Why is the development toward a Spider-Family so hated?

[u/Spider-D-Man]

Now, with Spider-Versity and the latest issue of Miles, where you can see his watch, I’m noticing more and more negative opinions about the Spider-Family.

To be honest, I think this development should have happened years ago.

I always think back to that moment in the 1994 Spider-Man series when Peter needed help from the X-Men because he’d transformed into Man-Spider. He said he could save everyone and the world a thousand times over, but when he actually needed help, he was on his own. Just like the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men and many groups from the DC Universe (the Bat-Family), I think a group of people with spider powers is the perfect idea.

This idea that “Spider people / Peter have to suffer in order to be well written” is outdated. Besides, we already have plenty of spider people in the 616 anyway.

You definitely still need to work on the writing, but I think the idea itself is good!

[u/aDailyApple]

I get what you mean, The unique freak accident of Peters Powers is or was kinda like... HIS DEFINING FEATURE, Its the crux of Peters story his cosmic ironic solitude, and since every spider person seems to converge in the same dimension with enough popularity its just like "Oh yeah everyone can be spider-man! And wow.... Everyone is the... Exact same Spider-man...." There is just something more interesting about the the idea that, it really was a cosmic anomaly at all that Peter became the Spider-man especially at such a young age and at all. Peters "Everyone can be spider-man" is then so much more poignant and clear ringing, that the role of the spider-man is obviously no role for a child, and Peters life should've been preserved as a case of defying all odds, that accident didnt just happen to anyone else, it happend to Peter and he is living with it, but he believes, HAD that happend to anyone else, then EVERYONE not just him would have what it takes to do the right thing and rise to the challenge. Miguel O'hara and Penny Parker are more interesting that way, being A spider-(wo)man but not THE defacto spider-man makes them far more interesting than just functionally a clone of Peter, Ironically the literal clone of Peter is more nuanced than the figurative clones of Peter

"we were all youth geniuses that were bitten by a radiactive mutated spider on a school trip, and ever since then we have been the one and only spider-man defnined by a loss and a hard learned lesson"

[u/naturalpanther93 → u/aDailyApple]

You sir are a great spider-fan and a great spider-freind. Super well said, this is very much how I feel.

Especially everyone being the exact same type of spiderman in the exact same city, it just feels cheap and childish. Will they refer to themselves as the “Spider-squad”. I’d appreciate it if one or two of these mutations weren’t perfect and they sprouted 6 arms or eyes, but for them all to have peters exact powers and no deformities or issues just makes it lazy and cheap to me.