Appearing in "Legacy... In Black and White"
What If...? #105
Featured Characters:
- Spider-Girl (May Parker) (First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Peter Parker (First appearance) (in flashback as Spider-Man)
- Mary Jane Parker (First appearance)
Antagonists:
- Green Goblin (Normie Osborn) (First appearance)
- Green Goblin (Norman Osborn) (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
Other Characters:
- May's Friends
- Brad Miller (First appearance)
- Davida Kirby (First appearance)
- Moose Mansfield (First appearance)
- Courtney (First appearance)
- Jimmy Yama (First appearance)
- Foggy Nelson (First appearance)
- Harry Osborn (Mentioned)
- Jarvis (First appearance)
- Liz Allan (First appearance)
- Roberta (First appearance)
- The Fantastic Five (First appearance)
- John Storm (First appearance)
- Ben Grimm (First appearance)
- Big Brain (First appearance)
- Franklin Richards (First appearance)
- Lyja (First appearance)
- The Avengers (A Next) (First appearance)
- Captain America (Mentioned)
- Thor (Mentioned)
- Iron Man (Mentioned)
- Jubilee (First appearance)
- Speedball (First appearance)
- Thunderstrike (First appearance)
- Jolt (First appearance)
- J2 (First appearance)
- Vision (First appearance)
- Ben Reilly (Mentioned) (Deceased)
- Daredevil (Mentioned) (Deceased)
Locations:
- MC2 Universe (First appearance)
Items:
Synopsis for "Legacy... In Black and White"
What If...? #105
This issue asks the following question: "... What if Mary Jane had never lost the baby, and Spider-Man had a Spider-Girl?" It focuses on the outcome of one part of the Clone Saga, in which Mary Jane had apparently miscarried May, though the baby was secretly smuggled by Alison Mongrain to Norman Osborn (see here for more information).
Now at the age of fifteen, May "Mayday" Parker is the captain of her high school girls' basketball team at Midtown High School in Queens, New York (where her father had gone as well). Exhibiting some wowing abilities on the court, Mary Jane and Peter begin to worry she may have inherited some of Peter's Spider-Man abilities. As they congratulate her, a shadowy figure (the Green Goblin) looks on from the windows. May then blows off the jocks to hang out with her "nerdy" friends. Mary Jane and Peter walk home and Peter recounts how he no longer is Spider-Man because he had a large confrontation with Norman two years after May was born where Norman died and Peter lost the will to continue as Spider-Man. Without having to be Spider-Man, they never revealed to May who he had been. Elsewhere, May and her friends Jimmy Yama and Courtney are attacked by the Green Goblin. He wants May to pass on the message to Peter that he will be waiting at the bridge the next night.
Peter decides to try to contact Normie Osborn, Norman's grandson. He gets through to Normie's stepfather who tells Peter he hasn't seen Normie since his mother grew ill. He relates this information to Mary Jane and May, in the process, overhears them talking about him being Spider-Man. The next day while Peter tries to enlist backup, first from the Fantastic Five and then the Avengers, May starts to experiment with her new powers. She later confronts Mary Jane about the conversation from the previous night and MJ explains everything to her. That evening, Peter shows up at the bridge to face Normie, who is miffed Peter wasn't wearing his Spider-Man suit. Mary Jane shows up to try and reason with Normie, but May shows up as well, wearing Ben Reilly/Scarlet Spider's old suit. Fighting ensues and May is able to stop Normie with one of his own pumpkin bombs. Though he is about to be hit, and possibly killed, by an oncoming truck, May saves him anyway. As the cops take him away, he raves on and on about Spider-Girl, but no one believes him. The Parkers later burn Peter's old costumes and assorted gear, but an open-ended conclusion shows May's designs for her own suit and a tantalising "The End?"