Mr.Nobody
04-15-2006, 02:02 PM
The first thing I hear/read about Quesada's "second genie” is it will be Peter Parker's marriage to Mary Jane. But my problem with that is in the past they have written MJ out of Spider-man comics twice only to bring her back both times. Once they had MJ leave Peter, but they brought her back then and before that she was apparently killed off in a plane crash only to return months later. I just don’t get why they would bring her back if Quesada hated them being together so much. I know most people say Quesada doesn’t want to divorce them, but the whole plane crash thing would have worked to get rid of her for good.
My theory is that the "second genie” isn’t about Spider-man marriage, but its does have something to do with him. What if the "second genie” was the return of Norman Osborne. I based this on a rumor about the Clone Saga. The rumor is that the Clone Saga was such an overwhelming failure, that Marvel needed to do something drastic to stop the bleeding. So their way of making things right and putting Peter back into the Spider-man costume was to bring Norman back. The rumor also says many at Marvel were against that idea, but it was deemed necessary by Marvel's then-Editor-in-Chief.
Now this part I stole this from Wikipedia
“Joe Quesada is known for disliking comic book deaths and imposing a moratorium on the resurrection of dead characters at the beginning of his tenure as editor-in-chief. His moratorium prevented writer Chris Claremont from being immediately able to resurrect Psylocke after her death in 2001. However, over time, this moratorium has been relaxed and more characters have been resurrected — Psylocke herself was resurrected in 2005. He has made recent comments[1] disavowing the rumors of a formal restriction on deaths (the "Dead Means Dead" policy), when questioned about the recent returns of long-dead characters Colossus and Psylocke, saying instead that the rule for resurrecting dead characters was to examine the circumstances of that character's death and that such events must be story-necessitated, not simply used for higher sales numbers (i.e., as Psylocke's death was not, in his words, "a classic death," her resurrection was allowed to explore her further. Joss Whedon's return of Colossus, on the other hand, who had a very significant death - to stop the Legacy Virus - was deemed by Quesada to really "nail it," and thus be allowed under the latter reasoning).”
Most people will say that Osborne death was “a classic death” and since his return was before Quesada was made Editor-in-Chief. This could be the "second genie”.
My theory is that the "second genie” isn’t about Spider-man marriage, but its does have something to do with him. What if the "second genie” was the return of Norman Osborne. I based this on a rumor about the Clone Saga. The rumor is that the Clone Saga was such an overwhelming failure, that Marvel needed to do something drastic to stop the bleeding. So their way of making things right and putting Peter back into the Spider-man costume was to bring Norman back. The rumor also says many at Marvel were against that idea, but it was deemed necessary by Marvel's then-Editor-in-Chief.
Now this part I stole this from Wikipedia
“Joe Quesada is known for disliking comic book deaths and imposing a moratorium on the resurrection of dead characters at the beginning of his tenure as editor-in-chief. His moratorium prevented writer Chris Claremont from being immediately able to resurrect Psylocke after her death in 2001. However, over time, this moratorium has been relaxed and more characters have been resurrected — Psylocke herself was resurrected in 2005. He has made recent comments[1] disavowing the rumors of a formal restriction on deaths (the "Dead Means Dead" policy), when questioned about the recent returns of long-dead characters Colossus and Psylocke, saying instead that the rule for resurrecting dead characters was to examine the circumstances of that character's death and that such events must be story-necessitated, not simply used for higher sales numbers (i.e., as Psylocke's death was not, in his words, "a classic death," her resurrection was allowed to explore her further. Joss Whedon's return of Colossus, on the other hand, who had a very significant death - to stop the Legacy Virus - was deemed by Quesada to really "nail it," and thus be allowed under the latter reasoning).”
Most people will say that Osborne death was “a classic death” and since his return was before Quesada was made Editor-in-Chief. This could be the "second genie”.