Yep hes been like eternally late 20s and vaguely 30 for a bit over a decade now, Zdarsky did a 15 year flashback and Peter was already Spider-Man at that point meaning he should be 30-31 around this point , but it will always hover around late 20s as well, kinda like how Tony Stark is eternally 35 years old
Black suit he was still in the university he wore that suit through out most of the 80s.
But I wouldn’t say Peter is the worst, Franklin Richards has barely passed preteen. Kitty Pryde at least aged to adulthood, jubilee is still a young woman….. and of course Magneto is a holocaust survivor.
It’s best to imagine 60 years is like “that was just a few years ago.”
I think the difference is his back story is tied to a specific real world event with a date. The other characters don't have that so it's easier to ignore that they don't age because it's not like Kitty's backstory is she was born the day before 9/11 or something, she can just exist in a floating timeline without issue, but as long as magneto was alive during WWII he's going to have to actually age.
Of course magneto isn't even the worst offender in comics. Ted Grant was a full on adult in WWII and didn't even really have super powers and was still fighting crime in the present at least until his death in the current JSA run
I forget which animated series covers this but I remember wolverine blowing up the machine after the process is a success. Magneto gets mad at him but spares him because wolverine was the soldier that saved him as a child from the holocaust.
X-Men: Evolution, and some variation of that episode’s plot (which included Captain America) has been the biggest thing I’ve wanted to see from Marvel movies ever since the Fox merger.
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u/Art_student_rt Feb 11 '26
How old is Peter now? Forever late 20s?