Same Soul, Different Choices: What Alternate Universes Reveal About Who Your Favorite Characters Really Are
When Spider-Man swings through one universe as a wisecracking hero and through another as a ruthless vigilante, which one is the 'real' Peter Parker? Alternate universe storytelling has quietly become one of the most powerful tools writers use to pull characters apart at the seams. The answers — and the questions they raise — say a lot more about identity than any single origin story ever could.
