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Peter Parker has long struggled with an consuming guilt coordination compound , one that drove him to becomeSpider - Manin the first place . OneSpider - Manbook gives reader a glance into Peter ’s nous , showing just how deep this guilt trip actually goes . In fact , the dream unwrap that Peter Parker may conceive that , on some grade , Spider - Man is beyond redemption .
The Amazing Spider - Man#518 – by J. Michael Straczynski , Mike Deodato Jr. , Mark Brooks , Joe Pimentel , Jaime Mendoza , Matt Milla , and Brian Reber – concludes the four - part write up " Skin Deep . " The arc sees Peter fights Charlie Weiderman , a high school Quaker who has accidentally covered his body with a Vibranium skinsuit .
After being strike hard out , Peter dreams of himself , Charlie , and younger adaptation of themselves back at Midtown High School . In the ambition , Peter find a path to immobilize Charlie , though he fears his sure-enough acquaintance wo n’t forgive him . Charlie ( or , at least , Peter ’s dream theatrical of him ) responds , " Of course we wo n’t . Has anyone ever ? "
An omnipotent , all - seeing being confirms what Peter Parker had already suspect , and hoped was n’t true … but the Ultimate Universe could fix .
Peter Parker Thinks Spider-Man Is Unforgivable For Endangering His Loved Ones
The dream interlingual rendition of Charlie does n’t just say hewon’t forgive Peter , however ; he asks if anyone everdoes . It ’s a well-defined mental representation of Peter ’s own guilt , his belief that Spider - Man , at his core , can not be forgive for his mistake .
The Amazing Spider - Man#518concludes the discharge where Peter fights Charlie Weiderman , an old champion from eminent school . Though Charlie was bullied immediately at Midtown High , Peter did n’t support him , as he was glad to have a target off his back . As an grownup , Charlie had Peter recommend him to Tony Stark , who funded a project to yield soldier Vibranium skinsuits . When Peter worried that Charlie ’s experiment were dangerous and threatened to expose him , Charlie rushed the workplace , inadvertently for good coat himself in Vibranium . Charlie , who already had a account of violence after endure perpetual abuse , threatened to vote out Peter and his loved I after the accident .
After fighting Charlie in his burning flat , Spider - Man go across out from exhaustion and pot inhalation . He dream of a style to stop Charlie , using increased pressure to harden the Vibranium , immobilizing his old booster inside . The dream version of Charlie does n’t just say hewon’t forgive Peter , however ; he asks if anyone everdoes . It ’s a clear mental representation of Peter ’s own guilt trip , his opinion that Spider - Man , at his core , can not be forgiven for his misunderstanding . In a sensory faculty , Spider - Man is built on this belief , as Peter spend his life in the pursual of making up for the actions of a frightened , heartbroken teenager .
Peter Parker’s Feud With An Old Friend Led To The Loss of Aunt May’s House
Spider - Man ’s guilty conscience would only shortly aggravate , as Peter learns at the ending of the issue that Charlie has also burned down Aunt May ’s house . Now , his fight with Charlie has cost his mob their homes . It ’s a tragic blow , and one that Peter proceed to feel guilty for , followingtheir move to Avengers Tower . To make subject worse , the destruction of May ’s longtime home was n’t due to another blood feud of Spider - Man ’s . This was a rarified place in which Peter Parker ’s actions brought havoc to her threshold . Unlike the death of Uncle Ben , however , this incident was have by Peter tryingto assist .
Peter Parker has long been ineffective to see the timberland of Spider - Man ’s commodity through the tree of his own misapprehension . This guilt complex would fare to a head later in this same run , when Peter ’s unmasking duringCivil Warled to a sniper point his family andputting May at death ’s threshold . ineffectual to live with the cognition that he cause her death , Peter traded his marriage with Mary Jane to Mephisto for Aunt May ’s life inOne More Day , one of the most infamous Spider - Man storiesof all time . As the incident with Charlie Weiderman shows , Peter believesSpider - Man’ssins have never been – will never be – forgiven .
