Chapter 235 The Spider Family's Fall from Grace: The Human Heart...
Chapter 235 The Spider Family's Fall from Grace: The Human Heart...
Just as Toby predicted, in the following period of time, a large number of negative reports about the Spider Family began to appear in New York.
A Spider-Man was swinging on webs, shouting that there were shooting stars, and then, while passersby were looking up, he threw dust into their eyes, causing severe eye injuries to many people...
What?! Spider-Man electrocuting a public restroom urinal and causing countless charred chickens to appear overnight in New York...
What kind of Venom Spider-Man fights bank robbers, killing eight criminals and eighty hostages at once? It's utterly inhumane...
There's also this whole spider family collectively urinating off the Empire State Building, supposedly to create artificial rain for New York City residents...
The most outrageous thing is that the leader of the Spider Clan, Poison Spider, hired 108 prostitutes for a one-night stand, and after they were done, none of them paid the bill—they all skipped out on their bills!
Toby, who had just woken up and was holding two Gwens in his arms when he saw the news, was amused.
One hundred and eight in one night, they really think highly of me!
And with so many, can you handle them all?
Even disregarding the time it takes to take off and put on your pants, you're still a quickie man!
You can frame me, but could you at least find a stronger Skrull?
Both Gwens who saw this news shook their heads in silence.
What is this?! They know Toby's stamina all too well...
As Toby had predicted, the emergence of these negative news stories quickly caused the Spider-Family to plummet from their beloved status in New York to a position even lower than that of supervillains who actually wreak havoc in the city.
Even if you do a hundred good deeds, people may not be very grateful to you. Over time, they may even take it for granted that you should do these things and consider your selfless help as a matter of course.
But if you make a mistake, regardless of whether you actually did it or not, they will curse your entire family and ancestors for eighteen generations until they are covered in black smoke!
And now, the spider family is facing just such a situation...
In the past, when the Spider Family risked their lives to fight criminals in New York, people would at most give you a thumbs up and shout "Well done, failed Man!"
But in just ten days, all the efforts the Spider Family had made over the past few years were completely overturned by ten days of negative content!
Now, not only is there a lot of negative news about the Spider-Man family online, but in real life, people are no longer discussing the help the Spider-Men have given them. Instead, they are discussing the evil deeds of the Spider-Man family online, and they are verbally abusing the Spider-Men who once helped them!
Some extremists have even started waving flags and marching in the streets, chanting for the Spider Family to get out of New York and out of America. They say they don't need the Spider Family's slogan anymore!
Even worse, some went to the New York City government and the New York Police Department to cause trouble, demanding that the mayor of New York City and the commissioner of the New York Police Department send people to arrest the entire Spider Family!
However, that's naturally impossible...
After all, Kingpin was Toby's nominee for mayor of New York City, and Stacy was Toby's nominee for NYPD commissioner.
Moreover, neither of them—one a top-tier underground emperor with exceptional intelligence, and the other Toby's father-in-law who knew the inside story—would pay any attention to the unreasonable petitions of those idiotic citizens.
On the contrary, the two secretly sent people to record these rioters who were parading and causing trouble, and designated them as key targets for investigation.
After their investigation, the two were somewhat surprised to discover that while a small portion of the people who paraded through the streets and were tasked with capturing the spider family were indeed part of a deliberate campaign against the spider family.
But most of the people were actually ordinary citizens. They weren't even victims of the Skrulls disguised as the Spider Family. They had just seen some unverified news reports and spontaneously organized to take to the streets to boycott the Spider Family.
Their actions had absolutely no other legitimate reason; they were simply doing it because they wanted to, thought it was fun, or were jealous of Spider-Man's past popularity, so they chose to take advantage of the situation to give the Spider-Family a boost!
This is pure evil!
This left Toby with mixed feelings after receiving Kingpin and Chief Stacy's investigation reports...
He used to think that the ordinary people in American comics were too brainless, even more so than troublemakers. Every time a superhero made a small mistake, or because of a rumor about a superhero, these ordinary people would want to send him to the deepest hell, which seemed extremely unreasonable.
After all, who in real life is so brainless? How could they possibly dismiss a superhero who has helped you for years just because of one or two suspicious bad things...?
But the reality is, looking at it now, wow, the ordinary people in the world of American comics really are that brainless!
No wonder American comic book superheroes always turn evil. They're protecting a bunch of idiots every day, it's hard not to turn evil!
Fortunately, Toby won't turn to the dark side over such a trivial matter; after all, his inner thoughts are far darker than what they're saying.
Toby discovered for the first time that being a little ruthless can actually be an advantage; at least when the truly malicious people show up, you can remain completely unfazed, and might even feel a little amused.
Go ahead and curse, curse as harshly as possible!
Anyway, he doesn't care what people he doesn't care about think of him. The harsher they criticize him now, the more they'll cry later!
Just wait and see. Soon you'll see what the trouble those Spider Clan spies caused you is—it's nothing more than the raindrops before the storm...
What follows is the real storm that will get you, my dear citizens of New York...
What would happen to a city where superheroes are no longer heroes, or even where superheroes no longer exist?
Ten days later, after the Skrulls had completely tarnished the Spider-Man family's reputation, making Spider-Man and his friends universally hated, and after the friendly neighbors finally stopped roaming the city and streets amidst the insults...
These ordinary people may not realize anything yet; they just feel that they have won this time and that they have driven the despicable, 'wicked' spider family out of New York!
Who says ordinary people can't fight against these superheroes?
See, as long as they unite, what can the invincible spider family do? Under their condemnation, they don't even dare to fart and slink away, never daring to show their faces again!
Hahahaha, this is a victory for ordinary people like them!!!
While these foolish citizens were still celebrating their "victory," some intelligent people had already realized that something was wrong.
As is well known, in American comics, intelligent characters, aside from superheroes, are generally concentrated among supervillains and criminals...
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