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i think i've spoken about this a few times - but my thoughts on this essentially boil down to: wade is not immortal! at least not how i see it and - honestly, how the comics see it either.

wade has aged in the comics plenty of times - and always, unfortunately, grows that godawful beard (despite being hairless literally everywhere else - i suspect artists really just don't know how to make wade look old, what with all his scarred skin being difficult to show wrinkles so - shorthand: give him a beard, even if it doesn't make sense.)

it's up to debate within the comics if he ages at the normal rate of a human - or if he is, actually, really immortal - comics really like to give you a single answer, but what we do know is, generally, wade can't be killed. but that doesn't mean he can't age and die that way.

the way i kind of see it is that wade - if he hangs up the katanas for good and becomes a full-time homebody - his body will relax and his healing factor and metabolism with naturally slow - because he's not dealing with threats. so he'll put on weight, and he'll start aging - the way any normal man who isn't getting decapitated every other week might do

i even figure that - if that's the case - and he lives a normal, domestic life with peter - then - wade might even age faster than peter. peter - i figure - having his spider-metabolism and his - completely, without a doubt - adamance to not retire - we might see that it takes much longer for the ravages of time to eat away at peter - if he doesn't die in some stupid sort of a way, saving kittens from trees or something along the way.

so i figure that wade being an old sod while peter still looks half his age might be very likely

but - whilst i say that - there'd only need to be a need for wade to come back fighting. so - say, if eleanor needs him - he'd come back fighting for her - and if he gets in enough scrapes, he'll heal back, young as ever. so - i think wade's healing factor is entirely tied to this sense of urgency. if he needs to fight, he'll fight - and if he doesn't need to fight - then he'll relax, and age normally.

that being said - peter will die. eventually. i think he'll live a very. very long life if he doesn't do anything stupid. and then he'll die. and if wade's around for it, then wade will be very sad. but he won't be alone. and my kind of line of thinking for wade is that - he kind of embodies rebirth. he can start over, again and again. so he'll have a long, happy life with peter - and either they'll age away together - or - wade would carry on, with peter's memory in his heart or something gay like that

britney is always watching over us

thank you so much anon, ahh!! i'm really so glad you've been enjoying the blog, and i'm wishing you all the best in college! i'd started writing the blog just before i started college, and kept writing it throughout college and - just like you, was eating through the 1963 spider-man comics at that time.

it's a cruel answer, it's cruel - it's cruel - but i don't think there's any spider-man issue that comes close to amazing spider-man #122 - for just - all the heart-wrenching and complex emotions it delivers - and just, it being a powerful issue to essentially be the first day of the rest of peter parker's life. for better or for worse.

i for sure could write my in-depth essay, but - in case you haven't read it yet - i'll hold off. but it holds, for me, like no less than four of the most iconic scenes in spider-man history, that kind of set the trajectory of the rest of his life, in mad succession. and you'll see it referenced in the blog - just as you've definitely seen it referenced in the movies, too!

it is ok to cry