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#while Ben endlessly holds onto hope (even if the end result is ultimately hopeless)
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“If Death be My Destiny!” Spectacular Spider-Man (Vol. 1/1976), #227.
Writer: Tom DeFalco; Penciler: Sal Buscema; Inker: Bill Sienkiewicz; Colorist: John Kalisz; Letterer: Clem Robins
#Marvel
#Marvel comics
#Marvel 616
#Spectacular Spider-Man
#Kaine
#Kaine Parker
#Scarlet Spider
#Ben Reilly
#Kaine /please/
#never before have I seen a bowling ball filled with such nihilistic bitterness
#but beyond the ethical differences this also is a pretty good showcase of the differences between their characters
#Kaine is resigned to pessimism (violently so)
#while Ben endlessly holds onto hope (even if the end result is ultimately hopeless)
#furthermore I feel like their characters as displayed here exemplifies how much they were products of their time
#Kaine obviously has a lot of the signposts of the archetypal 90’s dark anti-hero
#but Ben doesn’t escape the nihilism that plagued 90’s comics either
#he may technically have been introduced in the 70’s but you could definitely argue that “Scarlet Spider” is a purely 90’s invention
#and it shows
#Peter (a Silver Age hero) may have his struggles but he for the most part holds onto his optimism and gets the occasional win
#Ben in contrast holds onto his optimism for the most part but in all honestly I’ve yet to see him have any sort of “win” that lasts
#but anyway don’t mind my rambling in the tags hahaha
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