Thursday, September 13, 2007

It Would Be Par For The Course For Peter

Thought: Norman Osborn said that the Oz formula is constantly evolving inside him. That he's changing and growing in new ways. Since Peter was also exposed to the Oz formula, does that mean we should expect to see him evolving as well?

There is another precedent for it, in the form of Doctor Octopus. Octavius was initially able only to control the arms that he was wearing when they injected Norman with the Oz, and things went to hell. Later, he's been able to call those arms to him from a distance, and and now he can seemingly form new arms out of any spare metal that seems to be laying around. If this is the result of the formula, and Norman's rantings in this issue suggest it is, then Octavius is evolving as well.

So where does that leave Peter? He's had the formula in his bloodstream, as far as we know, longer than either of them. He hasn't shown any changes since then. No organic web-shooters. No sprouting four more arms, or transforming into the Man-Spider. However, if his clones are any indication, the genetic potential for all those changes and more are there. So should we expect Peter to start getting a little freakier, or is the formula in his body stabilized, as a result of being transmitted through another organism? As far as I know, Norman just took an injection of the formula directly, Octavius was likely the same, but Peter received it from the spider that bit him. So maybe that makes a difference. I guess we'll see.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Considering some of the clones, if he wants his life to be anything vaugely resembling normal, he's going to want that looked at.

At least he should devolop organic webs. And 616 Peter should lose them.

SallyP said...

That's a good point, Calvin. Presumably the formula has been altered enough by the spider to change the reaction in Peter. Or changed it to something else. Either way, it leaves open a whole lot of possible plotlines.

I have to admit that I enjoy Ultimate Spider-Man the most of all the Ultimate books. They started out with such promise, and have been going downhill a bit lately. I'm not even going into the whole regular universe version of poor Spidey. Ugh.

CalvinPitt said...

anonymous: Yeah, I always wondered why Bendis didn't go with organic webs. He hinted at them early, then went with the "my dad invented these webshooter things, and I built them from his notes."

sallyp: Yeah Ultimate Spidey is the only Ultimate title I touch these days. I'll be curious to see if this Ultimate Secret mini-series sells well or not. Might be an important sign as to whether the Ultimate Universe is ready to turn up its toes or not.