Worst Marvel Comics Crossover Events Ever. Comic book crossovers are all kinds of awesome. There’s no denying that. There’s something endlessly entertaining about throwing a bunch of superheroes and villains together and watching the sparks fly.

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Some of the best stories ever written have been big crossover events, and it’s an effective way to up the stakes and make everything feel more epic. Oh, and it also sells a ton of comic books. That’s pretty important too. But unfortunately, for every good comic crossover event, there’s about four bad ones.

As you may have guessed from the title, it’s these terrible ones that we’re focusing on for this list. Marvel has put out some genuinely classic crossovers in the past, but they’ve released their fair share of over- hyped turkeys, too. So, join us as we take a look through The Big M’s Hall of Shame and present you with the 1. Worst Marvel Crossover Events Ever. Civil War IIOur first entry on this list is the most recent. When the first Civil War was released in 2.

Superheroes drew lines in the sand. Allies became enemies, enemies became allies, and the notoriously private Spider- Man revealed his identity to the world in support of Tony Stark’s pro- registration movement. Civil War II. This time, it was Iron Man vs Captain Marvel, as opinion over what to do with a precognitive Inhuman splits the heroic universe down the middle. The arc started strongly, but behind the scenes, complications led to the creators falling behind schedule.

Critical reaction got steadily worse as the series rolled on, with the last chapter getting the worst write- ups of the entire run. Put simply, while several important characters were killed or changed by the events, it was hard to get a feel for the stakes. Nothing felt like it mattered. Civil War II should have been something special, but it ended up as just another run- of- the- mill event that over- promised and under- delivered. Maximum Carnage. For comic fans of a certain age, Maximum Carnage was one of the first big events that got them hooked on superhero comics. Watch Idiots And Angels Online Free 2016. Carnage returns with a mini army of villains and they go on a kill- crazy rampage across New York. Spider- Man and Venom share an uneasy alliance and team up to take down Cletus Kasady and his gang of motley murderers.

There was also a well- loved video game based on the event, ensuring that Maximum Carnage would always have a special place in the memories of the nostalgic. However, looking back at it now, it doesn’t hold up nearly as well. Maximum Carnage is plagued by many of the same problems that comics of its era are known for. It’s overlong and scrappily plotted, wasting appearances from Iron Fist, Captain America, and Deathlok. While it has its fans, it’s not the best story Marvel have produced by a large margin, despite having all the symbiote on symbiote action you could ever want. Original Sin. Like many crossovers on this list, Original Sin has a great starting premise: Uatu the Watcher has been murdered.

Nick Fury and the Avengers investigate Uatu’s moonbase, while in Wakanda, Black Panther chases down his own leads to the crime. Original Sin was hyped up to be a cosmic murder mystery, but it wasn’t really about that. Many fans guessed the twist ending several issues in, draining all the intrigue from the story.

Original Sin ended up getting a very mixed reception. Both sides agreed that it was one of the weirdest crossovers Marvel had done up until that point. That isn’t necessarily a negative thing, but it certainly ended up disappointing a ton of fans who were hoping for an Agatha Christie- esque caper in space. It isn’t all bad, though.

The comic also gave us the incredible chalk and cheese pairing of Doctor Strange and The Punisher. Their interactions are gold, and serve as proof (if any was needed at all) that we need a buddy cop MCU movie starring these two ASAP.

Secret Invasion. Secret Invasion should have been really cool. It was basically like The Thing in the Marvel Universe. Shape- shifting Skrulls have infiltrated superhero teams the world over, and nobody knows who to trust.

That’s plot dynamite right there. Unfortunately, the execution is where it fell apart. The pacing was slow and trudging, and brave readers who managed to slog through were rewarded with some underwhelming reveals and little else. The worst part is that the build- up to the event was great. Seeds of mistrust were sown, and it seemed like any of our favorite heroes could actually be an extraterrestrial spy working for the other side. In what should have been an epic tale of superhero teams falling apart due to clandestine sabotage and mistrust, we trod water, and the whole thing ended up with a big Skrull armada attacking New York and being destroyed. Norman Osborn ends up being seen as the all- conquering hero, and is essentially given the keys to national security.

Osborn seizes this power and sets up the Dark Avengers, his handpicked team of supervillains posing as heroes like Iron Man, Spider- Man, and Wolverine. Inferno. Chris Claremont’s legendary run on X- Men imbued the series with the great characterization, diversity, and emotionally hard- hitting stories that made Charles Xavier’s squad of mighty mutants more popular than ever. However, not everything he touched turned to gold. Case in point, Inferno.

After the death of Jean Grey, Cyclops is broken. Over the course of many issues, he slowly shakes himself out of his funk and eventually meets Madelyne Pryor. The pair fall in love, marry, and go off to live in Alaska. It was a fitting stepping- aside for the character.

However, when Marvel decided to resurrect Jean Grey and bring back the classic X- Men, Cyclops dumped his wife and kid to snap on the spandex once more and be with his old lady love. No matter how you slice it, that’s pretty villainous.

Inferno tried to smooth this over with a sneaky retcon. Now, Madelyne was a clone of Jean Grey and, on top of everything else, she was also the Goblin Queen, one of demonic realm Limbo’s first undercover emissaries trying to take over Earth.

See kids? Cyclops isn’t a bad guy! He fell in love with his girlfriend’s clone and she became super evil anyway. Problem solved. 1.

DC Versus Marvel. DC and Marvel may seem like bitter enemies, but they’ve worked together a surprising amount of times. One of their combined efforts was DC Versus Marvel, a title that pitted the two companies’ incredible rosters against each other. As this was the ’9. This time, the losing universe would cease to exist. The outcome of the big fights was also determined by a fan vote.

And therein lies the problem. In what universe does Lobo lose against Wolverine? This one apparently.

Fans love “who would win?” arguments, but even ardent fans of Logan will admit that he doesn’t stack up to the insanely powerful Lobo. Worse still, most of their fight was off- panel, which felt like an extra kick in the teeth.

Later on, Batman took on Captain America and Storm and Wonder Woman went at it. The writers had to plan for each outcome, which meant that there was no real creative drive to the overall story, and it was just a flimsy frame for fan- pandering smackdowns. DC and Marvel have managed some excellent crossovers in the past, but this ain’t one of them. Maximum Security.

At its core, Maximum Security isn’t the worst idea. Alien civilizations get pissed at Earth’s heroes constantly involving themselves in cosmic matters and they group together to designate Earth as a prison planet, fit for housing the worst scum the universe has to offer. Best of all, Earth’s watchful warden is Ronan the Accuser, who orbits around the planet in a spaceship. The wheels started to fall off when it came to the execution. The event involved a ton of comic books, so many that you’d have to take two jobs to afford them all.

Not only that, but a lot of them filled in big gaps to the main narrative, meaning that if you hadn’t read, for example, Black Panther Vol.

Homecoming vs. Sam Raimi's Spider- Man. After the unbridled mess of The Amazing Spider- Man 2, it’s a delight to report that Spider- Man: Homecoming represents a major return to form for everyone’s favorite web- slinger and has laid the foundations of an exciting new foray into the Marvel universe. Michael Keaton’s Adrian Toomes is arguably the most three- dimensional Marvel movie villain yet, while Tom Holland more than holds his own as Peter Parker. But just because Spider- Man: Homecoming is a breath of fresh air for the franchise and Marvel as a whole doesn’t mean it’s an entirely original outing for the wall- crawler. In fact, it could be argued that Spider- Man: Homecoming owes a fair amount to Sam Raimi’s 2. Spidey in terms of plot, structure, and characterization.

Here are 1. 5 Things Spider- Man: Homecoming steals from Sam Raimi’s Spider- Man. Peter Parker. Peter Parker is a lovable nerd and decent person at heart, and any good on- screen version of the character needs to reflect that. In starting out with Parker as a shy but intelligent kid, creators Stan Lee and Steve Ditko crafted the perfect contrast between the character’s heroic alter ego and his geeky self. It’s a thread that runs throughout Tobey Maguire’s performance and, thankfully, Tom Holland’s incarnation. They are both shy, but reliable figures, fair and honest in their dealings, and far less edgy than Garfield’s stuttering version of Parker, a character seen actively confronting bullies rather than simply standing up to them. Watch Deuces Online (2017) here.

Holland has made no secret of the fact Maguire’s more statesmanlike approach was a major influence on his approach to Peter Parker either, telling CBR, “Maguire’s Spider- Man had such a huge impact on me as a kid. He was my role model growing up. He was my favorite character. So I had to keep reminding myself that I was going to have that same impact on kids, and a generation.”1. Peter’s Best Friend. Early on in Spider- Man: Homecoming, it’s revealed that Peter’s best friend is a guy by the name of Ned Leeds.

Now, as anyone who has read the comics will know, the character by that name ultimately ends up becoming the Hobgoblin. In the comics, Ned works as a reporter alongside Parker at the Daily Bugle and is actually brainwashed into becoming the orange- suited villain. But hold up a minute; they introduce a friend who fans know will end up becoming the Hobgoblin? Now, if that sounds familiar to you, it’s probably because that is exactly what they do in Spider- Man with James Franco’s Harry Osborn. Granted, it’s a neat little trick to spark online speculation over the franchise’s potential future villains and where things could go for Spidey’s co- stars, but it’s also a trick lifted from Sam Raimi’s playbook. Villains’ Occupations. Spider- Man: Homecoming and Spider- Man share another rather handy similarity when it comes to the villains, Michael Keaton’s Adrian Toomes and Willem Dafoe’s Norman Osborn, in that they both, technically speaking, design weapons for a living.

More specifically, they have both developed weapons that are highly dangerous and have been stolen. In the build- up to the release of Homecoming, Keaton spoke of how he viewed Toomes as a “Dark Tony Stark”, and it’s arguably a suitable label for both of these baddies.

Toomes creates an array of weapons with his gang using pilfered Chitauri technology, while Osborn steals a glider and armored suit from Oscorp early in the 2. Spider- Man. This newfound technology gifts both villains with super strength and the ability to fight Spider- Man as his equal, which does sound a lot like a dark Tony Stark. Money Woes. Capitalism truly is the root of all evil in Spider- Man and Spider- Man: Homecoming, with both movies following a familiar pattern when it comes to their respective villains’ origin stories. Because, when you think about it, both villains would never have been put on a path of destruction were it not for the almighty dollar.

In Spider- Man, Norman Osborn looks set to lose out on an important military weapons contract to produce Human Performance Enhancers, one that could doom his company. Enraged, he comes up with a solution: test the enhancers out on himself. It doesn’t go well, and Green Goblin is born. In Spider- Man: Homecoming, Adrian Toomes’s salvage company has been contracted to clean up the city in the wake of the Battle of New York, but it loses the contract when the Department of Damage Control wades in. Enraged, he comes up with a solution: stealing some of the discovered Chitauri technology and creating the Vulture in the process.

Money truly is the root of all evil. A Show Of Strength. When it comes to establishing a villain, a pretty common trick played out in countless Hollywood films over the years sees the principal bad guy offing one of his minions in a show of strength and ruthlessness that tells the audience they are someone to be feared. It’s a trick pulled off in both Spider- Man and Spider- Man: Homecoming. In Spider- Man, Norman Osborn marks his transformation into the Green Goblin by murdering his colleague Dr.

Mendel Stromm. It’s a moment that shows Osborn has truly gone mad from the newfound power the Human Performance Enhancers have given him, and will do anything to protect it. In Spider- Man: Homecoming, Adrian Toomes opts to murder the first incarnation of Shocker, Jackson Brice, using one of the many Chitauri- powered weapons at his disposal. Brice – having put their operation in jeopardy by firing the weapons in public and attracting the attention of a certain friendly neighborhood superhero – is put down by Toomes so that the latter can protect what he’s built. Flash Thompson. In both Spider- Man and Spider- Man: Homecoming, Peter Parker’s resident high school bully Flash Thompson is present and accounted for, delivering the kind of douchebaggery fans have come to expect. And while Joe Manganiello and Tony Revolori offer up markedly different takes on the character in their respective Spider- Man outings, let’s not pretend they aren’t both still bullies – one physical and one mental – and both follow a familiar pattern. It’s simple enough: Flash spends much of his screen time bullying Parker before suffering some form of school- based humiliation.

In Spider- Man, it comes via a failed fight that leaves Manganiello’s Flash covered in food and humiliated after trying to beat up Peter. In Spider- Man: Homecoming, Spidey accidentally trashes the car Flash is driving to his homecoming dance, leaving him embarrassed in a major social situation, as he left Peter earlier in the film. Defeating Flash is symbolic of Peter unlocking his newfound strength.

Upside- Down Kisses. The upside- down kiss is arguably among the most iconic moments in Sam Raimi’s original Spider- Man movie, even if it is a little bit weird. It became something of a pop culture reference to the extent by which it even featured in the lamentable Scary Movie- style spoof Superhero Movie. But while Marc Webb opted not to reference the moment in The Amazing Spider- Man, Jon Watts appeared to have no qualms about doing so with Spider- Man: Homecoming. Coming moments after Spider- Man rescues his classmates from certain death in an elevator shaft in the Washington Monument, an upside- down Parker comes within inches of sharing another upside- down kiss with fellow classmate and crush, Liz Allan. Karen, the A. I. in his Spidey suit, suggests making a move, but the elevator sends the web- slinger for a mighty fall before he can.

It’s a homage of sorts, but it’s still borrowed. Spider- Man Crushes.

As is so often the case for Peter, in both Spider- Man and Spider- Man: Homecoming, he quickly discovers that his high school crushes have a soft spot for his superhero alter- ego, and there’s no way of telling them the truth. In fact, both films feature a scene in which Peter’s love interests – Liz and Mary Jane – reveal their infatuation with Spider- Man.