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[Doom85]

I'm really happy they finally introduced Mephisto. It's just funny how they introduced him using this show, when it should have been with either Spider-Man

I know, I know, it doesn't HAVE to be One More Day. But it's what most people think of when the words "Spider-man" and "Mephisto" are brought up together. I respect Marvel if they decide to not casually give their fanbase a panic attack by alluding they would be adapting one of, if not THE, most hated storyline in all of Marvel Comics' history.

Like, the only ones I can think of that would compete with it are:

-Ultimatum (butchered the original Ultimate universe, and only Ultimate Spider-man really survived in terms of fan interest after that)
-Avengers #200 (let's have a superheroine essentially be violated, and the rest of the Avengers act like she should be happy this happens! Geezus Christ!)
-Avengers Disassembled (great idea, Marvel, let's celebrate your 500th Avengers issue by anticlimactically killing off three major heroes, one of them in such a hilariously avoidable way that the Cable and Deadpool comic run made fun of it soon after, and have major continuity errors involving Wanda and her children that unfortunately locks her into character derailment for several years and one involving chaos magic that it's embarrassing no editor or such caught the issue with it before the book got printed)
-Civil War II (hey, we made Tony go out of character and act like a total villain in the first Civil War, thank god the movie didn't do this, let's up the ante and make the real Civil War II be about Tony and Carol seeing who can break more laws and act idiotic and unreasonable more than the other! Oh, and no one else on either side will point the really damn obvious solution to their petty conflict! Yaaaaaaaay)
-The Clone Saga (let's just keep adding mystery after mystery and new characters after new characters and even more plot threads after even more plot threads, and, oh, um, guys, how do we possibly resolve all this convoluted nonsense? Oh, poorly? Great idea!)

But yeah, I don't blame Marvel for not wanting to associate Spider-man and Mephisto together in an adaptation.

But there's still plenty to do with Spider-man anyway that I don't see Mephisto as a huge priority. Like we've yet to see him fight Kraven, a Venom who isn't frequently reminding us he's Topher Grace, Carnage, Rhino (I honestly didn't mind the mech suit version, but we never got an actual fight), Scorpion, Hobgoblin, and Chameleon. I'd want to see stuff like that well before he starts having to fight devils or shit. To me, Spider-man works best fighting villains who have some connection to science, either through their creation or they're flat out sci-fi extraterrestrials like the symbiotes.

Doctor Strange, oh yeah, let him throw down with Mephisto, that works.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

I know, I know, it doesn't HAVE to be One More Day. But it's what most people think of when the words "Spider-man" and "Mephisto" are brought up together. I respect Marvel if they decide to not casually give their fanbase a panic attack by alluding they would be adapting one of, if not THE, most hated storyline in all of Marvel Comics' history.

Like, the only ones I can think of that would compete with it are:

-Ultimatum (butchered the original Ultimate universe, and only Ultimate Spider-man really survived in terms of fan interest after that)
-Avengers #200 (let's have a superheroine essentially be violated, and the rest of the Avengers act like she should be happy this happens! Geezus Christ!)
-Avengers Disassembled (great idea, Marvel, let's celebrate your 500th Avengers issue by anticlimactically killing off three major heroes, one of them in such a hilariously avoidable way that the Cable and Deadpool comic run made fun of it soon after, and have major continuity errors involving Wanda and her children that unfortunately locks her into character derailment for several years and one involving chaos magic that it's embarrassing no editor or such caught the issue with it before the book got printed)
-Civil War II (hey, we made Tony go out of character and act like a total villain in the first Civil War, thank god the movie didn't do this, let's up the ante and make the real Civil War II be about Tony and Carol seeing who can break more laws and act idiotic and unreasonable more than the other! Oh, and no one else on either side will point the really damn obvious solution to their petty conflict! Yaaaaaaaay)
-The Clone Saga (let's just keep adding mystery after mystery and new characters after new characters and even more plot threads after even more plot threads, and, oh, um, guys, how do we possibly resolve all this convoluted nonsense? Oh, poorly? Great idea!)

But yeah, I don't blame Marvel for not wanting to associate Spider-man and Mephisto together in an adaptation.

But there's still plenty to do with Spider-man anyway that I don't see Mephisto as a huge priority. Like we've yet to see him fight Kraven, a Venom who isn't frequently reminding us he's Topher Grace, Carnage, Rhino (I honestly didn't mind the mech suit version, but we never got an actual fight), Scorpion, Hobgoblin, and Chameleon. I'd want to see stuff like that well before he starts having to fight devils or shit. To me, Spider-man works best fighting villains who have some connection to science, either through their creation or they're flat out sci-fi extraterrestrials like the symbiotes.

Doctor Strange, oh yeah, let him throw down with Mephisto, that works.

I mentioned Spider-man just to trigger you

 

[Doom85]

I mentioned Spider-man just to trigger you

 

[BadBurger]

I thought the series had a strong closing, even though I found ep 5 a bit uneven.

I think Marvel has gone back to the whole "the hero couldn't accomplish this without their family" well a bit too often in recent years. It wasn't as "bad" as it was in Echo - which I thought grew quite silly and directionless by the end - or Shang-Chi. It would be nice to have more of these cape stories in which the hero stands on their own to overcome the odds.

Once Mephisto showed up things went, I think, predictably: the redivivus of a certain character was immediately set in stone, Parker's fall and loss of magical bijou was certain, and since we're not likely to see more of these characters in any standalone manner* we're never going to see the inevitable countervailing consequences of the use of magic. What should have led to some exigent dilemma will be forever left up the imagination of the viewers.

* I seriously doubt we'll get a followup to whatever Parker / The Hood and Zelma were about to get up to

3/5 for the entire miniseries for me