Sure enough, just as Ryan had predicted, a massive amount of negative reports regarding the Spider Family began to surface in New York over the following period.
Stories like a Spider-Man swinging on webs and shouting about meteors in the sky, only to throw dust into the eyes of passersby as they looked up, causing severe eye injuries to many citizens...
Or Electro-Spider-Man discharging electricity into public urinals, turning countless New Yorkers into 'charred chickens' overnight...
Or Venom Spider-Man fighting bank robbers and taking out eight criminals along with eighty hostages, showing a complete lack of humanity...
There were even reports of the Spider Family collectively urinating from the Empire State Building, claiming they were providing artificial rain for the citizens of New York...
The most ridiculous one claimed that the leader of the Spider Family, Spider Monarch, had a marathon with a hundred and eight streetwalkers in one night and then fled without paying a single cent!
This even amused Ryan himself, who had just woken up and saw the news while holding a Gwen in each arm.
One hundred and eight in one night? They really fucking think highly of me!
Besides, with that many, can you even get through them all?
Even without counting the time to take off and put on pants, you'd have to be a fucking 'second-man'!
Frame me if you want, but can't you find a stronger Skrull to do it?
The two Gwens, seeing this news, similarly shook their heads in speechlessness.
What was this? They had a very deep personal experience with Ryan's endurance, after all...
The emergence of these negative news stories, as Ryan expected, quickly caused the Spider Family to fall from their pedestal of being beloved by everyone in New York to a status lower than even the actual supervillains who caused destruction in the city.
If you do a hundred good deeds, people might not be particularly grateful; over time, they might even feel that what you do is your duty, taking your selfless help for granted.
But as long as you do one thing wrong—and regardless of whether you actually did it or not—they will absolutely curse your ancestors back eighteen generations until black smoke rises!
And now, this was exactly the situation the Spider Family was facing...
In the past, when the Spider Family risked their lives to fight crime in New York, people would at most give a thumbs up and shout, 'Way to go, Spider-Man!'
But in ten days—just ten days—the contributions of the Spider Family over the past few years were completely overturned by ten days of negative content!
Now, not only was the internet full of negative news about the Spider Family, but even in reality, people stopped discussing the help the Spider-Men had once given them. Instead, they discussed the evil deeds of the Spider Family reported online, and their words toward the Spider-Men who had once helped them turned into vitriol!
There were even some extremists who had started marching with banners, shouting slogans for the Spider Family to get out of New York and get out of America, saying they no longer needed the Spider Family!
Even worse, some went to the New York City Hall and the New York Police Department to protest, demanding that the New York Mayor and the New York Police Department Director send people to arrest every member of the Spider Family!
But that was naturally impossible...
After all, the New York Mayor was Kingpin, whom Ryan had pushed into office, and the New York Police Department Director was Chief Stacy, also pushed by Ryan.
Moreover, one was an underground emperor with top-tier intelligence, and the other was Ryan's father-in-law who knew the inside story; naturally, neither would pay any attention to the unreasonable petitions of those moronic citizens.
On the contrary, the two secretly sent people to record those rioters and troublemakers one by one, marking them as key subjects for investigation.
Upon investigation, the two were somewhat surprised to find that while a small portion of the people marching and demanding the arrest of the Spider Family were indeed organized to target them...
The majority were actually ordinary citizens. They weren't even victims of the Skrulls impersonating the Spider Family; they had simply seen some unverified news and spontaneously organized to take to the streets and boycott the Spider Family.
Their behavior had no other legitimate reason; it was simply because they wanted to do it, thought it was fun, or were jealous of the attention Spider-Man used to receive, so they chose to take advantage of the situation to kick the Spider Family while they were down!
This was pure malice!
This made Ryan feel somewhat conflicted as he received the investigation reports from Kingpin and Chief Stacy...
He used to think that the ordinary people in American comics were too fucking brainless, even more troublesome than unruly mobs. Every time a Superhero made a small mistake or a rumor surfaced, these ordinary people couldn't wait to cast them into the depths of hell, which seemed extremely irrational.
After all, who in reality could be that brainless? How could they directly negate a Superhero who had helped them for several years just because of one or two suspicious bad deeds...
But the reality was, looking at it now, well, the ordinary people in the American comic World really were that fucking brainless!
No wonder superheroes in American comics always turn dark. Protecting a bunch of idiots like this every day, it's hard not to fucking turn dark!
Fortunately, Ryan wouldn't turn dark over such trivial matters; after all, his heart was actually much darker than their insults~
For the first time, Ryan discovered that having a dark heart was actually an advantage. At least when those who truly slander you appear, your heart can remain unruffled, and you might even feel like laughing~
Go ahead, curse, curse as harshly as you can!
Anyway, he didn't care what people he didn't care about thought of him. The harder they cursed now, the harder they would cry later!
Just wait, soon you will realize that the little trouble those Spider Family imposters caused you was nothing; it was just small raindrops before the storm...
Next, the real storm will be more than enough for you to handle, my dear New York citizens...
What does a city look like when a Superhero is no longer a hero, or when superheroes no longer exist?
Ten days later, after the Skrulls had completely ruined the Spider Family's reputation, making every Spider-Man a target of public scorn, those friendly neighbors finally stopped wandering the city and streets amidst the verbal abuse...
These ordinary people might not realize anything yet; they just felt they had won this time, that they had kicked the 'wicked' Spider Family out of New York!
Who says ordinary people can't stand up to these superheroes?
Look, as long as they were united, what did the invincible Spider Family matter? Under their condemnation, they didn't even dare to fart and slunk away, not daring to show their faces again!
Hahahahaha, this was a victory for the ordinary people!!!
While these foolish citizens were still celebrating their 'victory,' some smart people had already realized something was wrong.
And as everyone knows, the smart people in American comics, besides the superheroes, are generally concentrated among the supervillains and criminals...