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starwolf_oakley (starwolf_oakley) wrote in scans_daily,

I find it noteworthy that Spider-Man is the one who is big on "Killing Osborn would be wrong." (I considered posting those pages, but it looks like it would go above the issue limit. So I'll just talk about it here.)

Spider-Man seems to think that Clint is only going kill-happy because things suck so badly for superheroes now that Norman is in charge. Since life always sucks for Spider-Man (and he doesn't remember his marriage as a comfort) he sees having "a rough patch" can't excuse murder. Clint, on the other hand, says that if Spider-Man had just killed the Green Goblin back in high school, they wouldn't be in this mess. A callback to the ILLUMINATI one-shot, IIRC.

With the final part of THE LIST being a Spider-Man issue, I am curious if we will get something like BATMAN #650: Spider-Man reveals he wants to kill Norman Osborn so badly he can practically taste it. He even thinks letting Norman live is like that time he let the Burglar escape, but 100 times worse (the Burglar killed Ben Parker by accident; Norman killed many people on purpose). But killing Norman would be wrong.

This brings up questions regarding Peter Parker's ideas on power and responsibility, and if Peter is shirking his responsibility to stop Norman "for good" just so he won't feel like a hypocrite. It's also very possible that Norman *not* knowing Peter's secret ID anymore lessened his Spider-obsession, so Norman is now free to spread the wealth. "Wealth" meaning "insanity," of course.