History AbortedArc / SpiderMan

!!Spin-off Comic Books

!!Comic Books

* The infamous F.A.C.A.D.E. incident. Long story short, Terry Kavanagh introduced a new baddie named [[http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix5/facadesman.htm F.A.C.A.D.E.]], and a huge deal was made about who he really was under the mask (well, [[PoweredArmor helmet]]). Unfortunately, "Comicbook/TheCloneSaga" began right after F.A.C.A.D.E.'s debut storyline ended, so the mystery of his true identity has never been resolved. It's become sort of a RunningGag that whenever the character does appear or get mentioned, there's usually some sort of joke about his identity.
* Near the end of Creator/BrianMichaelBendis' tenure at Marvel, he began dropping hints in his ''Spider-Man'' series and ''Comicbook/{{Generations}}'' that Comicbook/MilesMorales would be abandoning the Spider-Man name in order to step out of Peter Parker's shadow and create his own heroic identity. This, coupled with Comicbook/{{Cable}} commenting that Miles would have a future in espionage, led some to conclude that Miles would become a costumed spy of some kind (rumored to be named Spy-D, the same name he used in the ''WesternAnimation/MarvelsSpiderMan'' cartoon). This was dropped after Bendis' departure, with the subsequent ''Miles Morales'' series by Saladin Ahmed keeping the character in his role as Spider-Man and focusing more on street-level heroics than spy stuff.

!!!''{{Franchise/Venom}}''
* The 2003-2004 ''Comicbook/{{Venom}}'' series ended on a {{Cliffhanger}} where Venom mutated into a larger, even more monstrous form after absorbing the clone Symbiote that had bonded with Patricia. Worse still, he was shown preparing to fulfill the clone's mission to KillAllHumans at the behest of its alien masters. The next time Venom appeared, he'd returned to his classic form without any explanation, and while the clone later did resurface as Mania's Symbiote, the alien genocide plot was never resolved.
* Mike Costa's ''Venom'' run had the titular symbiote produce yet another spawn, and Eddie Brock agreed to work for Alchemax on the condition that they care for it. Costa's run was cut short by ''ComicBook/VenomDonnyCates'', which featured a destitute Eddie Brock who makes no mention of the newborn symbiote. Eventually, a weekly series called ''Venom: First Host'' was released that allowed Costa to wrap up his story, and the newborn symbiote, dubbed the Sleeper symbiote, was PutOnABus.

!!!Other Spin-off Comic Books

* ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries'': One of the many {{Sequel Hook}}s at the end of The Amazing Spider Man involves Peter attempting to track down the man who shot Uncle Ben. In The Amazing Spider Man 2, this plot thread is never even mentioned. Likely this was meant to be continued in a future film, however with the series now canned so Spider-Man can join the MCU, it'll never be resolved.

AbortedArc in this franchise.

!!!''ComicBook/SpiderMan''

** In "The Parent Trap", Luke is exposed to a burst of energy when Scorpio suffers PhlebotinumOverload from a tampered batch of super soldier serum. At the end of the episode, his eyes glow with the same energy, suggesting that he would gain some kind of MidSeasonUpgrade. However, nothing ever came of this.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'': The last season introduced elements that indicated they were going to develop ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga'' with a cloning scientist getting a sample of Spider-Man's blood. The plot of the GrandFinale even included took this story in TheMultiverse as another incarnation of Spider-Man (fused with the Carnage symbiont) having an identity crisis from his universe's Clone Saga and trying to go OmnicidalManiac.

* Mary Jane Watson was victim to multiple aborted storylines in between 2013 and 2018. First, her storyline getting back with Peter hit the skids when Doc Ock took over his body in the Superior Spider-Man storyline. MJ started dating a fireman named Pedro and was eventually PutOnABus at the end of the Superior story, with only a few cameo appearances. That storyline came to an end when MJ was moved over to the Iron Man books to become a supporting character there, with no mention of what happened with Pedro and an offhand comment that her old club had burned to the ground, necessitating her move to another city. After spending years as Tony Stark's girl Friday and working with him to start a new covert spy agency, *that* storyline came to an abrupt end once she was moved back to the Spider-Man titles to rekindle her romance with Peter, with another offhand comment about how she stopped working with Iron Man and "Things not working out."

AbortedArc in this series.

* The 2003-2004 ''Comicbook/{{Venom}}'' series ended on a {{Cliffhanger}} where Venom mutated into a larger, even more monstrous form after absorbing the clone Symbiote that had bonded with Patricia. Worse still, he was shown preparing to fulfill the clone's mission to KillAllHumans at the behest of its alien masters. The next time Venom appeared, he'd returned to his classic form without any explanation, and while the clone later did resurface as Mania's Symbiote, the alien genocide plot was never resolved.
* Mike Costa's ''Venom'' run had the titular symbiote produce yet another spawn, and Eddie Brock agreed to work for Alchemax on the condition that they care for it. Costa's run was cut short by ''ComicBook/VenomDonnyCates'', which featured a destitute Eddie Brock who makes no mention of the newborn symbiote. Eventually, a weekly series called ''Venom: First Host'' was released that allowed Costa to wrap up his story, and the newborn symbiote, dubbed the Sleeper symbiote, was PutOnABus.

!!''Franchise/SpiderMan''

* Near the end of Creator/BrianMichaelBendis' tenure at Marvel, he began dropping hints that Comicbook/MilesMorales would be abandoning the Spider-Man name in order to step out of Peter Parker's shadow and create his own heroic identity. This, coupled with Comicbook/{{Cable}} commenting that Miles would have a future in espionage, led some to conclude that Miles would become a costumed spy of some kind (rumored to be named Spy-D, the same name he used in the ''WesternAnimation/MarvelsSpiderMan'' cartoon). This was dropped after Bendis' departure, with the subsequent ''Miles Morales'' series by Saladin Ahmed keeping the character in his role as Spider-Man and focusing more on street-level heroics than spy stuff.

* ''ComicBook/GhostSpider2019'' ended with Gwen Stacy of Earth-65 (i.e. Spider-Gwen) getting beat in a curb-stomp battle by her versions of Sue and Johnny Storm, and subsequently blackmailed and threatened to abandon her home dimension, forcing her to live in the main 616 universe for the foreseeable future. This was followed up shortly after by her issues of the ''ComicBook/KingInBlack'' CrisisCrossover, which not only ended with Mary Jane-65 stranded on Earth-616 alongside Gwen, but also had the cliffhanger that she contains part of the Carnage symbiote inside her. Cue ''ComicBook/SpiderGwenGwenverse'', and both Gwen and MJ are shown back on Earth-65 with zero explanation of how they managed to return, how Gwen managed to beat the Storm Twins to regain her title as New York's protector, and barely a passing mention of Knull. (Oh, and if [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Bodega Bandit]] finally got out of the hospital.)

* ''ComicBook/GhostSpider2019'' ended with Gwen Stacy of Earth-65 (i.e. [[FanNickname Spider-Gwen]]) getting beat in a curb-stomp battle by her versions of Sue and Johnny Storm, and subsequently blackmailed and threatened to abandon her home dimension, forcing her to live in the main 616 universe for the foreseeable future. This was followed up shortly after by her issues of the ''ComicBook/KingInBlack'' CrisisCrossover, which not only ended with Mary Jane-65 stranded on Earth-616 alongside Gwen, but also had the cliffhanger that she contains part of the Carnage symbiote inside her. Cue ''ComicBook/SpiderGwenGwenverse'', and both Gwen and MJ are shown back on Earth-65 with zero explanation of how they managed to return, how Gwen managed to beat the Storm Twins to regain her title as New York's protector, and barely a passing mention of Knull. (Oh, and if [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Bodega Bandit]] finally got out of the hospital.)

* ''ComicBook/GhostSpider2019'' ended with Gwen Stacy of Earth-65 (i.e. [[FanNickname Spider-Gwen]]) getting beat in a curb-stomp battle by her versions of Sue and Johnny Storm, and subsequently blackmailed and threatened to abandon her home dimension, forcing her to live in the main 616 universe for the foreseeable future. This was followed up shortly after by her issues of the ''ComicBook/KingInBlack'' CrisisCrossover, which not only ends with Mary Jane-65 stranded on Earth-616 alongside Gwen, but also has the cliffhanger that she contains part of the Carnage symbiote inside her. Then cue ''ComicBook/SpiderGwenGwenverse'', and both Gwen and MJ are shown back on Earth-65 with zero explanation of how they managed to return, how Gwen managed to beat the Storm Twins to regain her title as New York's protector, and barely a passing mention of Knull. (Oh, and if [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Bodega Bandit]] finally got out of the hospital.)

* ''ComicBook/GhostSpider2019'' ends with Gwen Stacy of Earth-65 (i.e. [[FanNickname Spider-Gwen]]) getting beat in a CurbStompBattle by her versions of Sue and Johnny Storm, and subsequently blackmailed and threatened to abandon her home dimension, forcing her to live in the main 616 universe for the foreseeable future. This is followed up shortly after by her issues of the ''ComicBook/KingInBlack'' CrisisCrossover, which not only see Mary Jane-65 stranded on Earth-616 alongside Gwen, but also ends on the cliffhanger that she contains part of the Carnage symbiote inside her. Cue ''ComicBook/SpiderGwenGwenverse'', and both Gwen and MJ are shown back on Earth-65 with zero explanation of how they managed to return, how Gwen managed to beat the Storm Twins to regain her title as New York's protector, and barely a passing mention of Knull.

* ''ComicBook/GhostSpider2019'' ends with Gwen Stacy of Earth-65 (i.e. [[FanNickname Spider-Gwen]]) getting beat in a CurbStompBattle by her versions of Sue and Johnny Storm, and subsequently blackmailed and threatened to abandon her home dimension, forcing her to live in the main 616 universe for the foreseeable future. This is followed up shortly after by her issues of the ''ComicBook/KingInBlack'' CrisisCrossover, which not only see Mary Jane-65 stranded on Earth-616 alongside Gwen, but also ends on the cliffhanger that she contains part of the Carnage symbiote inside her. Cue ''ComicBook/SpiderGwenGwenverse'', and both Gwen and MJ are shown back on Earth-65 with zero explanation of how they managed to return and how Gwen managed to beat the Storm Twins to regain her title as New York's protector.

* ''ComicBook/GhostSpider2019'' ends with Gwen Stacy of Earth-65 (i.e. [[FanNickname Spider-Gwen]]) getting beat in a CurbStompBattle by her versions of Sue and Johnny Storm, and subsequently blackmailed and threatened to abandon her home dimension, forcing her to live in the main 616 universe for the foreseeable future. This is followed up shortly after by her issues of the ''ComicBook/KingInBlack CrisisCrossover, which not only see Mary Jane-65 stranded on Earth-616 alongside Gwen, but also ends on the cliffhanger that she contains part of the Carnage symbiote inside her. Cue ''ComicBook/SpiderGwenGwenverse'', and both Gwen and MJ are shown back on Earth-65 with zero explanation of how they managed to return and how Gwen managed to beat the Storm Twins to regain her title as New York's protector.

* ''ComicBook/GhostSpider2016'' ends with Gwen Stacy of Earth-65 (i.e. [[FanNickname Spider-Gwen]]) getting beat in a CurbStompBattle by her versions of Sue and Johnny Storm, and subsequently blackmailed and threatened to abandon her home dimension, forcing her to live in the main 616 universe for the foreseeable future. This is followed up shortly after by her issues of the ''ComicBook/KingInBlack CrisisCrossover, which not only see Mary Jane-65 stranded on Earth-616 alongside Gwen, but also ends on the cliffhanger that she contains part of the Carnage symbiote inside her. Cue ''ComicBook/SpiderGwenGwenverse'', and both Gwen and MJ are shown back on Earth-65 with zero explanation of how they managed to return and how Gwen managed to beat the Storm Twins to regain her title as New York's protector.

* ''Film/{{Venom|2018}}'': It's brought up that [[spoiler:Venom is killing Eddie, causing his heart to shrink and multiple organ failures. This proves to be the entire reason why Anne separates Eddie and Venom]]. After that, it's not brought up again until the final scene. Venom does assure Eddie he can "fix it", but this comes across more as desperate pleas to not be separated from his host and it's not entirely clear if he actually can (And why he hadn't done so already if he could). The final scene of the movie ''does'' have Venom admit that Eddie's "liver is gonna start looking real delicious" if Eddie doesn't eat soon, suggesting that the repeated consumption of living flesh can stave this off and that Eddie was simply not adjusted to the Symbiote/eating enough yet.

* The infamous F.A.C.A.D.E. incident. Long story short, Terry Kavanagh introduced a new baddie named [[http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix5/facadesman.htm F.A.C.A.D.E.]], and a huge deal was made about who he really was under the mask (well, [[PoweredArmor helmet]]). Unfortunately, '"Comicbook/TheCloneSaga" began right after F.A.C.A.D.E.'s debut storyline ended, so the mystery of his true identity has never been resolved. It's become sort of a RunningGag that whenever the character does appear or get mentioned, there's usually some sort of joke about his identity.

* Mike Costa's ''Venom'' run had the titular symbiote produce yet another spawn, and Eddie Brock agreed to work for Alchemax on the condition that they care for it. Costa's run was cut short by ''ComicBook/DonnyCatesVenom'', which featured a destitute Eddie Brock who makes no mention of the newborn symbiote. Eventually, a weekly series called ''Venom: First Host'' was released that allowed Costa to wrap up his story, and the newborn symbiote, dubbed the Sleeper symbiote, was PutOnABus.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ultimate Spider-Man}}'': When the Lizard first appeared, a serum for scorpion mutations were seen as well. When the Scorpion finally appeared on the show, it was as as BadassNormal and later with a suit of PoweredArmor. At no point did he ingest or get his powers from the serum.

* Mike Costa's ''Venom'' run had the titular symbiote produce yet another spawn, and Eddie Brock agreed to work for Alchemax on the condition that they care for it. Costa's run was cut short by ''ComicBook/DonnyCatesVenom'', which featured a destitute Eddie Brock who makes no mention of the newborn symbiote. Eventually, a weekly series called ''Venom: First Host'' was released that allowed Costa to wrap up his story, and the newborn symbiote, dubbed the Sleeper symbiote, was PutOnABus.

* Near the end of Creator/BrianMichaelBendis' tenure at Marvel, he began dropping hints that Comicbook/MilesMorales would be abandoning the Spider-Man name in order to step out of Peter Parker's shadow and create his own heroic identity. This, coupled with Comicbook/{{Cable}} commenting that Miles would have a future in espionage, led some to conclude that Miles would become a costumed spy of some kind (rumored to be named Spy-D, the same name he used in the ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpider-Man'' cartoon). This was dropped after Bendis' departure, with the subsequent ''Miles Morales'' series by Saladin Ahmed keeping the character in his role as Spider-Man and focusing more on street-level heroics than spy stuff.

* Near the end of Creator/BrianBendis' tenure at Marvel, he began dropping hints that Comicbook/MilesMorales would be abandoning the Spider-Man name in order to step out of Peter Parker's shadow and create his own heroic identity. This, coupled with Comicbook/{{Cable}} commenting that Miles would have a future in espionage, led some to conclude that Miles would become a costumed spy of some kind (rumored to be named Spy-D). This was dropped after Bendis' departure, with the subsequent ''Miles Morales'' series by Saladin Ahmed keeping the character in his role as Spider-Man and focusing more on street-level heroics than spy stuff.