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"Peter Parker takes under his wing a freshly spider-powered-up Miles Morales and swiftly forces him to use the same codename and wear the same outfit, which, lets be blunt, is a bit weird and narcissistic and not a little gatekeeper-y. Peter Parker goes on his holidays and leaves his new Mini-Me to defend the city alone, but Miles finally proves worthy of Peters crusty Spider-Man pajamas when half the people he knows turn out to be supervillains. Turns out you can only make it as a supervillain in New York if youve been to at least three of Spider-Mans birthday parties; nepotism, I call it. These days, Spider-Man probably gets more thrown if supervillains DONT turn out to be someone he knows; he wrestles them to the ground and the mask falls off, and he goes, " No, it cant be! I have no idea who you are!"
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