Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 dove further into dark themes, at least as far as a modern take on Spider-Man has been willing to go lately. There are certainly many more horrific and traumatic examples of Spider-Man stories in the character’s source material, but it’s still brave of Insomniac to not only take wholly uplifting stories as inspiration for its narratives. It’s not expected that Insomniac would ever adapt Spider-Man: Reign, for example, but darker tones help encourage the idea that Marvel’s Wolverine will be able to unsheathe its claws and accomplish a violent and mature story of its own.