saw in that dreamy vision thing? I can't imagine why he would, but Mephisto would easily be capable of hijacking Madame Web's mental transmission or whatever and impersonating May in that scenario. Just to **** with Peter, 'cause, y'know, evil incarnate and all.

But if that were Mephisto, why would he tell Pete to stop obsessing over it like a crazy person? Wouldn't his entire purpose be to make Peter feel even more guilty, which is kind of the opposite of what May said in that scene?

But then again, Pete pretty much had that reaction anyway, regardless of what she said. I mean, the entire conversation basically went like

Aunt May: "Move on, Peter."
Peter: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"

EDIT: Or, y'know, what Harlekin just said.

 

[Stallion9979]

I think that might be too crappy a story idea even for Joe Q...

I dunno...who ever thought Peter would make a deal with the Devil...this would at least tie into the other crappy story Marvel is doing...

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Maybe this has been brought up already (since I haven't read the whole thread) but are we not worried (and correspondingly shouldn't Peter and MJ have been worried) that Mephisto is going to pull a Crash Simpson on Aunt May?

I've been considering that, myself. It would totally be a Mephisto thing to do and, really, Peter himself should've thought of that and addressed it in OMD. Everybody knows that a deal with the devil is never what it seems. But that's another in the long list of problems with the story.

 

[Xofenroht]

Peter always makes dumb decisions. That's how Spider-Man even got started in the first place, from Peter going "Oh, let me marvel at this cash, I'm too self-centered to worry about that thief running past me."

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, 40 years ago. One would hope the character's grown a bit.

Plus, this isn't just a bad decision. It's the ultimate bad decision. People have written great works of literature on just how bad a decision this is. It's so bad it's become idiomatic of ill-conceived decisions. Peter's ostensibly still supposed to be smart, right? A third-grader would know not to make this decision.