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What if Uncle Ben was SHOT BY THE COPS? by Mysterio Lollerson 07/27/2015, 7:37am PDT
I really despise lazy shit like this.

I keep thinking how much more powerful the Spiderman origin story would be if Peter Parker was an African American kid, whose Uncle Ben was shot by police while being arrested for a minor parking infraction. There is no formal investigation, and Peter decides to put himself on the line to prevent it happening again. He tackles the white crimes that go unpunished, punishes POC criminals fairly. He is the leveler, always fighting to be without bias, to be just. To protect people like his uncle.

This not only mirrors so much of what’s happening in America, but feeds right into the complex relationship between Spiderman, the authorities and the media.

Peter Parker is a brilliant student, awkward, a nerd, but is branded a thug, a gang member, a criminal, because of his appearance. The media latch on to that and misrepresent him totally.

The police, humilitated by the fact that he refuses to work with them and often punishes cops themselves for brutalizing innocent people, or guilty people who still deserve better treatment than they get, attempt to hunt him down.


1. It wouldn't be "more powerful," just different.

2. The whole point of Spider-Man is that with great power comes great responsibility. The point of what the guy above came up with is Fuck The Police. So unless you plan on changing the above to make it so that Peter could have stopped the corrupt cop from going out that day and didn't, you have a completely different character.

3. JUST GO CREATE YOUR COMIC BOOK. Just because this is dumb as shit for Spider-Man doesn't mean that there isn't a kernel of an idea here that could be made into something for an original character. But no, let's just blog about it and hope that someone at Marvel who has no ideas of his or her own decides to do the actual hard work. The blog post there is the limit as to what people will work on by themselves these days.
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What if Uncle Ben was SHOT BY THE COPS? by Mysterio Lollerson 07/27/2015, 7:37am PDT NEW
    SWA - NT by Spiderz With Attitude 07/27/2015, 8:57am PDT NEW
    What if Uncle Ben NT by was black 07/27/2015, 1:45pm PDT NEW
        And owned a rice company NT by WITTGENSTEIN 07/27/2015, 5:03pm PDT NEW
            OH you mean like NT by OH OH OH that's the joke 07/27/2015, 8:49pm PDT NEW
    Wouldn't this be better as a Punisher re-imagining? NT by Worm 07/27/2015, 3:24pm PDT NEW
    I want a black Peter, too, but the pitch here is terrible. by Injustice 07/27/2015, 7:27pm PDT NEW
        You know what they call a black man wearing a Spider Man mask? Nigger. NT by Malcolm "Stan Lee" X 07/27/2015, 7:43pm PDT NEW
            I feel like the popular conception of Malcolm X is an extrapolation based on NT by Magneto from the X-Men. 07/27/2015, 7:50pm PDT NEW
                No he was pretty much "Kill Whitey" up until he went to Mecca NT by Malcolm "Stan Lee" X 07/27/2015, 10:12pm PDT NEW
 
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