We’re all haunted by our pasts. In comics, that’s practically a requirement — every hero and villain carries scars that shape the choices they make. On Counter‑Earth, that truth is magnified. Even though the High Evolutionary doesn’t appear in this episode, his contempt for humanity has seeped into his acolytes, and Sir Ram’s private experiments now threaten the entire world.

Enter Git Hoskins — the mummified Resistance fighter we glimpsed earlier, now fully named and fully tragic. His bandage‑like wrappings aren’t a costume; they’re the result of Sir Ram’s abductions and illegal experiments. Through flashbacks, we see the boy he once was: abandoned, alone, and ultimately taken by the Knights of Wundagore. His mutation isn’t a gift — it’s a wound.

Desperate for a cure, Hoskins steals a compound he believes might restore him. But hidden inside the canister is a fusion bomb capable of wiping out the planet. What begins as a revenge‑driven confrontation becomes something far more dangerous, and Spider‑Man is forced into the role of mediator. He reminds both sides that if the bomb detonates, there won’t be a world left to fight over.

In the end, Git hands over the canister — not because he finds hope in a cure, but because he finally accepts the truth. Maybe there is no going back. Maybe the only way forward is learning to live with what he’s become.

Deadly Choices is a solid episode that deepens the mythology of the Knights and gives Sir Ram a sharper edge. More importantly, it shows that even on Counter‑Earth, the past doesn’t have to define the future. We can learn from our mistakes, grow beyond our trauma, and find a place in a community willing to accept us.

Snow drifts through the canyons of Counter‑Earth as a lone, bandaged figure – Git Hoskins – runs for his life with something far more dangerous than he understands. The Machine Men are seconds from vaporising him when Sir Ram intervenes, not out of mercy, but because the stolen bio‑container in Git’s hands carries a mutagenic agent capable of rewriting living tissue. Worse, the moment Git stole it, a hidden failsafe began counting down toward a blast big enough to erase half the city.

Spider-Man drops into the chaos just in time to save Git from becoming scrap metal, but the rebel flees underground before Peter can get answers. When the Knights of Wundagore swoop in, Spider-Man learns the truth: the canister contains a virus with an airborne vector, and if the failsafe reaches zero, the resulting fusion blast will level everything for miles. With his web‑fluid empty and the Knights refusing to cooperate, Peter races home to reload – only to find John Jameson collapsing in Naoko’s doorway, a reminder that this world never gives him one crisis at a time.

Once re‑suited, Spider-Man meets with the human resistance and learns the situation is even worse: the bomb will detonate in under two hours, and opening the container without the abort code will trigger it instantly. The only way to find Git in time is for rebels and Knights to work together – an idea both sides hate so much they nearly shoot each other before the search even begins. But with Spider-Man forcing a truce, the uneasy alliance spreads out across the city.

They find Git at the secondary rendezvous point, but panic and trauma drive him to lash out. A mis‑thrown explosive collapses the street, crushing vehicles and scattering both factions. Spider-Man alone is fast enough to pursue Git across rooftops, finally webbing him down and recovering the canister – only for the timer to hit its final minute. Sir Ram’s abort code fails. The city is seconds from annihilation.

With no other hope, Spider-Man reaches into Git’s lunchbox and finds the photograph of the boy he once was – before Ram’s experiments, before the bandages, before the fear. He holds it up and begs Git to think of the children who will die if he doesn’t help. Something breaks open inside the rebel. Git threads his bandages into the device, disarming the bomb with only seconds left. For the first time, both rebels and Knights look at him not as a monster, but as a hero.

But peace lasts only a heartbeat. Old hatred resurfaces, weapons rise, and Spider-Man finds himself trapped between two sides ready to kill each other after saving the city together. It’s Git who stops them – offering candy, the same gesture he once made as a child before Ram stole him away. The standoff dissolves, but the victory is short‑lived: the canister is stolen in the night by Carnage, who drags it into the depths for his own dark purpose. And somewhere in the shadows, a man from Naoko’s past watches Peter Parker with glowing red eyes, deciding that whatever Peter is… he’s a problem that needs to be solved.

Even though he’s appeared previously, this episode gives an origin and name to Git Hoskins, the mummified member of the human resistance. We also receive a flashback to his origins, which seem to indicate that his abilities were either the result of experimentation or activated his mutant genes. He doesn’t seem to have the ability to speak.

Mr. Minio, it turns out, is just as pompous, arrogant and as sales-driven as J. Jonah Jameson.

The masked man, calling Naoko and threatening Peter, appears in the shadows in this episode. We also see that he has super-strength. This seems to be another hint that he’s the Goblin first seen in the previous episode.