Hi Aunt May. Just checking in. Martin Li hasn't stopped by to massacre everyone, has he? No? Great. No need to worry. I was just asking for no reason.<\/div><\/p>\n
After discovering that Martin Li plans to attack points all over the city, Spider-Man has a phone conversation with MJ. She points out that Aunt May is working for the man they think bombed city hall, and MJ quite sensibly asks, “You don’t think she’s in danger, do you?”<\/p>\n
Spider-Man replies with – and this is not hyperbole –\u00a0 the stupidest line in the entire game. He says, “No. Li’s only got one target on his mind… Norman Osborn.”<\/p>\n
Spider-Man, have you forgotten the terrorist attack – which you personally attended – where Li deliberately slaughtered a crowd of innocent civilians? You literally just now uncovered his plans for truck bombs<\/em>. So far Li’s entire methodology has involved the deliberate targeting of innocents.<\/p>\nYou dense bastard.<\/b><\/p>\n
Martin Li is the weakest part of the entire game and I always felt like I was missing some detail from the comics. I really can’t get what the writer is doing with this character. His motivation is simple: Get revenge on Norman Osborn. And yet his methodology is so ridiculously over the top, contradictory, and convoluted to the point where nothing he did made sense to me. I understand that he’s torn between a good side and an evil side, but that doesn’t explain why his plans for getting revenge on Osborn need to involve the deaths of thousands or even millions of New Yorkers who aren’t Norman Osborn. What’s causing that? Is he crazy? Mind-controlled by a demon? Is he an idiot?<\/p>\n
Even ignoring all of that, why doesn’t Peter notice<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the end of the attack on city hall, the camera pans over to reveal the horrible truth that the leader of the demons is actually… the guy we already guessed it was! Dun dun duuuun! We cut to a week later. There’s a funeral scene for Officer Davis, and Peter Parker and Miles Morales […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[612],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retrospectives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46579"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46675,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46579\/revisions\/46675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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