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OneMarvel’s Spider-Man 2player recently defied the Sacred Timeline by visiting Aunt May’s final resting place during one of Peter Parker’s flashbacks – years before she actually dies. The ending of the originalMarvel’s Spider-Manput Peter in the age-old classic dilemma of choosing between his personal desires and the greater good whenhis beloved Aunt Mayis infected with the deadly Devil’s Breath plague menacing New York City. With May’s blessing, a heartbroken Peter lets her succumb to her illness so that the cure can be replicated for the masses, a somber reminder of the heavy price Spider-Man often pays in his life as a hero.
Aunt May’s sacrifice isn’t forgotten inMarvel’s Spider-Man 2, as she is often mentioned during Peter’s subplot of struggling to pay off the mortgage on her house and Harry Osborn’s upstart research company is partially named in her honor. Additionally, players can visit her grave as part ofMarvel’s Spider-Man 2’s open-world version of New York, with both Peter and Miles Morales paying their respects to her alongside Peter’s equally beloved Uncle Ben and the late Officer Jefferson Davis, Miles’s father who was killed in a terrorist attack by the Inner Demons not too long before Aunt May’s own tragic death.
As it turns out, players can visit these gravesites much earlier in the timeline thanks to a glitch inMarvel’s Spider-Man 2. Reddit user RebelOrion was one of the players to exploit this by going out of bounds during Peter’s flashback to his first job from J. Jonah Jameson. Since the gravesite was never meant to be seen by players during this part of the game, Insomniac apparently never bothered to alter it. As a result, players like RebelOrion can visit Aunt May’s final resting place while she is still alive and well.
Players have worked out how to break free and explore New York City at will during normally lockedMarvel’s Spider-Man 2story segments, especially a late-game mission whereVenom rampages through Oscorpthat was later fixed in an update patch. Other eagle-eyed players have uncovered fun little Easter eggs tucked away inSpider-Man 2’s game world, such as discovering that the Rhino may have suffered a gruesome end at the hands of Kraven the Hunter.
RebelOrion even joked about being “an awful person” for having a young Peter posing so cheerfully in front of his beloved aunt and uncle’s graves, and they aren’t the only ones making light of this newly discoveredSpider-Man 2time paradox. Other Reddit users have commented that Peter’s timeline-bending shenanigans will draw the ire of the TVA fromLoki, or that perhaps May’s premature death is some sort of cosmic punishment for going beyond the expected narrative path during Peter’sMarvel’s Spider-Man 2flashback. In any case, players just keep finding strange new glitches and Easter eggs while exploring Insomniac’s latest superhero epic, and this likely won’t stop anytime soon.
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Spider-Men Peter Parker and Miles Morales face the ultimate test of strength inside and outside the mask as they fight to save the city, each other and the ones they love, from the monstrous Venom and the dangerous new symbiote threat.Explore an expansive Marvel’s New York with faster web-swinging and the all-new Web Wings, quickly switching between Peter and Miles to experience different stories, epic new abilities and high-tech gear.Wield Peter’s symbiote abilities and Miles’ explosive bio-electric powers in battle against new and iconic Marvel Super Villains – including an original take on a symbiote-infused Venom, the ruthless Kraven the Hunter, the volatile Lizard, and more from the Marvel Rogues’ Gallery.
