Spiderman's Semen Killed Mary Jane!

[elfs]

From Spider Man: Reign #3:

Oh God, I'm sorry! The doctors didn't understand how it happened! How you had been poisoned by radioactivity! How your body slowly became riddled with cancer! I did. I was... I am filled with radioactive blood. And not just blood. Every fluid. Touching me... loving me... Loving me killed you!"

Sadly, this is not a joke.

Comments

[jordan179.livejournal.com]

Who said anything about sexual organs? Maybe Peter and MJ were really into oral, in which case the spidercum would have followed a literal long and winding trail through MJ's anatomy.

Hmm, and then some of the radioactives could get digested and deposited long-term in her tissues ... yeah, I guess that would make sense, if you ignore the much bigger question as to where the hell enough radioactivity to give a woman cancer is coming (heh) from in the first place. Radioactivity isn't alive -- it doesn't "breed." The writers are clearly trying to make an analogy with STD's, but they are ignoring the difference between living and unliving things, which is rather a large mistake!

- Jordan

[elfs.livejournal.com]

It occurred to me that the author may have been thinking of the recent case of Alexander Litvinenko, who did die of a "tiny" amount of radioactive material. Still, I think you're right that it's unlikely Spidey hosted polonium 210 in his body for quite so long; the stuff has a half-life of less than six months.