Peter Parker. Had his whole life ahead of him, his life was on the right track, his act was together, he was helping the world both as Peter Parker AND Spider-man. Then suddenly he's in the old, failing body of one of his worst adversaries, with mere hours to live. He tries to get out, free himself, stop the villain in his skin before he dies.
As his organs shut down in the fight, he has a moment of hope: He's figured out how to reverse the process. Everything's going to be alright. Then that hope's snatched away as the villain planned for it. As Peter dies, he dies with the people he's devoted his life to protecting, the people he's sacrificed relationships, chances at happiness for, spitting on him and stating how happy they are that he's dead. And he dies with the knowledge that this villain has gotten away with it, all of Peter's loved ones are at risk, and they don't even know it.
Everything Peter has built his life, everything he's ever fought for, he dies believing it'll all be for nothing, worse, that he'll be remembered as a villain in his own right.
Ares' death was brutal, yes, but he's Ares, a God of War slain in a war of the Gods, fighting overwhelming odds. That's exactly the way he'd want to go out, if necessary.
Peter? Peter died a broken man, in every sense of the word. He died believing his legacy will be that of a villain, his friends and loved ones, betrayed and butchered, his life, meaningless in the end. He died a failure.
What hero can match that?
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