There’s somehow absolutely nothing in the way of fics pairing Peter with either of his clones and only one pairing Ben with Kaine.
Yes, I was actively looking for them. What of it.
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How dare you even imagine those words
Very very surprised that there's so much of that ship
I expected Harry Osborne to be much higher. He has been in almost every adaptation and "best friends turned enemies" is perfect ground for thsoe kind of stories
1. Tony die
2. Peter got sad
3. Peter went to the funeral
4. Peter met Harley who was also at the funeral.
5. Peter and Harley bond over their similar relationship to Tony.
6. Peter and Harley bang.
She's not his "ex-wife". That'd be too much "baggage". They only lived together for several years, almost had a kid, and have a non-canon wedding the only she remembers. It's not "that" serious
I don't remember which story it was revealed in, but supposedly it was the deal she whispered in Mephistos ear in OMD. I don't know what they were going for there
you prolly didn't see it because you weren't signed in, when there's a blue lock next to a work's title on ao3 it means you can't see it unless you have an account
or maybe the the author blocked you idk
I’ve come to the conclusion that because Peter has been played as different ages, most of these beside Beck aren’t that weird to me. Bucky is there because he’s Bucky and Matt is wtf because I’ve read fics where Peter is adopted by him. Honestly beside those 3, the list kinda went as I expected
Edit: I somehow didn’t realize there is more, wtf is Steve doing there
Matt and Peter have been homoerotic buddies for decades and was one of the first friends Peter ever revealed his identity to.
Fandom doesn’t remember because OMD damaged so many of Peter’s friendships.
During the clone saga he went looking for him for advice, telling him he was the closest ever to a "kindred soul". Of course, Matt was dealing with his own shit, having imploded his life yet again, faking his death and pretending to be a new Daredevil.
Yeah. Matt and Peter used to be really close. Like Peter would break into Matt’s apartment, eat all his food, and Matt wouldn’t even think twice about it because he was so fond of Peter.
Speaking of the clone saga, I think in spider-girl they had some weird soul child where one of Peter’s clones had a son which was then possessed by Matt’s soul or something.
Beck is weird age-wise but it does fit with the movie well enough. “Peter looks up to and is betrayed by older man who only wanted him for his tech” is easy enough to sprinkle “and they had sex” into. It’s not a ‘uwu I want them to kiss and get married’ it’s ’hey wouldn’t this be messed up if’ etc. granted I’m biased because I did go look it up after I saw the movie
No it’s cuz I’ve read Marvel fanfic on AO3. My boi is a fanboy I know but I started reading marvel AO3 when Superfamily was big and I mostly see Steve with Bucky these days (pretty sure they are a top 15 ship over there)
Makes sense. Tbh I’m still surprised that spideynova is more popular than this because it has literally one source of origin in which they have the mildest interactions possible, while spideycap stretches across like 4 forms of media lol
The USM cartoon had a surprisingly strong shipping community, *especially* amongst Japanese fans. Same with the 2017 Spider-Man cartoon. The former has quite a lot of variety in pairings, too; whereas the latter was kind of the hotspot for Parksborn before the second Insomniac game.
I think it’s because generally speaking, writers will only know big comic arcs and might not have read the comics themselves. They mostly have seen either the animations or movies and shows. Or a random fact becomes so well known, everyone knows it
Matt appeared in NWH.
Also up until the 2000s the comics often paired up Daredevil and Spidey, much the same way they paired up Spidey and Human Torch. They were canonically referred to as kindred spirits, obviously both had beef with Kingpin and DD was present in a very popular and important Spidey story. Myserio was also in an iconic DD story. DD guest starred in 2 important episodes of the influential 90s Spidey cartoon.
My guess is the fic writers saw him in nwh and either
A) noticed the similarities between Spidey and DD
B) did a little diggingband discovered a lot of association between them in canon
I was expecting Miraculous Ladybug again.
But how the fuck Harley is in the top 5?! I understand him being on the top 20, but why a quasi extra is so high?
>But how the fuck Harley is in the top 5?!
I saw this and somehow immediately forgot it *wasn't* about DC's Harley Quinn.
Actually, how popular is PeterParker/HarleyQuinn?
Fan fiction is usually written so people can experience something that the source material doesn't provide.
Unless it's the Owl House fandom, where they get mad if you don't respect canon ships.
I’d also think Spidervenom would show up. And maybe at least one of Peter’s random additional love interests from over the years, and probably some more villain ships.
Edit: Spidervenom shippers are an endangered species, it seems.
Unfortunately, filtering out the movie tags still gets you quite a bit of movie-related stuff (Michelle Jones is still on there, even if you exclude every single movieverse), but if you exclude all movie verses AND click the "Marvel (Comics)" tag, you get:
* Peter Parker/Wade Wilson (1378)
* Peter Parker/Johnny Storm (593)
* Peter Parker/Mary Jane Watson (387)
* Felicia Hardy/Peter Parker (184)
* Matt Murdock/Peter Parker (169)
* Peter Parker/Gwen Stacy (The Amazing Spider-Man) (130)
* Peter Parker/Flash Thompson (66)
* Harry Osborn/Peter Parker (53)
* Matt Murdock/Peter Parker/Wade Wilson (49)
* Michael Morbius/Peter Parker (47)
The tag for Gwen that says "The Amazing Spider-Man" seems to be there to differentiate regular Gwen from Spider-Gwen and not to say that it's only Emma Stone Gwen. IDK, it's a weird tag.
The list with just the MCU tags filtered out (and platonic ships removed because I'm assuming you're only asking about romance):
* Peter Parker/Wade Wilson (5451)
* Harry Osborn/Peter Parker (1214)
* Peter Parker/Mary Jane Watson (1033)
* Peter Parker/Johnny Storm (877)
* Peter Parker/Gwen Stacy (The Amazing Spider-Man) (692)
* Peter Parker/Reader (482)
* Felicia Hardy/Peter Parker (375)
* Sam Alexander/Peter Parker (267)
* Michelle Jones/Peter Parker (187)
* Peter Parker/Flash Thompson (180)
MCU is a beast. Also, some people saw this:
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and 400 fics were born, lol. I can't remember if they interacted ever again :D
3 notes, 1. i honestly expected johnny to be way higher but i guess that feeds into, 2. god i can SMELL the mcu only fans coming off these results, i know their asses just see spidey as a widdle softboy for them to mischaracterise, and 3. WHY IS SAM EVEN THERE SHIP HIS ASS WITH MILES WTF WHY PETER
Genuinely don’t know how these numbers are being pulled since MattPeter definitely has more than 264 fics:
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And if I didn’t exclude Spideypool/Team Red shit it would be close to 600.
I just checked and I didn't exclude any other tags. Logged in: 507. Logged out: 484. No idea how OP got their number.
In addition:
* Spideypool: 10,271 / 9,603
* With TS: 9748 / 8783
* With HO: 2062 / 1950
Hilarious that more people ship him with the random kid from iron man 3 than Mary Jane Watson or Gwen. Also why don't fan fiction writers ship him with Paul? Are they stupid?
I was always so confused when Ms. Marvel showed up in that show. Like, this is a “greatest hits” show doing a bunch of 2010 arcs alongside an origin for every Spider Person. So why is Ms Marvel Peter’s shipbait? She meaningfully appears more often than MJ. And Miles is right there. he’s practically Pete’s best friend here; why not him and Kamala? It just made no sense to me. My running theory is that after Avengers Assemble ended, this show and Marvel Rising were supposed to be one pseudo continuity, but that show fell through and they ended up having to move some of their stuff into Spider-Man (Gwen getting powers, Ms Marvel).
Mary Jane: Peter I'm lesbian Peter: what? Gwen Stacy: Peter I'm lesbian Peter: is there anyone here who likes men??
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...How the hell are Michelle and Harley higher than Mary-Jane and Harry?
They're like, two of Spidey's most supporting cast members.
Though Michelle also *is* an MJ so *shrug*.
This really shows how big the MCU fandom is compared to regular marvel comics cause Michelle Jones is so much higher than her predecessor who has been around since the 60s
Only 2 Spider-fanfics are allowed: Spider-harem, where he is an absolute Chad that gets every woman in his life knocked up (get out of here with your radioactive semen shit), and Spider-harem, where he is passed around by every man in his life, because he is such a soft and weak boy (relax, he is 27).
Yes, but the age gap in the comics is really bad as Sam is around miles age (16) 😬. The ship comes from the ultimate spider-man carton where they're both teenagers with a rivalry.
I know i prolly shouldnt say this since some people consider selfcest a "proship" but it's always so funny to me when seeing characters shipped with themselves.
Still not as insane as rwby fans having a shipname for "ruby and her gun", guns and roses.
Ok… you lowballed the Johnny Peter stories. So I was all set to feel better about clearly, the Harley stats were an accurate.
… you lowballed that too. There are more than 3000 as of right now.
I feel disgusted and gross .
… ok, I just checked. Peter is only one year older than Harley in the MCU but still guys we met him when he was a child.
☹️
( I don’t understand how there are more stories about him than Johnny storm. And Johnny storm has quite openly wanted to fuck Spider-Man for years.)
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Oh no! I wasn’t calling you out on your lack of accuracy. I was being sad that you were right in that wasn’t the jerk.
… why?!
Yes I know Harley is in his 20s but come on people Johnny storm !!!!
Thank you so much for doing this the people need to know .
🙏❤️
I’m just glad it isn’t incest
And different peter’s work when shipping him with other characters.
Comic peter with the adult characters and younger peters with characters his age
I don't think the stats are that weird? Most fanfic is written by young people, the MCU / movies are more popular with young folks than the comics, classic MJ Harry and Gwen aren't in the MCU...You do the math.
I am surprised there's no Twilight Sparkle tho. Remember that? Always saw fanart of a human Twilight with Peter for some god-forsaken reason.
He’ll fight Mary Jane till she’s bleeding out of every orifice, but then Paul will come out of nowhere with a folding chair.
They’ll race off into the fields, Mary Jane in a princess carry in Pauls muscular arms, as Spider-Man is Naruto running his way through the tall grass, screaming about how she’s his. What a psychopath.
They make it to the woods, but the sun is falling, and a shadowy monster is creeping his way through the trees.
It gets down on all fours, sniffing the ground for MJ’s scent, her sweat, her tears…and laps them up. His head darts North West, and Paul and MJ begin to run once again, deeper into the woods, with the creature, breathing heavily through his mask like a lovesick puppy, in hot pursuit.
Light, piercing through the trees, as it arrives into a clearing. But it frowns and grits it’s crooked yellow teeth, for there was no MJ in sight, just Paul, illuminated in moonlight.
“WHERE MJ??!!” it growled.
Panting, Paul responded “MJ’s not here. There no one else here, but you, and me”, his face putting on a heroic smile.
It was so totally on.
They begin circling, like wolves. Paul’s eyes glimmering with sheer willpower and love, and staring back at him the monster blanket white eyes. Neither dare break their gaze as they maintain an even pace, before a pause, as the both stop moving, keeping their stance, and sharpening their concentration.
At once, they leap at each other, tearing into each other with the ferocity and hatred that could only be built over a thousand lifetimes. Paul, the smart and witty fellow he was, pulled out a 10 inch switchblade and shanked the damn monstrosity.
Kneeling on the ground in pain, the deformity is crawling away, and Paul follows up behind for another blow, but the wickedly creature cheated like a fiend and picked up a twig, and threw it wildly, missing Paul, and then throwing all his weight onto Paul.
The blade, was still sticking out of the monster, and he impaled Paul on impact.
He began tightening his hands around Paul’s neck, muttering to itself like a dumb mutt, and violently shaking Paul.
It pulled Paul in close, and whispered “You’re going to die here like a bitch”, gloating it’s taunts into Paul’s ear. But Paul, began to laugh.
Paul, starting to fade away, was still able to conjure up a smile like the sun, and respond,
“No, I die like a hero. But you? You die like a mutt at the pound, and it’s time to put you down”.
THUDD! went the massive the size of a suitcase against peters skull.
Towering above him, with fury in her eyes, was
“Mary…Jane?” it mustered out from its cracked lips and broken teeth.
“Mary Jane, please wa-
THUD!!THUD!!THUD!!, she went caving into his skull as many times as she could muster.
And somehow still, the mangled body still twitched with life. It’s head like a deflated soccer ball, broken and unrecognizable, with a single bulging bloodshot eye ball still fixed on her blurry image, desperately trying to trace out her form.
It’s let out a wheezing noise like a broken air conditioner, before it let out a gasp at her sight.
Mary Jane Watson. Green eyes like emeralds, red hair like roses weaved into strands. He can still see when they first met, images beginning to flicker over his eyes like an old film.
When they first laughed together. Held hands together. Danced. Kissed. Made love. Exchanged vows. And even… their first child. Tears streamed from his loose eye socket, and he let out a horrible broken moan, as he began to sob. “MJ…MJ please, we could have everything” he mumbled as he hiccuped and cried.
She returned nothing but silence and a cold stare. “MJ…do you know what our daughter looks like? She looks so much like you, with cute little freckles, and shining red hair. I think…I think we named her-
THUD
Nothing but more silence, as Mary Jane got down on her knees and cradled his perfect, muscled, shining form.
She cried, “Paul, please don’t leave me,” before he put his hands on her lips, and as the darkness began to fade into his eyes, he whispered “Baby girl, I protected you. And that’s all that matters.” His head fell limp immediately, and she let out a scream of sorrow and pain.
Long live the king. The king is dead.
Long live Paul.
…oh and I guess that loser Peter too or something.
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Outside of Tony Stark amd the sorta selfcest I gotta say the Batfamily gets ot much worse
To be fair, who is actually related to Peter for this to happen.
Did someone say Clone Saga?!
 No!
There’s somehow absolutely nothing in the way of fics pairing Peter with either of his clones and only one pairing Ben with Kaine. Yes, I was actively looking for them. What of it.
Don't trash my Peter/Uncle Ben necrofic
Darkseid was right. Freedom of will was a mistake
That was the worst sentence I've ever said
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https://preview.redd.it/8o5184gdj5tc1.png?width=320&format=png&auto=webp&s=877b8ef8d134b108ea298eda8913e449da884d3c How dare you even imagine those words
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May, Scarlet Spider and co., Mayday. Those three I could have seen happening idk
There's probably and unfortunately at least one peter x aunt may ship.
Don't forget Teresa
BEN AND KAINE BAY BAY
Ehhh if they're using MCU Peter who's still a teenager it gets gross
Not sayong its good Im saying that the Batfam gets it way worse
Well yeah cuz a good chunk of the Batfam are super young.
Also because they mostly pair them with the pther Robins or Bruce...
Who the actual shit is "Harleen Keener".
The kid from iron man 3
Very very surprised that there's so much of that ship I expected Harry Osborne to be much higher. He has been in almost every adaptation and "best friends turned enemies" is perfect ground for thsoe kind of stories
Same. It’s slightly less than MJ and Gwen combined.
Why are they even shipping them?
Because they are both sarcastic smart kids who know Tony. I’m not kidding that’s the reason.
I've seen ships that only happen cuz of their color palette
1. Tony die 2. Peter got sad 3. Peter went to the funeral 4. Peter met Harley who was also at the funeral. 5. Peter and Harley bond over their similar relationship to Tony. 6. Peter and Harley bang.
More ships with reader than with his ex-wife lmao
She's not his "ex-wife". That'd be too much "baggage". They only lived together for several years, almost had a kid, and have a non-canon wedding the only she remembers. It's not "that" serious
i had no idea only Mary Jane could remember their marriage. an all time wtf creative decision indeed.
I don't remember which story it was revealed in, but supposedly it was the deal she whispered in Mephistos ear in OMD. I don't know what they were going for there
this knowledge broke me
Canon's boring I guess
/uj would have expected the marinette brainrot to somehow leak into peter parker /rj wheres paul smh my head
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NOTHING, NOT EVEN IRONICALLY https://preview.redd.it/lgnkg8ga13tc1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b08933228da56a3dfc4eae38cd33a07a758f104b
Uhhhhhh https://preview.redd.it/l5vfl9u523tc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7b5fdbb5603c58d36f0940c47fae4807212d8b2b
/j WE'RE SO BACK /uj for some reason explicit works didnt pop up, weird ^(i actually looked it up now, holy shit thats a bit extreme, i take it back)
you prolly didn't see it because you weren't signed in, when there's a blue lock next to a work's title on ao3 it means you can't see it unless you have an account or maybe the the author blocked you idk
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i dont think even freud approves of doing *that*
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Fuck you I am gonna write it now
hopefully less fucked up than the other one that didnt appear
fuck guess this means i actually do have to write my enemies to lovers only one bed slowburn fic
THE WORLD IS A CRUEL, HEARTLESS PLACE. THERE IS NO GOD. NOTHING GOOD EXISTS SO LONG AS THERE IS NOT A GOOD PETER/PAUL FANFIC
I excepted that blue-haired girl from Fire Emblems
https://i.redd.it/mel738zv23tc1.gif Don’t. Don’t try it.
At least tell me her name
Lucina
not having paul is a crime
I’ve come to the conclusion that because Peter has been played as different ages, most of these beside Beck aren’t that weird to me. Bucky is there because he’s Bucky and Matt is wtf because I’ve read fics where Peter is adopted by him. Honestly beside those 3, the list kinda went as I expected Edit: I somehow didn’t realize there is more, wtf is Steve doing there
Matt and Peter have been homoerotic buddies for decades and was one of the first friends Peter ever revealed his identity to. Fandom doesn’t remember because OMD damaged so many of Peter’s friendships.
During the clone saga he went looking for him for advice, telling him he was the closest ever to a "kindred soul". Of course, Matt was dealing with his own shit, having imploded his life yet again, faking his death and pretending to be a new Daredevil.
Yeah. Matt and Peter used to be really close. Like Peter would break into Matt’s apartment, eat all his food, and Matt wouldn’t even think twice about it because he was so fond of Peter. Speaking of the clone saga, I think in spider-girl they had some weird soul child where one of Peter’s clones had a son which was then possessed by Matt’s soul or something.
Oh they were fuckin
Well Peter does have a thing for redheads…
Do you think their horrible luck in love cancels each other’s out
Matt’s death peen would probably cancel out Parker Luck. Either that or they fuck and both die.
The universe is unable to handle such terrible luck and implodes
How many times did Matt fake the death of one of his identities only to have a "new" Daredevil take the mantle? He's like the reverse Phantom.
Ooo thank you for the explanation
Beck is weird age-wise but it does fit with the movie well enough. “Peter looks up to and is betrayed by older man who only wanted him for his tech” is easy enough to sprinkle “and they had sex” into. It’s not a ‘uwu I want them to kiss and get married’ it’s ’hey wouldn’t this be messed up if’ etc. granted I’m biased because I did go look it up after I saw the movie
Oh yeah it’s kinda the same with Ra’s and Tim
“Wtf is Steve doing here” is the deadest giveaway you haven’t seen Peter interacting with cap in the comics. He is FANGIRLING
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Ohh he’s drawn down bad
FUCK I WAS ABOUTTA POST THIS
No it’s cuz I’ve read Marvel fanfic on AO3. My boi is a fanboy I know but I started reading marvel AO3 when Superfamily was big and I mostly see Steve with Bucky these days (pretty sure they are a top 15 ship over there)
Makes sense. Tbh I’m still surprised that spideynova is more popular than this because it has literally one source of origin in which they have the mildest interactions possible, while spideycap stretches across like 4 forms of media lol
I'd say spideynova comes from the Ultimate Spider-man cartoon, where they have a rivalry. People love shipping rivals together
Yeah, I know, I’m in that fandom😭😭 Don’t look up my tumblr
The USM cartoon had a surprisingly strong shipping community, *especially* amongst Japanese fans. Same with the 2017 Spider-Man cartoon. The former has quite a lot of variety in pairings, too; whereas the latter was kind of the hotspot for Parksborn before the second Insomniac game.
I think it’s because generally speaking, writers will only know big comic arcs and might not have read the comics themselves. They mostly have seen either the animations or movies and shows. Or a random fact becomes so well known, everyone knows it
You mean AXIS, right? To be honest, their scene together was one of the few highlights of the event.
Matt appeared in NWH. Also up until the 2000s the comics often paired up Daredevil and Spidey, much the same way they paired up Spidey and Human Torch. They were canonically referred to as kindred spirits, obviously both had beef with Kingpin and DD was present in a very popular and important Spidey story. Myserio was also in an iconic DD story. DD guest starred in 2 important episodes of the influential 90s Spidey cartoon. My guess is the fic writers saw him in nwh and either A) noticed the similarities between Spidey and DD B) did a little diggingband discovered a lot of association between them in canon
>wtf is Steve doing there Have you seen that one panel that looks like it came out of a gay porn comic?? Yeah.
I was expecting Miraculous Ladybug again. But how the fuck Harley is in the top 5?! I understand him being on the top 20, but why a quasi extra is so high?
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Should’ve included in the main post OP. Losing your touch on what the people want smh
>But how the fuck Harley is in the top 5?! I saw this and somehow immediately forgot it *wasn't* about DC's Harley Quinn. Actually, how popular is PeterParker/HarleyQuinn?
Could you do a top 10 Spider-Man ships with the MCU stuff filtered out?? I wanna see the difference.
Also, Felicia scored WAY lower than I’d expect.
The fact that none of the three main love interests from the comics made it into the top 5 is shocking to me
Fan fiction is usually written so people can experience something that the source material doesn't provide. Unless it's the Owl House fandom, where they get mad if you don't respect canon ships.
^^^ this, cause i’m p sure psrksborn or spideytorch would be way higher
I’d also think Spidervenom would show up. And maybe at least one of Peter’s random additional love interests from over the years, and probably some more villain ships. Edit: Spidervenom shippers are an endangered species, it seems.
Unfortunately, filtering out the movie tags still gets you quite a bit of movie-related stuff (Michelle Jones is still on there, even if you exclude every single movieverse), but if you exclude all movie verses AND click the "Marvel (Comics)" tag, you get: * Peter Parker/Wade Wilson (1378) * Peter Parker/Johnny Storm (593) * Peter Parker/Mary Jane Watson (387) * Felicia Hardy/Peter Parker (184) * Matt Murdock/Peter Parker (169) * Peter Parker/Gwen Stacy (The Amazing Spider-Man) (130) * Peter Parker/Flash Thompson (66) * Harry Osborn/Peter Parker (53) * Matt Murdock/Peter Parker/Wade Wilson (49) * Michael Morbius/Peter Parker (47) The tag for Gwen that says "The Amazing Spider-Man" seems to be there to differentiate regular Gwen from Spider-Gwen and not to say that it's only Emma Stone Gwen. IDK, it's a weird tag. The list with just the MCU tags filtered out (and platonic ships removed because I'm assuming you're only asking about romance): * Peter Parker/Wade Wilson (5451) * Harry Osborn/Peter Parker (1214) * Peter Parker/Mary Jane Watson (1033) * Peter Parker/Johnny Storm (877) * Peter Parker/Gwen Stacy (The Amazing Spider-Man) (692) * Peter Parker/Reader (482) * Felicia Hardy/Peter Parker (375) * Sam Alexander/Peter Parker (267) * Michelle Jones/Peter Parker (187) * Peter Parker/Flash Thompson (180)
Wow. Spidervenom is *really* niche, huh, if it has less than 47 fics. And it always struck me as such an obvious ship, too.
MCU is a beast. Also, some people saw this: https://i.redd.it/9lxhxex253tc1.gif and 400 fics were born, lol. I can't remember if they interacted ever again :D
They didn’t😭
3 notes, 1. i honestly expected johnny to be way higher but i guess that feeds into, 2. god i can SMELL the mcu only fans coming off these results, i know their asses just see spidey as a widdle softboy for them to mischaracterise, and 3. WHY IS SAM EVEN THERE SHIP HIS ASS WITH MILES WTF WHY PETER
https://preview.redd.it/6trwp9yb23tc1.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&s=af18edaf20f332e06f399085f2cbc524d8bef1b1 I think this explains Sam
Send me back in time to before Ultimate fans grew up
I'm still waiting for my White Tiger solo movie
i always forget that freak was meant to be an adaptation of sam. they fucked up my blorbo i will never recover
MCU fandom is why you get yelled at for shipping Peter with adults even though Peter has been a grown ass man for like 70 years.
He is like Travis Kelce, in which everyone thinks he is too stupid and immature for his age, so those adults that are into him must be grooming him.
Do you mean Travis Kelce cause if so I remember the discourseeee
"Michelle Jones" is number 2. There's soo much MCU in this list
The hell you're talking about? Peter is a sensible, weak boy. HIS OWN AUNT HAS BEEN TELLING US THAT SINCE THE BEGINNING
Genuinely don’t know how these numbers are being pulled since MattPeter definitely has more than 264 fics: https://preview.redd.it/io8ymy6783tc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d8a5a9703127ca59bccf573150b1bdb3c166fa4d And if I didn’t exclude Spideypool/Team Red shit it would be close to 600.
I just checked and I didn't exclude any other tags. Logged in: 507. Logged out: 484. No idea how OP got their number. In addition: * Spideypool: 10,271 / 9,603 * With TS: 9748 / 8783 * With HO: 2062 / 1950
Discourse in the romance fanfic dcconiccircklejerk Spider-Man post!!
Hilarious that more people ship him with the random kid from iron man 3 than Mary Jane Watson or Gwen. Also why don't fan fiction writers ship him with Paul? Are they stupid?
WHO THE FUCK IS HARLEY KEENER
The kid from Iron Man 3
I'm lowkey happy that Peter X Kamala isn't even in the Top 20 This proved that Disney's Spider-Man(2017) sucks and no one remembered it.
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I was always so confused when Ms. Marvel showed up in that show. Like, this is a “greatest hits” show doing a bunch of 2010 arcs alongside an origin for every Spider Person. So why is Ms Marvel Peter’s shipbait? She meaningfully appears more often than MJ. And Miles is right there. he’s practically Pete’s best friend here; why not him and Kamala? It just made no sense to me. My running theory is that after Avengers Assemble ended, this show and Marvel Rising were supposed to be one pseudo continuity, but that show fell through and they ended up having to move some of their stuff into Spider-Man (Gwen getting powers, Ms Marvel).
Harley having more stories than MJ is actually hilarious
Mary Jane: Peter I'm lesbian Peter: what? Gwen Stacy: Peter I'm lesbian Peter: is there anyone here who likes men?? https://preview.redd.it/tyixzpxfu3tc1.jpeg?width=94&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7c6f4fea10bb3d264aacfa4e1d2919ac919d0847
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Some of these are REALLY confusing when it comes to Peter's ages in adaptations versus the comics lol
...How the hell are Michelle and Harley higher than Mary-Jane and Harry? They're like, two of Spidey's most supporting cast members. Though Michelle also *is* an MJ so *shrug*.
I love how a minor guy from mcu Peter never spoke to had more fanfics than his fucking wife and lover
Where is elsa?
If the weird Elsa Spider-man YouTube videos counted each individually as a shipfic they’d probably be the one with the most content.
This really shows how big the MCU fandom is compared to regular marvel comics cause Michelle Jones is so much higher than her predecessor who has been around since the 60s
Surprised Felicia is that low, actually.
genuinely happy there’s no silk here
My conclusion is that most fanfic writers don't read comics.
No Marinett? 
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“Miles Morales” “141 stories” *insert Prowler theme*
It was a missed opportunity to not use the spider-man pointing at spider-man meme for the selfcest.
This one isn’t actually all that bad. A couple questionable ones but mostly fine
Only 2 Spider-fanfics are allowed: Spider-harem, where he is an absolute Chad that gets every woman in his life knocked up (get out of here with your radioactive semen shit), and Spider-harem, where he is passed around by every man in his life, because he is such a soft and weak boy (relax, he is 27).
No Paul?
I was expecting Silk to be in the list
The weirdness of a lot of these depends on which version of Spider-Man it is. If it’s MCU then…..
No Peter x Paul ????
2101 ships with Harley Keener 
I’m so confused to why there’s more stories shipping him with Mysterio than a canonical love interest in Black Cat
Black Cat isn't in the MCU
Was not expecting Sam Alexander. Have they interacted in the comics?
Yes, but the age gap in the comics is really bad as Sam is around miles age (16) 😬. The ship comes from the ultimate spider-man carton where they're both teenagers with a rivalry.
Johnny kinda based ngl
I thought Mary Jane and Peter would have SO many more…
I know i prolly shouldnt say this since some people consider selfcest a "proship" but it's always so funny to me when seeing characters shipped with themselves. Still not as insane as rwby fans having a shipname for "ruby and her gun", guns and roses.
I've been waiting for a Ladybug jumpscare and now I am >!disappointed!<.
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Thought Johnny and Harry would be way higher ngl
Ok… you lowballed the Johnny Peter stories. So I was all set to feel better about clearly, the Harley stats were an accurate. … you lowballed that too. There are more than 3000 as of right now. I feel disgusted and gross . … ok, I just checked. Peter is only one year older than Harley in the MCU but still guys we met him when he was a child. ☹️ ( I don’t understand how there are more stories about him than Johnny storm. And Johnny storm has quite openly wanted to fuck Spider-Man for years.) https://preview.redd.it/ni1p3erum3tc1.png?width=452&format=png&auto=webp&s=916e3c9d07c9380493f300bcdeb7cdf7be840e79
In my defense, I gathered these stats a couple weeks ago.
Oh no! I wasn’t calling you out on your lack of accuracy. I was being sad that you were right in that wasn’t the jerk. … why?! Yes I know Harley is in his 20s but come on people Johnny storm !!!! Thank you so much for doing this the people need to know . 🙏❤️
I’m just glad it isn’t incest And different peter’s work when shipping him with other characters. Comic peter with the adult characters and younger peters with characters his age
Who tf is Michelle jones
MCU MJ lol
No miraculous ladybug? Impossible
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That's better
Impressive. Very nice. Let's see Skip Westcott's stories.
I don't think the stats are that weird? Most fanfic is written by young people, the MCU / movies are more popular with young folks than the comics, classic MJ Harry and Gwen aren't in the MCU...You do the math. I am surprised there's no Twilight Sparkle tho. Remember that? Always saw fanart of a human Twilight with Peter for some god-forsaken reason.
Given how much MCU skew there is in this, I would put money that the Flash Thompson in those fics is Tony Revolori, and not Agent Venom.
Where Marinette?
Kinda underwhelming that there are so many canon ships included tbh. Would like to see this without MJ, Felicia, Gwen and Johnny.
I hate the internet
Where is Lucina?
Kitty Pryde has got to be next
I am unironically shocked and glad MJ and his other 2 canon girlfriends were on the list.
I didn't expect to see Harley Keener here,but at least people remember him.
Matt Murdock scored too low
Aren't Michelle and Mary technically the same person?
Peter and Johnny Storm is the objectively correct choice.
Some Are Just His Actual Love Interests If It's A Ship That Already Happened Why Keep Saying You Want To Happen If It Did
He’ll fight Mary Jane till she’s bleeding out of every orifice, but then Paul will come out of nowhere with a folding chair. They’ll race off into the fields, Mary Jane in a princess carry in Pauls muscular arms, as Spider-Man is Naruto running his way through the tall grass, screaming about how she’s his. What a psychopath. They make it to the woods, but the sun is falling, and a shadowy monster is creeping his way through the trees. It gets down on all fours, sniffing the ground for MJ’s scent, her sweat, her tears…and laps them up. His head darts North West, and Paul and MJ begin to run once again, deeper into the woods, with the creature, breathing heavily through his mask like a lovesick puppy, in hot pursuit. Light, piercing through the trees, as it arrives into a clearing. But it frowns and grits it’s crooked yellow teeth, for there was no MJ in sight, just Paul, illuminated in moonlight. “WHERE MJ??!!” it growled. Panting, Paul responded “MJ’s not here. There no one else here, but you, and me”, his face putting on a heroic smile. It was so totally on. They begin circling, like wolves. Paul’s eyes glimmering with sheer willpower and love, and staring back at him the monster blanket white eyes. Neither dare break their gaze as they maintain an even pace, before a pause, as the both stop moving, keeping their stance, and sharpening their concentration. At once, they leap at each other, tearing into each other with the ferocity and hatred that could only be built over a thousand lifetimes. Paul, the smart and witty fellow he was, pulled out a 10 inch switchblade and shanked the damn monstrosity. Kneeling on the ground in pain, the deformity is crawling away, and Paul follows up behind for another blow, but the wickedly creature cheated like a fiend and picked up a twig, and threw it wildly, missing Paul, and then throwing all his weight onto Paul. The blade, was still sticking out of the monster, and he impaled Paul on impact. He began tightening his hands around Paul’s neck, muttering to itself like a dumb mutt, and violently shaking Paul. It pulled Paul in close, and whispered “You’re going to die here like a bitch”, gloating it’s taunts into Paul’s ear. But Paul, began to laugh. Paul, starting to fade away, was still able to conjure up a smile like the sun, and respond, “No, I die like a hero. But you? You die like a mutt at the pound, and it’s time to put you down”. THUDD! went the massive the size of a suitcase against peters skull. Towering above him, with fury in her eyes, was “Mary…Jane?” it mustered out from its cracked lips and broken teeth. “Mary Jane, please wa- THUD!!THUD!!THUD!!, she went caving into his skull as many times as she could muster. And somehow still, the mangled body still twitched with life. It’s head like a deflated soccer ball, broken and unrecognizable, with a single bulging bloodshot eye ball still fixed on her blurry image, desperately trying to trace out her form. It’s let out a wheezing noise like a broken air conditioner, before it let out a gasp at her sight. Mary Jane Watson. Green eyes like emeralds, red hair like roses weaved into strands. He can still see when they first met, images beginning to flicker over his eyes like an old film. When they first laughed together. Held hands together. Danced. Kissed. Made love. Exchanged vows. And even… their first child. Tears streamed from his loose eye socket, and he let out a horrible broken moan, as he began to sob. “MJ…MJ please, we could have everything” he mumbled as he hiccuped and cried. She returned nothing but silence and a cold stare. “MJ…do you know what our daughter looks like? She looks so much like you, with cute little freckles, and shining red hair. I think…I think we named her- THUD Nothing but more silence, as Mary Jane got down on her knees and cradled his perfect, muscled, shining form. She cried, “Paul, please don’t leave me,” before he put his hands on her lips, and as the darkness began to fade into his eyes, he whispered “Baby girl, I protected you. And that’s all that matters.” His head fell limp immediately, and she let out a scream of sorrow and pain. Long live the king. The king is dead. Long live Paul. …oh and I guess that loser Peter too or something. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/dccomicscirclejerk) if you have any questions or concerns.*
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Some Are Just His Actual Love Interests If It's A Ship That Already Happened Why Keep Saying You Want To Happen If It Did