NOV 3, 2026
DYING MYSTERIO PICKED DAREDEVIL FOR HIS FINAL SHOW — BECAUSE SPIDER-MAN WAS "JUST A CLONE"!
A year to live, a lifetime grudge against Spider-Man — and Beck still benched his arch-enemy for being a copy. Standards are standards.
Daredevil Vol. 2 #1–8 (1998–99), "Guardian Devil" by Kevin Smith and Joe Quesada: diagnosed with a brain tumor and lung cancer and given one year to live, Beck rejects the clone-era Spider-Man, targets fellow second stringer Daredevil instead, and takes his own life in #7 (1999) when Daredevil refuses to kill him.
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