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ttakooo21: *whispers* what if norman died and harry’s mom had to raise him alone. what if because of norman’s cause of death (could be suicide or OD), harry’s mom became fiercely protective of harry. what if harry grew up as a momma boy. what if harry goes to some random college at town instead of some fancy uni overseas and meets peter. what if peter gets interrogated by harry’s mom. what if harry’s mom lets harry choose whatever he wants in life and that includes whom he marry and what job he takes.

madnessmelody:

YES

little!Harry clinging to his mom on the first day of school and refusing to let go.

Emily Osborn’s wrath when she finds out someone bullied Harry at school.

Harry and his mom going out shopping together.

Emily Osborn smiling while threatening to torture and kill Peter if he ever hurts her baby.

Peter being absolutely terrified of her at first.

Mama!Osborn warming up to Peter after seeing how much he loves Harry, and how much Harry loves him back.

Happy Osborn family without Norman there to screw things up!

Someone oughta write this, there aren’t nearly enough fics about Emily.

Obviously no-one has much to go on with regards to her personality, but I sort of like the idea of her being as terrifying as Norman, but ultimately on the side of good.

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This isn’t really a AU as I have no idea where it would go, but I do sometimes wonder “What if Gerry Conway, Stan Lee etc had instead of killing off Gwen hit on the idea of having Harry die of his overdose, therefore covering Conway’s desire to have a shock factor in the comics, Lee’s desire to educate kids about drugs, and the apparent necessity to kill off a main character?”

Would it have been good? Bad? Sensationalist? Embedded in the public conciousness the way Gwen’s death is? No-one will EVER KNOW

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reluctantheroine asked: What is your opinion on the theory that Harry’s drug addiction might have started sooner than what was depicted in the comics?

I really like that idea! I think there’s just enough evidence for it (Peter noticing that Harry’s always had bottles of pills around, MJ’s “it’s a long story”) to make it plausible. Not nice, but…plausible.

Although obviously this couldn’t be a plot point or even mentioned in any of the 60s-70s Spider-Man comics, it actually wouldn’t surprise me if Harry, Flash, MJ and maybe even Gwen had taken drugs recreationally at some point. They were teenagers and it’s the kind of thing teenagers actually do, after all. So I can see Harry going to parties and taking drugs with the others, and finding himself getting addicted to them in a way the others weren’t, and not being able to tell anyone apart from MJ because Norman would be disgusted, Gwen was the devoted daughter of the police chief, Flash had joined the army and Peter was just plain never around.

Which would make a hell of a flashback story if any future comic writers fancy re-visiting that period…

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draxisaprincess:

“Casting for a way to shake up The Amazing Spider-Man, [Roy] Thomas and [Gerry] Conway had discussed the idea of killing off a member of the supporting cast. Aunt May— elderly, generically kindly, and seemingly always at death’s door anyway— was the logical nominee. But when John Romita got wind of the plans, he suggested a different victim: Peter Parker’s girlfriend, the lovely Gwen Stacy. Conway thought it was a stroke of genius.

‘She was a nonentity, a pretty face,’ he said. ‘She brought nothing to the mix. It made no sense that Peter Parker would end up with a babe like that who had no problems. Only a damaged person would end up with a damaged guy like Peter Parker. And Gwen Stacy was perfect! …The amazing thing was that [Stan] created a character like Mary Jane Watson, who was probably the most interesting female character in comics, and he never used her to the extent that he could have. Instead of Peter Parker’s girlfriend, he made her Peter Parker’s best friend’s girlfriend. Which is so wrong, and so stupid, and such a waste. So killing Gwen was a totally logical if not inevitable choice.’

Conway, Romita, and Gil Kane worked out a story in which Green Goblin kidnapped Gwen Stacy and threw her off the top of the George Washington Bridge; in a perverse twist, someone added a “snap!” to the panel in which Spider-Man’s web catches Gwen, implying that it was not the fall but the whiplash from the catch that caused her neck to snap, that Spider-Man implicated the death” [pages 136-137]

“Conway was stuck with orders from Lee to bring back Gwen Stacy, somehow, if only for one issue.” [page 165]

—“Marvel Comics the Untold Story” by Sean Howe

1) This is why I don’t trust people who say so-and-so female character has ‘no personality’ or whatnot, especially as you never hear that about male characters.

2) Gwen absolutely wasn’t perfect. She had a bad temper, she could be naive, was often jealous (and occasionally attempted to make Peter jealous) and she would slap people!

3) No problems? She thought Spider-Man killed her father, and hated him while loving Peter, unaware they were the same person.

4) And they thought of killing her before they thought of exploring that?!

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