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I - uh, I mean, [[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?|h-how bad could it ever be to deserve a whole page for its own Wall Bangers?]]
Trust us, it ''does''. Saying it doesn't would be like going to the article for ''[[The Killing Joke]]'' expecting candies or kittens and then getting its enormous amount of horror.
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Some of the lines in this article were formerly in the OMD article, before being cut to a simple [[Take Our Word for It|"goes without saying"]]. This should kinda give you an idea: it's actually bad enough you'll have destroyed your house before the arc is finished.
Given [[Joe Quesada]] wrote both [[One More Day]] and [[One Moment in Time]] (which, after a year-and-a-something, explained the stupid retcon in a fittingly stupid way), this is the shared [[
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=== The points of both <s> horrible [[Fanfic|fanfics]] [[Gone Horribly Wrong]]</s> these canonical storylines that are bound to send heads against walls are pretty much as follows: ===▼
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* Joe Quesada used this storyline because for Peter and MJ to get a divorce and an abortion would be immoral. How, then, is it ''better'' to sell the marriage and fetus to the devil?
** [[Teasing Creator|It's magic, he doesn't have to explain it.]]
*** Worse yet, their child was obliterated anyway. So, Quesada literally wrote a storyline where the Devil himself showed up to abort a baby. '''AGGGGGGHHH.'''
* Other revelations from ''[[One Moment in Time]]'' also endanger the structural integrity of your house. Way back when Peter and MJ were supposed to get married, what did Mephisto actually do to prevent it? {{spoiler|A red pigeon (Mephisto in disguise, we're pretty sure) caused an overweight common thug to escape from a police car,}} Spider-Man {{spoiler|got hit on the head by a cinderblock trying to catch him (Spider-sense? What's that?), then he got knocked out when he fell off a building with the fat guy on top of him}}, causing him to miss his wedding.<ref>And remember, Pete canonically can lift several tons without getting tired...</ref> I would say [[It Makes Sense in Context]] but that would be a lie - it only sucks more.
** The mere fact that OMIT was so late and the artist was so lazy they reused art from OMD deserves mention.
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** To be fair, it was eventually clarified that the only thing that was retconned was the marriage; other stuff like restoring the [[Secret Identity]] happened during a [[Time Skip]] afterward. Even then, the marriage was just changed into living together, altering previous relationship subplots very little. "One More Day" has a lot of problems, but invalidating canon en masse doesn't seem to be one of them.
** In one part of this event, Spider-Man enlists Dr. Strange's help to save Aunt May. Strange (Note:Doctor Strange is his real name, not an adopted title. He's a surgeon as well as Sorcerer Supreme.) casts a spell that allows Spidey to be in multiple places at once to find someone capable of treating her. Apparently, no one in Marvel Earth is qualified to treat a gunshot wound. Not even Elixir of the New X-Men. Elixir, who regenerated Prodigy's heart after it was quite literally ripped out of his chest by the demon Belasco, could not treat a ''gunshot wound''.
*** The rest of the story is par the course for comic books. MJ and Peter breaking up might be tolerated, but ''this'' was too much. Dr. Strange literally [[Pals
**** Worst of all in this is that it would have been pathetically easy to justify Aunt May's death gracefully. She's a frail old woman, the injuries are severe, and the additional strain to her system that healing her would entail would kill her anyway. Why hasn't this been a problem in any other case? Because none of the other cases involved a frail old person being healed of otherwise fatal injuries. Aunt May happens to be an outlier.
***** Combine the above with the actual statement about Aunt May being at peace with dying to offset supernatural healing or storming heaven on her behalf.
**** The way time travel works in the MU ([[Timey
**** "Find a way?" Reed Richards, when Ben Grimm was killed, literally ''built a dimensional transporter that could access heaven, picketed the pearly gates, and complained loudly to all the angels until Jack Kirby let him into the inner sanctum and agreed to bring Ben back to life.'' He would have reacted to Peter's question of "can you fix her?" with uncontrollable lol'ing, that's how idiotic it was. And it wipes out any argument he might've made about not interfering with the natural order of things (which is a philosophy Reed never bought anyway).
*** And just to put a point on this, we later found out how Peter got his [[Secret Identity]] back, and it's because Strange, Richards, and Tony Stark pulled [[Laser
**** So instead of a Magic Retcon, it was a Techno Magic Retcon?
*** A lesser example than most for Quesada, but his decision for how Reed Richards and Tony Stark gave everyone [[Laser
**** A ''global scale techno-magic retcon'' by the ''same freaking people'' who couldn't treat the aforementioned ''gunshot wound''.
*** You think this is bad enough? Peter met '''GOD''' (or angel) and he told him to have faith that she will get better. While he could like... you know.
** This comic has been bashed by so many people not only for the stupidity, but also for gaping plot holes in the devil's powers. See [[Atop the Fourth Wall
** [http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=28545 In a September 2010 interview], JQ revealed that due to MJ's use of [[Exact Words]], Mephisto had accidentally retconned ''the deal itself'' out of existence. Think about that again (even though those [[Exact Words]] could easily be corrupted in any number of way by a sufficiently creative individual, let alone an immortal embodiment of pure evil).
* '''Two covers''', of all things, had the ''balls'' to twist the knife with the wounds these storylines opened in the hearts of fans, namely [http://www.eslahoradelastortas.com/blog/media/season04/marvel-apes-2.jpg this] [[Marvel Apes]] cover that parodies the [[One More Day]] logo above and [https://web.archive.org/web/20200409033025/http://photos.imageevent.com/afap/heroesandvillans/marvelzombies/large/marvel_zombies_Spider-Man%20wedding.jpg this] [[Marvel Zombies]] cover that parodies Spider-Man's wedding by replacing the superheroes with their zombified counterparts (with [[Nausea Fuel|obvious]] [[Squick|results)]]. In both cases... Quesada! [[Dude, Not Funny|THIS IS NOT FUNNY!]] [[Sick and Wrong|AT ALL!]]
** That Marvel Zombies cover was actually from about a year before One More Day, and Marvel Zombies' covers are well known for parodying iconic Marvel covers. Not really related to this.
* To cap this all off, the entire plot openly ignores the main Aesop of the Spider-Man franchise: with great power comes great responsibility. Because Peter revealed his identity to the world and his loved ones were hurt, a scenario he had been standing behind for decades as to why he '''wouldn't''' reveal his identity, he made a deal with the devil because [[Broken Aesop|he couldn't take responsibility for his actions]].
* Then there's the fact that [[Death Is Cheap|Aunt May had "died" several times before]], was probably in her eighties, and had lived a fulfilling life, while Mary Jane and Spidey had been married for, what, only a few years (comic book time) and there had been a lot of punctuation on how great they were together. [[Sarcasm Mode|Congratulations Pete]], you let the love of your life go in a [[Deal
** In a vision, her spirit even ''tells'' Peter to let her go and that she wants to see Uncle Ben again. But no, Peter refuses because of his own personal guilt. Yes, the [[With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility]] Peter Parker does this. Nice job Petey: not only did you ruin your own life and the lives of your wife and future child, you also prevented your old aunt from happily joining her deceased husband. FAIL.
* Peter manages to revive Aunt May with a combination of CPR and [[The Power of Love]]... even though she was shot and someone with superstrength pumping on Aunt May would risk either crushing her or reopening the wound pumping all the blood out of her, and his attempts to revive her by contacting everyone in the world who could possibly help didn't count in the original timeline.
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* [[One Moment in Time]]'s solution to how May survived ironically turned the entirety of this saga into one giant [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]. Mephisto's deal accomplished nothing. At the end of the day, despite the [[Cosmic Retcon]], history still repeated itself. Peter still took part in the Civil War, he still unmasked himself, and Aunt May still was shot and sent into comatose. The only difference was that in this new Universe, instead of being approached by Mephisto, Peter went back to the hospital and performed his magical CPR. In essence, the only thing the deal itself accomplished was erasing Peter and Mary Jane's marriage from existence.
** Which just goes to show the lengths that Quesada went to destroy the Parker marriage, something he was known to hate for a very long time.
* [[Epic Fail]]: [[Joe Quesada]], in [[One More Day]] you have demonstrated the storytelling insight and [[Possession Sue]] affect of a thirteen year-old fanfic writer who has only ever read ''[[Twilight (
** And all because you don't like the idea of Spidey being a married man and want Mary-Jane to disappear, despite ''THOUSANDS'' of fans taking the polar opposite opinion. Joe, people like you are the reason this troper fears stupidity becoming contagious.
* Of course we've missed the biggest [[
* The whole point of the book? Erasing the marriage so the writers could explore Peter as a bachelor.. so the first issue after introduces [[Relationship Sue|Carlie]] [[Replacement Scrappy|Cooper]] so she can be the new OTL. [[Sarcasm Mode|Great job exploring his single life, Marvel. Totally worth it.]]
** [[Fridge Horror|Makes you wonder]] if the whole "Exploring Peter as a bachelor" angle is [[Poison Oak Epileptic Trees|just an excuse for Quesada to pair him up with his]] pet character. [[Derailing Love Interests]] doesn't even begin to cover this.
*** Seeing as she's supposedly based off his daughter, it may be he got rid of MJ to pair him up with his own kid.
*** It's worse than that. Let's not forget that Quesada has a tendency to turn Spidey into his own personal [[Author Avatar]]. So he's pairing his own avatar... with ''his daughter's avatar.'' '''What the fuck.'''
* "[[Out
* The sad thing is, not long after he made this he lost his job as editor--and is now in charge of assuring that all Marvel properties are in-character and adhere to continuity. Talk about letting the fox guard the henhouse...
** No, the sad thing is that that's not even how it happened. Joe Quesada didn't lose his job. He got to live out the rest of his run (another few years, giving him a solid ten year run like most EIC) before volenteering to step down in order to get a role that gives him just as much power. Before, he had the power to control the publishing of stories based on his own opinion. Now, he has the power to control what is and isn't published, before they're given to the new EID, the only thing he can't control is if the new guy likes it or not. Throughout all this however, the executives, the ones who control who's in charge, never thought to even tell him to listen to the fans, which would have caused a massive raise in sales had they done so. This is the real wall banger of OMD: How anyone could allow someone to commit such a character assassination and not get fired. He didn't get fired for OMD, he didn't get fired for being a [[Jerkass|massive asshole]] [[Kick the Dog|to the fans]], he didn't get fired for plumetting Marvel into a new Dark Age, he didn't get fired for OMIT, he didn't get fired for being incredibly unpopular, as with what happened to Chuck Austin, he didn't get fired for [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|drawing Peter Parker so that he looks like himself.]] He got to finish his term and step down, complete with Marvel.com announcing a 'celebration' for his ten year fucking aneversary. This is what's wrong with the comic industry today. [[Executive Meddling]] is almost never a good thing, but had it happened a little here, we could have avoided a lot of shit.
* Why, for the love of God, did Spider-Man listen to '''Mephisto''' of all people? He should already know who Mephisto is, having dealt with his son in the past, so he should know that the guy is basically the biblical Satan! So if you know that the literal devil wants to make a deal with you, why the hell would you follow up on that offer, especially if you're one of the smartest, most moral and kindest superheroes around?!
** Not to mention he's friends with [[Ghost Rider|someone]] who has been royally screwed over by Mephisto. You'd think he'd know better.
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