Times Spider Man Died Screen Rant. Does death matter in comic books any more After all, so few are permanent that it seems like more of an inconvenience rather than any lasting state of being. There could be an argument made that the narrative gymnastics that comic book writers have to pull to get a hero out of a nasty case of death is part of the fun. Its almost an in joke, an agreement between reader and creator to embrace the ridiculous. Comic book death has become more of a way to put a character on the back burner or, you know, to sell a lot of comics rather than to write them off completely. Its pretty much guaranteed that if a hero is popular enough, they will have died dozens of times over their crimefighting careers. Being perhaps one of the most beloved superheroes of all time, Marvels Spider Man has managed to shrug off fatality on many occasions. As they range from the interesting to the downright weird, we figured wed better do something with them. Here are 1. 5 Times Spider Man Died. Mutates into a giant spider then dies. The Six Arms Saga was a weird time in Spider Man comics where Peter Parker sprouted extra limbs and eventually turned into Man Spider, a slavering gigantic arachnid monster. After The Avengers disbanded, Spideys Disassembled run had Peter turning into an eight legged abomination once again. By the end of The Spectacular Spider Man 1. Peter was no more. Klyntar as part of the Secret Wars on Battleworld, SpiderMan came into possession of a black costume when his redandblue suit was damaged in battle. The Amazing SpiderMan 2 Black Suit Costume Free Roam Gameplay HDPC Specs CPU Intel Core i5 3470 3. 20GHz box. In his stead was a shiver inducing giant spider pet in the service of Adrianna Soria, aka the Spider Queen. All seems lost until issue 2. So, Petes dead, right Apparently not. A naked and decidedly human Peter bursts out of the spiders carcass, good as new. No, it doesnt make any sense. Theres even less logic in the reveal that Peter now had new powers like organic webbing and, rather weirdly, insect telepathy. Ant Mans lawyers probably werent too happy about that last one. Impaled by the Goblins glider. Separation Anxiety is brainless beatemup barbarism at its best The webbed wonders latest actionthriller lets you play as either Venom or SpiderMan through 13. Comic book deaths have become a bit of a running joke, since theyre so rarely permanent, but even in the superhero world, SpiderMans pushing it. Piders are good for you and the environment, but I have a few friends that are afraid of spiders and my house is not exactly infested. After dragging on for approximately seven hundred years, the tortuous Clone Saga eventually started to wind down. One of the longest running parts of The. Clone Saga was the question over who was the real Peter Parker. Was it the Parker we knew, or was he actually a clone of Ben Reilly In The Night of the Goblin appearing in Spider Man 7. The Green Goblin has a badly beaten Ben Reilly in his grasp. He admits that hes been manipulating Peter from the start and that Ben Reilly is the clone. Spidey and Gobby face off, but Osborn gets the upper hand. Ben shakes the cobwebs loose and rallies to help Peter, but it doesnt go to plan. Goblin sends his glider on a deadly trajectory. Reilly manages to warn Peter of the danger, but gets speared through the back by the glider before falling off the rooftop to the streets far below. Ben Reillys death actually stuck for an impressive amount of time, lasting about 2. Clone Conspiracy arc in 2. Drained and prematurely aged by the symbiote suit. If were talking death with the all important inverted commas, then its kind of expected that we delve into the wacky world of the non canonical What IfIn What If Vol. 2 4, the premise was simple what if the alien costume had possessed Spider Man Instead of heroically casting off the black suit in this reality, Peter and the symbiote end up bonding, impossible to separate by science and magic. Reed Richards keeps the ParkerVenom creature under observation, but it escapes. It ends up attacking The Hulk, leaving its previous host discarded as it latches onto the Jade Giant. Venom. Hulk leaps away, leaving Peter behind, prematurely aged by being under the symbiotes influence for so long. Reed offers to care for rickety Pete, but Parker collapses and dies of old age soon after. In case you were wondering how the twisted tale ends, Black Cat blasts the symbiote with a energy weapon, killing it in revenge for her fallen Spider. Stabbed by Wolverine. A mere two issues after the alien shenanigans, What If Vol. 2 6 featured Spider Man dying again. The famous X Men event Inferno involved a demonic invasion of Earth, with X Man Colossuss sister, Illyana Rasputin, being the key element to the whole nefarious plan. New York is overrun with demons and all the nearby costumed crusaders band together to fight them off. The day is eventually saved when Illyana sacrifices her demon powers and banishes the invading horde back to the extradimensional plane they came from. The ordeal also reverts Illyana to a seven year old for some reason. However, in What If the X Men Had Lost Inferno One of the demons, Sym, finds Illyanas powerful Soulsword and uses it to teleport to Earth. He kills all of the X Men except Wolverine, who becomes possessed. The dimensions demonic aura corrupts the vast majority of the Marvel Universes remaining heroes, but for reasons unknown direct quote She Hulk, Human Torch, Doctor Strange, Spider Man, and a handful of others are unaffected. Theyre soon set on by Wolverine, Hulk, and the rest of their demonic brethren, and the results are brutal. Captain America is cut to ribbons and poor She Hulk gets her neck snapped by her raging green cousin. Spider Man holds out a little longer before Demon Logan leaps up and stabs him through the back with his claws. Tough break. 1. 1. Hit with a massive energy blast. Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars 1. Dr. Doom manages to steal godlike power from The Beyonder and he uses it to destroy The Avengers, The X Men, The Fantastic Four, Hulk, and both Spider Man and Spider Woman in one fell swoop. A massive energy blast tears through the heroes temporary Doombase HQ and takes them all out with little fuss. Obviously, some of Marvels most popular heroes ever didnt stay dead for long. In Issue 1. 2, Doom grows paranoid that he hasnt killed his enemies. Black Panther villain Klaw does his best Grima Wormtongue impression and slowly convinces the unstable Doom that he hadnt finished the job. Thanks to Dooms lack of control over his new power, his paranoia simply wills the heroes back into existence, with Thors hammer Mjolnir crashing through the wall mere seconds later. Although it was quickly overturned, this counts as one of only a handful of times that Spider Man has legitimately died. Dies in hospital after a mysterious illness. Hold your noses, because were about to delve back into The. Clone Saga. In Spider Man 7. Peter collapses and is rushed to hospital. By the time we catch up with him in the next issue, things have gotten a lot worse. Peters on deaths door, and Mary Jane and Ben Reilly are powerless to do anything about it. At the end of Issue 7. Peter finally succumbs to his mystery illness and flatlines, but not before telling Ben to continue his legacy. Spectacular Spider Man 2. MJ and Ben mourning before Peter miraculously wakes up, his powers restored after having lost them at the end of Spider Man The Final Adventure. Peter then joins Ben in a climactic fight against The Lizard, dressed in scrubs and a surgery mask. Wed say this may be one of his worst looks ever, but theres some hefty competition from the Bombastic Bag Man outfit to consider. Poisoned by The Owl. For people not familiar with supervillain The Owl, hes basically like the Vulture, but with a crappier suit. In Amazing Spider Man 3. The Owl real name Leland Owlsley and Vulture team up, but they have a shaky alliance to say the least. Owl experiments with a new kind of poison and paints it on the talons of his pet vulture not Adrian Toomes, an actual bird.