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Appearing in "Spider-Verse: Epilogue"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 3) #15

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Synopsis for "Spider-Verse: Epilogue"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 3) #15
After recuperating, the Spiders open a portal to Earth-982 to send Mayday home. Before leaving, she apologizes to the Peter Parker of Earth-616 for her harsh words, but he tells her that she suffered more than anyone else and that he's proud of her for not letting that break her. Returning to the ruins of her home, Mayday encounters Ben Parker from Earth-3145, who reveals that Mary Jane and Wes survived Daemos' attack. After a tearful reunion, Mayday asks if her father survived, but is told that he died protecting his loved ones. Uncle Ben chooses to remain on Earth-982 and live out the remainder of his life as Mayday's and Benjy's grandfather, and Mayday is given Peter's old costume, renaming herself Spider-Woman.

On Loomworld, the remainder of the Spider-Army bid their goodbyes. Miles Morales laments that he and Earth-616 Peter didn't get to spend more time together, and Peter states that they'll meet again, jokingly suggesting that they hang out in Earth-616 next time. Hobie Brown tells Spider-UK to keep an eye on Karn, stating that while he may seem reformed, he still killed a lot of Spiders. When only Spider-UK, Gwen Stacy, Spider-Man 2099, and the Spiders from Earth-616 remain, Peter prepares to say goodbye to Miguel when their Spider Senses collectively overwhelm them with agony. Karn realizes someone is tampering with the Web of Life and Destiny, and they rush to the Web to find Otto Octavius hacking at it with Morlun's dagger. When Karn shouts that he could destroy the Multiverse, Otto sneers that he's aware of his destiny and rejects his fate, revealing that he figured out that Peter is from the future and that no one will decide his future but he before going back to destroying the Great Web.

On Earth-616, Julia Carpenter awakens from her coma and shouts that the Great Web is being destroyed, and that she can see nothing of the future. As Otto continues to cut the threads, Karn states that at any moment he could erase them from existence and Spider-UK states they're losing portals home. Peter tells Gwen and Miguel to head to their home dimensions before it's too late while he leads the Earth-616 Spiders against Otto. Gwen complains that she never found out how the story ended, and Miguel reveals that he was there when the Superior Spider-Man traveled in time and that in the end Peter takes his body back from Otto and the good guys win.

Otto battles with Spider-Woman and Spider-Girl, stating that by destroying the Web he's giving them free will. When Anya sees that there's totemic script on the dagger and tries to take it, Otto attempts to stab her before being punched away by Peter. Otto sneers that Peter is a coward for ganging up on him, but Peter points out that he did the same when he founded the Sinister Six. Taking advantage of the distraction, Anya immobilizes Otto's arm and reads that there shall always be a Master Weaver spinning at the center of the Great Web. Silk recalls that the Inheritors referred to her as the "Spinner at the centre of the Web" and wonders if her destiny is to take the Weaver's place. Otto again tries to stab Anya, snapping that he has to change his fate at any cost as his world needs him since he's the greatest Spider-Man ever. Peter and Jessica knock him back, and Anya secures the dagger, reading that any Spider Totem can take the place of the current Weaver, but only death can free the Weaver from their sacred obligation. Silk, having spent most of her life trapped in one room, balks at the idea of spending the rest of eternity trapped again, and Karn commiserates with her.

Otto accuses Peter and Jessica of hypocritically claiming to fight for freedom while trying to lock him on a fixed path that ends in his death, and Peter snaps that it was Otto himself who set that path in motion. Silk resolves to take the Master Weaver's place, unmasking him and expressing confusion at not recognizing his identity. Karn states that he knows who the Master Weaver is and unmasks himself, revealing that he and the Master Weaver are one and the same. Otto punches Spider-Woman away, challenging Peter to a one-on-one duel to see who the better hero is once and for all. Peter retorts that a real hero wouldn't have tried to murder Anya or destroy the Mutiverse in order to save himself, revealing that Otto will understand what it means to be a true hero when he willingly sacrifices himself and gives up their body of his own free will.

Analyzing the Master Weaver's armor, Karn notices a slot that fits the prongs of the spear he made as a child, which acts as a key to open the mechanism. When Silk asks how he could possibly be in two places at once, Karn states that the flow of time differs in Earth-001, using the coexistence of Peter Parker and Otto Octavius as an example. When Anya states that only a Spider-Totem should be able to repair the web, Karn states that he's consumed enough Totems for their essence to enable him to take the Weaver's place, donning the Weaver's mask and stating that this shall be his penance and hopefully salvation. Peter defeats Otto, who feigns surrender but puts Anna on a 100 day standby. Anya asks Karn if he can repair the damage done by the Inheritors and Otto, and Karn states that in time he can fix the Web, but that in the meantime all the Spiders' connections to it will be diminished, weakening their Spider-Senses.

As Karn prepares to return him to the past, Otto swears revenge on him, which Karn dryly retorts that he already got by killing his future self. As Otto swears that he'll find a way to survive, Peter shoves him through the portal and he reappears months ago in the aftermath of the chronoton implosion that time-displaced him in the first place, his memory of the recent events erased. Karn remarks that weaving and repairing the Great Web is new to him, but that the existence of Earth-616 has been stabilized. However, he is unable to open a portal to Spider-UK's dimension, Earth-833, discovering that it was somehow destroyed. Spider-UK reveals that Incursions between dimensions have been erasing entire realities, including his own, and laments that he wasn't able to help his fellow corpsmen face the danger. The Earth-616 Spiders console him, reminding him that without his efforts they wouldn't have stood a chance against the Inheritors. Silk asks if the Inheritors will be able to survive on Earth-3145 without draining the essence of Spider-Totems, and Karn remarks that his family can subsist off the life force of any animal, and that the búnker they are in is teeming with mutant spiders for them to feed off of.

Peter says that it's more than they deserve and laments at the loss of his brother, Kaine, gazing at the Other's corpse and stating that he deserved better than to die a monster. Spider-UK remarks that all the lost Spider-Totems deserved to live, volunteering to travel the Multiverse and protect the worlds that lost their Spider-Totems. Anya volunteers to join him, to Spider-Woman's surprise, but Anya insist that there are too many female Spider-Totems on Earth-616 as-is and that she can put her totemic knowledge to good use. Karn dubs them the Warriors of the Great Web and charges them with helping him repair the severed threads, and when Anya wonders if they can do it alone, Spider-UK remarks they made a number of Amazing Friends, as images of Earth-982's Spider-Woman, Spider-Ham, Spider-Man Noir, Pavitr Prabhakar, and Gwen Stacy appear in the Web of Life.

Karn opens a portal to Earth-616, and the Spiders bid farewell, with Jessica fussing over Anya and Peter teasing Spider-UK one last time. After they depart, Karn offers Anya and Spider-UK a tour of the Inheritor's palace, while unbeknownst to them a hand erupts from the Other's corpse, revealing that Kaine is still alive.

On Earth-616, Silk realizes they've been gone for days and hopes the Fact Channel hasn't fired her. Jessica remarks that, as his own boss, Peter doesn't need to worry about such things. Peter corrects her, stating that for a long time he didn't feel ready to run his own company, but that after leading the Spider-Army he feels ready for anything. As he swings across Times Square, Peter wonders if he can ever go back to the small stuff after everything he's seen, but as a woman being mugged calls out for help, chides himself, apprehends the thief, and returns her purse.

Appearing in 2nd story

Reprint of the 1st story from
Spider-Man 2099 (Vol. 2) #9

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  • Ash (First appearance; dies)
  • Sonner (First appearance; dies)

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Synopsis for 2nd story

Reprint of the 1st story from
Spider-Man 2099 (Vol. 2) #9
Following his return from the Great Hunt, Spider-Man is shocked to find himself in the post-apocalyptic ruins of Nueva York. Trying to grasp the situation, he is suddenly shot by an energy weapon. The shooters, a pair of scavengers, check on Spider-Man and don't seem to recognize him. Spider-Man quickly stands up, as the shot had missed him and was feigning, and subdue the men. After tying them up in his webs he demands them answers or he will kill them. The scavengers consent to Spider-Man's threats and introduce themselves as Sonner and Ash, who are called "scanners" who scan an area for anything worth salvaging and bringing them back to their home, which is located in the Wastes outside of a place called Dystopia - something which Spider-Man vaguely remembers the name but couldn't recall. Spider-Man releases the Scanners and ordering them to take him to their settlement.

The three reaches the Scanners' settlement but only to find it mysteriously abandoned. They are then suddenly attacked by soldiers. Spider-Man puts up a fight until he is knocks back by a shock wave. He then looks up and, to his surprise, to see his new attacker to be the Maestro, the future incarnation of the Hulk. Spider-Man now remembers that he encountered him before during his travel with Rick Jones and Captain Marvel. However, the Maestro doesn't recognize Spider-Man and mistakes him for Peter Parker of the past, which makes Spider-Man to believe that the Maestro is either a past version of him that he haven't yet met him or an alternate version of him. The Maestro questions Spider-Man of how he was able to come to this era unless it was a time machine. Spider-Man decide to play along with the Maestro, who then request him of taking him back to the past. Spider-Man tries to put up an excuse, but the Maestro has already sees through his deception and attacks him. The two battle in which the Maestro gains the upper hand and brutally beats Spider-Man into submission until he grew tire.

Maestro orders his men to take Spider-Man and the Scanners back to his home, Dystopia. During the journey the Maestro tries to make some conversations with Spider-Man. Spider-Man demands to know why the world is in ruins to which the Maestro answered that it was humanity that "blows itself to hell." Or more precisely it was the Alchemax corporation. The Maestro explains that in the first half of the 21st century, the Alchemax corporation began a program that went horribly wrong which led to mutual assured destruction.

The group finally arrives at the Maestro's home. Ash demands the Maestro as to what he had done to his people at the settlement. The Maestro gleefully replies that he had felt an artistic impulse and that he needed "materials" to create his art work. He gesture the Scanners to turn around and are horrified to see their people crucified to a giant sign of the Maestro's name. The Maestro takes advantage of their stunned state and crushed their skulls, intending to use their remains to complete his sick work.

The Maestro takes Spider-Man to a cell, where there is another prisoner who had piqued his interests in alternate worlds and refused to talk to him. He sees Spider-Man as a opportunity to allow to make the other prisoner more cooperative. After the Maestro tossed him into the cell Spider-Man meets face-to-face with Strange, the Sorceress Supreme of 2099.

Appearing in 3rd story

Reprint of the 1st story from
Spider-Woman (Vol. 5) #4

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  • Inheritors (Only in flashback)
    • Morlun (Only in flashback)
    • Brix (Only in flashback)
    • Bora (Only in flashback)
  • Alien monster

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Synopsis for 3rd story

Reprint of the 1st story from
Spider-Woman (Vol. 5) #4
Jess brings Anya, Gwen, and Cindy along to talk to her Earth-001 counterpart. A civil war has broken out in her world after the defeat of the Inheritors and Jess convinces her to become world leader, warning her that if she becomes a dictator, she will return to depose her. Back in her own world feeling the need for some normalcy she decides to resign from the Avengers.

Solicit Synopsis

Spider-Verse epilogue! The Spider-Verse may be over but the arachnid-army still has one superior foe to face!

Plus, Spider-Man 2099 returns to his own time and finds a ‘Future Imperfect!’

Also, Spider-Woman confronts her Loomworld counterpart… but why?!!

By Dan Slott, Guiseppe Camuncoli, Peter David, Will Sliney, Dennis Hopeless and Greg Land!

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