Spider-Man is Marvel's most popular character. He stars in multiple comics every month, from ongoings to miniseries to one-shots to team books. The Amazing Spider-Man is consistently a top-selling comic every month. Spider-Man changed how superheroes were created and written, and he was the hero that truly made Marvel into the powerhouse it is now.

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Over the years, many of the greatest creators who worked at Marvel have made timeless Spider-Man stories. However, not every story is a fantastic classic. Some of them were huge mistakes and had terrible consequences for Spider-Man's comics.

10 Superior Spider-Man

The Superior Spider-Man enters from his multiverse in The Amazing Spider-Man.

Dan Slott wrote Spider-Man for years, and was responsible for a lot of changes to Spider-Man post-One More Day. It's arguable whether those were fan-favorite changes despite TASM's high sales, but one well-received change was the Superior Spider-Man storyline. Doctor Octopus taking Peter Parker's place led to some interesting places, but it's hard to say whether there was actually a point to the story.

Even in 2012, everyone knew that Spider-Man wouldn't be replaced by Doc Ock forever. This took away the fangs of the story, with even the moment where Ock gives up the Parker body and admits he isn't superior predictable. The whole story was like that - predictable.

9 Ending Mary Jane's Pregnancy

Mary Jane pregnancy

Once upon a time, Spider-Man was allowed to grow as a character, but there were limits. Mary Jane's mid-'90s pregnancy was one of those limits. Because of the then-contemporary MC2 line, many fans thought that Peter and Mary Jane would have May "Mayday" Parker as their daughter and get Spider-Man as a father. But, alas, it was not to be.

Mary Jane's pregnancy ended in a miscarriage, although there was some ambiguity to the whole thing to keep things open for the future. However, getting rid of the baby was a forecast of how much Marvel hated changing Spider-Man's status quo. This tree would bear poisonous fruit in the future.

8 Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy

Spider-Man, with the Jackal in the background in Marvel Comics Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy

Slott's run as TASM writer contained high points like SpiderVerse, but there were also some low points. One was Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy, a story that ran through multiple titles in 2016-2017. It revolved around the return of yet another Gwen Stacy clone and the Jackal, and was a story that no one really wanted at all.

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Clone stories and Spider-Man, in the 21st century, shouldn't go together. The original Clone Saga was a disaster, so doing another clone story is mystifying. Slott didn't have the chops to make the story work, and it became a massively panned part of his run.

7 John Byrne's Spider-Man

Great art doesn't equate to great Spider-Man. Many of Marvel's best artists have worked on subpar Spider-Man stories, including some true legends. Writer/artist John Byrne, known for rebooting characters, was given the reins to Spider-Man, also working with writer Howard Mackie, after the Clone Saga. What followed made the preceding story seem amazing.

Byrne made some foundational changes to Spider-Man's origins that no one liked in Spider-Man: Chapter One, while stories he drew and co-plotted in The Amazing Spider-Man also fell flat. The last thing Spider-Man fans at the time wanted was more bad stories, but that was what Byrne gave them. It did even more damage to the Spider-Man mythos when they should have been fixing them.

6 Ben Reilly Becoming Chasm

Chasm leads the Insidious Six in Marvel Comics.

Spider-Man has many regrets. He's not a perfect hero, and his choices often lead to pain for those around him. This is what happened with Ben Reilly. The Spider-Clone's association with Peter led him to nothing but death and heartbreak. Eventually, Reilly became the villainous Chasm, helping Madelyne Pryor in her invasion of Earth.

Spider-Man fans really liked Ben Reilly, so to make him a villain was spitting in readers' faces. Spider-Man's editors seem to luxuriate in doing the worst things they can imagine to Spider-Man, angering fans in the process. Making a fan favorite into a villain definitely angered the fandom for seemingly no good reason, as Dark Web isn't considered a good story.

5 Undoing The Death Of Aunt May

The true Aunt May from Marvel Comics' Spider-Man: The Gathering of the Five

Spider-Man's origin is a classic, and his relationship with his Aunt May is foundational. She was his mother figure, and he spent years doing everything he could to take care of her after his Uncle Ben's death. That's what made her death in The Amazing Spider-Man #400, by writer J.M. DeMatteis and artist Mark Bagley, so poignant. It was a beloved story in the mid-'90s, and seemed to open a new era for the Wall-Crawler.

Of course, Marvel's fear of truly upsetting Spider-Man's 60-year-old status quo saw them bring her back, revealing the May who died was merely an actor hired by Norman Osborn. It took a beautiful story about life and death and made it meaningless. Since then, May has still been around and rarely involved in any actual good stories.

4 The Mystery Box Of The Amazing Spider-Man (2022)

Mary Jane Watson and Peter Parker in the rain.

Marvel enjoys ruining Spider-Man's life and, by extension, ruining fans' lives. 2022's The Amazing Spider-Man is another example of Marvel editors and creators ruining Spider-Man's personal life as a source of drama. This run of TASM, written by Zeb Wells, revolved around a mystery box where Spider-Man did something terrible before the story started, and everyone hates him except Norman Osborn.

This mystery has been a source of frustration for readers since the run began. While there have been some great moments, the mystery and its consequences - mainly separating Spider-Man and Mary Jane completely, even mysteriously giving her a husband and kids - are vocally hated by fans. It feels like it was just meant to once again Mary Jane and Peter apart, Marvel's seeming favorite Spider-Man pastime.

3 Sins Past

Spider-Man swings over New York in Sins Past

Writer J. Michael Straczynski came on TASM at the beginning of the 21st century and righted the ship after the tumults of the '90s. Straczynski's run is still considered the best of the century, even though it has some notable lows. Sins Past, with artist Mike Deodato Jr., is one of those.

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This is the story that revealed that Gwen Stacy had an affair with Norman Osborn. It's infamous, with fans hating it for years, especially those who regard Gwen Stacy as Spider-Man's pure and perfect first love. It was finally retconned at the end of Nick Spencer's run but earned its reputation among Spider-Man's most hated stories.

2 The Clone Saga

Peter Parker fights his clone in Marvel Comics' Clone Saga

The Clone Saga is a highly controversial story. The early '90s for Spider-Man was full of wins, but the Clone Saga ended that. The idea itself wasn't bad - the return of the Spider-Clone - but Marvel never made any plans for the ending. The story sold well initially, so Marvel decided to keep it going, which proved a mistake.

By the end of the Clone Saga, the creators who started it were long gone. The story went on much too long; many fans had checked out by the time it ended. Its ending did bring back Norman Osborn, which has proven to be a plus, but very few people reading at the time cared anymore.

1 One More Day

Spider-Man and Mary Jane during One More Day Marvel Comics event, embracing.

One More Day was a fiasco. For many, the story has ruined Spider-Man forever. Written by J. Michael Straczynski and Joe Quesada with art by Quesada, the story was Quesada's way of getting rid of the marriage between Peter Parker and Mary Jane. Straczynski demanded his name be taken off the story's last chapter because of extensive rewrites.

Quesada's hatchet job - having Peter and Mary Jane trade their marriage to Mephisto to save Aunt May's life - is roundly hated by many Spider-Man fans. It's gone down as the most hated Spider-Man story ever, beating out the Clone Saga and Sins Past by a country mile. No other story has done the damage to the Spider-Man mythos it has.

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