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| | Opinions 14 - Casualties of Retcon VII: The Spider-Clone (Dec 1999) |
 | | This story dated from a different era in comics in which very few characters died (except villains, who die as part of their idiom), and in which dead characters (except, again, villains) did not reappear after the passage of a few issues of stories on another subject. |
 | | In modern comics, we may have incidents like the Kyle Raynor Green Lantern finding his girlfriend, in pieces, in a freezer, in a crass story that would not seriously impact the development of the character. |
 | | Said Jackal, however, brought about both the dreadful Gwen Stacy clone (as part of an effort to play with Spider-Man's beleaguered consciousness) and the aforementioned, and departed, Peter Parker clone (as part of the same or another effort to inflict misery on Spider-Man, and probably also upon his readers). |
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