All my life, I wanted people to look up to me. Sports star, big man on campus, captain of the football team. But what was I, really? What am I, really? A bully. A killer. I'm no hero but maybe, for once in my lousy life... I can stop thinking about who I want to love me... and who I hate. I can finally stop being scared I'm not good enough. Because I'm not. I'm not a hero. But if I try long enough and hard enough and make amends... maybe someday I might get to be a good guy.
Appearing in "What if Flash Thompson became Spider-Man?"
Featured Characters:
- Spider-Man (Flash Thompson) (First appearance) (Main story and flashback) (As Masked Marvel in flashback only)
Supporting Characters:
- Peter Parker (First appearance; dies) (Main story and flashback)
Antagonists:
- Masters of Menace (First appearance)
- Human Cannonball (Jack Pulver) (First appearance)
- Great Gambonnos (Ernesto & Luigi Gambonno) (First appearance)
- Precious (First appearance)
- Princess Python (Zelda DuBois) (First appearance)
- Clown (Eliot Franklin) (First appearance)
- Burglar (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Master Planner / Doctor Octopus (Dr. Otto Octavius) (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Daily Bugle (First appearance)
- J. Jonah Jameson (First appearance)
- Betty Brant (Mentioned)
- Slapstick (Steve Harmon)
- U.S. Army (Mentioned)
- NYPD (First appearance)
- The Unseen (Nick Fury)
- You (Mentioned)
- Peter Parker (Mentioned)
- Radioactive Spider (Mentioned)
- Crusher Hogan (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Baxter Bigelow (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- May Parker-Jameson (Mentioned)
- United States Government (Mentioned)
- NASA (Mentioned)
- John Jameson (Mentioned) (Deceased)
- John Jameson (Mentioned)
- J. Jonah Jameson (Mentioned)
- Dr. Nicholas Bromwell (First appearance)
- Ben Parker (First appearance)
- May Parker (First appearance)
- Aggie (First appearance)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
- Snakes
- Cosmic Beings
Locations:
- Multiverse (Mentioned)
- Earth-18139 (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- Earth (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- United States of America (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- New York (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- New York City (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- Manhattan (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- Midtown (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- Times Square (First appearance)
- RKP Palace (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Murray Hill (First appearance)
- 39th Street and Second Avenue (First appearance)
- Daily Bugle Building (First appearance)
- 39th Street and Second Avenue (First appearance)
- Ditko Street (First appearance)
- Master Planner's warehouse (First appearance)
- Midtown (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- Queens (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- Flushing Meadows–Corona Park (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- New York Hall of Science (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Forest Hills (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- Midtown High School (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Forest Hills Hospital (First appearance)
- Flushing Meadows–Corona Park (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Hudson River (First appearance)
- Manhattan (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- New York City (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- New York (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- United States of America (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- Hell (Invoked)
- Earth (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- Prime Marvel Universe
- Earth-18139 (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
Items:
- Spider-Man's Suit (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- Peter Parker's Tracer (First appearance)
- Peter Parker's Tracer-Tracker (First appearance)
- Isotope Genome Accelerator (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Doctor Octopus' Tentacles (First appearance)
- ISO-36 (First appearance)
Synopsis for "What if Flash Thompson became Spider-Man?"
- Synopsis not yet written
Solicit Synopsis
• What if Peter Parker wasn’t the one bitten by the radioactive spider?
• What if the person who got bit was someone who didn’t live by the mantra of “with great power comes great responsibility”?
• What if that person was an egotistical bully who was only interested in taking care of himself?
• What if… FLASH THOMPSON became Spider-Man?Trivia
The sequence of Spider-Man being trapped under rubble and struggling to get free is an explicit homage to Amazing Spider-Man #33.