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The Heist DLC for Marvel's Spider-Man offered a nice addition to the main game's story by involving more characters from Peter Parker's past and his rogues gallery from the comics.
While The Heist's ending can be considered self-contained, there's a reason it's referred to as the first part in the three-part "The City That Never Sleeps" story. If you were confused by anything that happened in The Heist's ending, or need some backstory, we break it down for you.
Spoiler Alert! The following will spoil the ending of The Heist DLC. If you haven't finished yet we suggest you don't go any further
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PETER PARKER & MARY JANE
The main campaign of Marvel's Spider-Man dealt a lot with the relationship between Peter and Mary Jane. At the start of the main story, they were exes but eventually navigated their complicated friendship and became a couple again.
The Heist shows more of their relationship and how they deal with Felicia Hardy, the Black Cat, coming back into Peter's life. It gets extremely complicated when Felicia reveals to Spider-Man that she is working for Hammerhead because he has her son hostage.
The revelation is a shock to Peter, as he starts to wonder if he's the father. This thread goes on throughout The Heist story. Mary Jane handles the situation like an adult, but in the last scene things get interesting.
After the credits roll, Mary Jane and Peter are sitting in their favorite diner talking about the events with Black Cat. Turns out that she doesn't actually have a son and was playing Spider-Man the entire time. Peter is down because of what happened to Felicia (more on that below) and Mary Jane asks if he was relieved to not have a child. Pete says he's not ready for that, and MJ tells him he'd be a great dad ... in the right time. Parker replies "with the right person" as the two smile at each other.
In Marvel Comics, MJ and Peter have a child. In the main continuity, the couple have a daughter who they name May — after Parker's aunt. There's a very complicated history with May Parker (the daughter) that involves Norman Osborn and clones and a bunch of other craziness. That was all essentially erased thanks to One More Day , a storyline that had Peter Parker & MJ make the deal with Mephisto, Marvel Comics' devil, to end their marriage in exchange for Aunt May's life (don't ask).
There are other realities in the Marvel Universe where their child is part of continuity. In one, May "Mayday" Parker grows up to adopt the Spider-Man mantle by becoming Spidergirl. And another where Mary Jane and Peter remained married and have their daughter Annie, who has the her father's superpowers.
Marvel's Spider-Man 's continuity is its own reality, so the creators can technically go their own route in regards to Peter and MJ's marriage and kids, but this brief conversation is definitely a tease to what may come down the line.
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BLACK CAT
Black Cat takes center stage in The Heist and what happens to her at the end of the story is a bit tragic. Although she tricks Spider-Man into helping her out by misleading him about her son, she is doing what she can to make as much money as possible to get out of the "game" even if it puts her in the crosshairs of Hammerhead and the Maggi.
Felicia gets away from the Maggi and Spider-Man, but Hammerhead is two steps ahead of her and has rigged her penthouse to explode when she arrives. Peter tries to make it in time to stop her, but he witnesses her open the door and her apartment go up in flames.
Peter seems to believe that Black Cat is gone, but players will notice that she had a smile on her face before she opened her door.
In the comics, Felicia Hardy possesses more than just an above average physique and athletic ability, she can actually manipulate probability fields around her and cause "bad luck." It's not clear if this version of Black Cat can do the same, but it's a bit too convenient for Felicia to bite the dust at the end of the first chapter.
We'll have to see what becomes of her when the next story chapter drops in November.
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