Too Happy to Live: Difference between revisions

** Peter and MJ recently reached the 25 year mark in the newspaper strips, so that's some small comfort, and there [[Happily Married]] in [[Spider Girl]]

* You're a Vietnam vet with a good life with your lovely wife and adorable children. Then they all get murdered by a botched Mafia hit. So what do you do? Starting wearing a [[The Punisher|black shirt with a white skull]] printed on it, [[More Dakka|get as many guns as you can carry]], go [[Axe Crazy|completely nuts]] and [[Kill'Em All|kill everyone]] [[Judge, Jury, and Executioner|you believe might]] be even [[Disproportionate Retribution|vaguely criminal]].

* Most [[Death By Origin Story|Deaths by Origin Story]] are this way. From [[Spider-Man|Ben Parker]] and [[Batman|Thomas & Martha Wayne]] to [[The Boys|Wee Hughie's girlfriend-turned-fiance]], it seems the greatest tragedies come from the greatest happiness.

* The recent ''Death of Spider-Man'' arc's prelude in [[Ultimate Spider-Man]] was this for [[Genre Savvy]] readers - even without the title, the fact that everything in Peter Parker's life was going absurdly well was a big clue that there was much badness on the way...