Spider-Man Beyond had a chance to have Ben Reilly step away from the shadow of Peter Parker and Marvel managed to fumble that. They had their chance with Kaine and they managed to fumble that as well. Marvel LITERALLY RUINED BOTH Parker Clones in order to preserve Miles Morales.
Before I talk Ben, let's talk Kaine... since he was Ben's nemesis. So after multiple ofd deaths and rebirths, he became one with The Other and lost his enhanced Spider-sense. Wearing a faulty Big Time Spider-Man suit, he left NY and became the Spider-themed hero from Texas. He had a few encounters with Ben Reilly in Las Vegas as well... this was after Ben Reilly stopped being The New Jackal. KAINE was THE GOOD CLONE, while Ben was the "Fallen clone seeking redemption". Then Kaine was bleeped off the map once he got the degeneration back.
So that leaves Ben: He was "reset to factory settings" during the Spider-verse mess with Morlun and the inheritors. He ended up becoming the Spider-Man for the Beyond Corporation. He was somewhere in between Superior Spider-Man and Peter Parker Spider-Man. With Peter Parker being heavily wounded, Ben picked up the slack as Spidey. Of course, we all knew this was going to be temporary. Beyond erased a lot of Ben's memories and he tried to fight Peter for them. When the Memory eraser device was destroyed, Ben remained in the self destroyed building and bonded with the molecular rearanging goo that was destroying the Beyond building and now he's the weird Symbiote looking bad Spider-Man known as Chasm.
It ALMOST FEELS like they're purposely sabotaging every person who is rightfully suited to the mantle of Spider-Man before Miles Morales.
Dark edgy Parker Clone = Kaine...
Peter Parker 2.0 = Ben Reilly...
"BuT tHeRe ArE tOo MaNy SpIdEr-PeOpLe"...
Yeah, get rid of the non-616-ers and send them back home... Spider-Gwen, Miles, I'm looking at you. That leaves the Un-related Spider-Women...
Madame Web, Jessica Drew, Araña, and Silk.
Madam Web barely does anything now. Jessica drew is with the Avengers. Anya is doing her own thing, so is Silk. They're pretty much unrelated to Spider-Man events.
Erasing Ben's shared memories would've allowed him to step away from Parker's shadow. This would allow him to be his own man and maybe have him be a "successful Spidey" and have him relearn the Power and Responsibility lesson in his own way distinct from Peter... but no, the jeniuses at Marvel thought... How about we make The joker and venom rolled into Ben Reilly... because Miles ia here to stay.
And here we are... it's not One More Day Bad, but it's borderlibe Civil War Unmasking bad.
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